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Led Zeppelin: Coda

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Swan Song
Released: 1982.03.14
Time:
 32:58
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 2001.04.19
Price in €: 11,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] We're Gonna Groove (Bethea/King) - 2:38
[2] Poor Tom (Page/Plant) - 3:03
[3] I Can't Quit You Baby (Dixon) - 4:19
[4] Walter's Walk (Page/Plant) - 4:31
[5] Ozone Baby (Page/Plant) - 3:37
[6] Darlene (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) - 5:07
[7] Bonzo's Montreux (Bonham) - 4:19
[8] Wearing and Taering (Page/Plant) - 5:28

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


JIMMY PAGE - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Electronic Treatments
ROBERT PLANT - Harmonica, Vocals
JOHN PAUL JONES - Bass, Piano, Keyboards
JOHN BONHAM - Drums

PETER GRANT - Producer, Executive Producer
STUART EPPS - Engineer
ANDY JOHNS - Engineer
EDDIE KRAMER - Engineer
VIC MAILE - Engineer
JOHN TIMPERLEY - Engineer
LEIF MASSES - Engineer

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1995 CD Swan Song 90051-2
1995 CD Swan Song 7567-924444-2
1982 Swan Song 90051
1990 LP Atlantic 90051
1990 CD Atlantic 90051
1990 CS Atlantic 90051-4
1990 CD Atlantic 92444
1994 CD Atlantic 92444
1994 CS Atlantic 92444



The Zep's swan song on Swan Song collects various unreleased tracks from 1969 through 1978, and the span of years indicates more clearly than anything that the reigning kings of metal started with an abundance of inspiration that eventually gave way to recyclings of their own cliches. Side one's tracks from the early years truly cook, showing a masterful Jimmy Page burning his tires off, while bass and drums race to keep up with him and vocalist Robert Plant exercises his most distinguishable vocal chords till he is hoarse. By side two's late `70s stuff, however, the experimentation had given way to bombastic bursts of proto-metaldomthe chops were still there, but the ideas were gone. Led Zeppelin's final album (In Through The Out Door) offered some possible directions for the band, but this chronology is living proof that their most creative days had long passed by the mid-'70s.

Jeff Tamarkin - Feb 14, 1983
CMJ New Music Report Issue: 9



Coda, released in 1982 after the breakup of the band, was the result of a trawl through the studio archives in search of leftover material. In fact, they had already used up almost all of the good stuff; this was Led Zeppelin's only disappointing album. Nevertheless, even relatively poor material by Led Zeppelin is decent and some tracks here are classic, notably "Poor Tom," "Ozone Baby," and "Wearing and Tearing." The latter, one of three outtakes from the In Through the Out Door sessions, features a particularly high-octane blend of stripped-down, grungy rock & roll and is considered their response to the then-burgeoning punk movement. With so little studio material available, live versions of "I Can't Quit You Babe" and "We're Gonna Groove" from 1970 flesh out the set; the former features some blistering playing.

James Swift, Amazon.com



An odds-and-sods collection assembled after John Bonham's death, Coda is predictably a hit-or-miss affair. The best material comes from later in their career, including the ringing folk stomp of "Poor Tom," the jacked-up '50s rock & roll of "Ozone Baby," and their response to punk rock, the savage "Wearing and Tearing." The rest of the album — sadly including the Bonham showcase "Bonzo's Montreux" — is average, despite the presence of some stellar playing, especially on the early blues-rock blitzkrieg "I Can't Quit You Baby" and "We're Gonna Groove."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide
 

 L y r i c s


WE'RE GONNA GROOVE

Hear my baby comin' down the track
Betcha my baby's comin' back
Someday she'll get back to me
We're gonna raise a family

We're gonna groove, Yeah groove
Yeah we're gonna groove

We're gonna love... until the break of day

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
You don't know whatcha do to me
Let me say you're my one desire
You just set my soul on fire

Oh we're gonna groove,Yeah groove
Yeah we're gonna groove
We gonna love... until the break of day

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be
Lemme tell ya you don't know whatcha do to me
You just set my soul on fire
Woman you know you're my one desire...

We gonna groove... (repeat)


POOR TOM

Here's a tale of Tom
Who worked the railroads long
His wife would cook his meal
As he would change the wheel

Poor Tom, Seventh Son, Always knew what's goin on
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom

Worked for thirty years
Sharing hopes and fears
Dreamin' of the day
He could turn and say

Poor Tom, work's done, been lazin' out in the noonday sun

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom

His wife was Annie Mae
With any man a game she'd play
When Tom was out of town
She couldn't keep her dress down

Poor Tom, Seventh Son, always knew what's goin on

Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom

And so it was one day
People got to Annie Mae (?)
Tom stood, a gun in his hand
And stopped her runnin' around

Poor Tom, Seventh Son, gotta die for what you've done

All those years of work are thrown away
To ease your mind is that all you can say?

But what about that grandson on your knee?
Them railroad songs, Tom would sing to me

Ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom

Keep-a Truckin'


I CAN'T QUIT YOU BABY

I can't quit you babe
Woman I think I'm gonna put you down for a little while
I can't quit you babe
I... think I'm gonna put you down for a while
I said you messed up my happy home
Made me mistreat my only child

You built my hopes so high
Baby then you let me down so low
You built my hopes so high then ya let me down... so low
Don'tcha realize sweet baby?
Woman I don't know... which way to go

Woman I can't quit you babe
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while


WALTER'S WALK

Ooh...know I  feel so strange looking out the door
oooh...tryin hard to change but can't let go
oooh...cryin' tears of pain and more and more
oooh...everyday is the same as the one before

I'm walkin the floor over you
I'm walkin the floor

Every heart that breaks is a heart that's cold
To the hand that takes your dreamless soul

Ooh...Is it long to wait, is it much to pay?
oooh...Sometimes it's hard waiting for the day.

you know it's hard. I said it's hard
You know it's true. I said it's hard
you know it's hard. You know it's true

Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside, does it matter now?

Every love that's changed ?-?-?-?-?-?
In the eye of the night  ?-?-?-
In the day everything ?-?-?-?
She was smilin' a tear at her waters fall ??

you know it's true. You know it's true now

I'm walkin the floor over you
I'm walkin' the floor
Every tear that falls is a smile that's lost
When you hear the call can you count the cost?
As you stand alone do you wonder how?
Can you step aside, does it matter now?

Does it matter now? (repeat)


OZONE BABY

I hear ya knock on my door
I ain't been saving this scene for ya honey
Don't wantcha ringin my bell
It's too late for you to be my honey

ooh, it's my love
ooh, it's my own true love (X2)

Don't want you wasting my time
Tired of ya doing the things that you do
It's no use standing in line
Follow the line, you better follow queue

I say, ooooh, it's my love
oooh, it's my own true love (X2)

I could sail a river run dead, but I know it's dead
I could I wish for a million, yeah. But I know it's dead
I could cry within the darkness, I sail away
I save a lifetime forever
But you know, you know, you know what I say

And I say Ooh, it's my love
Oooh, it's my own true love (repeat)


DARLENE

Darlene, oooh Darlene, oooh Darlene,
Darlene, oh oh Darlene, oh oh Darlene
oooh Come on baby give me some

When I see you at that dance with your tight dress on
Whatcha got it sure is fine
I wanna get me some

Darlene, woooh baby baby Darlene, oooh be my baby Darlene,
ooh, come on baby... be my baby

Darlene, ooh, Darlene, hey! hey! Darlene, oh oh
Come back and be my sweet little girl
When I see you on the street, it makes my heart go flitter
I see you walkin with all those guys
It makes me feel so sick

And I don't care what people say
And I don't care what they do
Sweet child I gotta make you mine
You're the only thing that I want: You!
Baby Baby when you walk down the block,
See the people (????)
Woooh! Child! Oh ya drive me wild!
I gotta do it really gonna try

Oh baby, I got my car
I'll take you as far
I'm gonna take you every place
I'm gonna boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie that's fine

I'm gonna prove it, Darlene
I'm gonna make ya my girl
I'm gonna boogie, Darlene
I'm gonna send ya in another world

Cause I love Darlene, I gotta love 'er, Yes I do
I've been savin all my money
I've been workin all day long
I gotta give it all back to you!


WEARING AND TEARING

It starts out like a murmur
Then it grows like thunder
Until it bursts inside of you
Try to hold it steady
Wait until you're ready
Any second now will do
Throw the door wide open
Not a word is spoken
Anything that you want to do

Ya know, ya know, ya know...

Don't you feel the same way?
Don't you feel the same way?
But you don't know what to do
No time for hesitatin'
Ain't no time for hesitatin'
All you got to do is move
They say you're feeling blue, well
I just found a cure
It's a thing you gotta do, yeah

Ya know, ya know, ya know...

Now listen: You say your body's aching?
I know that it's aching
Chill bumps come up on you
Yeah, the funny fool
I love the funny fool
?Just like foolin' after school?
And then you ask for medication
Who cares for medication
When you've worn away the cure

Ya know, ya know, ya know...
Go back to the country
Yeah, go back to the country
Feel a change is good for you
When you keep convincin'
Ah, don't keep convincin'
What's that creeping up behind a you?
It's just an old friend
It's just an old friend
And what's that he's got for you?

Ya know, ya know, ya know...

Do your dance do your dance do your dance
Oooooh, medication. Medication! Medication!

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