Product Description

Rising from the ashes of his old band the Yardbirds, session guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin, one of the most powerful, influential, and enduring British bands to emerge in the '60s. Despite the presence of such classic thrash-o-ramas as "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown", what set Led Zeppelin apart was the depth and range of their music. Their sound was bathed in the blues, from rootsy covers of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit YouBaby", to the crunching rhythm changes of "Dazed And Confused".
Few guitarists before or since possessed Page's sense of pacing and dynamics, as exemplified by the traditionalacoustic folk elements framing the arena gestures on "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", and the raga-flavoured acoustic mystery of "Black Mountain Side". These elements would continue toevolve on subsequent albums, leading to some of Led Zeppelin's greatest moments.

Track Listing

1. Good times bad times
2. Babe I'm gonna leave you
3. You shook me
4. Dazed and confused
5. Your time is gonna come
6. Black mountain side
7. Communication breakdown
8. I can't quit you baby
9. How many more times

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #614 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Best album ever
Along with Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Follow the Reaper (Children of Bodom), and Clapton's CD with the Bluesbreakers, this is the best album ever. You should already own this. Seriously. The songs are all completely different, not a single filler track!

Rough diamond
This was the work of a band trying to find itself. Robert Plant was still finding himself as a vocalist but put in a good performance, one he would build on for future records. There aren't too many full-band compositions to speak of as the album was put together in something of a rush by Page, so apart from the covers most of the writing was his. Not that this was a bad thing, perhaps the only genuine criticism of this record is that it lacks a clear direction. Page clearly was leaning toward the Blues and yet, having only just emerged from the yardbirds, he placed a little moment of throwaway pop on here too, along with a version of a Yardbirds instrumental. Alongside the occasional pop moment and the deep blues there are, of course, two songs which some say invented punk, some say invented metal, but most say are beyond brilliant. 'Communication Breakdown' and ballsy opener 'Good Times, Bad Times' are fast paced, heavy and have incredibly energetic guitar work which many bands of the future would use as a blueprint for their entire career. The true gem here, however, is 'Dazed and Confused'. A 6-minute epic (generally stretched out to over half an hour in the live arena) of blues with what became customary Pageisms added is (the violin bow became legendary). One of the most ambitious, and one of the finest debut albums ever.

Awesome Debut there's a reason why led zeppelin are one of the most famous rock bands ever.
This album is a fantastic debut and has supposedly the first metal song ever Communication Breakdown ( which to be honest it's not metal). This album has alot of classics like Good Time The Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, You Shook Me, Dazed And Confused, Communication what am i doing the whole albums a classic. Led Zeppelinare an awesome rock n' roll band buy this album then buy Led Zeppelin 2, Led Zeppelin 3 & Led Zeppelin4 and continue on from their. LED ZEPPELIN ROCKS!!!