Search results
Sep 3, 2016 · Wearing and Tearing (1982) A song that was recorded during the sessions for In Through The Out Door in 1978, but never made the cut. It finally saw the light of day on Coda. That’s not surprising, given that it’s a speedy but ultimately guileless affair. It’s not that the song is outright bad.
- The 10 Worst Songs By Queen
Only the hardest-hearted shitbag would begrudge Freddie a...
- The 10 Worst Ac/Dc Songs Of All Time
In the following 36 years AC/DC have never produced a...
- The 10 Worst Songs By Queen
- Michael Gallucci
- "Stairway to Heaven," Led Zeppelin IV (1971) It's overplayed and second only to "Free Bird" when it comes to an easy classic-rock target. It also pretty much set the template for every over-baked power ballad that surfaced over the next two decades.
- "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin II (1969) Everything about Led Zeppelin can pretty much be summed up in the five-and-a-half-minute opening song from their second album: the awesome riff, the borrowed lyrics, the mid-track freakout, the sheer power and energy of every musical instrument, including Plant's searing vocal.
- "Kashmir," Physical Graffiti (1975) There were rock 'n' roll epics before "Kashmir," and rock 'n' roll epics after "Kashmir." But few pack the colossal wave of magnitude that towers over this eight-and-a-half-minute force of nature from the band's sixth album.
- "Dazed and Confused," Led Zeppelin (1969) Page used to play "Dazed and Confused" at latter-day Yardbirds shows. He borrowed the basic parts of the song from a relatively obscure American folksinger named Jake Holmes but beefed up the arrangement with new lyrics (penned by Plant) and a solo performed on his Telecaster with a violin bow.
- ‘Hot Dog’
- ‘Walter’S Walk’
- ‘Hats Off to (Roy) Harper’
- ‘Ozone Baby’
- ‘Sick Again’
- ‘Royal Orleans’
- ‘Carouselambra’
- ‘All My Love’
- ‘Bonzo’S Montreaux’
- ‘I’m Gonna Crawl’
A playful ode to the band’s love of rockabilly and old-school country-flavoured music, ‘Hot Dog’ is part of what makes In Through the Out Doorone of Zeppelin’s most stylistically varied albums. Unfortunately, it’s also a major contributor towards what makes the album their most varied in terms of quality as well. Featuring some great barrelhouse pi...
It almost feels wrong to include songs from Coda on this list. Much in the same way that Physical Graffiti was filled out by songs left in the band’s vault, Coda was assembled with outtakes and unreleased material that Jimmy Page deemed worthy. The difference is that Led Zeppelin had a lot of great outtakes in 1975. That wasn’t quite the case in th...
There’s a solid argument I can see that ‘Hats Off To (Roy) Harper’ was a precursor to the lo-fi rock movement that exploded in the decades after Zeppelin’s demise. But while most lo-fi music takes its charms from its lack of fidelity, ‘Hats Off’ just leaves you begging for the song to have been recorded properly. Plant’s voice sounds as if it came ...
Led Zeppelin seemed completely confused when punk and new wave started to emerge in the late 1970s. Zeppelin’s bread and butter was muscular riff rock, but these new styles of music favoured minimalism and slickness, two things that weren’t exactly in Zeppelin’s wheelhouse. ‘Ozone Baby’ tries too hard to sand down the rougher edges that make Zeppel...
Led Zeppelin always had a sordid reputation when it came to the groupie scene of the 1970s. A particular favourite among the “baby groupies”, who were young teenage hangers-on, Zeppelin exerted far too much power and sexual influence over young girls at the time. Page was literally having sex with a 14-year-old girl and purposefully hiding her in h...
Speaking of questionable lyrical content, ‘Royal Orleans’ was another case of Plant ending up on the wrong side of the seriousness/joke divide. While the rhythm track is certainly one of Zeppelin’s most air-tight and groovy, Plant’s attempts to mock John Paul Jones for allegedly going to bed with a drag queen and accidentally lighting his hotel roo...
The late 1970s was a strange time for Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page and John Bonham were quarrelling with their addictions to heroin and alcohol, respectively. That left plenty of room for John Paul Jones to contribute musically. While his instincts had steered him right on all-time great tracks like ‘Black Dog’, ‘No Quarter’, and ‘In The Light’, Jones ...
It’s easy to beat up on ‘All My Love’. Led Zeppelin’s wimpiest track by a country mile is often the token sacrifice when it comes to naming the worst Led Zeppelin songs. It’s surely not as bad as its reputation suggests, especially when you consider that Plant is singing to his deceased son. C’mon, people: have a heart. It might not be the band’s w...
John Bonham undoubtedly has one of the most legendary drum solos in rock history. The recorded version of ‘Moby Dick’ that appears on Led Zeppelin II is a great distillation of Bonham’s unmatched skill and power, and his subsequent live versions of the song extended the solo to wild new heights. It’s nice that Page wanted to create a sequel from so...
Led Zeppelin goes new age. The closing track to In Through the Out Door takes all of the cheesy synths that John Paul Jones utilised in the album’s previous song, ‘All My Love’, and lets them float all over ‘I’m Gonna Crawl’. At the centre, Plant sings some of the least convincing lyrics, desperately trying to adapt his cock rock persona into somet...
Mar 31, 2023 · The remasters bring out some depth — and make audible the drums — in this lulling mood piece, in which guitars are barely audible. It it too long? Yes — it’s a Led Zeppelin song. 26.
- Contributor
Feb 8, 2017 · According to The Pulse Of Radio, LED ZEPPELIN's Top 10 "worst" songs have been posted online by CheatSheet.com. Leading the pack is the 1969 "Led Zeppelin" track "I Can't Quit You Baby",...
Jun 20, 2023 · Led Zeppelin rarely released a bad note during their dozen-year career. But like all legends, they stumbled from time to time.
People also ask
How many Led Zeppelin songs were ranked worst to best?
Is Zeppelin a bad song?
Are Led Zeppelin still major rock 'n' roll influences?
What is the best Led Zeppelin song?
“Bad” might not be the way to describe them, but there’s a certain category of generic hard rock songs that they (for whatever reason) started dotting throughout their discography in the later years.
