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how can you NOT listen to the lyrics?....................

squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg? yuckk. does that mean his balls?

kenoki wrote:how can you NOT listen to the lyrics?....................

squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg? yuckk. does that mean his balls?

it's the prostate.

there's a brilliant version of that song ("How Many More Times") on the BBC sessions discs, you mentioned being hooked on that, innit, kenoki?

holy crap, that section @ the maybe six minute mark where Page and Plant are trading those weird minimal matched guitar squeals/clipped yelps with nothing else going on? holy crap that's cool. it makes the 'lemon' part all the more tough from contrast into the ridiculous.


so great.

kenoki wrote:how can you NOT listen to the lyrics?....................

squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg? yuckk. does that mean his balls?

kerble wrote:there's a brilliant version of that song ("How Many More Times")

I haven't heard the BBC sessions, but Plant sings this line on "The Lemon Song" from Zep II.

He doesn't sing it on the studio version of "How Many More Times." But I wouldn't put it past him to use it in live versions of this song.

As with a lot of Zep stuff, this "squeeze my lemon" line was stolen from a very old blues song.

Angus Jung wrote:

kenoki wrote:how can you NOT listen to the lyrics?....................

squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg? yuckk. does that mean his balls?

kerble wrote:there's a brilliant version of that song ("How Many More Times")

I haven't heard the BBC sessions, but Plant sings this line on "The Lemon Song" from Zep II.

He doesn't sing it on the studio version of "How Many More Times." But I wouldn't put it past him to use it in live versions of this song.

As with a lot of Zep stuff, this "squeeze my lemon" line was stolen from a very old blues song.

yeh yeh. the vers. of "How Many more Times" is twelve minutes, so it's most likely jut the two run together.

i have never liked this band, other than when i taped "Black Dog" off the radio when i was six. keep in mind though, at the time i also thought Huey Lewis & The News had some good tunes.

they (Led Zepplin) were a great band musically, but Robert Plant was such an uninspiring vocalist. i can honestly say he's about as moving to me as Steven Tyler, not to mention equally nauseating. to implore someone to ignore this, the weakest link, when it's center stage (both literally and in the mix) is a bit much.

i would rather own a common, slightly-used reissue 12" of Man Parrish's "Boogie Down Bronx" than a deluxe, remastered anthology of Led Zepplin's entire recorded output.

i don't understand all of the opposition to robert plant as a singer. a lot of the lyrics are dumb, but i can't think of another hard rock singer from the era who could handle LZ's improvisational tendencies better. though i prefer his lower octave voice that he does on a lot of the ballads, his over the top voice often meshes with the music very well.

who'd you prefer, ozzy?

154 wrote:i don't understand all of the opposition to robert plant as a singer. a lot of the lyrics are dumb, but i can't think of another hard rock singer from the era who could handle LZ's improvisational tendencies better. though i prefer his lower octave voice that he does on a lot of the ballads, his over the top voice often meshes with the music very well.

I often have a tough time with Robert Plant, but this is a great point.

Who else could sing for this band? Do you want Bryan Ferry up there?

154 wrote:who'd you prefer?

Steven Tyler.

Angus Jung wrote:I often have a tough time with Robert Plant, but this is a great point.

Who else could sing for this band? Do you want Bryan Ferry up there?

Terry Reid whom I believe was one of Page's first picks.

I think Robert Plant is the perfect singer for Led Zeppelin.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, Terry Reid might've been a better choice. Oh well. I have no "issue" with Plant's vocals. I think Led Zeppelin is pretty much perfect.

itchy mcgoo wrote:
It's so cool to have this be "new" to me now.

Not Crap.

I'm so jealous! I went through the classic high school boy zeppelin thing. During that year there was nothing musically that could top listening to the mighty Zep in my headphones. Physical Graffiti will give you a lifetime of quality listening. You may consider Zeppelin III for your next purchase. Presence is also fantastic, but often needs many listens to get there.

Oh, and someone put The Crunge on the jukebox last night. You are my hero.