best LED ZEPPELIN album side

the sequencing on the box is really cool, I love how that 3rd CD is focused on the epics

Easy answer for me: PG side 2

I'm not even the biggest "Kashmir" fan but it's the only side of a LZ album where not a single second is wasted

― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:00 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

My thoughts exactly

i had the crop circle box on cassette lol

Never had the crop circle box but a friend borrowed Remasters from the public library and duped cassettes of it for us CD-bereft povvos, and months and months later I discovered my dad's gf had all the albums thru Song Remains The Same on beaten-up but still vivid vinyl, so I'd spend the sunday afternoons we were at her house taping myself copies, and discovering non-Remasters jams like In My Time Of Dying and Levee was like discovering forgotten relics.

i had the crop circle box on cassette lol

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 2:43 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the trillest version for sure

I was too old for that crop circle box but reading the Discogs reviews it sounds like the mastering is killer

I had LZII on cassette, which flipped Heartbreaker and Thank You. The way Thank You trails off quietly then explodes into Living Loving Maid is one of my favorite LZ sequencing moments.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4404429-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin-II

You just blew my mind, PBKR.

I too had the cassette version of II, but I got mine at a Hastings probably in 1988, '89. And according to discogs, yeah, that version did the same thing too!

So now I'm sitting here, wondering, Did I really listen to Thank You going into LLM all those years and not a thing of it? I mean, I wouldn't have known any better.

Had the cropduster set too that I compiled a cassette version for the car. But since I already had II-HotH on tape, it was sequenced with "In the Evening" starting things off before going into "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". Ended with "Bonzo's Montreaux" into "All My Love".

My recollection is they are spliced really tight together, too, so it almost ends up like a Yes transition.

especially amazing because Heartbreak>Living Loving Maid ime has typically been treated as a suite and played together on classic rock radio. Just imagining LLM bursting out of Thank You has already shifted my perspective on it in a positive way, bet it really crackles!

Someone else can tell me whether Tangerine --> Celebration Day works or not.

I think you mean Friends? And yes

fuck it i'm just gonna pirate the box set now

No, Friends --> Celebration Day is what we have now. I'm talking about some more cassette re-arranging.

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trying to verify this internet trend

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LED ZEPPELIN II side two 7

wut

So:

LZ IV = 26
PG = 10

Yet, the results of the albums portion of LZ artist poll was:

PG = 266pts
IV = 237pts

ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD

Some people be frontin'.

I could see where that might be a by-product of this poll's idea--voting for sides--combined with the difference between a single and a double. With the Rolling Stones, I could see individual sides of Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed winning this kind of poll, but Exile winning a ballot-type poll. Maybe doubles are experienced more...holisitically? I don't know.

You guys really like four sticks huh

didn't vote for that side, but four sticks is the second-best song on it

I love Four Sticks because even Led Zeppelin didn't really know how to play it. They took stabs at it when they rarely played it live, Bonham had a frustrating time getting it down, but on the record, it sounds perfect.

Also, the song is officially known as untitled sticks.

“four sticks” is cool, does it even have more than one chord?

I don’t really like plants vocals during the “punch on the nose” part of California

Four Sticks is the heart of the album

"Four Sticks"/"Misty Mountain Hop" had more to do with my vote than even "When the Levee Breaks."

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