The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

Posted 02/21/2013 at 7:37am | by Jimmy Brown

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The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

Guitar World presents a critical analysis of Led Zeppelin's 50 best tracks.

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15. “Ramble On” (Led Zeppelin II)

This song is all about contrasts, or as Page likes to say, “light and shade.” It begins with a mellow, folky acoustic strum riff pitted against a highly melodic Fender bass line for the verse sections, which lead up to a hard-hitting and highly inventive electric guitar–driven chorus riff.

Page broadened the definition of the term “power chord” here by using the seemingly odd two-note combination of root and flatted seventh (Fs and E, respectively, played right after Plant sings “Ramble on!”), a pairing made even more unlikely by the fact that he plays it over John Paul Jones’ E bass note. The theoretical discord notwithstanding, it sounds great.

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jimmylerxst

February 21, 2013 at 4:56pm

Honorable Mention: Misty Mountain Hop !

jamescashin

February 21, 2013 at 4:22pm

Every flippin' Zep tune is in my top 50, it just depends on what day you ask me.