Re: The Ten Worst Zep Songs

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> 10.  "Tangerine" - as a lyricist, Page is a good guitarist.  Nice solo,
> boring song, awful lyrics.

Agreed. I actually "loved" that song when I first got the 4 CD Boxed Set, 
but now it is one of those I wish I don't hear for a while.

> 9.  "Bonzo's Montreaux" - it's a drum solo; need I say any more?

Yes! Now add Moby Dick! Only good thing about Moby is the guitar riff. 
Granted drum solo'd where BIG in the seventies but c'mon; How boring can 
you actually get?!?!
 
> 8.  "Baby Come on Home" - keep on playing shit like this, and I'll stay
> away for good.

NO NO NO!!! This is a song that should have been released a-hell-of-alot
sooner than ALOT of other songs. It just has that feel to it. It's a 
favorite no matter what happens. It's a love song, but it's a GREAT one 
at that.

> 7.  "Tea for One" - dull, duller, dullest.  

See Baby Come On Home (apart from the unreleased stuff) 

> 6.  "Thank You" - see my comments above.

If it was a movie you'ld call it a "chick flick", but it's still a nice 
song, and even when Duran Duran did it it was nice.
 
> 5.  "Night Flight" - if the word "banal" didn't already exist, it would
> have to be invented to describe this "song."

Yup. Could definetly live without this one.
 
> 4.  "Hot Dog" - see Bill's comments above.

YES! Give it to John Denver! (oops, he's gone)

> 3.  "Darlene" - this song has all the charm and appeal of an abscess.

Boring boring "and then some".
 
> 2.  "Poor Tom" - poor Tom indeed.  No one should have a song this bad
> written about him or her.

Doesn't really fit Zeppelin, does it.
 
> 1.  "D'yer Maker" - vile.  Hideous.  Wretched.  Morally bankrupt.  Evil.
> Grating.  Witless.  Loathsome.  Repulisve.  Repugnant.  Reprehensible.  
> Intelligence-insulting.  Flat-out awful.

FINALLY! Someone else seeing it my way. It might have been catchy the 
first time but after that it just becomes silly. My "non-zep" friends 
like it; I *HATE* it!! And that4s how I *really* feel!

Put Moby Dick, White Summer and Black Mountain Side down here somewhere 
and you'ld get my list. What can I say, I'm not an instrumental kind of 
guy. I even found the instrumental Kashmir to be boring, although it is 
one of my three favorite Zep-tunes.

Keep-a-ramblin'
Espen G.
ISU