Led Zeppelin IV

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In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic black or otherwise that surrounds this album Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots and leaves the reader to decide whether Four Symbols is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock albumStripping Led Zeppelin s famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame Led Zeppelin IV, Untitled , Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna And yet this uncanny fetish was about as easy to buy as a jockstrap Download Led Zeppelin IV – kino-fada.fr I like the 33 1 3 books and I like Led Zeppelin, although I have never subscribed to the hyperbolic nonsense and mythologising that constitutes the vast majority of the material written about the band over the years I mean, they were an very good band but they were no Deep Purple In the first few paragraphs of his book, Erik Davis describes buying a copy of that literally nameless slab of luminous rune rock we must stoop to dub Led Zeppelin IV, or Four Symbols, or Zoso and I almost stopped I like the 33 1 3 books and I like Led Zeppelin, although I have never subscribed to the hyperbolic nonsense and mythologising that constitutes the vast majority of the material written about the band over the years I mean, they were an very good band but they were no Deep Purple In the first few paragraphs of his book, Erik Davis describes buying a copy of that literally nameless slab of luminous rune rock we must stoop to dub Led Zeppelin IV, or Four Symbols, or Zoso and I almost stopped reading but, a few lines later, sure it was cock rock, but it was also a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, stuffed into a cock I thought, maybe this is tongue in cheek.In truth, there is a lot of nonsense in Davis s book He decries myth making and then proceeds to tell the story of Zeppelin s fourth album with the mythical journey of Percy which he seems to fee...Davis understands that both myth and technology were essential components in the Zeppelin saga, and he is hyper fluent in both areas He also, rather miraculously, evokes the mystique of the band not an easy thing to do when the subject lies forty plus years in the past He locates Zep s cryptic power in a post Woodstock era when the Aquarian tide rolled back out and revealed a desolate shore And he is a beautifully evocative writer Black Dog thrashes like a serpen...This one s a lot of fun This one of the 33 1 3 series isn t about the recording, the circumstances, or the people it s about the analysis that s gone into the album and the band, with a particular focus on the magickal nature of the songs, lyrics, and the band members interests Davis is ideal to write this, with a very deep knowledge of Crowley in particular Jimmy Page s interest in Crowley is well known, and features in a lot of the analysis here If you just want to read about the songs This one s a lot of fun This one of the 33 1 3 series isn t about the recording, the circumstances, or the people it s about the analysis that s gone into the album and the band, with a particular focus on the magickal nature of the songs, lyrics, and the band members interests Davis is ideal to write this, with a very deep...I would have liked this a lotif it was a novella about Jimmy Page living in Aleistair Crowley s house and running an occult bookstore in the late 1970s.When you re a hammer everything looks like a nail.The 33 1 3 series is fun and fabulous This particular album homage got mystical, dark, and deep The author uses a huge musical and occult vocabulary to express his love and research on each song of this legendary album Zeppelin s weird magic gets full attention, and I learned so much about the band s connections to the runes, the mysticism, the fantastica...I liked the format We start with the album How vinyl albums are made and how sound is recorded Then we get onto the cover The designs and colors Is this Runes Symbols IV untitled He analyzes each idea We don t get a literal story of each so...Say what you will, the author is very well read, proposes excellent connections between Led Zepellin and several books and authors, has a great handle on what has been written about Led Zeppelin, and provides an interesting and entertaining interpretation of Zep s fourth album All in all, ...A bit silly and overwrought over interpretative in places, but seeing as I had no previous knowledge about the making of this album or its cultural influences and interpretation beyond the accusations of satanic backmasking on Stairway ...This was an interesting read There was a lot of info about Aleister Crowley and the occult that I m not sure Led tried to include in their music, but it held my attention and was well balanced with the rest of the music Not my favorite album, but still a good read.

Led Zeppelin IV
  • English
  • 07 August 2018
  • Paperback
  • 184 pages
  • 0826416586
  • Erik Davis
  • Led Zeppelin IV