I’m not sure if this belongs here or in General Questions, but anyway…
I’m trying to figure out the title of a particular Led Zep song. The difficulty is I can’t recall any of the lyrics, not even a single line, and don’t have any clue which album it might have been on. It’s got a very distinctive guitar riff that sounds like there’s a beat missing - if you asked someone to hum it, chances are they’d insert an extra note that’s not really there.
I know that’s not much to go on, but I figure you guys are good at stuff like this.
“The Ocean” also is in non-standard time…hmmm how to identify it - well, there’s a middle section where everything more or less stops and Robert Plant sings “Ah nah, na na na na …” and then does it again with harmonies behind him a few times, then the song kicks in again hard…
Not a lot of info there to go on. I eat drink and sleep Led Zeppelin, so I’m sure I could answer it. My first guess is Kashmir. Very distinctive riff, kind of a “different” rhythm.
I’m putting my money on “The Ocean,” since “Black Dog” has a pretty memorable opening line and, to be honest, I can’t remember the first words of “The Ocean,” either. But it is missing a beat (4/4 to 7/8, or 15/8) and certainly has a distinctive opening riff.
Small Hijack: Does anyone know of LedZep songs being remixed? I am not talking about total molestation of a song. Just a increasing the bass, making the drums crisper, etc, etc.
Thanks to everyone that replied. I guess I could have saved some time by telling you the songs I knew it was not (Black Dog, for instance), but knew that somebody out there would know exactly what I was talking about. Thanks again.
Damnit! I would have bet money on Kashmir too. That’s actually what I love about the song–no matter how many times I hear it, I always catch myself inserting another note that isn’t there. Gets me every time.
Driving from Freer back to Houston after logging a well, I decided to take a half day off and stop at the beach in Corpus. It was a difficult decision since there were things to get back to but I’d been up for 2 or 3 days straight and was exhausted. I fretted the whole hour or two drive there about whether or not I should have gone, all the way until I pulled up on the beach right at sunrise. The beach was deserted, just me and the birds and the surf. I noticed I’d turned off the radio 10 minutes back at the store and reached over to turn it on again. There was no commercial, no missed first half, nothing but the exact start of
The Ocean. *
“We’ve done four already But now we’re steady And then they went One, two, three, four…”*
