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And it is indeed actually really cringeworthy and awful upon first blush. Thanks for pointing me to it, though. Wouldn't have known that is what they were referring to.
This will be a good spot for it - I had it a little higher but not in my top 25.Alright, looking forward to some inevitable iFighting in the very near future.
This is a very polarizing song, but I love it and always have. It may be their most emotional work. I considered it for my top 25 but it didn’t make the cut. Plant’s vocal and the synth solo are great, and Page does well in a subtle and supportive role, which was unusual for him.
It’s almost new-wavish sounding and holds up great today. Always loved this song.
I did not have this on my list but I don't get the "hate" I've seen in this thread. Why can't the mighty Led Zeppelin do a soft love song?
I don’t hate the song, but I never considered it for my top 25. When the first notes play on the radio, my first reaction is disappointment - that a better Zeppelin song was not played instead. That said, I don’t change the station, and end up appreciating the tune, particularly Plant’s performance.
This is brutal and I dont care if page was strung out, if Bonham could make it then anyone could And should
Yes. Jason Bonham played drums with Page, Plant, and JPJ at the Heath Hotel in the UK at Jason's wedding in 1990. They played Bring It On Home, Rock And Roll, Sick Again, Custard Pie, and It'll Be Me (a Jerry Lee Lewis cover). The same grouping would later play at the LZ HOF induction ceremony in 1995 and the reunion show in 2007.Did all the surviving members of LZ perform this? If so, wicked cool.
Yeah, it’s messed up. And what was JPJ’s excuse? He wasn’t known for bad behavior.This is brutal and I dont care if page was strung out, if Bonham could make it then anyone could And should
This isn’t really intel on that, but I remember reading an interview with Jones around that time, and he said he was totally confused by their decision and had no idea why they did it. They never came to him to ask him to participate OR to tell him they were going to work together without him. They said nothing to him at all.
The counter argument / discussion after that from the Page and Plant camp was Jones was never considered for their new project and they felt no obligation to have to tell him anything. Like I said, the entire situation was odd. For In Through The Out Door, the album was mostly a collaboration between Plant and Jones. Then all those years later Jones is not even a consideration? Very strange.
A lot can happen in the span of 15 years. But we don’t know exactly what happened in this case.
I think a better analogy would be John and Paul leaving Ringo out of a reunion. George didn't want to be in the band anymore, so not inviting him to a reunion sort of would make sense. Ringo seemed like he mostly would do what was asked of him (save the one time when he quit the band because Paul yelled at him over his drumming).
My distaste for this song has nothing to do with it being soft. The synth is so uninteresting it borders on annoying, the solo is nails on a chalkboard, and the chorus worse. I'm sound-first, lyrics-second when it comes to music and never got to the latter despite a buddy of mine in college playing it with such frequency - that opening riff was the queue to go for a smoke break. Knowing what I know now - chemical dependency paralyzed Page & Bonham and the song was about Plant's dead son - it makes sense how it made it to an album though.
A case can be made that the Led Zeppelin that most knew and loved ended with Physical Graffiti. Presence and ITTOD were merely "ok." Between Plant's car accident, the death of his son, Jimmy's addiction issues, and Bonham's alcohol problems, things were just not the same. Their 1977 live shows were often hit or miss and the few dates they had in 1980 were really not that inspired (and more than half the duration than previous tours). Somehow, the handful of performances during 1979 were quite good by comparison. Tensions and egos were not great by 1980, and even if Bonham had survived, one has to wonder how much longer they would have stayed together without coming apart at the seams. Like many bands, by the end I am not sure how great friends they actually were by that point.
Is it just me, or is that slight mistake that JPJ makes in the solo painfully obvious to everyone? It’s totally distracting. I spend the first half of the song dreading it coming and the second half of the song wondering why they went with that take.
Or we can just say anything they put out after PG was very meh and mediocre. Based on our voting and point allocation, I can tell you that:
Agree. I like the song and will give it a listen every now and then but it didn't crack my top 25 and 'Thank You' did.gdub said:
18 people voted for Thank You but not All My Love
Man you have some interesting stats. Keep them coming. I really enjoy them.
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Robert Plant has a weird relationship with Led Zeppelin. For years, he was the lone holdout that blocked all manner of post-breakup Zep endeavors -- reunions, reissues, soundtrack appearances, merchandise, etc.Anarchy99 said:
Clearly, he cares about the band's legacy and does not need the money. There's some debate about the actual numbers involved, but he was the lone holdout on a proposed 35-date reunion tour in 2014 that was estimated to have been worth $800 million. Plant's publicist says the reported total is way off, but no other numbers have since come out.
