Suggest a Led Zeppelin album?

[Bub]

Sorry had to make another post that continues off my other one. I can't edit it. Anyway I forgot about Houses of the Holy. It is somewhat hard rock oriented but also had taken a lot of influences from other genres (take D'yer Mak'er for example).

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

I'm not really a huge fan of their later works (In Through the Out Door, Presence, and Coda) but Led Zeppelin days-Physical Graffiti days are their best. Led Zeppelin was a great blues-rock album more than a hard rock album. Led Zeppelin II was more hard rock oriented. Led Zeppelin III was very acoustic oriented except for songs like "Immigrant Song". Both Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti returned back to the more hard rock oriented sound of Led Zeppelin II.

Coda was made up of album rejects from their early days; only a few were from In Through the Out Door.

[jrcronlakers]

Yeah! You heard me.

I hated what I've heard (ergo; very little) about Led Zeppelin and their "superfans" certaintly don't help my opinion of finding Page boring or (early) Plant pitchy and often flat. Change my mind by suggesting me a album by those weird guys from the 70s who influenced a good deal of heavy/power metal.

/somewat half-arsed post

It's been a few years since I listened to them fully, too. So don't ask me what I've heard.

BUT! I am giving them a new chance, so throw it at me.

Why do you need some one else s opinion in order to make a choice. If you thought plant was pitchy before I am sure the same recording with still sound pitchy to you today. Just sit down and listen to every album beginning to end. One a day so you don't get to over loaded. Then you can decide for your self. Side note Houses of the Holy is my fav. Then 1, 2, 4, PG, 3, Coda, ITtO, Presence.

[thedoorsdk]

I'll throw another vote in for Houses of the Holy, which is the only Zep album that I feel is exceptional from start to finish.
Their first four albums bore me as a whole, though there are a few tracks off each that I find interesting. Houses is where they really stepped out of the shadow of their blues-rock predecessors and began to make good on the experimentation they started with III.
I also enjoy Physical Graffiti, though the fourth side of the original vinyl is pretty much all filler. From Custard Pie to about Ten Years Gone, however, is all amazing.

You might also enjoy Presence. While I feel that it is a weak album overall, it does feature one of their most interesting songs (Achilles Last Stand), and has a somewhat different feel than their earlier work. A lot of people really like this album, which surprises me, but it may very well do something for you.

[metalhead27]

I'm one of those people who find early Zep overrated and their last couple of albums underrated (Presence in particular), but IV is what Zep is all about. If you don't find that album exciting you're just not going to get into Zep that much.

[Gowienczyk]

My overall output on Houses of the Holy:

It wasn't horrible, but I wouldn't say it was great either. But some tracks standout (in a bad way); seriously as a soul fan, listening to The Crunge makes me cringe. What ever went through their minds that they could write soul? Augh. The Song Remains The Same (and The Ocean) both seem overly sloppy. Which would be fine if they were a post-hardcore, noise rock or experimental rock group from post-1979.

Yeah the 1970s sound doesn't work well with sloppy instrumentation. In my opinion, anyway.

Although, I feel their folk-rock (and hard rock/acoustic songs) contributions on this album are good. So it's something I could listen to. So I wouldn't say I understand why people love them, I can understand that I don't find them tripe anymore (not completely! Just don't sing soul!).

But that's all I have to say about that.

[instantdeath999]

My overall output on Houses of the Holy:

It wasn't horrible, but I wouldn't say it was great either. But some tracks standout (in a bad way); seriously as a soul fan, listening to The Crunge makes me cringe. What ever went through their minds that they could write soul? Augh. The Song Remains The Same (and The Ocean) both seem overly sloppy. Which would be fine if they were a post-hardcore, noise rock or experimental rock group from post-1979.

Yeah the 1970s sound doesn't work well with sloppy instrumentation. In my opinion, anyway.

Although, I feel their folk-rock (and hard rock/acoustic songs) contributions on this album are good. So it's something I could listen to. So I wouldn't say I understand why people love them, I can understand that I don't find them tripe anymore (not completely! Just don't sing soul!).

But that's all I have to say about that.

I also dislike "The Crunge".

[Gowienczyk]

I also dislike "The Crunge".

They butchered soul music in that song.

[Lolicat]

Listen to the first disc of Physical Graffiti. It's the only one I can bothered with, and even then only because I connect it with 1984. Still, it has solid enough tracks.

[KingProgdor]

Listen to the first disc of Physical Graffiti. It's the only one I can bothered with, and even then only because I connect it with 1984. Still, it has solid enough tracks.

I can agree with this. Seems like the second half of the album was just really really bland. 'In the Light' is the only song I think was really worth listening to.

Had they arranged the album differently it probably would have been better, but the really solid tracks were placed altogether instead of spreading them out.