Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

Presence

RELEASE
1976
LABEL
Swan Song
GENRES
Pop/Rock, British Blues, Hard Rock, British Metal, Regional Blues, Album Rock, Arena Rock, Heavy Metal

Album Review

Presence scales back the size of Physical Graffiti to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double record. If anything, Presence has more majestic epics than its predecessor, opening with the surging, ten-minute "Achilles Last Stand" and closing with the meandering, nearly ten-minute "Tea for One." In between, Led Zeppelin add the lumbering blues workout "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and the terse, menacing "For Your Life," which is the best song on the album. These four tracks take up the bulk of the album, leaving three lighthearted throwaways to alleviate the foreboding atmosphere -- and pretensions -- of the epics. If all of the throwaways were as focused and funny as those on Physical Graffiti or Houses of the Holy, Zeppelin would have had another classic on their hands.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Achilles Last Standhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/presents/id193680780?uo=5
  2. For Your Life
  3. Royal Orleans
  4. Nobody's Fault But Mine
  5. Candy Store Rock
  6. Hots on for Nowhere
  7. Tea for One