Re: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:03 pm

This one's lost its way.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:04 pm

Weedy singing.

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:06 pm

I think that it's this song that stopped me from going right back to Our Price and haggling with the chippy staff about a refund.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pm

Last track - The Ocean. drown

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pm

Talkin'

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pm

John Bonham's charming yokel voice.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pm

Why do I get the impression I know exactly how the rest of this song will sound like?

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:08 pm

This sounds like a reject from LZIV/'Symbols'.

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:09 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:Why do I get the impression I know exactly how the rest of this song will sound like?

But with LZ that's a good thing surely.

Riff heavy, brontosaurus drums, Plant squawking...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:09 pm

Bit of Voodoo Child.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:10 pm

wasn't expecting that acapella bit.

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:10 pm

Plant's vocals work on this one.

Also Bonzo's drums.

Some kick-drum pyrotechnics.

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:11 pm

Tedious artsy-fartsy, bubblegum, boogie-woogie ending though.

Just to spoil it all.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:11 pm

I just don't like the Zeppelin groove, it's got no swing to it, I think its the drummer trying to hit everything harder than everything else that does it. They should have got Ringo in on this.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:11 pm

It is over.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:12 pm

It is over.

It was an album that did a lot but not for any noticeable purpose. There was too much guitar and too little coherence.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:12 pm

I shall give it 2 stars.

by Nightjar Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:14 pm

An absolutely terrible album that.

3 or 4 good songs - more than many albums can manage in truth - but as an album (i.e. an encapsulated, historically significant document or concept or even vaguely coherent piece of art) an utter debacle.

Insulting even.

LZ can go and do one for this dreck.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:14 pm

I remember listening to a large collection of Zeppelin songs, was it that remastered thing with the crop circles on it? Anyway, I remember liking about 1 in 6 songs. I think it's been the same ever since. They also drag everything out too long, things like that Rock and Roll track on presence would have been fine as a 2 and half minute novelty thing, but had to drag it out to over 5 minutes.

by Guest Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:18 pm

The reissue was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 98, based on nine reviews

dunno

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