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tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
edited January 2008 in Other Music
Led Zepp have great lyrics on their catalog, but chekin' the lyrics of their first album i think it have the weakest lyrics of all, i love the way Plant handle the relationship themes, but the center theme on this album is just one: GIRLS......
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    i love the song on this album, where page and plant exchange noises with guitar and mouth. jimmy will play a little, then robert will make the noise...loved that part for years, i think its you shook me.

    the lyrics may be okay, but you are not saying the album sucks? it ROCKS.
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  • VeddernarianVeddernarian Posts: 1,924
    restlesssoul wrote:
    i love the song on this album, where page and plant exchange noises with guitar and mouth. jimmy will play a little, then robert will make the noise...loved that part for years, i think its you shook me.

    the lyrics may be okay, but you are not saying the album sucks? it ROCKS.

    You Shook Me allwwalllwwwalllwww night loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng! (solo) bass line intro to Dazed... what a great album!

    Searching for meaningful lyrics? listen to Dylan or someone.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Edved82Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    Veddernarian wrote:
    You Shook Me allwwalllwwwalllwww night loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng! (solo) bass line intro to Dazed... what a great album!

    Searching for meaningful lyrics? listen to Dylan or someone.

    I've only recently started to appreciate Zep 1. Its a bit rough around the edges and covers-heavy, but it really sets the blueprint for the later stuff. How Many More Times is pure genius - Zep may have borrowed a few lyrics here and there, but they really made the cover versions their own!
    "...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Well I'll take the subject of girls over Gollum and the evil one any day.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Personally, I could give a rat's ass about the lyrics when you've got Jimmy Page licking 10 kinds of guitar ass all over that album. D&C, How Many More Times, Good Times Bad Times. Rock riffs just don't get better.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Don't over analyze. It was 1968, he was 18 years of age for crying out loud....course it was all about girls. And anyway, the majority of it was reworking old blues tunes, it's pretty much a covers album...the greatest one ever.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • AzwethinkweizAzwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    Greatest debut album ever (and one of the greatest albums overall).
  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    DOSW wrote:
    Well I'll take the subject of girls over Gollum and the evil one any day.

    bump. god i hate those lyrics....

    "Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
    How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
    T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
    But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah"

    love the songs but fuck me i hate some of the lyrics on LZ II, and LZ one is a phenomenal debut record. probably the best debut ive ever heard along with The Doors..
  • ii44ii44 Posts: 430
    LZ's lyrics aren't embarrassing, but they're really not noteworthy either.

    Also: note that Plant wasn't credited as a songwriter on LZ1.
  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    Led Zeppelin's 1 is good but overall the middle records are much stronger (HOTH, IV and PG). I enjoy dazed and confused and your time is gonna come but yeah it's an album about sex and girls. Plant has too many 'babies' in it also :D I'm a huge fan but I listen to this one the least.
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  • glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
    tonadax wrote:
    Led Zepp have great lyrics on their catalog, but chekin' the lyrics of their first album i think it have the weakest lyrics of all, i love the way Plant handle the relationship themes, but the center theme on this album is just one: GIRLS......

    to be honest, led zep has never stirred my heart of poetry and prose (except for few a songs like “since I’ve been loving you”), but to my mind they rocked so hard, they could've been singing about primary school and kissing touches for all i care.
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