This is simply one of the untouchables, a pure classic that inspired so many guitarists and singers, it was banned from being played in a lot of guitar shops because everybody wanted to sound like Jimmy Page (but failed) Robert Plants vocal is hauntingly beautiful, John Paul Jones playing layers of recorders add to the haunting feel, John Bonham does not even pick up a stick until halfway through then just lays down the perfect beats, I was only a kid when I first heard Stairway but still listen to it over 40 years later
On one of those late night talk shows I think it was Plant who said it was all Hobbits, Sex and Vikings. And JPJ said you forgot about Vikings having sex with Hobbits.
Now listen to the cover of this song , Kennedy Center by Heart. Led Zeppelin is there watching them do the song. It will knock your socks off. Great reaction
And if you listen very hard, The truth will come to you at last. So listen carefully then you will understand the song. When reporters asked Jimmy Paige guitarist and Robert Plant on vocals what does the song mean. There answer was "what do you want it to mean"
Often touted to be among the greatest, if not THE greatest, rock and roll songs of all-time. I remember Led Zeppelin with their front man and lead vocalist, Robert Plant to be really bigtime all throughout the 1970's. They had the Midas touch. Everything they touched turned to gold. I personally rank this song and band 2nd to Lynard Skynnard and their tune:"Freebird" to be Numero Uno. But I'm just an ol' Southern boy, and biased, maybe. Just sayin. Thank you, Jesse, for this pick and for your sweet reaction. I think it is wicked, cool to witness your journey in broadening your musical horizons, and in the discovery of my generations music. I am a country boy, here ,in the States, having been born in 1966. Was a kid throughout the 1970's. I came of age in the 80's. Thank you for this little reminder of the sunny slopes of yesteryear and some good music from those simpler times. Funny how music acts kind of like a time machine for the mind. A tune can take me right back to a specific time and place when I first heard it, or in the days that it was in heavy rotation on the radio. You should check out the songs that originally aired in the MTV days, when they actually played artists music videos. 1980's music is the best. Ok. sorry to ramble. Big shoutout to you and yours from just an old rock and roller watchin ya and diggin it from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, U.S.A. . Go with God. Peace and love, y'all.
For a great cover of this classic, please check out Heart's rendition at the Kennedy Center played in front of the living members of LZ. It is incredible.
Great reaction! 😃 Robert plant states at the beginning of the song live! ( "The Song Remains the Same" ) "This is a song of hope". 🎶 "Stairway to Heaven" can have many meanings, depending on your perspective. My favorite line is "When all are one, and one is all", it flows with the spiritual concept of "Oneness" 🙏 Thank you! Peace! ☮
Those are Recorders (Multi-Tracked) playing with the acoustic guitar in the beginning. He's saving His Energy to Climb That Fucking Stairway He will have to Navigate at Song's End. Any Contemporary Hjman Being who hasn't experienced This Song at least Once in Her/His Life - hasn't REALLY Lived. Wonderful - as usual. 👍
Like all great art, the abstraction is what allows us to interpret the art as we choose to....there are no wrong answers. In concert, Robert used to introduce this song as: "a song of hope." I take that to mean, especially with the lyrics: "there's still time to change the road you're on," that no matter how you've lived your life, there is always hope to change it, if you seek the truth ("shines white light").
This means such a lot to me, (apart from it being epic) in this era I was lucky enough to live not that far away from Robert Plant and quite often we would catch him and John Paul Jones and/or John Bonham (RIP) in Rob’s local pub. Me and my mates used to play Table football with them, we had a great time but also got to hear some of the ‘in progress’ stuff they were working on; this was one of them also one of the few times that Jimmy Page was with them. It was all done on an acoustic guitar and bongos. We had no idea then how big it would become because it was quite a change of direction at the time, thank heavens they didn’t ditch it!
Back in the 1990s, ABC TV ran a comedy/talk show called "The Money or the Gun", hosted by Andrew Denton. At the end of each episode, there would be an artist(s) presenting their own idiosyncratic cover of "Stairway to Heaven". This song had been airplayed on radio so much over the preceding couple of decades that I guess it was being treated as something of a cliché to be lampooned.
They would play this at school dances when I was a kid... I can still smell the hair spray and cheap perfume the girls would wear and wondering who liked who. Did you have school dances in Australia??? Zeppelin is one of the best live bands ever, but it's good you listened to the studio track first🙂🙂🙂
😆 Thanks for sharing, I actually love hearing the most memorable song from everyone’s dances. The hair spray and cheap perfume 🤣 lol love it. Yes we do but I moved around A LOT as a kid so I missed all but one in the 6th grade and my farewell (what you’d call a prom) in the 10th grade. 🤷🏻♀️ studio won the poll
@@inbedwithmusic2130 What!!! We have to go to school until 12th grade or 18yrs old to graduate. And I know your an 80s gal... Lots of BonJovi, Poison, Motley Crue, Whitesnake and Billy Idol for some reason!!!
@@cleonmagabeefy8500 until recently you could leave school after the 10th grade or continue on to 12th. Going to college isn’t as big here as it is for you guys, a lot of students choose to go straight into the work force (like I did) or go to trade school. I believe now you can only leave school early if you have a trade apprenticeship lined up already.
It's true, the lyrics are ambiguous, however that means the listener can find a personal meaning because, like you said, 5 people might have 5 different interpretations. Sometimes the meaning you get is more a way it makes you feel rather than what the words say. Their music is definitely dynamic; full of different tones, time signatures and tempos. You can feel the movement as it builds to a crescendo. In my opinion, their music is for moods and emotions so there is no "bad" Zeppelin song, rather you haven't identified the mood/emotion a song fits.
I think that the lady has given up her materialism by the end of the song, and now shines with light as she shares her wealth with others - buying her way to heaven through good deed, not greed 😇 For another winding one from Led Zep - Ramble On For a band that fuses folk and rock like Led does here - Jethro Tull. Probably start with their big hits, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, and Songs From The Wood.
Ohh interesting thought. I do believe good deeds gets you there but good deeds from a good heart, not good deeds just because you think it gets you there. Thanks Patrick, I’ve put all four on my list.
If you type in RUclips Jimmy Page interview Stairway to Heaven BBC…you will get a treat…..Jimmy going through the song, speaking of what he had in mind with it…talking about watching Robert write the lyrics. It’s actually pretty touching…
Can you really imagine that this is the same band that played "whole lotta love" which shocked you a bit if you didn't know beforehand? I do not think so. It's like an actor who always dives into other roles and that's what makes good musicians. You should be able to bring out multiple emotions and Zep just does it. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
@@inbedwithmusic2130 well-a..... well-a..... well-a..... huh..... I can tell you this is the greatest cover version ever done of this song..... ruclips.net/video/LFxOaDeJmXk/видео.html performed live in front of Led Zeppelin themselves no less (well, less Bonzo, of course. RIP..... but keep your eye out for who is on drums.) star-studded crowd I betcha might recognize half the people there.
Cool reaction. Personally though, I wouldn't have had the lyrics on. I find when that occurs people are concentrating too much on reading the lyrics instead of listening to the music. Stairway is best listened to lying down in a dark room with your eyes closed haha.
You know what Lyndon, I agree with you. I wish I didn't have the lyrics on and was ONLY listening. I think I would have a far greater appreciation for it.
Ha, its something I've noticed when I've watched people looking at the screen reading the lyrics. I especially find it even moreso with rap/hip hop fans. I see them reading and missing various musical bits and bobs and I can tell they haven't even noticed them. Glad you have a different opinion now. ☺ 👍
@@lyndoncmp5751 I've noticed that as well. I think it's at least partly due to one's expectations. Experience shapes expectations. If one is used to listening to rap or hip hop -- genres in which lyrics take center stage and music plays a supporting role -- it's only natural to focus on lyrics when listening to something new. I'm not dissing anyone, nor is this a value judgment of any music. It's just the way humans seem to work. I experienced the same thing, just in the other direction: most of my listening is classical music and rock, so when I first listened to rap, I naturally focused on the music, not the lyrics. And of course I was completely baffled. It took me a little while to see that the problem was how I was listening. It's not always easy to know what our own expectations are. But often when we mentally step back and observe ourselves, we can see it clearly: "ah, I was focused on X, but in this new music X isn't the main thing. Y is." At that point it's often easy to drop our expectations and listen with fresh ears. I love how versatile we humans are like that. The trick is to keep reminding ourselves of Schopenhauer's great words: "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
About the lyrics: There's a saying that all that glitters is not gold. The meaning of this saying is that looks can be deceiving - something can appear to be very shiny or appealing and turn out to not really be good or valuable. The opening line of this song alludes to this saying when it says: "There's a lady who's sure that all that glitters is gold". So the songwriter is essentially saying that this woman is someone who is quick to judge things or persons positively based on a pleasant superficial appearance. Not only that, you can't persuade her that she is wrong about a person that she has judged superficially, for she is *SURE* that all that glitters is gold. Then the song goes on to talk about her buying a stairway to heaven. There is no real stairway to heaven. Such a thing even seems impossible and antithetical to reason. Think of it: a literal stairway to heaven? Later in the song reference is made to being called to reason and there is also mention of this stairway existing on the whispering wind - i.e. it's immaterial, nonexistent but perhaps being *whispered* to her by a deceiver. But she's buying it! Someone is conning this woman! There is obviously more details but that's about as much as I can decipher so far. This could potentially be a song about the masses (represented by the woman) being conned by religion (selling her the stairway to heaven). It's interesting to note that when you look at the demographics of subscribers to western religion, it is overwhelmingly female, and perhaps this could be why the writer chose to use a woman as a symbol for the masses being conned by religion into buying a stairway to heaven. Later in the song there is mention of some spiritual lessons like coming to know that all is one and one is all. This could be reference to finding spirituality without buying into the con of the stairway to heaven.
I understand why nobody knows what the song os about. Even if it's so clear what it's about. This is about Alchemy. The Path of the alchemist. If you understand a bit about Alchemy, or even if you know what Alchemy is, and listen to it from the perspective of Alchemy, everything will make sence. Even the dinamics of the music change according the Path of the Alchemist. Amazing song. It could be easily One of the great works of Alchemy of all time.
Very Nice Reaction, But highly suggest head set.. Music from this period was produced different. You are missing sooooooo much, Thank you and keep having fun.
I had a few too many to drink one night and tried to sing this on karaoke. I did ok until it was time to do the high notes. Of course, in the state I was in, I thought I could do it. haha Nope. I won't try that one again.
Sorry, I accidentally clicked the dislike. Ironically, I’m at the optometrist at this very moment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE that story. Please tell me it was caught on camera?
@@inbedwithmusic2130 Sorry, but thankfully it was not caught on camera. People didn't even want to look at me when I was done. They must have been embarrassed for me. I can sing The Doors, Danzig and Stone Temple Pilots well on karaoke but Zeppelin, not so much.
Hi there! New subscriber here. I just wanted to put in my two cents for what you said near the end about 5 different people can have 5 different opinions about a song. That's what makes it art. If something was created and we all had one unified opinion of it, that would be called science. There are two paths you can go by, remember? One needs the structure and the freeform in unison to be a whole person. As for my interpretation of the song, I have always taken it as a parallel to the Tower of Babel story in the Bible, in which the humans at the time conspired to build a tower to reach Heaven, which caused God to confuse/confound the languages of the people, thus (a) giving rise to why there are so many languages spoken today, and (b) causing work to be ceased on the Tower. "Because you know, sometimes words have two meanings." I think this song is about the human struggle for information. We all want to be at the height of our understandings (i.e., we want to buy a Stairway to Heaven), but we don't want to put in the work to get there. The glory and the beauty in life is in the journey, not the destination. In my experience, a lot of the destinations I wanted to get to, physically and metaphorically, were underwhelming compared to the joy and growth I felt in those journeys there. For those who may read this and are not believers in a God or do not wish to hear about God, I'm sorry, and I hope that this didn't come off as preachy, but more of a generally informative new look at a classic song. I hope all of you are well, or may get there soon!
Keep in mind that for much of the late 60's, you needed to be a certain level of under the influence to both write, and comprehend any lyric. The composition of this song is fantastic. Chill, with a bit of kick at the end. Perfect for a teenager high on anything from weed to PCP. Perfect for the time. In contrast to Free Bird, which had very meaningful lyrics that was also a reflection of the time. Lengthy, anthem-esque, and emblematic of the late 60's. It's why those two songs are often considered number one and two, in whichever order you prefer, of the greatest rock songs - certainly of the era - and for many, of all time.
Funny you say that, I was thinking that this song is one I imagine I’d have played at the end of the night whilst drunk with mates. It feels like a song that would sound great sung in unison (or close to it) 😆 Very true, both styles are very different and though neither are my favourites, I can see why they are the top 2 for that time.
11:27 “The music… feels like it’s part of the story.” True. In fact, the most important part of the story happens during the guitar solo: the lady dies. Listen for the “dies irae” (8:20). If you don’t know what that is, find out here: ruclips.net/video/-3-bVRYRnSM/видео.html. This totally changed my interpretation of this song.
The song is about a woman who is materialistic and always wants her way! All that glitters is in gold and she thinks she can buy her way to heaven that's what the lyrics mean
Wow. Nothing against you. You are a product of your generation. Great reaction. But its strange to me, at 63, to hear a young person today being awestruck about how the music itself played a part in the song. Instrumental moments "between the verses" were a given in any good rock song from the seventies, let alone the more progressive bands like LedZ, Floyd, and Yes. Its kind of sad that producers have all but reduced musicianship to frills and filler these days. Started with the commercialization of AM , then FM radio, then the incestuous relationship with the recording industry. And songs were only valued as a "product". As fast and as catchy as possible in the shortest possible time. Keep listening you'll be rewarded. IMO early seventies was the golden age of creative rock music.
I'm going to be a bit controversial here and say that this song is overrated. Before anyone lynches me, hear me out: It's a great A-Tier rock song. However I think it only gained cult level status because musical instrument stores banned musicians from using the song to test guitars. The music doesn't have the usual manic Led Zeppelin energy and the hook is weak. The lyrics and Robert Plant's vocals does elevate this unique song. In the hands of a lesser band, this song would have long been forgotten. I just think Ramble On, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love, and Immigrat Song are infinitely better S-Tier Led Zeppelin songs.
Hmm interesting thought. Perhaps you’re right. Personally I liked the mood of part of the song but I do very much prefer Whole Lotta Love. Two very different songs.
It gained its status because FM radio listeners kept requesting it to be played. It was never a single so consequently people kept asking for DJs to play it. It thus became the most requested song in rock history. Its status has nothing whatsoever to do with guitar shops banning it. That wasn't even a clichéd until the 1980s. Stairway was already legendary in the 1970s and it truly became Zeppelins anthem during the 1973 tour, where they broke all The Beatles concert attendance records.
I always stick around for awkward bye at the end, it's my favorite part!!!
😆👋 byyyyye
Pinned your comment because you know me so well 😆
This is simply one of the untouchables, a pure classic that inspired so many guitarists and singers, it was banned from being played in a lot of guitar shops because everybody wanted to sound like Jimmy Page (but failed) Robert Plants vocal is hauntingly beautiful, John Paul Jones playing layers of recorders add to the haunting feel, John Bonham does not even pick up a stick until halfway through then just lays down the perfect beats, I was only a kid when I first heard Stairway but still listen to it over 40 years later
There is a meme out there that says what Led Zeppelin songs are about. 50% Sex, 49% Hobbits, Wizards and Crazy Sh*t and 1% Citrus Fruits
On one of those late night talk shows I think it was Plant who said it was all Hobbits, Sex and Vikings.
And JPJ said you forgot about Vikings having sex with Hobbits.
This, is the greatest Rock n Roll song EVER!!!❤❤❤❤
You are so right about the music back then being intentional and not for profit. It’s still classic and meaningful
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A MUST HEAR Classic,, Player "Baby Come Back"...TRUST ME!!
Added to the list, thank you.
When you get the chance, listen to the song Thank You on Led Zeppelin II. Just Beautiful!!
That one is on my list ☺️
And the " BBC Sessions " live version is mindblowing , too !!!
Now listen to the cover of this song , Kennedy Center by Heart. Led Zeppelin is there watching them do the song. It will knock your socks off. Great reaction
Mind, Body and Soul... You are truly beautiful 💕
Decent choice when it comes to music too 😀
The preform in all types of genres! You just scratched the surface! You can’t buy you way to heaven! 😎
And if you listen very hard, The truth will come to you at last. So listen carefully then you will understand the song. When reporters asked Jimmy Paige guitarist and Robert Plant on vocals what does the song mean. There answer was "what do you want it to mean"
Often touted to be among the greatest, if not THE greatest, rock and roll songs of all-time. I remember Led Zeppelin with their front man and lead vocalist, Robert Plant to be really bigtime all throughout the 1970's. They had the Midas touch. Everything they touched turned to gold. I personally rank this song and band 2nd to Lynard Skynnard and their tune:"Freebird" to be Numero Uno. But I'm just an ol' Southern boy, and biased, maybe. Just sayin. Thank you, Jesse, for this pick and for your sweet reaction. I think it is wicked, cool to witness your journey in broadening your musical horizons, and in the discovery of my generations music. I am a country boy, here ,in the States, having been born in 1966. Was a kid throughout the 1970's. I came of age in the 80's. Thank you for this little reminder of the sunny slopes of yesteryear and some good music from those simpler times. Funny how music acts kind of like a time machine for the mind. A tune can take me right back to a specific time and place when I first heard it, or in the days that it was in heavy rotation on the radio. You should check out the songs that originally aired in the MTV days, when they actually played artists music videos. 1980's music is the best. Ok. sorry to ramble. Big shoutout to you and yours from just an old rock and roller watchin ya and diggin it from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, U.S.A. . Go with God. Peace and love, y'all.
This song is so peaceful. Led zeppelin created a masterpiece for sure !
They dod lots of great work. This was their masterpiece.
This woman is right down pretty people ........ a big WOW for her...
❤️❤️ thanks for watching.
For a great cover of this classic, please check out Heart's rendition at the Kennedy Center played in front of the living members of LZ. It is incredible.
Great reaction! 😃 Robert plant states at the beginning of the song live! ( "The Song Remains the Same" ) "This is a song of hope". 🎶 "Stairway to Heaven" can have many meanings, depending on your perspective. My favorite line is "When all are one, and one is all", it flows with the spiritual concept of "Oneness" 🙏 Thank you! Peace! ☮
This is more than THE antheme of the whole Rock History. It's THE revelation at all.
You have given them your soul and they'll never give it you back.
Those are Recorders (Multi-Tracked) playing with the acoustic guitar in the beginning.
He's saving His Energy to Climb That Fucking Stairway He will have to Navigate at Song's End.
Any Contemporary Hjman Being who hasn't experienced This Song at least Once in Her/His Life - hasn't REALLY Lived.
Wonderful - as usual. 👍
Like all great art, the abstraction is what allows us to interpret the art as we choose to....there are no wrong answers. In concert, Robert used to introduce this song as: "a song of hope." I take that to mean, especially with the lyrics: "there's still time to change the road you're on," that no matter how you've lived your life, there is always hope to change it, if you seek the truth ("shines white light").
Its not that easy thing to change your path but its very simple, in fact, i totally agree!!
This means such a lot to me, (apart from it being epic) in this era I was lucky enough to live not that far away from Robert Plant and quite often we would catch him and John Paul Jones and/or John Bonham (RIP) in Rob’s local pub. Me and my mates used to play Table football with them, we had a great time but also got to hear some of the ‘in progress’ stuff they were working on; this was one of them also one of the few times that Jimmy Page was with them. It was all done on an acoustic guitar and bongos. We had no idea then how big it would become because it was quite a change of direction at the time, thank heavens they didn’t ditch it!
Back in the 1990s, ABC TV ran a comedy/talk show called "The Money or the Gun", hosted by Andrew Denton. At the end of each episode, there would be an artist(s) presenting their own idiosyncratic cover of "Stairway to Heaven". This song had been airplayed on radio so much over the preceding couple of decades that I guess it was being treated as something of a cliché to be lampooned.
They would play this at school dances when I was a kid... I can still smell the hair spray and cheap perfume the girls would wear and wondering who liked who. Did you have school dances in Australia??? Zeppelin is one of the best live bands ever, but it's good you listened to the studio track first🙂🙂🙂
😆 Thanks for sharing, I actually love hearing the most memorable song from everyone’s dances.
The hair spray and cheap perfume 🤣 lol love it.
Yes we do but I moved around A LOT as a kid so I missed all but one in the 6th grade and my farewell (what you’d call a prom) in the 10th grade.
🤷🏻♀️ studio won the poll
@@inbedwithmusic2130 What!!! We have to go to school until 12th grade or 18yrs old to graduate. And I know your an 80s gal... Lots of BonJovi, Poison, Motley Crue, Whitesnake and Billy Idol for some reason!!!
@@cleonmagabeefy8500 until recently you could leave school after the 10th grade or continue on to 12th. Going to college isn’t as big here as it is for you guys, a lot of students choose to go straight into the work force (like I did) or go to trade school. I believe now you can only leave school early if you have a trade apprenticeship lined up already.
@@cleonmagabeefy8500 you know, I actually don’t know any Motley Crüe!
It's never too late to make the change ,, ,Amen
Nice react. But I cannot emphasize enough that you check out Led Zeppelin the rain song. It’s about the seasons of love and life and is beautiful.
Thanks Dan, that one is on my list ☺️
@@inbedwithmusic2130 I promise it will move you.
Many consider this the greatest rock song by the greatest band
Number one song of all time…period.
The next song to listen to is Kashmir, then When the Levee Breaks and then Ramble On. There are a ton more.
It's true, the lyrics are ambiguous, however that means the listener can find a personal meaning because, like you said, 5 people might have 5 different interpretations. Sometimes the meaning you get is more a way it makes you feel rather than what the words say. Their music is definitely dynamic; full of different tones, time signatures and tempos. You can feel the movement as it builds to a crescendo. In my opinion, their music is for moods and emotions so there is no "bad" Zeppelin song, rather you haven't identified the mood/emotion a song fits.
Well said, thank you for sharing.
LED's best song, excellent choice.
Thank you ☺️
Wonderful. This is a spirital journey
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GOATS! 😎 PERIOD!
Great pic and reaction!... You're Beautiful! ❤️
Need to check out the live version at Madison Square Garden
You have to see them live
Definitely!!
I think that the lady has given up her materialism by the end of the song, and now shines with light as she shares her wealth with others - buying her way to heaven through good deed, not greed 😇
For another winding one from Led Zep - Ramble On
For a band that fuses folk and rock like Led does here - Jethro Tull.
Probably start with their big hits, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, and Songs From The Wood.
Ohh interesting thought. I do believe good deeds gets you there but good deeds from a good heart, not good deeds just because you think it gets you there.
Thanks Patrick, I’ve put all four on my list.
For me its much more fun to watch them sing that song in concert.
You have to experiences them live! It’s a Mentone played through the keyboard!
Need to do the live version from 1973 MSG The Song Remains the Same
1:18 That is what I call "Robin Hood Rock". 😁
Amazing Jess.
Thank you 💗
Hi,Love your reactions
another sing you will love
scorpions - still loving you
If you type in RUclips Jimmy Page interview Stairway to Heaven BBC…you will get a treat…..Jimmy going through the song, speaking of what he had in mind with it…talking about watching Robert write the lyrics. It’s actually pretty touching…
3rd reaction of urs to LZ...I think I'm getting addicted. < correct spelling?! 😂
Can you really imagine that this is the same band that played "whole lotta love" which shocked you a bit if you didn't know beforehand? I do not think so. It's like an actor who always dives into other roles and that's what makes good musicians. You should be able to bring out multiple emotions and Zep just does it. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
Yes I never would have guessed they were the same band if I didn’t already know. You described that so well, thank you.
I can tell you what these lyrics mean to me............................ they mean a lot.
Tell me more, tell me more 🎶
@@inbedwithmusic2130 well-a..... well-a..... well-a..... huh.....
I can tell you this is the greatest cover version ever done of this song..... ruclips.net/video/LFxOaDeJmXk/видео.html
performed live in front of Led Zeppelin themselves no less (well, less Bonzo, of course. RIP..... but keep your eye out for who is on drums.)
star-studded crowd I betcha might recognize half the people there.
Cool reaction. Personally though, I wouldn't have had the lyrics on. I find when that occurs people are concentrating too much on reading the lyrics instead of listening to the music.
Stairway is best listened to lying down in a dark room with your eyes closed haha.
You know what Lyndon, I agree with you. I wish I didn't have the lyrics on and was ONLY listening. I think I would have a far greater appreciation for it.
Ha, its something I've noticed when I've watched people looking at the screen reading the lyrics. I especially find it even moreso with rap/hip hop fans. I see them reading and missing various musical bits and bobs and I can tell they haven't even noticed them.
Glad you have a different opinion now. ☺ 👍
@@lyndoncmp5751 I've noticed that as well. I think it's at least partly due to one's expectations. Experience shapes expectations. If one is used to listening to rap or hip hop -- genres in which lyrics take center stage and music plays a supporting role -- it's only natural to focus on lyrics when listening to something new. I'm not dissing anyone, nor is this a value judgment of any music. It's just the way humans seem to work. I experienced the same thing, just in the other direction: most of my listening is classical music and rock, so when I first listened to rap, I naturally focused on the music, not the lyrics. And of course I was completely baffled. It took me a little while to see that the problem was how I was listening. It's not always easy to know what our own expectations are. But often when we mentally step back and observe ourselves, we can see it clearly: "ah, I was focused on X, but in this new music X isn't the main thing. Y is." At that point it's often easy to drop our expectations and listen with fresh ears. I love how versatile we humans are like that. The trick is to keep reminding ourselves of Schopenhauer's great words: "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
A song that starts slow and finishes fast from 1971
Start with the 1st album for the best experience ❤
The only song I know of that is forbidden to play in a music store. Was great then and still is.
Haha is that true? I thought it was a myth.
Maybe I’ll enjoy the live version more.
Robert Plant himself said don't look for meaning in the lyrics.
About the lyrics:
There's a saying that all that glitters is not gold. The meaning of this saying is that looks can be deceiving - something can appear to be very shiny or appealing and turn out to not really be good or valuable. The opening line of this song alludes to this saying when it says:
"There's a lady who's sure that all that glitters is gold".
So the songwriter is essentially saying that this woman is someone who is quick to judge things or persons positively based on a pleasant superficial appearance. Not only that, you can't persuade her that she is wrong about a person that she has judged superficially, for she is *SURE* that all that glitters is gold.
Then the song goes on to talk about her buying a stairway to heaven. There is no real stairway to heaven. Such a thing even seems impossible and antithetical to reason. Think of it: a literal stairway to heaven? Later in the song reference is made to being called to reason and there is also mention of this stairway existing on the whispering wind - i.e. it's immaterial, nonexistent but perhaps being *whispered* to her by a deceiver. But she's buying it! Someone is conning this woman!
There is obviously more details but that's about as much as I can decipher so far. This could potentially be a song about the masses (represented by the woman) being conned by religion (selling her the stairway to heaven). It's interesting to note that when you look at the demographics of subscribers to western religion, it is overwhelmingly female, and perhaps this could be why the writer chose to use a woman as a symbol for the masses being conned by religion into buying a stairway to heaven.
Later in the song there is mention of some spiritual lessons like coming to know that all is one and one is all. This could be reference to finding spirituality without buying into the con of the stairway to heaven.
WOW man…..you’ve got it more figured out than Robert did!
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If you think you have goosebumps now listen to live 1973 MSG
I understand why nobody knows what the song os about. Even if it's so clear what it's about.
This is about Alchemy. The Path of the alchemist. If you understand a bit about Alchemy, or even if you know what Alchemy is, and listen to it from the perspective of Alchemy, everything will make sence. Even the dinamics of the music change according the Path of the Alchemist.
Amazing song. It could be easily One of the great works of Alchemy of all time.
Very Nice Reaction, But highly suggest head set.. Music from this period was produced different. You are missing sooooooo much, Thank you and keep having fun.
forgive me.. you are wearing them.. couldn't see them.. My Bad.
Yes I hide them behind my mop of hair ☺️
Thanks for watching Roger.
I had a few too many to drink one night and tried to sing this on karaoke. I did ok until it was time to do the high notes. Of course, in the state I was in, I thought I could do it. haha Nope. I won't try that one again.
Sorry, I accidentally clicked the dislike. Ironically, I’m at the optometrist at this very moment.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE that story. Please tell me it was caught on camera?
@@inbedwithmusic2130 Sorry, but thankfully it was not caught on camera. People didn't even want to look at me when I was done. They must have been embarrassed for me. I can sing The Doors, Danzig and Stone Temple Pilots well on karaoke but Zeppelin, not so much.
I was slightly disappointed you didn`t react to the drums coming in !
Oh, didn’t I? 🫣 sorry
you should watch the live performance
Fun 🤩🔥
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Hi there! New subscriber here. I just wanted to put in my two cents for what you said near the end about 5 different people can have 5 different opinions about a song. That's what makes it art. If something was created and we all had one unified opinion of it, that would be called science. There are two paths you can go by, remember? One needs the structure and the freeform in unison to be a whole person. As for my interpretation of the song, I have always taken it as a parallel to the Tower of Babel story in the Bible, in which the humans at the time conspired to build a tower to reach Heaven, which caused God to confuse/confound the languages of the people, thus (a) giving rise to why there are so many languages spoken today, and (b) causing work to be ceased on the Tower. "Because you know, sometimes words have two meanings." I think this song is about the human struggle for information. We all want to be at the height of our understandings (i.e., we want to buy a Stairway to Heaven), but we don't want to put in the work to get there. The glory and the beauty in life is in the journey, not the destination. In my experience, a lot of the destinations I wanted to get to, physically and metaphorically, were underwhelming compared to the joy and growth I felt in those journeys there. For those who may read this and are not believers in a God or do not wish to hear about God, I'm sorry, and I hope that this didn't come off as preachy, but more of a generally informative new look at a classic song. I hope all of you are well, or may get there soon!
You should listen to the song without stopping it, and yapping! Then at the end, give your comments!
Keep in mind that for much of the late 60's, you needed to be a certain level of under the influence to both write, and comprehend any lyric. The composition of this song is fantastic. Chill, with a bit of kick at the end. Perfect for a teenager high on anything from weed to PCP. Perfect for the time. In contrast to Free Bird, which had very meaningful lyrics that was also a reflection of the time. Lengthy, anthem-esque, and emblematic of the late 60's. It's why those two songs are often considered number one and two, in whichever order you prefer, of the greatest rock songs - certainly of the era - and for many, of all time.
Funny you say that, I was thinking that this song is one I imagine I’d have played at the end of the night whilst drunk with mates. It feels like a song that would sound great sung in unison (or close to it) 😆
Very true, both styles are very different and though neither are my favourites, I can see why they are the top 2 for that time.
Beautiful woman reviewing a beautiful song. What more do you need?
If you listen to stairway backwards it's a whole new song. Super creepy
There should be a RUclips video with lyrics
You are fun.
11:27 “The music… feels like it’s part of the story.” True. In fact, the most important part of the story happens during the guitar solo: the lady dies. Listen for the “dies irae” (8:20). If you don’t know what that is, find out here: ruclips.net/video/-3-bVRYRnSM/видео.html. This totally changed my interpretation of this song.
You should listen to Tenacious D Tribute.
I LOOOOVE that song!
Just saw your channel & stopped by…
I’m probably old enough to be your mum… well your older sister ? Lol
Rock on little mama!! ✌️❤️🇺🇸
😆 hello mum or older sister - I’m mid 30s if that helps. Thanks for saying hi ☺️
The song is about a woman who is materialistic and always wants her way! All that glitters is in gold and she thinks she can buy her way to heaven that's what the lyrics mean
You heard this 100 times before.
Nope.
Wow. Nothing against you. You are a product of your generation. Great reaction. But its strange to me, at 63, to hear a young person today being awestruck about how the music itself played a part in the song. Instrumental moments "between the verses" were a given in any good rock song from the seventies, let alone the more progressive bands like LedZ, Floyd, and Yes. Its kind of sad that producers have all but reduced musicianship to frills and filler these days. Started with the commercialization of AM , then FM radio, then the incestuous relationship with the recording industry. And songs were only valued as a "product". As fast and as catchy as possible in the shortest possible time.
Keep listening you'll be rewarded. IMO early seventies was the golden age of creative rock music.
You should really watch the live performances, pure sex
I'm going to be a bit controversial here and say that this song is overrated.
Before anyone lynches me, hear me out: It's a great A-Tier rock song. However I think it only gained cult level status because musical instrument stores banned musicians from using the song to test guitars. The music doesn't have the usual manic Led Zeppelin energy and the hook is weak. The lyrics and Robert Plant's vocals does elevate this unique song. In the hands of a lesser band, this song would have long been forgotten.
I just think Ramble On, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love, and Immigrat Song are infinitely better S-Tier Led Zeppelin songs.
Hmm interesting thought. Perhaps you’re right. Personally I liked the mood of part of the song but I do very much prefer Whole Lotta Love. Two very different songs.
@@inbedwithmusic2130 LOL, two VERY different songs!!!
It was banned BECAUSE it had such status. You have things rather back to front.
It gained its status because FM radio listeners kept requesting it to be played. It was never a single so consequently people kept asking for DJs to play it. It thus became the most requested song in rock history.
Its status has nothing whatsoever to do with guitar shops banning it. That wasn't even a clichéd until the 1980s.
Stairway was already legendary in the 1970s and it truly became Zeppelins anthem during the 1973 tour, where they broke all The Beatles concert attendance records.
Hummer, hummer, look at you - on the less objectifying side of things, I have never liked this song, I know it's good but just never done it for me.
She seems out of her depth with them. 🤔
Ok