Immigrant Song [Track 5] - Ann Wilson (Hope & Glory)

[bmacphee1]

Wow, the original doesn't really sound that good after listening to this, does it?

[jas22]

interesting take, but not that enjoyable.

[mastersam23]

i thought that intro really sounded pretty plant like

[Mrdianalynn]

I like her interpretation better. She is an American woman. She polishes what males write. She has matured greatly as a musician. led Zep would not have promoted her and her sister then left them out to dry would they have?

By the way, where I come from, women are better musciaans than males.lOOK at the battles she is faced with vs. a male in a male dominated society.

[zappbrannigan420]

@Mrdianalynn opinion, not fact about gender and musicians. as such, of no merit.

[xHolyCrapx]

I believe that some iconic, artists music, such as the zep, should not be covered but this works for me in a weird kinda' way.

[ObamaKenyanIdiot]

What a beautiful version of this classic song.

[dictionar1]

complimentary remake. just another artist's interpretretation. not bad at that!

[arturesteve]

There are not many things one can say about such a rock ICON like Ann...happy birthday, our queen of rock!

[TheMusiclovesex]

I have to get this album O_O

[MrTom423]

Big Woman-Bigger Voice- Wow to this Lady. Best Cover I've heard of this song....

[Bowskeecho]

Last summer I went to see Heart. Maybe it's a chick style thing or maybe it's a singer thing but SHE BLEW THE LID OFF THE PLACE singing this song!!!!! it's a FABULOUS interpretation with just the right Heart instrumental flavors, some quirky, unexpected sounds and of course THAT VOICE... There are an awful lot of covers that don't work well but this isn't one of them.

[godzillasmother]

This is Dred Zepplin bad or good as you prefer

[vilnius1904]

Gives me an idea. What about a viking restaurant? Call it The Vahalla

[sjmawson]

@vilnius1904 Valhalla, mate, Valhalla. Valhalla, Valkyrie......Val = the Fallen...... great concept so long as you can keep the alcohol flowing :.)

[Veradoradehon]

I LOVE THIS VERSION. Reminds me of The Beatles. What a great Artist you are Ann. I love you. You give me goosebumps every time. I'll be adopting your version for sure...THANKS......

[Kruelwanderer911]

Love it from :59 on.

Really good rendition.

[Forestski]

Love this!!

[shesabigmouth]

The Ann Wilson solo album is one of the worst albums ever made. All remakes , loaded with guest star duets. This cover version is a sample of how bad it is.

[The096757]

@shesabigmouth

it's not ann's voice that ruins this cd it's the dumbed downed freaks she keeps employing out of sympathy who like negro delta blues and grunge.

she is only hurting herself by bothering with these throwbacks.

[vaibanez17]

Insane...what a great cover...what makes a great cover is one playing it right, then playing it YOUR way and making it YOURS...and she does all that perfect with Nancy

[Rickat1964]

I don't like it at all.

[Rickat1964]

I don't like it at all.

[Rickat1964]

I don't like it.

[Rickat1964]

It's Valhalla, and repair all your ruins.

[mist78]

A quand un duo miss Wilson et mister Plant ??????

[diniba50]

Megdöbbentem..... Teljesen más feldolgozás, és varázsol így is....

[adyna1001]

esta cihidisimo

[ErikJoeNoise02]

how fateful , and yet, how masterful .... o´ye .... sons of the Gods ... those with might roar and fierce to strike upon alongside the thrash rage of golden the tracks of yesterdays himns ....

[danielbnpadilha]

Awesome!!!!!

[snouter]

Damnit, I luv Ann.

[FredFoswell]

""Anything Ann Wilson does is better than Led Zep ""

I'm sure Ann wouldn't agree with you. Zeppelin are her biggest influence. Ann Wilson is wonderful but nobody can say she is 'better' than Zep. Even Ann would laugh at you for that.

[BassistBob81]

Great fresh take on this song. That dude who says it's horrible is missing the point.

[pauljamesjohnston]

Love this version and love ann's voice. Duet with Glenn Hughes would be wonderful!

[oustud10]

the point of covering a song is because you like it but want to do it your way!

[danielleburch9893]

When bands choose to cover songs, I don't think they strive to "copy" the original song flawlessly. I don't think any band out there covers a truly amazing song with the hopes to perfect or master it. I'm assuming they want to change it up a bit for the sake of innovation.

Making a similar-yet-different version of a piece is like a band paying homage to another band...

So, even though it doesn't mold perfectly with the original, this is a very, very good cover.

[Mrdianalynn]

@danielleburch9893 the best way to describe this is MASTERFUL!!

[mrcatweazle1]

@Mrdianalynn Right in Ann"s own way do you know that stairway to heaven has been compleet been stolen from a european band called The Wizard

[zappbrannigan420]

@mrcatweazle1 Stairway to Heaven, the Zeppelin song best covered by Zappa was stolen from Wizard... uh huh... what crack hast thou smoketh...

[MasterMetallica1986]

This is horrible because it sounds nothing like the original song. Have you ever heard the Original? Like come on, this is really bad. Theres nothing wrong with changing parts to a song when you are doing a cover but this is too much. I like Heart there a great band but this has to be there worst song (in this case cover song).

[13killbill]

Master, I think the idea was to revive the song. If she kept it original it would have been dated. Her singing is true to the original... and the production is trying to incorporate the sounds of now.... high compresson on the vox..and short reverb, the guitars in back and squished with compression..it puts her vox on top and though LOVE Zepplin, you could never hear his vox over the guitars. The remake is contempory and keeping true to spirirt of song. no DJ would play this or old way even now.

[MasterMetallica1986]

wow.... this is horrible...

[danielleburch9893]

There are plenty of people out there that would disagree with you ;)

[zappbrannigan420]

@danielleburch9893 agreed, its one of the better versions out there, even Alice Cooper thinks so, given how often he plays it.

[annandnancywilson]

yeah like me. i completely disagree with you. why is it horrible???

[annandnancywilson]

is nancy singing backup when the go, ah ah ah?

[xenaswolf]

Yes, It's Nancy singing backup

[annandnancywilson]

this song gets better everytime i listen to it!

[annandnancywilson]

I love this song! Sorry but i personally think Ann sings it better!

[MsHeartsOnFire61]

I have to agree with you 100% Ann Wilson does sing the immigrant song way better.

I love this version.

[annandnancywilson]

lol thanks

[bobbingroz]

I saw them at a sold out concert in Memphis in August and their performance of this number was electric. What a voice!

[maclasch]

I want to see Ann and Heart sing a cover of Dazed and Confused.

Please Wilson sisters?

I didn't even know she'd already done a cover of Led Zep, but I thought that if anyone could match Plant's range, style, and power, it had to be Ann Wilson!

[34driver]

This is good. Very twisty, if one knows the song, this version takes some turns that one doesn't expect. Several good (unexpected) chord substitutions. It's a good song, good remake, and it still stands on it's own.

[tdfd023]

I'll bet Plant & Page were flattered the way Annie did their song. If she were only to copy the original, what would be the point? She could sing the phone book and I wouldn't care.

[kotodius]

cool version - reminds me of Xena warrior princess!

[sabrinamessenger61]

Now I'll admit I prefer the Led Zeppelin version, but this is a very interesting interpretation. It is clearly feminine voiced but definitely NOT 'girly.' or prissy. Besides, there were women Viking warriors .The Viking Sagas and Saxo Grammaticus' "History of the Danes" mention many warrior women, and an English Saxon Princess led an invasion of Jutland in the 6th Century.

[Veradoradehon]

@sabrinamessenger61 I love this version!! Ann and Nancy really capture it!!

[wackystackr]

I DIG this version! It's different and unusual ALMOST like the Page Plant Album. I gotta go dig that out. That concert was AWESOME! Very Similiar

[xoxtaylortots]

but i dont reali like this version. As i already said.. Ann & Nancy version together sounded sooooo much better. But this ones not bad. LOVE YOU ANN <3333333333333333

[xoxtaylortots]

i LOVED this song better when Ann & Nancy sung this together. The part where they go ... UHHAAAHHH .. is amazing. i saw them in concert when they did this song n they did it jus like Zep but Anns voice was so much more powerful and with Nancys voice n their harmonies BLEW me AWAY! ESP the Uhhaaaahhh part. lol it was SOOO powerful. i cudnt even handle it! haha <3 i FUCKIN LOVE Heart <33333333333333333

[CrazyStuffStudios]

This is supposed to be a song about VIKINGS JOURNEYING TO DESTROY A VILLAGE.

Ann Wilson injected this song with so much estrogen it sounds like the opening of a daytime TV drama or a Folger's commercial.

It's disgusting that she soiled such an awesome song like this.

[danielleburch9893]

That's ridiculous.

Estrogen? I understand your words, but not your logic. If you're implying that she made the song sound "girly" or "feminine"...well, I'll have to disagree with you.

[CrazyStuffStudios]

Yeah. I think you do understand my logic, though you disagree with it. I feel like she took a song with very masculine themes and feminized it, and it's not to say that women cannot be talented musicians (because there are just as many great female musicians as there are male).

I just feel that the song has very clear themes based in the style that it's originally performed in, and those themes are eliminated by covering the song like this.

[danielleburch9893]

I'm not lying. I still don't understand where you're coming from. If you mean that the song is "feminine" because of the tone of her voice, or her vocal style, that's not really a legitimate complaint. If a woman sings a song, she's going to (in pitch and tone) sound like a woman. Must a singer have a "masculine" voice to portray "masculine" themes?

As somewhat of a feminist and an Ann-fan, I predict a spat coming on...

I don't want to be disrespectful, so I'm goin to drop the subject ._.

[CrazyStuffStudios]

Oh no, I didn't mean to say you lied. I'm not trying to offend you, and I apologize for that.

The vocals are not the problem. It's the speed of the song, the instruments chosen, and the overall "calm" sound of the song. It's not visceral and loud like the original, and that is what bothers me.

I'll put it this way:

Immigrant Song in its original form was "harder" than Barracuda, but Barracuda was still a very hard rock track. It had some awesome riffs. This is not at all like that - it's soft.

[youngjac21]

worst song ever, worst singer ever lol

[tootired76]

I've always loved the Wilson sisters. When I listened to this the first time, I thought."This is soo wrong! Not rowdy enough!!!" That's 'cause I got Zep's DVD and disc 2 of that starts out with "The Immigrant Song" pasted together with assorted concert footage and audio from '74 and it kicks ass!!. But watching Anne sing this makes me appreciate what Plant did in his prime.

The more I listen to Anne's version, the more I like it.

[steve770]

AWSOME MUSIC THUNDER OF THE GODS

[sinbysin666]

Pretty good, but quite weird.

[jernfuglen]

It stands very well on it's own.

[record1207]

Very nice and differant version!!! Love it. Thanx for sharing

[MsHeartsOnFire61]

this song rocks im just sorry it took me so long to discover it.

[tunegoddess]

she does lend a very tribal sound to this song wow! probably the only woman who could do Zep this well !

[DreamingBIG2011]

i love ann wilson, but you can't compare to her to robert plants vocals. his range is ridiculous and his sound is classic. she's probably the closet though :)

[elvickRULES]

Don't compare Heart and Zep. They're both the best. After all, you can't really compare female singers to male ones anyway. They sing differently.

Ann's a goddess. Nuff said.

[q8gooner]

I love her voice

[johnnyboybuzz]

Anything Ann Wilson does is better than Led Zep and she looks better as well. This woman rocks

[danielleburch9893]

Yes, Ann Wilson rocks!! :D

But I bet there are a lot of Led Zep fans out there that'd disagree with you ^^"

[ecwmatt]

ya like me ann wilson is good but they just cant compare to zep

[danielleburch9893]

I don't think that's possible ^^"

But still, she IS amazing, isn't she?