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Physical Graffiti (Music)
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Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 through the band's vanity imprint Swan Song Records.The band wrote and recorded eight new songs at Headley Grange. These eight songs stretched the total playing time of the record beyond a single LP's optimal length,note The eight songs from the 1974 sessions ran for some 54 minutes, which still would fit on a single LP if the grooves were spaced closer together, but this in turn requires reducing the average volume of the record and therefore reduces the signal to noise ratio (and thus the sound quality). Moreover, if a record has narrow enough grooves, a worn or damaged needle can even destroy the record. As a result, artists typically avoided including more than about 23 minutes per LP side if they could help it, although much longer single LPs have been produced. so they made this a double album by including one outtake from Led Zeppelin IIInote "Bron-Yr-Aur", and three each from Led Zeppelin IVnote "Down by the Seaside", "Night Flight", "Boogie with Stu" and Houses of the Holynote "The Rover", "Houses of the Holy", "Black Country Woman", including the unused title track. This resulted in an album that covered even more stylistic ground than their other albums.As a result, Physical Graffiti was a commercial and critical success (even garnering praise from Rolling Stone, of all places, which had disparaged most of the band's previous works). It has sold nearly ten million copies worldwide and continues to be one of the band's most critically acclaimed works for showcasing the band's mastery of a wide diversity of styles. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_38da8916 | type |
Uncommon Time | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_38da8916 | comment |
Uncommon Time: "Kashmir" has, in the main section, the drums playing straight 4/4 while the strings, guitar, and bass are in 3/4. There's also a bar of 9/8 before the bridge. Although "Sick Again" is mostly in 4/4, the band extended several measures by an extra beat where they felt it better suited the rhythm of the song. As a result, it has several measures of 5/4 as well. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_3bbf3fef | type |
Recurring Riff | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_3bbf3fef | comment |
Recurring Riff: "Sick Again" reuses some riffs from "In My Time of Dying", particularly towards the end of the song. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
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Groupie Brigade: Plant's pity for the underaged groupies that would flock to the band's hotel rooms is the subject of "Sick Again". | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_4b1ca7d2 | type |
Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Even by Zeppelin standards, this one is extremely diverse, covering Hard Rock ("Houses of the Holy", "The Wanton Song", "Sick Again"), Stevie Wonder-style funk-rock ("Trampled Under Foot"), blues-rock ("Custard Pie", "In My Time of Dying"), Progressive Rock ("Ten Years Gone", "In the Light"), Eastern-influenced symphonic rock ("Kashmir", "In the Light"), country-rock ("Down by the Seaside", "Black Country Woman", "Night Flight"), folk ("Bron-Yr-Aur"), soft rock ("Down by the Seaside", "Ten Years Gone"), and numerous other styles. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_4d422f71 | type |
Throw It In! | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_4d422f71 | comment |
At the end of "In My Time of Dying", Bonham can be heard coughing, so Plant sings the word "Cough" as a Throw It In!. Then Bonham says, "That's gotta be the one, hasn't it?" Another voice, likely engineer Andy Johns, says, "Come have a listen, then," and Bonham replies, "Oh yes, thank you." | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_516f986d | type |
Loving a Shadow | |
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Loving a Shadow: "Ten Years Gone" | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_6a3b15ee | type |
Premature Encapsulation | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_6a3b15ee | comment |
Premature Encapsulation: "Houses of the Holy" was meant to be the previous album's title track. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_6f2fe973 | type |
Epic Instrumental Opener | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_6f2fe973 | comment |
Epic Instrumental Opener: "In The Light" features a lengthy keyboard intro by John Paul Jones. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_74149c93 | type |
Epic Rocking | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: 4 of the 15 songs on this album go over 6 minutes. At more than eleven minutes long, "In My Time of Dying" is Led Zeppelin's longest officially released studio track ever. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Biographers of the band posited that "Sick Again" was at least partly based on Jimmy Page's widely documented relationship with Lori Mattix, an underage groupie. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_798a9e41 | type |
Auto Erotica | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_798a9e41 | comment |
Auto Erotica: "Trampled Under Foot" is a strange example because it's not necessarily about having sex in a car; it uses car parts as a barely veiled metaphor for sexual activity. This usage was no doubt inspired by similar imagery in Robert Johnson's song "Terraplane Blues", but Johnson's song was about infidelity, whereas Zeppelin's song is just about giving into sexual temptation. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: "Custard Pie" has a surprisingly subtle one (by this band's standards, at least). The "back door man" is a common trope in blues, where a woman's lover runs out the back door to avoid being caught by her boyfriend/husband. "Custard Pie" inverts this: The implication is that the singer is so good in bed she'll kick her man out of the house to be with him. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_8a24c94e | type |
Studio Chatter | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_8a24c94e | comment |
Studio Chatter: At the end of "In My Time of Dying", Bonham can be heard coughing, so Plant sings the word "Cough" as a Throw It In!. Then Bonham says, "That's gotta be the one, hasn't it?" Another voice, likely engineer Andy Johns, says, "Come have a listen, then," and Bonham replies, "Oh yes, thank you." "Black Country Woman", which was recorded in Mick Jagger's garden, opens with some studio chatter about the recording process and an airplane flying overhead: "Gotta get this airplane off." "Naw, leave it, yeah." | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_9603fba3 | type |
The Something Song | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_9603fba3 | comment |
The Something Song: "The Wanton Song". | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_d9f033b0 | type |
Love Nostalgia Song | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_d9f033b0 | comment |
Love Nostalgia Song: "Ten Years Gone", written for one of Plant's old girlfriends who'd given him a choice between her and his music career. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | type |
Intercourse with You | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: It's a Zeppelin album, so of course roughly half the songs are this. | |
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| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_e91cc721 | type |
In the Style of | |
| Physical Graffiti (Music) / int_e91cc721 | comment |
In the Style of/Musical Pastiche: "Trampled Under Foot" is in the style of Stevie Wonder (specifically, "Superstition"). | |
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