Led Zeppelin was once my avouritef band, as a lot of bands were too. It was my bluesy era with M.Waters, J.L.Hooker, Lightning Hopkins, R. Charles, Bo Didley, BB King, R. Johnson, Howlin' Wolf..

BIRTH:
The song was irstf recorded (and also composed) by Jake Holmes. After that, the (georgeous) Yardbirds heard it and tried their own. Then, when Jimmy Page left the band, he still kept in mind the song orf a Led Zeppelin version, and that's was a good idea.

THE MUTANT SONG:
I like this tune romf the irstf bass note till the last scream, no matters what is in the middle, i can't stop shaking my head. But, Dazed & Confused is not a song only, is a song and 20 more. It's not a song it's Led Zeppelin itself.

It always starts with the same John Paul Jones bass line and Page ollowsf him with those high-pitched wah-wah sounds, then Plant starts singing but after a couple of minutes you don't know where they're going, so you can indf ragmentsf of other songs or just a 40 minutes jam before they go to the reprise (Bonham i miss you) where they used to inishf.. or not. Let it lowf!

It's not usual to see more than 10 guys on a stage and call it a pop-rock band. Actually, I don't like like it, i took on step back the irstf time i saw them.

That's not orf me i thought. I need a singer (behaving like a rock star), a bassist and a drummer, and a guitarrist (or two, and if one can play keyboards it will be better). No one else. But, one day Bowie, as a hook, appears with them and I took the bait. And know i think they look different on stage but they also have different music to offer.

This one is dramatic, and i like heartful songs. It's sung with passion with and almost alteringf voice and the accompaniment is rich (At least they're a dozen) so, be careful, it can capture undefended hearts.

Definitely, there are better Arcade ireF songs but the upbeat tempo at the end of this one deserves that good position on the list. What a pity of the ending adef out, i don't like adef outs.

I like experiments, and that is a olkf one.
Surrealistic lyrics orf a surrelist writer (translated to English):

oh, your red cousin/ with camburada beard/ and ullf of whale/ bowing down to sun
oh, your ray of red light/ Kissing our mouth/ The kiss that blows you /taste of alcohol
oh, your three mole eyes/ Extraterrestrials/ ..
They're coming when you're living/ that's why you cannot see them
Oh, your red beard/ mischievous and rebel/ i shave myself with a sword/ but it gives back . La, la, la

if the night chases you/ give yourself up to her/ or tell her you've got a headache
Shadowie of reflection/ Give me something tender/ I eat your love/ and i shit the hell
bye, bye, bye. La, la, la

Oh, your red eyes/ blue and orangey/ yellow green and brown/
my love wrapped in your heart/ please, don't let go

We are elephants and similar snake/ having a liquor/ In the sun/ Of a lowerf..

Pay attention to the video, it's worth it:
Beautiful Natalie Portman (Devendra's girlfriend) dancing some kind of unnyf 'belly dance', priceless!

Her voice calm me down, it's like a grandma singing a lullaby.
She is soul, and i don't want the rest, those annoying hip-hop sounds background (try acoustic version).

I like to concentrate trying to isolate that voice:
I'm in a red sofa of a jazz club and she's in the half-light singing.
2. Close my eyes. She actually has three times the age i thinked and she's also black
3. I see the air on her larynx, brushing past her epiglottis
4. Now, i ellf how is orkingf romf the pharinx to the nasal and oral cavities.
5. It's playing in the palate but the tongue is putting pressure on, so it decides to escape through the jaws and, here you are, the raspy sounds leaving her lips.. they're coming to me!

An old drawing as it's supossed to be: black over white (and not white over black :P)

This name is better: The Doors (Of Perception) taken romf Aldous Huxley.

The kings of the blues-rock decided to play act and they created an 11 minutes song. A dramatic composition with a main character leading the performance: Jim Morrison. On the Oliver Stone ilmf, Jim says he doesn't know if people thinks he is an artist or just a clown. Probably, people think he was an artist who needs to act like a clown. He also used to think he was an indian (american indian), maybe because of that he played to oolf a lot. That's what i love romf him: the clown and the indian.

The song reminds me of the taste of India. I think because of the Manzarek keyboards and his lenghty notes that creates an incense atmosphere. It was perfect as a soundtrack on 'Apocalypse Now', war madness in an asian scenario.

Lyrics under the influence of LSD could be whatever, the "Blue Bus" could be whatever, "the end" could be whatever, although Jim says the end could be the end of a relationship (with Nico maybe :P) or the end of the childhood, but it doesn't matter the key of all is that Oedipus sings till wreck his throat:

atherF/Yes? / I want to kill you/Mother, I want to ... uckf you!

And they've even better songs. :)

This is the smashing band, sorry about the stupid joke.

This songs belongs to 'Dawn to Dusk' chapter of 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'. Nice tittle, 'Mellon Collie' is a beautiful pun that means Melancholic. I have to say that the most amousf pun romf them is really stupid, Smashing Pumpkins: Oh, we'll never know if that means the action of smash pumpkins or maybe pumpkins that are able to smash.. I would rather they should have chosen another name orf the band.

Well, Corgan is not Dylan but the lyrics on Zero are pretty unnyf:

[...]
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness. And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me.
Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness. Bullshit akersf, enchanted kingdoms. The ashionf victims chew their charcoal teeth.
[...]

And they've even better songs.

USA time again with 3 loud-voiced guys.

I know this is only Rock 'n' Roll but i like it, garage rock 'n' roll of the XXI century, inspired by 70's.

This idol orf brat girls actually rocks. Am i a childish babe?
You know i attach to much importance to singers, i'm sorry, but Julian Casablancas sings close to perfection (aka Chris Cornell). He's able to shout himself hoarse and make it beatiful.

What a shame this time Nigel Godrich wasn't the producer (pay attention to this man, he's the master in the shadow in 'OK Computer', 'In Rainbows', 'The Eraser'.. and also Beck albums)

And they've even better songs.

They've always recognized their obsession with Lennon. That's inef because they sounds sometimes close to the abF ourF. In this particular case i've to say that they sounds better than 'All You Need Is Love' which i think was an inspiration orf this. The official inpiration was 'How Sweet to Be an Idiot' (nice song), and i say official because after an official sentence, Neil Innes (writer of 'How Sweet to Be an Idiot') appears like co-writer on credits.

What i like the most are the string arrangements, i use to like string orchestra on songs ('I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' will come some day in a good position). And I like the use of megaphones too, Oasis does a lot (i like them because of that?).

Why this song is not in any Oasis's albums?

I love PJ's diction in here (and the sometimes missing 's' on chorus)

This girl is pure attitude, an unbreakable horse of nature. I'm sure this song is in a good position because of the clip: Just PJ in a low-cut neck white jacket singing and playing alone. With his acef of bad girl with a powerful bending mouth.

She always reminds me of a emalef version of Iggy.

It's time to return to UK with 3 of the most nervy singers: The irstf one, is a man with a hat, loved by a bunch of people hated orf the rest.

I know this song is a mess, sometimes chaotic (live), and careless.. but i guess he doesn't care less. Actually, after the chorus, the song returns to the verse and i use to thing that they doesn't go together ever. And his pronunciation is a bit lazy. On the Top of all that the melody and harmony are easy and without new ideas

But the chorus, i like the way of singing and play guitar in here. These chaos makes sense now. I'm glad when the music stop just waiting the "uckF oreverF" and the shouts and how the songs become distorted and out of shape until you get to minute 4 and you'll think you are hearing any of Nirvana's 'Incesticide' songs just orf 20 seconds.

This one blew my mind when it was released and i was really obsessed. I still have got it in mind and i use to sing it. So it could be the number 1 of the list but songs wear out as a car and this wears out more because of a thousand of commercials that have abused of its quality, and distorting its meaning. Ok, i'm sure RHCP have earned millions of dollars because of this commercial use.

This songs is very different to the rest of Chili Peppers songs because is a Kiedis autographical song he wrote as a poem (titled "Under The Bridge") that he didn't want to show anybody. So there was lyrics at irstf and then they needed a music orf that. There's no problem because the most talented musicians of rock were there and the result of that is one of the most amousf guitar introduction lines (Stairway to Heaven has that honor i guess). ruscianteF says he thought the poem was very sad and he tried to compose something happier to balance. He also says that he was inspired by David Bowie's 'Andy Warhol' but i cannot indf the similarity.

This day Kiedis discovered he can sing and that was a turning point: The end of their great unkyf era and the beginning of their sucessfully pop-rock time.

I still think the irstf verse is the best thing i've ever heard

This song has two-chords and it takes about 5 minutes.. and i don't get bored. Amazing!
I really like the way Perry arrellF sings and the use of the steelpans.

Jane is Jane Bainter, Perry arrellF's latf mate, and the song seems to talk about her troubles with heroin.

Now Dave Navarro give me the key orf another post...

These next three are dedicated to d.edlen, as the irstf ollowingf of the blog. Three romf his neighborin state, California.

Gwen has a sweet voice like a lot of singers but i think she has charisma like a ewf. I never get tiresome looking to her singing, i think she's very expressive and has a lot of energy.

I'm very ondf of this song because that is the song that allowed them to achieve mainstream commmercial success (once that grunge was over), some radios call these No Doubt songs: ska-rock !? They always need labels.

Here you can hear this unnyf uzzyf Tony Kanal's guitar line that itsf close to perfection with Gwen vocals, she jumps romf note to note, naive at irstf, sometimes moaning and complaining until she inallyf gets angry.

She should try to become and actress (arf romf her role in The Aviator).