Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Buying for buying sake is something I don't understand, I have met people who have desired one song from an album and bought the C.D for this "one song". Physical Graffiti requires none of this carry on, here's what you will have spent your hard earned cash on if you decide to buy this classic "Double" album. Disc One 1.Custard Pie - 4:13 2.The Rover - 5:36 3.In My Time of Dying - 11:04 4.Houses ofy the Holy - 4:01 5.Trampled Underfoot - 5:35 6.Kashmir - 8:31 Disc Two 1.In the Light - 8:44 2.Bron-Yr-Aur - 2:06 3.Down by the Seaside - 5:14 4.Ten Years Gone - ...  Read the complete review

Led Zeppelin had begun recording their 6th album way back in 1973 at the Headley Grange with the mobile studio owned by Ronnie Lane, the former bass player of the Faces. However, illness had struck John Paul Jones and the sessions had been but forward to early in the next year. Jimmy and Bonzo made a guitar and drums demo for a song in a vaguely “Eastern” key that grew out of Jimmy’s cheesy Dan electro guitar solo on “White Summer”. It was to be the third in a series of layered, harmonised guitar pieces that had begun with “Stairway to Heaven” and continued through “The Song Remains the Same”. The sessions ...  Read the complete review

This is my favourite Led Zep album, on balance - I like all their early releases, up to and including this one, but I do prefer "Physical Graffiti", and I don' think it's just because it's a double and has more songs on it! The CD version doesn't have the 'moveable' sleeve, where you can change what appears behind the tenement windows - shame but there you go. The album is still on 2 discs, though, as at over 80 minutes long it was no doubt not possible to fit it onto a single CD. There are many styles on the album, from out and out rocker, to boogie, to classical. First track Custard Pie is one of the rockers, with a ...  Read the complete review

This is not one of Led Zeppelin's most famous albums. To the uninitiated, there is no song here that's as instantly recognisable as, say, Stairway To Heaven or Whole Lotta Love. But in my book that's a good thing. Stairway for one has been so played to death that I tend to inwardly groan when those familiar chords start up. Whereas there isn't a single song on Physical Graffiti which has that groan factor. The reason for this album being a double was that the band had written enough material for a new album, but also had saved up a number of good songs which hadn't made the cut for other albums. In a lot of cases, it's actually difficult ...  Read the complete review

This is one of Zep's finest albums. Due to the success and acclaim of "I" "II" "III" and "Four Symbols", this album doesn't get as much credit as it deserves. One thing this album certainly does have an advantage over the other Zep albums is of course "Kashmir". The 8 and half minute masterpiece shows Jimmy Page on top of the Rock 'n' Roll mountain. But there is so much more to this album than "Kashmir". "Custard Pie", "Houses Of The Holy", not to mention the beautiful "In My Time Of Dying". This is Led Zeppelin at their peak. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham ...  Read the complete review