Understanding The Immigrant Song

When you come from the land of the ice and snow, you're gonna need some good battle music, and one of the best out there is Led Zeppelin's The Immigrant Song. It's short, sweet, and heavy, but it manages to mix in a lot of really cool compositional techniques with its viking imagery. It's one of my favorite Zeppelin tunes, and it contains some hidden easter eggs that seem almost designed to confuse theorists like me, which is why this video is literally four times longer than the actual song. There's a lot to talk about!

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Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Jade Tan-Holmes for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!