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Band: Led Zeppelin
Album: Physical Graffiti
Released in 1975
Record Label: Swan Song
Notable Tracks:
(They are all pretty good, but these really stand out)
In My Time of Dying
Houses of the Holy
Trampled Underfoot
Kashmir
Bron-Yr-Aur
Ten Years Gone
Night Flight
When one thinks of Led Zeppelin, and their favorite songs by Zeppelin, they usually think back to ?Dazed and Confused? or something off of Led Zeppelin IV or Led Zeppelin II, or basically anything before ?Houses of the Holy.? But for some reason, people often forget ?Physical Graffiti.? This does not make any sense to me. Physical Graffiti has to be one of the most underrated albums of all time.
Physical Graffiti was a 2 record album, with 6 songs one on part, and 9 on the other. The first part includes the strange ?In My Time of Dying,? an 11 minute song that is hard to categorize. It also includes ?Houses of The Holy? which is a good, simple rock song. The first side also has ?Trampled Underfoot,? one out of two of Zeppelin?s expeditions into funk (the first being ?The Crunge?), and this one was by far better. It features John Paul Jones playing the keyboard, and he has a long keyboard solo in the middle. The last song, Kashmir, is an epic often compared to Stairway to Heaven, and is considered by many fans (the pinnacle of Led Zeppelin?s career.
The second side is not quite as good. Its highlight would have to be ?Ten Years Gone,? originally intended as an instrumental; it has both good music and lyrics.
All in all, it is a great, underrated album. It has great highlights, and most of the songs that don?t stand out are still pretty good songs anyways. Those songs should be considered some of the best album filler of all time. Although not their best, still a great album.
9/10!
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