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intereact!Led Zeppelin
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 1994-06-21
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
As it turned out, Led Zeppelin's infamous 1969 debut album was indicative of the decade to come--one that, fittingly, this band helped define with its decadently exaggerated, bowdlerized blues-rock. In shrieker Robert Plant, ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page found a vocalist who could match his guitar pyrotechnics, and the band pounded out its music with swaggering ferocity and Richter-scale-worthy volume. Pumping up blues classics such as Otis Rush's "I Can't Quit You Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Times" into near-cartoon parodies, the band also hinted at things to come with the manic "Communication Breakdown" and the lumbering set stopper "Dazed and Confused." --Billy Altman
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Classic Classic Classic [Rating: 5 out of 5]
When I was 16 my hippie neighbor started sharing his Zepelin and Floyd collections with me and this is the first CD he gave me. Every evening I would turn off the lights in my room and listen to the latest offering. What I loved and still love about this album is how rough and dirty the compositions sound. This is, in my opinion, the purest form of rock and roll. The vocals are great, the guitars are sensational and the drums are powerful and confident. This is a classic rock lovers must-have.2) Heavy? Anybody? [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I bought this on vinyl when it came out. Played it until the grooves were see-through. Buying the CD and hearing this again makes me want to roll one up just like the old days. These guys have never really been matched. They had a certain sophistication in their songwriting which created an extra dimension to their hard driving heavy sound. If you listen to some of today's absurdities like "slipknot" or the "killers" you realize that groups like Zeppelin were light years out there in talent and substance, and you realize what has been lost. Tatoooos and bits and shards implanted in lips and pits and some sadsack drone don't make up for lack of artistic merit. This first Zeppelin album ought to be required listening for any wannabe rock poser. If this level of of music were the bar for hard rockers then 90 percent of the "recording artists" getting contracts today would as Keith Richards suggested "go home and shave".3) A Phenomenal Debut! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
A very strong debut album from Led Zeppelin, with seven original numbers and two of their takes of blues classics. In nine songs, Led Zeppelin managed to do a number of amazing things. First, in a world before Black Sabbath created metal and before Deep Purple or Thin Lizzy got very heavy, Zep added a dose of heaviness to rock n' roll that had previously been defined as poppy (The Beatles), progressive or psychadelic (Cream & Pink Floyd), or simply plain old rock n' roll (The Rolling Stones). But Zeppelin changed what rock n' roll meant. Even on slow old blues grinds like "You Shook Me," they manage to take a simple blues number and make it much heavier. Second, Robert Plant also redefines what a great front man is. The man just oozes rock n' roll on this album, and I can only imagine what Zeppelin would have been like without him on the mic. Third, they show a remarkable range of influences and their own abilities in a number of styles. While tracks like "Black Mountain Side" may not be their most famous, its presence back-to-back with a hard rocker like "Communication Breakdown" is impressive. Finally, Zeppelin also did something successfully that less talented bands struggle with...they didn't rely on the catchy chorus to carry their songs. Consider "Dazed and Confused," perhaps the most famous track off of this album. It has no proper vocal chorus. Rather, where the chorus should be, the listener is greeted by a heavy guitar melody. In fact, very few of their songs have the "catchy chorus," which is very impressive as this is a fundamental tool that bands use to catch someone's ear. An infectious melody is useful, as is a killer guitar solo, but it's more often a simple chorus that is repeated in someone's mind, and Zeppelin didn't rely on this cheap parlor trick, opting to write songs of such quality that the musicianship, rather than its catchiness, would be the appeal.All in all...a classic that lives up to the hype! Get this!4) Hammer of the Gods [Rating: 5 out of 5]
That's what Led Zeppelin is, The Hammer of the Gods. I'm a zeppelin freak, I'm not a huge fan of picking favorites but Led Zeppelin is my undisputed favorite band (although you can already probably tell by the reviewer name i use). I have all their studio albums as well as their live stuff. All their work is fantastic probably the greatest music I have ever heard (that's my opinion no one has to agree with me). However out of all the albums by Led Zeppelin, no by artists in general this is one of my favorites.People have criticized Zeppelin for stealing material especially on this album. I don't understand how you can even criticize Led Zeppelin for that, because this album is just so amazing, why does it matter? If you're new to Zeppelin, don't listen to people who tell you that Led Zeppelin isn't good and that this album is bad and that you shouldn't listen to it, because you will be missing out on some unbelievable music. At the very least you should give it a chance. Sure I'm not gonna go far enough to say that this album is the greatest album ever (Houses of the Holy has that spot in my mind). If you are beginner to Led Zeppelin and want to get into them, I think this is a great album to start with. If you are a veteran Led Zeppelin fan and you don't have this album, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? GET IT NOW!5) The groundwork [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Led Zeppelin's first album gives the listener a sampling of all the good, bad, and ugly that was this master group. It's starts off promisingly enough with the excellent Good Times, Bad Times, which lets everyone know just how powerful John Bonham was. We are shown more of the unique creature of Led Zeppelin on the third number, a cover of Willie Dixon's You Shook Me. It has been noted often and quite accurately that Jeff Beck's Truth came first and the parallels are there in content and in overall blues/rock theme. It wouldn't be the first time or the last that Jimmy Page took the ground work for others and rode with it, unfortunately at times taking credit where it wasn't completely due. It is on this song, however, that you realize the comparisons end. Whereas Beck's version was a bit more laid back providing an almost club-like rendition; Jimmy Page serves up his interpretation with a definitive Zeppelin exercise. This is a sledge hammer of excess and indulgence, two trademarks of this band. Page's guitar thunders along with Bonham's pounding, plodding twelve bar blues beat, Jones adds his thick keyboards, and Plant provides his unique Englishman's take on the blues wail. This is as far from Jeff Beck's version as you can get without doing a bluegrass take. In this one song, we get what Led Zeppelin is all about, taking blues/rock and beating it to a pulp with the Hammer of the Gods.Along the way we get samplings of Page's guitar mastery, influences, and knack for beefy and unforgettable rock riffs (highlights are Black Mountain Side and Communication Breakdown) and we get a blueprint for all that was to come. Zeppelin's albums show a concrete pattern of growth and development and it is easy to see how their masterpiece Physical Graffiti would not exist without its predecessors. This debut, however, is impressive for a first recording and despite the heavy handed bombastic delivery and a few missteps, the rock and roll world was changed with what this band laid down here.