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Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
This last great Led Zeppelin album, is — like most double LPs of the era — a bloated beast. But its self-indulgent swagger is the very thing that makes it so much fun — and one of the heaviest records of the 1970s. Powered by John Paul Jones' jittery clavinet, "Trampled Under Foot" is viking funk; "In My Time of Dying" is eleven minutes of slow-blues lava. The sprawl of Graffiti also let Jimmy Page and Robert Plant bring Zeppelin's less obvious gifts — English folk and hillbilly romp — out from behind the wall of amps. Plant would later cite the mighty Arab-influenced march "Kashmir" as one of Zeppelin's greatest achievements.
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