| Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I have to agree with lilfin, it is based around a Bert Jansch song. It comes from the sitar-like D-modal tuning (DADGAD) which Jimmy uses of a few yardbirds & zep songs, White Summer (Yardbirds 'Little Games', 1967), Midnight Moonlight (Zep left-over later called Swan Song) and most famously Kashmir. He was taught the tuning in 1966 by Al Stewart who taught him to play the Jansch song Black Waterside which it bears definite similarities to. I love this song. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Bron-Yr-Aur Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I wasn't sure what to write until I looked at the question 'What does this song mean to you?' and I realised: This song means everything to me; it doesn't need words or accompaniment, its just Jimmy being Jimmy. It doesn't matter that he hits a few wrong notes either, because its Jimmy and it adds to the greatness of the song. I love this song. |
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| Led Zeppelin – No Quarter Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Some Led Zep songs are about Lord of the Rings; for me this one is not. To my mind it has always been essentially the song of those people who are left behind in wartime; waiting for their loved ones to return. That is the only explanation I've heard where all the lyrics make sense. No Quarter - I agree that it is meant in the sense of no mercy. I love this song. I won't say that any of you are wrong in your interpretations of it but it doesn't feel like a LOTR influenced song; definitely more Norse mythology. I think the album was called No Quarter because Jimmy would have no mercy in reworking their old stuff even if people wanted to hear them only playing exact replicas of the studio versions. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Trampled Under Foot Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think he mentions at one point that he's 'talkin' 'bout love', that's what I think this song is about. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I simply want to thank you all for the endless entertainment of your views on the song; it would seem that it has bred some controversy. I personally know what I think the song means but I'll let you all find your own view on it rather than try to force mine on you. I would also like to point out that I think it extremely unlikely there is a hidden Satanic message in the song, Jimmy has always said that he never tries to push his beliefs on anyone and that he keeps them private because he doesn't want people to start getting into the things he's into unless they truly believe rather than just people trying to be like him, that's you mathiuspage. Also John Paul Jones' arrangement for this is truly stunning, some of his best work, along with She's A Rainbow for the Stones. I would also like to say that most amusing was the cock waving which was going on earlier over what seemed like an attempt to prove yourself the youngest led zeppelin fan ever. However, I am the winner because my mum used to put headphones on her tummy and play me all the zeppelin albums, so I've been a fan since before I was born ;P |
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| Led Zeppelin – Moby Dick Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I have to say that I prefer to watch Bonham on the Live at the Albert Hall DVD, to see the way he really goes for at times, although the HTWWW version is great as well. I have fond memories of this song because I was watching the DVD and then someone came in and said to me 'Does he call that a drum solo' because Bonham was on one of the slow bits, and I made her watch the whole of the rest of it, the look on her face where they saw Bonham's drumming when he was really going mental, it was pure comedy gold. |
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| Led Zeppelin – That's the Way Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I too think that xOnix was spot on with his interpretation of the song, however as always there is more than one way to look at it. Something struck me about this song, looking at the album track rather than the live DVD, perhaps Pobert Plant was writing from the point of view of one of his own childhood friends. That Plant's life has begun to take a different course from his friend's and now "I can't play with you no more", a sign of this different life is that "I can't believe what people saying, You're gonna let your hair hang down" he can't understand how he's changed. Plant's friend then has a content and 'normal' life while Plant pursues his musical career 'I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long, You're in the darker side of town.' One of the most touching lines then follows, "And when I'm out I see you walking, Why don't your eyes see me, Could it be you've found another game to play," Here Plant's friend knows they have grown apart Plant has music which seems to have replaced him. "That's The Way it ought to be" since they cannot be friends and he must move on. There then follow two accounts of encounters between Plant and his friend, there is the moving image of seeing Plant crying by the river as he see dying fish. Then he sees Plant "kissing tiny flowers" and then there is this clash of beliefs, the friend who is living a life of mundanity believes that "nothing really matters" and Plant cannot accept this. Then in the final verse there seems hope for a rekindling of their relationship, that if they "look and look again at what you see, Is that the way it ought to stay?". Here the friend wonders whether they or not they can become friends again but does not know how to talk to Plant any more since "I don't know what to say about it, When all you ears have turned away". There that all I have to say on the song, apart from that I truly love it and that I also agree there are also the socio-political elements in the song which have already been described by langdon007. |
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