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• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Brazil Import
| | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| June 21, 1994 | | Studio:
| Atlantic / Wea | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Original recording remastered | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 413 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin, Bonham, John | | 2. | Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin, Bennett, Paul [1] | | 3. | You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin, Dixon, Willie [1] | | 4. | Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin, Page, Jimmy | | 5. | Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin, Jones, John Paul [1 | | 6. | Black Mountain Side [Instrumental] - Led Zeppelin, Page, Jimmy | | 7. | Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin, Bonham, John | | 8. | I Can't Quit You Baby - Led Zeppelin, Dixon, Willie [1] | | 9. | How Many More Times - Led Zeppelin, Bonham, John | |
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 I like it.May 29, 2010
This album is better than all the beatles albums combined (see how I didn't capitalize "the beatles"??)
It's the origin of rap and heavy metal, the two best genre's of music in the world.
I think this albums really shows how their singer can do what other singers can't, and that is sing.
 The recipe is ALL thereApr 29, 2010
Classic album. The "answer/call" sound of robert plant's vocals with jimmy page's guitar, the thunderous riffs,complex songs, single bass drum machine gun action, etheral keyboards,swagger, Long Hair,mood, atmosphere; its all there on LED ZEPPELIN I
Buy this album and worship the hammer of the gods.
I Read the 1, 2, and 3 Star Reviews First, Out of Curiosity...Apr 09, 2010
and those people either weren't there, or had pop tastes (girls preferred Motown then), or are in self-denial concerning Jimmy Page's extra-terrestrial guitar work which was technically and artistically light-years ahead of anyone else at the time (just compare 'You Shook Me' with the one Jeff Beck did only six months earlier on the Truth album- light-years...)
concerning Jeff Beck, I read that Page played a Fender Strat that Beck gave him on this album (including the two pieces he used a bow on); after this album Page never played it again, what a shame- he took the Strat to much higher heights here than he ever did any of his Gibson's...
from an artistic standpoint this album is their best, and IV their next best, due the the couple of artistic songs on each; I never really liked it when they devolved into 'song mode', though those albums get the nod from happy disco party people...
what is there to say, but LED ZEPPELINFeb 26, 2010
the best band of there time, you have to be a total idiot to not love this band
This debut shows us that these guys know how to ROCKFeb 16, 2010
In 1968, visionary Jimmy Page had just left the Yardbirds and had met John Bonham, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant. Together, those four were known as "the New Yardbirds." However, a joke from The Who's drummer Keith Moon, saying that a new band "would go over like a lead balloon" prompted the name change to "Lead Zeppelin," and manager Peter Grant altered the spelling to "Led" so radio stations wouldn't misread it.
But enough with the history. You came here to read the review. This is a great first album. Every song on it is flawless - an incredible feat given the entire album was recorded, arranged and mixed in 30 hours.
The opening of "Good Times Bad Times" will grab you and pull you in, and before you know it you've reached an almost-manic guitar solo by Jimmy Page.
Then things seemingly slow down with the melodic "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." Page wanted this to be Led Zeppelin's "light-and-shadows" song, and sure enough, after wandering through the acoustic "shadow" of the song, you are blindsided by the light when the song suddenly changes course; Page's melodic plucking immediately turns into a pounding riff, complemented by Bonzo's drums. Then, as though allowing you to catch your breath, the song will "dim" into shadow again, with Page lightly backing Plant's voice. Then comes another blast of frenzied rock. But in the end we don't know if Plant "left" his girl, or if he stayed with her. A truly enjoyable Zeppelin tune.
"You Shook Me" is a very bluesy song with a nice opening riff. Bonham really whacks the drums on this one too, and Plant changes things up by throwing a harmonica into the mix during the instrumental break, adding more than just vocals into the song. Page shows off some guitar skill by seeming to "follow" what Plant sings and, at the end, doing a sort of "call and response": Plant screams "Babe!" and Page hits a guitar note.
"Dazed and Confused" is left over from the latter days of The Yardbirds, but of course Page wanted to put a Zeppelin-esque spin on it. Opening with John Paul Jones's bass line, the song seemingly trudges along, with Robert Plant lamenting "Been dazed and confused/for so long it's not true/Wanted a woman, never bargained for you." The instrumental break is a time for the musicians to really "cut loose" and demonstrate their abilities, which they do remarkably well.
John Paul Jones's influence is evident on "Your Time Is Gonna Come", a church-organ-infused tune that seems out of place to some. However, to me, it allows us a glimpse into his writing and is a pretty good tune about a cheating lover. (Other songs written by Jones are "Misty Mountain Hop" from Led Zeppelin IV or "ZoSo", "No Quarter" from Houses of the Holy, and almost the entire last album In Through The Out Door.)
"Black Mountain Side" is a purely instrumental track (a rarity for the quartet) written and played by Jimmy Page.
Next comes "Communication Breakdown", an in-your-face jam that lets the listener know that Led Zeppelin is definitely different from other bands of their time. At two minutes, 29 seconds, it's one of Led Zeppelin's shorter tracks, but after listening to it you definitely must catch your breath. "Communication Breakdown" is truly a relentless tune, not letting go until the end. This song makes one feel like they had the wind knocked out of them, complete with another nearly out-of-control, manic solo from Jimmy Page. (Toward the end of this song, Page adds some rare backing vocals.)
"I Can't Quit You Babe" is another blues-rock gem, along the same vein as other blues-rock songs of the era.
"How Many More Times" is the longest song on the album (coming in at over eight minutes), which has a grooving bass intro and demonstrates a musical rarity: Jimmy Page playing his guitar with a violin bow (just before - and during - the verse starting with "I was a young man, I couldn't resist"). Toward the end of the tune is a cover of "The Hunter", coupled with Robert Plant's trademark vocal wailing.
Overall a stellar effort by the young band. Even from the onset, Led Zeppelin set out proving that they were definitely a different act than what listeners were used to. And this remarkable first album helped cement Zeppelin's career, helping them become one of the biggest rock bands of all time. Among the greatest debut albums ever released.
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