Obscurist Bastard

[adupont]

I look at Audioscrobbler's Led Zeppelin charts and I realize that my favorite Zeppelin songs don't seem to be anyone else's favorites. On earth.

The following are my ten most favorite songs by Led Zeppelin and their corresponding positions on the Audioscrobbler charts. Note that Audioscrobbler lists only the top 50 songs.

1. Hey Hey What Can I Do

Comments

[jervo]

I don't think any of those songs are terribly obscure. I'd put "Hey Hey" and "Traveling Riverside Blues" in my top 10, and as long as we're going obscure I'd have to put that acoustic ditty "Bron-Y-Aur" from Physical Graffiti.

[adupont]

"Hey Hey" and "Travelling Riverside Blues" are the most well-known of obscure Zeppelin, I'd say. I mean, neither one is on an album, but "Hey Hey" is probably one of the most famous of all B-sides, and gets played on the radio occasionally. (And I actually heard "Travelling Riverside Blues" on the radio once, but didn't remember any of its lyrics, so I had to click through all of Amazon's 30-second audio clips for every single track of every single Zeppelin album. That didn't work, so I searched through a shitload of guitar tabs to see if I could recognize the riff. That didn't work either

[jervo]

Bron-Yr-Aur is waaaay different from the Stomp; it's a solo 12-string acoustic thing and it's very, very pretty. Maybe about 1:30.