Song · Led Zeppelin
“The Wanton Song” by Led Zeppelin
From the album Physical Graffiti (1975)
“The Wanton Song” by Led Zeppelin appears on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1990 and 2023. It was first released in 1975 on the album Physical Graffiti. Its best result is #358 on the KSLX Arizona 500 (2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,806 classic rock song of all time.
"The Wanton Song" swaggers out of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin's sixth studio album, released on Swan Song in February 1975. It grew out of a jam at rehearsals, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant share the writing credit; Page produced, with Peter Grant as executive producer, Keith Harwood and Ron Nevison engineered and Harwood mixed.
The solo is where Page pulls out his old bag of tricks: a backwards echo that arrives before the note, and his guitar routed through a Leslie speaker, a move he'd been making since the Yardbirds and one that engineers had fought him on in the band's earliest sessions. They played it at some of their European and American shows in 1975 before dropping it, and Page and Plant revived it on Later... with Jools Holland on 8 May 1998.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 763 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 979 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1997 | 761 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 1998 | 771 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 835 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 877 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2010 | 478 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
| 2017 | 380 | 97.9 The Loop | 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) | 540 |
| 2019 | 982 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 696 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) | 1025 |
| 2022 | 358 | 100.7 KSLX | KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 1026 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 706 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2023 | 975 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
Also listed as: Wanton Song.
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