Single-Disc Physical Graffiti
The conundrum for any music fan: would you rather have more songs from your favorite band on their new album, even if it meant the album wasn’t as good?
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double disc, epitomizes that paradox. The great tracks are among the band’s very best, but they get a bit lost when swamped by eleven full minutes of “In My Time of Dying.” The album sounds much better when reduced to a single record, but it’s hard to cut down, because the filler is pretty damn good. If you put together all the Graffiti tracks I’ve discarded from my edit, you’d have a short album that would sound better than Presence.
Side One:
1. Houses of the Holy
2. Trampled Under Foot
3. Down by the Seaside
4. Custard Pie
5. Black Country Woman
Side Two:
6. The Wanton Song
7. Boogie With Stu
8. Sick Again
9. Kashmir
(total running time: 45:12)
posted 27 August 2008 in Tasty Bits and tagged double albums, Led Zeppelin. 6 comments
August 27th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Next: The Wall as an EP.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Next: The Wall as an EP.
Lulz!
Ready? Here it is:
“Another Brick in the Wall” (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
“Hey You”
“Run Like Hell”
“Comfortably Numb”
DONE.
August 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I think I’d tack “The Trial” on to the end. Otherwise, yeah, that sounds right to me.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I spent way too many hours listening to The Wall as a teenager; I still love its big messy stupid excess (although now I prefer to love it from a distance, if you know what I mean).
September 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
You’re leaving off “The Rover”? Really?
April 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am
To leave out Ten Years Gone is nothing short of madness.