WonderLizard
(Herndon, VA) | | Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 10:30 | |
Jimmy86 wrote:
The critics are rarely right. They now, by the way, have come around, and are appreciating the incredibly vast talent Zep had, and acknowledge their great contributions.
What about when the "critics" admit they're wrong? John Medelssohn wrote a glorious, comprehensive trashing of Led Zep II in RS and retracted it a couple of issues later, "Hey, I take it all back...Jimmy Page is the best fucking blues guitarist less than 5'4"..." Mendelssohn admitted that he hadn't listened to the album without, er, chemical assistance, but at least had the guts to change his mind in public, also perhaps with chemical assistance.
Like it or not, critics are like TV weathermen. When they're "right", you nod, "I coulda told you that." When they miss, "Who anointed you, knucklehead?" 
As for Led Zep on RP, why not? A smidgen of classic rock never hurt anybody. Give a little; live a little.  |
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jamiezocean
(Seal Beach, CA) | | Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 10:04 | |
now my morning rocks!
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sherp
(Calgary) | | Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 10:04 | |
YA, I could listen to Zep all day. Love it. |
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Danny_G
(Lima) | | Posted: Nov 24, 2004 - 17:09 | |
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shua
(Calgary) | | Posted: Aug 13, 2004 - 10:03 | |
Drife you suck. Enough said.
Mr self destruct, you must need some attention, because you can't be serious.
Suffer in silence if you've listened to too much crap radio. Serves you right.
I had never heard of Led Zepplin and had never heard a single track of theirs until I found IV in my Dads collection and thought it had an interesting cover. I put it on and was blown away by Plant's voice. It didn't leave my CD player for a month and is the most played CD I've ever owned/stolen from my dad. I'm glad I came across this band before I was aware of any hype surrounding them.... its all about the music.
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redeyespy
(SoFL) | | Posted: Aug 13, 2004 - 09:40 | |
walk wrote:classic rock stations play "Stairway to Heaven" or "Rock and Roll" or "Whole Lotta Love" or maaybe "Black Dog" or something off Led Zep I.
they don't play "Houses of the Holy" if they play anything off P.G. they play "Kashmir"
False. I have heard this song ad nauseam on Classic Rock (formerly AOR back in the day) stations. However, it still rocks. |
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Gregorama
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Jul 02, 2004 - 13:40 | |
To say that LZ sucked at everything they ever did is narrow minded, and frankly, childish.
An old guy (Mark Twain) once said that it is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Obviously, if you weren't born in 1969, you never heard the schlock that was so pervasive in the world in those days. LZ opened up a lot of doors.
Similarly, they brought the music of Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf to an America that had largely never discoverd them. Ever heard of them?
It seems like most listeners hold at least a fair amount of respect for them.
Who does drife consider to have talent? Enough of the drivel, drife.
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drife
(Golden, CO) | | Posted: May 23, 2004 - 18:21 | |
walk wrote:*kisses his original pressing of P.G.*
if there's better rock album than this, I sure haven't heard it.
11.
Probably because you never listened to anything else.
Hundreds of rock albums that smoke everything Zeppelin released. |
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drife
(Golden, CO) | | Posted: May 23, 2004 - 18:13 | |
rolo wrote:
excuse me ... "come around" (you say ... in response to drife's "comment" .... by the way drife - "critics" were writing about L.Z. starting in the year you were born - so I'm curious ... what do you mean "from the beginning") ... anyway ... "the critics have come around" ??? - you must be very young ... the truth is ... there's a handful of musicians from the 50's and 60's that have had a major influence on even the music we listen to today ... Elvis ... Chuck Berry ... The Beatles ... Bob Dylan ... Jimi Hendrix , and yes ... Led Zeppelin ! I don't know who the critics are you're referring to as having "come around" but I grew up in the generation that first heard Led Zeppelin 1 and I don't remember ANYONE who said they weren't blown away by L.Z. !*! Not only that but the influence of LZ on Rock music is the stuff of legends !*!* So please ... don't attempt to rewrite music history ... especially in a place like Radioparadise ... there are many of us here who own 45's and albums older than you ! ... <-X ...
Rolo, let me see if I understand you correctly. Because you have some 45 speed vinyl discs laying around that are older than me (38 years), then any music printed on them automatically is "a cliassic". You're absolutely right! Gosh, I've been so lost all these years. Thank you for setting me straight!
Led Zeppelin sucked during their first year, last year, and everything in between. Thank God John Bonham died and saved us the misery of another Zeppelin album! |
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zgrav
| | Posted: May 23, 2004 - 18:08 | |
so this set is deja vu all over again, I take it from reading older comments below about the songs that came before this one the last few times around.
and that's not a complaint. I'm just getting a better understanding of how Bill occasionally manages to live the rest of his llife.
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drife
(Golden, CO) | | Posted: May 23, 2004 - 18:05 | |
walk wrote:
BZZT.
classic rock stations play "Stairway to Heaven" or "Rock and Roll" or "Whole Lotta Love" or maaybe "Black Dog" or something off Led Zep I.
they don't play "Houses of the Holy" if they play anything off P.G. they play "Kashmir"
you lose. :p
Walk, sorry bud, you lose. Clear Channel Communications plays this crapola so much it makes me want to puke.
HATE, HATE, HATE Led Zeppelin! |
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walk
(S.F. Yay Area) | | Posted: Apr 14, 2004 - 19:11 | |
revevad1 wrote:If I want to listen to this, I can turn on any classic rock station in the world. This is not why I listen to RP.
BZZT.
classic rock stations play "Stairway to Heaven" or "Rock and Roll" or "Whole Lotta Love" or maaybe "Black Dog" or something off Led Zep I.
they don't play "Houses of the Holy" if they play anything off P.G. they play "Kashmir"
you lose. :p |
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walk
(S.F. Yay Area) | | Posted: Apr 14, 2004 - 19:04 | |
*kisses his original pressing of P.G.*
if there's better rock album than this, I sure haven't heard it.
11.
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rolo
(New Orleans) | | Posted: Mar 08, 2004 - 14:13 | |
Jimmy86 wrote:.... The critics are rarely right. They now, by the way, have come around, and are appreciating the incredibly vast talent Zep had, and acknowledge their great contributions.......
excuse me ... "come around" (you say ... in response to drife's "comment" .... by the way drife - "critics" were writing about L.Z. starting in the year you were born - so I'm curious ... what do you mean "from the beginning") ... anyway ... "the critics have come around" ??? - you must be very young ... the truth is ... there's a handful of musicians from the 50's and 60's that have had a major influence on even the music we listen to today ... Elvis ... Chuck Berry ... The Beatles ... Bob Dylan ... Jimi Hendrix , and yes ... Led Zeppelin ! I don't know who the critics are you're referring to as having "come around" but I grew up in the generation that first heard Led Zeppelin 1 and I don't remember ANYONE who said they weren't blown away by L.Z. !*! Not only that but the influence of LZ on Rock music is the stuff of legends !*!* So please ... don't attempt to rewrite music history ... especially in a place like Radioparadise ... there are many of us here who own 45's and albums older than you ! ... <-X ...
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rulebritannia
(Sussex countryside, England) | | Posted: Mar 08, 2004 - 13:48 | |
Hey Jimmy! We need to connect. This is the third time I've agreed with you today. Of course, I have no objectivity here. Since I discovered Jimmy Page is a neighbor (almost) and have occasion to see him pretty often, I've gone off on a Led Zep bender. And yes, I liked Led Zep in its day but, like the critics, I now consider their work transcendent genius.
Jimmy86 wrote:
The critics are rarely right. They now, by the way, have come around, and are appreciating the incredibly vast talent Zep had, and acknowledge their great contributions.
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alanb
(Vancouver) | | Posted: Feb 25, 2004 - 20:57 | |
Ha! I knew it! I heard "When the Levee Breaks" by Magic Slim and James Cotton, and I thought, "Now, if I were Bill, I would play some Led Zepplin after that one. It's just begging for the Zep."
... and sure enough ...
I also thought I'd hear some Elvis (Presley or even Costello ;-) ) after "Nu Suede Shoes" by Back To Base... but I was wrong there...
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Jimmy86
(CA) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2004 - 22:00 | |
drife wrote:I still don't understand the mass appeal of Led Zeppelin.
From the start, the critics hated them. Those critics are still right.
Led Zeppelin's music is singularly unintersting. While I'm no fan of "trained"
vocalists, Robert Plant's singing evokes feelings reminscent of those
manifested while listening to someone slowly, agonizingly, scrape their nails
across a chalk board do.
The critics are rarely right. They now, by the way, have come around, and are appreciating the incredibly vast talent Zep had, and acknowledge their great contributions.
More Zeppelin, but let's hear some deep tracks! how about "In The Light" or "Carouselambra" or "Boogie With Stu"? |
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Jimmy86
(CA) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2004 - 21:54 | |
mr.selfdestruct wrote:Man, the drummer in Led Zepplin sucks ass. And don't go saying "He sucks ass on purpose to add style!"
Man, that's about the dumbest thing I've read posted on Radio Paradise today! |
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Chunk
| | Posted: Jan 14, 2004 - 14:46 | |
Not one of Zeppelin's best, but just about anything not from Coda is worth a listen now and then. :)
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Pipes
(Murray, UT) | | Posted: Jan 14, 2004 - 13:16 | |
drife wrote:I still don't understand the mass appeal of Led Zeppelin.
From the start, the critics hated them. Those critics are still right.
Led Zeppelin's music is singularly unintersting. While I'm no fan of "trained"
vocalists, Robert Plant's singing evokes feelings reminscent of those
manifested while listening to someone slowly, agonizingly, scrape their nails
across a chalk board do.
Oh my. Uninteresting? Robert Plant's vocals bad? You agree with the critics? What critics are those? You need to smoke a little reality! 
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daylight
(Toronto) | | Posted: Jan 14, 2004 - 13:10 | |
Aaarrrrrgh! I switched to internet radio to get away from the 'Classic Rock' format that plays Zeppelin every three hours.
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Pipes
(Murray, UT) | | Posted: Jan 14, 2004 - 13:10 | |
veegez wrote:
Dude has lost his mind.
John Bonham utterly and completely rocked beyond belief. Nobody pounded the crap out of a drum kit and did it as effortlessly as Bonham did. Now that's final, and it is not subject to negotiation.
So very true! 
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drife
(Golden, CO) | | Posted: Jan 14, 2004 - 13:09 | |
I still don't understand the mass appeal of Led Zeppelin.
From the start, the critics hated them. Those critics are still right.
Led Zeppelin's music is singularly unintersting. While I'm no fan of "trained"
vocalists, Robert Plant's singing evokes feelings reminscent of those
manifested while listening to someone slowly, agonizingly, scrape their nails
across a chalk board do.
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redeyespy
(W.P.B., FL) | | Posted: Nov 13, 2003 - 20:48 | |
I can't break the association:every time I hear this I expect the dj to say(as I have a bazillion times)--"Yeah! Get the LED out! Rip off the knobs and piss off the neighbors! If it's too damn loud you're too damn old!" Etc.
Soooory, Bill!  |
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phineas
(lotusland) | | Posted: Nov 13, 2003 - 20:45 | |
mr.selfdestruct wrote:Man, the drummer in Led Zepplin sucks ass. And don't go saying "He sucks ass on purpose to add style!"
I liked it better when you were destroying elves. |
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nolands
(New York (about 2880 mi East of Paradise), NY) | | Posted: Oct 24, 2003 - 07:22 | |
mr.selfdestruct wrote:Man, the drummer in Led Zepplin sucks ass. And don't go saying "He sucks ass on purpose to add style!"
Since I'm sure you only said that to giggle at the inevitable flame-fest that would follow, I'm not going to bite.
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charlesr
(London, UK) | | Posted: Oct 24, 2003 - 07:21 | |
mr.selfdestruct wrote:Man, the drummer in Led Zepplin sucks ass. And don't go saying "He sucks ass on purpose to add style!"
I think you need to hear his drumming in No Quarter again... |
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charlesr
(London, UK) | | Posted: Oct 24, 2003 - 07:20 | |
Thanks Bill...it hits the spot beautifully! Awesome, awesome and double awesome...
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anonymous
(Isle of Man - Irish Sea - UK) | | Posted: Sep 13, 2003 - 09:32 | |
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veegez
(Burnsville, mn) | | Posted: Jul 24, 2003 - 11:16 | |
Originally Posted by mr.selfdestruct:
Man, the drummer in Led Zepplin sucks ass. And don't go saying "He sucks ass on purpose to add style!"
Dude has lost his mind.
John Bonham utterly and completely rocked beyond belief. Nobody pounded the crap out of a drum kit and did it as effortlessly as Bonham did. Now that's final, and it is not subject to negotiation.
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