Best Led Zeppelin song ever!

[cynatnite]

I know they've done a lot of great music, but this piece is just haunting and beautiful. For me, it's their best.

Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Whole Lotta Love. That Jimmy Page riff IS rock music defined.

I don't like the weird middle part, but it's easy to skip through. After that, Kashmir.

[NYC_SKP]

2. you know, I really like Kashmir. Lyrics and melody...

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I play it on every airline take off!!!

"Kashmir"

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear
Oh, oh.

Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'

All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir.

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear
Ohh.

When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah

Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down...
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there

Let me take you there. Let me take you there

[onehandle]

4. In the top three for me. nt

[OriginalGeek]

3. I vacillate

between

and

[JI7]

8. yes

i think i listen to since i've been loving you more than anything else.

[OriginalGeek]

9. Whenever I find a new (to me) bootleg of a led zep show,

SIBLY is the first thing I look for and is usually my favorite song from the show. Even on bad recordings, it always comes through with power and beauty.

[onehandle]

5. One of the best. This one too.

Live.

Studio.

[aikoaiko]

6. Because I was a stoner in HS Dazed and Confused left a lasting impression.

I love how Bonham reaches as high as he can to smash his sticks into the drum heads.

[Populist_Prole]

7. I don't agree that it's the best, but it's still a good tune

[pink-o]

10. What? No "Over the Hills and Far Away"?

Listen to that 12 string and tell me it doesn't just send you to another dimension,

But I also think "Kashmir" is right at the top. Like so many other artists, Zep are known for the wrong stuff (Stairway to Heaven) when their other works are far better.