The Rover (track)
by Led Zeppelin
Year: 1975
From the album Physical Graffiti (track #2)
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The Rover appears on the following album(s) by Led Zeppelin:
- Physical Graffiti (track #2) (this album) (1975)
- The Complete Studio Recordings (track #53) (compilation) (1993)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 10/12/2026 20:23 | Garyf1972 | 8,139 | 62/100 |
| ! | 09/29/2026 21:45 | Spartakist | 2,773 | 81/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2026 15:39 | araidernomore | 5,126 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 86.9/100, a mean average of 87.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.6.
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Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/07/2012 15:18 | #57047
A tragically underrated Zeppelin song. How this song doesn't get more attention is beyond me. The guitar riffs are some of Jimmy's best and the lyrics are really great. Robert Plant gives those lyrics life with his incomparable voice.
If this song is underrated, I'm with Jason. It's probably underrated because it doesn't sound like a Zeppelin song. But it's a very cool song. I want to buy Physical Graffiti just for this song.
one of Physical Graffiti's best songs, very representative of the album to me, along with In My Time of Dying and Ten Years Gone.
Goliath 04/15/2022 08:56 | #284269
It took me a while to fully appreciate this song, one of Zeppelin's best.
AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/23/2017 22:12 | #198631
Another amazing moment for John Bonham. A great Jimmy Page song too.
