Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin III
This song was on the Early Days greatest hits CD, which was one of the first hard rock/heavy metal CDs that I bought back when I first started to try to figure out what my musical taste actually was. That CD showed me what hard rock could be–and was fairly quickly retired to my car as I replaced it with CDs of the albums that the tracks were drawn from, including Led Zeppelin III.
‘Immigrant Song’ was one of the songs that stood out to me when I was first listening to Led Zeppelin’s music. More than anything else, the driving rhythm of this song was what stood out to me. This was a song that stood up and grabbed me by the throat–something that was relatively new to me at the time. This song has power–and a lot of it.
Plus, I’ve always been a bit of a history buff. To some degree, the historical Viking theme of the song interested me. I found it fascinating that someone could draw inspiration from something as unlikely as the Vikings to produce rock music. I also thought that the song channeled what the Vikings were all about–it was intense, hits hard, and is gone just as quickly, leaving a lasting impression behind it.
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