I have to go with Led Zeppelin IV. Besides the obligatory "Cuz Stairway" it also has Black Dog amongst other great songs. That song has a special memory for me as I remember it being played during swim practices for the Junior/Senior High School team I was part of. Something about swimming while that album being played at loud volumes while you're in the water. The unwritten rule was that whomever was the closest to the edge of the pool as Stairway came to an end had to jump out and flip the album. Good times.
It’s fun to play, if you’re brave enough to tune it to the album version tuning (live he tuned it in such a way that he only had to re-tune a few strings for the next song, instead of the entire guitar, but it sounds different.)
I saw them live in 1969, when they were the opening act for Vanilla Fudge. I was in the third row, centre, right in front of the stage. My greatest rock and roll moment ever, just feet away from the band. They were fantastic. Their set was the entire first album, plus at the end for the encore Robert said "Here's a song from our next album" and they played "Whole Lotta Love".
Zeppelin 1 and 2 is the greatest one two punch in the history of rock and roll. The diversity between those two albums was staggering. Just a totally different sound but complete virtuosity and power. Of course they kept putting out phenomenal music and became the most popular rock band in history. They influenced everyone and yet no one was able to come close to replication of their magic. And please don't tell me about greta van fleet or whatever ....lmao. There's only one Zeppelin.
It’s Physical Graffiti for me. Ten Years Gone is such a superb song…it’s so deep and emotional, and one of those songs that really hits me hard every time I hear it (as The Rain Song from Houses of the Holy does). So many superb tracks on PG…Night Flight, Custard Pie, The Rover, Down by the Seaside, etc. Zep at it’s absolute best, imo.
My favorite album as well. One because it's just sooo good with all the different musical approaches and arrangements song to song, and two I lost my virginity to Down by the Seaside.
I recently saw Robert Plant perform with Alison Krauss and just hearing him sing live in front of me was surreal enough. Then they performed 3 zeppelin tracks as well. I could have died happy right then and there!
In 2002 I saw him open for The Who. I went to see Robert Plant more than I did The Who. And I felt the same way you did. And yes, I think he did 3-4 zeppelin songs. Going to California sticks in my head. I was thinking the exact same thing. I could die happy.
Plant/Krauss! Awesome . I saw the first tour with TBone Butnett. The magic of that show is indescribable. I've seen Robert solo 9 times dating back to 1989. 3 times in 2020. 3 Page/Plant shows. Robert is still a force to be reckoned and performing some of the best music around with a genius band. Rock on fellow Plant fans!
One thing I love about Zeppelin is their diversity. Houses of the Holy Became my favorite album for quite awhile and all these years later I still love it. Thanks for the interesting backstory.
I remember in an interview a long time ago Page mentioned he always wanted to constantly do something different. Their creativity was off the charts. One of my all time favorite songs of theirs is Fool in the Rain, which is so different from anything they've done prior.
The first CD I ever bought was "Physical Graffiti" at a car boot sale. I didn't have a CD player at the time and I already had the vinyl album - the one with the actual windows in the sleeve.
it's the last Zeppelin LP that I was familiar with. it has a bright musicality about it. a friend of mine whose a LZ fanatic, can bring me up to date on subsequent LP's, if I wish. I think it's the first record where they didn't do a blues song. they were a great blues band.
Note: Zep's song The Crunge from this same album Houses Of The Holy was a tribute to James Brown's unique music. All in all Zep did many songs honoring specific countries or genres like D'yer Maker (tribute to Jamaican Reggae), Fool In The Rain (tribute to Mexican Mariachi music), When The Levee Breaks (tribute to Blues), Going To California (tribute to American Folk music), Kashmir (tribute to music from India), The Rain Song (tribute to ballads and classical music).
There is no greatest, they're all great. My brother who hung out with Led downtown Chicago, always told me , "Zeppelin never made a bad song". I believe my brother, I don't like every song Led ever made, but I've never heard a bad one. I've been listening to Led since the early 80s and if I had to pick 1 favorite it would be Black Dog, but I love almost everything they did
Great post. I first bought HOTH in 81'. I am of the Die-r Maker pronunciation. I stand corrected. Can't believe it took 41 years to find that out. Thanks for your excellent ongoing work!
i used to play Guitar in a 70's Rock covers band and we used to play " Dyer Maker " at every gig , nobody in the crowd ever expected it , we had two female singers ..and it always went down well ,it was fun to play which is why we never dropped the song from our set list.
The lyric sleeve for the album has the question, "Whatever happened to Rosie and the Originals?" beneath the words for D'yer Mak'er. If you listen to Rosie and the Originals' big hit, "Angel Baby" with its use of piano as the main instrument, you'll quickly hear it's the same chord progression as D'yer Mak'er. It's a pretty short jump to realizing the band was probably hamming it up in rehearsals/warm-up by doing a reggae (i.e., Jamaican) spin on "Angel Baby". Since Zeppelin was known to play older covers like "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by the Platters in their live sets from time to time, this would be right in character. Add to that the precedent set by "Rock 'n Roll", which pretty obviously started its life in rehearsal/jam-time as a flattened-out cover of Little Richard's "Keep On Knocking" - right down to its signature drum fill intro - and one need not read too much into whence and what "D'yer Mak'er" was and is. And then there's the Neil Sedaka vocal hook in the verse, which was probably less conscious than the song's fairly self-consciously being a reggae take on Rosie's number. Sure; the foregoing is all my conjecture but it's better-founded than most of the things that have been said about this record!
Zeppelin is well known for ripping of other peoples music and pretending it was their own (muddy waters primarily). Then they would sue multie other acts they thought were copying their music that they copied from others
@@derekbuck2369 duh "Whole Lotta Love" is "Smoke on the Water" with, like, a few extra notes and stuff And Bonzo stole his ZoSo symbol from Ballantine beer. And Charles Manson protege Bobby Beausoleils "Lucifer Rising" soundtrack rules lol cuz Chuckie was the devil doing the devil's business lol page just a loser using guitar string gauges others used before him and way better lol
You can't discuss D'yer Mak'er without mentioning Plant's final vocal note, the "Oooooooh, yeah!" is a flat-7 note sung against a progression that, in the accompaniment, only ever uses the natural-7 note of the key. It's a blues/mixolydian note, in a non-blues/ionian song! For anyone with pitch sensitivity it's desperately, boldly, fiercely wrong-sounding. And then, if that weren't enough, as he sustains the "oooh" note, he allows the pitch to droop a few cents below even the flat-7 (itself already a halfstep low of the "correct" note), before recovering and melismatically resolving with the "yeah!" It's a classic, oh-so-raw Robert Plant move.
I absolutely love that part of the song,& always love when I am singing it at the top of my lungs,and am able to sing the whole oooh, and the yeah!! Lol. Love the song and whole album is phenomenal!!💯
The Ocean is probably the best tune on Houses Of The Holy. I love the syncopation and the way Bonzo plays along with Paige until it changes course at about 3 minutes in and turns into a boogie woogie with a great walking bass. I grew up on Led Zeppelin in the sixties and seventies. They're definitely unique.
It's possibly one of the most satisfying album closers ever. With the flourish at the end, one can imagine a circle of friends popping a bottle of champagne and making a toast.
As a teen, I was just getting into Zeppelin with my dad, as I had just started playing guitar. He gave me the "Houses" album to borrow. I brought it back, he asked me what I thought, and I said I loved everything on it, except for that "No Quarter" song, I thought that was really boring. A few years later, I had matured enough as a musician to appreciate it. "No Quarter" didn't take long after that to become one of my absolute favorite Zeppelin songs (Zeppelin is my favorite band ever, with basically no competition). In fact, I might say that the chorus riff is my favorite Zeppelin riff. (With plenty of competition, in that case!). I know this video is about D'yer Mak'er, but this is my connection to the album. D'yer Mak'er itself has some really weird nostalgia for me. I love it, but it belongs to one of my earliest childhood memories, when my parents were divorced for the first time and I was still trying to make sense of the concept. Dad was playing the song, and I guess I was trying to connect the words with the divorce, empathizing with him or her or both. Maybe a weird thing for a 4-year-old to be doing, but that's where my head was at, and that's where it always goes when I hear this song. Thanks for the video, have you done "No Quarter" yet?!
What Led Zeppelin does from one album to the next is so varied. It provides for some very diverse musical explorations, which are so good. Led Zeppelin are a really great supergroup. May John Bonham and Peter Grant rest in peace. Cheers! ✌️
In Through the Outdoor was the perfect swansong for such a legendary band. They didn't go out with a bang , they faded out like the end of some popular songs. Their career just seemed like it was complete. They covered so many different types of music, with equal talent and conviction. Not even the Beatles were capable of creating Powerful songs from so many different cultures and styles
@@godetonter4764 Can't agree! A pity that they went out with such a whimper. 'In Through The Out Door' was by far their weakest work & much more brilliant stuff would have followed!! Right to stop with Bonzo gone though! ps. not remotely as diverse stylistically as the Beatles!!
@@petermills542 In Through the Outdoor was brilliant. In the Evening, and All My Love were 2 of Led Zeppelin's best songs. It's my second favorite, or third considering that Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are a tie for my favorite albums. The only thing wrong with In Through the Outdoor was Hot Dog 🐶. It's not only Led Zeppelin's weakest track, but it's among the worst songs ever recorded in the history of music
I love "Houses of the Holy" and I got blasted in college for liking "Dyer Maker"...but I wasn't a die hard Zepp fan and I was just discovering Led Zepp for myself at that time. Everyone was loving Metallica and I went to Led Zeppelin. That's just me. I loved that whole album.
HoH is my favourite collection of songs on a LZ album. The live versions of those songs are so much better than the studio recordings, though. Fiddling with tape speed on Robert's voice wasn't a good move, IMO.
Meh, when really hard and fast metal came along it became a pissing contest about personal ego even if the music was shit. From a music appreciation master class viewpoint HOH is a hard left turn of emotions to the stark yet thunderous beauty of a Tolkienesque venture in the 4th album. Battle of Evermore doesn’t fit with Misty Mountain Hop and those songs sure don’t fit the feel or psychedelia of The Rain Song or No Quarter
Mid-80's Robert Plant rolling stone interview he mentioned liking the new u.s. bands coming out of SF..which was Testament.. Exodus..Metallica at the time..was amazed the old man knew about SF thrash scene.. guess he was all of 36.
The variation between all of the Zeppelin albums is part of their genius. I love that every single album has it's own flavor. Also, D'yer Mak'er is one of my top 5 favorite Zep songs. Pop rock or not, I love it.
Yes timeless is the correct word. My wife was never really into the band until I shared them with her. "never boring" she said. I saw Zep in Long Beach Calif. March 12 1975. I was 17 (WOW). There is some good bootleg of that show on you tube. Won't ever be a another band like this.( lightning in a bottle) 4 really gifted musicians.. There was never a bad song on any album. God Bless Bonzo JEFF
I think the HOTH album was LZ's most diverse and "complicated" album. I loved each song for different reasons. Each song has it's own personality! This album just displays the various sides of LZ.
Great video. I think "D'Yer Maker/Jamaica" is one of the best songs they ever recorded. The drums and the guitar and bass and the syncopated rhythm is fantastic.
When i heard the song i was hooked - ( had to find out more of the group - i was 11 years old and memoized!!)..... the bass/drums and that guitar just was so revolution to my ears.
There's no slash. The first term is the song title, and the second is the name of a country. It's Welsh and isn't pronounced "Jamaica". It's pronounced "Jur Maker".
I personally loved Houses of the Holy. It’s when a band goes away from their strength that you learn who they really are, and you’re then able to see where their strengths & successes came from.
Physical Graffiti, as I've aged, but as a kid my favourite was always the 4th album. My brother and I used to steal it out of one another's bedrooms back in the early 1970's, and we managed have dozens of fights while retrieving it, without damaging the cover or scratching the vinyl. It came to mean a lot to us both, and when he passed unexpectedly in 2002, I had the 4 symbols tattooed on my right shoulder along with his name and the date. The 4th album was one of the few things we agreed on as kids.
Zeppelin was the first band I remember my dad as liking growing up as I went through his albums. Crosby stills and Nash, the animals, cream, Bo diddley, John Lee hooker, the doors etc. So I got into them and I pronounced its "dyer maker", but never questioned why. Glad to know the real name and reasoning behind it!
I actually bought this album when it came out in '73. I still remember exactly where I was and who I was with when I sliced through the plastic cover and carefully placed the vinyl on the turntable. We almost laughed at D'yer Maker it was so different and unexpected. You sure had to listen several times to the album to get what the band was doing.
Every road trip I take starts out with a full play through of HOTH. Though the album lacks a thematic seam that brings all the songs together, it has the perfect flow for embarking on an adventure. It also has the potential for a vaudeville moment when you are looking for the bridge. Fans of the album will know what that means.
@@michaelmcdonald8452 I was really making the point as a comparison to other contemporary albums like Dark Side Of The Moon. Those albums were produced with the intent that one would listen to it linearly from beginning to end, whereas HOTH was not, but works very well when setting out for a long drive.
I love HOTH - easily in my top 3 Zep albums along with LZ III and Physical Graffiti. What makes these albums particularly great is the wide diversity of each song. Just go through the tracks on HOTH. Not only is each and every track so unique to the next, but even Plant's vocals go in so many directions throughout. This album is such a creative and interesting piece of work and is way too underrated (just like LZIII).
Friend introduced it to me as "dire maker" but I was quickly exposed to alternate pronunciations by various DJs. LOVE "Houses of the Holy". Criminally underrated album from them.
The 6.5X14 Ludwig Supraphonic is one of my favorite snare drum sounds of all time. I bought one in 1985, a 1974 model and I still own it. Ludwig still makes it today.
Houses of the holy was the 1st album I was introduced to by led zepplin. I was taken into the music. I was so enthralled by this album.What a fantastic album! As I got older I had bought every album by them. There is NOT one song on any album that's 2nd rate.
I bought the cassette when I was a teenager in the mid 80's. Nothing compares to Led Zeppelin musically. I still rank them as #1 and greatest of all time, ever.
Yep!!! I watched the Elvis movie last night! When it was over i said to myself #1 rockstar of all time. Page/Plant Zep in general #2! Fill out the rest yourself.
Never saw Zeppelin, had deposits on the L.A. forum stop of the "in through the out door" tour. Several years later i became friends with Phil Carson and his son Jack and was invited to go see Page and Plant in San Diego. It was a great night of Led Zeppelin greatest hits. They even preformed "Hey Hey what can I do" met them both back stage. Great night.
Adam, great video. I noticed when you were naming the highlights of this album, you didn't mention No Quarter. That's easily one of their best songs and no surprise it was a staple in their live sets. In fact, often the highlight of their concerts. Keep the Zep videos coming!
I really resonated with the idea that it’s a multiple listen album. I initially really disliked it when I first heard it but after hearing the songs more and more, I think I like it more every time to the point that I now absolutely love it (although it’s still not in my top 3 Zep albums)
Agreed. As a kid of the 70s, I came to LZ sort of late...I really started listening to all of their work as a freshman in college in 1980. Before that, of course I knew about Stairway, Whole Lotta Love, and the other major songs, but I hadn't gone deep into the catalog. In the summer of 81, I got a summer job on Maui and I stayed in Kihei with my older cousin and her husband. They had a copy of the album and when I listened to it for the first time, I didn't really like it. I just sounded strange. The only song I dug from the first time I heard it was 'No Quarter.' Over the years I've come to really appreciate and love most of the songs on the album. I still think 'The Crunge' is sort of a crappy song, but I still like "Have you seen the bridge? I ain't seen the bridge...Where's that confounded bridge?" LOL
I spent the summer of 1979 listening to this album. Anytime I hear it, it suddenly becomes summer even in the dead of winter. Everyone used to pronounce the song DIER-MAKER 🤔
@@JamesBrown-fd1nv all Zeppelin songs are better live. it's just hard to imagine this one really rocking the house and it would seem they felt the same
I love how this Professor of Rock pays respect to Casey Kasem but puts a spin of his own on it . Always loved Casey and his show , Professor nails the vibe .
I grew up listening to all their albums on vinyl,and I love all their albums,but Houses of the Holy is top fav,for the total break from the first four!💖💖💖
As someone who was born in '72, Zeppelin was is and will ALWAYS be one of my mainstay must listens, well after their heyday. So this one was a great story to live.... Back in summer 1991, me and 4 friends went to see a cover band, a Zep cover band called No Quarter. We planned on going early and doing dinner at the diner next door. In a sparsely filled diner, we were talking about what we hoped for the band to play that nite. During that conversation, in walks about 6 people and they're seated right behind us. One of my calls for a song was D'yer Maker, as it was absolutely one of my all time favs, not just my favorite Zep song. We finish dinner and go next door for a few drinks before show time. The band comes on and I quickly realize that the band were the ones that sat right behind us in the diner about an hour and a half earlier. Dead ringers for their Zeppelin counter parts. During their 2 sets, they introduced Zeppelin songs for all of us, and D'yer Maker was the one they called out for me. To this day, we think they changed up their set list for us, cause we called for deep tracks in a lot of that conversation, stuff we absolutely wouldn't have expected to play by a live cover band. Not only an unbelievable live band, but an awesome night as well with a personal twist. A story I still tell to this day.
Great episode!! Great song from a masterpiece album. Zeppelin taking the mick with this song just like they did on “Hot Dog” or “Boogie With Stu” or “Candy Store Rock” or “The Crunge”….. they had fun!!! Greatest band ever. ❤️✌️
Led Zeppelin II Because of Whole Lotta Love, hands down my favorite Zeppelin song. Growing up in Detroit in the 60's with two older brothers, who listened to many different types of music, i was exposed to a vast variety of music. When i heard Whole Lotta Love for the first time, it blew me away, i was 12 at the time.
HOTH was released just before my 14th birthday, so I got it for a present from my brother. I read it as Die-yer Maker but the first time I heard it on the radio, the DJ gave the correct pronunciation in his lead-in intro. I will admit to being an LZ snob and waited to correct other's mispronunciations for the next several years.
My brother is 9 years older than me. He introduced me to everything from Frampton Comes Alive to Jar of Flies and this was the first Zeppelin song he ever played me when I was 12 years old. 30 years later there’s a recording somewhere of me playing acoustic guitar and him singing it in an empty house that was under construction at 3 in the morning. We may not have been sober. Good times.
For the longest time it was III because it was the first LZ album I bought (with the spinning wheel album cover) and then it was side 1 of IV, because that was the album I put on when I was getting ready to go out. I have memories of siblings, friends and adventures associated with pretty much every LZ album. Thank you for all your lessons and interviews. Most of your videos remind me and take me back to the excitement I had when those new albums came out. I would record them (so I can play them anywhere) and rarely play the album version again.
Thank you, Adam! 😃 Zep is one of my top 3 fav bands of all time! It is impossible to name just one fav album by them so, I'll name 3. PG, HOTH and III. Different reasons for each. No other band is/was so diverse. ❤️
I gotta say my mind is officially blown. I've been singing in a Zeppelin tribute for over 20 years and never understood the title - or how to pronounce it. This makes perfect sense. It's probably my least favorite on Houses, but folks do love to hear it when we slip it into the setlist every now and zen. Thank You
Sir, being a non-native speaker of English I dare say that you are a true professor because you have enlightened me on the meaning of D'yer Mak'er. I had to chuckle, because this brought back memories: Houses of the Holy was the first Led Zeppelin album that I have bought back in 1973, shortly after it had been released. I was barely 13 years old when Led Zeppelin, during their European tour in 1973, played in my tiny little hometown of Offenburg/Germany on 24th March, 1973 (four days prior to the release of HotH, and allegedly one of their best shows ever), and I was allowed to see the concert, together with my best mate and my girlfriend (all being the same age as I). Needless to say that this concert blew us away, and my perception of music has since changed forever. Then, shortly afterwards over the Easter period, I was visiting my aunt in London for the first time. As one can imagine, I was of course overwhelmed by this big vibrant city, particular its enormous record shops where one could get literally anything. So, with the concert still ringing in my ears, I spent around 3 quid for a copy of Houses of the Holy at His Master's Voice record shop, and I am proud to say that I still own it in playable condition in 2022. Actually, as my aunt had been residing in E11, not too far east of the Cockney area, I should have understood earlier what was behind 'D'yer Mak'er', but somehow, we youngsters had also stuck to the American pronunciation. Needless to say that Led Zeppelin still is my favourite band. As to my favourite Led Zeppelin song, it has to be 'Since I've been Loving You' from LZ III. It is such an emotional blues track and Robert Plant's voice as well as Jimmy Page's guitar are just exceptional on LZ III, while the version from the film 'The Song Remains the Same' adds the images to the frantic guitar playing of Jimmy. Always enjoying your "lectures".
Bill Haley recorded "13 Women" in 1954 because his producer wanted it done. They spent 2 1/2 hours getting it right. They got half an hour to record the B-side. A little ditty called "Rock Around the Clock". Bill never played "13 Women" ever again.
Love this album…it’s not perfect but it brings back so many memories of my childhood. My older sister had this album and I remember listening to it a lot. First introduced to it via Dancing Days but quickly discovered the rest of the album’s charms. And I’ve totally been mispronouncing the title of D’Yer Mak’er. Never knew this story. Thx as always for great content! What you do provides so much entertainment and knowledge to those of us who like you have a passion for music!
You've convinced me POR, I had forgotten how awesome this whole album is. I came of age in the mid-late 70s. Off to spotify I go to once again enjoy this masterpiece. TY Sir!
As a kid I would climb into the loft of my fathers shed where he kept a collection of records and listen to a lot of classic albums, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath , Queen, Alice Cooper and of course Led Zeppelin. I didn't have a proper turntable, only a kids "Winnie the Pooh" portable record player. It was there that I discovered my love for Zeppelin. Houses of the Holy quickly became one of my favorite go to albums. I would lay there, in nearly total darkness, and put on this album and just let it play. The sound wasn't great, the albums were well worn and slightly warped, but it didn't matter. Ten year old me was just entranced by this music, and I still am to this day. I loved how all the songs were different and you could not get bored or tired of it. Led Zeppelin will always be my favorite group, and I am very thankful that my father has such good taste in music.
Zep was such an artistically creative band and Houses of the Holy was sure a big adjustment for listeners when it came out, but it seemed to get a ton of airplay anyway. BTW, love the Cockney accent, Adam! Second career, perhaps? ;-)
As a kid of the 80s and 90s, my biggest memories of this album and song are when in Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, they use LZ HOTH to describe ancient Greece. "There were many steps and columns. It was most tranquil." The second is seeing 311 cover D'yer Mak'er at 311 day in 2004 in New Orleans.
Back in the early 80s I called a local radio station 104 WXKE in Fort Wayne and requested the song and was told by the DJ Doc West it was pronounced Jamaker, I never forgot what that. Doc West is still spinning records but the station was sold and is now XKE 96.3. Thank you Doc West for taking me to school.
D’Yer Maker is such a great song! Thanks for the background on it, us in the “New World” from anywhere miss pronounced it sue to the DJs doing so. I learned the correct pronunciation a few years ago. It does sound a little reggae to me so the “Jamaica” pronunciation made sense to me regardless of the cockney accent joke 😂
I love their early stuff like Good Times, Bad Times. I love their bluesy stuff like Since I've Been Lovin' You. I love their reggae stuff like D'yer Maker (Die-Er May-Ker). I love their softer stuff like Thank You. I love their heavier stuff like Immigrant Song. I love their later stuff of Achilles Last Stand. There are only a few songs that I'll skip past on any of their albums. I just love it all.
Absorbing that record is entirely my experience with it. It was the first Zepplin album I ever bought and I had no idea what I was getting. And then I listen to it was like this is Led Zeppelin? But the more I listen to it the more I became fond of it.
I feel a little smarter today having watched this cause I too have mispronounced the title as "Dye-er Maker". Thanks for the correction & the story behind it. Great as always.
Gotta go with Zeppelin 4 as their best album. So, so many great songs. Hey Professor, could I make a request? Could you possibly look into and do a video about an criminally underrated 80's bands that almost nobody has heard about but also had members of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. I'm talking about a band called "The Storm" which had in it 3 members of the band "Journey"
I always enjoyed when bands explore different genres and sounds, and while I know it can be jarring, I think the payoff is very satisfying if you analyze it hard enough! Always appreciate the history of music here.
The Ocean,, Great drum song ... proly my favorite rock drum song,,, i was 14 , had my 1st job as a dish washer in a nice steak house restaurant and this was my 1st Zeppelin album i ever bought .. bought a Honda 50 mini bike and stored it there at the restaurant . so as not to scare my mom lol... we all rode it around the parking lot after work .. Dyer Maker and The Ocean playing on the radio.. great memories ,,
As a big fan of Zep in the 70's I never thought of Houses as a lesser. Just more of the same evolving great music of Zep. In Through the Out Door was their first different LP to me.
Love it when great bands take chances and go outside of their expected genre formulas. Led Zep tried reggae, Queen tried disco, Bruce Springsteen tried synth pop. And they were all great! Like Billy Joel said, it's still rock & roll to me.
Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy in 1973. At that time. HOTH was thought of as a mish mash of different sounds. PEOPLE FORGET Zeppelin IV took off in the Northern summer of '72 and was red hot one year later. Houses was barely a blimp on the Charts, especially the US Charts in 1973. Like Zeppelin III it took years for fans to warm up to it. People 'discoverred" Houses in 1976 after Presence was an unmitigated disaster. Presence sold 4 million albums world wide and to date has sold a miserable 7 million copies. Houses began selling heavily in 1976 to 1979 and it really sold well. HUGE PROBLEM- John Bonham Bonzo's drumming considered too clumsy if oafish for songs like D'Yer Maker and The Crunge. The Crunge Rumour has it both Plant, but especially Page loathed The Crunge. It was supposed to be a fun song and a way out from the darkness of When the Levee Breaks and DEEP PURPLE SOLD 14 million Certified copies from Machine Head, the immortal live album, Made in Japan and the throwaway Who Do we Think We Are in a 14 month period ! ! ! Houses of the Holy released in '73 floundered. 10 weeks after its release Zeppelin IV took over and as we know, sold untold millions! Led Zeppelin was thought of as 'lame' live. Unfortunately, Zeppelin could pull in 50,000 plus crowds BUT their sound in the live arena . . . Flat. Ian Gillan could easily blow Plant off the stage vocally. Plant openly called Gillan ,' a screamer ' and Ian said ' I sold 20 million copies of Jesus Chris Super Star, what have you done ? " Vocalists from Iron Maiden and Metallica who saw them live said " Deep Purple" were a step& class above. " Bruce Dickinson- Iron Maiden. It was definitely Purple V. ZEPPELIN! Purple Mk II released Made in Japan which was live, cost £1,500 OR $US5k. Both Machine Head AND Made in Japan sold a jaw dropping 6.5 million copies ! Purple took it up another notch and could muster power that Led Zeppelin did NOT have. John Paul Jones made excuses but his counterpart, Jon Lord was amazing live on stage. Deep Purple had failed to capture the US market until late '72/ early 1973 ! Then they exploded through a lame song called Smoke on the Water. The studio version of this song . . . lame. The live version was like Deep Purple were another band. Listen to the difference. Organ & keyboards Jon Lord said BOTH songs were on the Billboard 100. PURPLE Mk II - ROGER GLOVER: Bassist We received a variety awards from Billboard saying we sold 10's of millions of albums. Something phenomenal like 14 million albums in 16 to 18 months close. No band came close. We were told that even with the mighty Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy only sold 7 - 8 million. Zeppelin's latest release at that time just wasn't selling. Ironically the final Mk II viny dubbed by Glover himself as quote ' a sh#t album ' sold remarkably well. Try 3 - 4 million albums in under four months!
Man, I just found this channel a few days ago I think. I listened to this very enlightening "trivia" and stuff and thought I definitely have to hit the described button ...to learn I already had (probably a few days ago). Profesor of Rock is a deserved title.
Memories, sure, got plenty. I was a HS student and lucky enough that the bus stop was RIGHT out front of the house. So...I could rock out before going. I remember many days of "dropping the needle" on D'Yer Maker and other songs in Houses of the Holy..all while watching out the basement rec room window for the bus to pull up. AN AMAZING song then and still holds up today. Please, just play it once more. How did Jimmy get that sound out of his guitar on D'Yer Maker? So good.
There's not an album that I don't love of there's. Heck, I even love Zeppelin 3. Kashmir will always be my favorite song of all times. Take a day and listen to each album in the order they recorded them, and then you will get the true feeling of what these 4 guys were. Page is a pure genius. And I always called it: "Dyer Maker", which I now know is wrong. lol
Hell I always loved III - No Modern Band could even dream of releasing such a GREAT album- "Out On The Tiles" still BLOWS AWAY anything by Green Day, Sonic Youth, Replacements, The Damned, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP/Velvet Revolver, Soundgarden/Audioslave....
I love how, unlike the Beatles, Zep took time to separate and travel, which inspired so many tracks (though I’m sure Plant would rather forget that trip to Greece that left him in a wheelchair for months (including during the recording of Presence).)
@@poitor5915 My favorite two bands but if forced to choose the Beatles were both even greater and even more important. No Beatles, no Zeppelin. You are ignorant! Jimmy Page himself accepted this, stating how singularily important to social change AND how no other band evolved music as much as they did. HE called them 'the perfect example of creative growth'. I call your comment the 'perfect example of profound ignorance'. Just got back from a comment that compared 'RUDE Lennon' with Donald Trump! SAD!
Another awesome vid!! My first memory of this track was when my family and I were living in Myrtle Beach, SC and I had started listening to local radio stations. I always had a cassette in the deck waiting to record anything that struck me as cool. This was around 1990, or thereabouts, so I was maybe 10 years old. Anyway, this incredible song starts filling my ears and I began to feel a groove in my soul that, up to this point in my life, I hadn't felt before. I had pushed record automatically when the song started..so for days (weeks more likely), my country and western music loving parents had to listen to the song played over and over until, eventually, the cassette tape broke, lol. Good memories!!
Lol, did that tape "mysteriously " break? I have parents that were all country music too, my dad uses to call my rock music "that ya ya ya music " lol.
@@ProfessorofRock haha..nawww, they still like the old country stuff. I'm very fortunate to still have both around for my daughter's to spend time with and get to know them. As for the tape breaking, I was playing it at the time the player "ate" the tape and I didn't take it out carefully enough...so I can only blame myself, lol.
@@AndySalinger33 Absolutely agree. Loved that as well! When You Come Back To Me off of the Reality Bites soundtrack is equally awesome. His/their sound is so good.
....I have to split, but I HAD to agree with this comment! ...World Party was VERY different when they hot in '87, they (he) DOES need the "Prof. Love"....
Bought this having not heard any cut off of it. 1st listen... I don't know about this. Afterwards I really enjoyed it the more I listened. Great video. Thanks
The last "rock concert" I saw was a Plant show. Nice re-arrangement of old Zep tunes and I love how he went forward in his journey. Following John Paul Jones solo work also. Anazing! Love the "classic " history, but some of these fellows are true Artists....moving forward while being aware of the foundations of tradition. Thank you!
I played the rain song at a wedding I was DJ'ing, the woman that had me play it started doing this dance with a group of about 25 guests that were huge Zeppelin fans starting out in a circle making it look like a ballet, it was probably one of the only times I played a Zeppelin song that people had danced too.
I was a freshman in high school when Led Zeppelin released their first album. D'yer Maker is my least favorite song they ever released. I cringe and change radio channels every time it comes on, and it astonishes me with how often it is played! Maybe I'm just too stuck on heavier music and the magnificence of everything else they ever produced, but D'yer Maker is not and will never be what I consider to be true Led Zeppelin music!
You, Prof, are the best thing that happened to music since the Marshall amp (the tube one). Your in-depth analysis' are scholarly and so well done I close my eyes so I can hear you better- Just like music. I always loved Zep. I was 15 at the big concert at the Pontiac Superdome. Very exciting, not so good acoustically. Quite dangerous in fact. The point is, I'm 62, love my nice headphones and your back stories of what was really going on with music.
Please don't do that accent again. Ever. I promise I'll never do an American accent. 😂 Interesting story and I think trying something new was the right move for the band, even if it pissed many fans off. Doing the same thing over and over only leads to staleness and failure. I like D'yer Maker partly because it's different and because it's a great song.
It was always said Dire Maker. The pronunciation makes sense now, thanks Adam. I liked the variety of Zep and this song holds that trend. (Rain song still my fav.)
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest Led Zeppelin album and why?
I honestly can't pick from the first 4... they all have so many memories for me.
Im torn between Zep 1 and 4 😁🤘
Physical Graffiti hands down. It’s the perfect album, not a weak track on it. About six songs would be in my top ten Led Zeppelin tracks.
I have to go with Led Zeppelin IV. Besides the obligatory "Cuz Stairway" it also has Black Dog amongst other great songs. That song has a special memory for me as I remember it being played during swim practices for the Junior/Senior High School team I was part of. Something about swimming while that album being played at loud volumes while you're in the water. The unwritten rule was that whomever was the closest to the edge of the pool as Stairway came to an end had to jump out and flip the album. Good times.
Livin Lovin' Maid is one of my favorites never played live
For me personally, I feel like The Rain Song from the Houses of the Holy Album is one the most Beautiful pieces of music ever created !!!
It’s a perfect song.
the live version is better
Yes, JPJ makes that song a timeless gem with the Mellotron
Nearly all the HoH material was better live. No Quarter was almost a different song on stage.
It’s fun to play, if you’re brave enough to tune it to the album version tuning (live he tuned it in such a way that he only had to re-tune a few strings for the next song, instead of the entire guitar, but it sounds different.)
I saw them live in 1969, when they were the opening act for Vanilla Fudge. I was in the third row, centre, right in front of the stage. My greatest rock and roll moment ever, just feet away from the band. They were fantastic. Their set was the entire first album, plus at the end for the encore Robert said "Here's a song from our next album" and they played "Whole Lotta Love".
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similar experience; saw them twice Aug of "69 outdoors close-up and in "73 NYC MSG at one of 3 shows that became film; Song Remains the Same...
Your experience captures my imagination. How cool it would have been to be there.
You’re a luck dude, “Joe”. Great story.
Zeppelin 1 and 2 is the greatest one two punch in the history of rock and roll. The diversity between those two albums was staggering. Just a totally different sound but complete virtuosity and power. Of course they kept putting out phenomenal music and became the most popular rock band in history. They influenced everyone and yet no one was able to come close to replication of their magic. And please don't tell me about greta van fleet or whatever ....lmao. There's only one Zeppelin.
It’s Physical Graffiti for me. Ten Years Gone is such a superb song…it’s so deep and emotional, and one of those songs that really hits me hard every time I hear it (as The Rain Song from Houses of the Holy does). So many superb tracks on PG…Night Flight, Custard Pie, The Rover, Down by the Seaside, etc. Zep at it’s absolute best, imo.
All these songs are great!
My favorite album as well. One because it's just sooo good with all the different musical approaches and arrangements song to song, and two I lost my virginity to Down by the Seaside.
I Like Boogie with Stu!
Sides 2 and 3 of PG are as close to perfection as any "album sides" that have ever been released.
Have to agree about Physical Graffiti…”In my time of dying” is my favorite.
I recently saw Robert Plant perform with Alison Krauss and just hearing him sing live in front of me was surreal enough. Then they performed 3 zeppelin tracks as well. I could have died happy right then and there!
In 2002 I saw him open for The Who. I went to see Robert Plant more than I did The Who. And I felt the same way you did. And yes, I think he did 3-4 zeppelin songs. Going to California sticks in my head. I was thinking the exact same thing. I could die happy.
what songs?
@@1badjesus Rock N' Roll, The Battle of Evermore and When the Levee Breaks
OMG, that must have been stellar!
Plant/Krauss! Awesome . I saw the first tour with TBone Butnett. The magic of that show is indescribable.
I've seen Robert solo 9 times dating back to 1989. 3 times in 2020. 3 Page/Plant shows.
Robert is still a force to be reckoned and performing some of the best music around with a genius band.
Rock on fellow Plant fans!
One thing I love about Zeppelin is their diversity. Houses of the Holy Became my favorite album for quite awhile and all these years later I still love it. Thanks for the interesting backstory.
I remember in an interview a long time ago Page mentioned he always wanted to constantly do something different. Their creativity was off the charts. One of my all time favorite songs of theirs is Fool in the Rain, which is so different from anything they've done prior.
there’s something about the vibe of ‘houses’😵💫
The first CD I ever bought was "Physical Graffiti" at a car boot sale. I didn't have a CD player at the time and I already had the vinyl album - the one with the actual windows in the sleeve.
it's the last Zeppelin LP that I was familiar with. it has a bright musicality about it. a friend of mine whose a LZ fanatic, can bring me up to date on subsequent LP's, if I wish. I think it's the first record where they didn't do a blues song. they were a great blues band.
Oh, you so diverse. Whenever I think of Led Zeppelin, I think of diverse music. LOL.
Note: Zep's song The Crunge from this same album Houses Of The Holy was a tribute to James Brown's unique music. All in all Zep did many songs honoring specific countries or genres like D'yer Maker (tribute to Jamaican Reggae), Fool In The Rain (tribute to Mexican Mariachi music), When The Levee Breaks (tribute to Blues), Going To California (tribute to American Folk music), Kashmir (tribute to music from India), The Rain Song (tribute to ballads and classical music).
There is no greatest, they're all great. My brother who hung out with Led downtown Chicago, always told me , "Zeppelin never made a bad song". I believe my brother, I don't like every song Led ever made, but I've never heard a bad one. I've been listening to Led since the early 80s and if I had to pick 1 favorite it would be Black Dog, but I love almost everything they did
Great post. I first bought HOTH in 81'. I am of the Die-r Maker pronunciation. I stand corrected. Can't believe it took 41 years to find that out. Thanks for your excellent ongoing work!
i used to play Guitar in a 70's Rock covers band and we used to play " Dyer Maker " at every gig , nobody in the crowd ever expected it , we had two female singers ..and it always went down well ,it was fun to play which is why we never dropped the song from our set list.
The lyric sleeve for the album has the question, "Whatever happened to Rosie and the Originals?" beneath the words for D'yer Mak'er. If you listen to Rosie and the Originals' big hit, "Angel Baby" with its use of piano as the main instrument, you'll quickly hear it's the same chord progression as D'yer Mak'er. It's a pretty short jump to realizing the band was probably hamming it up in rehearsals/warm-up by doing a reggae (i.e., Jamaican) spin on "Angel Baby". Since Zeppelin was known to play older covers like "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by the Platters in their live sets from time to time, this would be right in character. Add to that the precedent set by "Rock 'n Roll", which pretty obviously started its life in rehearsal/jam-time as a flattened-out cover of Little Richard's "Keep On Knocking" - right down to its signature drum fill intro - and one need not read too much into whence and what "D'yer Mak'er" was and is. And then there's the Neil Sedaka vocal hook in the verse, which was probably less conscious than the song's fairly self-consciously being a reggae take on Rosie's number. Sure; the foregoing is all my conjecture but it's better-founded than most of the things that have been said about this record!
Wow, I enjoyed reading this! Good observations.
Zeppelin is well known for ripping of other peoples music and pretending it was their own (muddy waters primarily). Then they would sue multie other acts they thought were copying their music that they copied from others
Exactamundo.
@@derekbuck2369 duh "Whole Lotta Love" is "Smoke on the Water" with, like, a few extra notes and stuff
And Bonzo stole his ZoSo symbol from Ballantine beer. And Charles Manson protege Bobby Beausoleils "Lucifer Rising" soundtrack rules lol cuz Chuckie was the devil doing the devil's business lol page just a loser using guitar string gauges others used before him and way better lol
You can't discuss D'yer Mak'er without mentioning Plant's final vocal note, the "Oooooooh, yeah!" is a flat-7 note sung against a progression that, in the accompaniment, only ever uses the natural-7 note of the key. It's a blues/mixolydian note, in a non-blues/ionian song! For anyone with pitch sensitivity it's desperately, boldly, fiercely wrong-sounding. And then, if that weren't enough, as he sustains the "oooh" note, he allows the pitch to droop a few cents below even the flat-7 (itself already a halfstep low of the "correct" note), before recovering and melismatically resolving with the "yeah!" It's a classic, oh-so-raw Robert Plant move.
Wow, never noticed that. But now that your mention it, I instantly knew what part you meant.
(beato)
I absolutely love that part of the song,& always love when I am singing it at the top of my lungs,and am able to sing the whole oooh, and the yeah!! Lol. Love the song and whole album is phenomenal!!💯
The Ocean is probably the best tune on Houses Of The Holy. I love the syncopation and the way Bonzo plays along with Paige until it changes course at about 3 minutes in and turns into a boogie woogie with a great walking bass. I grew up on Led Zeppelin in the sixties and seventies. They're definitely unique.
This is the first song my son played live with his band. I couldn't have been prouder at that moment
I love that one.
Also how the main riff of The Ocean is played differently by Jimmy and John Paul. Clearly not a mistake, either.
It's possibly one of the most satisfying album closers ever. With the flourish at the end, one can imagine a circle of friends popping a bottle of champagne and making a toast.
great closer☝🏻
As a teen, I was just getting into Zeppelin with my dad, as I had just started playing guitar. He gave me the "Houses" album to borrow. I brought it back, he asked me what I thought, and I said I loved everything on it, except for that "No Quarter" song, I thought that was really boring. A few years later, I had matured enough as a musician to appreciate it. "No Quarter" didn't take long after that to become one of my absolute favorite Zeppelin songs (Zeppelin is my favorite band ever, with basically no competition). In fact, I might say that the chorus riff is my favorite Zeppelin riff. (With plenty of competition, in that case!).
I know this video is about D'yer Mak'er, but this is my connection to the album. D'yer Mak'er itself has some really weird nostalgia for me. I love it, but it belongs to one of my earliest childhood memories, when my parents were divorced for the first time and I was still trying to make sense of the concept. Dad was playing the song, and I guess I was trying to connect the words with the divorce, empathizing with him or her or both. Maybe a weird thing for a 4-year-old to be doing, but that's where my head was at, and that's where it always goes when I hear this song.
Thanks for the video, have you done "No Quarter" yet?!
Greatest Band Of All Time. Everyone else takes a back seat
Isn't it amazing how every song has a place in time it takes you back to. Sound tracks of our lives.
What Led Zeppelin does from one album to the next is so varied. It provides for some very diverse musical explorations, which are so good. Led Zeppelin are a really great supergroup. May John Bonham and Peter Grant rest in peace. Cheers! ✌️
That's what made 'em great!
They were such excellent musicians.
In Through the Outdoor was the perfect swansong for such a legendary band. They didn't go out with a bang , they faded out like the end of some popular songs. Their career just seemed like it was complete. They covered so many different types of music, with equal talent and conviction. Not even the Beatles were capable of creating Powerful songs from so many different cultures and styles
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Can't agree!
A pity that they went out with such a whimper.
'In Through The Out Door' was by far their weakest work & much more brilliant stuff would have followed!! Right to stop with Bonzo gone though!
ps. not remotely as diverse stylistically as the Beatles!!
@@petermills542 In Through the Outdoor was brilliant. In the Evening, and All My Love were 2 of Led Zeppelin's best songs. It's my second favorite, or third considering that Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are a tie for my favorite albums. The only thing wrong with In Through the Outdoor was Hot Dog 🐶. It's not only Led Zeppelin's weakest track, but it's among the worst songs ever recorded in the history of music
I have such a hard time trying to pick just one "greatest" led zeppelin album but I still love Houses of the Holy.
I agree with Robert Plant. I have always preferred HotH to IV although I love IV. Crazy combination of sounds, songs, and tunes on HotH.
I love "Houses of the Holy" and I got blasted in college for liking "Dyer Maker"...but I wasn't a die hard Zepp fan and I was just discovering Led Zepp for myself at that time. Everyone was loving Metallica and I went to Led Zeppelin. That's just me. I loved that whole album.
HoH is my favourite collection of songs on a LZ album. The live versions of those songs are so much better than the studio recordings, though. Fiddling with tape speed on Robert's voice wasn't a good move, IMO.
how can you get blasted with bonzo😵💫
Meh, when really hard and fast metal came along it became a pissing contest about personal ego even if the music was shit. From a music appreciation master class viewpoint HOH is a hard left turn of emotions to the stark yet thunderous beauty of a Tolkienesque venture in the 4th album. Battle of Evermore doesn’t fit with Misty Mountain Hop and those songs sure don’t fit the feel or psychedelia of The Rain Song or No Quarter
Mid-80's Robert Plant rolling stone interview he mentioned liking the new u.s. bands coming out of SF..which was Testament.. Exodus..Metallica at the time..was amazed the old man knew about SF thrash scene..
guess he was all of 36.
D'yer Mak'er was one of my favorite Zepp tunes. It is distinctly different than other by a lot and I like that.
The variation between all of the Zeppelin albums is part of their genius. I love that every single album has it's own flavor. Also, D'yer Mak'er is one of my top 5 favorite Zep songs. Pop rock or not, I love it.
Yup, me too. Great take on reggae.
exactly that’s why all zeps catalog should be luved☝🏻
It's a great Reggae song
What Led Zeppelin did between 69 and 79 can never be achieved again. Their music will forever be timeless.
Yes timeless is the correct word. My wife was never really into the band until I shared them with her. "never boring" she said. I saw Zep in Long Beach Calif. March 12 1975. I was 17 (WOW). There is some good bootleg of that show on you tube. Won't ever be a another band like this.( lightning in a bottle) 4 really gifted musicians.. There was never a bad song on any album. God Bless Bonzo JEFF
Amazing times to experience!!!
I think the HOTH album was LZ's most diverse and "complicated" album. I loved each song for different reasons.
Each song has it's own personality! This album just displays the various sides of LZ.
I think you're right.
It was pretty prog and they would push that on Graffiti and Prescence.
@@grahamnunn8998 Remember some people being shocked by their last album "In Through the Out Door," expecting heavy rock music.
Great video. I think "D'Yer Maker/Jamaica" is one of the best songs they ever recorded. The drums and the guitar and bass and the syncopated rhythm is fantastic.
When i heard the song i was hooked - ( had to find out more of the group - i was 11 years old and memoized!!)..... the bass/drums and that guitar just was so revolution to my ears.
There's no slash. The first term is the song title, and the second is the name of a country. It's Welsh and isn't pronounced "Jamaica". It's pronounced "Jur Maker".
Love D'yer Maker. One of my all-time Zep favorites.
One of the greatest bands ever. Houses of the holy is one of my favorite albums.
IT's a perfect record.
It’s one of the best albums ever made, for sure.
@@ProfessorofRock🤔is that zeps only perfect record☝🏻
I'm British and a big Led Zep fan. I'm pleased you explained this. I've been explaining the song and the joke for decades. Thanks!
very cool!
Awesome!
I personally loved Houses of the Holy. It’s when a band goes away from their strength that you learn who they really are, and you’re then able to see where their strengths & successes came from.
Physical Graffiti, as I've aged, but as a kid my favourite was always the 4th album. My brother and I used to steal it out of one another's bedrooms back in the early 1970's, and we managed have dozens of fights while retrieving it, without damaging the cover or scratching the vinyl. It came to mean a lot to us both, and when he passed unexpectedly in 2002, I had the 4 symbols tattooed on my right shoulder along with his name and the date.
The 4th album was one of the few things we agreed on as kids.
Zeppelin was the first band I remember my dad as liking growing up as I went through his albums. Crosby stills and Nash, the animals, cream, Bo diddley, John Lee hooker, the doors etc. So I got into them and I pronounced its "dyer maker", but never questioned why. Glad to know the real name and reasoning behind it!
I actually bought this album when it came out in '73. I still remember exactly where I was and who I was with when I sliced through the plastic cover and carefully placed the vinyl on the turntable. We almost laughed at D'yer Maker it was so different and unexpected. You sure had to listen several times to the album to get what the band was doing.
Every road trip I take starts out with a full play through of HOTH. Though the album lacks a thematic seam that brings all the songs together, it has the perfect flow for embarking on an adventure. It also has the potential for a vaudeville moment when you are looking for the bridge. Fans of the album will know what that means.
I think it could be argued that no Zeppelin album has what could be considered a thematic seam.
There is not a bad song on there! I love this whole album.
“Where’s that confounded bridge?”
@@michaelmcdonald8452 I was really making the point as a comparison to other contemporary albums like Dark Side Of The Moon. Those albums were produced with the intent that one would listen to it linearly from beginning to end, whereas HOTH was not, but works very well when setting out for a long drive.
@@gerradfoster8777 gotcha
When Casey Kasem mispronounces Dyer Maker, we can all feel better. 😂 Great choice, Professor!!
Right?!
I know, right? I always say Jamaica.
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I love HOTH - easily in my top 3 Zep albums along with LZ III and Physical Graffiti. What makes these albums particularly great is the wide diversity of each song. Just go through the tracks on HOTH. Not only is each and every track so unique to the next, but even Plant's vocals go in so many directions throughout. This album is such a creative and interesting piece of work and is way too underrated (just like LZIII).
Not a bad song on HOTH. Listening to HOTH is like taking a ride through a magical kingdom.
III and Physical Graffiti are my two favourite Zeppelin albums.
I fully agree; Houses.... would be my 3rd favourite
I don't know. Isn't Hoth a little cold this time of year? 😂
Friend introduced it to me as "dire maker" but I was quickly exposed to alternate pronunciations by various DJs. LOVE "Houses of the Holy". Criminally underrated album from them.
The 6.5X14 Ludwig Supraphonic is one of my favorite snare drum sounds of all time. I bought one in 1985, a 1974 model and I still own it. Ludwig still makes it today.
Houses of the holy was the 1st album I was introduced to by led zepplin. I was taken into the music. I was so enthralled by this album.What a fantastic album! As I got older I had bought every album by them. There is NOT one song on any album that's 2nd rate.
Great song on a great album by rock's greatest group! To this day I am awed by Jimmy Page's genius.
He is a genius. No doubt.
He’s such a legend.
I bought the cassette when I was a teenager in the mid 80's. Nothing compares to Led Zeppelin musically. I still rank them as #1 and greatest of all time, ever.
Yep!!! I watched the Elvis movie last night! When it was over i said to myself #1 rockstar of all time. Page/Plant Zep in general #2! Fill out the rest yourself.
Never saw Zeppelin, had deposits on the L.A. forum stop of the "in through the out door" tour. Several years later i became friends with Phil Carson and his son Jack and was invited to go see Page and Plant in San Diego. It was a great night of Led Zeppelin greatest hits. They even preformed "Hey Hey what can I do" met them both back stage. Great night.
Adam, great video. I noticed when you were naming the highlights of this album, you didn't mention No Quarter. That's easily one of their best songs and no surprise it was a staple in their live sets. In fact, often the highlight of their concerts. Keep the Zep videos coming!
Ya just an oversight... I love No Quarter.
Yes, great song!
'No Quarter' has one of the best riffs I ever heard.
I remember my Houses of the Holy obsession, it lasted for months. Like many musical treasures, it was another gift from my big sister.
I really resonated with the idea that it’s a multiple listen album. I initially really disliked it when I first heard it but after hearing the songs more and more, I think I like it more every time to the point that I now absolutely love it (although it’s still not in my top 3 Zep albums)
Agreed.
As a kid of the 70s, I came to LZ sort of late...I really started listening to all of their work as a freshman in college in 1980. Before that, of course I knew about Stairway, Whole Lotta Love, and the other major songs, but I hadn't gone deep into the catalog.
In the summer of 81, I got a summer job on Maui and I stayed in Kihei with my older cousin and her husband. They had a copy of the album and when I listened to it for the first time, I didn't really like it. I just sounded strange. The only song I dug from the first time I heard it was 'No Quarter.'
Over the years I've come to really appreciate and love most of the songs on the album. I still think 'The Crunge' is sort of a crappy song, but I still like "Have you seen the bridge? I ain't seen the bridge...Where's that confounded bridge?" LOL
I spent the summer of 1979 listening to this album. Anytime I hear it, it suddenly becomes summer even in the dead of winter. Everyone used to pronounce the song DIER-MAKER 🤔
I imagine I speak for a decent portion of Zep fans when I say I'm fine without a live version.
You are def a hardcore Zep!
Not me. Some of the best songs are live versions.
@@JamesBrown-fd1nv all Zeppelin songs are better live. it's just hard to imagine this one really rocking the house and it would seem they felt the same
Yeah , I'm perfectly fine . Thank you my fellow ZEP fan .
I love how this Professor of Rock pays respect to Casey Kasem but puts a spin of his own on it . Always loved Casey and his show , Professor nails the vibe .
I grew up listening to all their albums on vinyl,and I love all their albums,but Houses of the Holy is top fav,for the total break from the first four!💖💖💖
As someone who was born in '72, Zeppelin was is and will ALWAYS be one of my mainstay must listens, well after their heyday. So this one was a great story to live....
Back in summer 1991, me and 4 friends went to see a cover band, a Zep cover band called No Quarter. We planned on going early and doing dinner at the diner next door. In a sparsely filled diner, we were talking about what we hoped for the band to play that nite. During that conversation, in walks about 6 people and they're seated right behind us. One of my calls for a song was D'yer Maker, as it was absolutely one of my all time favs, not just my favorite Zep song. We finish dinner and go next door for a few drinks before show time.
The band comes on and I quickly realize that the band were the ones that sat right behind us in the diner about an hour and a half earlier. Dead ringers for their Zeppelin counter parts. During their 2 sets, they introduced Zeppelin songs for all of us, and D'yer Maker was the one they called out for me. To this day, we think they changed up their set list for us, cause we called for deep tracks in a lot of that conversation, stuff we absolutely wouldn't have expected to play by a live cover band.
Not only an unbelievable live band, but an awesome night as well with a personal twist. A story I still tell to this day.
Great episode!! Great song from a masterpiece album. Zeppelin taking the mick with this song just like they did on “Hot Dog” or “Boogie With Stu” or “Candy Store Rock” or “The Crunge”….. they had fun!!!
Greatest band ever. ❤️✌️
I'm pretty sure none of those songs were ever performed live either.
@@thegreenbird795 so what
Led Zeppelin II Because of Whole Lotta Love, hands down my favorite Zeppelin song. Growing up in Detroit in the 60's with two older brothers, who listened to many different types of music, i was exposed to a vast variety of music. When i heard Whole Lotta Love for the first time, it blew me away, i was 12 at the time.
HOTH was released just before my 14th birthday, so I got it for a present from my brother. I read it as Die-yer Maker but the first time I heard it on the radio, the DJ gave the correct pronunciation in his lead-in intro. I will admit to being an LZ snob and waited to correct other's mispronunciations for the next several years.
Micky, Thanks for sharing that memory.
I read it as Jamaica.
My brother is 9 years older than me. He introduced me to everything from Frampton Comes Alive to Jar of Flies and this was the first Zeppelin song he ever played me when I was 12 years old. 30 years later there’s a recording somewhere of me playing acoustic guitar and him singing it in an empty house that was under construction at 3 in the morning. We may not have been sober. Good times.
Zep's ability to play any genre brilliantly separated them and elevated them above their peers. Their versatility and diversity is unmatched in Rock.
I totally agree with you. They are so extraordinary and legendary.
Uuiik
I don’t know if you believe this or if you are just repeating something you heard. This is a ridiculous statement.
you’ve always gotta listen there’s so much diversity☝🏻
Bc Page lifted guitar riffs from others. He's about as unoriginal as they get.
For the longest time it was III because it was the first LZ album I bought (with the spinning wheel album cover) and then it was side 1 of IV, because that was the album I put on when I was getting ready to go out. I have memories of siblings, friends and adventures associated with pretty much every LZ album. Thank you for all your lessons and interviews. Most of your videos remind me and take me back to the excitement I had when those new albums came out. I would record them (so I can play them anywhere) and rarely play the album version again.
Thank you, Adam! 😃 Zep is one of my top 3 fav bands of all time! It is impossible to name just one fav album by them so, I'll name 3. PG, HOTH and III. Different reasons for each. No other band is/was so diverse. ❤️
I gotta say my mind is officially blown. I've been singing in a Zeppelin tribute for over 20 years and never understood the title - or how to pronounce it. This makes perfect sense. It's probably my least favorite on Houses, but folks do love to hear it when we slip it into the setlist every now and zen. Thank You
Great video. I never knew the backstory to the song title! Thank you for sharing that with us. D'yer Mak'er song is one of my top 5 Zep songs!
Sir, being a non-native speaker of English I dare say that you are a true professor because you have enlightened me on the meaning of D'yer Mak'er.
I had to chuckle, because this brought back memories: Houses of the Holy was the first Led Zeppelin album that I have bought back in 1973, shortly after it had been released. I was barely 13 years old when Led Zeppelin, during their European tour in 1973, played in my tiny little hometown of Offenburg/Germany on 24th March, 1973 (four days prior to the release of HotH, and allegedly one of their best shows ever), and I was allowed to see the concert, together with my best mate and my girlfriend (all being the same age as I). Needless to say that this concert blew us away, and my perception of music has since changed forever.
Then, shortly afterwards over the Easter period, I was visiting my aunt in London for the first time. As one can imagine, I was of course overwhelmed by this big vibrant city, particular its enormous record shops where one could get literally anything. So, with the concert still ringing in my ears, I spent around 3 quid for a copy of Houses of the Holy at His Master's Voice record shop, and I am proud to say that I still own it in playable condition in 2022. Actually, as my aunt had been residing in E11, not too far east of the Cockney area, I should have understood earlier what was behind 'D'yer Mak'er', but somehow, we youngsters had also stuck to the American pronunciation. Needless to say that Led Zeppelin still is my favourite band.
As to my favourite Led Zeppelin song, it has to be 'Since I've been Loving You' from LZ III. It is such an emotional blues track and Robert Plant's voice as well as Jimmy Page's guitar are just exceptional on LZ III, while the version from the film 'The Song Remains the Same' adds the images to the frantic guitar playing of Jimmy.
Always enjoying your "lectures".
Led Zeppelin. Greatest band EVER. 👍
LOL. Found the 60-year-old.
@@alukuhito Found the 7 year old.
@@thanathitchanwinjou9179 Innocent and no interest in gay music. Ping pong!
@@alukuhito Man, your gay feats were showing ever since the start. What do you even listen to? Baby shark?
@@thanathitchanwinjou9179 Smurfs > Led Zepplin
Bill Haley recorded "13 Women" in 1954 because his producer wanted it done. They spent 2 1/2 hours getting it right. They got half an hour to record the B-side. A little ditty called "Rock Around the Clock". Bill never played "13 Women" ever again.
Love this album…it’s not perfect but it brings back so many memories of my childhood. My older sister had this album and I remember listening to it a lot. First introduced to it via Dancing Days but quickly discovered the rest of the album’s charms. And I’ve totally been mispronouncing the title of D’Yer Mak’er. Never knew this story. Thx as always for great content! What you do provides so much entertainment and knowledge to those of us who like you have a passion for music!
You've convinced me POR, I had forgotten how awesome this whole album is. I came of age in the mid-late 70s. Off to spotify I go to once again enjoy this masterpiece. TY Sir!
I've actually always wondered this, thanks for doing research! 👍
Thanks Danny .
As a kid I would climb into the loft of my fathers shed where he kept a collection of records and listen to a lot of classic albums, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath , Queen, Alice Cooper and of course Led Zeppelin. I didn't have a proper turntable, only a kids "Winnie the Pooh" portable record player. It was there that I discovered my love for Zeppelin. Houses of the Holy quickly became one of my favorite go to albums. I would lay there, in nearly total darkness, and put on this album and just let it play. The sound wasn't great, the albums were well worn and slightly warped, but it didn't matter. Ten year old me was just entranced by this music, and I still am to this day. I loved how all the songs were different and you could not get bored or tired of it. Led Zeppelin will always be my favorite group, and I am very thankful that my father has such good taste in music.
Zep was such an artistically creative band and Houses of the Holy was sure a big adjustment for listeners when it came out, but it seemed to get a ton of airplay anyway. BTW, love the Cockney accent, Adam! Second career, perhaps? ;-)
Ha ha. Thanks Robster. You are very kind.
I love Houses of the Holy.
As a kid of the 80s and 90s, my biggest memories of this album and song are when in Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, they use LZ HOTH to describe ancient Greece. "There were many steps and columns. It was most tranquil." The second is seeing 311 cover D'yer Mak'er at 311 day in 2004 in New Orleans.
i can’t believe they wrote the amazing ‘For Your Life’ for the Presence album but never performed it live until the Celebration Day concerts.
and far out didn’t just sound awesome☝🏻😵💫
Back in the early 80s I called a local radio station 104 WXKE in Fort Wayne and requested the song and was told by the DJ Doc West it was pronounced Jamaker, I never forgot what that. Doc West is still spinning records but the station was sold and is now XKE 96.3. Thank you Doc West for taking me to school.
Zep put out so many albums so quickly and where basically almost every track was radio hit worthy. Pretty insane.
I know, right? They’re impressive.
yes any song could hit the airwaves🤔but hang on “hats off to harper”😵💫
D’Yer Maker is such a great song! Thanks for the background on it, us in the “New World” from anywhere miss pronounced it sue to the DJs doing so. I learned the correct pronunciation a few years ago. It does sound a little reggae to me so the “Jamaica” pronunciation made sense to me regardless of the cockney accent joke 😂
I love their early stuff like Good Times, Bad Times. I love their bluesy stuff like Since I've Been Lovin' You. I love their reggae stuff like D'yer Maker (Die-Er May-Ker). I love their softer stuff like Thank You. I love their heavier stuff like Immigrant Song. I love their later stuff of Achilles Last Stand. There are only a few songs that I'll skip past on any of their albums. I just love it all.
their earlier stuff was bad ass☝🏻
Professor, I'm more in love with the music of my time, because of you, especially Led Zepplin, than ever. And I'm 63! 👍🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌
Absorbing that record is entirely my experience with it. It was the first Zepplin album I ever bought and I had no idea what I was getting. And then I listen to it was like this is Led Zeppelin? But the more I listen to it the more I became fond of it.
Over the years, their music evolved to the point people don’t believe it’s them when they release a new album.
Jamaica! I didn’t have to watch to know this! As a kid, my grandparents lived on a street named Hamisha and it was pronounced Jamaica.
Now I know I will pass the test on the meaning of that song. Great lesson as always Professor 🙂.
Thanks Mark!
Me too.
I feel a little smarter today having watched this cause I too have mispronounced the title as "Dye-er Maker". Thanks for the correction & the story behind it. Great as always.
You are so welcome! Thanks Laura!
I mispronounced it as Jamaica the country!
Gotta go with Zeppelin 4 as their best album. So, so many great songs. Hey Professor, could I make a request? Could you possibly look into and do a video about an criminally underrated 80's bands that almost nobody has heard about but also had members of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. I'm talking about a band called "The Storm" which had in it 3 members of the band "Journey"
Lz4 is my favorite album from Zeppelin but Houses of the Holy is my second favorite
Until today I always said Die er maker.
Learned some RnR info today. Thx.
I am only 53 so still learning. 🤘
I always enjoyed when bands explore different genres and sounds, and while I know it can be jarring, I think the payoff is very satisfying if you analyze it hard enough! Always appreciate the history of music here.
I agree. It's an interesting song for sure.
I always love it when bands reinvent themselves.
The Ocean,, Great drum song ... proly my favorite rock drum song,,, i was 14 , had my 1st job as a dish washer in a nice steak house restaurant and this was my 1st Zeppelin album i ever bought .. bought a Honda 50 mini bike and stored it there at the restaurant . so as not to scare my mom lol... we all rode it around the parking lot after work .. Dyer Maker and The Ocean playing on the radio.. great memories ,,
As a big fan of Zep in the 70's I never thought of Houses as a lesser. Just more of the same evolving great music of Zep. In Through the Out Door was their first different LP to me.
I love how they experiment with different sounds.
i thought ‘presence’ was the game changer for me☝🏻
I love the song. Here in Canada back in the day, it was played lots on the radio. love it. I think Plant's singing in this song was so cool.
It was FIRE !
Love it when great bands take chances and go outside of their expected genre formulas. Led Zep tried reggae, Queen tried disco, Bruce Springsteen tried synth pop. And they were all great! Like Billy Joel said, it's still rock & roll to me.
Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy in 1973.
At that time. HOTH was thought of as a mish mash of different sounds.
PEOPLE FORGET
Zeppelin IV took off in the Northern summer of '72 and was red hot one year later.
Houses was barely a blimp on the Charts, especially the US Charts in 1973. Like Zeppelin III it took years for fans to warm up to it.
People 'discoverred" Houses in 1976 after Presence was an unmitigated disaster.
Presence sold 4 million albums world wide and to date has sold a miserable 7 million copies.
Houses began selling heavily in 1976 to 1979 and it really sold well.
HUGE
PROBLEM- John Bonham
Bonzo's drumming considered too clumsy if oafish for songs like D'Yer Maker and The Crunge.
The Crunge
Rumour has it both Plant, but especially Page loathed The Crunge. It was supposed to be a fun song and a way out from the darkness of When the Levee Breaks and
DEEP PURPLE
SOLD 14 million Certified copies from Machine Head, the immortal live album, Made in Japan and the throwaway Who Do we Think We Are in a 14 month period ! ! !
Houses of the Holy released in '73 floundered. 10 weeks after its release Zeppelin IV took over and as we know, sold untold millions!
Led Zeppelin was thought of as 'lame' live. Unfortunately, Zeppelin could pull in 50,000 plus crowds BUT their sound in the live arena . . . Flat.
Ian Gillan could easily blow Plant off the stage vocally. Plant openly called Gillan ,' a screamer ' and Ian said
' I sold 20 million copies of Jesus Chris Super Star, what have you done ? "
Vocalists from Iron Maiden and Metallica who saw them live said " Deep Purple" were a step& class above. "
Bruce Dickinson- Iron Maiden.
It was definitely
Purple V. ZEPPELIN!
Purple Mk II released
Made in Japan which was live, cost £1,500 OR $US5k.
Both Machine Head AND Made in Japan sold a jaw dropping 6.5 million copies !
Purple took it up another notch and could muster power that Led Zeppelin did NOT have. John Paul Jones made excuses but his counterpart, Jon Lord was amazing live on stage.
Deep Purple had failed to capture the US market until late '72/ early 1973 !
Then they exploded through a lame song called
Smoke on the Water. The studio version of this song . . .
lame. The live version was like Deep Purple were another band.
Listen to the difference.
Organ & keyboards Jon Lord said BOTH songs were on the Billboard 100.
PURPLE Mk II -
ROGER GLOVER: Bassist
We received a variety awards from Billboard saying we sold 10's of millions of albums.
Something phenomenal like 14 million albums in 16 to 18 months close. No band came close.
We were told that even with the mighty Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy only sold 7 - 8 million. Zeppelin's latest release at that time just wasn't selling.
Ironically the final Mk II viny dubbed by Glover himself as quote ' a sh#t album ' sold remarkably well. Try 3 - 4 million albums in under four months!
queen tried hard😵💫
Man, I just found this channel a few days ago I think. I listened to this very enlightening "trivia" and stuff and thought I definitely have to hit the described button ...to learn I already had (probably a few days ago).
Profesor of Rock is a deserved title.
My favorite is the Ocean, last song side 2. Great song.
Side 2. There's something you do hear much these days.
Ugh, The Ocean, what a fantastic song. It's also my favourite from the album
Great song!
@@sebastianquinchia1840 Your comment confused me. 'Ugh' has always meant dislike to me, yet clearly you like the song.
@@Elwaves2925 English is a very strange language. I guess I just don't know the right "sound effect" to use at the start of that.
Memories, sure, got plenty. I was a HS student and lucky enough that the bus stop was RIGHT out front of the house. So...I could rock out before going. I remember many days of "dropping the needle" on D'Yer Maker and other songs in Houses of the Holy..all while watching out the basement rec room window for the bus to pull up. AN AMAZING song then and still holds up today. Please, just play it once more. How did Jimmy get that sound out of his guitar on D'Yer Maker? So good.
There's not an album that I don't love of there's. Heck, I even love Zeppelin 3. Kashmir will always be my favorite song of all times. Take a day and listen to each album in the order they recorded them, and then you will get the true feeling of what these 4 guys were. Page is a pure genius.
And I always called it: "Dyer Maker", which I now know is wrong. lol
Yes, love Kashmir!
Hell I always loved III - No Modern Band could even dream of releasing such a GREAT album- "Out On The Tiles" still BLOWS AWAY anything by Green Day, Sonic Youth, Replacements, The Damned, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP/Velvet Revolver, Soundgarden/Audioslave....
I was in grade school and we were allowed to bring a record in and play 3 songs for show and tell ,hoth was the album i brought, it was 1975
As a 80's kid, the song that sticks out to this day is No Quarter. They played it at O2 and sounded great!
I love how, unlike the Beatles, Zep took time to separate and travel, which inspired so many tracks (though I’m sure Plant would rather forget that trip to Greece that left him in a wheelchair for months (including during the recording of Presence).)
unlike the beatles zep were fuckin great☝🏻
@@poitor5915 My favorite two bands but if forced to choose the Beatles were both even greater and even more important. No Beatles, no Zeppelin. You are ignorant! Jimmy Page himself accepted this, stating how singularily important to social change AND how no other band evolved music as much as they did. HE called them 'the perfect example of creative growth'. I call your comment the 'perfect example of profound ignorance'. Just got back from a comment that compared 'RUDE Lennon' with Donald Trump! SAD!
@@vladdrakul7851 yep sounds like me👍🏻
Another awesome vid!! My first memory of this track was when my family and I were living in Myrtle Beach, SC and I had started listening to local radio stations. I always had a cassette in the deck waiting to record anything that struck me as cool. This was around 1990, or thereabouts, so I was maybe 10 years old. Anyway, this incredible song starts filling my ears and I began to feel a groove in my soul that, up to this point in my life, I hadn't felt before. I had pushed record automatically when the song started..so for days (weeks more likely), my country and western music loving parents had to listen to the song played over and over until, eventually, the cassette tape broke, lol. Good memories!!
Awesome story! So did they learn to LOVE Zeppelin?
Lol, did that tape "mysteriously " break? I have parents that were all country music too, my dad uses to call my rock music "that ya ya ya music " lol.
@@ProfessorofRock haha..nawww, they still like the old country stuff. I'm very fortunate to still have both around for my daughter's to spend time with and get to know them. As for the tape breaking, I was playing it at the time the player "ate" the tape and I didn't take it out carefully enough...so I can only blame myself, lol.
It is an easily groovy song!
Good morning, Professor! Can you do an in depth on World Party?
Ship of Fools is just an incredible song.
I second that motion!!! “Is It Like Today” is also killer. Karl Wallinger is a genius.
@@AndySalinger33 Absolutely agree. Loved that as well!
When You Come Back To Me off of the Reality Bites soundtrack is equally awesome. His/their sound is so good.
....I have to split, but I HAD to agree with this comment! ...World Party was VERY different when they hot in '87, they (he) DOES need the "Prof. Love"....
I've actually interviewed World Party back in the day.
Never heard of World Party, actually. Would love to see that.
Bought this having not heard any cut off of it. 1st listen... I don't know about this. Afterwards I really enjoyed it the more I listened. Great video. Thanks
The last "rock concert" I saw was a Plant show. Nice re-arrangement of old Zep tunes and I love how he went forward in his journey. Following John Paul Jones solo work also. Anazing! Love the "classic " history, but some of these fellows are true Artists....moving forward while being aware of the foundations of tradition. Thank you!
I had about 50 8-Tracks in my car - Houses of the Holy was in the player about 50% of the time. I must have listened to it a thousand times.
I played the rain song at a wedding I was DJ'ing, the woman that had me play it started doing this dance with a group of about 25 guests that were huge Zeppelin fans starting out in a circle making it look like a ballet, it was probably one of the only times I played a Zeppelin song that people had danced too.
Would have easily made top ten in UK if they released it, would have brought in newer fans to Zeppelin
Agreed. Always wondered why they fought that so?
Definitely. I don’t think reggae hit big on the US charts, unfortunately.
Die-er Maker? Whoops. Happy to have that corrected! Nice episode prof! 👏
I was a freshman in high school when Led Zeppelin released their first album. D'yer Maker is my least favorite song they ever released. I cringe and change radio channels every time it comes on, and it astonishes me with how often it is played! Maybe I'm just too stuck on heavier music and the magnificence of everything else they ever produced, but D'yer Maker is not and will never be what I consider to be true Led Zeppelin music!
I change stations as fast as I can if it comes on!
It's a great song
@@joepharmasst It's a great song if you like it.
You, Prof, are the best thing that happened to music since the Marshall amp (the tube one). Your in-depth analysis' are scholarly and so well done I close my eyes so I can hear you better- Just like music. I always loved Zep. I was 15 at the big concert at the Pontiac Superdome. Very exciting, not so good acoustically. Quite dangerous in fact. The point is, I'm 62, love my nice headphones and your back stories of what was really going on with music.
Please don't do that accent again. Ever. I promise I'll never do an American accent. 😂
Interesting story and I think trying something new was the right move for the band, even if it pissed many fans off. Doing the same thing over and over only leads to staleness and failure. I like D'yer Maker partly because it's different and because it's a great song.
Speaking of Over The Hills And Far Away, any chance of a video on Gary Moore? Please.
Was it that bad? I knew it was average at best but...Ha ha.
Will try to add it in...
@@Elwaves2925 I would love to see him do Over the Hills.
It was always said Dire Maker. The pronunciation makes sense now, thanks Adam. I liked the variety of Zep and this song holds that trend. (Rain song still my fav.)