I'm a big Zeppelin fan and just wanted to mention these songs as well:
Dazed and Confused
Achilles Last Stand
Moby Dick
They're gods!
well, obviously there are tons more great ones :wink:
but they are indeed the gods of rock.
I think that most random people know a couple of their big tunes...but if people delve deeper, there is so much more beneath the surface...
to me, as much as i love all the big songs, so many of the more obscure ones are just as amazing, and they will never be known or appreciated by the casual passing listener who doesn't go beyond Stairway or Black Dog...
songs like:
The Rain Song (an all time fave of mine 1 of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my life and LZ's most beautiful IMO, just edging out That's The Way, Tangerine, Going To California, Bron Yr-Aur)
What Is and What Should Never Be (completely awesome)
Hey Hey What Can I Do (awesome)
TRavelling Riverside Blues ( A*W*E*S*O*M*E)
White Summer/Black Mountainside (Page alone, and awesome.)
Bron Y Aur Stomp (totally underrated tune, has a country feel to it, so great)
OVer th Hills and Far Away (one of their greatest)
Sick Again (so cool, so underrated)
Out On The Tiles (most underrated tune on Led Zeppelin III IMO)
Custard Pie (one of the best overtly sexual rock tunes ever)
Battle Of Evermore (mythical and brilliant...dark and complex)
Song remains the Same (amazing)
The Crunge (has anybody seen the bridge?...so awesome)
No Quarter (so dark, so awesome...sinister and foreboding)
In The Light (love the almost pschedelic melody and then alternating)
Ten Years Gone (so amazing, epic)
Four Sticks (one of their hardest most underrated tunes...absolutely love it)
Nobody's Fault But Mine (PAge's Guitar on this is so amazing, the extended solos are just hard as nails)
and for those who have never heard them, two of my favorites are the very early unreleased gems (well it was unreleased on original albums, but they have been around for a while on BBC Sessions etc) are called "Sunshine Woman" and The Girl I Love (She's Got Long Black Wavy Hair) are really stripped down, jammin around in the studio tunes from very early in their career (1969)...in it you can hear how much power they had even early on...no matter how raw...
(here are links if you have never heard these two tunes...if you have not, *LISTEN*!)
sunshine woman
YouTube - #36 - The Nobs - 03-16-69 - Sunshine Woman
The Girl I Love
YouTube - Led Zeppelin -The Girl I love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair
AWESOME!!!
they truly have the most staggering collection of great tunes...and by that, i mean of the highest quality...not the kind of tunes you can skip over on the CD player...
the funniest thing, is that their last two albums, when they had nothing left in the tank, and PAge was a shadow and addicted to heroin to the point where he barely even contributed to In Through The Out Door, there are still tunes, even on those last two albums, that were, even though they were poor by LZ standards, are still decent and listenable, and still better than what passes for hits from most other bands...
(tunes like: South Bound Saurez, Darlene, Fool In The Rain, All My Love)
top to bottom, i think only the Beatles put out more high quality tunes, top to bottom album to album....the difference, was all the Beatles tunes, as much as i love them, were relatively similar, (this is not a bad thing) and their range sort of ended with the lighter psychedelic stuff like I am the Walrus...which was utterly brilliant
Led Zeppelin's quality goes throught an unmatched range of styles, genres, rythms melodies, etc...soft, slow, medium, hard, fast...they could do it all.
there is nobody else like them, and never will be again. :biggrin1:
they are simply incomparable...(though i do completely love the other top bands like the Beatles, Stones, Who, etc.)