Stairway to Heaven is also famously overplayed to death a million times over as we all know. Radio just plays the first side of Zeppelin four and Kashmir to death, thank God they’re not burning out the real good stuff
@@abigaildevoe Followed immediately by Living Loving Maid, album style. It’s always interesting to me that it seems to have become an unspoken rule with radio - forged undoubtedly in the 70s by DJ habits - to do a two-fer. Much like We Will Rock You into We Are the Champions. I think it’s merely an old convention due to the fact that those songs seem to have extremely brief space between them on the vinyl for some reason. Although DJs spinning albums on air is long dead save perhaps college radio or small stations, it’s a habit that just stuck.
So great to hear you sing the praises of In the Light. I first heard that track when I was 12 - back in 1981, and it still enthralls me. It's a mystery to me why it's so overlooked.
@@abigaildevoe It was brilliant. I actually started to do the store outside the sleeve thing a year ago, but reverted when I realized it was decreasing my storage space. Side note. There's a well known company that sells a round bottomed static free 2 mil sleeve that is perfect slipping into original paper sleeves and overtly snug jacket situations like this. I don't want to say the name. Lets just say it rhymes with Risk Leapers.
@@Frank_nwobhm yeah I use those too. They're great. But that said, the MSFL ones Abby uses will slide just fine into most liners too - certainly the heavy duty ones. I just keep them in there and slide the record out without removing the protective liner - solves the creasing problem.
Love what you do,thanks. This album is like part of me DNA--it's stuck way down inside at cellular level,man.🎶 1975-everyone bringing their 4 finger lid over to whoever's house to listen to all 4 sides non-stop. Designated doobie rollers and album flippers. Cheers!
I'm one of these guys that only played side 2. I love the rock and blues and folk songs .the more complicated stuff was never my thing . Favorite tracks .? Come on , Kashmir , Trampled under foot and in my time of dying, what else, But for me 4,3,1,2 in that order is their best work . Hoses of the holy .? Have it , but only for over the hills and far away. In through the out door only for I'm gonna crawl.
Achilles Last Stand......You are the first I have ever known to say this is their favorite song from Zep. And I cannot agree more! Great video, all your videos are amazing, witty, insightful and well thought out. Thank you for sharing!
First heard this in 1984 when visiting my French penpal near Bordeaux when I was 15. Her older male cousin lived round the corner in a shabby house and he'd repair motorbikes and stuff. I think she was the "annoying younger cousin who comes to hang out sometimes" and she took me along. He asked what music I liked and said I'd been getting into Led Zeppelin. At this point I had only heard my younger brother's copies of the first 4 LPs (he didn't have a new wave/ Bowie habit to support like I did. He started young with LZ1 when he was about 12) - and he put "Physical Graffiti" on. I knew right away I had to have a copy - it sounded even better than the other Zeppelin I'd heard. Being just 15 I was constantly broke and couldn't afford all the records I wanted, even though ALL of my money went on records - so it would be another few years till I actually did get a copy - it was usually in the "this or 3 other records" price level. I eventually found a second hand copy in about 1988 - years later Discogs revealed it to be a first pressing. I only have this and LZ1 on vinyl - but I do have the CD box set. Where am I going with this? Well - after your LA Woman video last week that makes 2 consecutive videos on your channel covering pretty much the entirety of the English-language music I associate with my various stays in France. Unusual coincidence.
I just now discovered your channel, and looked through your videos, and for someone your age you sure have a high percentage of top classic artists and songs, or albums! Keep up the good work!
Led Zeppelin are my favorite band of all time , so I'm really happy of this episode of vinyl monday , great talk us usual , my favorite of this album are " custard pie", " the rover", in my time of dying" , " the wanton song" and "sick again"
I feel the exact same way about "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper". I always thought that "Hey, Hey What Can I Do" would have actually made a better album closer on III than "Hats..." did.
comment your favorite album art below! the joke about this album totally being delayed because of the jacket lands 100% better on the short version i promise!!
My favourite album cover art has almost everything to do with that moment of breakaway from the influence of older siblings and claiming something as your own. Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols with its deliberately ugly colour scheme and ransom note lettering felt like just the explosive breaking point I needed at the time. Still have my (now quite unplayably decrepit) copy from 1977 nestling against the wall in my living room, gauche pink and yellow blocks and all.
Great album review. I must admit I don't have this album in my collection. I received Mothership as a gift, so I never bothered to purchase all the Led Zep albums. Totally regret it now. I look forward to your future video on Zeppelin and their 'issues' with The Blues. Watching from London UK. P.S. The whole thing with 70s guitar bands abusing underage girls is pure filth. It's crazy just how common that type of behaviour was accepted and encouraged back then.
Good for you for identifying the then-accepted abusive and statutory behavior for what it is! It continues to be a modern day challenge to reconcile horrible behavior with great art.
thank you, it's important i acknowledge it considering it's so relevant to "sick again" and you're right, it's still relevant today: scene queen called out the pop punk scene (all time low specifically) with her newest song
... early teenage years (1977 ish, Oxford, UK),...one of my favourite aunts dragged me into a record shop and said 'pick any record you want' .... I picked Led Zeppelin's 'Physical Graffiti' (loved the cover)... probably the best decision I ever made... fell in love with this life changing record... (The Rover...in my top 10 songs ever!!) ... first gig was Zeppelin's second Knebworth show '79.... LP sounds as fresh and exciting today (45 years later) as it did back then.... only other music that has done this for me is Bowie...
I listened to side three with In the Light more than the rest of the album. Over and over and over again. The same way I listened to side one of Exile on Main Street repeatedly
Physical Graffiti!!! What an iconic record!! I was finally able to make it to NYC this past June and go to Saint Mark's Place. Every hardcore fan really should make the trek to the building on the cover. I even met a couple from the west coast doing the same thing I was. Love your channel Abigail!! ☮❤☮
thanks! that trip is on my list for spots to see in NY - but i gotta say, the street in greenwich village where bob and suze did the freewheelin album art takes the priority!
I always thought that the cover of this album is one of the best ever, loved playing with the windows as I listened to the songs. Had the feeling that it represents perfectly what Zeppelin was, a mix of that British street sound from the seventies and the mysticism that always surrounded the band. Great review!
Kudos for pronouncing Kashmir correctly. 10 Years Gone so complex they played it once on stage with KPJ playing bass with his feet and mandolin . Great song. Great chords .
I lived in Cardiff /Caerdydd for 9 years, I love Wales, wish I was still there. But boy is that a hard language to wrap one's tongue around! Once one does though it's positively delicious. I am in linguistic awe at the mutations principle. Was Cymraeg designed to fit poetry, or was poetry the logical end point?
@@almishti Hi. Cymraeg is quite difficult for English speakers. The mutation principal is called treiglo. The language is one of the Brittonic languages that evolved over centuries from another much older common language. If you ever get back to Cymru I would recommend you visit the north where the native language is still the first language for most people.
@@leejohnson3209 oh yes I've been to Bangor, Bethesda (I spent my first Nadolig Llawen up there, love those slate heaps), Holyhead and all the castles! Castell Beaumarais is my secret love. I was entranced hearing families at the coffee shops speaking Cymraeg. I was too busy doing my PhD at Cardiff to get to learn the language but I did delve a bit into the poetry (in translation though) and started learning to play the crwth. Not well but I started lol.
@@almishti Just like Robert Plant it sounds like you're quite smitten with our little nation! 'Mae croeso i chi ddod yn ôl unrhyw bryd' You're welcome back any time :)
Hi Abby, I so appreciate all the hard work,and research you put into all your videos ! And that goes for your make up,and fashions ! Led Zeppelin were "Rock Gods" in my eyes, I saw them at Madison Square Garden twice. Jimmy Page was a "Merlin" type Magician on stage, dressed in black velvet pants and jacket embroidered with silver sequins of Astrological planets, and signs ! His guitar made sounds I never heard before,and when he got the violin bow out the crowd went wild ! He had "Hypnotized" the audience,and we LOVED it ! Robert Plant was a blond,god from an ancient myth,with a voice that made us believe anything he sang about ! John Bonham The constant beat of excitement,JPJ,the quiet gentlemen who played such an ethereal sound on keyboards.They were everything to us ! Physical Graffiti was not my favorite album though...Led Zeppelin III is my favorite,so artistic, and original. I will always love them !
all the accounts of seeing zeppelin in the flesh are similar to yours - they were MAGICAL! it’s one thing to be a great rock musician but they were performers too! what a treat it would’ve been to see jimmy’s costumes in person, they were gorgeous (i’m such a clothes nerd haha)
Wonderful vid! This album never gets old for me, every time I listen to "In the Light," "In My Time of Dying," or "Night Flight" feels better than the last.
Too much to take in in one sitting on its initial release back in ‘75, but over the years my love for this album knows no bounds. It’s sheer eclecticism makes for a engrossing listening experience, and your observations about the track listing were most pertinent. Excellent informative episode once again.
thank you so much, it was almost too much to take in for this video! 4/5 listens before the video is A LOT of physical graffiti in a matter of days haha
I saw them three times. For this tour they had a ticket lottery for the show at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. M e, my ex and my brother would have had third row center stage seats. However, Robert Plant's son died the day before the show. The best concert to me was during the III tour.
Fantastic breakdown on this amazing classic. I give you extra props for your very BOLD statement that no other LZ song can unseat Achilles Last Stand as your personal favorite. I would definitely state that one as an incredible high contender as one of my favs since the time that Presence was released. 🎵💜
Oh my gosh .... i,m first comment . Great choice Abigail , i can,t count how many copies of this record i,ve had .... cd / vinyl / 8-track ... yadda yadda yadda .... FYI - that was cool how you did " COUGH " 😜 , that made my giggle !! wonder if you saw my comment on Master Of Reality ( Black Sabbath ) .... amyway ... enjoying your channel !! have a great day Abigail 😊
In 1975 i moved to Sydney Australia,the first record that i bought at the music store round the corner of my street:that one ! Sweet memories,thank you Abigail.
That was real interesting. That is my most favorite album. I bought it in 1975, when I was 17. I imeadiatly recorded it onto cassette, and always played it very loud in my car, with the windows rolled up usually. I had two big speaker cabinets in the cars back seat. I recieved 11 speeding tickets from age 17 to 19 and almost had my licence suspended. I used to hate when the red hot cherry, would fall off the Doobie, and land on my beach shorts , while I was driving to the beach. Like ' Hey man quick hold the wheel aaaa- owww! I'm here today. Unreal?
so glad you covered this record and i definitely fangirled a little cause of the sleeve of the record, i literally had no idea! also i agree with the fact that side 3 is the strongest, i remember hearing ‘in the light’ watching mindhunter and it gave me absolute chills, made me a massive fan immediately. that’s definitely a favourite and down by the seaside, it reminds me so much of school trips to seaside resorts
That album IS truly special, not only for the music inside but for that unique, creative and mystique design, filled with an abundant amount of trivia. Other than Zepp. 3, there’s just no other cover like it. I don’t have nearly the awesome collection of vinyl that you do but at least I do possess this one. I love your favorite song choices but I really dig the epic “ In my time of Dying. “ And that one was never burned out because it was too long to get any airplay, making it even more special for myself. Great demo by the way, Abby.
You have great taste in music, Abby. In my opinion, LZ's Physical Graffiti is their best album. There's a lot of cool blues in that album; I particularly like the slide guitar in the album. I have a promo vinyl version of it from when it was first released; it sounds terrific, and it's all analogue! 👍💖🎸😎
Another Great job, Abby. I had the original album. My older brother brought it home on November 23, 1975. I was 8 years old. This double album was the first hard rock album my ears EVER heard. THIS is the album that changed my young life forever. His copy was an opening g album, Luke 2 and 4 were. Yours is a single jacket. I listened to all 4 sides,all in one sitting. Incredible double album, if half of it is earlier stuff from the prior albums.
Once again, you have completely nailed it! My thinking is over 90% with you. For me, the most delicious, beautiful and appropriate album sleeve for such a vast sprawling double album. And I agree that “in the light“, “10 years gone“ and “the wanton song” are the true triumph of this album. I would also add “in my Time of dying” to the shortlist amongst four sides of glorious riches.
(Sigh) Tis a different time. I don't know about the parents letting their young teenage girls go traveling with the band. I think they just go become groupies and travel with the band to wherever the band needed to go without telling their parents. I don't know if groupies is still even a thing. In today's modern world? I don't think so. Who knows what went on after every concert? My memory of this album was looking at the record label spinning round and round while Trampled Under Foot was playing on a big record counsel we used to have. It had a turntable, an 8-track tape player and a radio. What a thing to have. It was awesome.
Your commentary is very well thought out, and I agree with you on practically on every point (I probably like "Trampled Under Foot" better than you do- it's an interesting departure of style, sounding more urban American 70s than they usually did, while still remaining themselves in it). I look forward to hearing what you have to say about "Presence."
Great review again 👏 👌 my favourites 😀 agree with your favourites 😀 I would add In my time of dying into that mix 😀 😊 🙂 😄 What I would say though I still think Led Zeppelin 4 is their masterpiece 😀 😊
Houses of the Holy is my favorite Zeppelin song (it’s extremely nostalgic and sentimental to me) and whenever I play Houses of the Holy (the album) I miss it so bad 😭
Hats Off To Roy Harper is Shake 'Em On Down by Bukka White. This is my favorite Zeppelin album: it is very rich and multi-layered; yes a behemoth. Thus it will take numerous listens to properly absorb. When I saw Pag and Plant in 1998 at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto theyopened with The Wonton Song. Interesting analysis.
The tape or CD of this when I was in High School (90s) was in probably half the cars in my class. And at home, it wasnt unusual to see a copy either. Like "Exile On Main Street" it is HARD partying music! I did so many times. Great video, entertaining, informative, and without doubt done by the best dressed and best coiffed in the vinyl community. Thanks Xo
@@abigaildevoe You are something no matter how dressed! That's your knowledge about music and your talent to tell about it interesting way, what really matters. The rest is just (really) well-chosen entourage. :)
I bought this record as a teen back then and enjoyed getting into it very much indeed. Side 1 is probably the most exciting Led Zeppelin side on any record. The earlier tracks from other album sessions fit into this record seamlessly. I can think of only one record I enjoyed becoming familiar with more than Physical Graffiti and that was The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Prog-era Genesis. Cheers.
somebody may have pointed this out already but regarding Kashmir and the different overlapping time signatures, they will meet up every 12 beats not measures. Interesting video! My favorite Zepplin record
You have those odd thoughts that I have, such as your opinion about Zeppelin 3 and Ray Manzarek being your favorite member of The Doors. So cool to hear those things from a youngster (compared to me) LOL!!! Hats off to (Abigail) Devoe!!!
Really enjoy your channel Abby! Love the fresh perspective on music I've enjoyed for many years. Note about the cover; the New York building was the site of the Rolling Stones "Waiting On a Friend" video. Thank you for your good work!!
Thanks for addressing the issue of abuse of underage girls and rock music. It is rarely given any time at all, glossed over if mentioned. I think it is important, especially given your blog postings and period fashion persona. Kudos. And there is one good reason for storing some vinyl outside your sleeves. I don’t do it for my never albums but some of my 50 or 60 year old sleeves are worn and threatening seam splits, and it doesn’t make sense to keep taking the sharp edged vinyl in and out any more.
thank you so much for being receptive to me addressing abuse in the industry. at times my thoughts on it aren't taken seriously because i "didn't live in the time" - but they forget there was a time when i was a 14/15/16 year old girl. that much is a universal experience. that's the only reason i store my discs outside the sleeves - i have some sleeves that are VERY busted (see my first copy of rubber soul)
@@abigaildevoe The simple bald fact is that 98% of men just aren't interested in underage girls. Not when there's plenty else available, which there definitely would have been for them. Just why? why on earth would anyone do this? I think it's important to be careful: It's very easy to SAY these things, without knowing what happened. Needless to say, of course it's true that having sexual relations with 14 - 16 year-old enthusiastic fans is wrong, if that's what happened in the mid 70's. Bear in mind that claiming you even met one of a band like that would have been a great way of achieving status. For example there was one a standup comedian who I saw claiming to have been picked up in a car by led zeppelin. In her story they never laid a finger on her. her punchline was that she left after they'd graciously given her a lift, saying she was "tired". When you're famous people make these kind of claims, that is my point, who knows what's true. Myself as a man, really object to this assumption of a kind of inbuilt predation in men. It's creepy, and frankly inaccurate. The only example that's generally referred to was Jimmy Pages relationship with Lori Maddox. This is assumed to have been sexual in nature, but never openly stated as such. As far as I am aware theres no historically proved example of any of the other members: Jones and Bonham who both seem to have been married and committed to their wives at the time. Or Robert Plant, none of them seem to have shown any interest in young girls. To cast broad assumptions about their guilt in this regard, or even to throw this into question, doesnt seem right. An interesting book, which you've probably read called "When Giants Walked the Earth" tells this story: The writer Mick Wall came to the conclusion that Zeppelins management, in particular fixers and tour managers, got corrupted and became seriously thuggish towards the end of their career. Which may have indirectly led to all kinds of problems. Who knows Here's what's missing from the story: None of these women have claimed to have been "abused." There so much potentially to be gained, this is a very key factor. Thanks for reading this. Interesting channel Abigail.
Physical Graffiti isn't necessarily Led Zep's best album.....but it is my personal favorite. Yes, there is filler.....does IMTOD really have to pass the 11 minute mark? Boogie With Stu is harmless fun, but not much more. However, the high points.....including Custard Pie, Ten Years Gone, Kashmir and especially In the Light.....are majestic. Great video once again!
I saw Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden NYC Feb 7,1975. Physical Graffiti came out 2 1/2 weeks later so the band premiered Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot, In My Time if Dying and Sick Again. I knew Kasmir was going to be big! It was a great show although Plant had the flu and Page's finger was injured ( therefore he couldn't do difficult solos for a few days ) I bought the LP immediately and didn't give my opinion why the songs are disjointed. We Zep fans waited and waited for new product. Where the LP was shot is in NYC and boasts a Physical Graffiti clothes store. Lol Ron Nivison is credited " Nevermind" I think he erased a guitar solo. It wasn't until years later I'd learn the story of where the album sessions songs are from. I buy every remaster, deluxe on all Zep Lps/CDs. In Sept 1975 my friend asked me to go see BAD COMPANY and FOGHAT. I declined. The next day he said Jimmy Page made an unannounced appearance on 2 songs!!! Thanks!! Fun Fact: THE DOORS Waiting For The Sun LP doesn't included the song Waiting For the Sun ( like ZEP would repeat with House's of the Holy.) 13:26
I'm more of a Sabbath head than Zeppelin, but you've made me want to give this a listen again. I think the ick around the "groupie" history tainted my enjoyment pretty soon after I started listening to them and never recovered, even with Tori Amos batting for Plant in her 90s heyday. Sabbath also got raked in the press, but it took a lot longer for the "critical reappraisal" to take place
Fantastic Abby. Love your reviews and love your taste. I’m amazed you don’t have Forever Changes by Love yet, a favourite of Robert Plant and in my opinion the greatest LP of 1967. Thanks for the review of PG and looking forward to my fave Neil Young next week.
A decade and a half ago I was living just outside Asheville NC and working in a big red double decker coffee bus parked in a courtyard. I played a lot of White Stripes and of course, Zeppelin. Physical Graffiti was a favorite. Imagine silent downtown streets covered in snow with Physical Graffiti booming from a big red coffee bus. I was in a big Zeppelin period because of course I was. I was living in Hobbiton.
Physical Graffiti is neither physical nor graffiti. It totally rocks!!! The Doors did a similar thing with the song Waiting for the Sun that Led Zeppelin did with Houses of the Holy. At least they got around to releasing it!!! Houses of the Holy is such an awesome song. I really love In the Light - the drone - the soft to loud thing and all that. I love the short segue (?) of Bron Yr Aur. It's beautiful. Love that open tuning acoustic. And I love Night Flight and Ten Years Gone. I've been to St. Mark's Place twice and haven't saved either set of photos. My pictures seemed to come out cockeyed aiming up across the street. Anyway, enough said. You know what would make a cool video? Famous locations featured on cover art. Well, maybe. Since this video was posted last year, I'm late to the Comments party. Yay!!! Where is everybody? - Thanks Abby!!!
Good stuff! I was a second gen LZ fan but knew their stuff better than I knew the Beatles as it was more current when my elder siblings put it on. Curio from the time: common wisdom was that Houses of the Holy sucked so badly it stopped some fans buying anything after it. So, I and friends at school did our own discovering and got into the later albums kind of as they were released and it felt like we were exploring the band all over again. Not knowing at the time that PG was a mix of old and new I wondered at Plant's voice sounding so different between things like Night Flight and Custard Pie. Also, there was a mystery to the different styles and levels of obscurity to the songs that wasn't on previous records. If felt like stolen knowledge. Also, triumph!, I got my eldest brother into this and Presence as new records so that was a repaid one good turn. Otherwise, I loved the mystique of the cover art and how I couldn't easily rationalise it as I listened. Like the White Album, some of its chambers seemed locked or hard to break into which still endears them to me. Appreciate the callout of the groupies/victims distinction. LZ weren't the only ones who did this by a long shot but we should keep in mind when we approach any of these monolithic cultural moments that there were costs beneath the charisma and celebration, including human costs. If that discolours the legacy then it's truth that's doing it. Thanks, again.
really?? i had no idea HOTH was that much of a turnoff! i guess it'd be tough for any body of zeppelin's work to follow up LZIV. but hey it was a great avenue for you to really discover zeppelin. thank you so much for being receptive to why i do not use the term "baby groupies" - if anything comes out of what i do, i hope it's that we can't leave any stone unturned when talking about the culture of rock music in the 70s
@@abigaildevoe On Houses, I think it was that, there was a perception that the band had lost power and ideas rather than found another avenue for experimentation. My brother used to send up the 50s/reggae vocal on D'yer Maker (until I got my copy and learned how to play the riff from The Ocean; then he was all ears). Also, persist with the calling out: consent is not an issue that can be smoothed over just because time has passed and rock stars become old and cuddly. And keep up these appreciations; they're articulate, incisive and fun.
That album made me a totally LZ fan when I was a teeny in then70s. Heard that often non stop over headphones and thought afterwards I just came back from another planet.
Next to III and IV my favorite Zeppelin album. Just got so many ambitious and different songs on it, feel like no two songs on it are the same. I love the epic feel of In My Time of Dying, the atmospheric and haunting In the Light and the romantic and mournful Ten Years Gone. Also gotta give a shoutout to Trampled Under Foot, one of my mans JPJ:s finest hours in Zeppelin. If you haven’t heard any of the live versions of that song from the Earl’s Court concerts I highly recommend it, way superior (and longer lol) than the album version. Anyways nice video, really liked this one.
observation incoming: those who like physical graffiti also tend to like LZIII and IV, including you! III and IV are just about as different as you can get on zeppelin terms. but they both bear so many similarities to physical graffiti! it's eclectic like III and a near-perfect execution like IV.
Abigale DeVowe !! I just found you this week !! Im a punk rocker since 77 but i grew up with the stuff you reveiew.And i appreiate how you do it!! Your depth in research is impressive Its obvoius you have had some communications training and you are doing a great job!! I hope you keep- on going I love your style!!
