mushinnoshin

I so love this line:

We’ll know for the first time
If we’re evil,
or divine;
We’re the Last In Line

I’m not sure what exactly the song is supposed to be about. And that video — which I can only summarize as being something like George A Romero’s interpretation of Orwell’s 1984 [meets a Tim Burton take on a Clockwork Orange (with some strange gratuitous nod to arcade games?)] — doesn’t much clear things up. Still, that line. And that opening scream and sonic thunder as the song takes off around 0:40 — good stuff. [And well, pretty much everything after 2:30 when they come back from the guitar solo. His growl coming back in to the verse and back out through the final chorus {"see how we shine..."} hits a new level of demonic ferocity. No one else has ever really nailed the screaming melody quite like him.]

And yes I’m well aware of how much the song owes to Kashmir. Shut up. I never said Zeppelin didn’t get a few songs right.