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The Led Zeppelin album Robert Plant said was the last good one
Formed by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham, Led Zeppelin had a relatively short career but changed the course of music. Their albums were crucial to the evolution of Hard Rock, while also showing their Blues and Folk roots. They have sold an estimated amount of more than 300 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time.
Although Robert Plant was part of every album the band released and served as the main songwriter alongside Jimmy Page, he didn’t like all of them. He even once named what he considered to be the last good album Led Zeppelin made.
The Led Zeppelin album Robert Plant said was the last good one
To Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's final really good album was "Physical Graffitti", released in 1975. The musician said that when promoting his fourth solo record "Now & Zen" in 1988. "All I wanna do is make good records. I just think I've made the best one since 'Physical Graffitti' (1975) and that was the last good record I made, really. So everything in between has been ok. That's a sweeping statement but it's what I believe." Then the interviewer said he thought 'Presence' (1976) was good too and Robert says: "It had its moments. It was a wheelchair album (Plant was recovering from an accident at the time). I was in a wheelchair all the time, tough that was. You could hear it in the voice. 'Presence' was a real difficult record," Robert Plant told NCTV in 1988 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage).
In the same conversation he was asked which was his favorite Led Zeppelin song. Joking, he said "Hot Dog" from 1979's "In Through the Out Door". But then corrected saying that it wasn't his favorite one but also didn't reveal which was the one he liked the most. In that same year, Plant told Rolling Stone that Physical Graffiti was his favorite album by the band. "Physical Graffiti. Strong stuff. And it sounded good too. It sounded very tough, but it was also restrained, exhibiting a certain amount of control as well," he said.
Plant wishes Led Zeppelin were best known for "Kashmir" rather than "Stairway to Heaven"
Over the years Robert Plant made clear that he was a bit tired of the success of "Stairway To Heaven", a song that has been overplayed on the radio. The singer said he wished they were more remembered by tracks like "Kashmir", which were part of his favorite record. “I wish we were remembered for Kashmir more than Stairway To Heaven,” he told Mick Wall.
He considers that track to be an amazing achievement by the band. "It grew and grew until everything made sense. All of it, the weave of the whole thing was something. I can hear it now and keep walking, but sometimes I hear it and I just sit down and listen. 'Kashmir', it is what it is. It’s just such an achievement – and it is an achievement even now, all these years later. I think it was the personalities of us that made us say, ‘This is it,’ because it’s just enough, and for people, maybe later, it was too much."
"But on the record, there were moments where it was like, 'Let’s get on with this. Let’s make something that’s going to hit you between the ears.' I’ve got the book at home [with the original lyrics]. It’s got the sticker, magenta on white, of the Zeppelin IV logos. It’s stuck across a notepad with all sorts of meanderings. ‘Driving through Kashmir’. Oh, fancy that. For me, if I’m inspired, I can bring something forward. It’s not 'Blood On The Tracks' (By Bob Dylan), it doesn’t have the same intense, mature overview. This was still before the big crash. Time, joy, camaraderie were all perfectly, beautifully intact," he told UNCUT magazine in 2025.
Plant said "Kashmir" is probably his favorite Zeppelin song
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When talking about "Kashmir" with Dan Rather in 2018, Plant was asked if that song was his favorite one by the band. He said: "Yeah, I think it probably (is). It was a great achievement to take such a monstrously dramatic musical piece and find a lyric that was ambiguous enough and a delivery that was not overpumped. It was almost like the antithesis of the music. This kind of lyric and this vocal delivery that was just about enough to get in there," he told Dan Rather (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage).
But during the same conversation he noted that his opinion changes everyday and his answer could be different in the future. Like Plant, all the other surviving members of the band like that album and think it is some of their greatest work. It was Led Zeppelin's sixth album but they would still release "Presence" (1976) and "In Through the Out Door" (1979). Two years after John Bonham's death, when the band had already come to an end, the compilation album "Coda" (1982) was released with previous unreleased tracks.The post The Led Zeppelin album Robert Plant said was the last good one appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.
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