{"id":2482,"date":"2009-12-29T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-29T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T10:44:15","slug":"ain-t-no-mountain-high-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ain-t-no-mountain-high-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think I can, I think I can…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You may recall a recent comment by E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong> regarding his belief that the music and packaging of Led Zeppelin<\/strong> promise way more than the band can deliver lyrically:<\/p>\n

…regarding Plant’s ramblings, one can always count on a “you don’t need to be a Dylan to make it work” defense. True, but the music behind the rambling is presented in such a majestic fashion that the listener is expecting some sort of wisdom, or at the very least something that makes some sort of sense period. All one ever gets is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.<\/p>\n

And that’s my real beef with Zeppelin. No one expects any insights from on high when electric piano keys are pounded on the “Louie, Louie” intro because nothing overly complicated is going on in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t a bad or untrue point, but the question this raised for me is, Has any band made anywhere near as majestic, bombastic music AND been able to support it with lyrics that aren’t pretty stupid?<\/em> I asked Plurbs to compare the lyrics of Led Zeppelin to those of Yes<\/strong>, Rush<\/strong>, Black Sabbath<\/strong>, and other bands working this territory. In comparison, Plant’s lyrics don’t sound half as bad, do they? But that’s not my question – what I really want to know is, what band making majestic, bombastic, mountain-scaling music delivers lyrics that come close to delivering on the promise of the music? Is Pink Floyd<\/strong> the best rock can offer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I can, I think I can… You may recall a recent comment by E. Pluribus Gergely regarding his belief that the music and packaging of Led Zeppelin promise way more than the band can deliver lyrically: …regarding Plant’s ramblings, one can always count on a “you don’t need to be a Dylan to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}