Reviews (page 12 of 14)
I really tried to like this
No sabia si cogerme a mi mismo o hacerme la paja. Buen álbum pero hay mejores
Good listen, probably won’t listen again
I don't know. I see the relevance and there are nice songs on it, but it's just not my cup oft tea.
kinda short and more varied than expected. Still not my style.
Surprisingly buesy album. No real standout songs, sometimes the tracks go on for too long. But enjoyable rock musi overall.
Not going to lie. I didn't give this album the best shot I could have. But I've already not been that into Led Zepplin's work, so it would have been a surprise if this was the album to get me. It was not.
Reminds me of Nick from freaks & geeks, the clingy bf you don’t want listens to this! But I like it so far, bonham is good!!
There are times where this album has me jolted, excited and thoroughly enjoying every second of music on display and others where I'm snoozing with my headphones on. However some of the songs on here are truly special and cornerstones of every rock fans diet, including mine. I think that actually sums up my opinion on Led Zeppelin as a whole really.
The bombastic reinterpretation of blues riffs.
Lamento no haberme equivocado. Pensé que no me iba a gustar la primera vez que escucho un disco completo de Led Zeppelin. ¿A estas alturas y todavía no lo habías escuchado? Pues no. És lo lógico, después de haber conocido los cuatro o cinco temas más populares seguía sin interés por conocer más. Ya sé que es una banda esencial en el rock, pero mira, a mí, ni fu ni fa. Y menos cuando se ponen blueseros. Cosas que pasan.
7/10
Zu hart
Ok
None of them are ones I want to save, but they are all decent songs. I can see why ppl fw led zeppelin
12 bar blues annoying, but the rest were very good. Nice guitar
You can hear the roots of what Zeppelin would become, but this is not their best work. Some good songs, but not as good as their best, and some pretty bad ones.
That’s not really the type of music I would usually listen to, it was different, but worth it. I love the instruments and voice arrangements of all of the songs, still, that’s really not the music genre I’m into. “I Can’t Quit You Baby” is definitely going to my playlist though.
Not a huge fan of robert plants voice. Good riffs tho
good sure but often annoying or boring and from what i’ve read much stolen. i do understand the appeal but not crazy about it
Strong start but I lost interest as it went along. Solid 3.
Pretty good, some songs dragged on a bit but sti enjoyed it. God few saves
My least favourite of their first 4, but still has some great moments
Rating is mostly down to personal taste and knowing their career trajectory. They’ve got much better stuff in the tank.
монументально, молодцы, но пока кажется не мой жанр (хоть и не бесит)
Kind of thought this wouldn't be up my street, it is a fairly decent listen but isn't something I'm desperate to come back to.
This is the debut from Led Zeppelin, including three tracks that are heard often on classic rock radio: “Dazed and Confused”, “Communication Breakdown”, and “Good Times Bad Times”. Also on this album are some old blues songs which have been converted to heavy metal. Overall a good debut album, not quite four stars.
I liked this album but didn't love it. A couple of good songs and a nice sound but not really engaging for me.
Good, but they got better and more interesting later.
Led Zeppelin is a solid 6/10 for me in general, I always tolerate it and sometimes enjoy it, but never put it on by myself. This album was decent though.
Just not very exciting to me. My third Led Zeppelin album on the list, and least favorite so far. Still a classic album for a reason but not something I need to revisit personally. Just really tired of this sound. Top Songs: Dazed and Confused, Black Mountain Side
not a fan of hard rock, if only they knew how to make folk songs
Hmm, cv nog wel. Over het algemeen is het een enjoyable album, enkel de eerste 3 nummers zijn een beetje te lang waardoor ze te repetitief lijken.
Used to love this. Doesn't do it for me anymore
I know these guys are huge but I personally am not obsessed. I didn’t add a single song to my liked playlist.
I respect the talent but more so than other hard rock acts I just found this particular album to be especially masturbatory and posturing, like I couldn’t describe a worldview. I say this as someone who likes their later albums.
Sounds good!
Nothing crazy, just some sexy rock.
3.75 I like some of it, chill rock, some songs feel similar to other bands of the same era (‘68), like Traffic and The Band and some of The Rolling Stones songs. Only issue is that the songs I like the sound of are really long (like 6 mins), which is kinda annoying. Maybe some if their other albums would work better for me
Great for it's time and later, just kinda clunky now
Its an ok introduction to Led Zeppelin, but its not their best.
Yeah pretty good. Didn’t love it, but didn’t hate it.
You can tell the greatness to come from this album.
Some songs were better than others, but every one felt too long
Pretty good
I feel similar about this as I do about Led Zeppelin III
Hell yeah. Some slammers on this one, I don't intend to lie. I don't think I'm the hugest zep fan but this album rocks. A solid 6.7/10
fav songs: - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - I Can't Quit You Baby least fav song: - Good Times Bad Times musings: - I feel like Dazed and Confused would hit crazy after 2-4 beers at a dive bar - Communication Breakdown would be a great song in the background of a movie where a couple is fighting or something - I really thought I wasn't gonna like this at all but it grew on me rating: 6.8/10
Classic!
Good but not really my style. Nice for a BBQ.
Enjoyed Dazed and Confused the most. It’s a great rock album but probably not one I’ll come back to.
Not sure the first Monday morning back at work after Christmas break is the right time for Led Zep. Can tell is groundbreaking, influential etc but maybe just not my thing.
Favorite Songs - Baby I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, Your Time Is Gonna Come, How Many More Times
Never heard the album before, kinda what I expected.
5/10 - Favorite song: I can’t quit you baby
I'm not sure if it's the case that I'm not into the blues, or it's a case that I don't care for Led Zep's attempts at it. Favorite song: Black Mountain Side
Ipnotico, amo il mix tra rock e richiami alla musica spagnola. Richiamo alla musica psichedelica di quegli anni
5/10, I love the guitar but I just don’t like the style or pace that much .
Honestly, I didn't know what to expect frome Led Zeppeling besides their absolute greatest hits. Was enjoyable classic rock with lots of talent and variety.
Thought I'd heard them before, but this seemed new to me.
Classic, jam-heavy hard rock. A little too unrefined and wild for my liking - I prefer the later Zeppelin albums. Unbelievable that these guys were only in their early 20s when they made this.
The best of their records, which isnt a huge compliment, but some good, some uninteresting
This is certainly a "cool" album. It's not what I always want but it does have a few great gems. Great vocals. Good to throw on in the background when cooking or cleaning!
a lot of screaming in the morning
Alright but a bit boring.
I used to like LED Zeppelin, then I heard Greta Van Fleet and it made me really not like LED Zeppelin.
I am a bit disappointed, I had a fond memory of this album, and found myself underwhelmed by most song on this album. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is still one of my favorite rock song since I first listened to it a few years back. Fav: Babe I'm gonna leave you
I liked it but not my fav LZ album.
Pretty good!
Bättre än tvåan, men lite sämre än Physical Graffiti. Bäst i låtar med tydliga raka rockriff, som de två inledande, samt orgelbaserade Your time is gonna come. Tre långa sega blueslåtar för mycket.
Good album, not their best job
After many years of really trying to get on with Led Zepp, today's homework has finally landed an answer as to why I just don't: it's Robert Plant's sex noises that dominate the vocal delivery, that's the issue! Will always remain a 'Best Of' band. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆ (5/10)
Et av de største bandene jeg fortsatt har til gode å sjekke ut. Ekte rockepionerer. Solid men inkonsistent hard rock her. Dazed and Confused bærer dette albumet på sine skuldre. For en vanvittig god sang! Top 3: Dazed and Confused, Communication Breakdown, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
This was easily recognizable as a Led Zeppelin album.
Don't understand the hype ngl
Not my fave but definitely a good album to listen in the background when with friends or at a party. I liked "Babe I'm gonna leave you" the most.
Solid rock baby! All the so gs we gree up on.
I liked black mountain side - more diverse range of songs on the album and more blues like than I thought this would be - honestly cannot tell how much I like it I think I enjoyed it but probably wouldn’t put it on myself again not super my style
I get it, I promise I do, I just don't really care too much
6.5/10 Super heavy on the guitar, long songs but I enjoyed most of them! Liked Good Times Bad Times best. Learned that the album cover is Hindenburg which was manufactured by a company called Zeppelin (hence the band name). Also learned that their drummer, Bonham, died at 32 from choking on vomit which led to the eventual break up of the band. Stairway to Heaven is the most popular song of theirs. Immigrant Song is also popular and goes hard.
12/11/2025 Stoked to get this as my very first pick. This is a fun listen. Mind melting long ass songs and primal screaming and moaning back and forth with the guitar (end of You Shook Me and middle of Dazed and Confused). Goddamn I'm lost in the sauce. 6.5/10
Led Zeppelin being Led Zeppelin
This is one of those cases where I have so much respect for the band and the music and that they're clearly good, but it just honestly doesn't really do much for me.
Quite 'classic rock', because that's what it is. But it's the better end of classic rock and the drumming slams. Favourite tracks: Good Times Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, How Many More Times.
wasn't turned off by it but earlier rock doesn't really catch my ear or interest me
Hed mi gar nöd abgholt, vill z rockig. aber han denn namal tüüf i mich ieblickt und denkt, chum es 3 gämmer scho. Will Zeppelin ja scho au es OG fortbewegigsmittel isch
Much preferred this to Physical Graffiti. Still not really my jam, but I get why people like it - some of these tracks have got such a colossal, operatic presence to them. 6.5 / 10 Best track/s: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times
Jimmy page and JPJ are great musically, Robert Plant not my fav. A couple songs I like but I never seek out LZ to listen to.
This album is a lot more down and dirty than Led Zeppelin's later work. This brings some compelling energy to the album but also leads to something that is unfocused and often feels unfinished. The vibe of a band just hanging out and jamming out together makes some of these songs very cool, but others just meander and never get to the point. I like Led Zeppelin but this is not their best work. I see the spark and get why people were excited about them, but I'd rather listen to later records. The cover is great, iconic, well composed, thematic, it's a 5/5.
Very Pink Floyd
*Nice mix of rock and blues- just went a little to mellow with the blues at times.
It was ok. Not necessarily my taste in music. I did like some of the blues feel in some of the songs.
Blues rock meets psychedelic rock.
omg only zep III and physical graffiti to go until we escape the influence of the black magic of jimmy page. /j it's (of course) not as good as led zep IV but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3.5 for me cause IV impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from good times bad times and dazed and confused (which is literally a watered down version of whole lotta love), although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works. 3.5/5
sometimes i just wish led zeppelin was a doom metal band and it's weird because at times they actually almost are, when they REALLY stretch out the blues it sounds cool as fuck but sometimes they get distracted by playing guitar solos or whatever and trying to impress the 14 year old girls they wanted to groom, overall as i get older led zep kinda is horseshoe-ing back into being cool in my mind but only like half the time anyways have a nice day yall :pray: Fav song: Dazed and Confused (main part is insanely heavy)
Even though I’m not a big fan of rock, I can see why this album is so loved. Its blend of blues and folk elements really stood out to me. Favorite Song: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
Clearly some mad guitar skills, but not my favorite.
3.5
Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Die Menge an Hits ist überschaubar.
Classic, but a bit difficult from start to end
Bluesy, rockish, sounded familiar.
I don't get Led Zeppelin. This was ok, but nothing special for my ears/heart. Communication Breakdown stood out. ★★★
3.5 stars. His voice gets annoying after awhile, sorry.
3.5
pretty good
some bangers on this, although robert plants voice can be extremely grating 3.5
Nikad mi LZ nekako nije sjeo, kao instrumentalno zvuče super, ali taj njegov vokal mi nekako ne sjeda niti paše uz glazbu. Ipak, od svega njihovog što sam poslušala, vjerojatno na strani boljih albuma. 3/5, 6/10
Koko hardrockin peruskirja; riffit, rytmit ja fraseeraukset malliesimerkkeinä ja jopa tulevien klassikoiden tekstien rakennuspalikoita. Aikanaan ollut varmasti vaikuttava rankkuudessaan, nykykorvin intensiivinen ja hyvin livemäinen rocklevy. Ei vielä maailman parhaita sävellyksiä mutta jo nyt mieletön tunnelma. Miinukset kaikista "vahinkolainoista" tai ihan suoraan varastetuista jutuista, mutta niihin kai suhtauduttiin eri tavoin tuohon aikaan.
Best Song: Good Times Bad Times. It's just such a great kickoff to the album, and the guitar solo really sells it for me. Worst Song: You Shook Me. It's not that it's bad, it just feels like a relatively ordinary blues track, relative to the rest of what's going on here. Overall: It's good, but it certainly isn't Zeppelin's best. A lot is spent floundering in blues rock, without that extra energy and electricity that makes Zeppelin really work for me.
Brings back teen memories of songs on the radio!
Millor del que pensava a la primera impressió, però necessito escoltar-lo més.
It’s okay. Would be better if they didn’t write about and normalize sexualizing underage girls.
Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut album (1969) is one of those that I felt obligated to score highly, but after listening through in its entirety, couldn’t bring myself to do so. As a debut album, it’s obvious why they burst into the scene, as it’s filled with lots of popular songs people love, like “Good Times Bad Times”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “Dazed and Confused”, and “Communication Breakdown”. The problem is in the catalog of Zeppelin hits, these would all rank in the bottom half or near the bottom for me. So while I thought this was good, it just wasn’t great. 3/5
Real good quality album. Should be 4/5 but Black Mountain Side is actually garbage. Can't believe that made the cut.
It's a good band. They got some big hits. Just maybe not a...
An ok album. Nice mix of blues rock and proto hard rock
I’ve never been wholly convinced by Led Zeppelin and this does nothing to persuade me in either direction. A little too much of Robert Plant’s anguished wailing for my taste.
I like Led Zeppelin, and I really liked Good Times Bad Times, but the rest of the album isn't as good as their later stuff. Like someone else here said, it feels more like a jam session than fully thought out individual songs.
This is the 3rd Led Zeppelin album I've listened to on this list and I still feel like I'm missing something. The talent on display here is unquestionable but something about the music just doesn't resonate with me. I think you had to have grown up listening to Zeppelin to really capture the full essence and if you didn't then you won't ever truly "get" it.
Solid album - especially for being the debut. You can see how they got so famous.
This Blues Rock album is a powerful but uneven debut, bursting with raw energy and instrumental fire yet held back by uneven production and moments of indulgent blues interptetations.
Fine.
Another day another debut album from a band I don't care for that I found to be actually good! I'll need to figure out why this is one day.
Nuclear take - this is mid. Led Zep is at their least compelling when they are just playing (stealing) the blues. They do it well! I don't care though! When they get a lil kooky with it is where they really shine. The only song on this record that doesn't make me pine for subsequent Zep is "Your Time Is Gonna Come". This record is a 3 in my heart but a 4 in my brain.
fine
Led Zeppelin >4>PG. I like about 2 minutes of each Les Zeppelin song.
I was something of a Led Zeppelin super fan as a teenager, so it feels weird to rate this so low. There are some great songs on here, but overall it's not them at their best. A very promising debut in retrospect, but wonder how well I would have reviewed it if I was around in 1969. The production is also rough AF. The best songs imo are Good Times Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, and Communication Breakdown. The rest I can kinda take or leave. I always thought that Your Time is Gonna Come sounds like a completely different band - it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Probably the most I've enjoyed Led Zeppelin on this list so far, a solid crop of songs, but still, not an album that I see myself re-visiting. But honestly, this was the most expressive and enjoyable I've found Plant to be (especially on 'Babe I'm Gonna Love You'), a vocalist I can seldom stand. As usual, though, he's still the worst part of this band's music, and his repetitive, derivative, and directionless riffing on songs like 'I Can't Quite You Baby' bog down these otherwise solid jammy songs. Overall, the album is considerably heavier and grittier than some of their other albums in the self-titled series; the riffs are dirtier and catchier, that's for sure - listen to 'Dazed and Confused', 'How Many More Times', and 'Communication Breakdown'. And yes, I know these guys stole a good chunk of their riffs, but assuming they didn't, the ones here are some of their absolute best. I mean, you still get your occasional snoozer ('Your Time Is Gonna Come'), but for a band that I don't really care for, this was pretty enjoyable.
Good classic rock
I didn’t find it too exciting but it wasn’t terrible
85/1001 Led Zeppelin - s/t Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ This is the weakest of the Led Zeppelin albums I've heard so far, as for me it leans far too much into the bluesier side of theirs. There are still some absolute belters but doesn't quite elevate iinto the next level for me.
Decent
Bluesy at the beginning, better towards the end
There was a time when I really loved late 60s/early 70s rock music, but when I listen to it now, I often find myself astonished by how repetitive and indistinguishable the songs are from one another. That's my feeling on this album as well. "Your Time is Gonna Come" has some unique characteristics, but the rest of the album just blends together.
It's an interesting debut, but with this one Led Zeppelin were still finding their feet. Blues jamming (like you shook me, i can't quit you baby) might have sounded fresh back then, but now it's bit boring. Led Zeppelin did make some much more interesting bluesy tracks later on. But there are also definite highlights on this album, like Good times bad times, black mountain side and communication breakdown.
Atmospheric and melodic, not as heavy as I was expecting based on it's reputation. Interesting melodies but little that's instantly memorable
Not heavy metal Dad rock with blues vibe Good Time Bad Times - Great track Dazed and Confused - Decent but too much moaning, gets awkward Black Mountain Side - Only good for a piss break Communication Breakdown - Best solo on album
Communication Breakdown is my favourite from the album, I definitely prefer the faster tempo. Bro also legit nutted at the end of Dazed and Confused. I think I got PTSD from You Shook Me. The harmonica returns, thank you Bob.
1969 - Crazy. Definitely a leader in this sound. The album was really good. No stand outs, but generally awesome.
This album is fine. I was hoping for more from them but it’s not a bad listen
fantastic debut album. I was a Zeppelin fan from an early age, although I started young with "Presence". I was familiar with this album, and I think the first side is rock solid. I honestly prefer Cream; and while I like other Zep albums but this is a powerhouse that has stood the test of time. Favorite tracks: Good Times, Bad Times , I Can't Quit You Baby
OK Zeppelin.
Ekki fyrir mig en mjog skemmtilegt undirhljoð
3.75
3/5
they play the instruments well
This started out strong but then devolved into more white men singing the blues. It lost me at that point.
You can tell it’s their debut album cause it feels so raw and unpolished - but hey how awesome huh. I rate this album and it’s def above the pack for the era it dropped in.
Seems derivative and self-absorbed. Not a fan.
some great guitar riffs, I like how the songs lead into the next and the voice is not bad. However the lyrics are wandering and unoriginal and some songs just go on forever repeating the same words. 5/10
It's good, but they got better
Another good Album. More blues than I would have expected
Preferable to the last album by them. I even like another track by them. You Time Is Gonna Come is very nice indeed.
Some real bangers on this one, regardless of how insufferable Plant is after awhile.
Finally took the time to listen to it
too much led zep recently
Led Zeppelin
I felt societal pressure to give this more listens and change my rating. It’s a great album, I jumped the gun and was riding the wave of rating everything I listened to either a 5 or a 2. No more middle of the curve ratings, I said. But then I just listened to some thrash metal, hated it, and realized this was a far superior listen and deserved more. It’s theatrical and dramatic, a bit too much wailing, surprising blues, and a little more rock than I tend to want to listen to. I still stand by my original review though: “It’s just not for me, and that’s okay.”
I want to like Led Zeppelin more than I do. But I just don't. They have a few really great songs. This album does not contain them. That said, it's still good enough for an average rating. Of the songs on the list, I think I liked the first one, "Good Times, Bad Times" the best.
Learning to be a fan
It's alright. Not their best. Stand out song - How many more times
dazed and confused as well as good times bad times are stella, the rest kinda mid.
Some classic Led Zep songs here on their debut, but also a few that put me to sleep. It’s still good, and for any other band this would be the high point of their career, but by Zep standards, they would go onto bigger and better.
It's a good start but a little meandering. Some great tracks (Babe, Dazed, Communication). How Many More Times great closer (and references Plant's work witj exis Korner and the song Steal Away). Is it a 4? Not quite.
Really struggling between 3 and 4 here. Objectively this is a great album. I know I would be happy if someone else puts it on. But I don’t think I will often, if ever, have the urge to put this on myself.
Ok
They just don’t do it for me. I suspect you have to get into them when you’re 18.
Liked this!
I like Led Zeppelin, and one album is enough. I dig the blues roots and appreciate the impact they had, both positive and negative impacts. I'm not sure if I can distinguish differences in their albums, but I hope to try through this project.
One minute I’m rocking out, the next I’m dancing, the next I’m taken to church. A mixture of different vibes but all consistently loud.
led zeppelin spila blússlagara. finnst þetta allt í læi.
Good classic rock. I like the bluesy feel to it.
This is my third Led Zeppelin album so far. Each one has had one or two really good songs - on this album it's Communication Breakdown, but I find the rest a bit plodding and samey. Led Zeppelin is a slightly more interesting album than IV or Physical Graffiti with a light psychedelic influence, but it's still not enough to get a four. A greatest hits band for me.
I have a complicated relationship with Led Zeppelin. I've spent a lifetime being ambivalent towards them. I've learned that I like Led Zeppelin III, thanks to this project, and Houses of the Holy outside of the project. I've also learned that I absolutely despise Led Zeppelin II. Which brings us to Led Zeppelin's S/T debut: The Bad. There are songs on the albums that were exactly as I expected them to be: kind of shitty. I *hate* "Good Times, Bad Times" so fucking much. Incredibly irritating. "You Shook Me" is equally annoying in how it robs the album of its momentum (the killer keyboard solo couldn't save it). These are some of LZ's worst tendencies. Then, there were things that defied my expectations: "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" features an empassioned vocal performance from Rober Plant, likewise with "Dazed and Confused", a song I previously thought I hated (I actually really enjoyed the psychelic detour before the drumps kick back in). "Your Time Is Gonna Come", despite being a bit repetitive, was delightful, and the transition to "Black Mountain Side" was perfect; the track itself is light and breezy. These were all gifts when I expected to enjoy nothing. Fairly middling album with pretty high peaks, but tremendously low valleys. My inner critic says 2, but I'm still shocked I like Led Zeppelin at all, so a 3 it is.
I love led zeppelin. But honestly, this isn't that great an album. With hindsight, you can hear where they'll end up. But the album itself is a little slow and not that great.
Fun, but didn't always keep my attention.
jimmy page had sex with a 14 year old girl
overhyped album by an overhyped band. tries to sound revolutionary but flops every time i listen
harmonica poppin' off waaaaahhhh waaahhhhahahhaahhhh (same) i cant tell if its just not for me or i've been traumatized by too many guys that listen to zeppelin to enjoy it oh this one is good (black mountain side) how many more times? no more thank you im full not really my jam but i can appreciate the musicianship of it all
good album over but didn’t like the abrupt endings to the songs they seemingly had no transition between tracks
Ech fends no geil wie Led Zeppelin Intromänt isetzt. Das führt dezue, dass e Song ned eifach t Melodie esch, sondern vorallem dör t Komposition vo dene Knstromänt, wie e hüülendi Gitarre oder es Keyboard met Orgletön speziell werd. Leider hends aber jetzt ned so die ifahrendste Melodie. Sie send zwar okay aber ech ha jetzt nie dänkt boah die Melodie esch jetzt hüte guet. Au tendierts möngisch dezue öberlade z si, sodass es scho fascht Krach esch.
#5 Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin Alongside the gradual implosion of the Yardbirds towards the end of the 60s, guitar rock music in Britain had its slow evolution out of blues into more ambitious territories. Eric Clapton continued his tradition of psychedelic rock by going for more dreamy, laidback and trippy solos with his band Cream. Jeff Beck took his seminal distortion techniques and dressed his sound with a jazz fusion flavouring. Jimmy Page decided to stick to the basics: a blaze of technical riffs and solos, just louder than what he had done with the Yardbirds. And so the New Yardbirds, later dubbed Led Zeppelin after a suggestion from the Who's Keith Moon, was founded. Its destination was mostly the same as with the Yardbirds: rock and roll. Page and his new bandmates, singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham, all have the chops to do something dazzling. Good Times Bad Times is an amazing starter for the album to showcase the technical strengths of the band: an appetiser for the next 8 songs. And throughout this album, Led Zeppelin perform, almost as if a live concert, blues song covers and originals in a heavy, bombastic heart-pumping rock. And man does it sound quite fucking amazing for a debut. The sound of this album is much more subtler than future releases as the band scouring through multiple variations of their sound from psychedelia to the rock akin to CCR. It's quite obvious that although the band works as if one, they aren't sure about their vision for their sound as of this record, and this is may be because Page is still hesitant about Led Zeppelin as a working project. Take into context, the death of the Yardbirds marked a turning point for rock, and critics were very critical of the thought of reviving such a band, even under a new name. And because of this already hostile backlashing, some of the songs here may seem overcompensatory. Page can drag on a bit without any substance, and Plant's voice can also feel a bit held back. I'm not being totally critical of what happened in this album, I commend the great ranges that Led Zeppelin have tried out here, but there's definitely still moments where the band needs to be a bit more tighter and less meandering with their sound. Cause I must say, Side 2 can feel like a chore to listen through. Not many bands can hit quite this hard for a debut, and not many bands can enter the scene with great ambition. Led Zeppelin's debut is a record that represents the great strengths of a band that is quickly ironing out their clinks, and feel determined to take the world by storm through sheer power-riffing and solos.
Very revolutionary, but a lot of the blues tracks start blending together like a cigarette fog. Favorite Song: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Whatever
Liked it more than I remember, but Zepplelin has never been my favorite. 3.5 stars rounded down. It is weird to pick up on all the blues in the old music. Also, didn’t care for the weird news article song.
Objectively solid, not my thing
oh hey, it's the band that plagiarized like half their songs Good Times Bad Times - 4/5 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - 5/5 You Shook Me - 3/5 Dazed and Confused - 5/5 Your Time Is Gonna Come - 4/5 Black Mountain Side - 3/5 Communication Breakdown - 4/5 I Can't Quit You Baby - 3/5 How Many More Times - 3/5 Average score: 3.8/5 (rounding down)
Not my favorite Zeplin album, but a classic jam the whole way through either way.
Close to a 4
This feels like one of those albums that was super influential when it was released. I’m having a difficult time grading it though because I am already familiar with much of the music that it influenced. Overall it’s pretty good, although the vocals get a little too much for me at times and the music gets a little meandering for my tastes. 3+ stars but not quite enough to round up.
Kinda what I would expect...its ok, will I put it on again...unlikely.
A buoyant, passionate, energetic debut which had me, someone who struggles to connect with blues tinged rock, nodding my head enthusiastically. I predict big things for Led Zeppelin.
pretty good overall! the pure instrumental songs (or maybe mostly instrumental? idk) are pretty forgettable, and the final song reaaaallly drags, but good aside from those small issues!
the first two songs were pretty good but it just kind of fell off from there
It’s fine music, just not my jam.
Singing was super awkward, songs blend into one another and never seem to end...
The front half was interesting but the back half was kinda boring.
One of my least favourite of led zeppelin. Understandable since it's their first album, my personal favourite is led zeppelin ll. But my favourite song on this album is Your Time Is Gonna Come
Pretty decent! But probably my least favourite Led Zeppelin album, which makes sense as their debut and the fact they still had to find their footing.
More varied than what it seems.
not the biggest fan of hard rock 7/10
Some great band performances here but a little too meandering overall. Favorite track: Good Times Bad Times
Good.
I like the tabla song
I feel like I should like it, but I don’t.
Never much of a Zeppelin fan but I see why this one is a classic.
Guitar go brrrrrp
Hard to not like some Zeppelin. I’ve never done an album of theirs from top to bottom before so this was fun. Cool to see them have their magic from the beginning. Lots to enjoy here but I’m not sure this is the one I’d come back to aside from a few tracks.
Any Zep record is a mixed bag for me. The lows and highs on this one cancel Each other out. ***
Det kanske är dags att öppna mitt sinne. Nu eller aldrig? Jo, det började bra med skön sextiotalspsykedeliska låtar, med grymma riff. Sedan blir de ett av världens banbrytare med Robert Plants svulstiga skränande om babe och baby medan musikerna adderar plågsamt många solon. Det som är grejen med Zeppelin är det jag inte gillar. Dess inflytande är en 5a, i mina öron 2-3… tufft att sätta 2, den är ju bättre än supergrass
Some of the better sounding rock of that time 3
Not music that drives me crazy to have on in the background but also not something I would choose myself. I bet the lead singers voice could grow on me, but I found myself excited by the beauty and interest of the music and then a little annoyed by the voice. That’s the only thing that made me want to turn it off. But respect to what they’re doing because overall it’s a great and influential album, just not 100% aligned with my taste.
An iconic band with iconic cover art, this album and sound define the late 60s supergroup rock era. It's not my favourite Led Zeppelin album, so I hope I get a further opportunity to review them a little higher. Solid 3. Standout tracks - 'Dazed and Confused' and 'Good Times Bad Times'
Slow and rocky, pretty good but nothing special
Oh, well, too bluesy, too few great songs. Also sounds old.
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First two tracks are stone cold bangers, though memory tells me this record is a bit patchy. Ah yeah, the covers. Just blues cloggers. The originals are probably great but this isn't what I want from Led Zep. Great playing of course, that goes without saying, so it's still enjoyable on that level. But we know what the band are capable of so let's get on with the original material. And to be fair How Many More Times is enjoyable. Dazed and Confused is an absolute monster. Kind of a precursor to the fantastic Since I Been Loving You. What a bassline.
There were a lot of cool moments on this album but none of the songs worked for me as a whole really except "Good Times Bad Times".
Exceptionally well made album with superb musicianship. I cannot, however, give this more than a 3: I simply hate rock. My antipathy is not due to the music itself. No, rather my hatred of this genre is owing entirely to the type of dude it spawned. I HATE guys who love rock. They’re all 40-60 year old dickheads who INSIST that this is the coolest music ever and that, by proxy, they are also super cool for being fans of it. They love classic cars, nudie calendars, and loudly complaining. In short, they are 12 year olds stuck in the bodies of men. By endlessly propagandizing Led Zeppelin as the coolest music ever, they have inadvertently made it lame. It has become a caricature of itself. Thanks Gen X and the Baby Boomers, you ruined your own favourite music for everybody born after 1990.
3/5. Iconic vocals, some of the more upbeat and energetic tracks are good. Noticed the lyrics are all kind of bitter towards women, who hurt you hahaha. Not my favorite Led Zeppelin work.
Some great songs and some mid hair band songs
Ok, etwas aggressiv.
Revolutionary, iconic, genre-defining. There's a lot to love off I, it's a great introduction to some of the most talented musicians of the 20th century. 'Good Times, Bad Times' for example hides so many virtuosic elements within the first couple minutes - Bonham's ridiculous fills, Page's manic solo, and Plant's passionate wailing at the end. What drags this album down for me are the record fillers - the huge singles are the only songs I'd go back to for this, and unlikely that I'd redo the whole album anytime soon. Best Tracks: - Good Times, Bad Times - Dazed and Confused - Communication Breakdown Worst Tracks: - You Shook Me Rating: 7.5/10
As much as I love Led Zeppelin, I have to rank this as a run-of-the-mill Psychedelic Heavy Blues album. There's a ton of potential here, as history has shown, but the actual material doesn't live up to what came after it. This record was somewhat rightfully panned by critics when it was released. I think the author's bias toward debuts was misplaced here. I'm giving this one a reluctant three stars, with a bonus half-star for just being Led Zeppelin.
Нормальный блюз-рок, который даже они делают лучше в следующих альбомах. Лучшая песня - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.
Much more bluesy than I was expecting
Definitely one of the more iconic rock sounds of its time, I'm going to say that I didn't really care for the song writing though. A lot of what they did on guitar and drums as one off sounds in the middle of a song was cool and interesting, but apart from that the album was really all over the place and most of the songs were like six lines long followed by and endless jam of disparate rock ideas.
Good moments, clearly groundbreaking for the time but sounds of the time to me. Some of the studio trucks moving the panning of tracks around feels gimmicky now but was probably sick back then. A few songs were very good, most of them were just okay. I liked it, but it’s not as amazing as I expected it to be
3 iconic songs with a lot of feeling things out indulgence. For Zep this is a good start but the better work comes later
Music is nice, vocals are decent. Songs are just long, drag on. Music is great, points just for that. Best song: Your Time Is Gonna Come
It bore me.
Meh Zeppelin
- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You instantáneamente me atrapó y probablemente es mi canción favorita del disco. Excelente uso de guitarras y percusión. - No me convencía Shook Me hasta que llegue a la mitad "instrumental" de la canción. Aún así no la escucharía en un contexto que no sea dentro del álbum. -Dazed and Confused me hace dar cuenta que las vocales tanto en tono como liricamente aunque hacen su trabajo no son el punto fuerte ni el destacado del disco. -La segunda mitad del disco me hace perder un poco el interés. Sónicamente impresionante pero personalmente no es suficiente para convencerme en volver a escucharlo en el futuro. Sin embargo, siendo esta mi introducción a Led Zeppelin, me dió la suficiente buena impresión para adentrar más en la discografia de la banda.
Zeppelin came out swinging with “Good Times Bad Times” but I unfortunately liked it less as it went on. I’m familiar with some of their hits and loved some of their later albums, but this lost me about halfway through. Jarring transitions, wavering vocal performances (imo)… musicianship was great but something is dropping my rating without me able to articulate it. 3.25/5 - maybe my expectations were too high and was let down..
3.5 Like I’ve said before, Led weren’t a formative band for me, never got into them as a teenage boy so I just don’t have the deep set affection for them many do. I think it’s good, alright, and this one was better than a couple other Led albums I’ve heard. I do think this is the FIFTH one I’ve listened to for this project? Really? Did ALL of them have to be on this list?
Always a good album. Only two original songs though.
Not my cup of tea
Good artists copy, and great artists steal. Led Zeppelin took it too far, though, committing grand theft their entire career. While that earned them praise throughout the ‘70s before finding source material was as easy as it is today, in retrospect, it makes them gross by today’s authenticity standards, and it also makes me realize how stale they actually were as a band. I want to start off on a couple of positives. Zeppelin I starts off so strong! I think “Good Times, Bad Times” is a flawless song, and has enough proto-metal that it feels unique. Following it up with an interesting cover of “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” that has power and soul behind it actually works very well. If this record kept up this vibe, I’d be all-in. Unfortunately, from there, this album slips and never really recovers for me. “You Shook Me” is just a basic blues cover with little variation, as is “I Can’t Quit You Baby.” “Your Time Is Gonna Come” is a standard fare hippie acoustic-driven song, very much not my vibe, and [apparently] my least favorite type of Zeppelin song. And “Black Mountain Side” is a guitar interlude that goes on for a minute too long. I don’t really love any of these songs, at all. I can acknowledge that Zeppelin are good musicians– although I’m surprisingly not the biggest fan of the way Page solos, truthfully; it sounds a little too improvised, almost like he’s fumbling– but none of these songs inspired intrigue for me. But I will say, though it is a standard blues track, I do enjoy the energy “How Many More Times” brings to the table, and I think if this record had that energy throughout its entirety, even with the blues-basis, I’d be a lot more into it, even though I would still view it as a cover album with a few pastiche songs. The real issues for me, however, are “Dazed and Confused” and “Communication Breakdown.” I’ll start with an issue they both share; for some reason, they don’t flow in the sequencing naturally, and they stand out like bent nails in a dinner room chair. That may be a Spotify issue, sure, but I feel like the mastering clips the ends, and it rips me out of the groove. Yet on their own, I like these songs. Well….okay, see, that’s the other thing. I think they are fine songs. I’ve known them for most of my life, how could I not enjoy them? But also, when I listen back to them, they’re both….a lot thinner than I remember them feeling? In my mind’s eye, these are bombastic, powerful juggernauts; on wax, they’re as tough as Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild,” aka, their rebellious attitude has tamed with time and now feels about as hard-edged as Miranda Cosgrove cursing on a podcast. Still good songs, but they are a lot duller than I remember. Plus, y’know, the “Dazed and Confused” issue. To briefly write my thoughts down, I like the original version a LOT, it is very good, and Page/Zeppelin 100%, unequivocally stole his song basically note for note, to the point where it’s basically a cover. But, if it’s a cover, it’s one that actually adds a LOT to it, and I think the full band composition along with the harder groove and Plant’s lyrics do something to elevate it as the superior version, although it never in any way adds so much that they earned the right to call it an original song. Maybe I’m just nostalgic for that song because it was the first song I ever really learned to play on the bass (not well, but I learned it), maybe it’s just a good cover, especially when all the other covers here suck. I think I can still tolerate the track, but it’s lost a lot of power, both on face-value and in context. What I’m left with is about 1/3 of a record with bland covers or songs that sound like covers (why has this happened to me twice in a row?), a 1/3 of a record that I sincerely enjoy, and a 1/3 record that I thought I loved but I actually feel largely apathetic to, or straight up have outgrown. When Zeppelin I is good, it’s good, but to me, it’s mostly not good. Some of that is because it sounds way more dated than I expected, some of it is because there’s only so much stealing you can do before I wonder if you have anything original worth saying. I won’t act like this isn’t an important record, but this is way too overhyped and does not have the bite of its self-proclaimed bark.
I love Led Zeppelin, but I've never loved this album. I like it, but it's just too bluesy for me to love. If blues are your thing, then by all means enjoy the hell out of it. It's just not my personal fave.
I grew up in a household that never played any of this kind of music, so I didn't hear Led Zeppelin until I was in high school. I was not into them much growing up and I am not much into them now, except for when I want to be captivated by John Bonham's drumming.
This is a good album, but not my favorite from them. A nice introduction to their style and talent. I'm not a big fan of the blues stuff, but they really do it well for some British fellas. I like Communication Breakdown as a favorite. Only a 3 on the rating. This isn't their best work.
I might like it more on repeat listens, but I wasn't blown away by my first listen.
Hmmmm
It was a classic Zeppelin album. Of course very good. Fine.
Opener was great, babe i'm gonna leave you was super extra but I enjoyed the build up a lot. Overall I liked this, it was explosive and energetic. I did find it a bit grating after a while but that is probably on me. I think this is a 3.5.
Decent. 3/5
Im so sorry mom
I don't like them. Sorry
I mean, it's *OK* I *quite* like bits of it, but it rambles too much for my liking really. And I've heard better versions of Dazed and Confused. I should probably like this more than I do, and I managed three listens on my commute. But it just doesn't quite do it for me.
Dazed and Confused Babe I’m gonna leave you
Led Zeppelin is too stressful for me
Led Zeppelins första skiva. Blues? Lite för skramligt och yligt. Kan haja att det var banbrytande på sin tid men orkar inte riktigt lyssna. Hoppade över halva "Dazed and Confused". Hoppade över fler låtar, för gitarrunkigt med för mycket höga toner.
Overall.... Idk, I really wanted to like this album. But just felt a bit slow and sloppy for my tastes. I could imagine this being so awesome in a stadium. But listening in the car, it slowly slipped into the background. TBH on a nice speaker system, if I was on drugs, I may have liked this a *lot*. "Good times, Bad Times" - The drums are very sick. The guitars are very cool. But feels a bit all over the place? "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" - Fantastic vocal. But otherwise a bit lackluster for me. "You Shook Me" - Tbh, I did not know that Lead Zeplin did blues. Crazy awesome vocal. Just feels very 12 bar blues idk. "Dazed and Confused" - Instrumentals are sick. Song feels like everyone is high out of their minds. "Your time is gonna come" - Love the gang vocals. "Black Mountain Side" - the tablas took me by *surprise*. I quite like this, feels very out of place. "Communication Breakdown" - This kind of rock is just not my jam. Feels sort of unpolished? Like they found one lick they licked and made a song out of it. "I Can't Quit you Baby" - Back to blues, I liked this one a bit more. "How Many More Times" - More big drums here to save the day. Feels again all over the place.
I really wanted to like this, but I just never got into it.
joa woa ok
reisst mich wenig vom hocker
Классека, но меня никогда не цепляли цепеллины. Так и тут - послушала и послушала
Even the greatest had to start somewhere
I can only take so much of Robert Plant's screeching and moaning. It makes it very difficult to list to an entire album without getting annoyed by it. However, musically, this album kicks ass and would be a lot more interesting without the gratuitous screeching. Not their best album.
Truly showcasing the best and worst of Zeppelin. The good songs are rocking and catchy. Infectious riffs. And then shitty awful unending screeches and horrible white man’s blues that’s embarrassing to listen to.
I can see why people like it good for its genre but the three tracks that are essentially long 12 bar blues really aren’t for me
Such a Blusey album. I’m not sure what is in the liner notes but I hope they thank and pay tribute to all of the blues artists who inspired this album.
Yeah nice stuff but not their best
I have another 2 of these to go and my tolerance for hearing Robert Plant screech 'baby' repeatedly has already reached a critical low point How many more times is an accurate representation of my own psyche as I wonder how many more songs I am going to hear with Robert talking about his (certainly of age) 'girl'
I’d like Led Zeppelin more if I couldn’t understand a single word old mate was saying. If I never hear the word baby again it’ll be too soon.
Getting this out of the way first. Once you have actually put time into listening to real blues music, the theft on display here is absolutely shocking. You Shook Me is the worst example and the organ track on that is ESPECIALLY egregious. These mfs should pay fucking reparations. Yadda yadda they’re also paedophiles, you get it. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, I honestly could not picture myself getting into a studio with my mate and he starts moaning and stroking his shit like Robert Plant, I would never be able to look that man in the eye again now that I’ve seen the depths of his depravity. In reality however, this inspired the band to shove a mudshark into a woman’s vagina and (possibly related) Jimmy Page to kidnap a 14 year old girl to keep as a sex slave. Disgusting shit aside, it’s Led Zeppelin, man. The album is good, the songs are overly long and go all over the place. This shit was designed for white boomers to listen to while they get high and try to fuck their missus (consent optional). Some songs here are punchy, exciting and well done and others drag to an eye-rolling degree. They’re not even that long but man sitting on a plane with this as your only source of stimulation beside the lady next to you watching Derry Girls or the guy on your left watching Challengers while you’re listening to I Can’t Quit You Baby makes you wish for Carlos the Jackal to hijack your plane “You hear me moaning and groaning, baby” yes Robert mate, for nearly a fucking hour. Highlights: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, Black Mountain Side, Communication Breakdown
Unique combination of clear vocals and instrumentals.
Their best was to come. You can hear where they are going and it's a decent album.
I liked it, more than Zep 4. In general, I don't really want Led Zeppelin an album at a time, though.
Najpierw chciałem dać 4, bo jest Led Zeppelin to kawał historii i jeden z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych zespołów. Mają wyjątkowe, bardzo charakterystyczne brzmienie. Kilka dni później przesłuchałem jeszcze raz i stwierdziłem, że w sumie nic szczególnie mi nie zapadło w pamięć z tego albumu. "Good Times, Bad Times" to chyba najbardziej znany utwór i mniej więcej wiedziałem, czego się spodziewać, ale jakoś po kilku dniach nawet nie jestem w stanie zanucić refrenu. Jakoś tak to wszystko przeze mnie przepłynęło bez śladu. To chyba ten czas, podobnie jak z wczesnymi Rolling Stones, gdzie cięższa odmiana rocka, idąca już w stronę progresywnego brzmienia, wyrastająca z nastolatkowego brzmienia Beatlesów, wciąż mocno czerpie z klasycznego bluesa i nie ma jeszcze swojego własnego brzmienia. Jeśli spojrzeć tylko na teksty, to mamy w 100% bluesowy album w sumie. Tylko z bardzo charakterystycznym brzmieniem Led Zeppów. Myślę, że ich późniejsze albumy lepiej ukształtowały ich legendę i niesamowite brzmienie, także za ten tylko 3. W porywach 3,5.
If me in High School knew I would give Led Zeppelin 3 he would be flabbergasted. But he knew shit. I understand why it was huge why it's influencial and it's pretty close to a 4.
J’entends l’énergie, j’entends l’envie de gueuler “Rock’n Roll” en faisant le signe de la bête avec les doigts, mais en fait ce sont surtout des blues à rallonge et assez pénibles. Il a une voix qui envoie du lourd, chaque instrument est au top mais le blues m’emmerdera toujours, même quand c’est du blues rock. Sans mystère, c’est le titre d’ouverture qui me sauve l’album : 2min46 de rock plus que de blues, sonnant encore 60’s, tendu, sans 5 minutes de trop, là d’accord même si la fin ou le son baisse de façon abrupte fait un peu bizarre. Ensuite “Babe I’m gonna leave you”, proto “Stairway to heaven”, passe plutôt bien mais comme souvent beaucoup trop long. Après ça dégénère avec “You shook me” blues lent et chiant à crever avec ses solo d’harmonium et d’harmonica sur plus de 5 minutes, le reste est pareil, quelques fulgurances mais pas mal d’ennui. “I can’t quit you Baby” est bien au-delà de mon seuil de tolérance. Il y a une énorme hype autour de ce groupe, sûrement à juste titre, mais ce sera sans moi.
Decent
I've listened to the album for years - it is good but certainly not their best. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is a classic. Not an album experience I return to often, but good nonetheless. 3/5
Boah ich fands ein bisschen zu chaotisch und laut. Glaube die Kids mussten sich später noch etwas finden
If the album was like the first few songs it would be a 4.
Enjoyed this but didn’t listen particularly hard 6/10
Bonham was still alive when I first heard Zeppelin and 45 years later they still leave me wondering what all the fuss is about. I will hear a song of theirs on the radio and think mmm that sounds alright I’ll give the album a spin but always come away feeling unsatisfied!
I should really like Led Zeppelin and I really want to but their music just does nothing for me. Technically it's really good but I just find it boring. No song really jumps out at me, there were the occasional bits, sure, but not enough to keep me interested.
Ok
I understand why people like it, but it just doesn’t do it for me.
Listening to this high must feel like you’re in the 60s
Wtf how do I like Zeppelin this much
It has been a long, long time since I last listened to this album all the way through -- more than likely it was on vinyl. In that spirit, "Side 2" is fantastic. The church-organ intro to "Your Time Is Gonna Come" still impresses me. "Communication Breakdown" is a rocker. The solo on "How Many More Times" is one of the all-time greats. It's not Led Zeppelin's best work - Robert Plant's lyrics and vocals would improve over time, Page would be less interested in replicating blues riffs and craft an original guitar sound, and the band would become much tighter. So the album is more or less Zeppelin's origin story.
hints of the greatness that is to come. and still pretty damn good on its own
Mostly a good listen, but loses points for the album being so front-loaded, and also for how much they ripped off other artists without attribution. They have better albums, I'm sure.
A strong opener and a couple of OK songs, I just don't seem to "get" this band
El debut de Led Zeppelin palidece creativamente cuando lo comparas con sus sucesores (sobre todo tomos del II-IV). Sin embargo, las performances son impresionantes, por lo que entiendo que se transforme en un clásico del blues/hard rock. Con respecto a las composiciones, no haré comentarios porque usted y yo sabemos que Jimmy Page se robó gran parte de su catálogo de músicos de blues afroamericanos.
This was definitely pretty good but didn’t entirely click with me still, hard to say why!
Another band of which I'm a hater. Enjoyed on this listen... Will re-evaluate one day
Un po' troppo matto.
not as good as I wanted it to be. the kind of music that a band would play at a live bar; no one is really listening to the music but it's a nice accomp to a conversation 5/10
Their debut album is what many bands' best album's sound like.
Pretty decent, but maybe not my favorite Zeppelin album.
I was never clear which song came first, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You on this album, or 25 Or 6 To 4 by Chicago. But I’m convinced someone copied someone. The good about this album is its slightly saturated, gritty, natural rock sound. Early signs of that Tolkien-inspired-folk here and there. And hey look! Black Mountain Slide is the obligatory Indian-style jam, as every rock band had around this time. The bad is the insane amount of whining about women/his woman. It was par for the course during this time, but Robert Plant just doesn’t stop. Additionally, even though it’s their first LP, you can already hear the imitating of black vocalists from time to time.
I think the problem for me here is that the instrumentation doesn't match the pace of the music. It feels so dischordant to me to have these heavy electric guitar solos and some screaming vocals when your song feels like it wants to be listened to on a lazy afternoon.
Rockin! So, this album came out in 1969, their debut album, with the Hindenburg disaster as the cover art. The first track Good Times Bad Times might be one of the coolest opening bars I've heard in this 1001 album journey so far. It reminded me of opening of the "Bellbottoms" track, which came much later in 1994. Granted, I've never been a hard rock guy, so there is a limit to how much I can love this album, but I'm glad I took the time. I guess it makes sense that my favorite track would be the soft, lamenting "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". The verb "ripping" comes to mind. A lot of these tracks have this drilled bassline and guitar riffs; they're so energetic, which is why I guess I often hear them in film soundtracks - very "Oceans 11". Last thing I'll say is how much Blues I heard in this album. It is like someone took Blues and amped it up. A few times you hear classic blues riffs and blues moans and groans, but with these sky-high distorted guitar riffs. I can imagine it was a different sound for the time. Excited to hear more! Fav track: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Ok
Good
Not my favorite Zep album, but a classic nonetheless