<P> In a contemporary review of Led Zeppelin III, Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone praised "That's the Way", writing that the track is the first Led Zeppelin song that has ever truly moved him . Bangs continues: </P> <Dl> <Dd> <P> "Above a very simple and appropriately everyday acoustic riff, Plant sings a touching picture of two youngsters who can no longer be playmates because one's parents and peers disapprove of the other because of long hair and being generally from "the dark side of town ." The vocal is restrained for once--in fact, Plant's intonations are as plaintively gentle as some of the Rascals' best ballad work--and a perfectly modulated electronic drone wails in the background like melancholy harbor scows as the words fall soft as sooty snow: "And yesterday I saw you standing by the river / I read those tears that filled your eyes / And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying / Had they got you hypnotized?" Beautiful, and strangely enough Zep . As sage Berry declared eons ago, it shore goes to show you never can tell ." </P> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <P> "Above a very simple and appropriately everyday acoustic riff, Plant sings a touching picture of two youngsters who can no longer be playmates because one's parents and peers disapprove of the other because of long hair and being generally from "the dark side of town ." The vocal is restrained for once--in fact, Plant's intonations are as plaintively gentle as some of the Rascals' best ballad work--and a perfectly modulated electronic drone wails in the background like melancholy harbor scows as the words fall soft as sooty snow: "And yesterday I saw you standing by the river / I read those tears that filled your eyes / And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying / Had they got you hypnotized?" Beautiful, and strangely enough Zep . As sage Berry declared eons ago, it shore goes to show you never can tell ." </P> </Dd> <P> "Above a very simple and appropriately everyday acoustic riff, Plant sings a touching picture of two youngsters who can no longer be playmates because one's parents and peers disapprove of the other because of long hair and being generally from "the dark side of town ." The vocal is restrained for once--in fact, Plant's intonations are as plaintively gentle as some of the Rascals' best ballad work--and a perfectly modulated electronic drone wails in the background like melancholy harbor scows as the words fall soft as sooty snow: "And yesterday I saw you standing by the river / I read those tears that filled your eyes / And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying / Had they got you hypnotized?" Beautiful, and strangely enough Zep . As sage Berry declared eons ago, it shore goes to show you never can tell ." </P>

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