Happy Birthday to Physical Graffiti - released 37 years ago today

[LynneSin]

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[OriginalGeek]

1. I don;t have enough thumbs

for all thumbs up I'd like to give this post!


I'll stick with two
so as not
to annoy you
all

[Kali]

2. NNNOOOOOOOOooooo!!!!!

the 70's weren't that long ago were they?

[RebelOne]

8. Nope. Seems like yesterday to me. n/t

[hifiguy]

3. A good bud of mine bought it that very day,

and called me to tell me how great it was. He invited me over for a smoke and we listened to the whole thing. Ahh, those were the daze.....

[dogknob]

4. I can't stop talkin' 'bout...

nuh nuh... nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh!

[pink-o]

5. Any true Zep Head knows "Kashmir" is their anthem.

Let the amateurs have "Stairway"!

[OriginalGeek]

6. I just remembered

In the mid 80s I had a friend who loved Zep as much as I did. SO my friend joined that stupid Columbia house records and tape club and one of the first things he ordered from them was a cassette of Physical Graffiti. (he needed to replace his old, worn out one)

So the tape comes in and we we decided to go for a drive and blast that sucker (my car stereo was better than all our home stereos put together at the time). Everything is copacetic until we get to the end of In My Time Of Dying...singing at the top of our lungs, scaring old people at red lights, you know, typical Zep fan things..

..OOOOooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh dontcha make it my dyin dyin...................................................................................................<?!> wtf? There's supposed to be a cough there....you ain't slippin' that by us...between us that song had been heard no less than 2.63 million times...we knew exactly how many seconds to wait before the <cough>...we didn't have to watch a clock either...that cough was built into our DNA by this time...We were so startled we rewound the tape a little and listened again.....nope. No cough.

"Stop the car."

so I stopped the car (1971 Firebird Formula btw - but doesn't that kinda go without saying?).

And my friend yanked that tape out of the tape deck, got out of the car and proceeded to smash that tape with the heel of his boot until there wasn't much left but ribbon and powder. He muttered "Abomination" and got back in the car and we never spoke of that again. He also cancelled his membership in Columbia house and less than a year later he was dead from a motorcycle accident. But in his honor I never bought a thing from Columbia house - even when they gave away 40 eleven records for a penny. If you're willing to fuck with Led Zeppelin how can we trust you to do anything with honor? Fuck you, Columbia House.

[Tom Ripley]

7. Nicely done, fellas

[LoZoccolo]

9. It would be interesting to hear how Oasis could improve the chords of "Kashmir".

They did a fine job on "Whole Lotta Love".

[Kali]

10. ALERTING!!