Physical Graffiti | 
 enlarge | Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  381 reviews
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Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 075679244222
UPC: 075679244222
EAN: 0075679244222
ASIN: B000002JSN
Release Date: August 16, 1994
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Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Custard Pie | | • | The Rover | | • | In My Time Of Dying | | • | Houses Of The Holy | | • | Trampled Underfoot | | • | Kashmir |
Disc 2
| • | In The Light | | • | Bron-Yr-Aur | | • | Down By The Seaside | | • | Ten Years Gone | | • | Night Flight | | • | Wanton Song | | • | Boogie With Stu | | • | Black Country Woman | | • | Sick Again |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: LED ZEPPELIN
Title: PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
Street Release Date: 08/16/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording
This 1975 release came smack in the middle of a long and nearly mythic career. Physical Graffiti is the last great Led Zeppelin title, recorded before the influences of the day (synthesizers, disco) ended Zeppelin's reign as the kings of loud and sexy blues-metal. Playfully experimenting with new sounds, the band blended Middle Eastern rhythms, folk-stylings, heavy blues, and deeply impassioned rock riffs into a two-disc set that sounded as if they were still enjoying their place in the rock pantheon. As sprawling and adventurous as this collection is, there are some tracks so tightly focused--so ultra-Zeppelinesque--that it's tempting to name this as a number one or number two must-have. "Trampled Underfoot" and "Custard Pie" alone are almost worth the double-disc price tag. --Lorry Fleming
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 4 1/2 stars. Some filler, but even the filler is good... September 6, 2008
Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)
I think every one of the original Zeppelin albums (and the live ones as well) has reviewers calling it "the best Led Zeppelin" album. I'm gonna go with the nameless one any day, followed closely by "Live at the BBC" and "How the West was Won".
But this big, sprawling double album is really a must-have as well, as are the vast majority of Zeppelin's 70s albums. It's the "usual" blend, I suppose, of blues, folk, rock n' roll and a little bit of funk and soul, generally heavy on the electric blues, but with a couple of utterly charming acoustic numbers as well.
There is perhaps nothing here as monumental as "Stairway" or as long-lasting as "Black Dog" or "Whole Lotta Love", even though the majestic 8 -minute "Kashmir" features a riff that will allow you get to rid of any other song that has gotten stuck in your head. But the overall quality of the material is very, very high.
It's hard, in fact, to think of another rock or blues record with this many distinctive guitar riffs; the entire first disc is dripping with heavy blues and rock n' roll riffs and thumping drums. And while the second disc may be a little less consistent, opening with two minutes of hideous synth, it nevertheless features plenty of terrific blues-rock and some lovely acoustic forays. Titles like "Night Flight", "Boogie with Stu" and "Black Country Woman" may not be the most immediately recognizable, but they're among Zep's most infectious blooze-n-boogie-grinds.
"Physical Graffiti" is a monument, one of the most epic double studio albums of the 70s, right up there with "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs", and bested only, perhaps, by the Stones' unrivalled "Exile on Main Street".
BEST ZEPPELIN ALBUM August 7, 2008
Dawn R. Savage (CHICAGO, IL)
BEST ZEPPELIN ALBUM! THIS IS A SAMPLER PLATE OF EVERYTHING LED ZEPPELIN DID WELL; HARD ROCK, BLUES, ACOUSTIC, BALLADS. IF I COULD ONLY HAVE ONE ZEPPELIN ALBUM, THIS WOULD BE THE ONE! ROCK ON!
Epic! August 5, 2008
Denise Hamilton (Maine)
The quality of the individual song may not be up to Led Zeppelin 1,2, or 4, but the diversity, indulgence, and inspiration make it just as interesting, good, and ultimatly the most entertaining. The essential Led Zeppelin album.
Note. People one gave this or other Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix/Pink Floyd/Beatles etc, albums one star often listen to foreigner and mention it in their comments. What does this tell you? Foreigner, Genesis, and Yes stink and people who listen to them have no taste. If you want a better progressive group, go to pretty much any other band.
classic Led Zeppelin... July 25, 2008
MIDI Maven (Reno, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is essential Led Zeppelin. One of the most influential rock albums of all times, period. Long before Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel came onto world beat, Page and Plant were incorporating musical elements from north Africa and Asia -- which they experienced for the first time following Led Zeppelin's first tour of these locations.
This album saved my brain! July 1, 2008
Allan Ostermann (Portland (the one on the left))
This album will indelibly be associated with one of my worst acid trips ever way back in the late 80s. There was this block party in college, and I ended up sitting in a room for four hours, listening to this repeatedly, along with Back In Black by AC/DC. Luckily, my friend had a great record collection.
I remember Kashmir scared me, but, for some reason, In My Time of Dying, calmed me, and made me think that even if I met the Grim Reaper that day, it wouldn't be all that bad. Ten Years Gone is an epic among epics; of which this album basically consists.
So I want to thank Zeppelin for helping through a terrifying 12 or so hours. Right now I'm on a kick where I'm listening to the aforementioned Ten Years, along with Carouselambra from their final, In Through The Out Door, a truly underrated work. It's hard to believe in an age where a band makes one good MP3, just how many truly amazing songs and albums these fellas put out. It staggers the mind.
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