Presence scales back the size of Physical Graffiti to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double record. If anything, Presence has more majestic epics than its predecessor, opening with the surging, ten-minute "Achilles Last Stand" and closing with the meandering, nearly ten-minute "Tea for One." In between, Led Zeppelin add the lumbering lues workout "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and the terse, menacing "For Your Life," which is the best song on the album. These four tracks take up the bulk of the album, leaving three lighthearted throwaways to alleviate the foreboding atmosphere -- and pretensions -- of the epics. If all of the throwaways were as focused and funny as those on Physical Graffiti or Houses of the Holy, Zeppelin would have had another classic on their hands.
Just saw Jimmy Page "play" with Leona Lewis on the Olympics closing ceremonies, and Dear God in Heaven, it SUCKED! Just when I thought he couldn't plunge any lower than the "Godzilla" video he did with Puff Douche or whatever the fuck his name was, oh how wrong I was. Leona Lewis, Clive Davis' latest global I-sing-like-a-strangled-cat protege, moaned incoherently through "Whole Lotta Love", whi...
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So I saw a Led Zeppelin cushy barstool today. HmmAnd by the way, this song is now my favorite led Zeppelin Song that I never knew existed until last week while cleaning and rockin out. :)What is this mog thing anyway. I might possibly like it.
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I don't care what all the haters say, this is the best Led Zep there is. Fo real.
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Just saw Jimmy Page "play" with Leona Lewis on the Olympics closing ceremonies, and Dear God in Heaven, it SUCKED! Just when I thought he couldn't plunge any lower than the "Godzilla" video he did with Puff Douche or whatever the fuck his name was, oh how wrong I was. Leona Lewis, Clive Davis' latest global I-sing-like-a-strangled-cat protege, moaned incoherently through "Whole Lotta Love", whi...
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I don't care what all the haters say, this is the best Led Zep there is. Fo real.
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one of their very best, but hardly noticed for the song or album.
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A great live cut of one of my favorites off "Presence":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28album%29 , performed at their last major shindig, "Knebworth":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerts_at_Knebworth_House
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So I saw a Led Zeppelin cushy barstool today. HmmAnd by the way, this song is now my favorite led Zeppelin Song that I never knew existed until last week while cleaning and rockin out. :)What is this mog thing anyway. I might possibly like it.
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Achilles Last Stand |
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| 2 For Your Life |
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| 3 Royal Orleans |
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| 4 Nobody's Fault But Mine |
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| 5 Candy Store Rock |
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| 6 Hots on for Nowhere |
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| 7 Tea for One |
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