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"Big Log"
Single by Robert Plant
from the album The Principle of Moments
B-side
  • "Messin' with the Mekon" (UK)
  • "Far Post" (US)
ReleasedJuly 1983
Recorded1983
StudioRockfield Studios (Monmouth, Wales)
Genre
Length5:03
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Robert Plant
  • Benji LeFevre
  • Pat Moran
Robert Plant singles chronology
"Pledge Pin"
(1982) 		"Big Log"
(1983) 		"In the Mood"
(1983)

"Big Log" is a song by English recording artist Robert Plant from his second solo studio album, The Principle of Moments (1983). It was the first single from the album and became his first Top 40 solo hit, peaking at No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached No. 6 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart. Neither of the two words in the title appears in the lyrics.[1]

Cash Box compared the synthesized drums and claps to Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and praised Plant's vocal performance.[2]

Bassist Viktor Krauss recorded a cover of "Big Log" on his 2004 album Far from Enough. Krauss' sister Alison, who recorded the album Raising Sand with Plant three years later, sang lead vocals on the track.[3] The song is featured in Grand Theft Auto V, in-game on the Los Santos Rock Radio station.

Music video

The music video for the song was filmed around California and Nevada, including the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel in Death Valley Junction, California, the Calico Ghost Town in California, the Glass Pool Inn in Las Vegas, and in Crystal, Nye County, Nevada and was directed by Storm Thorgerson.

Track listing

  • UK 7" Single

A: "Big Log" (Plant, Blunt, Woodroffe) – 5:03
B: "Messin' with the Mekon" (Plant, Blunt, Paul Martinez) – 4:40

  • US 7" Single

A: "Big Log" (Plant, Blunt, Woodroffe) – 5:03
B: "Far Post" (Plant, Blunt, Woodroffe) – 4:44

Chart performance

References

  1. ^ "Big Log - lyrics". Genius. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  2. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. August 6, 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  3. ^ Monger, James Christopher. "Far from Enough - Viktor Krauss". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "Robert Plant – Big Log" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 40, 1983" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Robert Plant – Big Log" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Robert Plant – Big Log". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Robert Plant: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  10. ^ "Robert Plant - Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Jaaroverzichten 1983". Ultratop. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1983". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  13. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1983". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
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