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Led Zeppelin
Physical Graffiti
Release Date: 1975 02 24
Running Time: 82:15
Label: Atlantic

Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album. Zeppelin treat many of the songs on Physical Graffiti as forays into individual styles, only occasionally synthesizing sounds, notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced "Kashmir." With John Paul Jones' galloping keyboard, "Trampled Underfoot" ranks as their funkiest metallic grind, while "Houses of the Holy" is as effervescent as pre-Beatles pop and "Down by the Seaside" is the closest they've come to country. Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute "In My Time of Dying," the tightly wound "Custard Pie," and the monstrous epic "The Rover" -- are subtly shaded, even if they're thunderously loud. Most of these heavy rockers are isolated on the first album, with the second half of Physical Graffiti sounding a little like a scrap heap of experiments, jams, acoustic workouts, and neo-covers. This may not be as consistent as the first platter, but its quirks are entirely welcome, not just because they encompass the mean, decadent "Sick Again," but the heartbreaking "Ten Years Gone" and the utterly charming acoustic rock & roll of "Boogie With Stu" and "Black Country Woman." Yes, some of this could be labeled as filler, but like any great double album, its appeal lies in its great sprawl, since it captures elements of the band's personality rarely showcased elsewhere -- and even at its worst, Physical Graffiti towers above its hard rock peers of the mid-'70s. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Custard Pie	Page, Plant	4:14
2	Rover	Page, Plant	5:37
3	In My Time of Dying	Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham	11:06
4	Houses of the Holy	Page, Plant	4:02
5	Trampled Under Foot	Page, Plant, Jones	5:36
6	Kashmir	Page, Plant, Bonham	8:28
7	In the Light	Page, Plant, Jones	8:47
8	Bron-Yr-Aur	Page	2:06
9	Down by the Seaside	Page, Plant	5:16
10	Ten Years Gone	Page, Plant	6:33
11	Night Flight	Page, Plant, Jones	3:37
12	Wanton Song	Page, Plant	4:09
13	Boogie with Stu	Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham, Stewart	3:53
14	Black Country Woman	Page, Plant	4:32
15	Sick Again	Page, Plant	4:43

Releases:

Year	Type	Label
	CD	Atlantic
1990	CD	Atlantic
1994	CD	Atlantic
1995	CD	Atlantic
	CD	Swan Song
2003	CD	Swan Song
2005	CD	WEA International
1994	CS	Atlantic
1975	CS	Swan Song
1990	LP	Atlantic
2001	LP	Classic Compact Disc