dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Would've been awesome to be a fly on the wall to see him walk into the strip club and see his wife working there.Anarchy99 said:
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FBG'S TOP 81 LED ZEPPELIN SONGS: #1 - When The Levee Breaks from Led Zeppelin IV (1971) (2 Viewers)
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dickey moe
Fingerpicker
My guess is that it involves a song about some dog (and not necessarily a black one).
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Anarchy99
Footballguy
That's the thing . . . he was clean cut and was not a frequenteur to palaces of sin . . . so that part was unlikely in the first place. The place she danced / performed / worked was 100 miles away. And she always wore a wig. The chances of him just walking in randomly were as close to zero as you could get. However, had he had intel and already knew? Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do!
simey
Footballguy
When I lived in Florida, one of my neighbors put herself through nursing school being a dancer in a strip club. She wore a wig and used the stage name Avalon. She had a little boy, and he was looked after when she wasn't home. She didn't screw around with customers that visited the club. She did her job and went home. She made a lot of money.Anarchy99 said:
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Both incorrect but now I want to know these songs.
I expect to see the song in question in 20-30 range.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Please let us know when it comes up because now I'm all thinking "Is there a Zeppelin song with panflutes? Zither?"
⚡DEADHEAD⚡
Footballguy
I've railed against this song a little bit, mostly in jest because hey, we all have our thing, even if our thing is...odd.
Fool in the Rain has whistles in it.
2Young2BBald
Footbaldguy
Aside/Interlude: Yes and the singer in question, Sandy Denny, came from Fairport Convention which also gave the world Richard and (later) Linda Thompson. He is a fabulous guitar player and song writer while she has a fantastic and at times haunting voice. Richard is worth a deep dive and the stuff he did with Linda in the 70's to 1980 or so is really good stuff. Here is Dimming of the Day which has since been covered by many including Bonnie Raitt and David Gilmour. https://youtu.be/qzqjD-_OMHk
Anarchy99
Footballguy
#51 - Moby **** from Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Appeared On: 8 ballots (out of 62) . . . 12.9%
Total Points: 94 points (out of 1,550 possible points . . . 5.29%)
Top 5 Rankers: @BroncoFreak_2K3 friend @Long Ball Larry
5 Other Highest Rankers: @BroncoFreak_2K3@Rustoleum@Ron Popeil@fatguyinalittlecoat@zamboni
Highest Ranking: 2
Live Performances:
As Pat’s Delight: Spokane - 1968-12-30 (8:14) (Third Performance), San Francisco - 1969-04-24 (12:16), San Francisco – 1969-04-27 (13:23)
As Moby ****: London - 1970-01-09 (15:12), Los Angeles - 1972-06-25 (19:24), New York - 1973-07-29 (28:23), London - 1975-05-25 (21:28)
As Over The Top: Landover - 1977-05-26 (36:14) (Longest Performance), Seattle - 1977-07-17 (25:37) (Last performance)
Notable Covers: Dread Zeppelin, Nirvana, Train, Chad Smith (RHCP), Vanilla Fudge, The Circle (Jason Bonham)
Ultimate Classic Rock Ranking (out of 92 songs): 43
Vulture Ranking (out of 74 songs): 74
Rolling Stone Ranking (out of 40 songs): 31
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 43
Uproxx Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
WMGK Ranking (out of 92 songs): 25
SPIN Ranking (out of 87 songs): 43
Ranker Ranking (out of 87 songs): 51
Anachronarchy Ranking (out of 80 songs): 8
Our first entry from the second album . . . which means the album failed to place every song in the Top 50 by one spot.
John Bonham’s first drum set as a youngster was a bath salts can with wires on the bottom, a coffee tin with a loose wire for a snare, and some of his mother's cooking pots. He joined his first band, Terry Webb and the Spiders, at the age of 16 in 1964. He bounced around from there . . . A Way of Life, Crawling King Snakes (with Robert Plant), Band of Joy (again with Plant), and in singer Tim Roses’ band before joining Led Zeppelin.
He was completely self-taught as a drummer, and the power and loudness of his drumming became well known at local clubs. Some bands wouldn't hire him, since local clubs often wouldn't even book the bands that he played with because he played too loud.
Moby **** is pretty straightforward. Bonzo see drum, Bonzo beat drum . . . for a long time. The drum solo that every other drummer wanted their solo to be but never really came close. This was Bonham's showcase song on Zeppelin tours. His solo would last 10, 20, even 30 minutes or longer. The rest of the band would leave the stage to grab a smoke. Bonham sometimes drew blood performing it from beating his hands on his snare and tom toms. Plant once said, “John was the greatest drummer in the world. I knew this because he told me so."
It’s first iteration was called Pat’s Delight in honor of his wife, Pat Phillips, who he married at age 17. It started out as Bonham doing Bonham things in the studio and Page jumped in and the two riffed together. Page crafted the guitar part around the song Watch Your Step by Bobby Parker from 1961.
By the time the second album had come around, Page had changed up the opening, added a baseline for JPJ, and had renamed it to Moby **** because Bonham’s young son Jason thought the piece was huge . . . like the whale in the Herman Melville book. For the 1977 tour, the intro to Out on the Tiles was used as the intro and the name was unofficially renamed Over The Top, so named because Plant said adding the Out on the Tiles intro sent the song “over the top.”
The song, under it’s three names, was the third most performed Led Zeppelin song, with 307 total performances.
Oddly enough, Moby **** was released as a single in Italy in 1970, more than a year after the second album had come out. The song was also used to promote an anti-littering campaign in the United States, and it became the campaign’s theme music in the mid '70s.
Ultimate Classic Rock (43 of 92 songs): Yes, it's a drum solo, but what a drum solo! Maybe the best one ever laid down on record. Plus, Page – like he does throughout Led Zeppelin II – provides a killer riff for his band mates to launch from.
Vulture Ranking (74 of 74 songs): Ginger Baker of Cream pioneered the idea of the heavy, heavy drum solo; Zeppelin’s unmercifully hard pounder, the semihuman John Bonham, followed suit. You want to call Bonham a psychopath, but that’s almost too romanticized a word for his psyche. This is a guy whose sense of humor ran to taking a dump in a groupie’s purse when she wasn’t looking, such an alcoholic that he was known for drinking himself senseless and then urinating where he sat, notably on planes. Those are the sorts of stories told fondly by his “friends,” like the band’s longtime road manager, Richard Cole, in his memoir; from others, words like abominable, lout, and ####head come up. Anyway, Bonham’s hard, hard, hard pounding and his surprisingly swinging attack characterized Zep’s sound, and Page and various engineers in the studio found just the right dry but very broad way to record it. This grinding workout was stuck on the second album as a souvenir of the times; onstage, when Bonham would embark on an extended drum workout to give fans, their senses’ benumbed, a chance to catch their bearings; and, now and again, for the other three members to get a group blow job backstage from a willing female fan. Docked 30 or so notches for Bonham’s role in an infamous on-tour incident at Oakland, California, in 1979. A stagehand for Bill Graham had stopped manager Peter Grant’s son from ripping backstage signs down. In retaliation, Grant and a few other thugs in the band’s employ trapped the guy in a trailer and beat the holy #### out of him. Years of legal wrangling followed this deliberate and vicious assault. A footnote to the story is that Bonham had gone to the guy first — and kicked him in the balls without warning.
Rolling Stone Ranking (31 of 40 songs): Bonham's drum-solo epic from Led Zeppelin II began as a jam based around bluesman Sleepy John Estes' "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair." In concert it could stretch out as long as 30 minutes; the recorded version is a trimmed-down four minutes of syncopated stomp and rolling tom-tom thunder.
Louder Ranking (43 out of 50 songs): Led Zeppelin were lucky to have John Bonham as their drummer. Apart from being Plant’s mate, his presence gave the band a unique sound and authority. He also used to perform a spectacular solo that would often last 20 minutes, which became a feature of the band’s increasingly extended concerts. During these sessions, Bonham would play with his bare hands, attacking a huge flaming gong, reaching a climax that had crowds roaring. Moby **** was first aired on Led Zeppelin II. Jimmy Page established an appropriate riff to launch the number, which kicked off with a battering snare drum figure. Bonham moved from snare to tom tom triplets and congas using his hands. The Ginger Baker-esque climax when he switched to sticks still sounds impressive, but this studio version lacked the fire a ‘live’ audience would encourage.
WMGK (25 of 92 songs): Ostensibly an instrumental Page/Jones/Bonham jam, Page and Jones split after about a minute (and return at the end), giving John Bonham a showcase for his powerful yet tuneful playing. Most drum solos get old after you’ve heard them a few times: that’s not the case with “Moby ****,” which stands proudly alongside the rest of ‘Led Zeppelin II,’ and alongside the rest of the band’s catalog.
SPIN (43 of 87 songs): Just straight flexin’. Bonzo certainly earned the right to have one song a concert that he could turn into a ten-minute solo for his own self-gratification if he so desired, and “Moby” was that song — though in the studio, they at least keep that whale of a solo down to a (relatively) trim three minutes or so. Don’t sleep on that ridiculously grungy Page riff either, though — or Bonham’s underrated intro fill, sampled for the Beastie Boys’ “What Comes Around.”
After all these songs, we just now will be entering the Top 50 . . . from Rolling Stone's #29 ranked album of all time (and the highest ranked LZ album in their rankings).
Appeared On: 8 ballots (out of 62) . . . 12.9%
Total Points: 94 points (out of 1,550 possible points . . . 5.29%)
Top 5 Rankers: @BroncoFreak_2K3 friend @Long Ball Larry
5 Other Highest Rankers: @BroncoFreak_2K3@Rustoleum@Ron Popeil@fatguyinalittlecoat@zamboni
Highest Ranking: 2
Live Performances:
As Pat’s Delight: Spokane - 1968-12-30 (8:14) (Third Performance), San Francisco - 1969-04-24 (12:16), San Francisco – 1969-04-27 (13:23)
As Moby ****: London - 1970-01-09 (15:12), Los Angeles - 1972-06-25 (19:24), New York - 1973-07-29 (28:23), London - 1975-05-25 (21:28)
As Over The Top: Landover - 1977-05-26 (36:14) (Longest Performance), Seattle - 1977-07-17 (25:37) (Last performance)
Notable Covers: Dread Zeppelin, Nirvana, Train, Chad Smith (RHCP), Vanilla Fudge, The Circle (Jason Bonham)
Ultimate Classic Rock Ranking (out of 92 songs): 43
Vulture Ranking (out of 74 songs): 74
Rolling Stone Ranking (out of 40 songs): 31
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): 43
Uproxx Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
WMGK Ranking (out of 92 songs): 25
SPIN Ranking (out of 87 songs): 43
Ranker Ranking (out of 87 songs): 51
Anachronarchy Ranking (out of 80 songs): 8
Our first entry from the second album . . . which means the album failed to place every song in the Top 50 by one spot.
John Bonham’s first drum set as a youngster was a bath salts can with wires on the bottom, a coffee tin with a loose wire for a snare, and some of his mother's cooking pots. He joined his first band, Terry Webb and the Spiders, at the age of 16 in 1964. He bounced around from there . . . A Way of Life, Crawling King Snakes (with Robert Plant), Band of Joy (again with Plant), and in singer Tim Roses’ band before joining Led Zeppelin.
He was completely self-taught as a drummer, and the power and loudness of his drumming became well known at local clubs. Some bands wouldn't hire him, since local clubs often wouldn't even book the bands that he played with because he played too loud.
Moby **** is pretty straightforward. Bonzo see drum, Bonzo beat drum . . . for a long time. The drum solo that every other drummer wanted their solo to be but never really came close. This was Bonham's showcase song on Zeppelin tours. His solo would last 10, 20, even 30 minutes or longer. The rest of the band would leave the stage to grab a smoke. Bonham sometimes drew blood performing it from beating his hands on his snare and tom toms. Plant once said, “John was the greatest drummer in the world. I knew this because he told me so."
It’s first iteration was called Pat’s Delight in honor of his wife, Pat Phillips, who he married at age 17. It started out as Bonham doing Bonham things in the studio and Page jumped in and the two riffed together. Page crafted the guitar part around the song Watch Your Step by Bobby Parker from 1961.
By the time the second album had come around, Page had changed up the opening, added a baseline for JPJ, and had renamed it to Moby **** because Bonham’s young son Jason thought the piece was huge . . . like the whale in the Herman Melville book. For the 1977 tour, the intro to Out on the Tiles was used as the intro and the name was unofficially renamed Over The Top, so named because Plant said adding the Out on the Tiles intro sent the song “over the top.”
The song, under it’s three names, was the third most performed Led Zeppelin song, with 307 total performances.
Oddly enough, Moby **** was released as a single in Italy in 1970, more than a year after the second album had come out. The song was also used to promote an anti-littering campaign in the United States, and it became the campaign’s theme music in the mid '70s.
Ultimate Classic Rock (43 of 92 songs): Yes, it's a drum solo, but what a drum solo! Maybe the best one ever laid down on record. Plus, Page – like he does throughout Led Zeppelin II – provides a killer riff for his band mates to launch from.
Vulture Ranking (74 of 74 songs): Ginger Baker of Cream pioneered the idea of the heavy, heavy drum solo; Zeppelin’s unmercifully hard pounder, the semihuman John Bonham, followed suit. You want to call Bonham a psychopath, but that’s almost too romanticized a word for his psyche. This is a guy whose sense of humor ran to taking a dump in a groupie’s purse when she wasn’t looking, such an alcoholic that he was known for drinking himself senseless and then urinating where he sat, notably on planes. Those are the sorts of stories told fondly by his “friends,” like the band’s longtime road manager, Richard Cole, in his memoir; from others, words like abominable, lout, and ####head come up. Anyway, Bonham’s hard, hard, hard pounding and his surprisingly swinging attack characterized Zep’s sound, and Page and various engineers in the studio found just the right dry but very broad way to record it. This grinding workout was stuck on the second album as a souvenir of the times; onstage, when Bonham would embark on an extended drum workout to give fans, their senses’ benumbed, a chance to catch their bearings; and, now and again, for the other three members to get a group blow job backstage from a willing female fan. Docked 30 or so notches for Bonham’s role in an infamous on-tour incident at Oakland, California, in 1979. A stagehand for Bill Graham had stopped manager Peter Grant’s son from ripping backstage signs down. In retaliation, Grant and a few other thugs in the band’s employ trapped the guy in a trailer and beat the holy #### out of him. Years of legal wrangling followed this deliberate and vicious assault. A footnote to the story is that Bonham had gone to the guy first — and kicked him in the balls without warning.
Rolling Stone Ranking (31 of 40 songs): Bonham's drum-solo epic from Led Zeppelin II began as a jam based around bluesman Sleepy John Estes' "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair." In concert it could stretch out as long as 30 minutes; the recorded version is a trimmed-down four minutes of syncopated stomp and rolling tom-tom thunder.
Louder Ranking (43 out of 50 songs): Led Zeppelin were lucky to have John Bonham as their drummer. Apart from being Plant’s mate, his presence gave the band a unique sound and authority. He also used to perform a spectacular solo that would often last 20 minutes, which became a feature of the band’s increasingly extended concerts. During these sessions, Bonham would play with his bare hands, attacking a huge flaming gong, reaching a climax that had crowds roaring. Moby **** was first aired on Led Zeppelin II. Jimmy Page established an appropriate riff to launch the number, which kicked off with a battering snare drum figure. Bonham moved from snare to tom tom triplets and congas using his hands. The Ginger Baker-esque climax when he switched to sticks still sounds impressive, but this studio version lacked the fire a ‘live’ audience would encourage.
WMGK (25 of 92 songs): Ostensibly an instrumental Page/Jones/Bonham jam, Page and Jones split after about a minute (and return at the end), giving John Bonham a showcase for his powerful yet tuneful playing. Most drum solos get old after you’ve heard them a few times: that’s not the case with “Moby ****,” which stands proudly alongside the rest of ‘Led Zeppelin II,’ and alongside the rest of the band’s catalog.
SPIN (43 of 87 songs): Just straight flexin’. Bonzo certainly earned the right to have one song a concert that he could turn into a ten-minute solo for his own self-gratification if he so desired, and “Moby” was that song — though in the studio, they at least keep that whale of a solo down to a (relatively) trim three minutes or so. Don’t sleep on that ridiculously grungy Page riff either, though — or Bonham’s underrated intro fill, sampled for the Beastie Boys’ “What Comes Around.”
After all these songs, we just now will be entering the Top 50 . . . from Rolling Stone's #29 ranked album of all time (and the highest ranked LZ album in their rankings).
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II is such a versatile album, especially when you throw in Moby ****. That album had blues, heavy stuff, soft stuff, and a drum solo track. Seriously…who doesn’t like that album? It has something for everyone.
As far as Moby ****, not seeing how that can be as high as 2 on someone’s list. Great riff, great drums, but 2? I love a good instrumental, but would have a hard time putting a song with no Robert Plant in my top 5.
As far as Moby ****, not seeing how that can be as high as 2 on someone’s list. Great riff, great drums, but 2? I love a good instrumental, but would have a hard time putting a song with no Robert Plant in my top 5.
skol asylum
Footballguy
Agree. Had no idea about the lengths he went to in performing this live though. I'm not an "instrumental" fan in general so I have a hard time ranking any songs with no vocals very high. His drumming is front and center in so many great songs though instead of just keeping the beat in the background.
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Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
holy crap, i ranked this song 4th.
that was a little high. I love this riff and could listen to the track any day of the week, so I guess that's why I put it there, but I didn't really give this one that much thought and now I probably wish that I had. Would have still been in my top 25 I'm sure, but I don't know about this high.
that was a little high. I love this riff and could listen to the track any day of the week, so I guess that's why I put it there, but I didn't really give this one that much thought and now I probably wish that I had. Would have still been in my top 25 I'm sure, but I don't know about this high.
In The Zone
Footballguy
Bonzo is a straight up beast. My older sister is a drummer and has been a percussionist since high school so I listen to drums in songs more than I should and 'Moby ****' is about as good as it gets for me.
With that being said it ain't no 'You Shook Me'.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Yeah, it’s a drum solo, but an incredible one. I like how it fits in Zep 2. That being said, there were better choices to occupy half of side 4 of The Song Remains the Same.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
LZ II: impeccably masterful album. A classic. Top 3 Zeppelin album for sure. But not #1 or #2.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
It’s not that unusual an instrument and I still really, really like the song but something about it grates on me a little. I’ll explain more when the song comes up and I may end up in the minority on that aspect of the song.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
I already mentioned I’m not much for instrumentals but Moby **** would be the highest ranked of the ones they did. Still wouldn’t crack my top 40 so this is a good spot for it, IMO.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Agreed. Despite that I only ended up including two in my top 25. One of them barely. And at one point during the process it was actually deleted. When I realized I only had one from II after the confused shock wore off I correctly altered course, but I'm still conflicted regarding the one I removed for it and yesterday's conversation reminded me why.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Missing from the notable covers is Phish's "Moby **** show" from July 11, 2000.
Setlist:
SET 1: Ya Mar, The Moma Dance, Uncle Pen, Drowned, Chalk Dust Torture Reprise > Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom > Cavern
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down with Disease -> Moby **** > Down with Disease > Runaway Jim -> Moby ****, Back on the Train -> Moby **** > Back on the Train, Harry Hood > Moby ****, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up > Moby **** > Hold Your Head Up, Character Zero
ENCORE: First Tube > Moby **** > Chalk Dust Torture Reprise
Setlist:
SET 1: Ya Mar, The Moma Dance, Uncle Pen, Drowned, Chalk Dust Torture Reprise > Chalk Dust Torture, Theme From the Bottom > Cavern
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Down with Disease -> Moby **** > Down with Disease > Runaway Jim -> Moby ****, Back on the Train -> Moby **** > Back on the Train, Harry Hood > Moby ****, Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up > Moby **** > Hold Your Head Up, Character Zero
ENCORE: First Tube > Moby **** > Chalk Dust Torture Reprise
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Love those alternate mixes, they really highlight the individual instruments that sometimes get drowned out in the original mix.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I agree, fully acknowledging that music is subjective. I love the introduction but a long drum solo? Meh, even when it's from one of the best of all-time.
SteevieG
Footballguy
Moby **** was my #25. I love Bonzo's drums, but the riff just is amazing to me, and the way they come out of the solo is... powerful, particularly on the live versions. Just a great song to me I couldn't leave out after all was said and done.
I can assure you this is not correct.1. Moby ****
2. Achilles last stand
3. No quarter
4. 38
5. Tangerine
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[scooter]
Footballguy
I'm an unashamed fan of Dread Zeppelin. Their first two albums are a sublime blend of parody, reverence, and musicianship. I love how they blended Bonham's drum solo with spoken excerpts from Melville's book.
"I've read this damn book 22 times, Charlie, and I still don't understand a thing."
skol asylum
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Seen 'em twice, including a gig they played at my friend' s 50th bday party (they seem to like him and the Central Coast for some reason). This is their best tune, IMO.I'm an unashamed fan of Dread Zeppelin. Their first two albums are a sublime blend of parody, reverence, and musicianship. I love how they blended Bonham's drum solo with spoken excerpts from Melville's book.
"I've read this damn book 22 times, Charlie, and I still don't understand a thing."
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Anarchy99
Footballguy
#50 - I Can’t Quit You Baby from Led Zeppelin I (1969) and Coda (1982)
Appeared On: 10 ballots (out of 62) . . . 16.1%
Total Points: 100 points (out of 1,550 possible points . . . 6.45%)
Top 5 Ranker: @BrutalPenguin
5 Other Highest Rankers: @Ron Popeil@Tom Servo @neal cassady@jamny@Dwayne Hoover
Highest Ranking: 5
Live Performances:
LZ: 165 (Spokane - 1968-12-30, Paris - 1969-10-10 <-- Jimmy on fire, Hamburg - 1973-03-21 - Last Performance)
Page & Plant: 9 (Buxton - 1994-04-17)
Other Versions: Rolling Stones with Eric Clapton, Gov’t Mule, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, B.B. King & Buddy Guy,
William Shatner
Ultimate Classic Rock Ranking (out of 92 songs): 55
Vulture Ranking (out of 74 songs): 62
Rolling Stone Ranking (out of 40 songs): Not Ranked
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
Uproxx Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
WMGK Ranking (out of 92 songs): 54
SPIN Ranking (out of 87 songs): 40
Ranker Ranking (out of 87 songs): 48
Anachronarchy Ranking (out of 80 songs): 21
As we enter the Top 50, welcome to @BrutalPenguin @neal cassady and @cap'n grunge, as this is their first song to appear from each of their lists. ICQYB is out first song to hit the 100 point mark.
I teased this out of Moby ****. Rolling Stone magazine released their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. It included Led Zeppelin I (#29), Led Zeppelin IV (#66), Physical Graffiti (70) Led Zeppelin II (#75), and Houses of the Holy (149). That should spark some conversation as to what their Top 5 albums are.
In 1966, back when Page was concentrating on session work, he played guitar on I Can't Quit You Baby for the Savoy Brown Blues Band. Page based the Zeppelin version of I Can’t Quit You Baby on Otis Rush’s version from 1966 (originally recorded in 1956). It was written by Willie Dixon.
The Coda version is a shortened version of the performance at Albert Hall in 1970 (full version). The complete version of the song appears on the Complete BBC Sessions set. Another live performance from 1969 on the Top Gear show also appears on the BBC collection.
Many musicians consider ICQYB one of Led Zeppelin's technically strongest performances, but Jimmy Page admits that it's far from perfect. He told Guitar Player magazine in 1977: "There are mistakes in it, but it doesn't make any difference. I'll always leave the mistakes in. I can't help it. The timing bits on the A and Bb parts are right, though it might sound wrong. The timing just sounds off. But there are some wrong notes. You've got to be reasonably honest about it.”
Biographer Keith Shadwick praised the song as “one of the most successful pieces on the first album, with no flat spots and a perfectly symmetrical form, all within the classic blues tradition.”
Pitchfork had this to say about the first album: “Led Zeppelin I is a triumph of production, each part clear and forceful but adding up to something even more powerful. Just about everything Zep would do at one point is presented here somewhere - trance-rock, gorgeous acoustic folk, catchy guitar pop, and updates on straight blues. They’d do most of these things better later, but this is where they appeared first. Every track on this record is musically brilliant, and in the span of just a few months it’s amazing how much Page had enriched the band’s sound.”
I Can’t Quit You Baby headed a CheatSheet.com list of Led Zeppelin's Top 10 worst songs. They said: "The band members are all on-point, particularly Page, but the repetitive lyrics and slow pace make for a rather boring song on an otherwise riveting record." Runner up on the list was The Lemon Song, while the top three was rounded out by Moby ****.
ICQYB was performed 164 times in 1969-70 and once in 1973. Portions of the song would also appear in their medleys. Page & Plant took a stab at it 9 times, but Plant as a solo artists kept his distance. The song was rehearsed by the surviving members of Led Zeppelin for the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary reunion in 1988, but it was not included in their performance.
Ultimate Classic Rock (55 out of 92 songs): Of all the blues numbers the band recorded in its early years, Willie Dixon's "I Can't Quit You Baby" probably comes closest to the real thing. They didn't even bother giving themselves a songwriting credit either.
Vulture (62 out of 74 songs): Standard très heavy blues, appropriately credited to Willie Dixon, the great Chess Records producer and songwriter. Nothing too special here, just some of those concussive bursts of solo, with some sound effects that seem to go a bit farther than had been heard at the time.
WMGK (54 of 92 songs): Of the two Willie Dixon covers on Zeppelin’s debut, “I Can’t Quit You Baby” is the superior by leaps and bounds, even though it doesn’t stray too far from the source material. Plant’s acrobatic vocals don’t hurt either.
SPIN (40 of 87 songs): The best of LZ I‘s traditional blues numbers, an Otis Rush cover done in a similar style to “You Shook Me,” but keeping things light and engaging enough that it never feels like the same kind of drag. Plant’s banshee wailing is on point and the rhythm section is as locked in as ever, but really, it’s a showcase for Page, who kills every little mid-verse fill he gets — and he gets a lot of them — before out-Claptoning Clapton on the song’s proper solos.
Coming up next, singer Robert Plant waxes lyrically about walking in the woods with his dog as we stomp through a track from 1970.
Appeared On: 10 ballots (out of 62) . . . 16.1%
Total Points: 100 points (out of 1,550 possible points . . . 6.45%)
Top 5 Ranker: @BrutalPenguin
5 Other Highest Rankers: @Ron Popeil@Tom Servo @neal cassady@jamny@Dwayne Hoover
Highest Ranking: 5
Live Performances:
LZ: 165 (Spokane - 1968-12-30, Paris - 1969-10-10 <-- Jimmy on fire, Hamburg - 1973-03-21 - Last Performance)
Page & Plant: 9 (Buxton - 1994-04-17)
Other Versions: Rolling Stones with Eric Clapton, Gov’t Mule, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, B.B. King & Buddy Guy,
William Shatner
Ultimate Classic Rock Ranking (out of 92 songs): 55
Vulture Ranking (out of 74 songs): 62
Rolling Stone Ranking (out of 40 songs): Not Ranked
Louder Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
Uproxx Ranking (out of 50 songs): Not Ranked
WMGK Ranking (out of 92 songs): 54
SPIN Ranking (out of 87 songs): 40
Ranker Ranking (out of 87 songs): 48
Anachronarchy Ranking (out of 80 songs): 21
As we enter the Top 50, welcome to @BrutalPenguin @neal cassady and @cap'n grunge, as this is their first song to appear from each of their lists. ICQYB is out first song to hit the 100 point mark.
I teased this out of Moby ****. Rolling Stone magazine released their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. It included Led Zeppelin I (#29), Led Zeppelin IV (#66), Physical Graffiti (70) Led Zeppelin II (#75), and Houses of the Holy (149). That should spark some conversation as to what their Top 5 albums are.
In 1966, back when Page was concentrating on session work, he played guitar on I Can't Quit You Baby for the Savoy Brown Blues Band. Page based the Zeppelin version of I Can’t Quit You Baby on Otis Rush’s version from 1966 (originally recorded in 1956). It was written by Willie Dixon.
The Coda version is a shortened version of the performance at Albert Hall in 1970 (full version). The complete version of the song appears on the Complete BBC Sessions set. Another live performance from 1969 on the Top Gear show also appears on the BBC collection.
Many musicians consider ICQYB one of Led Zeppelin's technically strongest performances, but Jimmy Page admits that it's far from perfect. He told Guitar Player magazine in 1977: "There are mistakes in it, but it doesn't make any difference. I'll always leave the mistakes in. I can't help it. The timing bits on the A and Bb parts are right, though it might sound wrong. The timing just sounds off. But there are some wrong notes. You've got to be reasonably honest about it.”
Biographer Keith Shadwick praised the song as “one of the most successful pieces on the first album, with no flat spots and a perfectly symmetrical form, all within the classic blues tradition.”
Pitchfork had this to say about the first album: “Led Zeppelin I is a triumph of production, each part clear and forceful but adding up to something even more powerful. Just about everything Zep would do at one point is presented here somewhere - trance-rock, gorgeous acoustic folk, catchy guitar pop, and updates on straight blues. They’d do most of these things better later, but this is where they appeared first. Every track on this record is musically brilliant, and in the span of just a few months it’s amazing how much Page had enriched the band’s sound.”
I Can’t Quit You Baby headed a CheatSheet.com list of Led Zeppelin's Top 10 worst songs. They said: "The band members are all on-point, particularly Page, but the repetitive lyrics and slow pace make for a rather boring song on an otherwise riveting record." Runner up on the list was The Lemon Song, while the top three was rounded out by Moby ****.
ICQYB was performed 164 times in 1969-70 and once in 1973. Portions of the song would also appear in their medleys. Page & Plant took a stab at it 9 times, but Plant as a solo artists kept his distance. The song was rehearsed by the surviving members of Led Zeppelin for the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary reunion in 1988, but it was not included in their performance.
Ultimate Classic Rock (55 out of 92 songs): Of all the blues numbers the band recorded in its early years, Willie Dixon's "I Can't Quit You Baby" probably comes closest to the real thing. They didn't even bother giving themselves a songwriting credit either.
Vulture (62 out of 74 songs): Standard très heavy blues, appropriately credited to Willie Dixon, the great Chess Records producer and songwriter. Nothing too special here, just some of those concussive bursts of solo, with some sound effects that seem to go a bit farther than had been heard at the time.
WMGK (54 of 92 songs): Of the two Willie Dixon covers on Zeppelin’s debut, “I Can’t Quit You Baby” is the superior by leaps and bounds, even though it doesn’t stray too far from the source material. Plant’s acrobatic vocals don’t hurt either.
SPIN (40 of 87 songs): The best of LZ I‘s traditional blues numbers, an Otis Rush cover done in a similar style to “You Shook Me,” but keeping things light and engaging enough that it never feels like the same kind of drag. Plant’s banshee wailing is on point and the rhythm section is as locked in as ever, but really, it’s a showcase for Page, who kills every little mid-verse fill he gets — and he gets a lot of them — before out-Claptoning Clapton on the song’s proper solos.
Coming up next, singer Robert Plant waxes lyrically about walking in the woods with his dog as we stomp through a track from 1970.
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skol asylum
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Very good at what it does. But as I said before, Zep’s reinterpretations of the blues don’t interest me as much as other aspects these days, so it didn’t make my list.
BrutalPenguin
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
I'm the opposite. I love current bands like the Black Keys who rock the hell out of the blues.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Buried in the ICQYB writeup was this tidbit . . .
Rolling Stone's Top 5 LZ Albums:
- Led Zeppelin I
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Physical Graffiti
- Led Zeppelin II
- Houses of the Holy
What are your Top 5 Zep albums ranked in order?
And a random toss in . . . that time when Jimmy Page played Lucille and Surfin' USA with the Beach Boys in 1985 on the Fourth of July. They started out in Philadelphia in the afternoon (attendance: 1,000,000 people), packed up, and played again in Washington in the evening (attendance: 750,000 people). I would generally not put those two together. Page was around town as the reconstituted Led Zeppelin would reunite the following week for Live Aid. I could not find how this collaboration happened, who among each camp knew each other, and how this idea got off the ground.
Rolling Stone's Top 5 LZ Albums:
- Led Zeppelin I
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Physical Graffiti
- Led Zeppelin II
- Houses of the Holy
What are your Top 5 Zep albums ranked in order?
And a random toss in . . . that time when Jimmy Page played Lucille and Surfin' USA with the Beach Boys in 1985 on the Fourth of July. They started out in Philadelphia in the afternoon (attendance: 1,000,000 people), packed up, and played again in Washington in the evening (attendance: 750,000 people). I would generally not put those two together. Page was around town as the reconstituted Led Zeppelin would reunite the following week for Live Aid. I could not find how this collaboration happened, who among each camp knew each other, and how this idea got off the ground.
Neal Cassady
Footballguy
Physical Graffiti
Houses of The Holy
LZ I
LZ IV
LZII
Houses of The Holy
LZ I
LZ IV
LZII
jamny
Footballguy
BrutalPenguin
Footballguy
IV
PG
III
I
II
Yes, IV was overplayed but I don't hold that against it.
PG
III
I
II
Yes, IV was overplayed but I don't hold that against it.
worrierking
Footballguy
IV
II
HoH
III
I
II
HoH
III
I
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
IV
I
II
HOTH
PG
ITtOD
III
I
II
HOTH
PG
ITtOD
III
Anarchy99
Footballguy
AAABatteries
Footballguy
I mentioned in the signup thread that we did this (favorite LZ album thread) a while back but I can’t find it. Not sure if it go archived or what. Totally going off memory I had
IV
II
PG
I
HotH
III
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I
PG
III
II
Presence
PG
III
II
Presence
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BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
MAC_32
Footballguy
This is pretty much where I fall with I Can't Quit You Baby. It's akin to Out on the tiles in my mind. I appreciate it for its influence but the song itself is kinda forgettable, one I never seek out on my own, and will consider skipping if it pops up...but not 'the drag' that I think 'You Shook Me' is.
Tau837
Footballguy
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Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I'm with you on this, with the only difference being that I was always less interested in the blues they
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