Physical Graffiti [Remastered] - Led Zeppelin > Reviews

Advantages: Some excellent songs
Disadvantages: The band were becoming a bit of a dinosaur

I love the earliest Led Zeppelin albums, up to and including this one. I'm not sure whether it's because it's a double album, so it lasts longer, but I would even go so far as to say that "Physical Graffiti" is my favourite album of theirs. It has many styles, from out and out rocker, to boogie, to classical. First track Custard Pie is one of the rockers, with a wah wah guitar and even a Nutbush City Limits type organ sound in the background - ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of good songs
Disadvantages: They could have made one absolutely supurb CD instead of two good CD's

There’s some great songs on this album: The funky Custard Pie, The Rover, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot (The last two also being a touch funky) and the epic Kashmir. So, that’s the first (6 track) CD dealt with and 5 of the tracks are standouts! Not bad at all. However on the second CD things aren’t so great. The first track, In The Light is good with it’s Arabic tinted intro. But a lot of the songs just don’t match up to the quality of ... Read review

Advantages: It has the lot!
Disadvantages: Not a single one

This album is a tour de force, the culmination of the 5 previous albums, the creative and artistic azimuth of Percy and Pagey. This magnum opus reveals a pellucid quality in tracks such as Ten Years Gone, a haunting beautiful melody, encompassing longing and pure emotion. We are humbled by the magnitude of Kashmir, surely the most immense peaean ever invoked on a Gibson? We are privvy to the full range of the mighty Zep's songbook, the fabulously ... Read review

The greatest album by the greatest rock band of all time. While never jumbled in with the prog excesses of Yes or Rush or their ilk, Zeppelin nonetheless managed to be by far the most diverse rock band of the early 70s with songs ranging from acoustic folk to bombastic rock, indian influences, funk, blues and imbued throughout that unmistakable ZEPPELIN identity. Buy this album for the hits and you will quickly find that between every hit is two hidden gems of musical genius. The most essential Zeppelin purchase, the album that best captures every facet of their persona.