For Led Zeppelin, the music tended to be extra necessary than the lyrics. Want proof? Just one album got here with a lyric sheet. At the similar time, Zep’s tunes would have been supremely boring with out Robert Plant’s vocals. These are the 5 Led Zeppelin songs with soiled lyrics.
Robert Plant’s lyrics developed throughout his Led Zeppelin profession
Earlier than we get to the Zep songs with soiled lyrics, we should acknowledge how far Plant got here together with his writing whereas in the band.
He turned 20 years outdated quickly after Led Zeppelin fashioned. Instantly, he was performing with two skilled musicians in Jimmy Web page and John Paul Jones (plus considered one of the biggest drummers ever in John Bonham). Earlier than that, his solely expertise in working bands got here in some barely notable regional teams (Band of Pleasure, Hobbstweedle).
The singer principally copied lyrical phrases from blues songs he favored early in Led Zeppelin’s profession. Plant admitted he stole the phrases and vocal supply on “Whole Lotta Love.” But he developed his abilities and wrote lyrics that advised epic tales (“Achilles Last Stand”) and conveyed heartbreak and unhappiness (“All of My Love”). Nonetheless, Plant was at all times good for delivering some nasty lyrics on Led Zeppelin songs.
1. ‘Whole Lotta Love’
- Soiled lyrics: “Way, way down inside / I’m gonna give you my love / I’m gonna give you every inch of my love.”
Plant copied the lyrics (from bluesman Willie Dixon) and gritty vocal supply (from The Small Faces’ Steve Marriott) on “Whole Lotta Love,” however he made them even dirtier than both artist.
It’s not simply that Plant sings, “Way, way down inside / I’m gonna give you my love / I’m gonna give you every inch of my love,” (fairly graphic for late 1969). It was additionally that he added orgasmic howls that got here straight from the bed room. However keep in mind what we stated about the music being necessary to Led Zeppelin? “Whole Lotta Love” was living proof.
The opening track from Led Zeppelin’s second album was all about Web page’s forceful riff and the experimental psychedelic freakout in the center of the track. Plant’s lyrics had been secondary, however that doesn’t make them any much less gross.
2. ‘The Lemon Song’
- Soiled lyrics: “Do squeeze, squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg / The way you squeeze my lemon / I’m gonna fall right outta bed, bed, yeah.”
Just a few moments after “Whole Lotta Love” ended, Plant returned with a few of his grossest Led Zeppelin lyrics. And he as soon as once more copied from a legendary blues musician in the course of. Zep’s singer lifted the “squeeze my lemon / until the juice runs down my leg” (beginning round 4:10) instantly from Robert Johnson’s lyrics for “Travelling Riverside Blues.” The road performed higher in the extra liberal Nineteen Sixties and hardly raises an eyebrow in the twenty first century. Nonetheless, that doesn’t make the vivid imagery any much less disgusting.
- Soiled lyrics: “Gun down on my gasoline / Believe I’m gonna crack a head.”
As 1975’s Bodily Graffiti was a double album, it allowed Plant to completely discover his deep effectively of intercourse euphemisms. “Custard Pie,” “The Wanton Song,” and “Sick Again” are all about bed room antics. “Trampled Under Foot” takes the cake for having the dirtiest lyrics.
It didn’t take a codebreaker to know what Plant sang about, however that doesn’t make his phrases much less gross. The road “Gun down on my gasoline / Believe I’m gonna crack a head” at 1:48 stands out as the grimiest. That stated, it’s really fairly spectacular what number of car-related sexual double entendres Plant stuffed into “Trample Under Foot.”
4. ‘Candy Store Rock’
- Soiled lyrics: “Oh baby, baby, I like your honey and it sure likes me / Oh baby, baby, I got my spoon inside your jar.”
Led Zeppelin’s 1976 album Presence could be their heaviest, each musically and emotionally. However Plant deserted heavy themes for tossed-off enjoyable on two of the seven songs — “Royal Orleans” and “Candy Store Rock.” And a type of — “Candy Store Rock” — has a few of the dirtiest Led Zeppelin lyrics. Spoiler alert — Plant’s phrases don’t have anything to do with shopping for Pixie Stix.
Plant started practically each line with the lustful phrases “Oh baby baby.” He sang about “wanting every mouthful more of you” and the way “it’s not the wrapping that sells the goods.” It’s Plant at his most lascivious, and all of it constructed to a verse that contained the strains, “Oh baby, baby, oh you sting like a bee / Oh baby, baby, I like your honey and it sure likes me / Oh baby, baby, I got my spoon inside your jar.” As if we didn’t already know what he was singing about.
5. ‘Hot Dog’
- Soiled lyrics: “I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.”
Plant was no stranger to singing about teenage love. He did it on “Sick Again,” the remaining track from Bodily Graffiti. (It’s price noting that the album contained a number of tunes the place Plant barely hides his libido together with his lyrics). But the singer has stated his intention on “Sick Again” was to decry the Los Angeles groupie scene.
We’re undecided what his intention was with “Hog Dog,” however Plant delivered a few of his dirtiest Led Zeppelin lyrics with the line, “I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.” He sang these phrases on 1979’s In Via the Out Door, a cut-off date the place he ought to have identified higher than to sing about bedding a minor, particularly contemplating he had a younger daughter at house.
We nearly went with the “I got a woman wanna ball all day” line from “Hey Hey What Can I Do” on this spot, however thought higher of it. In any case, that was simply Plant singing about unreciprocated love. Plus, these Led Zeppelin lyrics didn’t appear so soiled once you had KISS placing out an album known as Love Gun and a band named Butthole Surfers discovering mainstream success in the Nineteen Nineties.
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