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Plant Poll

Which Plant makes you pant?

"Burning Down One Side"	0 votes
"In the Mood"	3 votes
"Big Log"	0 votes
"Little By Little"	0 votes
"Heaven Knows"	0 votes
"Tall Cool One"	4 votes
"Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)"	0 votes
"Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night"	0 votes

AG/DC Apr 23 2008 09:55 AM

Robert Plant may have been, as KC claims, the least talented member of LedZep, but he was not at sea when the band moved on. He experimented, alternately with reflective art rock and goofy cocky rockabilly, taking himself more and less seriously. Yeah, he was largley dependent on new (lesser) collaborators in his post-Zep career, like Robbie Blunt, David Barrett, and Phil Johnstone, but had a new aesthetic, he put aside his falsettos, and he reinvented himself, before re-asserting himself, and that takes some courage and vision. And, no matter what he did, no matter what he played, folks paid top dollar to go to his shows and scream "Stairway!" for two hours. For the interest of brevity, we're going with work that bares his name only, and leaving out Honeydrippers, Page/Plant, and Page/Krauss stuff. "Burning Down One Side" "In the Mood" "Big Log" "Little By Little" "Heaven Knows" "Tall Cool One" "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)" (audio is live but OK) "Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night"

seawolf17 Apr 23 2008 09:59 AM

Urg. Without Jimmy Page or Alison Krauss, Robert Plant kinda sucks.

AG/DC Apr 23 2008 10:00 AM

Desert island castaways can't be choosers.

seawolf17 Apr 23 2008 10:00 AM

Well, since I had to choose, I chose "In The Mood."

Willets Point Apr 23 2008 10:00 AM

seawolf17 wrote: Urg. Without Jimmy Page or Alison Krauss, Robert Plant kinda sucks. I'm going to have to agree. I was hoping a Honeydripper's song or a song with Krauss would be among the options.

AG/DC Apr 23 2008 10:04 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 23 2008 11:05 AM

Listen again. While a lot of these sound of their time ("Burning Down" sounds like Zep produced and drummed by Phil Collins, "Heaven Knows" like Simple Minds), there are a lot of spicey meatballs in the plate.

Batty31 Apr 23 2008 10:57 AM

"Tall Cool One" always puts me in an upbeat mood. If I ever got to meet Plant, I'd love to ask him about Big Log. ...

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 23 2008 11:03 AM

I'll admit it, I've purchased more Plant solo albums than Led Zep albums (1-0) not necessarily because one was superior to the other but that I always had a roomate or neighbor who had the entire collection of the latter. I kinda like the mellow, atmospheric vibe of the Principle of Moments record. It's betweeen the first 3 for me, prolly the first 2.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 24 2008 07:29 AM

Def Leppard 17 votes Robert Plant 5 votes

AG/DC Apr 24 2008 07:41 AM

Urg. I voted in the Def poll because most of those songs were laughingly dismissable. I haven't voted yet here because I like a lot of these songs. You would too, dear reader, if you'd just hit play. (The "Tall Cool One" video even opens with a Def Leppard outro.)

seawolf17 Apr 24 2008 09:46 AM

AG/DC wrote: Urg. I voted in the Def poll because most of those songs were laughingly dismissable. I haven't voted yet here because I like a lot of these songs. You would too, dear reader, if you'd just hit play. (The "Tall Cool One" video even opens with a Def Leppard outro.) What do you think inspired me to start a DL poll? I don't see how it's surprising that Def Leppard got more votes than Robert Plant solo. They've sold a hundred bajillion albums worldwide and if you stop a random person on the street in NYC, odds are they'll know many more DL songs than Plant solo songs.