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" Custard Pie" is the opening track on the English rock band Led Zeppelin's sixth album, Physical Graffiti, released in 1975.
Like several other songs on the album, the lyrics are full of sexual .
In later years, Robert Plant incorporated a chorus of the song on the end of the live version of his solo song, "Tall Cool One". Page also produced his own live version on his Outrider tour. Page and Plant finally performed the complete song together on occasion in 1996 while touring behind their album. In 1999, Page again performed the song, this time whilst on his tour with the Black Crowes. A version of "Custard Pie" performed by Page and the Black Crowes can be found on the album Live at the Greek.
Ultimate Classic Rock writer Michael Gallucci ranked "Custard Pie" at number 48 (out of 92) on their list of every Led Zeppelin song ranked. Another UCR writer, Eduardo Rivadavia, ranked the song the seventh best on the album, calling the groove "absolutely massive, continent-sized". A third UCR writer, Sterling Whitaker, placed the song at number 40 on his list of the 50 best Led Zeppelin songs. He called Page's guitar solo "awesomely bizarre".
Spin ranked the song at number 62 on their list of every Led Zeppelin song ranked, calling it their most underwhelming opening track, although they still thought that it was "suitably funky" and the "most enthusiastic song about cunnilingus". Vulture ranked the song at number 57 on their ranking of every Led Zeppelin song. They were confused why the band chose to open Physical Graffiti with "Custard Pie", writing that the production is "indifferent, lacking the arresting crispness of the band's better work".
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