“D’yer Maker”
When you’re a 13-year-old boy, you hear in this song the full, real, undeniable proof that Led Zeppelin was a band so excellent, so immutably capable, that even stylistic reaches were going to end in nothing short of total and perfect success. Wow, you think, not only did they really like everything but they could also truly do anything.
They aren’t just a hard rock band that was really into blues and begrudgingly helped birth heavy metal, you think, but also were into, like reggae and stuff, which is just a wild thing to be into, let alone play when you’re, like, not a reggae band.
That’s amazing, your 13-year-old self continues. They were, like, the best at, like everything. Ever. Probably.
But you can’t stay 13 forever. No one can. And for god’s sake, stop pronouncing it like that.
Grade: B-
