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Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
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I always come back to this track. Something truly magical about it I think. Along with some/plenty of their other tracks, a true perfection of 70s rock.
Something else for general zep fans, if you haven’t given this album this track is off a listen, it may be worth your time.
Presence.
From 1976, basically the twilight of the band, and the last album Page had any real influence on (their last one was a weird Plant and Jones project in part I think cuz page was drugged up).
Whereas on Presence I think it was the opposite. It’s almost a pure Page album. Guitar driven and rocking.
Out of all of their albums, I think it might be their most cohesive and consistent.
In Through the Out Door is killer! Sure, "All My Love" and "Fool in the Rain" are not as hard as some earlier stuff, but they're excellent songs. "I'm Gonna Crawl" and "In the Evening" are "pretty good" by Zeppelin standards, which translates to "outstanding" by normal band standards. Then you got "Carouselambra", a tour-de-force to show you that they've still got surprises -- there are people out there whose lives were changed by that song. Admittedly, "South Bound Saurez" and "Hot Dog" are mid, but those add up to like 7 minutes on a 42-minute album.
Anyway, that was why Led Zeppelin was so amazing. They had so much talent that even when half the band was out of commission on drugs, they still put out a first-rate album.