The Crunge (track)
by Led Zeppelin
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Year: 1973
From the album Houses Of The Holy (track #4)
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The Crunge appears on the following album(s) by Led Zeppelin:
- Houses Of The Holy (track #4) (this album) (1973)
- The Complete Studio Recordings (track #40) (compilation) (1993)
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| 02/02/2026 03:35 | stareaterogni0n | 3,692 | 72/100 | |
| 01/14/2026 04:20 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,614 | 90/100 | |
| 01/01/2026 20:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,159 | 70/100 | |
| 12/21/2025 13:44 | daCritic | 35,111 | 76/100 | |
| 11/14/2025 20:21 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,259 | 80/100 |
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Nod to James Brown. I get the humor of the song but at the end of the day it's a poorly done song. The vocals, especially considering Plant is one of the greatest rock singers of all time, are horrible. Listen to it every now and then for a laugh.
This studio version is nothing to write home about, but the version during the Dazed and Confused medley on How the West Was Won is absolutely fantastic.
corenfro 08/15/2020 18:35 | #257044
No Robert Plant you're not James Brown, you're fingernails on the chaulkboard. Go back to singing with your pretty voice please.
Goliath 12/10/2019 09:55 | #245499
Almost comically out of place, a similar song would normally contain a bridge, but the usual bridge was left out, leading to the closing comment, 'where's that confounded bridge'. So they were mucking about with this one, but I like it and it doesn't deserve the flack it gets for being a poor James Brown rip-off.
Considering it appears on one of the greatest albums of all time it may seem like a relatively weak track, but objectively it is somewhere between a good track and a great track.
Wheres that confounded bridge?
Seriously though, I don't understand the hostility towards this track. It's a kick-ass funk tribute to James Brown, and they kill it.
Onater 01/22/2017 03:12 | #183817
Oh my
This was meant as a "cringe" joke for the uprising funk music that was starting to appear everywhere on those years. "Anyone has seen the bridge?"
So yep... time pased and almost nobody gets the joke anymore...
and what was left? a song that almost ruines the listening of a great album.
At least it teaches a lesson about short-term thinking.
jhuik 06/03/2016 12:30 | #167690
Yup, the Crunge makes us all cringe. On a short list of terrible Zeppelin songs.
It should be called "The Cringe", because that's exactly what I do when Robert Plant tries to sound like James Brown.
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