worst Zep songs

["Josh Messerly (Chemistry stud.) " <messerly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I go home on the weekend and come back and I have 152 messages! wow, It
seems as if we have gotten past these little annoyances (except for a
small re-occurance) and have gotten down to more Zep.

Here are my least favorate Zep songs:

Your time is Gonna Come

I only dislike this song because of the starting organ solo that blares 
out of my speakers after I have my stereo cranked for Dazed & Confused
and the chorus at the end that fades into Black Mountain Side. That chorus
just kind of rubs me the wrong way. I can stand the organ if I just
remember to turn the volume down.

Hats off to (Roy) Harper

I again have the volume problem. I crank it during Bring it on Home during
the last wailing of the harmonica and forget to turn it down after the
last harmonica solo.  That freaky slide stuff almost blows my eardrums.

The whole Prescence song selection (not a song) ;)

For a long time I couldn't pinpoint what was wrong with Prescence.  I
didn't dislike the songs individually, but listening to the album kind of
became a chore. After putting on Achillies I am always tempted to just
rewind the tape (no you cannot fit a cd player into the radio mount of a
'79 Camero unless you hack at the plastic, which I won't do). I made
myself listen to the whole tape because I didn't want to be like the
people I know who buy a album for just 1 song ( I have done this once and
will never again) and skip all the others.  I want to know what the
artists are trying to say and just listening to one of their works gives
an incompleate view of their whole picture.  The reason that Prescence
seems to drag on for me is that there is no variation in the sound of so
many of the songs.  From Achillies to For Your Life there is a nice change
in sound. Then Royal Orleans has the same sound. Nobody's Fault but Mine
has the same sound as does Candy Store Rocky. It continues for the whole
rest of the album. By sound I mean that in these songs they all have no
real "push" to them. They aren't coherent.  Robert has his voice melodys
and then Jimmy does a guitar riff with it and goes into a solo with Bonzo
and JPJ kind of doing their own thing in the background.  It seems that
the coherence, the sense of all the parts working and meshing that is so
much why Led Zeppelin is great, seems to be missing in some large or small
degree in all these songs.  Slipped into a album here or there as change
up from some other songs, these would work.  But slammed togeter provides
a monotonous stream of music that allows one to concentrate more on
driving.  

Yet I do not have any real "hated" Zep songs. I still think that they did
not make a "bad" song.  I like all of them. It just depends on what mood I
am.  If I could find a woman ( a hard prospect indeed), have her do
something to me that would make me want to "shake her on down" with my
shotgun, "Hats off" would speak to me. It does when I'm in that blues sort
of mood.  When I'm in that transvestite finding mood, Royal Orleans does
the trick. ;)

	-Josh Messerly


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