| | By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Achilles Last Stand (page 1/ 5) ------ performed by Led Zeppelin Far out | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/2/2008 some people forget or neglect the true genius of Page, he was a saught after studio artist prior to the Yardbirds or Zeppelin At least thats what I think to Drew | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/28/2008 That is Odysseus that you are thinking of, who ended up not making it home from the war for the 20 years of The Odyssey. Achilles is the one who was offered a choice: to be the most famous and greatest warrior of all time, and to die young, or to live a century as a humble sheperd. Knowing that her son would chose the former, Achilles mother dipped him in the River Styx, but the ankle she held while dipping him did not receive the water's protection. So he died at Troy, shot in the ankle with a poisoned arrow. Achilles Last Stand | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/13/2008 In my opinion, this has to be in there top 5 songs of all time. This song has a great guitar part and John Bonham is execeptional on the drums. I wuld put this in the top 100 rock songs of all time. Truely amazing!! Achilles Real Last Stand | Reviewer: Drew | 7/22/2008 Achilles' participation in the Trojan War needs to be understood from its beginning. Achilles had no desire to go to war, knowing that it would likely be to his death. Achilles feigned insanity and was plowing his fields when summoned. I believe that Agammemnon (sp.?) placed Achilles' son in the field before the plow. Instead of killing his son, Achilles moved the child from harm's way and was thus judged sane. By this judgement he sailed with the Greek fleet, effectively sealing his fate. You could therefore call effort in the field his last stand, the last moments of peace with his family. Of course, it's all mythology. Achilles Last Stand | Reviewer: mehdi | 7/18/2008 This song my most favorite song of all the time and bands. i listen to it almost everyday, and each time it can make me amazed, there is something so special in the lyrics and the highly melodical music, it has a lot of sense inside it. believe it or not but i believe this is one of the best songs ever made and will be made. Led Zeppelin's Epic | Reviewer: Dani | 7/6/2008 Actually, I was always under the impression that this song was about war. I mean it could have any number of meanings and they probably did write it describing stuff on the road with ancient myths in mind, but honestly, with the sound of the music and well as the lyrics, you could draw a lot of parallels with a battlefield. And the Mythical element just gives it a powerful, deep, and legendary feel to it. Like all war is epic and terrible and mighty. That's just the feeling it gives me and as a true work of art, everyone should listen to it, read the lyrics, and interpret in the way that makes sense to them. <3 Dani Awesome. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/18/2008 I'm so sick of people saying that this song is nonsensical. It makes perfect sense. It's talking about myriads of different mythological things. The first verse is a reference to the classic greek poem by Homer, [i]The Iliad[/i]. The second verse talks a bout a strange tourist attraction Plant was interested in called "Devil's Hole". The third verse has references to both [i]The Illiad[/i] & [i]The Odyssey[/i] both by Homer. The fourth verse references J.R.R. Tolkien's [i]The Lord of the Rings[/i]. The fourth verse: [i]The Dance of Albion[/i], a favourite poem of Plant's. The fifth verse, of which the last line repeats itself over and over, references two things: The titan Atlas, who was supposed to hold up the sky from the Earth, and the Atlas mountains, which, in appearance, seem to do the same thing. Now that you're all thouroughly educated: I give this song *****! achilles last stand | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/29/2008 robert palnt broke his leg in greece wich was kind of ironic because he and jimmy page were into greek mythology, point is he thought he should write a song about achilles because now he could relate to him. the song doesent have any meening and dureing the song it doesent realy mention achilles takeing one last heroic battle before he dies. people took alot hillousantateing druges back then who knows. The song's meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/26/2008 The only reference to the Trojan war is in the title, Achilles Last Stand. Plant and Page wrote this when Page injured his foot. The rest of the song is about the things they saw while on tour I think. what is this song about? | Reviewer: joe | 5/15/2008 I just finished reading "The Trojan War" (you know the story where they use the wooden trojan horse to get into troy?) and after reading it this song's lyrics are seemingly nonsensical. The way that Achilles dies is by being shot in the heal by Paris. It all happens really quickly and there is no "last"stand to speak of. meh....I don't see how the lyrics relate to Achilles AT ALL. Unless there is some other last stand this is referring to. Also the song refers to having a son in some far off land. Achilles never had a son! After reading this story i'm pretty disappoined in Zep for being non-sensical. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 | | | |||||||||
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