Yes, this is a record eminently suitable for any sorority house hop, baby shower, or pajama party sleepover! When girls get together, this is the type music they like!
So why not make up a batch to distribute among the "little ladies" (or hey - the not so little - Body Positivism is a big thing here!) of your cognizance? Perhaps there's a local nunnery, private girls' school, or biker dyke bar you can bestow! Imagine the looks on th' gals' faces as you hand out these tasty kitten Hindenburgers, chock full o' tunes! And - knowing dames like I do - they'll be sure to want to thank you - in their own oh-so-feminine way! Perhaps you might tape a rubber to each disc to save embarrassment! Let us know how this goes for you!
The first thing you'll note about this cover, because that's the type guy you are, is that it's the rare first issue cyan typography version. Then you'll notice the kitten.
ReplyDeleteI think my daughter was in early high school when "Stairway" crossed her radar, and she liked it a lot, so I made a CD-R selection of some of Zep's more acoustic numbers for her. I doubt if she listened to it more than once, but I have! If I'd thought of making an anime kitty-cat cover graphic, it may have helped.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I worked on a "Roy Wood For Girls" compilation a bit, but decided it was a lost cause. It's now morphed into a "The Move For Americans" collection, which may see completion this calendar year.
Post it here!
DeleteIncidentally, All My Love was a first choice for this, because it would be, but it didn't make the final cut. Because it's shit.
That's what Page said. I don't concur, though. I like the swirling synths on it. And it's a lovely vocal by Plant, way better than his usual Banshee yelping.
DeleteConcur? CONCUR? Is that the type of language they teach you in Canadia?
DeleteOh, have I offended thee, m'lord? Dost thou not concur with my choice of words so humbly spoken and well meant?
DeleteCalm down! I wus in th' way of bestowin' praise, both on your hi-toned vocabliary, and the educational prowess of your school houses!
DeleteHey, hey...What Can I Do?
ReplyDeleteI gotta woman wanna ball all day!
I thought Led Zep for Girls was Greta Van Fleet
ReplyDeleteOkay - have a guess at what might be on this. Not the complete track listing (it goes up to eleven), just what you can think of.
ReplyDeleteGotta have the mandolin driven songs: Kwai's "Hey, Hey What Can I Do", "Going to California", "Gallow's Pole" for starters.
DeleteScore one point for Going To California. Gallows Pole? Are you kidding? Great number, but what chick needs to know about a gallows pole? Hey Hey, I don't know. Must be a later album?
DeleteI take it you never dated a Goth chic.
DeleteNow that would not have been a good look.
DeleteTangerine
DeleteRain Song
Battle Of Evermore
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Of the 15 tunes I put on a LZ compilation for my daughter, 8 overlap with your selection of 12. Not bad. Mine started with Stairway, to get it out of the way, since that's the one she liked, anyway. I put Bonzo's Montreux drum solo next to last figuring she'd never get that far, followed by White Summer from the BBC disc as a little treat in case she did. Thank You, Battle Of Evermore, and The Rain Song in the same order, but preceded by Bron-Yr-Aur instead of following.
DeleteI did not segue any of the tunes together, however, since that almost always has a poor result after converting to mp3. On any of *my* gear that plays mp3's, anyway. And anything with Shuffle mode. YMMV, and who cares.
I think (hope) the only crossfade here is the original, Your Time/Black Mountain. White Summer (from Cumular Limit or Little Games) tempted me, but Black Mountainside is Page's copyright-swerving Led Zeppelin version.
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DeleteRe: "Black Mountainside is Page's copyright-swerving Led Zeppelin version"...
DeleteI was floored when on Episode 5 of UK's Hullabaloo(from 1963?): Guitarist David Graham plays a traditional Irish tune(She Moves Through The Faire[???]) that is a note for note rendition of the guitar intro for Led Zeppelin's Over The Hills And Far Away! So, James Patrick Page was already picking the best of the ENTIRE UK Traditional catalog!
In a way, he was only doing what folkies (and blues guys) had been doing for years - putting a spin on somebody else's composition and claiming some kind of credit for it. Led Zep were too blatant about it, convinced they were untouchable. "Tangerine" is someone else's song, too (Keith Relf's? I think a Yardbirds connection).
DeleteAh, I ripped my tunes from "Boxset" or "Boxset 2", I think, so I guess "Your Time" is "faded early" instead of crossfaded... It's fun to crossfade tunes for a CD once in a while, but I guess the technology to rip several tracks in a row to a single mp3 is beyond the capability or interest of most people. But if you wanna listen to Moody Blues the way you're supposed to, downloading a bunch of mp3's ain't the way to do it.
DeleteI get a lot of harmless fun out of Audacity - or used to. You can do all kinds of track editing with that. I used it for Burning Bridges, Echoes, and Tear The Top Off Your Million Dollar Head (all available here, fight fans).
DeleteHey, Hey was the only non LP B-side...(Immigrant Song)
ReplyDeleteWas also available on an Atlantic sampler lp. That's how I originally obtained it.
DeleteIt's on CODA. I added it.
DeleteI knew their stuff through Houses of the Holy. Lost track of them afterwards. Did see LZ live once ('75) and have seen Plant outside of them twice. Once, he and a large band playing "world" music at Jazz Fest. The other time he was in NO the night before he was scheduled to perform with a Cajun band (Lil Band of Gold), and he appeared out of nowhere to sing 3 songs with another local band, Guitar Lightnin Lee and the Little Thunder Band. This was at a real hole in the wall, neighborhood place, BJ's Lounge. Maybe 20 people in there when it went down. I was at the bar, listening to the band, and someone brushed by me - looked to see who it was and all I could see was a real skinny guy with what looked like a Phil Spector wig. He grabs the mic and I'm thinking, someone is going to knock him out if he doesn't cut that out. He turns around, and my jaw dropped. They played Blue Suede Shoes, It's Raining (an old Fats Domino song that Plant had recorded with Lil Band of Gold) and Black Dog. Afterwards, Lee said that someone had called him that afternoon and wanted to know if it would be okay for an out of town singer to sit in, and if he knew those 3 songs. Lee had no idea it was about Plant until Plant walked in the door. BTW - Plant sounded awful.
DeleteWhere is the link?
ReplyDeletePlease take the gum out of your mouth when you type to me.
DeleteOh so sorry will do
DeleteLooking forward to Van der Graaf Generator for bints.
ReplyDeleteThere was an early psychy psingle I remember that would qualify, but nothing else, I expect.
DeleteThat Peter Hammill voice can be used around the house to great effect.
DeleteDARLING CAN YOU PUT THE BINS OUT TO THE KERB BEFORE MORNING?
DO YOU REQUIRE ANY LOTION FROM THE CHEMIST?
I'LL BE DOWN THE PUB FOR A QUICK PINT, LUV.
*snork*!
DeleteDo you do John Mayall? That was a favorite back in "Art School", interspersed with the fake gob-iron wheeze we'd perfected in Bob Dylan imperso's.
Questionable lyrics for the avowed purpose:
ReplyDelete'Living, loving, make me a sandwich!'
Lez Zeppelin ?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKe5_GXsxj4
Can we have a link please Mr. Throckmorton?
ReplyDeletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/06/led-zeppelin-for-girls.html?showComment=1622758301798#c7416831328403463685
DeleteThank you sir.
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