~Best Led Zeppelin Song~

[PanzerJaeger]

Ok I think its been scientifically established that Zep is the best Rock&Roll band of all time, but what is their best song?

Of course they made more than 20 amazing songs so ill just put most of those that are found on their "best of" cd set.

[Templar Knight]

Im sorry I have to disagree on them being the best

stairway to heaven is their best

[PanzerJaeger]

Just joking of course, its all subjective.. For instance Stairway is good, but not near their best, imo.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

My all time favs would be battle of evermore, dazed and confused or rock and roll

[Byzantine Prince]

I like Whole lot of Love the best. That's just me though.

[IrishMike]

Rock and Roll all the way, their is just something about that song.

[John86]

I chose Immigrant song. Personally I dislike Stairway to Heaven.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Dazed and Confused. STH has been way over played.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Between Ramble On and Heartbreaker. Stairway gets props for being the best song ever, but it's not my favourite.

[PanzerJaeger]

Heartbreaker from the "How The West Was Won" cd set is my favorite Zep song. I cant believe they didnt put a version of it on their best of cd set.

[NimbleNota]

Achilles Last Stand

Edit: Over the Hills and far away is good too

[_Martyr_]

Dazed and Confused is my fav LZ song. But to be perfectly honest, I just dont like them as much as I used to. Infact sometimes they just downright annoy me, I dont even know why.

Still one of the all-time greats though, without a shaddow of a doubt!

[ichi]

Achilles Last Stand

Edit: Over the Hills and far away is good too

Both are excellent and oft overlooked

Nobody's Fault but Mine

Your Time is Gonna Come

D'yer Maker

In My Time of Dying

also didn't make the list, but are better songs than 99% of the crap produced today.

All of the titles on the list are excellent

almost forgot I Can't Quit You Baby

THE LIST

I saw Zep in 1977, 4th row center.

Tickets went on sale Monday 8:00, so six friends and I decided to go get in line Friday after school. There were already 50 people in line. Well by midnight the party was on, people drinking and smoking and stereos.

People started to pass out and there was a fight over who was in line.

So they started 'The List'. But, this being the 70's and everybody was pretty well stoned, the list was flawed.

The first people in line wrote their names on the list, then passed in back. The next people added their names, and passed it on, until it got to me.

I thought, I don't trust these jokers, especially the ones behind me. Now picture that its about 4 am Saturday, tickets go on sale Monday at 8, people are drunk and I had a bean bag chair to crash in and a bottle of Jack Daniels to sustain me.

So I wrote my name on the list, stashed it, and created a new one, which I passed on back down the line. All day Saturday the line grew and each person who came added their name to the list, but I had the list of the first 50.

Saturday night was unbelievable, later dubbed the MDE (multi-dazed experience). Man, who knows what we were on. Totally out of control. Kids, please, do not ever try this at home (or anywhere else for that matter)

By Sunday pm the line went around the auditorium. People had come and gone and 'The List' had taken on an importance that could not be estimated, the mere knowledge of its existence caused calm and order to prevail amongst a bunch of hippy druggy thugs.

Sunday night was outrageous, a wild bacchanal that led to arrests, fights, and nudity. I passed out.

I was shaken from my state of intoxication by deep male voices with bright lights. They shook my shoulder and called me by name, asking if I had 'The List'.

It was the Police. And I do not mean the rock group.

When I replied in the affirmative they grabbed me and took me into a security door, down a long series of hallways deep under the bowels of the building. After a long time (I was seeping alcohol from my pores, not only because I was mildly frightened and disoriented, wiped out physically, but also close to alcohol poisoning, so it seemed like a very long time) we came to the control room.

There were a dozen cops, with some in uniform and others in plain clothes. "Do you have the list?" "Yes" "Can we see it?" "only if you promise not to take it from me" "OK"

After examining the list they disclosed their plan to me. They expected a riot at 8 am. The 'line' could no longer be considered a line, it was a migrant shantytown refugee camp. Many people who had signed the list had left and intended to return at 8 am, while others had snuck in with their friends and bloated the line, while still others had simply forced (or planned to force at 8 am) their way into line at 8 am.

So the police told me that the ticket office would open at 7 am, and numbered tickets would be distributed according to the list in my hand, and these new numbered tickets would gain you access to the ticket window line. I was escorted back out to my bean bag chair and told to be ready.

I woke my buddy and had him go get all of our friends.

At 7 am sharp the bullhorns came out and the ticket office opened. The bullhorn man called me forward and I presented "The List" As we called out names the original line-founders came forward to collect their prizes, but every now and then we would come across a name that did not respond.

Well, they didn't respond the first time their name was called, but when we called out again one of my friends would jump up and scream, 'Here!' and run forward, to be vouched for by me, and grab a ticket that got you into a very controlled line at the window.

When my name, number 52, came up, I grabbed my ticket, shouted something rude, and took my place in line. A guy at about place 130 produced 'The List part duex' and on it went. We each purchased four tickets, and with the original seven of us bolstered to ten we got a huge block.

At the concert a huge (is 40 huge?) group of friends occupied nearly a whole section, right in the middle.

Man, that was one of the wildest weekends in my life.

ichi

ps look for a band called Dread Zeppelin if you like reggae, Led Zep, and Elvis

[PanzerJaeger]

Awesome story Ich, almost as awesome as seeing Zep live. I envy you!

[Big_John]

voted other for the song "friends". kashmir, going to california, houses of the holy and immigrant song are also faves of mine.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

"Bron Yr Aur Stomp"; "Going to California" and "Thank You"
are the ones I currently like best.

[PanzerJaeger]

A related news story..

SPRINGFIELD, IL--With the state legislature's passage of a bill last week allowing police officers to cite Led Zeppelin bumper stickers as probable cause for a vehicular search, Illinois became the 13th state to recognize classic-rock-related automobile decorations as grounds for waiver of a warrant.

"We've known for years that there was a direct correlation between the presence of a Led Zeppelin bumper sticker and the likelihood of that vehicle containing a controlled substance like marijuana," said DeKalb County Sheriff Ronald Bauer. "However, it wasn't until last Thursday that it was within our power to act on this knowledge to make a drug-possession arrest."

Illinois' action comes on the heels of the recent Supreme Court decision that the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure does not require police to obtain a warrant if there is sufficient cause to believe the vehicle contains contraband.

Following the top court's ruling, a number of states, including Utah, North Carolina and Wisconsin, moved to specifically name Led Zeppelin bumper stickers as a factor in determining whether to conduct searches.

The decision, says Bauer, is supported by extensive data. Illinois state records show that in 1998, there were 362 cases in which a traffic-violation-related search of a Led Zeppelin-logo-adorned vehicle was found to contain illegal drugs or such drug paraphernalia as rolling papers, plastic baggies and metal pipes bearing a row of four cryptic symbols.

Yet before the passage of HB 1921, ill-defined definitions of probable cause have meant that an officer acting on this knowledge was entering risky legal territory.

"This is exactly what policemen have been asking for for years," said Bauer, who said the new law will precipitate a "considerable increase" in the frequency of drug-related arrests of motorists by Illinois police, especially in rural areas. "It used to be that if we spotted a car with that crazy-looking wizard on it, we had to just drive right past unless the longhairs inside were specifically doing something illegal."

Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan applauded passage of the bill.

"After the Supreme Court decision, it was just a matter of fine-tuning our interpretation of 'probable cause,'" Ryan said. "We've found that Led Zeppelin bumper stickers--or, for that matter, just the sound of "The Immigrant Song" or "Livin' Lovin' Maid" coming from an open window--is exactly the sort of smoking gun local authorities needed to establish a baseline for assessing that probable cause."

Ryan continued: "When it comes right down to it, though, prudent officers have always, to a great degree, relied on common sense. If a vehicle, especially a late-'70s American-made sedan with a vinyl top and some rust, also bears a Led Zeppelin sticker, what are the odds the driver is not in frequent possession of drugs or alcohol?"

Preliminary data seems to indicate that this logic is sound. In a Monday-afternoon field test, state troopers detained 100 Peoria-area motorists under the new Criminal Code 861.4/Section 8 (Probable Cause/ZOSO). Nearly 60 percent of the vehicles contained alcohol, drugs or drug paraphernalia, and nearly all contained suspected alcohol or drug abusers.

Rockford resident Doug Wojcek, charged Tuesday with possession of a quarter-ounce of marijuana, was among those arrested under the new law.

"I was minding my own business when some policeman pulls me over and searches my glove compartment," said Wojcek, 36. "It was just like when Robert Plant gets hassled by the cops in that one song 'Misty Mountain Hop.' Hey, what could I do?"

"This is bullshit," he added. "What about the kids with those Nine Inch Nails stickers? No one is going after them."

Despite such complaints, Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan spoke out in support of the law and advocated widening its scope.

"We might have to add provisions for the search of vehicles bearing the Pink Floyd rainbow-and-black-prism, the Blue Oyster Cult symbol, or maybe even the word Ozzy," said Gov. Ryan, noting that many other states had already made these changes. "We cannot allow this law to become discriminatory in practice. It must serve everyone equally."

Ill have the state of Illinois know that I voted for Bush.. im no stoned slacker!

[IrishMike]

HEY I GOT ONE ON MY CAR! I better watch out, living in kentucky I could be in danger.

One problem, I don't do drugs.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The immigrant song was the only one of theirs that I liked.

[PanzerJaeger]

Blasphemy!

[JAG]

They are clearly not the best, but I will let that slide

Stairway to heaven is my clear fav, what an awesome song that is.

[English assassin]

PJ did you get that story from the Onion?

I don't know if I like it or hate it when life outweirds satire.

Anyway, whole lotta love for me. Are neither of heartbreaker and living loving maid on this "best of" then? I'd have voted for LLM if it had been there.

Led Zep II is surely without question the greatest album ever recorded.

[Craterus]

Stairway to Heaven...

[Ianofsmeg16]

I suppose i have a biased opinion to Led Zepplien, i went to see robert plant when he was here on the Isle of Man during TT fortnight (haha to al of you english people who didnt hav two weeks off, dont worry, it ended last week) and he played whole lotta love, DAMN!!! he was good, so whole lotta love is my faveorite song...oh yeah, during the concert he high fived me, I'VE TOUCHED ROBERT PLANT!!!!

[Navaros]

best Zeppelin song is definitely "All My Love"


i dunno why a lot of their crappier songs get so much airplay. ie: Black Dog, Whole Lotta Love, Dazed and Confused - those songs are pretty crappy IMO

Stairway to Heaven sounds like a lullaby, not a rock song

[Samurai Waki]

like Led Zep, Metallica is awesome, and AC/DC Concerts still RULE THEM ALL! I've never been to a Led Zeppelin Concert, but I did go to a Metallica Concert in Seattle, which was way cool (I got to shake Kirk Hammet's hand). But I went to an AC/DC concert in Sydney, Australia a few years back, and they were fricken' awesome (wow that reminded my of Carl off of ATHF 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force') They just have so much energy, and know how to get the crowd really into it. I was only 15 at the time, and I probably threw the Devil Horns (I think AC/DC invented it) more times than I could possibly count. If there is only one concert you could go to, go to an AC/DC concert.

[thrashaholic]

I've never met a Led Zeppelin song I didn't like, but at the mo' my favourite has to be "Travelling Riverside Blues" track 8 CD1 of the BBC Sessions CD set.

Plus, to make everyone just a little jealous, I've got four cd covers ('Zeppelin 1', 'Zeppelin 2', 'How The West Was Won', and Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's 'No Quater' acoustic album) signed by the man himself, Led Zeppelin personified, Jimmy Page. They're all framed and on my wall.

He's got such a cool looking signature......

[PanzerJaeger]

Oh man thats awesome.

Do you like BBC sessions or How the West Was Won better?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

No Quarter is one of the best live albums and videos ever. Gallows Pole is one of my fav tunes ever

[thrashaholic]

Oh man thats awesome.

Do you like BBC sessions or How the West Was Won better?

Hmmmm, that's difficult. Probably BBC sessions since has some unique songs, but having "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" on the same CD twice is a little tedious because neither, IMO, are Led Zep's best. How The West Was Won is still very good though, especially the DVD ("White Summer" sends tingles down my spine every time I hear it).