Reviews (page 6 of 15)
Great album and the song "Good Times Bad Times" is SUCH a great introduction to the rest of the album and I'd say it's a quitessential early LZ song
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.
Unique gritty sound
'Good Times Bad Times' is as much a declaration of intent as it is an album opener. In 1969, the same year that the Beatles released Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin kicked off their debut with a complex, fascinating drum solo and followed it with fire. Hopefully you've listened to a whole bunch of music before you reach this point in The List. I reached Zeppelin I on album 196. The way this record stands out from contemporaneous and preceding works is striking. Page put together a band that refined something new. The references to the Blues are there ('You Shook Me' is a pretty straight Muddy Waters cover), as are the references to British folk music ('Black Mountain Side') and some things are just new ('Good Times', 'Communication Breakdown'). 'Your Time Is Gonna Come' is pulled right from the American South -- among the choir, the laid-back acoustic guitar, the organ and the general theme, it's a wonder The Swampers don't feature on this one. So much has been written about Led Zeppelin (band and album) that there's little point in pissing into that ocean. What you *should* do is just crank this up on some good headphones or speakers. Particularly as compared to its contemporaries (Hendrix, Cream, the preceding Yardbirds), this doesn't sound much like any one band. Moreover, not much later gets the Zeppelin alloy exactly right -- the 70's saw the furious development (and success!) of ever-more-ambitious music in terms of instrumentation, composition and synthesizing an ever-wider set of influences but none sounded quite like the Zeppelin magic. Bonham is not a perfectly precise timekeeper (no click tracks, back then) but that allows songs to flex just a little for their best emotional affect. Page is actually just a little sloppy in his playing, as compared to some later greats. John Paul Jones is a musical Terminator and nothing intimidates or sways him. Plant is both swaggering and vulnerable. All of this contributes to the feel of a band channeling genuine emotion, no matter how many takes it actually required to get a song in the can. Just put on Zeppelin I, cast your mind back to a time when TV, radio and newspapers were the only mass media and records were the predominant form of popular culture for the young. Listen to Abbey Road first and see how this follows. This is a work of genius, top to bottom, from player to player, production, engineering, writing. It's the Magna Carta of rock & roll. 5/5 and get outta here if you differ.
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
Jesus Christ what a debut album. Good times bad times just fucking kicks down the door. But this pony knows more than one trick. We’ve got multiple entries of folk rock (babe, your time is gonna come, black mountain side), a lil punk, and plenty of blues. Led Zeppelin isn’t the best band of all time, but they’re the best rock band of all time and I love the early lean towards the blues
Meant to be listened to at eleven, make the neighbors call the cops complaining about the noise. I don't know how many bands can make the same fucking album five times in a row with a sixth double album at the end of it and have them all be five stars.
What a way to kickoff a band. Good Times has so many licks, every tootsie pop in town is running scared. Then you think it’s slowing down with some sultry Spanish guitar, a little heat from Robert Plant, a trippy bridge, and then a full force finish. Damn it Led, I didn’t even make it to song 3 before You Shook Me. Track 3: Heavy, harmonica, honk, *chef’s kiss*. Then the low down scoundrel of Dazed and Confused (alright, alright, alright) before Bonham blasts your damn head off going into the solo. I kind of forgot about Your Time is Gonna Come, but it’s a Certified BangerTM. Then the smoothest transition into Black Mountain Slide, which I don’t know where it came from, but let’s get more of that, stat. Communication Breakdown also a Certified BangerTM, but also feels out of left field after the last few tracks. A little blues wind down, and then the grand finale. Despite its long run time, How Many More Times has so much going on, so many different parts, each as good as the last, tied together by that groovy bass riff, that you barely notice that 8.5 minutes have passed. In general, probably the greatest debut album of all time. P.S. I forgot about all the back and forth between Plant and Page’s guitar, what a great bit
What an incredible album. The point where blues fused with rock.
f'n rocks!
Great rocking
Tiptop Led Zeppelin, Tiptop. Bravo Musig. 4 Tickets bitte
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
Cracking listen start to finish
Even whilst not being the best Zeppelin album, it's still a banger.
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
4/5 Beautiful guitar solos with some of the worst vocals of all time. Not sure why I enjoyed this album as much as I did, but it would easily be a 5 if these guys ever shut their damn mouths. The synth in so many of the instrumentals was a nice touch, too.
Un grand classique!
- robert platt's voice is INSANE - jimmy shredded that guitar - hard as hell
Crazy to think that this is their first album...
Fantastic album, wasn’t expecting anything but a 5
Whenever you play this, the musicianship is the thing that hits hardest. Just always jaw droppingly impressive. I've always struggled a bit with Robert Plant's voice, but it can't spoil the party in the end. Never bought into this being the birthplace of Metal, that belongs to Sabbath. All the same, this is the birth of something pretty unique....heavy blues is the best label I can give it. Must've been astonishing to hear this for the first time back in 1969. Do I love it. Nope. But I'm still amazed by it....kind of envy those that do love it! 4
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.
More bluesy than I would have thought given their later albums. Still, the seeds are there, and Robert Plant sounds awesome as ever
Pretty good for a debut album. Wonder if they made anything else
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.
Feels more improvised, but they are still giving all they've got.
I mean it's Led Zep... one of the best debuts of all time!
Very Pink Floyd
I get the different arguments for why I should hate them, but I can’t help myself. Dazed and Confused was one of those songs that changed me.
Just incredible
*Nice mix of rock and blues- just went a little to mellow with the blues at times.
BRA
Four stars
Funnily enough I just listened to this a couple weeks ago to cleanse my ears from the slew of crappy albums this website had assigned me, so you can probably already tell where this review is headed. Is it a good record? Yes. Is it a perfect record? You know...if it had to stand alone apart from the rest of Zeppelin's discography, probably yes. But comparatively, I think they just get better and better as the years go on. This one suffers from a fairly standard side B. Yeah it's all blues rock, sure, but there's something a little more unique and definitively Zeppelin about the first half. Even though when I compare it to the likes of II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti it falls a little flat, it's still easily a 5-star album.
It was ok. Not necessarily my taste in music. I did like some of the blues feel in some of the songs.
I’d give a 5 just for good times bad times, best opener EVER and one of my all time favorite tracks. Out of nowhere they show up w this sound ‘hi we’re led zeppelin’ 🥰😍😍😍🥰 lovelovelove
Jan ‘69 debut of arguably the greatest all time rock band. Every band member is a virtuoso musician in his own right. Heavy blues influence. Vocals are raw. Plant really evolves between this and II.
This album has a lot of complexity and layers. I really appreciate how they blend the instruments.
4 dudes moving in different directions somehow find ridiculous grooves. As such - JPJ is the true standout here. Comes out kicking and stays ferocious. Hungry. II is better. But this...wow.
Perfect
Darn great preformance by every member of the band
Es Led Zeppelin. Poco más que decir. Aunque nunca me había escuchado este disco y me ha sorprendido gratamente. Más potente de lo que me esperaba. La batería de John Bonham nunca dejará de volverme loco y no hay ni un riff que no sea tremendo. Buenísima mierda. Dazed and Confused es un temardo como pocos, aunque aproveché para investigar sobre la infinidad de casos de plagio de Led Zeppelin y me jodió un pelín escucharme la original de Jake Holmes y ver que es un plagio absoluto. Aun así siguen estando goated y nadie lo hace como ellos.
Some albums are really hard to write about, because what hasn't been said about the LZ debut? It's part of my DNA, I still remember listening to this when I was 14 and just playing it over and over again. It's not my favorite of theirs, but there isn't a second here that I don't love. One of the great debuts and one of the albums that had such a massive effect on what came after it that you forget it doesn't sound like everything else, everything else sounds like it
Blues rock meets psychedelic rock.
I am biased against Led Zeppelin bc they're my mom's favourite band which makes them inherently uncool in my mind but I must admit this rocks.
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
9.5/10
Great classic rock album. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You the best track, but the album flies by despite the length of its songs
Jeff Beck Group 2
One of the best debuts ever.
Very good
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)
Classic one of the best Stones albums
No way. My fourth Led Zeppelin album, and the first where the real Led Zeppelin makes his appearance on the cover. Guess this means IV will be the final Led Zep album to grace my list. Not a bad album to send the band off. Stairway to Heaven is more or less the progenitor to the "long song" format, which is one of my favourite makes of song when done correctly. Anyways, I'm getting too carried away. This album cover reminds me of that Battlefield 1 glitch where the blimp is destroyed in an increasingly comedic fashion (https://preservetube.com/watch?v=FfipmRWAuJI). The Hindenburg disaster was only the prelude to such a tragedy. I don't remember much about the previous Led Zeppelin album aside from it being kind of a bore. Hopefully this is a pick-me-up. Quite an interesting album. I don't remember the band being this varied, particularly in the case of III, which was more or less just a folk album after Immigrant Song. There's a general blues influence in here too, which I don't remember being as pronounced on their other albums. Anyways, this is fine. I didn't really feel one way or the other while listening to this and it lost me pretty heavily during the second half, though I can still admit that this is solid. The vocals are good as always, and those guitars and undeniably gripping. 44-minutes is by all means a respectable runtime, though truth be told I felt that the lengthier tracks dragged on for longer than they were worth. "Good Times, Bad Times" is pretty cool. The songwriting is good, though the guitarwork is where it's truly at. The subdued, yet all-consuming sound in the first half of the track is great. "Your Time Is Gonna Come" is good. I like the chorus, and the acoustic guitar is solid throughout. "Black Mountain Side" is a cool interlude, though the rest of the album kind of blends together. Book time. Nothing much in there beyond this being their debut and establishing the benchmark for their superior follow-ups. Like all the other Led Zeppelin albums, I'm favourable to this inclusion. Five albums seems like the perfect number of inclusions for a band of this caliber. I cosign this inclusion.
With Led Zeppelin, the whole is LESS than the sum of the parts. There are many great riffs and musically interesting moments - my favorite might be when the music explodes halfway through “Babe” - but the end result often feels less than authentic. I think a lot is explained by the fact that Robert Plant was only 20 when this album was released. (Jimmy Page 25, John Bonham 20 and JPJ 23.) This renders the lyrics and the blues presentation less credible, even as each individual musician shines. Still, it is an impressive debut album with great musicianship.
I love this album. I still cannot fathom getting this album, not knowing the band, putting this on and hearing the opening track for the first time. Absolutely mind blowing.
Wow! 1969 was my 1st year of college and this record was as important as any other and ranks with Hendrix et al. I still listen to it from time to time. A+
Hells yeah. Not their best but still fantastic.
Incredible
Classic!
SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD SO GOOD
Yeahhhh
Rock and roll!
classic rock album good starting place
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
No good
Superb, unique and unparalleled
How can you not
Desde el primer disco lo tenían clarísimo. Fusionar lo mejor del rock con el que crecieron, sin dejar atrás las raíces de todos los géneros musicales que les dieron voz. Este podría ser el mejor disco de cualquier banda. De los Zeppelin, aún nos faltaba mucho, MUCHO, por descubrirles. Joya.
Clearly some mad guitar skills, but not my favorite.
I remember visiting Dan & Sue after this came out and listening to it there. They only had a handful of albums as I recall — e.g., debuts from The Doors and Traffic, Days of Future Past by The Moody Blues. What a debut LP this is, all swagger and blues, with great production. If you haven’t seen the documentary on LZ, Becoming Led Zeppelin, it covers their formation and this first album, stopping right after LZ II is released in 1970. Highiy recommended. Side 2 doesn’t quite match side 1, but this is still a solid 5 for me.
I'm not the biggest Led Zep fan but this is a killer debut album. It's raw and intense with awesome riffs and vocals. Even the more blues-y stuff still goes pretty hard. They had a legendary run of albums after this and I'm eager to hear more.
Don't think I've ever listened all the way through, better than I expected to be honest.
3.5
Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Die Menge an Hits ist überschaubar.
Not my fav zeppelin album but goated..
It's not often that the vocalist uses more WAH than the guitarist
All time great album.
Classic, but a bit difficult from start to end
I definitely prefer Led Zeppelin IV, but this was still a great listen
Bluesy, rockish, sounded familiar.
This is insane. It's absolutely great. I like every song and with a few listens, I'm sure it's going to be a 5 star album for me, but meanwhile 4.5⭐
It's a classic for a reason, again. I feel like I say this often but it's true.
CLASSIC! A must hear LP!
I don't get Led Zeppelin. This was ok, but nothing special for my ears/heart. Communication Breakdown stood out. ★★★
I just don't get the Led Zep thing. I'm sure they were all great musicians but to my ears the sound is laboured and the vocals painful.
Yeehaw! 🤠🎸
3.5 stars. His voice gets annoying after awhile, sorry.
3.5
4.5 44:45 (9 tracks) Debut Album. 1969 Classic album that further merged blues/folk with rock and cemented England as a 'home away from home' blues mecca (Yardbirds, Cream, Jeff Beck, Clapton, etc., etc., etc.) It's hard to overstate how important this album was to all rock to come. I give it a four (not five) only because I'm very stingy and it's not my favorite Led Zeppelin album but again it's probably the most influential. Interesting trivia is Page paid for the recording out of pocket, and it cost under $2,000 (that's about $41k USD in 2025, which for a musician without a fan base after leaving the Yardbirds. This was a heck of a gamble; obviously he knew he was on to something.) This investment gave Led Zepplin artistic freedom most bands in the 70's and 80's never enjoyed. Had this not happened who knows what Zepplin II, III, IV, et. al. may have sounded like.
These guys are geniuses. Jimmy page manages to shred a sound that is still so influential almost 60 years laters. This album could still to numbers if it was released today. Hadn’t ever listened from start to finish but Jesus. I can’t even fathom how anyone could create such a pure sound. Love the blues vibe of You Shook Me. Long song but made better by Page just crashing out on the strings. Only voting down because I prefer their later albums more.
Great album. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You is probably in my top songs of all time. Fantastic vocals, great guitar both electric and acoustic. Brilliant album overall
If I have to listen to Paul Simon to get to listen to this then I will do it. Is this the greatest debut album of all time? It has to be high up there. The only other two I can think of are very biased but maybe is this it or the blue album. Crazy to come out of the gate with such strong songs and already mostly realized direction. They do only get better from here but the bar is set very high.
One of the best debut albums of all time. Good times, bad times might be my favorite Zeppelin song. There's so much here that still sounds great almost 60 years later. Only qualm is that Plant's vocal moaning gets stale by the end of the record. Bonham's drumming is so good that it influenced drumming forever. I think this band is going places 5/5
Really good. Could listen to it over and over.
Solid. Some great tracks
Wow!!!!! Kinda kicks you in the balls and stomps on your head and leaves you shouting MORE!!!!
Man what a voice! The call and response between vocals and screeching guitar had me going. Cool sound for the era. Seems so much more well produced than its peers.
Long time peripheral fan of the band going back to high school when I discovered LZIV. This is a solid album and insane when you consider it’s their debut…the late 60s spawned some incredible debuts. Page soars and Bonham fills are great. Plant remains for me the weakest link - the sexual moaning and droning on about women is why Sabbath is the better band. This was the first time I recognized a number of recycled riffs...for example portions of Communication Breakdown feel Whole Lotta Love. As a debut I’d give it a 5/5 but I don’t think it’s their best. 4/5.
Almost a little jazzy, like I could hear them being a little improvising and its really cool. One thing i like a lot is the drumming. Its very crisp and it compliments and enhances a lot of the rest of the instruments. The singer is very passionate, almost a little tooooo passionate like sometimes he sings the riff the guitar is playing and its a little corny but otherwise a great album 8/10
Man, these guys did all of the drugs. Songs like You Shook Me or Dazed and Confused sound like it'd be easier to test their alcohol blood level than their blood alcohol level. Still great. I hope I can sing that well when I'm high/drunk. I prefer the more Hard Rock-adjacent sound of Led Zep IV compared to this album, but this is still great, albeit, so very drugs.
pretty good
Led Zeppelin is a 5-star band. This is probably not their best album and I still think it deserves five stars. Though to be fair to this album it has a lot more going for it than I previously thought.
As far as freshmen efforts go, this may be the gold standard. Only reason it’s not a 5-Star is because I know they just get better and better.
This album slaps top to bottom and side to side. The hardest part about listening to this album is restraining myself from listening to the rest of the discography.
Classic Stuff!!
This is my favorite Led Zeppelin album of all time. I remember being younger and getting into rock because of this record. I don't think I can describe how it felt to listen to "Babe I'm gonna leave you" for the first time, it just altered my brain chemistry forever.
Incredible
Great songs, only rating it a 4 because I know how great the coming albums are.
Amazing. Incredible from start to finish.
This is a CLASSIC RECORD. It really is an amazing debut album, for undoubtedly one of the greatest rock groups of all time.
Timeless classic, out of the songs I didn’t hear before I liked Your Time Is Gonna Come the most. 8/10 album.
My favorite Led Zeppelin album so far. First one where I actually understood the hype
Best Song: Dazed and Confused If there were a Mount Rushmore of the best rock bands ever, Led Zeppelin would be right in the middle. This isn't there best album but it is better than 90% of other bands best albums so take that as a win. 5/5.
Love it
Killer start with "Good Times, Bad Times". What a way to kick off an album Never been a huge Zeppelin fan, but this album shows off their influences well. It's eclectic in its own way, but the foundations of everything we know the band to be are all right there from the jump.
Oh my my, what a day today “Good Times Bad Times” is arguably the best career opener of all time, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” is amazing. “Dazed And Confused” is awesome “Your Time Is Gonna Come” is great and “Black Mountain Side” is a very pleasant instrumental. However and this is my hot take for the day, this album is slightly worse than it’s generally considered. The first half is truly excellent but the second half falls off a little for me. It’s very bluesy and pleasant but many of the songs are literally stolen and it kinda has very little variety in sound, something Zeppelin would get much better about in their career. However despite that this is an excellent album
Zep 1. Easy 5 stars.
I was around 15 or 16 years old when I started playing guitar and taking lessons. On the first day, we learned power chord shapes while practicing "Smoke on the Water". At the end of the lesson, the teacher walked over to the printer and handed us copies of the tablature for "Good Times Bad Times". I didn't know what song it was. I was more into nu metal at the time (please forgive me, it was the mid-2000s), and I had never listened to Led Zeppelin before. I can still clearly remember getting home and playing the record. The opening guitar chords, followed by Plant singing, "In the days of my youth...", still give me chills every time I hear them. It opened up a whole new world for me: the powerful drums, the incredible guitar playing, the voice, the bass lines that hold everything together so tightly. Such an amazing album. And luckily, it was only the beginning.
Sounds best on 1972 Canadian vinyl pressing, mastered by Barry Diament.
some bangers on this, although robert plants voice can be extremely grating 3.5
YOOOUUURRR TIME IS GONNA COOOOMMEE!!! Yeah this a strong debut from one of the greatest bands in history.
Basically the epitome of rock
This project keeps sending me Led Zeppelin albums and the same thing keeps happening: I don't like them. I thought their debut could have a better shot, because maybe it was rawer and the band hadn't yet gone fully up their own asses, but nope! There's still stuff on here I actively hate, like when they get slow and bluesy ("I Can't Quit You Baby," for instance). I liked the more rocking parts of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," but I still find Led Zeppelin insufferable. No thanks.
What a seismic change to rock n roll this must have been, and a lot of it shines through still today, but the four Zeppelin albums that followed this were just such undeniable 5-star classics, and this feels like more of a pitch for what was to come. Definitely brings back some Columbus Ohio QFM 96.3 sense memories listening to this all the way through.
Yes
Sometimes I like to daydream about what it must've felt like to be a teenager in the late 60s. It's so hard for me to get my head around how such a radical shift in music happened in just a few years. Just imagine dropping the needle on the debut album of this band you'd heard about from your friends, to hear Good Times, Bad Times followed by Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, shortly followed by Dazed and Confused! If those songs give me goosebumps today they would've melted my brain back then. Even amongst the stellar albums released in 1967-1969 this stands out as one of the best, and one of the best debuts of all time...and they'd go on to better it a couple of times too!
Good record
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.
Even though they couldn’t get Keith Moon or John Entwhistle to join the lineup, things turned out pretty well for this band.
Page knew what he was doing when he assembled this band: Each one an incredible artist. Amazing blues; amazing debut album.
So much talent, especially on a debut album. All killer stuff.
So much screaming!
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!
Really really good. Hits and deep cuts did well
Another I’ve heard before and love! My Zeppelin phase in high school was strronnggggg. I listened to their first 5 albums + parts of Physical Graffiti and Presence on repeat. This album is great! I love the blues influences on here, probably the strongest it ever is on any Zeppelin album. Standout tracks: - Good Times, Bad Times - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Dazed and Confused* - Your Time Is Gonna Come - How Many More Times John Bonham is tha GOAT
Millor del que pensava a la primera impressió, però necessito escoltar-lo més.
Rock, Blues, 1969 -> 4
Great but not my favorite Zep
It's honestly very difficult to name a better debut album from any band, ever. Good Times Bad Times Babe I'm Gonna Leave You You Shook Me Dazed and Confused Your Time Is Gonna Comes Black Mountain Side Communication Breakdown I Can't Quit You Baby How Many More Times? Absolutely mind-blowing track list from a band that was totally unknown of before the album. They basically came out of nowhere and changed rock and roll forever.
One of the most classic rock albums of all time. Many of the songs iconic
classic rock at its best. really dynamic stuff. quiet slow melodies that progressivly grow into some awesome belting rock, fantastic solos and musical breaks. i'm only on the second song but theres no way this doesnt get 5 stars so here we go
One of the greatest
It’s okay. Would be better if they didn’t write about and normalize sexualizing underage girls.
classic basslines and good riffs. i love it Would I listen again: yes Deserves to be on this list: yeah 4.4
I read somewhere that Rolling Stone said that "Heavy metal still lives in its shadow" about this record. I can't really add more. It's a nearly perfect record that needs to be listened to by anyone serious about music in any way.
I remember this record fondly as a young teen. It had been out a couple of years before I discovered it in around 1974. As a freshman in high school the older kids had already discovered this and Black Sabbath. As a freshman it was like being offered entry into a cult. The seniors had discovered pot and acid and this record and Vol. 4 were part of the soundtrack to my high school years. Dazed and Confused, Communication Breakdown and Good Times Bad Times were in an endless loop as most of us, myself included, had these tracks on endless loop as we spent summers drinking, smoking and dropping at parties by the lake about 20 miles south of Whitehorse. I bought the album and played this songs skipping over the more traditional Blues numbers. Not that they were not good songs - they certainly were but the guitar noodling particularly on tracks like I Can’t Quit You Baby and You Shook Me were too traditional for my taste. Over time I came to appreciate other tracks on this record, in particular the last track on side 2, the wonderful How Many More Times, which I discovered while higher than a kite during a show at the Planetarium in Vancouver BC while I was in college. It was crazy good watching stars with a plant and Page grooving on this marching song. As I think about how this period was so fertile for new sounds, this album is at the start of that journey and certainly influenced rock going forward. I discovered punk in 1977 and that altered the journey again. This record would never be played again by me until now. I recall it fondly and time (and a great remix) have treated this gem well.
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.
8/10 This is a really great debut, particularly from an, at the time, unsigned band. While they haven’t fully hit their stride yet, Led Zeppelin are only a few steps away from hitting the heights of what they would achieve in the albums that followed. In its best moments, there is some truly special work on this album, from the dynamic range of Babe I’m Gonna Leave You to the hard rocking excellence of Communication Breakdown, but there are also times when things don’t quite hook up in a completely satisfying way. I feel like there are little drifts here and there, and some of the tracks that would no doubt have been epic live experiences don’t necessarily translate quite so well onto record, like the call and response guitar and vocal solo in You Shook Me. It’s probably also worth highlighting the outright thievery of Jimmy Page for a number of these tracks. Zep did start to swing more to truly original compositions as their career progressed, but the uncredited plagiarism on display across this album is a real shame. In the blues tradition, there’s no problem covering, adapting or borrowing, just give credit where it’s due, eh Jimmy? But that aside, this is a really enjoyable and fascinating listen. It’s the sound of a band finding their sound, creating (or stealing) some fantastic songs and putting them together into a really competent package in preparation to continue their journey in future albums. This will rarely be the first Zep album that I choose to put on when I’m in the mood, but that’s as much due to the quality of their later work rather than a low opinion of this. Great songs, quality album, better yet to come. Good Times Bad Times - It’s a good start to the album. Solid if unspectacular bluesy rock, with some strong work from Bonham and Page in particular. Robert Plant gives us a few hints of what he can do, bit it doesn’t really catch fire just yet. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - We’re starting to lift off now. The soft opening with just Plant and Page is excellent, and the dynamic switches are really great. The vocal is that typically languid style to begin with and then he drives it harder into the soaring sections later. This track is patient in its delivery and shows great restraint to save top gear for key moments. You Shook Me - Back to something more trad blues. That languid, pitch sliding on the vocal and lead guitar is great and there’s some really solid harmonica playing here. It perhaps lumbers along a little bit too long, particularly at the pace it moves at. I feel like this is one of those ones that would be a fantastic experience live, but doesn’t quite hit the same way on record, particularly the vocal and guitar call and response at the end. Dazed And Confused - This has more of the slow blues thing from the previous track, but throws in more pacy sections to pick the momentum up here and there. There are some really quality riffs here and about halfway through, things really take off. It takes its time over certain sections, but it’s a really great journey of a track, and every member of the band really shines. Your Time Is Gonna Come - The intro is perhaps a bit disjointed from the rest of the track, but when it drops to the stripped back organ line and the band joins in, it’s so, so good. It’s folk, bluesy and rocky in a brilliant blend. It’s fairly straight down the line, but it’s executed so well. Black Mountain Side - Some Bert Jansh playing here. It’s apparently a pretty straight take off of how Jansch played this himself before Page stole it and failed to give credit. It’s very well executed, but this is probably the most stark example of uncredited thievery on this album, as even the playing style is so closely copied. Communication Breakdown - Ok, you’ve got me back on board gents. That riff is top tier Page work. This is the kind of Zep stuff that I love. It’s driven, exciting and so hooky. It’s a fantastic slice of heavy blues rock and every element of it is engaging and invigorating. Quality. I Can't Quit You Baby - Back to a song with some fantastic tempo and dynamic changes. It simmers along and Page and Plant get to show off their chops while Jones and Bonham lay down a super cool groove. They strike a brilliant balance of all of the different elements here and it’s such a satisfying performance all round. How Many More Times - There’s a great swing to the opening of this and that psychedelic guitar effect is great at building the vibe. It’s another one of those journey songs like Dazed and Confused and there are some really top notch riffs in here, and moments when the band just come together in a beautifully connected form that gives everything such drive and impact, especially those triplet breaks. It’s a pretty glorious way to end the album.
Nemt 5/5 fedt hvordan man nærmest kan høre overgangen fra blues rock til at finde hard rocken igennem albummet. Der er nogle numre der er meget præget af det psykedliske fra 60'erne, blues rocken og så lyden af hard rocken. Som bla er trommeslagerens måde at optage trommerne på som bare giver den maks gas. Det må sgu have været vildt at witness i sin tid
It's a good band. They got some big hits. Just maybe not a...
Probably more like a 3.8 but giving it a four because it is such good quality. Very good music, songs stand out as something special. Would listen again. Albums like this makes me with we had half stars!
Not many albums changed the world and not many artists can borrow other people’s tunes and make them their own but Led Zeppelin did just that with this album. Mind blowing this is 56 years old at this point! Superb debut album. Better was to come from them but this is the blueprint for the heavy rock movement to come. Essential.
An ok album. Nice mix of blues rock and proto hard rock
They would do better later... still, nice mix of rock'n'roll, hard rock and blues
Obviously it's one of the best debut albums ever, and it's from 1969 which is probably the best year in the history of rock music. I haven't listened to this album for quite some time and actually as I've listened to a lot of Yardbirds lately I can hear the direct origins/influences. I like the balance of the slower, more blues oriented songs and the heavier and faster songs. It's just a brilliant album from start to finish.
Incredible production for a first album, but then again, it's Led Zeppelin, so prolific from the start. This album has a few longer songs that transcend a regular listening session, and make it even more enjoyable. Excellent.
As classic as it gets
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 may have listened to this before but I am not sure… I did really enjoy it, though. Good riffs, excellent musicianship and good structures. Almost veered into noodling territory at the end but kept it in check.
I really like the heavy blues influence on this, particularly some of the lesser known album tracks. Some overstay their welcome a little bit, and Plant can dial it down quite a bit but the drums and guitar in particular carry so much weight in the tracks it kind of fits and doesn’t sound as rubbish as it might otherwise.
this shit is shit 2/5
O que falar de um clássico desses, um álbum de estreia que começa com Good Times Bad Times não tem como dar errado. A história está aí pra provar isso.
favorite song on the album: Good Times Bad Times
where it all started
Great album.
Yeah, it's Led Zeppelin. The first one. I'm not really good when it comes to understanding the cultural and time context of an old album, but I can "feel" that this one was a shocker. It is very very good, timeless and classic, and not a 5 star album because you can compare it (now) to their other stuff, and I feel they have better, more complete, works. Unfair, but in a good way.
Lenghty for today's ears.
No podes clavar un disco así en 1969. 8/10
9.39/10 5/5 Love this album! Favs: good times bad times and dazed and confused
Good
Zeppelin at their rawest. Phenomenal debut, iconic songs.
Not for me
The second song on the album is good but not good enough for me to check what it’s called
Classic Rock album, 10/10
I was just sitting here enjoying the album and all of a sudden it was over! Zep has a way of just flowing over you like a cool breeze on a warm day.
What can I say about one of my all-time favourite albums? I listened to the shit out this album since my late teens. My neighbours have had to put up with my clumsy attempts to play along with every single song on this album on my Gibson Les Paul, a guitar I bought because of Jimmy Page, who is in my opinion one of the top 2 guitarists of all time (I flip-flop between himself and Hendrix a lot for pole position). Zeppelin exploded (pun intended) into the world of rock music with this album, mixing blues tunes (played to perfection) with folky numbers and heavier, darker sounds that became blueprints for heavier rock and even metal down the line. I can only imagine what it was like to hear Zeppelin for the first time back in '69. They took things to a new level. This is a collective of some of the best musicians of all time. Jimmy Page is, as I've mentioned, one of the best guitarists of all time (if not THE best). John Bonham IS the undisputed best drummer of all time. Robert Plant has one of the most powerful voices in rock history. And lets not forget the genius of John Paul Jones. With these four making music together, it could only be one thing: epic. The blues standards on the album are taken to a new level. Page's guitar is ready to burst to life at any given moment. It feels like he's trying to tame his guitar from taking off at any point during "I Can't Quit You Baby", and he eventually fails, and his guitar soars all over the song. Think of the build-up to his solo in "You Shook Me": we're treated to John Paul Jones' stellar hammond organ work, then Plant's fantastic harmonica (with added grunts), before Page takes over, and even his solo is a slow build-up to the explosion of energy it becomes. Then at the end of the song, we have the intense moment when Page and Plant start their vocal/guitar duel, with reverse echo, making it feel like we're hearing them battle instruments from another dimension. The rockier "riff-driven" songs like "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown" are instant classics. But Zeppelin show they can do acoustic too with the absolute masterpiece of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and the witchy reworking of Bert Jansch in "Black Mountain Side". And there's a sneak peak at some of the folkier songwriting that will be more visible in later albums in the criminally underrated "Your Time Is Gonna Come". I really enjoyed reminding myself just how good that song is. "Dazed and Confused" is the centerpiece here. That main riff is so dark, it feels like it came straight from the darkest depths of Mordor. And then after an avant garde break for Page to bow his guitar, the song takes off at an insane pace. Again, I can't imagine what it must have been like to hear this in 1969, it still feels ahead of its time today. "How Many More Times" is a great way to finish the album. The main riff is catchy as hell, then we're given a glimpse of the "song-ception" that Zeppelin became so good at during their live gigs: throwing more songs into the middle of performing one of their own, making long, winding medleys. The middle section of this song goes into another extended bow part, before we're transitioned into another couple of songs, "Rosie"/"The Hunter", in the middle. When Bonham's drum comes in here, this is one of my favourite musical moments - what a beat, mixed with that riff, just amazing stuff1 And then it transitions further until we're back at the main riff again to finish the album off in style. A perfect album from start to finish. What a way to arrive.
The debut album from the greatest band of all time
Led Zeppelin has a near perfect discography. This record is incredible. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" has always been the stand out for me. 18/19
OoOoOooO BABY babyy Oh woman OooooOoooo BABBBYYYY
What can you say but one of the most incredible albums by one of us not the most influential rock band.
Segundo que me toca de LZ e igualmente brutal. Estará todas su discografía, que me faltan al menos el II y el IV
I think I get the evolution of blues to rock now maybe
I don’t think this is my favorite Led Zeppelin album I’ve encountered so far, but it’s still extremely well done. No standout song as they all kind of flowed into each other, but enjoyed throughout
Enjoyed it - haven’t really listened to the album for a long time and it’s more blues influenced than I remember.
Awesome album, one of the best
grosse fan vo dazed and confused
recht geil! mängisch ischs mer chli zu abgspaced oder rockig gsi für en müede fiirabig.. aber sehr vielfältig, vo ruhig bis wild, vo rock bis country-artig. z.b. de kontrast vom erste zum afang vom zweite song isch mega schön. d akkörd in your time is gonna come töned doch wie die in sweet home alabama oder?
Led Zeppelin always great. Crazy that this debut album came out in 1969 and still rocked this hard.
If this was now you'd find them in what used to be called The Cartoon Club in Croydon while you wait for your friend's band to play and then you'd never hear from them again. They're only successful because they broke through in a time when there was very little choice of music and no one had heard blues properly.
No doubt one of the best first albums ever. Robert Plant's screeching does grate on me after a while, though
All freaking bangers, every one of them!
There are some near-universally acclaimed bands that I’ve never listened to and this list is my first real exposure to them. This is one of them. It may have been revelatory when it was released but to me it sounds like a competent blues album with a couple of hard rock tunes.
I could go into a detailed discussion about how so many of these songs are absolutely amazing, and also the realization of so much of many greatest hits compilation is in this album. But lets just say ridiculous amount of amazing songs for one album full marks.
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.
Damn, i had a whole thing about how zeppelin is good but i hate them, and this debut is also good, but some of the songs are too long and robert plant sounds kind of annoying on them (the longer ones). Oh well, helluva debut.
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.
Yeah
5/5 one of the best debuts ever
Sure, they stole a ton of stuff from so many people and bands, but they still put a great sounding record together. Hell, Clapton stole the same stuff and put out mediocre trash for years.
Classic
I didn’t expect to enjoy this so much. It’s so very well crafted. It meanders, but always comes back. It’s just a great bunch of musicians exploring their sound. Not bad for an early effort.
Every Zep album contains some classics and this has four of them. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You… just so good. For a debut it’s seriously impressive, and it *sounds* great too, with tight playing enhanced further by forward-thinking recording trickery. On the other hand, the remaining 5 tracks are a marked step down, with a couple of them being bog-standard blues numbers - their very best albums are more consistent and more consistently original. This album also leans on other people’s songwriting a few times, which may detract from its status a bit? 3.5 / 4
No notes. Zeppelin was amongst the gods.
I came into this not expecting much, as I don't tend to like hard rock. The last thing I expected was a blues-heavy, psychedelic-heavy collection with the greatest guitar work i've heard in a while, that somehow makes the harmonica hype. As I said the guitar is incredible. the singing could be a lot worse, not too much technical skill but its perfect for the purposes of this music. It's a bit hard listening to this with the modern ear, as this type of rock has become mocked and parodied extensively to where it's hard to take entirely seriously, especially as this is not my style of music, but it's still great even considering that, although I don't think it's the masterpiece it's said to be. Good Times Bad Times: 79/100 - good teen rock feel, guitar work is incredible and i like the chorus Babe I'm Gonna Leave You: 69/100 - weird switchup from the last track in the intro, although i like it, but from 1:00 to 1:15 it just sounds like a generic country riff, and the lyrics are quite lacking. After the 2 minute mark the guitar picks up a lot of slack and the lyrics actually fit the intensity, but from 3:30 to the end of the track it just feels unnecessarily long. You Shook Me: 76/100 - I like the psychedelic sound (although I can't appreciate it fully as I've never done drugs), and the organ and harmonica sections are great. The blues-y feel is something I love although I don't listen to blues much. Just doesn't live up to the Muddy Waters version, but that's some of the best blues I've ever heard so I can't fault it for that. I don't like the screaming at the end though. Dazed and Confused: 81/100 - The loud vocals work so well with the instrumental work. I've never heard a harmonica or an organ sound as sick as they do here. The instrumental break around the halfway mark definitely adds to the ethereal feeling but not in a way I like. The instrumentals afterwards though, were great, if a bit extended, which unfortunately seems to be a common theme (at least up to this point) Your Time Is Gonna Come: 74/100 - Out the gate, the organ intro is lovely. other than that i don't have much to say. it's alright Black Mountain Side: 66/100 - it's alright but i don't understand why it was included Communication Breakdown: 75/100 - definitely better than the last, the raw almost desperate vocals are a very nice touch although some of the harmonies i don't like I Can't Quit You Baby: 84/100 - Definitely my favourite of the tracks with this format of 'raw intense vocals // instrumental break // soft vocals // intense vocals' How Many More Times: 64/100 - Did this really need to add 20% to the album's runtime? No, it didn't. it gets boring after the first 4 minutes honestly. From around the 6 minute mark onwards is great though, lifts this up from being a skip for me (mostly) overall rating: 74/100
Strong 4. So nearly a 5. Really need half points man
Classic album by a great band. A bit before my time and I never listened to them too much growing up. Never had any of their albums. But hard to argue with the classics.
ok, now I get why Led Zeppelin is so hyped- they *are* that good. I think with many eras of classic rock my enjoyment of it is directly proportional to its distance to blues--this was very bluesy and I liked it a lot
Solid album - especially for being the debut. You can see how they got so famous.
Not their best work, but still some of the best music ever made.
The babe babe babe babe of babe I’m gonna leave you might be one of the most annoying things produced by a band I like
Wow these guys sound a lot like that new band Greta Van Fleet. Pretty derivative tbh
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.
Album's great, but yeah Led Zeppelin stole EVERYTHING. The blues part is debatabale, but the song credits definitely.
Fine.
From a debut in Daft Punk's "Homework" that felt very much like a debut to a debut that sounds like a band that has been playing for 10 years and already has a few albums under their belt. This album kicks ass. I was familiar with some of the songs but I never listened to it all the way through and I am very happy that I was given the opportunity, and on a Friday no less!
Doesn't even need a listen. One of the best debut albums of all time.
Very good
Obviously this is a watershed album in ROC history, and in my view it holds up extremely well even today. It’s only of those albums that the general population understood so much better at the time than critics - the lukewarm reception by music critics at the time is laughable today. As time goes on LZ1 goes toe to toe with LZ4 in their discography for me. I for one prefer these two and LZ2 over Physical Graffiti, and while I used to have 4 way out in front this record sounds better to me almost every time I hear it. It also has such an iconic album cover that still looks amazing today. My highlights here are Good Times Bad Times, Dazed and Confused, Your Time Is Gonna Come, and Communication Breakdown. The entire album is timeless though, it’s a stone cold classic that will outlive us all.
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.
It’s the least perfect in a perfect run of albums, I’ll survive
Great album with a great instrumental
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.
legends
Venia de una racha de discos ignotos y me sale con tamaña obra maestra.
qué comienzo de carrera
You know, at least it’s not the fourth 70s rock album in a row. Cuz it’s a 60s one… but it is Leddy Zeppy though. In all seriousness this was actually an incredibly good album and a big refresher from the slop I’ve had recently. Babe I’m Gonna Leave You really stood out to me. Great all around though.
SO GOOD HOW HAVE I NEVER LISTENED TO THIS BEFORE??? Also I feel like Jeff Buckley was influenced this because I’m definitely feeling the vibes
(3.75) would listen again
fine
A perfect rock album.
Whole Lotta Zep!
Led Zeppelin >4>PG. I like about 2 minutes of each Les Zeppelin song.
I don’t really have anything else to say about Led Zeppelin that I haven’t said about the other albums. I probably would have liked this one a little more if we were getting slammed with all LZ albums at once.
Probablemente uno de los tres o cuatro mejores discos de debut de la historia. Probablemente el mejor. No lo sé. Es el comienzo de una carrera impecable. Un disco trascendental para el final de los sesenta y la década siguiente. Una banda absolutamente formidable en todos sus aspectos.
Brilliant!
Absolute classic. Even when Led Zeppelin blatantly steal, their interpretation of blues classics explodes from the speakers. I listened to this album way too much in the past, so I do not play it often anymore, but I still think it's a 5/5.
The first 4 Zeppelin albums, beginning with this one, changed hard rock music forever.
What a debut album. Is it as good as II or IV? Probably not, but what is?
Every song is a complete banger. Love this album
Soft 5. I would absolutely fuck with this if I was around in 1969. I also absolutely fuck with this now.
Very good. Kids thought it was good. It dragged on a bit but you can't beat that opening of an opening song for a debut album.
It's good rock and roll, but I dunno, something about it didn't totally stick with me. I think I've been spoiled listening to amazing rock albums over the years and maybe this one didn't feel as impressive? Maybe I was over hyped and was expecting a life changer? I dunno. But it's still good.
26.09.25 #3 Favourite tracks: good times bad times, black mountain side Rate: 9.9/10
Among the best of all time. Great listen!
I was sheltered with music as a very young teen. Only really introduced to Led Zeppelin by a school friend when I was 17. I Went out and grabbed a Zeppelin compilation tape that was on constant play in my car. A couple of songs from this album on that compilation. Brilliant album, one of the very best
- Listened to studio and live albums - They sound surprisingly similar :) - Wild range of styles - Awesome album, I'm sure I'll listen again, but I don't "need the vinyl"
Fine? Not a huge fan of the vocals but there is some real musicality there. Throwback vibes, reminded me of the music we listened to on the record player at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. A time capsule. I would probably skip because the vocals were whiny but if it were on at a coffee shop I wouldn’t care too much. Not hugely into lyrics so I have no idea what any of it is about since I couldn’t really understand and didn’t look up.
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.
4.6
The origin of the sound. I’ve listened to IV many times before, so I don’t know if it’s the same level for me yet, but definitely very good.
Favorite Song: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Least Favorite Song: Black Mountain Side
I think this is one of the best all time Debut albums by a rock band. Each song displays the band's individual Virtuality and their unique ability to bring it all together In a sound that was avant guard for the day, And is still fresh. Oh yeh, jonh Paul Jones and John Bonham are absolute beasts.
241021 11:50 3.5
Rien de plus à ajouter que sur le dernier Led Zep, j'aime beaucoup la personnalité du groupe et des sons, des gros tubes sur cet album (Babe I'm gonna leave you, Dazed and confused, Communication Breakdown) qui sont toujours sympa à re écouter (le solo de guitare de D&C mamma mia)
Cet album de Led Zep est tellement mieux que le premier qu’on a écouté …!!! En y repensant, je ne suis aps sûr que j’avais déjà écouté un album en entier. J’avais oublié « baby I’m gonna leave you » dont j’étais fan plus jeune, ça m’a fait du bien de l’entendre ! En comparaison avec l’autre album : mieux structuré, on comprend mieux l’histoire. Plus dynamique.
J'ai vraiment bien kiffé 4/5
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
Amazing album! Solid rocker all the way through. There's a reason so many bands list Led Zeppelin as inspiration. This one opens strong and stays strong all the way through. My rating: 5/5
I didn’t find it too exciting but it wasn’t terrible
HELL YEAH!!! love me some Zepc baybay!!
Great record. A few duds, but overall a solid joint.
The birth of Heavy Metal started with Led Zeppelin 1. This album is so much HEAVIER than I remember it being, although I do think they lean a little too hard on the slow, psychedelic blues thing (even though that WAS their thing). While I’m not the biggest fan of the slower blues numbers, just like I’m not the biggest fan of KISS’s 1998 disasterpiece “Psycho Circus”, I was much more accepting of them this time around (says the 40 year old white dude). They definitely have their place in Led Zep lore and really anchored the early years of the band. The songs that really stand out to me are the original rock jams. “Communication Breakdown”, “Good Times, Bad Times”, and “Your Time is Gonna Come” take this album out of blues cover band status and give us a glimpse of the band soon to come: absolute Rock Gods.
Really good drumming on this album.
Fantastic album, not their best but a good start Favourite song - Communication Breakdown
Not my favorite Zeppelin, but still better than almost every other album. Wishing again for half stars!
Certainly not their best album but an amazing debut.
5-
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.
Truly one of the best debuts in music history, not a single bad or even filler track on it. With tracks like communication breakdown, how many more times, and dazed and confused being personal highlights for me. Everything just comes together so we'll here, like John Bonham's thunderous drums, Jimmy Page's roaring guitar, Robert Plant's soaring vocals, and finally, John Paul Jones' rock solid rhythm keeping everything in check. I will happily come back to listen to this one
If Led Zeppelin has two modes, one endless blues rock riffing with sexual innuendos and wailing, and the other tolkien epic battle narrative .... this album was all mode one and it dragggged for me.
an incredible snoozefest given the reputation at play
this was fine. i like led zepplin a normal amount. i am so tired of this list
whatever
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Geiles Album aber zu viele gitarrensolos 4/5
Just iconic. So many zeppelin bangers. The transitions better songs are so quick and seamless. Great listen from to back. I’m sure there’s better ones out there so being conservative for now but this is a top tier album. Overall rating: 4.6/5
This must’ve blown peoples minds in 1969
Decent
So overrated. The vocals are sometimes great, sometimes grating and the rhythms are mostly the same in each song. The guitar work is skilful of course, but it is attention seeking to an unnecessary degree. It blows my mind that generic twaddle like this can gain so much respect. It’s not awful, so I can’t award 1 start but I have absolutely no desire to listen again because nothing here impressed me.
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.
This is such a great debut album, probably one of the best of all time. Although it's not my favorite Led Zep album (hi there, Led Zep IV), it's right up with Led Zep II and Houses of the Holy for being just downright amazing. Blues rock at it's finest. 4.25 / 5 stars
Legendary rock n roll. Guitar heavy, world class drums, a baseline for days and a lead singers voice from the heavens.
It's the first effort from a great band. Not in full flight yet but when you hear tracks like "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" or "Dazed And Confused" you get a glimpse of what is to come. It's big and loud but surprisingly deft and soulful. Zeppelin are announcing themselves and their intent to the world.
It's Zeppelin so obviously it's great, not their BEST album but still great
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.
Let’s note that this album was made in the same years as man landed to moon. This album belongs to stars!
Sixties, but in a good way.
I have no idea how many times I've heard this album, but out the first 5-6 albums, this is the one I've listened to the most. It's not their best in my mind, because they were still doing the brit bluesy thing and not really going off course with their own vision. I't s damn good record none the less.
I'm in a bit of a quandary as to how to rate this album. On the one hand these were great musicians who really blew up the blues rock genre with a series of classic albums, reinventing the blues in a way, a heavy way. On the other hand, in the years since release, whole swathes of their albums turned out to be uncredited covers (aka plagiarised) of other artists' work, in many cases requiring legal action to restore writing credit. But then again, Led Zeppelin made such a swaggering take on the music that they virtually reinvented the songs. Well, upon reflection I reckon this is a 5 star album
Classic Led
Sublime Led Zeppelin Rankings: IV I III II Best Song: Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You Rating: 9/10 Stars: 5/5
I wanted to enjoy this more. I like Led Zeppelin III and IV well enough (at least what I remember of them) and hoped this album would be another on that list. I'm not sure if their first album just isn't as refined, or maybe it caught me on an off day... but I found myself bored. After the first couple of songs it was a bit of a slog to get through. Don't get me wrong, the songs were all fine, it wasn't unpleasant - but it didn't feel particularly special or cohesive in any way worth noting. I may give it another go some time, and I'm certainly looking forward to some later offerings from Jimmy, Robert and the Johns when they come up.