The Best Classic Rock Songs You've Never Heard

May 2024 · 2 minute read

By the time 1975's Physical Graffiti rolled around, led Zeppelin had compiled so many amazing songs, they simply didn't have room for them on their albums. So they turned Graffiti into a double album, comprised partially of outtakes from their previous album. Such outtakes included "Houses of the Holy," because even Zep's rejects are bigger than some band's biggest hit.

Case in point: "Take Me Home," an outtake that couldn't even make Graffiti — the outtakes album — because 82 minutes of Zeppelin was enough, they couldn't possibly make it 87. But "Home" absolutely would've fit on this, or any other Zep album. It's a little similar to "Trampled Under Foot," and shares some elements with Graffiti's "Wanton Song," but it's bluesier than both and a nice callback to early Zep, before hedgerows started bustling and they were simply a heavy blues band. You can't understand a single word Robert Plant is singing in this rough demo, but he'd probably like someone to take him home. Call it a hunch.

It would be great to hear this fleshed out beyond a demo, but with John Bonham being unavailable due to prior commitments in Heaven, this isn't likely to happen. If nothing else, it's a nice slice of what live, stripped-down Zep was like, without Jimmy Page overdubbing himself eight times to make it sound like he was half guitar god, half octopus.

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