If you are a Led Zep fan, this list was designed to tick you off
Spin: All 87 Led Zeppelin Songs, RankedCertainly not among the fondest-remembered songs in Zeppelin's body of work, the ten-plus-minute "Carouselambra" is nevertheless one of their most fascinating, half-prog and half-disco, with a zooming guitar line, a juggernaut of a synth hook (which unexpectedly goes all Kraftwerk about halfway in), and one of Plant's all-time most-enigmatic lyrics (Opening lines: "Sisters of the way-side bide their time in quiet peace / Await their place within the ring of calm"
. It shouldn't work, and many likely would argue it doesn't, but the playing is never less than air-tight, the groove is considerable, the melodic ideas are plentiful and unpredictable, and the sheer musical ambition is jaw-dropping.26th???
A traditional folk cover (super-original title: "The Maid Freed From the Gallows"
that a suddenly mandolin-infatuated Zeppelin made their own on the acoustic side of LZIII. A little close to Jethro Tull for comfort at some moments, but an important transition track nonetheless.Carouselambra > Gallows Pole?
A hookless, aimless, funk-less tribute to Bo Diddley and '50s rock that was somehow released as a single A-side, demonstrating just how out of touch the band was in 1976.
Ranking this 86th out of 87 shows just how out of touch the writers at Spin are in 2014.
A large portion of the Zep-listening population would likely bristle at the inclusion of the band's final Top 40 hit in their all-time top five, and it's not hard to see why. Conceptually, the song sounds disastrous: a pop song closer that's just as much "Bennie and the Jets" as "Whole Lotta Love," which drops out with a hissing disco whistle for an extended samba breakdown? Luckily, Led Zeppelin were really good goddamn songwriters, and "Fool" is as tight and catchy and clever as any other late-'70s crossover, with one of Plant's finest story lyrics — a mopey tale of getting stuck in the rain waiting for a date, with the perfect last-line resolution — and an out-of-nowhere Page solo that shreds about as much as anything he did on the band's first few albums. Ignore the haters: "Fool" is classic Zep, and shows that the band was still capable of excelling in new and interesting modes, right up until their untimely breakup the following year.
Nice song and all, but 5th?????
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So, most people would not agree with you, no.
A new artist with a voice as dreadful as his has become would never sell a single ticket 
Of course, I'm still a fan of the old Yardbirds stuff, too... 
I don't agree with all his rankings but it's cool he linked to each song. Zep is my all time favorite band. No other band even comes in as a close second. They define music for me. 
Alexei Sultanov won the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth when he was NINETEEN years old in 1989.
He was the most powerful and amazing pianist I have ever seen. And I've seen Horacio Gutierrez and Arthur Rubinstein live.
I saw Alexei play a recital in Houston about two years after he won the Van Cliburn competition. I met him after the recital and shook his hand. He did not know much English. All I could say, over and over, was, "Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine".
The stupid critic at the Chron, Carl Cunningham, called him "Tarzan of Uzbekistan". Horrendously insulting. Mr. Sultanov was about five foot three, and extremely powerful and solid and muscular. He was the closest thing to a piano playing machine that will ever walk this Earth.
This is Alexei Sultanov playing the Mephisto Waltz at the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition with a BROKEN STRING!!!!!!
LISTEN to this and tell me that is NOT an ultimate genius!!
And Carl Cunningham had the balls to insult this fine young genius. Unfortunately, he had a couple of strokes and died very young at the age of 35. He lived from 1969 to 2005. I think he had so much physical energy he literally burned out.
