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Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin - Extended Play Lounge (Episode 13) (Patreon)

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2022-02-01 16:01:03
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2023-06

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Private Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/672823649/36901f792f

This was my first time listening to a Led Zeppelin album! Thanks to all who voted and making this video possible. Led Zeppelin is a band that elicits mixed feelings from me. Tune into the video to hear more.

By the way, the album cover is this color because I'm using the remixed/remastered version that has this coloration in the re-released album art.

I hope you enjoy! Remember to keep this link private. Cheers!

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Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin) - Extended Play Lounge - Episode 13

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Margaret Barnes

Dr. Doug, I think it’s possible that your education and rigorous training in music and in choral singing in particular have colored your perception of RP’s vocals. In your disciplines, specific notes must be hit in a certain way at a certain point, but I don’t think he took those classes. =D He just liked to sing, so he did! No one trained him on correct breathing techniques or anything, he just slid around from note to note and made a living at it. Some very good points have also been made here about their frequent touring, lots of partying, his health challenges, and how his vocals suffered. Have you heard any of his recent work with Allison Kraus? ❤️ Robert Plant, Jon Anderson, Geddy Lee - all screechy singers to some extent. Great music/package deal. I love them all, and if I’m honest, sometimes it gets to me, too. Don’t let this keep you from enjoying a truly exuberant record again. Sometimes it takes another listen or two. 😎

Adie

When I was a teen everyone was talking about LZ and I had only heard Whole Lotta Love from a couple of years before. So I went out and bought their latest album - this one. I hated it! I told my friend who said "why did you buy THAT one?!" So I took his advice and bought LZ IV. Ah!, then I got it. However, I always avoided HOTH in the future, even the tracks that I later heard on the iive album that came from HOTH, which I would play from the live LP, and not from HOTH. HOTH put me off Robert Plant's voice and vocal mannerisms, which took me a long time to come to terms with, and which I still find irritating from time to time. However, once I heard Since I've Been Loving You, I had to acknowledge what a great vocalist he was. Going on this journey through HOTH helps me with this album, as I can now listen to it from the vantage point of having loved the band for many years. It still has some uncomfortable moments for me, but there is a lot more worth listening to than I remember. One of the great things about the Daily Doug is that I can be persuaded to listen to music I would not have given attention to, and to reconsider music I rejected in the past. It's an enriching experience.

Anonymous

Just got round to seeing this now. I've been a long time fan of Zeppelin and personally love Percy Plant overall. However, I think I do get and almost agree with your assessment of him. The bits I love of his singing the most are those elements when he isn't "squeezing his lemon" ( really straining the higher registers ). When he gives his voice a little restraint - The Rain song and No Quarter are excellent examples - there is an additional warmth to his voice and it loses the shrill rough edges. Interestingly, his voice and delivery have very much improved with age. Some of the stuff he's delivered in the last 10 years or so is the best he's ever sung. All of this not withstanding, your view that JPJ is the unsung hero is spot on. He is a musical genius as an arranger and probably one of the top 10 bass players ever, In addition, Bonham - well, no more needs be said. Just the best 👌 Oh and Jimmy isn't bad either 😏 EDIT - one final thing, no idea why this album first either, would be four sticks or PG every day of the week for me, though Presence also stands up, just on the basis of Achilles last stand

Anonymous

Enjoyed the video! No Quarter really stuck out to me, I hadn't heard it before either and I've found it highly intriguing. On a technical note, when you turned up the volume on The Ocean I found it a little difficult to hear your commentary behind it. Minor complaint, I still greatly appreciate all of the time and effort you put into making content for us!

Rick Morse

From my perspective, Plant's voice (along with Geddy Lee and Jon Anderson) got better with age. They may have lost a few of the highest notes in their register, but their voices gained more depth and growl ... easier on the ears.

Bryan Sheehan

Back when I was in high school, there was a few different groups of people. Some thought Zeppelin was the best, some thought Sabbath was the best. Personally, i was into both. My best friend and I used to listen to a LOT of LZ, especially this album. Sadly, he passed away in 2007 at the young age of 37, so this album will always be very special to me. Thanks, Doug.

Andrew Mellor

HOTH was the first LZ album I heard when I was about 14, I really couldn't get on with RP's voice. I tried again with LZ II and followed that with PG. Eventually I got into LZ and I suppose got used to RP's vocal delivery. HOTH was the last album I bought by them whilst waiting for their last studio album ITTOD. The Rain Song and No Quarter are absolute classics though. Thanks Doug for your analysis. Much appreciated.

Anonymous

Really foreign to get these sorts of reactions to Robert, he's considered to be in the top 3 Rock vocalists of all time (#1 to many) and beats Freddy out (I hate Freddy). I'm a fan but I have seen them live and there isn't anything more captivating and raw then seeing Robert and the rest on stage! It's what we wanted after the softer sounds of the Beatles, LZ was the band that pushed them out of the top spot on the charts. BTW, the Beatles have been my favorite band since age 10 when they first appeared on Ed Sullivan, but these guys were more than right to hit the scene when they did!

Anonymous

Just in case this hasn't been made apparent yet, the old joke is: - My wife's gone to the Caribbean. - Jamaica? (d'yer make 'er?) - No, she went of her own accord. Which is why the lyric is saying "you don't have to go" etc.

Anonymous

Led Zeppelin is unquestionably my favorite band of all time, and has been since I was 13 (and I'm about the same age as Doug, if not a bit older). That said, I totally get that Robert Plant's vocal approach is an acquired taste. I think the characterization of his vocal approach as "lazy" is interesting, and there might be something to it, at least in this era. At the beginning of Zeppelin's career, Robert Plant possessed one of the most preternaturally powerful voices in the history of recorded music. Lots of male rock vocalists have been able to hit high notes, but Plant was able to hit those notes effortlessly and with incredible force. He knew he had that talent, but it was raw and untrained. Combine the arrogance of youth with the hedonistic lifestyle of the times and there was no way that voice was going to last forever. By the time Houses of the Holy was recorded, Zeppelin had been touring the globe pretty much nonstop for four years, and the strain of Plant's unrelenting vocals had begun to show. He began relying perhaps a bit too much on the slippery "wooh"s and "aww"s that you hear a lot on this record. By Physical Graffiti, the power of the voice had pretty much gone (though it was masked by the brilliance of Page's production and the fact that a number of songs on that album were leftovers from earlier album sessions). Concert recordings from '73 and '75 bear this out; live, he was relying on the power of the instrumentation behind him and his own stage presence. Probably the best thing that could happen to him as a performer was the hiatus he had to take in 1976 due to a car wreck that left him pretty much immobilized. It gave his vocal instrument time to repair (though it would never be the same as it was in his youth) and required him to revisit his approach to singing. His vocals on Presence (1976) and the subsequent tour in 1977 are among my favorites, though 1977 turned out to be a very dark year indeed for him, as his five-year-old son died suddenly. In the subsequent years, and especially after Zeppelin ended after the passing of John Bonham (Plant's best friend), Robert Plant turned away from the vocal histrionics altogether and has become, in my estimation, one of the most interesting singers and musical artists we have.

Anonymous
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And all that being said, it's a bummer that this album was your (re)introduction to Led Zeppelin. "The Rain Song" is gorgeous, "The Song Remains The Same" is a masterpiece, but the rest is, well, less brilliant than a lot of their other stuff. I would have recommended Led Zeppelin III or Presence. But then again, I've been listening to Zep devotedly for decades, so what I find interesting now may not be what is interesting to someone coming in fresh.

Paul Halicki

Robert Plant does so much sing as he tells a story and emotes with musical accompaniment. Maybe that's why he doesn't jive with your picture of what a singer is supposed to be.

Paul Halicki

I always took Robert Plant with Led Zeppelin; they just came together. And I really like the band. But seeing your aversion to Plant makes me think of my aversion to Mick Jagger. Really Mick is a terrible singer. But I realized he's a troubadour and probably the best front man in Rock and Roll. I take him as part of the whole package of the Rolling Stones.... by the way, have you done anything by the Stones?

Gerard Dion

Hello Doug. I enjoyed your review once again. As far as Robert Plant is concerned, he really made his reputation as a vocalist on the first three or four Led Zeppelin albums with some truly unearthly vocals. After that, I believe he had some throat/vocal chord issues that required him to have surgery which subsequently forced him to alter his vocal style. Also, I personally consider that Led Zeppelin is trying to show a more progressive side to their music on this album. I consider this a great album from a great band. Jimmy Page IMO is the greatest guitarist in rock! His writing skills and playing are like no other! Cheers!

Michael Smart

The worst thing about a Zeppelin song is usually Plant's vocals. He has some amazing performances, particularly Dazed and Confused.....but Houses of the Holy has some irritating ones, he did permanently lose his voice sometime on tour in 1972/73 so it makes sense. His oohs and ehhhs and urrghhhs can be very obnoxious, especially when I see their live performances. 'Wanton Song' musically is so damn good, but his vocal is so thin and directionless, not good. I love his performance on No Quarter though.