10 Terrible Songs By Perfect Rock Bands

Led Zeppelin have always been known to borrow some of their tracks. It doesn’t take a rock scholar to know that the band didn’t actually write the song Dazed and Confused and that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page owe a lot more to people like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon to create songs like Whole Lotta Love. Zeppelin were always indebted to the classics, but the rockabilly sound doesn’t really suit them.

While In Through the Out Door had Zeppelin progressing with synthesizers and different textures, Hot Dog has got to be one of the goofiest songs they’ve ever made, sounding more like something that Elvis Presley would have made if he wasn’t trying. The song isn’t terribly written or anything, but you also have to remember the kind of Zeppelin that we were working with.

After Physical Graffiti and testing their limits with what could be done with rock and roll, why are you going back to the goofy sounds that were happening before? Even if this album wasn’t their best, this was bound to divide the fanbase, as if Zeppelin were coaxing off of nostalgia. In Through the Out Door gave us a peek at what an ‘80s version Zeppelin could have been, but this one song is where they started to regress.