365 – New Music Daily

The legacy of Zep 4 (that sounds like a third party Zelda game, no?) has become a mix of 80’s movie soundtracks, the guitar store riff (which by the way is also a classic on the ukelele too! Also I think I might have the highest rate of parentheses per post, or parenthesis per paragraph, or words per parentheses, or all of the above and apparently commas in parentheses too, on WordPress)

Okay, that one was actually too long to keep the paragraph coherent, trying again. The legacy of Zep 4 has become a mix of 80’s movie soundtracks, the guitar store riff of one of the most recognizable songs of all time, and it’s been a long lonelylonelylonelylonely time. I feel like this album is really not a good show of Zeppelin as a band – there are only a few songs on here that really sound like a true Zeppelin song.

Black Dog kinda drives me nuts, Rock and Roll is close to Zeppelin, The Battle of Evermore is bizarre, Stairway to Heaven is Stairway to Heaven – which by the way requires a tangent. This song is so ridiculously iconic at this point, you kind of have to marvel in the legacy that it’s created. There’s Stairway to Heaven, there’s Bohemian Rhapsody, maybe Thriller, what else? Hotel California is close, maybe. It’s like this immortalized tier of music that’s so hard to reach. There’s massive pop hits that don’t have the lasting impact of these songs… I’m too dumb to say why, but it’s crazy to think about.

Back to the elusive (by this blog’s standards) track by track breakdown, Misty Mountain Hop I love, but it’s a Zeppelin song dominated by a riff on the keys (JPJ!), Four Sticks is forgettable, Going to California is a full on folk song, and When the Levee Breaks has some semblance of Zeppelin, but still nothing like 90% of their music.

All this is to say this album is odd, and go listen to Zeppelin 2 for that real shit. And think about what I said about Stairway to Heaven.

Favorite songs: Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop