evil album

Yes, it is a bad album. It falls a mere first not occur when you only hear the music. Broken, yes, melancholic, determined, but up to the crash in "Tea For One" - is not high, but in the mood - in spite of everything exciting. The opening track "Achilles' Last Stand" equal to a tour de force, galloping drums, complex structure, for ten minutes, and yet not a bit boring. The guitars are funky, they annoy one with its stop-and-go Geziere, nevertheless the album flows without major obstacles. Although you sometimes wrinkles his forehead, because Plant sometimes sounds really broken, but as I said, only times it really does not fall into the weight. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" is a song that so sexy grooves despite its rhythmic brokenness as only "Trampled Underfoot" (Physical Graffiti of fame). The fußlahm seemingly remake of "Unledded" -Spektakels annoyed me because even pretty, but when you realize that the original really is an old blues and to the text looks closer look, you feel inevitably to hell visions of Robert Johnson recalls, and the 94er version gives at once sense. "The Devil he told me to roll ..." - and so on. Jimmy Page's fascination with black magic out "Zeppelin curse" here - that this record is not created in a period of sweet harmony, you realize after all.
And only the other texts: "For Your Life" is about bad drugs and disillusioned Groupie Sex and "shines" with a stammered; "Don'cha wanna coca-coca-cocaine?" "Royal Orleans" tells only half amused by a transvestite incident (allegedly was bassist John Paul Jones, the person concerned), "Candy Store Rock" are typical Plants Notgeile before, the weary and broken character of the album can not drown as well. And in "Hots On For Nowhere" and the aforementioned "Tea For One" leaves Plant then finally the mask fall and accuses the world of betrayal and abandonment.
As I said: If you listen to only what seems at first to make out of this album, is "Presence" is another highlight in the series of Led Zeppelin albums success. Although neither as playful as "Houses of the Holy" nor as versatile as "Physical Graffiti", and certainly not so impetuous-autocratically as the first two Zep LPs, it's a brutal, original heavy rock album, and last but not least almost exclusively Pages and Plants thing. But if one looks behind the impressive sound paintings, one recognizes the image of a band that had to fight for the first time with the situation that it is not invulnerable.
Rating: objectively there are five stars, but a point deduction for the bad atmosphere. Nevertheless, probably my favorite Zeppelin album.