Joy can be spontaneous, disappointment has to be planned
Joy can be spontaneous, disappointment has to be planned
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Track listing: 1) Black Dog 2) Rock And Roll 3) The Battle Of Evermore 4) Stairway To Heaven 5) Misty Mountain Hop 6) Four Sticks 7) Going To California 8) When The Levee Breaks
As the name suggests, this was the 4th Zeppelin album and the one that really illustrates the versatility of the band, encompassing elements of folk and blues as well as their trademark hippy rock.
I have never quite worked out what Black Dog is all about - apart from lauding the merits of a skinny woman and warning that big-legged women ain't got no soul. It's a quirky tune with quirky lyrics but somehow it works (8/10)
Rock And Roll could have been produced by Ronseal - it does exactly what it says on the tin. It is no more than a standard rock n roll riff with lyrics that have no real meaning but celebrate the rock n roll genre. Great party track (8/10)
The Battle Of Evermore takes you back to a mystical Arthurian world and has a haunting, medieval feel to it. Perhaps not in-keeping with the rest of the album, but they do say that variety is the spice of life (7/10)
Stairway To Heaven is, of course, a timeless classic. A wonderful 8-minute fusion of rock and folk, the sheet-music for which still outsells any other song in the world. Starting with a lazily picked acoustic guitar and one of the most recognisable opening riffs of any song ever, Robert Plant's unique voice takes us through a tale of one person's search for spiritual bliss. Indeed the vocals are so absorbing that it is hard to notice the introduction of the other instruments and the song quietly building to a hard-rock crescendo (10/10)
Misty Mountain Hop is a care-free tale of hippy abandonment and escapism that was an old favourite of mine back in my teenage days when I had long hair and a motorbike and thought nothing of disappearing with a tent on my back for days on end (8/10)
Four Sticks is the low point of the album for me. I always think the music sounds messy and the vocals quite incoherent (6/10)
Going To California is an acoustic ballad, again with the theme of escaping one life for another and reflecting the band's love of the American west (8/10)
When The Levee Breaks is a real excursion into the blues, heavy on the harmonica and electric guitars, and bemoaning the perils of living in the flood-prone southern delta-land. A lot of people were incensed when it appeared as the intro to the Beastie Boys song Posse In Effect in the late 80s (7/10)
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Zeppelin's fourth album, released in 1971, turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world. On tracks like "Black Dog", "Misty Mountain Hop",...
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