Led Zeppelin IV

Absolutely nothing revelatory to add here that hasn't already been said ad nauseum for 50+ years, so I'm just going to give this one the 5/5 (factored down from a 25/5) that it deserves and move on.

(5/5) Why waste time trying to convince anyone this isn't one of the greatest albums ever recorded by one of the greatest bands to ever exist? Good lord does this thing still just absolutely fucking rock. I've grown over the years to more deeply appreciate Bonham's contributions because he's such an incredible drummer. "When the Levee Breaks" has fast become one of my top 5 tracks by them because of it. I know "Stairway.." is a classic. I had a girlfriend in high school that adored it and would always get frisky when it came on (very positive associations..), but it is played out to me. I won't turn it off, but I don't go looking for it. Lastly -- and this is probably an unpopular opinion -- but I think "Led Zeppelin II" edges this one out as their greatest. This is #2, IMHO. "..II" is just so raw and real that it fits the band's image better. This one is polished up and arena ready. Love em both but if I had to choose, give me "..II" instead.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Lets get this out the way at the start, this album gets a 5/5 from me and my only complaint is that it is the first of the five Led Zeppelin albums we generated. I was hoping it would fall a little later in the overall process. For my money this and II are the top Zeppelin albums. II may be the better overall album and I'll talk about it when we get there but IV is the one with more mythology to it. I think that gives IV more to chew on. Using the occult adjacent symbols for each band member, all of the Tolkien references, the legend and legacy of "Stairway To Heaven," the reinterpretation of the Memphis Minnie track "When the Levee Breaks," and the absolute raunchiness of that "Black Dog" opening. This was the first Led Zeppelin album I knew inside and out. Half of that knowledge came from classic rock radio during my college years. I heard "Black Dog," "Rock and Roll," "Stairway to Heaven," "Going to California," and "When the Levee Breaks" enough times on 100.1 out of Lexington that I knew them before I ever got around to buying this album. My university also had a planetarium on campus so you better believe when they had the Led Zeppelin light show we were there. No comment on our state of mind during those shows. When I finally did pick this up on CD I wore out the tracks, "The Battle of Evermore" and "Misty Mountain Hop." "Four Sticks" is the only track I don't know as well as every other track here and that one still slaps. This is a No Skips album if there ever was one. And it has never gotten old to me. I've had it on repeat for most of the morning. "Going to California" may be the number one draft pick in the Mythological California playlist that I mentioned in my Mama and Papas review. Just a few days ago on The Doors album I included LZ on the list of "Bands from Before I was Born." I said Led Zeppelin was the top of the top shelf of this categorization from me. They are. They were the only one of my favorite bands that remained "current" to me even though they were not contemporary to my generation. Maybe it was the endless classic rock radio that kept them in the forefront of cultural memory for me. Or the numerous references to them in movies and TV. They just always seemed to be present long after their time. This album though is forever timeless. The bluesy rock, the hard riffs, the folk accousticness, and some of the best drums ever recorded. Jon Bonham is the GOAT. And I’m going to end on the memory of my sheer joy of watching my eighteen month old daughter at the time, in her high chair while daddy makes dinner, absolutely rocking out when “Stairway to Heaven” kicked in. You know the part. “And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last When all are one, and one is all To be a rock and not to roll”

I have not listened to the this album in many years. I had forgotten how good it was.

Still amazing. Maybe not my favorite Zep album, but quite good.

yo this “stairway to heaven” song is pretty good, i should probably try and play it in the next guitar shop i see

Legendary group of songs. Slightly front loaded

235. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971) 10.15.26 Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 4 Emotionality: 5 = 4.6 rounded down to a 5 "Standin' on a hill in my mountain of dreams/ Tellin' myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems" Zeppelin is a band that I think exists still at the very top as far as sustained quality through a career, though they suffered from the same late 70s dinosaurism, as the Who ( to a greater extent) and the Rolling Stones ( to a lesser extent) and a host of other bands where the quality controls seems to have evaporated in a haze of green smoke, million dollar castles, and yachts. This album in particular I think is considered their best by a lot of people not because it's the most creative, or groundbreaking or even has the best songs. It's because it's the platonic ideal of a successful, mainstream, very accessible hard rock album that's full of bangers top to bottom. If the first album was the band staking their claim, II the band cementing their spot at the top, and III the "we can relax a bit now, we've earned it" break, then IV is the band's victory lap. Everything after this is gravy, and its reputation as one of the greatest rock n roll albums of all time is well-earned. That said, it'll never be my favorite. I've heard it so much in my life, and read so much about it that it's fallen prey to the psychological trick of seeming less impressive than it really is. I'm self aware enough to know that I take it for granted, in much the same was as I do Thriller. Is that better than Off the Wall? Definitely. But I'd much rather listen to Off the Wall, and I get more enjoyment out of it knowing there are still possibly some nooks and crannies to discover. Maybe that example is in poor taste given what we now know? I mean, it's not a competition for who's the most horrible, but Zeppelin ( Paige in particular) don't have the greatest reputation nowadays wither, do they? We're here to look at the music though, so I'll try and keep focus. It's just there though, looming. A bit more in the peripheral than some, but still there. My experience with IV is that I heard most every track on it on the radio at some point before I ever listened to the whole thing all the way through, probably sometime in early high school. I know that it was one of the first CDs I owned, picked up used at the same little shop I bought Weezer's Blue album, and around the same time. I was never much into hard rock or metal before then, at least as someone who would bother to label themselves as such, and leaned towards stuff like the Beatles and the Police. This one was pretty satisfying and though and got me interested in their full catalogue, which I never bought all of myself but eventually much later ended up listening to via my (then) girlfriend's ( now wife) box set collection. As much as I liked them and recognized the greatness, I was a Pink Floyd man through and through ( she also had the Pink Floyd CD box set). I mentioned in a much earlier review that a fun game is to look at the biggest acts of the decade through the lens of which of the big 4 British invasion bands they map onto. If we consider the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and the Kinks as such ( and discount the fact that the Who's success kind of straddle the two decades ,then... - Led Zeppelin ( to me ) slot pretty well into that Stones category: A swaggery, blues-inspired outfit that waited a bit too long to get more experimental, and becomes known for their debauched antics. - Black Sabbath are the Beatles - Scrappy working class innovators who conquered the world with a seemingly endless well of killer melodies and whose music spawned entire genres, and countless imitators - Pink Floyd are the Kinks: Experimental from the beginning, and a bit more concerned with interiority and philosophical matters than their peers, they got weirder and weirder without losing their mainstream appeal. - Queen are the Who: Discovered and mined a deeply theatrical bent and who turned their live shows into massive spectacles which defined the stadium rock era. Both continued on as awful legacy acts after the death of their most charismatic member. Listen, this is not exact science, and I think I change that 1 to 1 mapping every time I end up thinking about it. Some of those easily be switched around and justified in any number of ways. The point is that Led Zeppelin is THAT iconic an act. Part of the bedrock of the rock n roll strata, especially insofar as their massive influence on hard rock and metal goes. Important enough to exist up there with those other bands. THE TRACKS Side one "Black Dog" - Possibly the most iconic ( I'll try my best to curtail the use of this word throughout) of the band's songs for me, in that the opening is one the most recognizable in music history to me. I've heard it a zillion times on the radio, and probably in a few movies ( though if not mistaken, Plant and Page are notoriously expensive licensors, so maybe not as many as I think). There's not a part of it ( or much of anything on this thing - spoilers) that drags or overstays its welcome, and there's very little to say about the playing other than it's some of the best ever, from everyone. This would be my pick for the song that plays as the motion detector in the future Led Zeppelin museum exhibit activates and the animatronic ( more likely holographic ) Robert Plant starts grinding near you and making the family vacation slightly uncomfortable. "Rock and Roll" - One of the ones I definitely know HAS been licensed. For some car commercial. And quite some time a go. I remember being surprised by it in fact. Maybe the first ( edit: it was for Cadillac and was in 2002, and appears to be the first time they licensed a song for anything). One of their most energetic songs and feels like it has more of a throw back feel with the boogie woogie piano. Awesome as ever and makes me want to drive a real fast down a curvy road. These guys were never innovators, but they do what they do about the best that anyone else did it. Going back and listening from the early 60s on, by the time '69 rolls around the blues rock mode was already getting stale. "The Battle of Evermore" -Get out your wizard cloaks and elf ears, nerds! The great Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention provides guest vocals here ( the only time in Zep history!) for a tasty bit of folk rock, that's epic and atmospheric and full of some awesome acoustic guitar work. You got dark lords, angels, royalty, ringwraiths (!), magic runes, war, dragons... the balance of Good and Evil are at stake! What's not to love? Not as beloved as "Ramble On" but just as great in my opinion. "Stairway to Heaven" - I read once that this song got burned into the minds of the 70s radio listeners primarily because it was one of the few songs that was of a perfect length for the DJ to go take a bathroom break without being too long to play at all. It makes sense, and it's a great story, but it's not like the song itself isn't amazing to begin with. It's got some very dumb lyrics ( right up there with "Rocket Man") and is chock full of woo-woo mysticism, but who cares about lyrics anyway, right? It's like 5 songs in one with all the changes and segments and each one is pretty killer. If you've still got that cape from before, keep it around cause we're still very much in the hobbit hole, and won't be out for a while yet. If you could somehow track the value of a song by how much weed, by volume, was smoked during it, I think this one might come out on top, and not just because of the length. The guitar solo starting around 5:55 has got to be up there at the tippity top, right? And that last segment had to have been among the best singalong moments at any concerts ever. Side two "Misty Mountain Hop" - For the longest time I used to listen to Zeppelin ( when I listened to them) as part of a massive playlist on my Ipod that I would always set to random. I would barely ever look at the song titles, and for the longest time I just thought of it as "Really Don't Care". The Hobbit reference was lost on me. But we get a bit of a funny story about a dude getting high with hippies in the park and running into some cops, and then, and then... some other stuff happens I guess? The important thing to know is that this has one of the bands best melodies, a stone cold killer riff, and some dope electric piano. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. "Four Sticks" - Nobody's favorite off the album, but still danged awesome, and a great showcase for Bonham. This one has some Indian flavor with some sitar and tablas. It also has some weird production choices like seemingly keeping Plant a mile from the mic while he was singing, and some early synths but it all works really well still. And I really dig hearing a track from them that I have not heard on the radio. "Going to California" - My personal favorite track off the album (and one of their best over all imo). I think as good as Plant is as screeching blues banshee, he's even better at the quieter folky stuff. You really get a full range of emotion on these, unlike the belters which are just 90% horny. Some beautiful mandolin work here from John Paul Jones. Just all around very pretty folk ballad with some great melodies. "When the Levee Breaks" - We end this journey on a heavier note, with a cover of an old blues classic by Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie, given a polish and a bit more doom. This one's a banger, y'all. Some bluesy harmonica sets the tone, and Bonham provides the fuel by beating his kit into submission that results in a MASSIVE feeling song. Plant's vocals get some reverb, and are deadly serious. and show off exactly why he could pulll off the white dude blues sound better than all of his peers. Original by Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFBpqR7eLc4&list=RDvFBpqR7eLc4&start_radio=1 HIGHLIGHTS - All of it MIDLIGHTS - LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS Led Zeppelin IV remains one of the best albums to have ever been made that I will regularly skip songs form when they come up on the radio. It's not that I hate them, or feel like I must ignore their music out of some recognition of Jimmy Paige's grossness as a human being, or really even that I've heard them so much I never want to hear them again. It's more that I know I WILL MOST DEFINITELY hear them again. Probably more than I would like, definitely enough that it will be to the detriment of music that's new to me. That's in addition to the effect I mentioned earlier with familiarity leading me to not like it AS much as some stuff by them that is arguably not as good. Will I ever sell my Zeppelin LPs? Unlikely. There's just too much comfort food music in there. Zeppelin doesn't even make my top 20 acts ( maybe not even top 50?) but they were nonetheless great while they were going strong, and remain wildly influential, inspiring knock-offs to this very day, so they are part of my musical canon. This album in particular holds up really well, and is maybe the best example of the band's most mainstream, and radio-friendly sound. so very understandable why it gets so much love on these lists. I think if I had to criticize the album ( and the band in general) of anything, it would be that there's a bit of a lack of variety here that get corrected perfectly ( in my opinion) on Houses of the Holy, and maybe goes a little too far in the other direction on Physical Graffiti. The accousticy, folkier numbers are very much appreciated when they pop up, and I find myself wishing for more. These guys took the ball from the Yardbirds, Clapton, Beck and the rest and ran it into the endzone, and evolved it ever so much into the hard rock form ( along with Deep Purple) and some others, while largely ignoring the psychedelic aspects, which made them a bit unique and paved the way for a lot of early metal. Where Sabbath gave s doom and sludge, and Deep Purple have us speed and power, Zeppelin gave us the epic fantasy, and just a bit of hair metal. \m/ Possible turn-Offs might include: - banshee level screeching - cockrockery to the nth degree ( though far toned town from earlier albums) - any stories you might read about Jimmy Paige's personal life - seriously nerdy lyrics about Hobbits and shit You Might enjoy this if you: - wish to RAWK! - like a little bit of variety in your hard rock, but not too much - need a soundtrack for handwashing your Firebird in the driveway on Saturday - would like to practice your devil horn gesture, but Sabbath is a bit to heavy for you PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Nope FURTHER LISTENING Precursors: - "When the Levee Breaks" by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy - The Complete RPM & Chess Singles A's & B's 1951-62, Vol. 1 by Howlin' Wolf - Bert Jansch by Bert Jansch - Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention - The Pentangle by Pentangle - Electric Mud by Muddy Waters - Spirit by Spirit - Then Play On by Fleetwood Mac - Abbey Road by the Beatles Contemporaries: - Fireball by Deep Purple - Salisbury by Uriah Heep - Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain - Split by The Groundhogs - Deuce by Rory Gallagher - Thin Lizzy by Thin Lizzy Descendants: - Queen II by Queen - Rush by Rush - Dreamboat Annie by Heart - Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith - Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden - Wolfmother by Wolfmother - Pressure & Time by Rival Sons - Anthem of the Peaceful Army by Greta Van Fleet

The best Led Zeppelin album in my opinion. “When the levee breaks” most underrated Zeppelin original….copied from old blues standards.

This was nice, though is it weird to say 1) I liked Physical Graffiti better and 2) I don’t reallyyy see the appeal of “Stairway to Heaven” (other than the fact that it was the Recognizable song)? I liked “Going to California” and “When the Levee Breaks” though!

going to California is mijn favoriet van dit album, niet echt mijn ding maar ik kon er wel van genieten 3/5

This is #day800 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... it's been a long time since I rock and rolled. Now, what better way to mark such a milestone than by getting Led Zeppelin's IV, one of rock music most essential records? It's crazy to think the album is turning 55 years old next month. "Black Dog," "Rock and Roll," and, of course, "Stairway To Heaven" are staples. This is a 5 out of 5. Looking forward to #day801.

6 out of the 8 songs on this album are *immediately* recognizable (and total bangers). Plus, the drums on When the Levee Breaks might be the heaviest sounding drums ever put to tape. A remarkable record.

so far not a big fan. songs are good but not ones i feel i would go back to and listen or want to learn the words.

Absolute classic, doesn't date at all. Transported right back to teenage years and Stairway to Heaven. Don't know why I don't listen to this more.

1st reviewed 2007, with a 4. Classic rock album and have a new appreciation of it. Only 8 tracks though although 6 really great songs, so would be 4.5 stars & 93% Only 4 stars here though as halves not allowed

4.85

First Zeppelin album I’ve listened too besides the usual hits that are used to death in media. Absolutely incredible album from start to finish. The influences of modern day artists is definitely heard on the album loud and clear!

One of the all time greats. Rock, blues, folk. It’s got it all.

Classic 5

Definitely the best led zeppelin album with strong folk influence. Every song is a banger and a lot softer than their other albums which I think works in its favour. People say stairway is overplayed but it is genuinely a really good song. Plus it hasn't been overplayed since the late 90s let's be honest here. Just genuinely a really great record all round.

Typically I view Zeppelin as background music now after early overexposure, but this album is incredible. Probably their best.

Some amazing music, no doubt, but a few filler songs and I don't think I need a physical copy, so 4/5

The guitar is hyponotizing to listen to at times. The Battle of Evermore was enchanting in an eerie way. Its uneasiness drew me in.

Third of five Led Zeppelin albums I've gotten in this experience. One that I knew a bunch of the songs but never listened to all the way through. My listening experience went like this: "damn what an opening run of tracks!" And then the album ended. This album deserves all the praise its getting and has gotten over the years. After what was a kind of lack luster week, I needed this one. 5/5

Not my favorite Zepp. I know so many songs are iconic but it’s got that woodland rock sound that gets grating to me after a while.

It’s a classic.

Energetic vocals, excellent guitar solos and exceptional drums. Every track is unforgettable Favorite track - Black Dog

Oh yeah, now we’re talking. My uncle passed both too long ago and this was one of the many records I got from him. Such a great album

While not as conceptual as many of its "greatest rock album of all time" ilk, it replaces this with consistent, amazing songs. An album that is 8 songs, in which every song is a hit is a near impossibility. And Led Zeppelin did it.

Otroligt bra! Bara bra låtar och klassiker förstås. Ett av de bästa rockbandet! Då som nu.

Stairway to heaven is one of the best songs of all time, just had trouble connecting w/ the rest of the album

Mid album. Some good some bad. Fav track is stairway to heaven

Well, I was wondering when this album would crop up! Top track - When the Levee Breaks, a crunching onimous cover of the old blues song, which itself had quite a jaunty sound. I also love Rock and Roll. Stairway to Heaven is so over-played!

Мне понравилось, особенно Stairway To Heaven, звучит просто шикарно. Вообще уважаю Led Zeppelin, но на 5 звезд чего то не хватает. Как по мне мало разнообразия, инструментал как будто ограничен, есть пару песен которые выделяются сильно на фоне остальных, но этого мало

Seeing Led Zeppelin on here was inevitable, being that they were the forerunners of hard rock in the 70s, and this album definitely shows that, while at the same time incorporating elements of folk and blues into their sound. To me that is not a bad thing ,but I do prefer their more rockier songs like Black Dog and Rock and Roll. I Can also appreciate the amazing vocals of Jimmy Page, the iconic guitar riffs and straightforward but energetic and raw drumming.

Whilst I’m not a fan of LED Zeppelin, and I think they get a far easier ride on here than other artists that have flirted with fascism, this is a good album.

Damn we’re already out of Zeppelin Black Dog as the opening track is a great tone setter; I honestly didn’t know it was called that but I’ve heard it a million times, just got a great energy to it and it’s catchy as hell. Rock and Roll keeps it up and adds to what’s already an absolutely stacked front side. I don’t think I can really do it justice, but Stairway to Heaven absolutely is one of the greatest songs in rock history, overplaying be damned. It has without a doubt one of the most iconic guitar solos of all time, great songwriting, and most of all just shows exactly what Led Zeppelin is capable of throughout their career and condensing it down to one masterpiece of a track. Side B is definitely a bit weaker, but it’s still got great tracks. I really like When the Levee Breaks and how it shows yet again how much range this band has. I have very few dings against this album, biggest would probably be that I’m not a huge fan of Four Sticks but it’s still a perfectly fine track, just not as legendary as the rest of this album. I still think Zeppelin II is more consistently good throughout its whole runtime, but I think this album more than anything shows how amazing Led Zeppelin as a band is and why they’re still a heavy influence on music to this day. I’m not remotely surprised this is in the top 5 for user ratings. I’m kinda sad that we’re already done with all 5 of their albums on this list not even 300 albums in but I’m glad we saved the greatest for last.

Who am I kidding. Battle of Evermore is not lame enough to bring this down. Rock and Roll is one of the damn catchiest high-energy songs I've heard and she deserve that 5. (Still think Zeppelin III is the best)

I mean, it's the best of the best, can I give it 6/5

This kind of music never interested me but I might listen to more of it because this album is good as fuck. Now I see why everyone loves this one. Great drum sound, too. :3 Also I'm pretty sure that guy is carrying more than just four sticks. :3

Cool album. Some songs are just ok, but Black dog, Stairway to heaven and When the levee breaks are very good. Thanks to that, a straight 4.

5/5 - Banging album. No notes

This was my favorite album at 16. Now I'm 26 and have moved on a bit from Zeppelin but this album still goes hard as fuck

A fine album, but inescapably cringe. The LOTR nonsense, the grim obviousness of the lyrics' leering, sweating sexuality, the ostensibly 'revolutionary' treatment of a predominantly Black musical genre...it all teeters on the brink of gross, not helped by the profound weirdness of most of Led Zeppelin's contemporary fanbase (not the album's fault, I'll admit). At its best, it is really good: Stairway to Heaven and Going to California are brilliantly composed, interesting pieces of music. But at its worst, it sounds a strange 70s-inflected brand of hopelessly juvenile: a weird fug of bland lyrics, mindless heavy guitars doing, you know, something, and a weird inescapable atmosphere of stale cigarettes, mystical bad folk silliness that has a tinge, just a tinge, of nationalism, and a sound I cannot disassociate from brown carpet tiles, green enamel, and asbestos. Not bad, but hardly, to me at least, worth the endless hype.

A good album showing a band at their peak, but probably also revealing the limits to my enjoyment of Led Zep. There are some great tracks that show their hard rock sound at its best, When the Levee Breaks probably my pick of them. Honestly though, Stairway to Heaven just doesn’t make that much of an impression on me. And given the band’s interest in Tolkien, it does drift into whimsy on some of the folkier tracks. I like it, but I don’t quite understand why it’s the 5th highest rated album on the list.

This album is full of classics, and is enjoyable. While I enjoyed the whimsy of some of the folkier tracks well enough, the heavier tracks provide the real thrill, and the album is bookended by the two best tracks 'Black Dog' and 'When the Levee Breaks'. I didn't quite like it enough overall for a 5, but it certainly warrants a strong 4.

This is *the* classic Zeppelin album if forced to pick just one, for obvious reasons; it has several tracks that are among their best and most popular, not only the iconic, incredible ‘Stairway to Heaven’, but also the fantastic rhythmically loose ‘Black Dog’, the high energy ‘Rock and Roll’, and the swirling apocalyptic blues ‘When the Levee Breaks’. As usual, the folky stuff also provides two of my personal favourites: the mystical ‘Battle of Evermore’ and the beautiful, bittersweet ‘Going to California’. This is Robert Plant’s on-record vocal peak, and the rest of the band are on top form too.

a poem, by me: it's Led Zeppelin IV, need i say more?

Such a great, great album. Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks. All bangers.

I have an irrational dislike for Stairway. My parents love Led Zeppelin and would blast the hell out of this record. When I was a kid and had bad nightmares, I had to wait until this song was over before they heard me calling for them. Anyway! This is a classic for a reason. Personal vendetta against Stairway to Heaven aside, easy full marks.

Possibly the greatest album in this list as far as o can tell. All tracks are great, such an important album to me.

turns out robert plant at his peak is, in fact, real fuckin good. the group's collective songwriting and arranging are improving (though not without other people's songs) but not at their height, and jones in particular hasn't been able to really show off, but page's guitar writing and multitracking are great, and the whole thing comes together very well

was really looking forward to listening to it. now that i've done it, i'm a tiny little bit disappointed. apart from their all time banger "Stairway to Heaven" the rest is.. well.. of course solid! but i'm not overwhelmed, it's okay and i liked it. that's all.

Great album not my fav led zep but love a lot of this

Very nostalgic- think I owned this album, just because it had Stairway to Heaven, and that song concluded every school dance from 7th-12th grade! But I never listened to it so carefully. So many classics!

All of the songs rule

All of the best stuff in "Stairway to Heaven" happens in the final 75 seconds. The previous six minutes and change is just prelude to the payoff. Would we have the joke at the beginning of Wayne's World if the radio edit of this song was under 2 minutes? 6 keepers in 8 (75%). 4 bangers (50%).

Enough said. Damn good album.

Fuck yeah it’s perfect. So much music on this list but is there much better than this?

A classic!!!!!!

Some of the good Rock.

This album will always slap

I like the classic, radio songs because I've been told they are good but the songs I was unfamiliar with, I didn't like. I love the guitar work, especially the acoustic stuff. I don't think I like Robert Plant's voice. I like the songs until he starts to sing, then I lose interest.

Great.

This is obviously a great album with some of the most amazing rock tracks ever put on record. The only thing keeping if from being a 5 in my opinion is The Battle of Evermore, which I find to be pretty weak. Also I've always found Robert Plant's lyrics to be pretty underwhelming, but that's probably just personal preference.

wow

Hovnarrsrock i hopplös 70tals produktion

Bäst när det blir rakt rockös som i Rock and roll. I övrigt inget nämnvärt.

Den mer folkinspirerade Going to California är rätt trevlig. Den tillika folklåten The battle… är å andra sidan rätt bra trist. Plants sång, som väl kom att sätta tonen för rätt många glammiga hårdrocksvokalister, hade utan saknad kunnat missta. Sången till trots Rock and roll är precis vad den heter. En rockrökare som snarare andas Lille-Rikard än Sweden rock. Summa sumarum, ibland relativt trevligt, ibland vill man snabbspola. Landar i den svaga trean.

Kanske zeppelins sämsta album. Men det är tuff konkurrens. Utöver det sedvanliga bluesrockharvandet får vi dessutom zeppelinarnas försök till medtidsballader.

I do not like people who are contrarians to be cool. Having the take that this album is nothing short of great does not make you interesting, it makes you deaf. Aside from Misty Moutain Hop, which I don't mind all that much, I can listen to all of them separately on any given day, but it shines together. Scope, ambition, maestra, it is incredible, always and forever. It is cool damn it.

This is why I joined this project. To find albums like this that I somehow missed over the years. I thought Led Zeppelin was really hard rock. But dude, it has Tolkien references. This album is a great gift for the nerd in your life as well as for the stoner in your life. Added every song, save one, to a playlist.

MORE classics and really goods

instruments are great. john zeppelin is mid af to me tho rippers

This album stands apart from almost everything else. From the opening notes it grabs you and pulls you into this world that is hard rocking without getting precious, epic without becoming corny. These songs don't quite make me feel like some of my favorite albums, but the record was a whole feels monumental. It both transports me to a specific moment in rock history and reasserts itself as its own moment whenever I hear it.

One of my favorite things about this album is that it has always felt huge to me, no matter the stereo I’m listening to it on or the setting. Crappy 90s foam-covered headphones bouncing around my bedroom? Huge. 1994 Toyota Camry speakers off a fuzzy classic rock station? Huge. Fancy headphones you should only afford in that brief window post-college where you have your first real job, a little spending money, and no family to support? Super mega huge. 2013 Toyota Sienna with the volume level set unreasonably low so as not to annoy everyone else in the car? Still huge. In fact, while I’m sure huge, massive arena-sized speakers are the perfect venue for experiencing Zoso, a worn-out cassette played over a crappy silver boombox is pretty forking immense. I'm not a huge Zeppelin guy or anything, but this is the fivest of five stars and in the running for best rock album, and maybe album, ever recorded.

First listened in 2021. Classic hard rock album that brought "weirder" songwriting and lyrics into the limelight.

Just a wild density of some of the all time best rock and roll. Easy 5.

- Stairway to Heaven - going to california is csodalatos!

This album was my seed crystal for really getting into hard rock when I was about 14. Still vibrant as hell today.

Solid Hard Rock

Superb

3.5 got better later on but might listen again

Man, what a great start to an album and stairway to heaven is incredible.

Don’t know we would be topping a 4.7 from the previous rating. Album has no skips and keeps you engaged the entire time with some all time rock and roll. 5

Incredible album. Wish every album on this list were this enjoyable. 9/10 Outstanding

una maravilla de album, que putisima locura 10/10

Ett bra album, nice med rockband som har en blandning av lugna och ösiga låtar. Lite Dire Straits över det

mid 4 Theres so much terrible hard rock on this list. Led zep have always been the exception. Not only do they do it better then everyone else, but they do other things too. Why didn't some of the bands influenced by them learn to have more them one style of song per album? I dont quite get stairway, others seem to get a lot more out of it. I like it well enough tho

Every teenage rock kid's big musical discovery in high school - still love it.

This is a great album.

One of the defining rock and roll albums. Contains two highs in the history of guitar music.

My teenage years were spent listening to Led Zeppelin’s whole discography and wishing I’d meet a your Robert Plant lookalike

Honestly a classic

I can’t add much hear. Again- listening to Zeppelin walks the fine line between listening to a parody band and listening to the greatest rock and roll band of all time. This one is chock full of than all the others I guess.

Battle of Evermore and When the Levee Breaks are my two favorite Zep songs.

Great riffs and amazing drum sound. Love the quieter guitar parts too. Really good album.

What is there to say?

One of the greatest albums ever by one of the greatest bands ever. Every song on this album is great. The lyrics are amazing, the instruments and the vocals are amazing. Also has one of the most recognizable songs ever in Stairway to Heaven. The only thing of negative to say about it, is I like Houses of the Holy more, but only slightly.