Review:

on 2011-08-04 CharlesMartel Said:

This is damn hard to find, especially in the UK, where the band were really against releasing singles and made a point of avoiding doing so during their career. Indeed, Robert Plant is on record in the early seventies criticising the hold the record companies had on the singles chart through their lackeys in the payola-land of mainstream radio. He defended Zeppelin's decision not to release singles here deriding the manipulation of the charts by record companies. The man was, of course, spot on, though few believed him at the time.

I got this for the B-Side largely if not only because it does not appear on any album which they released during their career, though it has turned up on compilations since then. I was at the time in my Led-Zeppelin-can-do-no-wrong phase. It is a nice acoustic number with a great refrain and a quite up-tempo feel to it, even though it is a rather downbeat number. It would probably have fitted in well on Led Zeppelin's third album of which it was undoubtedly contemporary with and probably recorded at the same time. All in all, it is probably the best of all Led Zeppelin's output not available on any regular album.
Rating: 8/10