Post your favorite Led Zeppelin songs

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  1. Henry Blake

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    Great opening riff

     
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  2. Emma

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    I think Physical Graffiti is my favorite album by them. Songs that they consider B tier are A+ for me. 83 minute masterpiece.
     
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  3. Emma

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    Lovely series where Rick breaks down what makes a song great, from chords to vocals and mixing.
     
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  4. bigred77

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    over here liking 9 year old posts
     
  5. TC

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    Update: reading their book now and it says this song ("The Crunge") was them parodying James Brown style funk
     
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  6. snowfx2

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    Jimmy Page’s IG is a goldmine

     
  7. DirtBall

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    Jason?
     
  8. DirtBall

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    Never visited this thread before. Love Zep. I taught myself guitar when I was 20. My goal? To play the intro to Over the Hills and Far Away. It may be my favorite song ever. Can’t believe it didn’t get more play in this thread.

     
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  9. Emma

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    One of the better songs and, I feel, an overlooked one is South Bound Saurez off of ITTOD (which is the red-headed step child for Zeppelin). It would be the prototype pop rock song/album if Plant and Jones ever went that route. The drum fill at 3:28 is amazing.



    Gotta love Bron‐Yr‐Aur Stomp as an overlooked, too
     
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  10. Daddy Rabbit

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  11. Redav

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    Always wondered if anyone else watched his channel. He has millions of subscribers so that's a dumb thought but first time I've seen him on this board.
     
  12. Pharoh

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    Tie between all of em imo
     
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  13. War Grundle

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    Imo, the best band of all-time.

    Kashmir is my favorite if I had to choose.
     
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  14. AUShyGuy

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    Not my absolute favorite but haven’t seen Out on the Tiles mentioned. Think a good bit is used in black dog
     
  15. Daddy Rabbit

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    Happy Birthday John Paul Jones

    Let's let some Led out
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  16. chet fire

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    Fair enough description, but man. What does that make Presence?
     
  17. Emma

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    Everything not named Achilles Last Stand and Nobody's Fault but Mine is big meh
     
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  18. chet fire

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    Kinda what I'm saying. Even Coda probably has more fans than Presence.
     
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  19. ARSENAL

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    10 years ago. Wow
    now it would be

    Hey hey what can I do?
    Fool in the rain
    Battle of Evermore
     
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  20. pnk$krtcrÿnästÿ

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    I'm not sure I listened to a single other band like Freshman-sophomore year of college. Just burned holes through those CDs, especially Physical Graffiti and The BBC sessions. Blasted so much Zep then that I hardly ever listen to them anymore, even though they're the GOAT and a top ten fave for me.

    In My Time Of Dying
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  21. snowfx2

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  22. TC

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    I need to look out for that book for my music bio collection
     
  23. southlick

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    My original idea for the opening tracks for ‘Houses of the Holy’ was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to ’The Seasons’, later to be titled ‘The Rain Song’. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song.

    ‘The Seasons’ was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage. I’d worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled ‘The Plumpton and Worcester Races’, the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, ‘The Song Remains The Same’. These rehearsals were done in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK.

    The first set of recordings were done at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz.

    We then came to record at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger’s country home, and, like Headley Grange, with the Rolling Stones recording truck.

    ‘The Song Remains The Same’ was played on a Fender 12 string, the same one used on Becks Bolero, with my trusty Les Paul number 1 on overdubs in a standard turning. The ‘Rain Song’ was an unorthodox tuning on acoustic and electric guitars. On live shows, it became a work-out feature for the double neck.
     
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  24. repoocs

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    Beautiful. The first dance with my wife at our wedding was The Rain Song. I love that song.
     
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  25. Stagger Lee

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    Led Zeppelin may be the only band where I almost always prefer the studio version to the live version. Love Page but his skills are in the studio, not on stage (especially during the heroin years).
     
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  26. Stagger Lee

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    That said, my first concert was Page/Plant in 7th grade, and it was killer
     
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  27. Redav

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    There are some live versions of Heartbreaker that *really* sound like shit
     
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  28. repoocs

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    Same. I love Jimmy, but he was sloppy live. He's reeled it in, a bit, in later years. I also saw P&P once on the No Quarter Tour and once during the Walking into Clarksdale tour. He was much tighter on the NQ tour when the show was more confined due to the mideastern orchestra they played with.
     
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  29. Redav

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    No you have the problem that Plant's voice is a shadow of its former self
     
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  30. southlick

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    Full video of stairway to heaven performed by Robert Plant for a benefit concert with Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor.
     
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  31. Homo Erectus

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    Well, he's 75 years old and not going to have that vocal range anymore.
     
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  32. Homo Erectus

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    I think most guys our age range listened to Zeppelin at one-point or another. I listened to it in HS when smoked weed, but one of my favorite memories from college was when my friends who were legit musicians would jam for fun and would let me play the few songs I could swing.

    Never been in a band but playing Zep live and having it sound really good was amazing.
     
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  33. Emma

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    It's hard to rank my favorite songs from Led Zeppelin, but I have them firmly planted as my second favorite band behind Pink Floyd

    fluid top 10 ranking:


    Over the Hills and Far Away
    Dancing Days
    In the Light
    Trampled Under Foot
    Ramble On
    Dazed and Confused
    The Battle of Evermore
    Fool in the Rain
    In the Evening (prefer the rough mix)
    Achilles Last Stand

    *add in No Quarter somewhere too
     
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  34. ~ taylor ~

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    Misty Mountain Hop. Mainly due to a short-lived girlfriend named Misty.
     
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  35. Redav

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    OTHAFA
    Whole Lotta Love
    Ramble On
    Levee Breaks (my god the way his drums sound)
    Fool in the Rain
    Ocean
    Black Dog
    Kashmir
    Rock and Roll
    I suppose Stairway should go here
     
  36. TC

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    Since I’ve been loving you
    Rain song
    Ten years gone
    Song remains the same
    Ramble on
    Babe I’m gonna leave you
    The ocean
    Black dog
    Levee
    Gallows pole
     
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  37. killerwvu

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    Fool in the Rain
     
  38. Henry Blake

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    That jazzy lead that he plays at ~2:30 is one of my favorite riffs of all time. Just beautiful.
     
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  39. spagett

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    I feel like this is the case with the majority of 60s and 70s bands