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Ten years gone: The greatest song ever recorded IMHO, with the sweetest leads ever invented on the greatest album from the greatest band, Led Zeppelin. There will never be an equal.
Def my number 1, Jimmys solos are so different from his norm, so much space. It is definitely a journey best song on an amazing album! This is sacriledge, but the best live version is Jimmy with the Black Crowes.
Wow. I’ll have to check out that version with the Black Crowes. For some reason, could never bring myself to listen to it. Agree on his leads here- relaxed, spacious and emotional. One of his best, along with (imho) the solos in “The Song Remains the Same” and believe it or not, “I’m Gonna Crawl”. The pure emotion and pain in that solo always brings the hair up on the back of my neck
Definitely needs inclusion on, "The Acid Trip" sound track. Tapped me into a great memory. Disrecommend "Behind Blue Eyes" on the sound track. Love the song, but the first time I heard it, paranoia made me call for an ambulance thinking I had been poisoned with strychnine. Strychnine was reputed to have, sometimes, been added to LSD for more kick from it's sub-toxic inebriation.
Ten Years Gone... all-time favorite song In the Light ... runner up Down by the Seaside.... these are my top three Zeppelin songs!! ... Night Flight also amazing
yeah.... one of the many tracks i could barely wait for whilst doing the ''Zeppothon'' her's a fun thing t'do, listen carefully to the linkage and sound bites between the tracks on physical and then if you've got the 'software' rearrange them so it makes sense (kinda) low and behold you then have Zeps' one and only ''concept' album, didn't think Page was gunna make it easy for ya, no clues but bare in mind what Page was interested in other than ''the craft'' oh that was a clue then couldn't resist..... all the best.
It is such a joy re-living the joy of hearing this album for the first time through you. The look on your face stirs deep and familiar emotions of hearing this in 1975 when I was just 9. My big sister brought it home and I listened to it non-stop for weeks.
Bron-Yr-Aur was the name of a cottage in Wales used by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 1970 as quiet out-of-the-way place to rest and write music. I find Page's guitar solo a perfect little gem--listen to it often, the notes rolling back and forth from one ear to the other.
Ten Years Gone is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. The opening still gives me goosebumps. And the solo is one of Jimmy Page's most stunning and melodic he has ever done.
I'm so jealous that you're listening to one of the greatest albums in history for the first time. So fun to see your reaction. Makes me harkin back to when I was a 19 yr old listening g to it when it was first released. I'm 67 now and still listen to the album often. Enjoy your Zeppelin journey. Zepp will change the way you hear and listen to music for the rest of your life.......
When I was a kid in the 80s a nearby movie theater in a shopping mall played the song remains the same every Saturday night at 10:30. If nothing was going on there was always song remains the same. They showed a really awesome lava lamp looking thing on the screen before the movie started. It was always a party. So much fun.
@@campion10 I even remember some of the fun, well some of it. I saw Zeppelins last American performance. Sunday, Day on the Green, Oakland Collasium. Rick Derringer opened, he was awesome. By the time Zep. got on the stage, let's just say I was there but I'll be damned if I can remember much of it. Hindsight and regret.
Yeah...... i keep tellin' folk they gotta watch the flick.... you gotta admit though it's abit of a marathon, that said i've got the dvd and musta watched it about 20 or so times by now. Still it never gets lame.
Many months ago on Sea of Tranquility, there was a month long series called "perfect album sides". Subscribers submitted their personal "top 31" every day that month. Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti side 3 was my number 2. (A LOT of others mentioned this as well) (My number 1 was Pretenders self titled debut, side 1) Great reaction, 5 star album. Gratitude.
Yeah, kind of a theme with this side of , like u said, going from slow to fast! The mellotron that the bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones plays at the beginning (and yeah, in the middle) of "In the Light" reminds me of seagulls crying as they fly over a lonely strand of beach, and then just two minutes later we're hip-deep in a riff so nasty it could make a stripper blush, lol! THAT is Led Zeppelin, masters of The Spectrum. "Light and Shade," as Jimmy Page likes to say. It was fun watching you experience it!
That was a great observation about the drums and guitar playing together; in most bands, the bass and drums play to each other, making up the "rhythm section", but one of the things that gave Led Zeppelin their sound, is that Jimmy Page and John Bonham often played off each other more.
I recently watched an interview with Robert who wrote Ten Years Gone about a girl he was in love with when Zeppelin was just getting started. Basically, he received an ultimatum to stay with her or pursue his dream. He always had feelings for her but after ten years gone, he realized he did the right thing. As an old man who has regrets, this song really hits me hard. Zeppelin is like fine wine. As it ages, the more nostalgic it becomes, and you hear details you never noticed 50 years ago. Oh, what could have been?
10 Years Gone is just amazing. This entire album is a work of creative geniuses in the zone nailing it. What I've always loved about Zeppelin is their constantly evolving direction musically even on the same album such as this one. It's all over the place in a really, really good way.
In the Light really showcases John Paul Jones' best keyboard work. He was such a multi-instrumentalist. Not only was he a great bassist, but he could also play a mean synthesizer on this and No Quarter. Of course the other three are brilliant, but without the artistry of JPJ, I don't think there would've been that much depth and mood in a lot of their songs, and he really pulls it off here.
Robert Plant didn't do a lot of 'introspective' lyrics with Zeppelin, but he nailed that feeling with "Ten Years Gone". It's only grown in stature, close to fifty years gone now since he and Page wrote it.
Great reaction!! My favourite side of this incredible album. In The Light is such a trip of a song. Bron-Yr-Aur is a beautiful piece (and IMHO way too short - Jimmy could play that for 5 minutes or more and I'd be happy!). Down By The Seaside is a whimsical, bluesy number, with that awesome groovy transition! Ten Years Gone is one of Zeppelin's best tracks. Physical Graffiti is an incredible masterpiece! Can't wait for Side 4! Cheers.
Ten Years Gone - a rare song featuring a Stratocaster... not normally a guitar in Jimmy Page's arsenal. But it sounded great! And the song also has my all time favourite lead break too. Just a wonderful song, and all of Side Three is brilliant too. Loads of great keyboards by JPJ and Bonzo was just totally on fire.
I think more Zep fans have an all time favorite track somewhere on this album. There's just so much Led Zeppiness to fill your soul, make you smile or reminisce ❤
Thing is, back then, we knew we were hearing incredible music. Anyone who lived through the early 1960s, before the British invasion, had to know that most of the current music then was crap. Radio stations weren't playing Rock 'n' Roll as much as during the 1950s because there wasn't that much new R 'n' R being produced. There was a lot of gum-ball pop and a lot of just silly songs ("Does your chewing-gum lose it's flavor (on the bedpost overnight)?" "The Monster Mash" - all gentle pablum. About the only pop music worth anything was coming from the girl groups. And there was the Folk Music scene, which was musically extremely good, but it was something to go to sleep to, not to dance to. So when the British invasion happened, we noticed, big time. And we knew as more and more great groups came on the scene that we were hearing something special. We just didn't know that it would all disappear from current music in our life-times. There's some good stuff out there, somewhere, but it's not like the golden harvest of music that was bestowed on us in the 1960-1970s, with some even lasting into the 1980s. When LZ hit the air-waves or on our record-players, we know how good they were, because we had a very low basis for comparison in the pre-British Invasion era. That gives me hope, because it seems like popular music is going through the same low-point right now. The only way forward is up. People going back to years before now, maybe to use that as a launch pad for something really new, like the British invasion, which was based on Blues and Rock 'n' Roll from decades before. Something new built on something solid and old. I just wonder if I'll live long enough to hear that.
@@jamesgloriod7195 I hope so, too. One of my favorite music-related channels is "Rick Beato". He's a musician/producer who talks mostly about guitar-related materials, but he has an amazing familiarity with music from all eras, does interviews with the famous, and is familiar with current trends in music. One point he made in a fairly recent video is that, based on sales in the industry, people are listening to music from the 80s and before - like 50% is for old vinyl. People aren't happy with what's coming out on record labels. Part of that he says is due to the fact that major recording labels are basing decisions on who to promote on computer projections of sales, rather than on A&R people going out to the hinterlands and actually listening to up-and-coming groups. The bean-counters are in charge, not the people who know something about music, and as a result, we're getting the same stuff over and over again. That's kind of what happened with the British invasion. The Brits were enthralled by blues and rock 'n' roll, which wasn't getting any air time here to speak of. So, when they came here, they were bringing our own music back to us in new forms. I remember the first time I saw "The Buddy Holly Story". My first impression was, "Now I know where the Beatles came from." It can happen.
Well i good news for you! there is a band doing just that and it's called the Warning many,many of us old rocksters that thought that rock was dead are now happy that this band exists. The band is a rock power trio with new music that in some ways reminds us of the way music used to be but with a new twist. and their lyrics are also very thought provoking. They got noticed when they were very young on a youtube video that went viral and now is up to 50 million, they did a cover of Metallica enter sandman and even the guitarist for Metallica left a comment he said " the drummer kicks major ass" That drummer today has won Modern drummer magazine best up and coming rock drummer of 2023 in a readers poll and also won the Drumeo awards for best Rock drummer of 2023 So if you are interested check out one of their concerts live at teatro Metropolitan CDMX 2022 here on youtube, They also have a concept album that they composed when they were very young and the album is called Queen of the Murder Scene. the concert for that album is also here on youtube the Warning live at Lunario 2018...They will surprise you! Cheers
@@jamesgloriod7195 The hope has arrived go and check out the Warning so that you can see that the good rock that you remember is back! A power trio that has a huge world of devoted fans following following them. Check out the concert the Warning live at teatro Metropolitan CDMX and you will know what i am talking about. They went viral at a very young age doing a cover of Metallica's enter sandman that even the guitarist of Metallica left a comment in their youtube video he said " the drummer kicks major ass" So check them out you wont be disappointed i am sure of that. Cheers
So, Ten Years Gone, what an incredible piece of music. A true opus, it takes you on a journey, it meanders around your soul! Those layered guitars are so lush, and Jimmy gives the solo space, lets it breathe more than normal. The opening riff is just one of the funnest to play, harder than many think, it needs such a deft touch, true God light and shade. What a line, We are Eagles of one nest, the rest is in our soul! Wow! How the hell did Percy come up with that! Takes a few times to really sink into to your pysche, but it then lives with you. My personal fav song, along with Stairway, Dickey Betts Blue Sky, Free's Mouthful of Grass, and of course the entire Zepathon, to name a few!
I believe the instrument you referred to in In The Light was a Clavinet ... the initial background humming sound is Page playing an acoustic guitar with a bow. Saw them in '77.
Good reactions to this phenomenal album. My favorite LZ album. Many people who don't listen to the albums have the misconception all of their songs are hard rock.
I remember the first time I heard In the Light , the intro made think " these guys are using drugs again " .... one of my favorites ! Sometimes you have to listen to a Zep song a bunch of times before you get it and then your like = AWESOME !
In The Light gets better with times played . Also check out the other early version of this song , called 'everybody makes it through ' . It has a creepy cool undertone you might like . Quite different until about halfway through .
Ten Years Gone is easily my favorite (along with Achilles Last Stand) Both are just like, I’m so glad they made this music… along with basically everything else they did lol
Unlike other reviewers 🍃What makes you so good is that we can feel that you are actually attempting to listen to all the nuances of Led Zeppelin and their magical musical talent. It’s such a joy to see someone discover brilliance 🍃
Oh my...you transported me back to when (thanks to my father) I had a new 1976 Pontiac Trans Am...Carousel Red...Honeycomb wheels...with an 8 Track player in the dash...😂 Brand new.. $6,300...
The shimmering guitar effect was most likely created by running the guitar through a cabinet with a spinning speaker. The spinning creates a pitch shifting as it moves toward and away from the microphone. This cabinet is what gave Wurlitzer organs their distinctive sound. No often used with other instruments.
Every time I bought a new stereo component starting back in the 70s, this album side was always the first "test" of the system. I am glad you are experiencing it.
Listen to a song from the third album like That’s the Way, and from the Led Zeppelin 4 like Stairway to Heaven, and also Blackdog to really start to see how versatile the was !
John Paul Jones played a Farfisa Combo Organ, on the intro to In The Light. If LVB or JSB were among the living, I’m sure they’d have liked it too. Yet if it weren’t for them we likely wouldn’t have JPJ!
I played the first two sides a lot , back in the day. I remember my third side has some clicks and pops on it so didn't get played so often . So SO good to hear these tracks after so many years . Bron Yr Aur, Ten Years Gone, Down by the Seaside are all lovely , and it's takes me back almost 50 years ..... ( Ah , nostalgia isn't what it used to be, I know😉 ) Almost like hearing them again for the first time . Thank you Verdy ! ❤
This album is just incredible!!! I mean EVERY TIME I pick an album as my favorite, shortly after I do it changes cause these guys have SO MANY kick ass songs. Singed the GOATS By the way, your accent is totally cute!!!
The Inner light is a stunning song! One of my favorite unknown songs of theirs and the lyrics are deep. To me it’s about world weariness and the soul going on because the flesh is weak. As they say, the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. But you will find the road! You will find a way through and I’ll be right next to you. I will never leave you. Powerful song!
I liked a few songs of led zeppelin but since growing up in the 80s that's music and after is what I listened to.black dog ,rock and roll and stairway to heaven I think only songs from them
Has oido hablar de la banda the Warning? es una banda de rock pesado y tienen muy buena music de rock. Si no la conoces te recomiendo este concierto, The Warning teatro Metropolitan CDMX 2022 Y veras lo buena que es la banda. Acaba de cumplir una decada en el ambiente musical. Saludos
The entire two album set is great, but this series of songs in particular is superb. In The Light is great, and Ten Years Gone is about Plant’s old girlfriend giving him an ultimatum … her or the band. We know what his answer was 😂
The funny thing is that there wasn't really a change in rhythm at any point within "What Is and What Should Never Be." There are parts that are stripped down, and other parts that are louder and more full instrumentally, but they are all basically at the same pace. It's an illusion that the quiet and more sparse sections are "slower." They really aren't.
Bonzo kind of lays low on this side, some of Pages cleanest work, great stuff from Plant but I'm always so impressed by how Jones is almost never the stand out but always the backbone
Disc Two, Side One. It's my third favorite of the Physical Graffiti sides. It's good but doesn't wow like Disc One. If I had to choose a favorite, it would be Bron Yr Aur. I could listen to that instrumental all day.
But see, for example, Listen To this Eddie (brilliant version) June 21, 1977 and also Knebworth 1979. Also Page&Plant 1996; I have these concerts. Have fun with all kind of good music.
