Stephen Malkmus ranked all the songs on 'Zeppelin IV.' Too bad he was all wrong
Let’s start at the beginning. “Misty Mountain Hop” at Number One is a bold choice. It’s one of the catchiest Zep tunes, with a sweet, chunky groove and some fun lyrics aboutsong on this album? Maybe, maybe not, but “Misty Mountain Hop” does, in fact, rule, so we’ll allow it.
Malkmus’ ranking enters murkier waters after that. “Black Dog” is not the second-best song on any album, unless you’re the kind of classic rock fan who thinks “I don’t know, but I’ve been told/A big-legged woman ain’t got no soul” is some sort of profound observation on life. Sick riff, but as a song, it’s just not top three material.
Next, at spots Number Three and Four, Malkmus goes for the one-two punch of “Stairway to Heaven” and “The Battle of Evermore.” Now, if he really wanted to shake things up, he could have put “Evermore” above “Stairway.” That would have been a challenging opinion worth entertaining. It can be hard to truly enjoy “Stairway” after decades of overplaying, and the gently spooky mandolin whispers of “Evermore” are always refreshing by contrast.
…to the most deeply perplexing choice of all. “Four Sticks” over “When the Levee Breaks”? A trickily-time-signatured bauble over one of the heaviest, dankest songs ever written? Sure, it’s cool that John Bonham played “Four Sticks” with double the normal amount of drumsticks. But as my esteemed colleague Hank Shteamer, himself, noted after seeing this ranking: “Yeah, I dig ‘Four Sticks,’ but let’s not get carried away.
Ranking “When the Levee Breaks” in the bottom three is sheer madness. So is putting “Going to California” at Number Seven. Malkmus just released an excellent album of psychedelic folk tunes called“Rock and Roll” is fine. Putting it at Number Eight, also fine., we get it. Stephen Malkmus has made many a great album himself, and he is entitled to his thoughts on the relative merits of the songs on .
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