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No Quarter
TOOLs reinvention of this decent at best Led Zeppelin tune is fantastic. Long, loud, and loaded with the the fantastic sounds you would expect from a band that only releases albulms every 4-6 years. TREMENDOUS!
- Shweetbox@linkswarm.com, LOS ANGELES, United States, 16.02.2006
Tool
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Led Zeppelin
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Comments about No Quarter:
Led Zep takes the cake man. Tool's version is nice and they add somewhat of a different interesting take, but they don't really go anywhere with it. Maynard matches Plant's intensity, but none of the instrumental offerings or textures are really on par. They should have done something much different with the tune. I wasn't expecting the Rhodes-through-phaser type clone intro sound that Tool did and they started off on the wrong foot but trying to match the original too closely. Zep got it right and here's how: Beautiful Rhodes and Grand Piano work, funky drums with tasteful pst-psts in the middle section, fantastic guitar solo, and of course the haunting vocal delivery. Plus these guys wrote the song. Tool did a nice fan tribute though!
- Arch, Kalamazoo, United States, 13.08.2010 |
Tool did it best, but Led Zeppelin created the song and that makes them on top. I think both versions has its own aura/feeling to it.
- Wilthil, Sunhillriver, Norway, 12.08.2010 |
TOOLS VERSION SUCKS.
Led Zeppelin did it best. they own it
- yeah, no, United States, 09.08.2010 |
I love that Tool did this song. They do a great version of one of my fave Zeppelin songs ever. If I gotta pick one though, the live version on The Song Remains The Same is the one that does it for me.
- Jadam, Los Angeles, United States, 23.06.2010 |
This song is pretty cool when it's done by either band, but the Tool version, in my humble opinion, is a lot better than the Zeppelin version. I just love how dark and ominous Tool's version sounds. Again, just my opinion. Also, Maynard's voice is leaps and bounds better than Plant's. I love the "locked in a place where no one goes" bits.
Badass song.
- No_Name, Waynesville, United States, 23.06.2010 |
I think that there is no reason to compare this two songs. (sorry for my bad english :s) .. Tool never wanted to make a competition, or surpass Led Zepp, they only wanted to do an hommage, they found THE song which is a perfect bridge between their two
styles, that's a very good idea to adaptate this song, because it respect the led zepp's version, and it is realy in the Tool spirit.
It is very difficult to make another version of a led zepp's song, so Tool do it without any spirit of concurrence.
That's a bad idea to try to compare, because the artists intention is not to do that
- namiswan, Toulouse, France, 23.05.2010 |
First of all, TOOL! I like this version far more than the original. I still love Zeppelins version, but Tool just adds that extra "OOMPH!" that the original didn't have. When plant sung it, it was him feeling like he was missing someone. Maynard sounded hopeless. It was like somebody died, and THAT'S how he sang it. Adam and Justin's little solo part conveyed the same train of thought. They spoke through their instruments. Now, don't get me wrong, JPJ and Page did an excellent job, but Adam and Justin did a little bit more.
- Alex K, Detroit, United States, 04.04.2010 |
I could happily go deaf listening to Tool's version of this song over and over. All respect to the original, but I hug my headphones to my ears and drink in every mood-soaked riff from this cover.
- Hilary Robertson, Brisbane, Australia, 12.03.2010 |
Tool's version may be as good as the original Zep studio cut found on Houses of the Holy, but the live Zeppelin performance from their live album The Song Remains the Same hands-down blows any other version of this song away.
- Patrick, Chicago, United States, 08.02.2010 |
Tool's version may be as good as the original Zep studio cut found on Houses of the Holy, but the live Zeppelin performance from their live album The Song Remains the Same hands-down blows any other version of this song away.
- Patrick, Chicago, United States, 08.02.2010 |
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