Product Description

LED ZEPPELIN III is the sound of rock's brash enfants terrible beginning to mature. While the take-no-prisoners blues-rock of the first two albums is still prominent in the band'stool box, other implements are beginning to appear. The delicate acoustic whispers that would run through much of ZEPPELIN IV have their folk/blues antecedents here (the lambent "That's the Way", the earthy "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp"), the resultsof the band's creative encampment in a woodland dwelling. At the same time, the heavier tracks are unprecedented in their ferocious swagger. Robert Plant's bone-chilling battle cry and the band's savage riffing on "The Immigrant Song" do full justice to the song's Viking imagery, and it's easy to believe that the "hammer of the gods" Plant sings about is being swung straight in your direction.

Track Listing

1. Immigrant song
2. Friends
3. Celebration day
4. Since I've been loving you
5. Out on the tiles
6. Gallows pole
7. Tangerine
8. That's the way
9. Bron Y Aur stomp
10. Hats off to (Roy) Harper

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #461 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

a truly great album
I bought this album as a teenager in the 70's and never felt it was one of zeps greatest albums compared to Physical Graffiti and vol4 so unfortunately it was the last of the remasters that I bought. Having listened to it a couple of times it has quickly become one of my favourates. Its understated beauty really hit me and touched me particularly "tangerine" and the really beautiful "thats the way". Pity the packaging doesnt reflect the curiosity of the original LP cover. Buy it and enjoy!

Great stuff from the rock legends
Really liked this album. I've always really liked Zeppelins well known classics while growing up but never really was a die hard fan. Now exploring some of their works this is one of the greats. Songs have some great catchy riffs and Plant really does the music justice as does Page for his guitar playing and production.....
You won't be dissapointed.

Pastoral interlude
Page conceived as Zeppelin as like a rock version of british folk groups such as Pentangle and Fairport Convention. This is a very british rock album. Immigrant song is the most urgent and immediate song Zeppelin ever wrote - a showcase for Plant's banshee wail and Bonham's drum storm. Subject matter: the Viking invasions. Indeed, Zeppelin have delved into deeper and older subject matter than the first two albums. Running like a thred throughout Zeppelin's albums is a hint of older, darker, mythical subjects - like the writing of D.H.Lawrence in a rock equivalent. Here, we have the traditional acoustic hangman song 'Gallows Pole' souped up and worked into one of their best performances on record. Elsewhere, we have Plant offering his 'coming of age as a writer' song 'That's the way' - delicate, sensitively played, hymnal and extremely soothing - gently discussing the life/death/fragility of life balance with some lovely turns of phrase, 'and yesterday i saw you kissing tiny flowers and weren't those tears that formed your eyes'. The tour-de-force and centrepiece of the album is 'Since I've been loving you' - dark, bluesy, with a benchmark Page solo, Jones's meandering organ and a brilliant performance from Plant. It's possibly the most impassioned performance by Zeppelin on record. The whole record is beautifully produced and gradually segues from prototype Heavy Metal (Immigrant song) to the pastoral moments of the second side of the original album - the impact is losts omewhat by the advent of the CD and not physically turning over the record from heavy to light, rock to acoustic. For me, it's the best all round showcase of Zeppelin in a single album, and a high water mark before the later excesses on Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffitti.