Physical Graffiti

Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album. Zeppelin treat many of the songs on Physical Graffiti as forays into individual styles, only occasionally synthesizing sounds, notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced "Kashmir." With John Paul Jones' galloping keyboard, "Trampled Underfoot" ranks as their funkiest metallic grind, while "Houses of the Holy" is as effervescent as pre-Beatles pop and "Down by the Seaside" is the closest they've come to country. Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute "In My Time of Dying," the tightly wound "Custard Pie," and the monstrous epic "The Rover" -- are subtly shaded, even if they're thunderously loud. Most of these heavy rockers are isolated on the first album, with the second half of …  » Read more

Tracks

Disc 1

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		Custard Pie	Page, Plant	4:14
		2		The Rover	Page, Plant	5:37
		3		In My Time of Dying	Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant	11:06
		4		Houses of the Holy	Page, Plant	4:02
		5		Trampled Under Foot	Jones, Page, Plant	5:36
		6		Kashmir	Bonham, Page, Plant	8:28

Disc 2

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		In the Light	Jones, Page, Plant	8:47
		2		Bron-Yr-Aur	Page	2:06
		3		Down by the Seaside	Page, Plant	5:16
		4		Ten Years Gone	Page, Plant	6:33
		5		Night Flight	Jones, Page, Plant	3:37
		6		The Wanton Song	Page, Plant	4:09
		7		Boogie With Stu	Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, Stewart	3:53
		8		Black Country Woman	Page, Plant	4:32
		9		Sick Again	Page, Plant	4:43

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