Is Hot Dog one of the most underrated Led Zeppelin songs of all time?

[RagingInMiami]

Well I just got into town today
To find my girl who’s gone away
She took the greyhound at the general store
I searched myself I searched the town
When I finally did sit down
I find myself no wiser than before

She said we couldn’t do no wrong
No other love could be so strong
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer
Now she took my heart she took my keys
From in my old blue dungarees
And I’ll never go to texas anymore

* chorus: now my baby’s gone I don’t know what to do
She took my love and walked right out the door
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure
I’m gonna give her something like she never had before

I took her love at seventeen
A little late these days it seems
But they said heaven is well worth waiting for
I took her word I took it all
Beneath the sign that said u-haul
She left angels hangin round for more

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I thought I had it all sewn up
Our love, a plot, a pick-up truck
But folks said she was after something more
I never did quite understand
All that talk about rockin’ bands
But they just rolled my doll right out the door
Oh yeah, they just rolled my doll right out the door!

[RandomKoolzip]

1. No, it blows mastodon cock.

I loves me some Zep, but that song's the bottom of the terlit (where it is splashing around with other turds named "D'yer Mak'er" and "That's the Way."

[RagingInMiami]

2. You're probably one of those people who don't appreciate country music

Hot Dog is a great rockabilly song that shows Led Zep's talent in convering genres.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. I like Hank Williams and George Jones.

But you're correct; most C&W I can live without.

[Floogeldy]

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[RagingInMiami]

4. I'm tone deaf when it comes to that

[Floogeldy]

5. It is a guitar, or musical instrument, thing

Don't feel bad.

[carpetbagger]

7. No. It's a pathway they should not have gone down.

It's not a particularly good rockabilly song. It's like they decided to write and record an alternate theme song to The Dukes of Hazard. It was a period where they just drifted, taking stabs at what their new sound would be. If you look for the groundbreaking stuff they were working on, look at some of the quasi-new wave/punkish tracks that show up on Coda, or look at some of the other tracks on In Through the Out Door. If the band had gone on, I think they would have refound their skill in an album which would have sounded much like Plant's Pictures at Eleven. Plant took the direction towards a smoother sound (e.g. Evening, Carouselambra, All My Love, Crawl), and fused it with more of the harmonies and structure from the mid-Zeppelin era.

Hot Dog sounds like the band just got tired of producing an otherwise tight album, and needed to jam. They should have just thrown in some rendition of an old blues tune, or run off something from the 1950's. (I'd have loved to see them cover something from Elvis or Buddy Holly).

[martymar64]

8. I like it

It was a nice coda to the heavier bombastisty (is that a word?) of the rest of the album.

Kind of takes the album out on a high note, despite the downbeat lyrics.

Plus it mentions my home state of Tejas.