#we make so many jokes and memes about the messy lives of Zeppelin on here that I sometimes forget it all started with a love for their music

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Okay okay I am soooo excited for this:

The sudden shift in Bring it on Home from harmonica to guitar which then DOUBLES and comes smashing in with Bonzo’s glorious drums?? Instant headbanging

This may be cliche but the first swooping sexy guitar note of Heartbreaker gets me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

To this day I cannot listen to Bron-Yr-Aur without getting teary eyed at all the beautiful soul and emotion that Jimmy manages to pour into it. Such a simple melody which somehow contains everything

Jonesy’s masterful piano solo in the middle of No Quarter. That is all. Instant chills every time. I swear I get transported to another dimension

The gorgeously soft guitar intro with underlying bass in Ten Years Gone that I usually have to repeat 10 times because it’s too good. Also the lines “we are eagles of one lair, the nest is in our soul” and “though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea” are just so infinitely reassuring to me, and they’ve given me so much hope at many points in my life, like a hug from Robert telling me everything’s gonna be ok.

Jonesy’s jaw-dropping, fantastical synthesizer intro to In the Light that makes me have an out of body experience

The dual guitar harmonies layered on top of one another in Ramble On, after Robert sings “and though our health we drank a thousand times, it’s time to ramble on”, oh my GOD THEY JUST GET ME EVERY TIME I SWEAR I can see the mountains of Middle Earth in my mind’s eye

Robert’s primordial guttural scream of “drive me insane” that dives down deep, low and heavy in Communication Breakdown, especially the last one. It just feels SO DAMN SATISFYING

I’m not even gonna talk about Dazed and Confused, previous comments summarized it much better than I could have. Suffice to say I understand what religious ecstasy feels like thanks to this song

The two guitar notes overlaid perfectly with the hard drums slamming down in I Can’t Quit You Baby?? Chef’s kiss 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

The whimsical little mandolin in Gallow’s Pole when Robert sing’s “hangman, hangman” just puts a smile on my face every time

The point in The Lemon Song where Robert sings “I’m gonna fall right out of bed, bed, bed, bed” overlaid with Jimmy somehow managing to flawlessly convey the feeling of orgasm with his scintillating guitar, I really have to hand it to him since I really didn’t think it was something possible to do

The lines “these are the seasons of emotion, and like the winds they rise and fall, this is the wonder of devotion, I see the torch we all must hold” in The Rain Song because GodDAMN I have never heard true love summarized so beautifully, succinctly and poetically in all my life

The stunning string arrangement in Friends that feels so mysterious and almost ominous, but SO COOL

There’s probably more but these are some of my all-time faves that I have never been the same after listening to

Led Zeppelin Musical Moments That Altered My Brain Chemistry

I saw this trend on tiktok and I wanted to make this list so here we are . . . Please add your own brain altering zeppelin moments

The moment of silence where you almost catch your breath before the guitar solo in ‘Good Times Bad Times’

The moment in dazed and confused when the guitars join and double the riff

The ‘going to San Francisco’ section of the TSRTS Dazed and Confused and the beginning of the bow section, specifically this figure at 9:35 on the live album track. I don’t know how to describe it besides (wheeEEEEEohwheEEEEE . . . weeEeEeE)

The lead up to ‘my gun’ part of ‘How Many More Times’ live on Danmarks Radio

The first lick of the ‘what is and what should never be’ guitar solo

The first Eb in the main solo of SIBLY over the Fm7 chord. It’s literally just the b7 on the 4 minor chord, which is so typical of blues, but Jimmy’s approach to it is so poignant and full of raw emotion and something that can’t be put into words

Not fully zeppelin, but SIBLY was the first song I ever played for a big audition and my teacher had been trying to get me to access my emotions more when I performed this and I was really awful at doing that; however, the performance, I finally managed to tap into myself more and after I finished, I was so relieved it had gone well and so overwhelmed by all the emotion I had brought up that I literally stood outside the adjudication room and sobbed. I consider this my life’s main character moment😖

There’s no specific moment in Stairway because to my, that song is about the journey form the way it starts to the way it ends, but something about it definitely altered my brain. The first time I heard Stairway to Heaven, I had to sit there for a few seconds after the song finished and process that entire musical journey I had just been on

The variation on the guitar part in the verse (ascending 8th note thing) Jimmy does during the last verse of stairway before the guitar solo in The Song Remains The Same (and most live versions)

Everything about the words ‘Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, telling myself it’s not as hard as it seems’

The first beat of “The Song Remains The Same” and the energy of the entire intro section

The first rolled chord of the rain song transports me to another universe, but the moment in this song that actually permanently altered my entire being is the ‘conversation’ between the cello and the bass, where the cello has that little ascending line and the bass responds with a descending line

The bass downbeats during the introductory keyboard solo during no quarter and that Amaj add9 chord with the drums kicking in during “No Quarter”

In ‘No Quarter’ on TSRTS, When Robert ends the phrase “they chose they path where no one goes” by sliding up from the 5 to the major 6 and it goes form the 1 minor chord to such a bright 4 major chord under Robert’s major 6 and its literally perfect (I rewind and watch this moment like 5 times every TSRTS rewatch)

The ornamentations in the vocals and the grandiose in the instrumentals when everyone transitions out of the bridge and back to the riff in Kashmir

The moment the bass enters the main riff in ‘Ten Years Gone’ and the INSTANT warmth

Again, I can’t just pick one part from Achilles—it’s a symphony and I can’t turn it into a moment, but if I had to, the way Robert ends the last ‘I know the way’ makes me MELT

They key change in ‘All My Love’ and the ‘sometimes/I get a little lonely’ section make me want to sob