There's a video of Page and Plant performing The Rain Song from the whole Unledded thing in the mid-90s, and I found it very helpful in terms of figuring out how to play it: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Yeah I forgot to mention anything about the middle solo bit… I actually don't love a lot of Page's solos (especially live), but this one is tight and un-wanky. And the simplicity of JPJ's bass part during this section is funky in an understated way. Also, the reverb sound on the drums inexplicably gets much wetter…

Agree with Boyhood at number one.

Ha! I had a math teacher in high school who showed how to play The Rain song in standard tuning. After I learned it in the actual tuning, I wondered how I ever thought the standard tuning version I had been doing sounded good.

I'd pick In My Time of Dying too purely for drumming, but I think that's kind of beside the point here. To my mind, what makes Over The Hills And Far Away so great is its arrangement as a song and its performance as a band. With Led Zeppelin, I've always thought the point was the songwriting, the uniqueness of the…

"Over The Hills And Far Away" is the quintessential Led Zeppelin song. It's hard to talk about their songs as if they haven't been heard a gajillion times, but as a huge fan and as a musician, I'd say OTHAFA is the one song I'd play for a theoretical person who had never heard Led Zeppelin before, for the following…

Yeah… me too. Feels a tiny bit racist.

Very well then. I withdraw the question.

Did anyone else think it was unintentionally funny when the helmet-less storm trooper popped his head up?

Here's some money. Go see a Star War (trailer).

"Babadook, Bobbum Man… Bobbum Man, Babadook."

I love the baby boss thing, and I love that it's become a recurring skit on SNL simply because (I'm assuming) it was a thing that Beck Bennet already had in his pocket.

How did the AV Club pick 2014 as the year they were going to start having a weekly column about the NFL, aka the Actual American Gladiators? What a shockingly tone-deaf display.

Sign you're getting old: you're perfectly happy to just summarily decide that "Waka Flocka Flame" is an absolutely retarded name, full stop, and you don't care what kind of story might be behind it.

I think I've seen most of the Sonic Highways show, and I feel the same about every episode: I mostly enjoy the first 50 minutes or so, where they interview Gibby Haynes or Steve Albini and talk about local music scenes (even if most of it is stuff I've mostly heard or read somewhere else), and then I dread sitting…

I don't think it's just "some people on the Internet." I'm not in my basement trying to troll anyone, and I realize I "don't have to watch it." But I defy anyone to say that last night's episode wasn't yet another example of abysmal sketch comedy.

Fuck. This. Show.

The AV Club's SNL reviews are one of the few things that I often mightily disagree with. I fully expected to see a "D" grade for this episode… I liked the Kyle Mooney/Beck Bennet video, as per usual, but almost nothing else worked for me. Even Bill Hader, who I adore, seemed a little off. Stefon felt flat to me, and…

Possibly? But I've heard/read more than one review of the film that seemed to be giving it credit for more serious thematic intentions…

Watching the film version of "Gone Girl" reminded me of the problem I had with the book: it seems like the story is maybe trying to explore themes of identity and how people change themselves in relationships, etc. But whatever serious, pseudo-literary exploration of those themes exists is COMPLETELY undercut by the…