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I can't play with you no more
I don't know how I'm gonna do what Mama told me
My friend, the boy next door
I can't believe what people sayin'
You gonna let your hair hang down
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long
You're in the darker side of town
And when I'm out, I see you walkin'
Why don't your eyes see me?
And could it be you've found another game to play?
What did Mama say to me?
"That's the way, oh, that's the way it oughta be"
Yeah, yeah
Mama said, "That's the way it oughta stay"
Yeah, yeah
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
And yesterday I saw you standing by the river
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes?
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dyin'
Had they got ya hypnotized?
And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers
But all that lives is born to die
And so I say to you that nothing really matters
And all you do is stand and cry
I don't know what to say about it
When all your ears have turned away
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see
Is that the way it oughta stay?
"That's the way, that's the way it oughta be"
Whoa, don'tcha know now
Mama said, Mama said, "That's the way it's gonna stay"
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah-ah-ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Aaah
I cringe every time one of their songs comes on.
You must be a youngin' that has not taste in music and listens to hip hop and rap and that crap that is coming out these days. Read the comments on this song and band. You seem to be a lone wolf with that lame comment.
To me, I found this to be a beautifully written song. I even learned how to play it. But over the years, and learning that what you entertain you create, found the lyrics to be seemingly dark. I now skip it for this reason.
Even Robert Plant has been quoted saying that he cringes hearing some of the music LZ wrote back then.
I cringe every time one of their songs comes on.
My favourite Led Zep song, managed to see Robert play this live at Perth this year. I was in heaven, unfortunately I was in hell the next morning with a killer hangover. The dangers of finding a pub with over 200 malt whiskeys
I would need to be drunk to be able to listen to them for more than a couple of minutes.
My favorite album by them. This song is one of the gems!
I would say that this is my favorite Led Zeppelin album if it weren't for the existance of Physical Grafitti... and Houses of the Holy... and IV...
However, this album does contain my very, very, very favorite Led Zeppeling song: Since I've been Loving You, which has some of the best electric guitar work in recored history.
MY rating goes down to 3
"Your rating is good . . . FOR ME TO POOP ON!"
On March 14th, 1975, my 18 year-old uncle took me to see Led Zeppelin at the San Diego Sports Arena. It was my first concert of any kind, and I was utterly blown away.They were bright, loud, sexy, and amazing showmen, even Bonzo and John Paul Jones, in the back. They played for three hours until my ears were numb. I was 14 years-old.
Unfortunately for me, I was spoiled by experiencing real rock stars, before I even learned to drive. Like chasing that first high, nothing will ever come close. But at least I saw, first hand, how high the bar was set, which is sad for all the rest.
That is one proper baptism into the world of live rock!
Did any of you have the Led Zeppelin III album featuring a rotating cardboard disc that revealed different images through holes in the sleeve as it was turned?
Yep. Did anyone else unfold the next album cover to hang the inside on the wall of their room? Hell, now that I looked up this link to share with you I remember I ALSO put the inner sleve with the caligraphic lyrics to Stairway on my wall as well: https://wknc.org/2021/04/11/be...
On March 14th, 1975, my 18 year-old uncle took me to see Led Zeppelin at the San Diego Sports Arena. It was my first concert of any kind, and I was utterly blown away.They were bright, loud, sexy, and amazing showmen, even Bonzo and John Paul Jones, in the back. They played for three hours until my ears were numb. I was 14 years-old.
Unfortunately for me, I was spoiled by experiencing real rock stars, before I even learned to drive. Like chasing that first high, nothing will ever come close. But at least I saw, first hand, how high the bar was set, which is sad for all the rest.
Same. Except it was 1977, Capital Centre in Landover, MD, and my uncle was 18, but I had just turned 15 a few days earlier. We still both love Led Zep, and our subsequent musical journeys have diverged and crossed over each other many, many times. We're both still way into the Clash, Loggins and Messina, and, most recently, Jason Isbell.
I remember my ears ringing well into the next day. And the need to hide the T-shirt I bought because even my relatively clueless Mom might recognize the exotic smells from an era where bongs would be passed down the row rarely to return to their owners. Nothing wrong with today's discrete vape pens, but the communal sharing of breath and slobber, that's what gave us the immune systems today's kids can only dream about. Also the orthopaedic realignments from 3 hours of a crazy man with 4 sticks amplified to nearly thermonuclear levels. But I wish I could have seen Jimi live. We all have our regrets.
BTW, my handle "jamesat43" was an homage to the show "James at 16" which came on the tube a year later, when this James also happened to be 16. I used that moniker when I first came to RP 16 years ago, so it is no longer accurate. More accurate to say James at 16 + 43 now.
The incomparable Jimmy Page on guitars, John Paul Jones on bass, with one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time - Robert Plant. Pretty tough to top... a solid 10.
Actually, JPJ plays the mandolin on this as well.
Even Robert Plant has been quoted saying that he cringes hearing some of the music LZ wrote back then.
On March 14th, 1975, my 18 year-old uncle took me to see Led Zeppelin at the San Diego Sports Arena. It was my first concert of any kind, and I was utterly blown away.They were bright, loud, sexy, and amazing showmen, even Bonzo and John Paul Jones, in the back. They played for three hours until my ears were numb. I was 14 years-old.
Unfortunately for me, I was spoiled by experiencing real rock stars, before I even learned to drive. Like chasing that first high, nothing will ever come close. But at least I saw, first hand, how high the bar was set, which is sad for all the rest.
Color me jealous.
janac13 wrote:
Doug Martsch — Instrumental
The Boxer Rebellion — Diamonds
Chris Isaak — Wicked Game
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Black (w/ Norah Jones),
then this...
And now Ray Lamontagne - Be here Now...
Praise be to you RP!
Absolutely.. Yet the power in the melancholy is palpable
I agree, your rating sucks.
And to a cut that may very well be on the best album by Led Zeppelin!
You are clearly wrong.
To 83% of the listeners, it rates higher than your number.
It's up there, for sure!
Still have it.
Unfortunately for me, I was spoiled by experiencing real rock stars, before I even learned to drive. Like chasing that first high, nothing will ever come close. But at least I saw, first hand, how high the bar was set, which is sad for all the rest.
I wish I could have seen LZ once. My first real concert was Primus in Anchorage May 13, 1996, when I was 17. It was a lot of fun, too. They were great, the crowd was great, and the mosh pit was fantastic. But like you, as a result I was disappointed with all subsequent concerts I went to.
Unfortunately for me, I was spoiled by experiencing real rock stars, before I even learned to drive. Like chasing that first high, nothing will ever come close. But at least I saw, first hand, how high the bar was set, which is sad for all the rest.
icuski2 wrote:
UK Sales 300,000 units
US Sales 6,000,000 units
The US population is approximately 6 times the size of the UK and so you might expect the ratio of the sales to be approximately similar but in actual fact they are 20 times more.
Food for thought... I am really surprised because at the time Led Zeppelin were really big in their home country never mind overseas, taking into account the appeal to the same demographic,
Would any RP listeners like to comment on why they think this might be?
Just a guess but, perhaps, it is the stripped down acoustic nature of the album coming off of 2 hard hitting electrified blues/rock albums.
English fans have historically been more fickle when their idols change styles (e.g. Bob Dylan's 66 tour of England).
UK Sales 300,000 units
US Sales 6,000,000 units
The US population is approximately 6 times the size of the UK and so you might expect the ratio of the sales to be approximately similar but in actual fact they are 20 times more.
Food for thought... I am really surprised because at the time Led Zeppelin were really big in their home country never mind overseas, taking into account the appeal to the same demographic,
Would any RP listeners like to comment on why they think this might be?
DAMN STRAIGHT!
how do you steal the future?
I told you that next month.
i hope Page didn't steal it
how do you steal the future?
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I shouldn't laugh, I have confessed publicly that I did like Zep 3
(but that long "blues" number was boring)
Ohhhh, sO GOOD!!!
i hope Page didn't steal it
You shut your whore mouth!
You shut your whore mouth!
One of the finest rock albums ever made..
Bumping out right now...
One of the finest rock albums ever made..
Could not agree more.
One of the finest rock albums ever made..
Same here.
There's so much more music....
Me too ;))
My son was surprised when I told him the same thing. I didn't really have an explanation except that this album just gets better every time I hear it, whereas my appreciation for all the others leveled off quite some time ago. This song is maybe the reason why.
There's something about them that really seems to connect with the 18-20 year old mindset. I was like you, having grown up hearing them and liking them ok but basically as filler on the radio between various bands from Seattle. Then some time around my senior year of high school/first year of college something just CLICKED.
Everyone I've ever known who really likes Zeppelin got into them around that age. My wife missed that critical window and to this day she just doesn't get the appeal (although she's finally warmed up to "Baby Come On Home").
WonderLizard wrote:
I first heard them when I was 19 or 20 at university ("Whole Lotta Love") and have never since lost my love of their sound. They were all geniuses of musical invention and reinvention, and we thank Moon and Entwhistle, perhaps apocryphally, for the band's monicker. I'm in my 60s and haven't yet tired of them.
I'm with you both on this one.
Pure magic for me whenever/wherever they play.
I first heard them when I was 19 or 20 at university ("Whole Lotta Love") and have never since lost my love of their sound. They were all geniuses of musical invention and reinvention, and we thank Moon and Entwhistle, perhaps apocryphally, for the band's monicker. I'm in my 60s and haven't yet tired of them.
There's something about them that really seems to connect with the 18-20 year old mindset. I was like you, having grown up hearing them and liking them ok but basically as filler on the radio between various bands from Seattle. Then some time around my senior year of high school/first year of college something just CLICKED.
Everyone I've ever known who really likes Zeppelin got into them around that age. My wife missed that critical window and to this day she just doesn't get the appeal (although she's finally warmed up to "Baby Come On Home").
Au contraire, mon frère.
It's interesting - I LOVED Zep as a teenager growing up in the '70s. Definitely my main "puberty" band.
But, now that I'm in my 50s and don't have quite as many of those hormones raging thru my body I do see how Plant's vocal stylings could grate a bit on the adults at the time :-)
Still love them and Zep really did help me thru some tough years including the loss of my father.
I first heard them when I was 19 or 20 at university ("Whole Lotta Love") and have never since lost my love of their sound. They were all geniuses of musical invention and reinvention, and we thank Moon and Entwhistle, perhaps apocryphally, for the band's monicker. I'm in my 60s and haven't yet tired of them.
Actually, the opening of Daughter by Pearl Jam is similar to the opening riff of That's The Way.
Led Zep trumps Pearl Jam
I be right here! Everybody in my homeless camp loves this song...
hope life is grand for you right this minute, treatment_bound...
It's interesting - I LOVED Zep as a teenager growing up in the '70s. Definitely my main "puberty" band.
But, now that I'm in my 50s and don't have quite as many of those hormones raging thru my body I do see how Plant's vocal stylings could grate a bit on the adults at the time :-)
Still love them and Zep really did help me thru some tough years including the loss of my father.
Brilliant
Doug Martsch — Instrumental
The Boxer Rebellion — Diamonds
Chris Isaak — Wicked Game
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Black (w/ Norah Jones),
then this...
And now Ray Lamontagne - Be here Now...
Praise be to you RP!
Absolutely.. Yet the power in the melancholy is palpable
Brother, you said a mouthful. This song really takes me back. One of the underrated Zep albums. Solid 10.
Doug Martsch — Instrumental
The Boxer Rebellion — Diamonds
Chris Isaak — Wicked Game
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Black (w/ Norah Jones),
then this...
And now Ray Lamontagne - Be here Now...
Praise be to you RP!
B. U. T. Full
What On_The_Beach said.
B. U. T. Full
and spinning those little dials.
You and me both!
ME TOO!!
You and me both!
easy 10
marvelous... love it...
This place looks like the ultimate getaway spot. I'd love to spend a night in the humble abode where P & P composed "Over the Hills and Far Away"...
WHERE IS THAT?!
Bron-Yr-Aur is a home in the highlands of Wales where the band composed most of the material for LZ III. It had no electricity, so without amps and speaker stacks, they were moved to writing a more acoustic set.
WHERE IS THAT?!
Leave it for a few years and come back to it, and the lyricism is still there.
Volume is wayyyy up... we be broadcasting to all my franchises... everybody in my churches loves this song...
This song moves me.
..well, at least the year 1970..but that could mean some (most?) of this was written in '69..the jury's still out Yeol-!..hahaha..
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I was thinking it was a mandolin, but according to Wikipedia, there are both. Dang.
Such a great song.
love this classic...
It's a very fine tune...no argument.
(I used to play one way back in my early teens. Built it myself from a kit. Only played for a few years, then abandoned it. But I still have it up in my closet.)
Just curious...
Steve