Plant was what? 21-22 when he wrote that lyric? The theme of this song is astounding - literally young British lads going to California and conquering all. It WAS hard, but Zep made it look easy.
Zeppelin is magical. They give you deep home blues with neck breaking rock, give you epics which make you feel like you are in the halls of Valhalla or on a windswept battlefield; and then they have these beautiful songs that feel like a rest by a brook in Medieval England with tones of Stonehenge and rejuvenation. This music is timeless. They often bring these flavors that feel ancient and true.
This is the first Zeppelin album i ever got.. i was so excited because of Stairway to Heaven.. turned out to be great even if it didnt have Stairway to Heaven.. few things in life have surpassed my expectations that much.. Going to California was one of the reasons.. Wait until you get to Ten Years Gone. Seriously just wait
@@dianerodriguez1650sadly quite a few of their really great songs weren’t played on the radio, or so very rarely. I think a lot of people only know Stairway & a few others, & never heard some of their other greats & even masterpieces.
Another one of my very favorite Led Zeppelin songs. Used to think these lyrics would be my saving grace... "Someone told me there's a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair Took my chances on a big jet plane Never let 'em tell ya that they're all the same...
"Trying to find a woman that's never been born" -- story of my life. Damn Robert and all those other rock'n roll singers that filled my adolescent mind with their utopian dreams!
This song was written by Joanie Mitchell Awe...... love love this song. And of course ZEP!!!!! I was fortunate to see them in concert .... one of the best funnest, happiest days in my life!
Always hold this up to anything else they've done. It's the most simplistic song they ever did And to me, though I love songs like "when the levee breaks, the lemon song etc. " this one playing early in the morning as the days sun starts peaking over the mountain range. The world just fits
For so many of us, those who grew up on Led Zeppelin and are now in our 60's and 70's, this band was such a huge part of our lives. There was nothing like them, and every new song was epic. Most of us probably didn't know how lucky we were to be teenagers experiencing what would become legendary, and we probably took for granted that we would always have Zep in our lives. Since then, I have had my favorite songs and bands throughout the years... music changes with the decades, and so do your favorites. But that was the secondary favorites category. Led Zeppelin has had a category all their own, the greatest band that no other band could ever come close to. For 55 years, if you asked me if I could only listen to ONE album for the rest of my life, it would still be Led Zeppelin. Any Zeppelin album. I swear to you Polo, every time you react to a Zeppelin song, and you say it's fire, or you say you like it, I instantly get emotional and my eyes fill with tears of joy. That's just me.... but sometimes I wonder if anyone else gets emotional too.
Agree. Going through their catalog, I can find no song to skip on any album. Truly legendary and will exist as long as Beethoven, Strauss, Mozart, etc.
@jaydellgregory1134 --- I like to think I truly grew up listening to Led Zeppelin. I being born in 1965 am the youngest of four kids. The eldest being six years and a few months older than me. Our parents were young, married less than a year after mom graduated high school she had my sister at 19 and me at 25 with two in between. Music and art were constant in our house, although not hippies, far from it, my dad smoked weed and drank and did some drugs throughout the years, mom, straight from all girl Catholic school didn't drink didn't smoke, swore like a sailor when no one else was around. Everyone had different musical tastes so we listened to a wide variety of styles and genres. We grew up about a mile from the beach in Los Angeles, and we had a second house in the local mountains about a two hour drive from our main house. One of the rules for the mountain house was no television. Not just can't watch it, there was no TV set. My dad set up his upper mid range stereo and turntable and brought his and my mom's albums and 45s and 78s and my siblings would bring their music and I was only seven or eight years old so I really didn't own any records but that got me into buying records. The rule was everyone gets one hour to play their music, whatever it is didn't matter and no heckling or bullying. If you didn't like something you could go outside and hike or whatever. So, I'm hearing all this different music and of course Led Zeppelin was always part of my sisters hour of music along with everything else popular in 1972. Back at our actual house at the beach, my sister would let me hang out in her room when she was gone and I could listen to her records. I would put on the headphones and get lost for hours listening to music. Zeppelin always my favorite. No matter what other bands I got into as time went forward, or whatever type of music, Zeppelin was my constant favorite band. 59 yrs old now and Zeppelin is still my favorite.
I'm exactly the same. Led Zeppelin makes my life so much better and I also feel the same emotion as you when a reaction to their music is so positive. They are and forever be the greatest.
Zep is my favorite band ever! When m oldest my daughter went out to live in California, she and I always played this song together and apart, it reminded us of each other!! Also, Bring it on home!! Another great Zeppelin tune! RIP John Bonham
Zeppelin is one of very few bands that I can put on any album and listen to the whole thing all the way thru without ever wanting to change the song! Robert Plant has one of my very favorite voices!!
Yes @paxonearth! I was going to recommend Ramble On...Polo would enjoy the melody and the soft ethereal start the switches back and forth with the classic LZ rock drive.
That's why kids back then had to work hustle and save between Zeppelin Sabbath Purple Stones Beatles Who Cream Skynyrd Hendrix Floyd etc every month another epic album came out
Polo ...great reaction. The Led Zeppelin rabbit hold has taken over . I would recommend watching this live and/or That's the Way live from Earls Court 1975 from the DVD. You get to see the band at home in England ..on their best behavior I might say and it's just remarkably eloquent. This band has no category which in any field is really the goal.
In southern Cali right now, been going there since I retired 8 years ago, allways loved this song frpm the day IV was released. My favourite single track is Fool in the Rain.
John Paul Jones is the Bass player and Keyboard guy for Led Zeppelin, but in this song, he's playing the "Mandolin." It just makes the difference in the song when played next to the acoustic guitar.
Love your Led Zeppelin reviews. Songs you haven’t listened to yet that are worth a review: Ramble On, Thank You, Misty Mountain Hop, Black Dog, Good Times Bad Times, Rock and Roll, Heartbreaker and I could go on….thanks Polo!
Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for playing this today. My son was home for the holiday and he grew up in the 70s listening to my Led Zeppelin albums. LZ is his favorite band ever, too.
OhMyGoodness & the answer for me is YESSS please YES continue doing MORE of **MyBelovedOtherWorldlyLedZeppelin** Thank YOU ever so! I am also on this **Thanksgiving** VERY **Thankful** for **YOU** & how you are **Helping** to keep **Magical Genius Music** ALIVE! **PixieHugz&Luvz**
Great Reaction Polo...you're my homeboy for real...i stay here for your Zeppelin reactions, they're genuine...you've managed to dodge an inconceivable amount of amazing Zeppelin tunes..."You Shook Me" is gonna blow your mind...much peace and love from Jersey City N.J.
Sometimes cosmic forces interact and we get something like LZ. Amazing musicians that complement each other and the whole is greater than the parts. Their progression from the blues rock of LZ1 to the brilliant subtleties of LZ IV is amazing.
This is my favorite LZ song, I know, strange to say, but you called out all the reasons. It begins like so many of their songs - as though it's another quiet slow start to a hard burn finish. Just beautiful musically. As I watched your video, the acoustics for some reason made me think of Neil Young. I would love to watch you react to two songs from Neil's 1971 BBC concert - first, Don't Let It Bring You Down and second, a song rarely played, A Main Needs A Maid. Both have emotionally wrenching acoustic guitar and lyrics. Poetry really, set to music. Thanks Polo.
Just before Covid lockdown in CA I saw a mandolin in the window of a pawn shop. This was the first song I thought of despite the fact that I'm a huge REM fan. Of course I bought it and I figured out how to play Steve Earle's Copperhead Road before I even got it home. Yes I can play Zep.
Anytime is a good time for a Led Zeppelin reaction 👍
The “Queen without a king who plays guitar and cries and sings” is talking about Joni Mitchell.
Yeah for sure!! Joni is my cousin!!❤
came here to say this, too. she inspired this entire song.
That’s what I always thought.
“Standing on the hill on my mountain of dreams, telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.” Genius.
Plant was what? 21-22 when he wrote that lyric? The theme of this song is astounding - literally young British lads going to California and conquering all. It WAS hard, but Zep made it look easy.
Beautiful tribute to Joni. The Double D drop tuning and mandoline is classic Joni.
Led Zeppelin's What is And What Should Never Be is FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
as you liked this side of Robert Plant, check out his work with Alison Krauss (an awesome bluegrass musician and singer in her own right).
“The Rain Song”
Live
The Battle of Evermore is another one of their great acoustic songs.
Nancy and Ann Wilson do a phenomenal cover of this song and Nancy's audacious Mandolin is as good as John Paul Jones rendition. Great vibe.Thank you.
Zeppelin is magical. They give you deep home blues with neck breaking rock, give you epics which make you feel like you are in the halls of Valhalla or on a windswept battlefield; and then they have these beautiful songs that feel like a rest by a brook in Medieval England with tones of Stonehenge and rejuvenation. This music is timeless. They often bring these flavors that feel ancient and true.
JPJ on mandolin, Jimmy on guitar.
Not true on the studio track. Jimmy did the mandolin on the album. JPJ plays the mandolin at live shows
Great reaction. Lighter, great tracks from Zeppelin include:
That's the Way
Tangerine
Rain Song
Thank You
Ten Years Gone
All My Love
The beauty of Zep is their variety... Each album displays a new and unique sound. Try out Over the Hills and Far Away.
If you want to hear LZ at their most beautiful, I recommend The Rain Song
I couldn’t hit play fast enough!!!! ❤❤❤ This is a treat! so unique and captures a vibe.
One of my favorite Zeppelin songs hands down, Tangerine close second!
The Ocean...❤
Love listening to LZ with you, one of my personal favs is "Ten Years Gone".
Same here.
Absolutely
OMG… just scratching the surface
Definitely a favourite of mine, just beautiful
This song is my Number 1 favorite with The Ocean very close on its heels…
Happy Thanksgiving. I think it's a mandolin. Brings back many mellow, dreamy nights past. Mystical lyrics.
Let just be thankful we still have music like this to listen too. We who grew up with this were truly blessed.
💯
Great and Happy Thanksgiving to you also. You'll remember this track, it's dessert for the heart.
This is the first Zeppelin album i ever got.. i was so excited because of Stairway to Heaven.. turned out to be great even if it didnt have Stairway to Heaven.. few things in life have surpassed my expectations that much.. Going to California was one of the reasons.. Wait until you get to Ten Years Gone. Seriously just wait
Ten Years Gone. What a song. They never play it radio stations or mention it in discussions. As you can tell I love this one too.
@@dianerodriguez1650sadly quite a few of their really great songs weren’t played on the radio, or so very rarely. I think a lot of people only know Stairway & a few others, & never heard some of their other greats & even masterpieces.
Supposedly in Feb led zep movie is coming to imax
This has always been one of my favorites from Led Zeppelin
“Someone told me there’s a girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair” That’s Joni Mitchel.
Another one of my very favorite Led Zeppelin songs. Used to think these lyrics would be my saving grace...
"Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair
Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let 'em tell ya that they're all the same...
"Trying to find a woman that's never been born" -- story of my life. Damn Robert and all those other rock'n roll singers that filled my adolescent mind with their utopian dreams!
This song was written by Joanie Mitchell
Awe...... love love this song. And of course ZEP!!!!!
I was fortunate to see them in concert .... one of the best funnest, happiest days in my life!
Always hold this up to anything else they've done. It's the most simplistic song they ever did
And to me, though I love songs like "when the levee breaks, the lemon song etc. " this one playing early in the morning as the days sun starts peaking over the mountain range. The world just fits
You do great work dude..
In case you haven’t heard That’s The Way yet then I recommend listening to it next it pairs really good with Going to California
The live at Earls Court (1975) is really nice to watch & hear, their acoustic songs at that concert are all beautiful.
I don't say this often, but I think the live version is even better.
For so many of us, those who grew up on Led Zeppelin and are now in our 60's and 70's, this band was such a huge part of our lives. There was nothing like them, and every new song was epic. Most of us probably didn't know how lucky we were to be teenagers experiencing what would become legendary, and we probably took for granted that we would always have Zep in our lives. Since then, I have had my favorite songs and bands throughout the years... music changes with the decades, and so do your favorites. But that was the secondary favorites category. Led Zeppelin has had a category all their own, the greatest band that no other band could ever come close to. For 55 years, if you asked me if I could only listen to ONE album for the rest of my life, it would still be Led Zeppelin. Any Zeppelin album. I swear to you Polo, every time you react to a Zeppelin song, and you say it's fire, or you say you like it, I instantly get emotional and my eyes fill with tears of joy. That's just me.... but sometimes I wonder if anyone else gets emotional too.
Agree. Going through their catalog, I can find no song to skip on any album. Truly legendary and will exist as long as Beethoven, Strauss, Mozart, etc.
@jaydellgregory1134 ---
I like to think I truly grew up listening to Led Zeppelin. I being born in 1965 am the youngest of four kids. The eldest being six years and a few months older than me. Our parents were young, married less than a year after mom graduated high school she had my sister at 19 and me at 25 with two in between.
Music and art were constant in our house, although not hippies, far from it, my dad smoked weed and drank and did some drugs throughout the years, mom, straight from all girl Catholic school didn't drink didn't smoke, swore like a sailor when no one else was around.
Everyone had different musical tastes so we listened to a wide variety of styles and genres. We grew up about a mile from the beach in Los Angeles, and we had a second house in the local mountains about a two hour drive from our main house. One of the rules for the mountain house was no television. Not just can't watch it, there was no TV set. My dad set up his upper mid range stereo and turntable and brought his and my mom's albums and 45s and 78s and my siblings would bring their music and I was only seven or eight years old so I really didn't own any records but that got me into buying records.
The rule was everyone gets one hour to play their music, whatever it is didn't matter and no heckling or bullying. If you didn't like something you could go outside and hike or whatever. So, I'm hearing all this different music and of course Led Zeppelin was always part of my sisters hour of music along with everything else popular in 1972.
Back at our actual house at the beach, my sister would let me hang out in her room when she was gone and I could listen to her records. I would put on the headphones and get lost for hours listening to music. Zeppelin always my favorite. No matter what other bands I got into as time went forward, or whatever type of music, Zeppelin was my constant favorite band.
59 yrs old now and Zeppelin is still my favorite.
I'm exactly the same. Led Zeppelin makes my life so much better and I also feel the same emotion as you when a reaction to their music is so positive. They are and forever be the greatest.
Zep is my favorite band ever! When m oldest my daughter went out to live in California, she and I always played this song together and apart, it reminded us of each other!! Also, Bring it on home!! Another great Zeppelin tune! RIP John Bonham
Zeppelin is one of very few bands that I can put on any album and listen to the whole thing all the way thru without ever wanting to change the song! Robert Plant has one of my very favorite voices!!
Hoping Tangerine will be in the rotation......I'll get ya another coffee✌️
There is live video of them performing this song that is excellent.
mandolin is the instrument that sounds so beautiful
I have no idea why this song was never played on the radio where I grew up. I didn't ever find it until TH-cam came into our lives. It's sublime.
Crushing on Joni.
I love this song - thanks for bringin̈g it, Polo,
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours -
If you want to hear another laid back Zeppelin song, you might enjoy Dancing Days. It's rarely played on the radio, and it is another gem.
Thanksgiving is a perfect day to learn this piece of art exists. Share it with your son, share it with everyone who has never heard it
So good to see you. One of my favorites. I grew up listening to this. Beautiful
One of my favorite Zeppelin songs ❤
Ramble On or Hey Hey What Can I Say. Studio versions.
Yes @paxonearth! I was going to recommend Ramble On...Polo would enjoy the melody and the soft ethereal start the switches back and forth with the classic LZ rock drive.
This and The Battle Of Evermore are a couple of favorites.
this song is perfect.
This was one of the first songs I learned on guitar. Hours of rewind and play on the cassette tape. My favorite Zep song
never been to cali, that is until I took this ride with Led. Thanks polo, happy turkeyday
I listened to this song in the car with my husband our way to Thanksgiving Dinner. I used to listen to this album all the time.
This has always been one of my favorite Zep tracks, i usually have to listen to it on repeat a few times because it just isn't long enough
That's why kids back then had to work hustle and save between Zeppelin Sabbath Purple Stones Beatles Who Cream Skynyrd Hendrix Floyd etc every month another epic album came out
JPJ is a genius.
That's the mandolin. Beautiful instrument.
❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤
I love when Zeppelin does layer back music.
Yay! Another LZ review!!
Beautiful Zep song. Polo, you'll love "All of My Love"
You’ve touched on my all time fave Zeppelin song!
Polo ...great reaction. The Led Zeppelin rabbit hold has taken over .
I would recommend watching this live and/or That's the Way live from Earls Court 1975 from the DVD.
You get to see the band at home in England ..on their best behavior I might say and it's just remarkably eloquent.
This band has no category which in any field is really the goal.
In southern Cali right now, been going there since I retired 8 years ago, allways loved this song frpm the day IV was released. My favourite single track is Fool in the Rain.
Guitat+mandolin. One of my favorite combinations.
Great song it makes chills I think in everyone
My favorite Zeppelin song!
Been waiting on this one! 🔥
Same!
John Paul Jones is the Bass player and Keyboard guy for Led Zeppelin, but in this song, he's playing the "Mandolin." It just makes the difference in the song when played next to the acoustic guitar.
Love your Led Zeppelin reviews. Songs you haven’t listened to yet that are worth a review: Ramble On, Thank You, Misty Mountain Hop, Black Dog, Good Times Bad Times, Rock and Roll, Heartbreaker and I could go on….thanks Polo!
Tea for one by Led Zeppelin
Great blues song ❤
If a group called GET THE LED OUT ever comes to your area, you have to go see them! They are note for note perfect doing Led Zeppelin!
If I recall correctly, the woman in the song is Joni Mitchell that they are singing about.
That is correct!
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See, my mind hasn’t turned ALL the way into mush🤣👍
The girl "with flowers in her hair" was referring to Joni Mitchell.
You might like some solo Plant.
Big Log, Ship of Fools, Im in the Mood(For a Melody).
A fave as a teenager in the 70's. I played it all last summer after essentially forgetting about it for decades.
This was a fantastic reaction.
Exactly what I did the first time I heard this song.
One of my favorites by LZ.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 . Great pick !
Welcome to the family if ZEP ! Great music!
Keep going with the music reactions
Listen to Thank You 😊
There is a fantastic live version of this which I tend to listen to. The three of them sitting down just doing their thing.
Absolutely, I was at that concert eighteen years old '1975 Earls Court London ' !...
Great track. Really great. Thanks for the reaction.
We are so thankful for you too Polo ❤ thanks for sharing your journey!
Shift gears... Peter Gabriel, Rhythm of the Heat, Wallflower, San Jacinto
Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for playing this today. My son was home for the holiday and he grew up in the 70s listening to my Led Zeppelin albums. LZ is his favorite band ever, too.
Sublime and genius 😊❤
Beautiful reaction. Have been really missing your music reactions. Hope to see more.♡
Hope you had a great day,Thanks for always checking out,older classic songs.
Yet another epic reaction, Polo! How about checking out Robert’s solo stuff-“In The Mood”, “Big Log”. Incredible tunes.
Both great
OhMyGoodness & the answer for me is YESSS please YES continue doing MORE of **MyBelovedOtherWorldlyLedZeppelin** Thank YOU ever so! I am also on this **Thanksgiving** VERY **Thankful** for **YOU** & how you are **Helping** to keep **Magical Genius Music** ALIVE! **PixieHugz&Luvz**
One of my favorites, happy thanksgiving to all
Great Reaction Polo...you're my homeboy for real...i stay here for your Zeppelin reactions, they're genuine...you've managed to dodge an inconceivable amount of amazing Zeppelin tunes..."You Shook Me" is gonna blow your mind...much peace and love from Jersey City N.J.
Sometimes cosmic forces interact and we get something like LZ. Amazing musicians that complement each other and the whole is greater than the parts. Their progression from the blues rock of LZ1 to the brilliant subtleties of LZ IV is amazing.
Indeed...
This is my favorite LZ song, I know, strange to say, but you called out all the reasons. It begins like so many of their songs - as though it's another quiet slow start to a hard burn finish. Just beautiful musically. As I watched your video, the acoustics for some reason made me think of Neil Young. I would love to watch you react to two songs from Neil's 1971 BBC concert - first, Don't Let It Bring You Down and second, a song rarely played, A Main Needs A Maid. Both have emotionally wrenching acoustic guitar and lyrics. Poetry really, set to music. Thanks Polo.
I instantly get excited seeing a reaction to one of the top tier LZ songs, and there’s really a lot of
If you like the "lighter" side of Zeppelin, then check out "The Rain Song"...one of my favorites!
I listened to this song on my way home from Thanksgiving dinner tonight and to see your reaction to it was awesome! Led Zeppelin NEVER lets me down! ❤
This is a nice ending to turkey day. If there are any songs off Led Zeppelin IV you haven't reacted to - you really should.
Just before Covid lockdown in CA I saw a mandolin in the window of a pawn shop. This was the first song I thought of despite the fact that I'm a huge REM fan. Of course I bought it and I figured out how to play Steve Earle's Copperhead Road before I even got it home. Yes I can play Zep.
Could that be a mandolin??? John Paul Jones can play so many different instruments. They're so awesome!
GREAT frickin song!
Thanks for more Led Zeppelin 😂❤❤ Happy Thanksgiving 😊
Love this tune! Thanks for the reaction on it Polo.
I'm not a huge fan of Led Zeppelin's harder stuff, but I love this song. It's probably my favorite.