Man, I feel old now. You guys must feel really old. Thanks for the info. I will have to listen to this album this week as a tribute to one of the great bands this world has ever known.
I feel this album remains significant, but I'm curious as to what the high-school generation now makes of it. It's as old to them as "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" was to us.
There is a hilarious 'right of passage' so capably flayed in The Onion article that is undeniable.
I can admit to not really liking led Zeppelin until I went to college. My brothers and sisters weren't into them, and 'my friends' were into Journey and The Lightning Seeds.
Mighty Tom for his part had to be dragged (or cajoled through feminine wiles) into liking U2, and only in college. This was a band that was ubiquitous during our formative years, as opposed to LZ, which had faded before we were 10.
I don't know that Joshua Tree has the same effect as SgtP, since it wasn't especially radical musically, thematically. It was simply great, top to bottom, and was a reaction to a particular American culture prevalent at that time. The Irish band captured some of the "American Idea" and bottled it up into 11 great songs.
I think it was pioneering in terms of showing that, as a band, it was possible to be relevant, political, and a superstar at the same time.
You can't really necessarily call it groundbreaking, musically, I suppose - since no one else has really duplicated the formula since.
I was POSITIVE that you were into Zep when we were in college. If not, you went down that slippery road in a hurry.
to show where I was, and where I was held in your collective esteem: I still remember you guys pooling your money and buying me Aeorosmith's "Pump" for my 19th birthday. What else could you do? I was the little brother of Kick Ass.
I had a few vinyl LZ albums while in high school. I grew up in a household where the Zosa/"4" album got a lot of play; I bought Physical Graffiti and Houses of the Holy during that time. I picked up a few CDs in 1989, but the original CDs of LZ were bad, bad, bad. I finally came across a decent deal for the entire remastered CD collection box set, $70 at a record store everything-must-go sale. That was last year.
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Man, I feel old now. You guys must feel really old. Thanks for the info. I will have to listen to this album this week as a tribute to one of the great bands this world has ever known.
I feel this album remains significant, but I'm curious as to what the high-school generation now makes of it. It's as old to them as "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" was to us.
I suppose the same "right" people still get it, and always will.
Case in point: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28086
There is a hilarious 'right of passage' so capably flayed in The Onion article that is undeniable.
I can admit to not really liking led Zeppelin until I went to college. My brothers and sisters weren't into them, and 'my friends' were into Journey and The Lightning Seeds.
Mighty Tom for his part had to be dragged (or cajoled through feminine wiles) into liking U2, and only in college. This was a band that was ubiquitous during our formative years, as opposed to LZ, which had faded before we were 10.
I don't know that Joshua Tree has the same effect as SgtP, since it wasn't especially radical musically, thematically. It was simply great, top to bottom, and was a reaction to a particular American culture prevalent at that time. The Irish band captured some of the "American Idea" and bottled it up into 11 great songs.
I think it was pioneering in terms of showing that, as a band, it was possible to be relevant, political, and a superstar at the same time.
You can't really necessarily call it groundbreaking, musically, I suppose - since no one else has really duplicated the formula since.
I was POSITIVE that you were into Zep when we were in college. If not, you went down that slippery road in a hurry.
to show where I was, and where I was held in your collective esteem: I still remember you guys pooling your money and buying me Aeorosmith's "Pump" for my 19th birthday. What else could you do? I was the little brother of Kick Ass.
What was country bumpkin, a.k.a. Tclog, listening to in college?
I got into LZ pretty fast once into college, especially as a result of interaction with Brian G.
He and I went to see Robert Plant together at some point freshmen year. Faith No More opened.
Since we're talking about LZ.
I had a few vinyl LZ albums while in high school. I grew up in a household where the Zosa/"4" album got a lot of play; I bought Physical Graffiti and Houses of the Holy during that time. I picked up a few CDs in 1989, but the original CDs of LZ were bad, bad, bad. I finally came across a decent deal for the entire remastered CD collection box set, $70 at a record store everything-must-go sale. That was last year.
what an album - especially amazing to me - because of the timing, it seems such a college album in an of those times
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