Ranking HOUSES OF THE HOLY by Led Zeppelin! (worst to first)
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Houses of the Holy is my favorite Led Zeppelin album. Thank you for sharing your toughts on this masterpiece. 🤘🏻
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My ranking would probably be
1. No Quarter
2. Rain Song
3. Over the Hills
4. The Song Remains the Same
5. Dancing days
6. The ocean
7. The Crunge
8. D'yer Mak'er
Many of the ones in the middle are interchangeable for me, but No Quarter and Rain Song are definitely my favorites.
When I was 12, my guitar teacher introduced me to this album, so I have a lot of memories of learning it with him. No Quarter was also his favorite and was one of the first ones he showed me. I also remember my mom initially did not like me listening to his album because the cover freaked her out.
I think my ranking would be something like this too. So hard to choose though.
This is a much better ranking. Rain Song is one of the greats. The Ocean is forgettable. And I never want to hear Dyer Maker again, cause I heard it a million times on rock radio.
I didn't like Dyer Maker at first, but it grew on me....
The Rain Song is just majestic. Sometimes I hear it and it gets to the mellotron strings and I feel tears well up in my eyes...so beautiful...❤
This is one of my favorite Led Zeppelin albums. Couldn't agree more with the number one pick. It just feels so dreamy and surreal to listen to. You are absolutely spot on about the song taking you to places when you listen to it. My personal top 3 would be
1. No Quarter - obviously
2. The Rain song - Jimmy Page's sense of melody and harmony is unreal here. Simply a beautiful ballad.
3. The Ocean - Never a dull moment in this song. Time signature keeps you guessing, epic riffs and main solo and the key change in the end is icing on the cake.
I think the vocals sound the way they do on No Quarter because they slowed the whole song from D down to C# with the tape machine. Hence why they play it in D live
I love this so much! Grew up on Led Zeppelin and they are still one of my favorites to this day.
No Quarter is my fave as well. So dark - almost like a painting, It moves you to another plane. I first heard the HOTH LP and then later saw the film TSRTS - wow - Page's improved solo was mind blowing.
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1 - Quarter
2 - Rain
3 - Ocean
4- Hills
5 - Dancing
6 - Maker
7 - Remains
8 - Crunge
I remember I was around 19 (1985ish). I came home maybe around midnight and was most likely under the influence of "something".
I remember lying in bed with my trusty transistor clock radio next to me listening to WNEW 102.7 in Queens when Dancing Days came on. It was my first time REALLY HEARING it. Now that I've been playing over 30 years I understand what I was hearing but hearing those slides (with a slide) was a religious moment in my life that I will never forget. 57 now.
The Crunge to me is the gem on HOTH. Odd meter and every musician locked in tight. Love the bass coming into the drum intro for a couple of bars before the guitar kicks in.
agreed, finding someone else who enjoys the crunge is like finding a 4 leaf clover
@@inferiorpatty No way. 4 leaf clovers are relatively common.
Over the Hills, Rain Song, No Quarter, The Ocean, Jamaica, etc.
Here’s how I would rank ‘em. Worst is -8, First is -1:
1. Over the Hills and Far Away
2. The Song Remains the Same
3. The Ocean
4. The Rain Song
5. Dancing Days
7. The Crunge
8. No Quarter
The Rain Song is by far and away my favorite Zep songs. Had this CD when I was in junior high and burned it up lol
Can't really argue with that order. The Crunge for me is just one of those jams you do as a band for a laugh and probably should have been swapped out for the actual title track. Jimmy's guitar work on this album is stunning. Acoustic, electric, so much variation, style, feel and tone. Pure musicianship.
The Ocean, No Quarter, and Over the Hills and Far Away are my top three from Houses of the Holy. They’re such magnificent songs.
Love this album. My favorite Led Zeppelin song is The Song Remains the Same
Like you stated, rating the songs on LZV is really hard. Such a great album that has always been a favourite of theirs because of both the songs and how they complement each other on the album.
Tool's cover of No Quarter is equally as haunting. Tool plays it in slow motion too. It's on the Salival album. The Ocean is probably one of the few songs I can still sort of play after all these years.
One of my memories of this album: I accidentally made the other guitar player in my band 15 years ago quit because I insisted we play the end bits of "The Ocean" correctly instead of the wrong way he'd been playing for years...😆
HOTH has grown on me a lot. When I heard it the first time 30 years ago I thought, that it is overproduced and sounds artificial in parts (There is a rumor, that Plant's voice was sped up to make it higher). I only liked three songs and very much preferred the live-versions. But meanwhile I love it because - as you say - I have realised how great some single parts are. The best example is the drum-groove of "The crunge" (You nail it by the way!). All in all I think they reacted on this album to common trends of that era: Progressive Rock, Funk and Reggae. I want to add to your analysis, that Jimmy Page copied some trademarks of Pete Townshend in "The song remains the same". My personal ranking would be like this:
1. The Rain Song
2. No Quarter
3. The Song Remains The Same
4. D'yer Mak'er
5. Over The Hills And Far Away
6. The Ocean
7. Dancing Days
8. The Crunge
My personal ranking
1. The Ocean
2. Over The Hills and Far Away
3. The Song Remain The Same
4. The Rain Song
5. Dancing Days
6. No Quarter
7. The Crunge
8. Dyer Maker
My favorite has got to be Over The Hills And Far Away. That faint church organ at the end of the song has to be the most optimistic sound ever put to music.
Yeah. Over the hills is my favourite as well.
The ending is actually played on a Clavinet. I've always thought those wailing notes at the very end were slide guitar. But it is actually synth.
And apparently jimmy's guitar echos are coming through but i think it is mostly buried in the mix.
This was super fun to watch and listen to. Thanks!
Listening to Houses of the Holy is what got me through the pandemic. I would listen to it everyday driving to. Yeah I still had to go to work. Love Led Zeppelin.
This is a fantastic series, enjoying it very much!
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It was also the song Joe Perry asked Jimmy Page to teach him in exchange for inducting Zep into the RNRHOF.
Yess! 213,is one of my favorite Slayer tunes, and it totally sounds similar.
Yes! "No Quarter" is my favorite as well.
The first two songs on the album are the best opening duo of any album.
The Song Remains The Same itself is one of the best to learn from, its lead breaks are awesome.
Yeah man, I think that you nailed it down pretty accurately in my opinion. Top 3 of my choices are No Quarter, The Ocean, The Rain Song
Mike thanks for getting all the Led Zeppelin facts correct. Most UA-camrs don’t
That slayer arpeggiated chord reminds me of Jerry Cantrell Sap EP
D’Yer Maker has always been one of my favorites!!!
Love the James Brown reference and clip
“Hit me” lol
This album is perfect i think my fav in here is ocean
I remember this album was the first thing I listened to after I asked my first girlfriend out, so I totally associate The Song Remains the Same with those feelings of optimism and excitement you mentioned
The booklet by Cameron Crow that came with that box set was so good.
Just watched "Squaring the Circle" about Hipgnosis Design that did a lot of those iconic album covers. Great documentary on netflix.
As I was watching your rankings I was thinking that you put some songs too low. Obviously your list is based on your tastes and that's cool and all. But when I put my list together I realized that this album is really hard to rank! Also, the album is just packed with awesome songs, so like you said, even the lowest rated songs are still great. I will state though that The Rain Song is my #1 and The Crunge is my #8. After that, my mood could drastically re-order this list. Here's what I've got right now:
1. The Rain Song
2. Over the Hills and Far Away
3. No Quarter
4. The Song Remains the Same
5. The Ocean
6. Dancing Days
7. D'yer Mak'er
8. The Crunge
My favorite Led Zeppelin album. Its one of those "oops all bangers albums" imo.
Nice shout out to STP covering dancing days!
#1 Over the Hills and Far Away
Initially I got bothered when you dissed the synth in the Crunge because the fills in it sound pretty unique. But then you played the 80s TV theme part and i LOL'd.
My early memory from this album is that the inside art when accompanied with No Quarter scared me as a child. Which is why perhaps im mostly bored with No Quarter; it ranks pretty low for me. However, when i heard and saw Page & Plant perform it live it really made me appreciate it more.
The Crunge druming is sampled by De La Sol
The Ocean was the song my drum teacher used to show me odd time signatures, back when I was a kid in the early 2000s. The Crunge is one of my favorites off the last few Zeppelin albums and I could definitely swap it for Dancing Days, that song always felt like filler to me! hahaha
mike i have a really cool new idea for a potential series. you take a song you know but havnt learnt before and try to remake it from memory. you can look up lyrics and tunings if you want, but youre not allowed to listen to the original song until youre finished remaking it from memory.
I’ve been doing No Quarter into Machine Gun, since I was a teenager, because they share a similar riff, that can work in Em, or tuned a half step down.
Still looking for someone who could do the vocals for both.
Your comment about the synth introduction in The Crunge sounding like something from a ‘70s television show is exactly the same reason why I have always disliked that part of the song; it always reminded me of the theme song from Sanford and Son. I love the first minute of The Crunge, but once that synth kicks in, it’s all downhill from there. Not to mention, Plant’s elongated vocals, toward the end, are one of the rare times where his singing actually annoys me.
They don't slow the tape,they speed it up when recording so it sounds slower and "darker" when played back at normal speed
Ragrding D'yer M'ker, Page has said that it was how he he heard Jamaican pronouncing Jamaica. That makes sense given it's a reggae song...
Perfect album 👏 👏 👏
TSRTS version of No Quarter is incredible. But the 1976 vinyl version not the 2007 remaster! Page does one of his best solo ever!
“My wife’s gone on holiday to the Caribbean.”
“Jamaica.”
“No - she went of her own accord”
I agree with your ranking, but I'd move The Rain Song to #1❤
The 3 songs from this album featured on The Song Remains The Same live album just don't compare to those live versions. I would have to put Song Remains The Same, Rain Song, and No Quarter behind the others. Well except Dancing Days and Die'r Maker or whatever. I got burned out on those 2 tracks because they were always on the radio
The Crunge is absolutely my least favorite song off this album. If they swapped it with Houses of the Holy off Physical Graffiti this album would be flawless.
Oh yeah, my list.
8 The Crunge
7 The Song Remains the Same
6 The Rain Song
5 Over The Hills And Far Away
4 D'yer Mak'er
3 Dancing Days
2 No Quarter
1 The Ocean
Dude come on. The crunge is unique. Definitely not a bad song. Super funky
That's weird The Crunge is one of my favorite songs on the album
@@brianbianchi8028 I'm not saying it's a bad song though because it isn't. I just think stylistically it's jarring going from OTHAFA to The Crunge then Dancing Days.
I had big giant earphones that my parents owned. When I was little I listened to Queen, Kiss, the Eagles, etc. so awesome. You're right they don't make things like they used to.
8 no quarter
7 the crunge
6 dancing days
5 dyer maker
4 the ocean
3 over the hills and far away
2 the song remains the same
1 the rain song
Isn't he played No Quarter guitar parts in Dm and then adjusted it down in half step? Wrong tabs again?
I’ve read about that many times. Page took a faster version, thst they’d recorded during the session for IV, then they re-recorded it. He then applied the “vari-speed” on the tape console to slow the entire song, until it was a half step lower.
It would be great if you make appetite for destruction Ranking video.
I love how Houses of the Holy is not even on Houses of the Holy.
That cracks me up as well.
High Voltage is not on the original Australian AC/DC High voltage. Its always a weird thing...
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The joke is:
- My wife's gone to the West Indies.
- Jamaica?
- No, she went of her own accord.
Jamaica = Did ya make her?
It's an oooooooooooooooooooooolllld music hall joke.
Since James Brown was brought up... 🎶 UHHH, too hot, too hot in the hot tub, burn m'self🎶
No quarter is amazing , I love Tool´s cover of it
The "No Quarter" riff was one of the first ones I learned. I got so mad that my Danelectro French toast didn't sound like Jimmy Page 🤣🤣 Now I know.
Do The Great Southern trendkill
1 The Rain Song
2 Over The Hills and far Away
3 the rest
How to ruin The Crunge for all of us - The Art of Guitar Edition. Lol! Dude I’ll see Rerun and James Brown in my head forever now. Just messing with you, great breakdown.
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He picked No Quarter, the man has great taste 🤌
My least favorite Zep album with an actual title, but...
8. Dancing Days (never cared for this one)
7. D'yer Mak'er
6. The Ocean
5. No Quarter (always felt like this was just a mediocre Sabbath song)
4. Over The Hills And Far Away
3. The Crunge (I like weird shit, okay?!)
2. The Song Remains The Same
1. The Rain Song (other than Achilles Last Stand and Ten Years Gone, my favorite Zep tune)
Doing acid to No Quarter and other cool 70s music has just got to be better than doing it to whatever the kids are listening to now.
😜✌
What’s Happening? rules!
The craziest thing is I was introduced to Led Zeppelin before I was introduced to KISS
Agree with your rankings, especially No Quarter. And people did not get butt hurt in the 70s. Fewer weaklings in the gene pool.
Their best with Zoso, how can you really pick a worst and a best? I'd agree with The Crunge n.8 but just because it's slightly least favorite having a less beautiful melody, and The Rain Song can be nowhere but at n.1.
No Quarter is one of my absolute favorite Zeppelin tunes. But I never liked Dancing Days. Something about that song just annoys me.
8: Dancing Days
7: D'yer Mak'er
6: The Song Remains the Same
5: The Crunge
4: The Ocean
3: The Rain Song
2: Over the Hills
1: No Quarter
Dancing Daze Bro
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You're reviewing a Led Zepplin album, and you've got a 'worst' section?
This is Led Zepplin, there's no such thing as 'worst '!
So that’s how you pronounce “D’yer Mak’er”
I read that it may also be a play on the pronunciation of “Jamaica”.
Come to J’yuh May’ker mon!
No quarter is incredible
That black Gibson SG is a beautiful guitar. I'll give you $400.00 for it?
D'yer Maker and Dancing Days ahead of TSRTS. Ouch. Just no. Still love your channel anyway. I think.
Rain Song no 1. Maybe no 2. But no. 4 nah...
Never heard a dream theater song
I took my wife on vacation.
D'yer Maker?
No, she wanted to go.
My favourite track is…Houses of the Holy…wait a minute….🤔
Strange right?
Nah. The Rain Song is No.1. All great tunes though.
The Crunge has the honour of being second worst on this album, for me D’yer Mak’er is unquestionably my least favourite Zeppelin song, period. Garbage lyrics, frivolous chord progression, Bonham was bored and it shows.
The rest of the album is pure gold, in my opinion their greatest record.
The Crunge is easily one of the worst songs ever written by LZ
The Cringe is the worst Zeppelin song.
But why is Houses of the Holy on Physical Graffiti? Has any band ever done that before?
AC/DC. High Voltage didn’t appear on the original Australian High Voltage, but on the follow up T.N.T. (Which was really what was released everywhere else as High Voltage.)