You're right, Roger. While I am not a fan of the lead singer, the
overall effect is soothing. And they don't become frantic at the end.
Some groups just can't help themselves. They create a soothing sound
that flows through my Soul...and suddenly they go bananas. I have to
admit, I listened to the total effect, not the lyrics. And the total
effect was fine. So I browsed a number of Led Zeppelin songs, and
found that I would never pay for any Led Zeppelin albums.
The problem is within me. I grew up with the Big Band sound, and went
along with the goosey loosey music of the fifties. I was moved by
much of the creativeness of the sixties and seventies, but struggled
with Hip Hop and Grunge. And as far as Rap goes...it can go. Write
me a short poem telling me your troubles, but please don't put it to
music and snarl out the lyrics over and over and over...
Actually there is not much music that I don't care for. I enjoy
Country, especially the older forties and fifties, and I love
Classical...excluding Chamber Music, and most Jazz except the stuff
that goes piddling around and wanders off in four directions at once.
Did I forget Blue Grass? There's just not much I don't like. But if
it jars my nerves...well that's not music to me.
But thanks for showing me that even a group that I have avoided, even
they have some redeeming grace.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/5/21, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl, okay, you didn't like Dazed and Confused. I am pretty sure you
probably would not like much else that Led Zeppelin ever did either.
However, there is one Led Zeppelin song that I think you just might
like. I said that I had never paid attention to the words in Dazed and
Confused before, but in this one the words are so clear and so out front
that it would be difficult to listen to it without paying attention to
it. Furthermore I think you just might be in agreement with the
sentiments expressed in this one. It is certainly disdainful of greed
and privilege. It is Stairway to Heaven. Let me know if you do like this
one from Led Zeppelin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4
--
Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through
disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were
so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply
a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the
eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory
scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had
not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely,
you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now
have killed him.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept