{"id":10362,"date":"2015-03-04T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:36:54","slug":"new-music-revue-led-zeppelins-physical-graffiti-still-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/03\/04\/new-music-revue-led-zeppelins-physical-graffiti-still-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti<\/em> still perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Led Zeppelin
\nPhysical Graffiti
\n<\/i>(Atlantic Records)
\n5\/5<\/p>\n

The latest Led Zeppelin reissue tackles 1975\u2019s huge Physical Graffiti<\/i>, a double album of absurdly good, acid-destroyed rock. All these years later, it still sounds perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cCustard Pie\u201d is one of the best album openers ever, and \u201cIn My Time Of Dying\u201d is an 11-minute funeral dirge\u2026 placed as track three. This is serious stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cKashmir\u201d has, you know, the best riff ever<\/i>, and \u201cIn the Light\u201d is a moody \u201970s rocker without peer (the riff at 4:27 lifts, reinvigorates, forever). But then there\u2019s the forgotten songs: \u201cDown By the Seaside\u201d totally kills it, \u201cThe Rover\u201d nails proto-metal riffing to the wall, and \u201cNight Flight\u201d is one of the band\u2019s unsung greats, the song in a fun class all its own.<\/p>\n

Like all these reissues, the remastering is not a deal-breaker and the bonus material (here alternate\/rough takes of album cuts) is forgettable (except for the very disorienting early version of \u201cIn the Light\u201d).<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t really matter, because Physical Graffiti<\/i> is untouchable as a rock album.<\/p>\n

Own it, listen to it often, respect it.<\/p>\n

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Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (Atlantic Records) 5\/5 The latest Led Zeppelin reissue tackles 1975\u2019s huge Physical Graffiti, a double album of absurdly good, acid-destroyed rock. All these years later, it still sounds perfect. \u201cCustard Pie\u201d is one of the best album openers ever, and \u201cIn My Time Of Dying\u201d is an 11-minute funeral dirge\u2026 placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-4-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t