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The Seaside by Led Zeppelin - Down

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Album: Physical Graffiti
Released: 1975

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This is a nod to Neil Young, who had a song called "Down By The River." It's done in his style.

The band recorded this for Led Zeppelin 4, but they thought it wasn't good enough at the time. It was included on Physical Graffiti to fill the double album.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote this in 1970 as an acoustic piece at Bron-yr-Aur, the cottage in Wales where they went after a grueling US tour. The cottage had no electricity or running water.

Led Zeppelin never played this live.

Plant recorded a version with Tori Amos in 1995 for the Led Zeppelin tribute album Encomium. Plant is a huge fan of Amos and wanted to get a different take on the song by having her sing while he played guitar. Tori is also a huge Zeppelin fan.

It was Robert Plant's idea to include this song on the album, though not everyone agreed with him. Says Plant: "Everybody laughed when I suggested to include 'Down By The Seaside' on Physical Graffiti." John Paul Jones in particular hated this track. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Peace - World Pleasure

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Album: Happy People
Released: 2015

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This seven-minute funk odyssey finds Harry Koisser semi-rapping about his arresting appearance, before his brother Sam launches into a bass solo. The frontman told NME that the band spent nearly all the money they had to make the Happy People album recording this one track. "We blew nearly all our budget on this song, which we recorded in two parts," Koisser explained. "We got carried away - strings and everything. I can't really remember what kind of state of mind I was in when I wrote it, but I like the way it came out."

Led Zeppelin - The Rover

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Album: Physical Graffiti
Released: 1975

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"Rover" is old British slang for a wanderer. The lyrics are fitting to this definition. (thanks, Mason - Greenville, NC)

This began life as an acoustic piece. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant started writing it in 1970 at Bron-yr-Aur, the cottage in Wales they went to after a brutal US tour. The cottage had no electricity or running water.

Led Zeppelin recorded this at the Houses Of The Holy sessions. They didn't use it on that album, so they remixed it for Physical Graffiti.

Led Zeppelin never played this live, but during their 1977 tour of the United States, the band would often use the opening riff to segue into "Sick Again." (thanks, Chris - Whitesboro, NY)

The intro is very close to the Kinks track "Wicked Annabella" from their Village Green album. (thanks, John - Waterford, Ireland)

Rudimental - Hide

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Album: Home
Released: 2013

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Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (Go away)
Til I’m high
Won’t give up

November phone call, on the hotline
You see the picture, every single sign
I got a secret
But can you keep it?

If tears had balance, what would life be?
You and me would be quiet likely
But you see this
I’m still a misfit

I feel,
Running in circles tryna find me
Blindfolded
With only the darkness you’re unable to see

I’m not there
I’m not there
And to tell you the truth you should cut me loose,
I’m nowhere, nowhere

So I Hide myself away
To another place
I hide oh between the sheets
So you don’t see me ah
It’s a masquerade
Play another phase
I won’t give up, no
Hiding in lies goes inside out so weak

Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)
Til I’m high (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)

Tell another lie, commit another sin
This he says she says is wearing you thin and you know it
But you don’t show it

To feel,
Is something I'm tryin' it’s so hard to do
Unfolded
Now you’re survival I’ve gotten through,
I am scared
So so scared
And to tell you the truth this is nothing new
So I can’t oh I can’t

So I hide myself away
To another place
I hide oh between the sheets
So you don’t see me ah
It’s a masquerade
Play another phase
I won’t give up, no
Hiding in lies goes inside out so weak

Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)
Til I’m high (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)
Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (want)
Til I’m high (I want you)
Hiding in lies goes inside out so

Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)
Til I’m high (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)
Won’t give up (I want you)
Won’t give up (want)
Til I’m high (I want you)
Won’t give up (go away)

Hide myself away
To another place
I hide oh between the sheets
So you don’t see me
Try to masquerade
We're another phase
I won’t give up, no
Hiding in lies goes inside out so weak

Writer/s: IZADKHAH, AMIR / DRYDEN, KESI / AGGETT, PIERS / EMENIKE, UZOECHI / HARNETT, SINEAD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This features vocals by Sinead Harnett, who also co-wrote the song. The London singer-songwriter also penned Home's title track and has a writing credit on "Baby."

Sinead Harnett owed her start in music to the rapper Wiley, who tweeted his followers that he needed a singer to do backing vocals on his "Walk Away" single. After receiving hundreds of applicants, he settled on Harnett. More high profile hook-ups followed, including a feature on the Disclosure track "Boiling" from their EP The Face.

Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie

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Album: Physical Graffiti
Released: 1975

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This song is based on various American blues recordings, including Blind Boy Fuller's 1939 "I Want Some Of Your Pie" and Brown McGhee's 1947 "Custard Pie Blues." It's the first song on the double album Physical Graffiti.

Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones played the electric clavinet on this.

This is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs they never played live.

Actual custard pie involves a pie shell filled with custard and other ingredients. You might not think of it this way, but both pumpkin and banana cream are custard pies.

It is speculated that "custard pie" is a euphemism for female sexuality and/or genitalia. Other songs which associate pie and women include The Beatles' "Wild Honey Pie," The Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)," and of course Warrant's "Cherry Pie."

Jimmy Page joined The Black Crowes briefly and covered this song on their album Live at the Greek.

This song is from the album Physical Graffiti, which sold 16x platinum for Led Zeppelin... in the US alone.

"Custard Pie" was recorded at Headley Grange, long about January-to-February 1974.

This includes a snippet from "Shake 'em On Down" by the blues musician Bukka White. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Ryan Bingham - Broken Heart Tattoos

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Album: Fear and Saturday Night
Released: 2015

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Ryan Bingham penned this letter to his child before he found out his wife, Anna, was pregnant. He explained to Rolling Stone: "Over the past couple of years, we'd been talking [about] if we wanted to have kids or not. We had it in our minds. You start thinking about, "Wow, what would I have to say to my kid if I had one?" And that was kind of how the song began. Then, a few months later, [Anna] told me she was pregnant, so it was like, all right, I got that one down."

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

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Album: Houses Of The Holy
Released: 1973

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"No quarter" is a pirate phrase meaning "no mercy." It could also refer to the US Revolutionary War when Great Britain enforced a policy requiring colonial Americans to house British soldiers and offer them food and a bed during the cold of winter. If this policy was refused to a British soldier, this "No Quarter" policy allowed the British soldier to invoke severe punishment (death, sometimes) on the American who refused him. This was only one of the many ways in which Britain attempted to legitimize their treatment of Americans in their effort to interrupt their recapture of the colonies. (thanks, Andy - Lubbock, TX)

Written by bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant, the song showcases Jones' skills as a pianist. The song became a live favorite, with Jones performing it on piano - one of his few moments in the spotlight during Zep sets.

This song became the title track of the 1994 Page and Plant reunion album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded, an acoustic set by the duo recorded during their concerts for an MTV special. On the 1995 DVD release, the song "No Quarter" opens the set.

The Unledded project was the first time Page and Plant had collaborated in 14 years, and was the closet they had come to reviving Led Zeppelin.

That they chose to name the project after a song much associated with their erstwhile bassist was not appreciated by John Paul Jones, whose biggest complaint was that he was kept out of the loop. Jones found out from a business associate that Page and Plant were working together, but he assumed they were doing new songs. He was on tour in Germany when he saw the MTV concert and realized that they were doing Led Zeppelin songs. When the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jones took a jab at Page and Plant, saying during the ceremony: "I'd like to thank my friends for finally remembering my phone number."

Led Zeppelin started working on this song in 1971, recording early versions during the Led Zeppelin IV sessions. The version that made it to the album evolved out of a faster version they recorded earlier at Headley Grange, an old mansion in a remote part of England where they wrote and recorded many of their songs, including "Stairway To Heaven."

Tool covered this on their 2000 album Salival.

Various Led Zeppelin tribute bands called "No Quarter" have surfaced over the years.

Sublime borrowed a riff from this in their song "Smoke Two Joints." The short-lasting similarities can be heard at 1:07 in "No Quarter" and at 1:09 in "Smoke Two Joints." (thanks, Matt - San Antonio, TX)

San Fermin - Jackrabbit

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Album: Jackrabbit
Released: 2015

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San Fermin's self-titled 2013 debut album was written in solitude by frontman Ellis Ludwig-Leone and recorded by a small army of 22 musicians. The second record, Jackrabbit, was penned by Ludwig-Leone in a similar spirit and lay on his laptop for nearly a year. However once San Fermin started touring as an eight-piece band, Ludwig-Leone was forced to workshop his material for a live setting. So he rewrote the album's songs, and the result is looser. "I was looking for a sound that was a little darker," Ludwig-Leone told NPR, "and maybe a little more manic."

This is the title track. "'Jackrabbit' is the last song I wrote on this record," Ludwig-Leone told Billboard magazine, "and it definitely sums up some themes I've been circling for a while now. It's fight-or-flight plus a marching band, which is basically my stance on everything."

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same

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Album: Houses Of The Holy
Released: 1973

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The lyrics are based on Robert Plant's belief that music is universal. He told NME in 1973: "Every time I sing that, I just picture the fact that I've been round and round the world, and at the root of it all there's a common denominator for everybody. The common denominator is what makes it good or bad, whether it's a Led Zeppelin or an Alice Cooper."

The title was used for a concert film and soundtrack released in 1976. Footage from three 1973 Madison Square Garden shows was mixed with scenes of the band acting out their "fantasies." The band was not happy with the results.

A live favorite, Led Zeppelin used this to open concerts during their 1977 US tour.

This was an instrumental called "The Overture" before Robert Plant put lyrics to it. Led Zeppelin played it as shows before it was fully formed - Plant introduced it as "The Campaign" before the title was changed.

Plant's vocals were sped-up.

Jimmy Page always used his legendary double-necked guitar to play this live. He used the same guitar on "The Rain Song" which would always directly follow it. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

This is one of Led Zeppelin's songs that contains the most overdubs on guitar. The introduction is quite similar to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor" by The Yardbirds, which was also written by Jimmy Page. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Sleater-Kinney - Surface Envy

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Album: No Cities To Love
Released: 2015

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Throw me a rope, give me a leg
I haven't seen daylight in what must be day
I took the long way down, lost track of myself
Confidence fell down the steepest of slopes
I'll row you an ocean, I could do more
I feel so much stronger, now that you're here
We've got so much to do, let me make that clear

We win, we lose, only together do we break the rules
We win, we lose, only together do we make the rules

I'm breaking the surface, tasting the air
I'm reaching for things like never before
The anchor is heavy, I can't hold the weight
The guilt holds me down, won't let me be myself
Suck it all in, suck it all up
Let go of thoughts holding me back
I'll push twice as hard towards it you see
And the past falls away to the bottom of the deep

When we leave say goodbye to your old way of life
I can breathe way up high now it's our turn to fly

Writer/s: CORIN LISA TUCKER, JANET LEE WEISS, CARRIE RACHEL BROWNSTEIN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This is a track from No Cities to Love, Sleater-Kinney's first album after a decade long hiatus. Corin Tucker wrote the song to capture the struggle and triumph of reviving the band. She explained to NME: "That is definitely written with the idea of the moment when we were talking about being a band again. And what an incredible opportunity and a giant challenge that is to me - being a mom and trying to have this really intense career."

Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er

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Album: Houses Of The Holy
Released: 1973

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The title is pronounced "Jamaica," as spoken by the locals in that country. It is a play on the phrase "did you make her":

"She went to the Caribbean."
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went on her own."

The title could also be a sexual reference.

Many people thought the title was pronounced "Dear Maker" and read way too much into it. Jimmy Page had an interest in the occult and Robert Plant wrote some very spiritual lyrics, which led to deeper meanings in many of Led Zeppelin's songs, but not this one.

This song was meant to imitate reggae and its "dub" derivative emerging from Jamaica in the early '70s. Bonham's inability to replicate a reggae beat on his drums, however, turned the song into an odd melange of what sounded like '50s doo-wop and reggae. This song and "The Crunge" are considered the two "joke" songs on the album. (thanks, John - Boca Raton, FL)

Led Zeppelin had a curious history of single releases in America. While the band was active, they released just 10 singles (they didn't release any in the UK while they were extant), which typically did just well enough to get a mention from Casey Kasem on American Top 40. "D'yer Mak'er" was one of those singles (backed with "The Crunge"), peaking at #20. Zeppelin was never a "singles band," so these releases were intended to drive sales of the albums, which they did. They often sold well enough to make the charts, however, leaving poor Mr. Kasem to wonder how to pronounce the title to this one.

The distinctive drum sound was created by placing three microphones a good distance away from John Bonham's drums.

Led Zeppelin never performed this live. It would have been difficult to re-create the reggae band.

This is one of the few Zeppelin songs where all four members share the composer credit.

Sheryl Crow sang this on Encomium, the 1995 Led Zeppelin tribute album.

We Are Harlot - Denial

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Album: We Are Harlot
Released: 2014

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We Are Harlot are a band co-founded by former Asking Alexandria lead singer Danny Worsnop. He is joined on the project by guitarist Jeff George formerly of Sebastian Bach, bassist Brian Weaver from Silvertide and drummer Bruno Agra. The band formed in 2011 but fans had to wait three years before they released their first single "Denial."

The song caught the attention of global entertainment company WWE, who picked the track to be the theme song of its flagship television program Monday Night Raw.