Achilles Last Stand Lyrics - Led Zeppelin

That's right My beloved, Yes we are taking revelations verse by verse, ( The Epistle Henry II. ) Figure it out yourself is write, These people are the Apostles of the Christ. There will be no more Death for Death Will be explained.

I love Led Zeppelin every since i could remember. i live in austin texas. music here is everywhere. but one band or one song that has always staid in me has been thins one. it something about this song just drives me. All i can say led zeppelin i would die to see yall performe. DREAMS DREAMS I dont have more time to write but fjgqfd;jgq just so much to stay about this band.

And since band or genre has actually won it is silly to that a band is the best. In my opinion LZ is the best band and if you asked me i would tell you no different. But they havent won yet (as in everyone loves them undisputed)so people are still entitled an opinion and realisticly its better this way because if there was only LZ there would be no bad bands to make them look better.

Crap? Crap? Plant has more education, traditionally & from life experiences such as being exposed & interacting with cultures all over the planet...how ignorant do you have to be to pronounce such a thing when I doubt you've ever read a comic book cover to cover. May your Brittney Spears collection meet with a violent end!

To Peter
Robert Plants' lyrics are by no means "Crap". Are you high or something? This song is a prime example of how fantastic his lyrics are. As for the meaning of the lyrics, how can you be sure that they have no meaning? Have you asked Robert Plants about the lyrics personally? No you haven't, so shut up you moron. Personally, I think that they do have meaning. Why would he write lyrics that don't make sense? He isn't Justin Beiber for Christ sake.

This song is nothing more than Robert trying to atone for his sins after he was in a bad accident in the 1975 nothing more.Yous guy need to stop reading so much into Plants lyrics ,most of them mean nothing and truly are crap.....BUT THE WAY HE SINGS THEM ARE WHAT COUNTS ,NOT THE CONTENT.THANX!

Albion is an ancient word for England.Sleeping now to rise again refers to prophecy. In the book of Revelation, the verse one of the heads of the dragon was wounded, and came to life again. England is the Red Dragon, as in the great red dragon gave him authority over many waters. Figure out the rest on your own.

The key to understanding LZ songs is with an eye to the mythic, mystic, and subjective dreamery of consciously dissipating beyond the social (and even objective) world. There is a lot of playfulness in the lyrics and loose association. LZ paints doom well, no less so in this song. Vintage. And I agree with the earlier comment about the drums, killer track.

I grew up on LZep. I've gone through many musical trends, tastes, styles, etc and I find LZ to remain timeless, never sounding dated. But of all their tunes, Achilles Last Stand Rings strongest to me and perhaps Song Remains the Same. I've a thing for their up tempo tunes. The adventure, mysticism and transcendent epic telling is LZ at its best. Nothing gets me more amped up to face the day than this song. It brings the wonder and adventure back.

Ok well look, im 15, and i agree entirely with the hating modern music bit, i despise pop and rap and whatever it is nowadays. plus, ive listened to stairway to heaven, whoever posted the first comment is right about kashmir, but im sorry, stairway is just a little....... eh. I like it, but i think this song, and the fast songs they did, are just the best! and your righ about one more thing, first comment guy, the drumming is completely kick ass.

@earth, I agree with the sentiment in general but (in my opinion of course) you're nuts if you think this song is better than Stairway. This song features stellar drumming, but structurally, lyrically and vocally I find it subpar as far as Zeppelin goes. To my ears Stairway and Kashmir stand apart from the rest of Zeppelin's catalogue. They have many other excellent songs I think, they just aren't quite as good as those two.


@the internet in general, what is with the trend of half literate teenagers getting onto forums and such to tell us how finely honed their tastes in music are? This is starting to bother me.

Propels this song to new heights. Most drummers could not play this fast amd explosively for nine minutrs. He could be all over this song but he places great fills and crisp timekeeping into evsry part of the song.

It's always so funny to me when I'll get into bands with their staple song.. such as Stairway, Another Brick Pt 2, Tom Sawyer, etc.. and then listen to more and more and so many songs seem to be far better melodically/lyrically to me. Perhaps it's the "hipster" in me not wanting to identify with a staple song, but I'll listen to their better songs and the ones that got me into the band are not necessarily abandoned, but rather not listened to as much as my favorite songs by the band. It's always just struck me as humorous when people can identify with a good song, but listen to nothing else that that band produces. If you like that song, perhaps it's due to style, lyrics, composition, singer, etc.. so why not try more of the band? Seems like every time I look at friends music collections they have all the hit songs of bands but disregard hidden gems.
This said, some bands have one hit wonders, naturally, and by no means will all bands have a repertoire of good songs. I just brought this up because this is one of those songs that anybody I ask about will not know of.
Just my two cents, perhaps I'm full of it, just thought I'd share.

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Many people do believe that taste in music, or in art generally, is fully subjective: in other words, they believe there isn't any truth about what is, or ought to be called, 'good art', and what is or ought to be called 'bad art'. Some reasons for which people tend to think this include: a) there isn't any one out there to decide or dictate, once and for all, what counts as 'good' and what counts as 'bad' in the realm of aesthetics; b) in general and in the past 'artistic greatness', 'quality', 'genius', and so on are and have been the result of the convergence of popular opinion; c) popular opinion is limited to the art that people have had access to; d) what comes to the same, popular opinion is limited to some kind of comparison with other art; e) insofar as art is about creativity, and insofar as creativity is concerned with the new, there can be no recipe, let alone a unique one, for greatness; f) it seems plainly wrong to think that people from other times, places, cultures, and so on had either the means, experience, or opportunity to create art that approaches some standard of 'objective good' which can be measured fairly across all times, places, and cultures; g) it is difficult to argue for a single form, piece, or moment of art that is definitively better than another single form, piece, or moment without sounding either pompous or ignorant, or some combination of both; h) the concepts 'good' and 'bad' are problematic, since it is difficult to decide, first of all, whether one should evaluate an entire form of art, or a piece, or even a single moment, and, second, whether one should evaluate these on a sliding scale or using a binary system of 'good' and 'bad'; i) even if we did decide what counts as 'good art' and what counts as 'bad art', and we were able to come up with an evaluative system which we could implement with no theoretical or practical difficulty, it is still possible that everything we agreed upon was, in some way, wrong, or again, merely a matter of convergence; j) it is still an open question just what art is.
Other people, perhaps just as many, think that, even if we can't say there is one way of doing art that is the best, greatest, or truest, let alone that there is one particular form, piece, or moment of art which is the most perfect, it is still possible to evaluate art in some broad way. Methods of evaluation include: a) whether the artist is conscious that she is creating, or has created, art; b) the amount of effort, or lack of effort, involved; c) technique or form; d) flair or style; e) the extent to which the artistic product is deemed a success by the artist herself; f) the extent to which the artistic product is deemed to have turned out as intended by the artist herself; g) the various relationships that hold between artist, product, the public, money, and vendors; h) the truth of the statement made by the artistic product in terms of philosophy, history, politics, spirituality, religion, other art, and so on; i) the seriousness, or lack of seriousness, involved in the creation of art; j) the extent to which the artistic product is revolutionary.
The ways in which people evaluate art are many and varied, and are often contradictory. These forms of evaluation are nevertheless possible. Some people believe that with experience comes the realization that aesthetic taste is fully subjective; other people believe that experience yields wisdom about what is truly good or worthwhile art. Still others believe that experience has nothing to do with artistic taste.
Similar to the question of art is the question of wisdom. It is important to remember that we are all human beings. As such we have the opportunity to create, express, and invent; this includes the values we attach to art and the ways in which we attach these values.

I'm 16 year old teen and i hate most of modern music such as rap and modern pop because i don't like how they sound at all out of modern bands i listen to few power metal bands but that's it but about old bands that some are still famous and working and some that don't record anymore there are some great bands such as nazareth, led zeppelin, sex pistols, U2, GnR, Survivor and van halen that make in my opinion amazing bands that i'll listen to until i don't enjoy music anymore which i don't think will happen...