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You know they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing cold
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through
They choose the path where no-one goes
They hold no quarter
They hold no quarter
Walking side by side with death
The devil mocks their every step, ooh
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howling more
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you, oh
They choose the path where no-one goes
They hold no quarter
They ask no quarter
They hold no quarter
They ask no quarter
Oh!
The pain, the pain without quarter, oh yeah!
They ask no quarter (without quarter, quarter, quarter)
They give no quarter (giving me, giving me no)
Oh (I hear the dogs of doom are howling more!)
I think it's about not being able to make a phone call.
Kinda made me. chuckle:)
Close the door, put out the light
No, they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing coldThey're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through, oh
They choose the path where no-one goes
They hold no quarter
They hold no quarter, ohWalking side-by-side with death
The devil mocks their every step, ooh
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howling moreThey carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you, oh, oh, oh
They choose the path where no one goes
They hold no quarter
They ask no quarterThey hold no quarter
They ask no quarter
Yeah
Without quarter, quarter, yeah (without quarter)
Without quarter, quarter, quarter
Taking no quarter
Oh, oh, oh (hear the dogs of doom) (no, never quarter)
I hear the dogs of doom are howling more
I've LIVED my whole life without hearing any backwards satanic messages in LZ tunes. Maybe I haven't LIVED enough, eh?
LLRP!
That's the thing, you don't consciencely perceive the messages. The brain can just pick up on the meaning* coming through and, Bam!, you're hooked. Sneaky, huh? I remember once saying,
"Put on some more Led Zep, fix me another Old Fashioned (made with Maker's Mark, the groovy new bourbon for a groovy new generation), and let's call some hot girls over."
*Like ice cubes in a liquor ad in a 1970s magazine ad!
Pity there isn't a 0.
I've LIVED my whole life without hearing any backwards satanic messages in LZ tunes. Maybe I haven't LIVED enough, eh?
LLRP!
The live version is pure genius (in my humble opinion).
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No, they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing cold
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through, oh
They choose the path where no-one goes
They hold no quarter
They hold no quarter, oh
Walking side-by-side with death
The devil mocks their every step, ooh
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howling more
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you, oh, oh, oh
They choose the path where no one goes
They hold no quarter
They ask no quarterThey hold no quarter
They ask no quarter
Yeah
Without quarter, quarter, yeah (without quarter)
Without quarter, quarter, quarter
Taking no quarter
Oh, oh, oh (hear the dogs of doom) (no, never quarter)
I hear the dogs of doom are howling more
I really thought this song was about drugs
I think it's about not being able to make a phone call.
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Mother Nature throws incredible lasers onto the Giants Causeway where that album cover was shot!
A place to add to your bucket list and take in. If only I could afford to go back again, so much more to see there.
Thank you Tang2 for sharing.
It brought me to the interesting story below about the history of the album cover art.
HOUSES OF THE HOLY: THE BACKSTORY TO THE FAMOUS LED ZEPPELIN ALBUM COVER
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One of the most iconic record covers of the 1970s is Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, 1973’s Houses of the Holy and it’s also one of the most mysterious. Fans have long speculated about the “meaning” of this cryptic image of naked, golden-haired children crawling around an apocalyptic landscape towards… what? Was it a reference to the creepy 50s sci-fi film Village of the Damned? An apocalypse cult? Or was there some “occult significance” to Jimmy Page? I’m sure there must have been quite a lot of stoned, meandering conversations back then about this one.
The cover, produced by the legendary London-based design firm, Hipgnosis, was shot on the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Aubrey Powell, the Hipgnosis partner who actually designed the cover, told Q magazine in 2003 that the concept was based on Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, where hundreds of millions of Earth’s children gather together to be taken off into space.
But there’s an odd factoid or two about the Houses of the Holy album cover that might surprise you: First off, it was not a small army of naked children with wigs on, it was only two kids, a brother and sister, who were photographed over the course of ten days at dawn and at dusk. One of them went on to become a world famous TV presenter, Stefan Gates, of the BBC’s popular Cooking in the Danger Zone show.
Gates said of the shoot, which he did at the age of five with his older sister Samantha:
“We only got a few quid for the modelling and the chance to travel to places we had never been before. Our family wasn’t well off, we certainly couldn’t afford holidays, so it worked out great for us.
“For the Zeppelin cover we went to Ireland during the Troubles. I remember arriving at the airport and seeing all these people with guns. We stayed in this little guest house near the Giant’s Causeway and to capture the so-called magic light of dawn and dusk we’d shoot first thing in the morning and at night.
I’ve heard people saying they put wigs on several children. But there was only me and my sister and that’s our real hair. I used to love being naked when I was that age so I didn’t mind. I’d whip off my clothes at the drop of a hat and run around having a great time, so I was in my element. My sister was older so she was probably a bit more self-conscious.”
Designer Aubrey Powell said of the shoot:“It promptly rained for ten days straight. I shot the whole thing in black and white on a totally miserable morning pouring with rain. Originally, I’d intended the children to be gold and silver. Because I shot in black and white and it was a gray day, the children turned out very white. So when we hand-tinted it, the airbrush artist, by accident, put a kind of purple tinge onto them. When I first saw it, I said, ‘Oh, my God.’ Then we looked at it, and I said, ‘Hang on a minute, this has an otherworldly quality.’ So we left it as it was. Everybody was so cold, and so freaked out because it wasn’t working, that the only thing I could keep everybody together with was a bottle of Mandrax and a lot of whiskey.”
Oddly, in 2007 Stefan Gates claimed to have never listened to the album and that he felt there was something perhaps sinister about the cover image. “It carries too much significance for me,” he said at the time. “A part of me wants to go out to the Giant’s Causeway with a big pair of speakers, strip naked and play it just to see if I have some kind of great epiphany.”
Samantha Gates, now living in South Africa, recalls:
“I remember the shoot really clearly, mainly because it was freezing cold and rained the whole time.
“We were naked in a lot of the modelling shoots we did, nothing was thought of it back then. You probably couldn’t get away with that now.”
Stefan Gates believes shooting the album at the age of five has a huge, but mostly subconscious, role in his life. “Although it’s just my naked behind you can see, perhaps being a part of something like that at a young age made me seek out more ambitious and adventurous experiences.”![image](https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/STEFANlz20071208_05_465_261_int.jpg)
Above, Stefan Gates holds the famous album cover at the site of the Giant’s Causeway in Nothern Ireland. Below, the image from the gatefold of the Houses of the Holy sleeve, shot at Dunluce Castle.
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The February 2010 BBC 4 radio show Stefan Gates’s Cover Story saw him return to the Giant’s Causeway to experience the album there for the first time, played on a boom box (but presumably clothed).
They never mailed it in.
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Mother Nature throws incredible lasers onto the Giants Causeway where that album cover was shot!
A place to add to your bucket list and take in. If only I could afford to go back again, so much more to see there.
Visiting Ireland next summer! Thanks for the beautiful picture :)
![Image result for laser lights a giants causeway](https://78.media.tumblr.com/166c4e2b571255f9a6d21042c2319169/tumblr_orejr86Iws1qc0bl8o1_500.jpg)
Mother Nature throws incredible lasers onto the Giants Causeway where that album cover was shot!
A place to add to your bucket list and take in. If only I could afford to go back again, so much more to see there.
After graduation in 1981 I used my first pay check to lay down a deposit on a pair of KEF Cantor II speakers. Almost 40 years later I still use them virtually every day. Vinyl, Tape, MinDisk & CD have all come and gone but these amazing speakers are still with me. Best investment I ever made!
That would be my 49 3/4" x 12 11/16" x 16 1/4" JBL Studio 590's...doing justice to this great tune.
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yes stunix! Godlike
That would be my 49 3/4" x 12 11/16" x 16 1/4" JBL Studio 590's...doing justice to this great tune.
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I believe I heard them here in Brooklyn. My neighbors complained, they thought it was me.
This album on Hi def music is just unbelievable!
That would be my 49 3/4" x 12 11/16" x 16 1/4" JBL Studio 590's...doing justice to this great tune.
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Well. That was a certain inspiration for the guys in the Porcupine Tree.
They even grabbed the intro. =)
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Yeah, I remember seeing that "fog" at the Pink Floyd show I went to back in the day, also.
Tool's cover is cool but for me the Zep version is the winner —- even Danny Caray's admittedly virtuoso drumming can't compare to Bonzo in this old diehard's mind.
That said, I wonder too why there's no Tool on RP's playlist —- "Schism" or "The Pot" would be good places to start. Maybe I'll upload em —- if they got added they would be a welcome antidote to Radiohead and Cake.
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Tool does a great live version of this song.
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This song is the definition of 10/10, full body goosebumps and a strong desire for more amplification are guaranteed!
goosebumps here as well. funny how I get them with only a handful of songs!