Con i Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page has surpassed the blues and created something new – hard rock, heavy metal, or whatever you want to call it. This is the premise of Vulturethe site dedicated to cultural consumption that has drawn up a ranking of the best songs of the band, from the ugliest (or least beautiful) to the more beautiful of all.
Here on Esquire we’ve already talked about Led Zeppelin: recently, for example, we reported an anecdote about Phil Collins of Genesis and how he was impressed by John Bonham’s drums. But these are pills for those who want to know every detail. If we wanted to take it from afar, we would say that Led Zeppelin changed the history of music by becoming the first mass success that did not depend on radio programming.
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The band members became rock stars without ever entering the hit parade and they were the first to understand that power was passing from the radio AM a quelle FM and in particular to those free formwhich broadcast songs longer than the standard three minutes, with guitar solos and even without a chorus.
Their debut, at the time of the great Woodstock, made it clear to the world that times had changed, that music was capable of attract large masses. Their musical baggage contains incredibly famous and immortal pieces such as Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song, Whole Lotta Love and others…but none of these are on the top step of the podium.
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In the ordered list of VultureAnd Kashmir to occupy the number one position, the one reserved for the most beautiful track ever by Led Zeppelin. “No group of the time recorded a song like this – writes the newspaper – and no other group ever would have done it, and it is probably the most popular song of the group after Stairway”.
In the ranking of Vulture there is space for every single song of the formation with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones e John Bonham. If you disagree with the choice, our advice is to go to Vulture (but you must know English) and analyze the reasons behind each place in the list.
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I watch movies and play video games, and at a certain point in my life I also started writing about them. I am fascinated by the remote corners of the internet, the graphics of the first 3D video games and the images that fall under the not at all defined umbrella of the term aesthetic, for which I carry out a compulsive cataloging activity that has as its point of arrival some Instagram profiles. The TV series with the best aesthetics (and the best one overall) is still X-Files, which I have never ended up not conceiving the thought “there are no other episodes of X-Files to watch for the rest of my life”. Same thing with Evangelion (the manga).
