{"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":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Led Zeppelin&#8217;s <em>Physical Graffiti<\/em> still perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10363 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-110x110.jpeg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Led-Zeppelin-Physical-Graffiti-180x180.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led Zeppelin<br \/>\n<i>Physical Graffiti<br \/>\n<\/i>(Atlantic Records)<br \/>\n5\/5<\/p>\n<p>The latest Led Zeppelin reissue tackles 1975\u2019s huge <i>Physical Graffiti<\/i>, a double album of absurdly good, acid-destroyed rock. All these years later, it still sounds perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\u201cKashmir\u201d has, you know, the best riff <i>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<p>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<p>But it doesn\u2019t really matter, because <i>Physical Graffiti<\/i> is untouchable as a rock album.<\/p>\n<p>Own it, listen to it often, respect it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10364,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions\/10364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}