First Album/Remastered - Led Zeppelin

Advantages: Led Zeppelin Music
Disadvantages: When do you listen to other Zepp albums ?

...album was recorded within their first weeks together after testing the songs while on tour to Scandinavian audiences under the name of the New Yardbirds. Rehearsed and arranged ahead of their arrival in the studio, the nine tracks took only 30 hours to record over nine days and for a reputed cost of £1,782. The four members of the band were, Guitarist - Jimmy Page, Vocalist - Robert Plant, Bassist - John Paul Jones and Drummer - John Bonham. Jimmy ...
...were paid. This was the first time we heard Robert’s dynamic and note range painting light and shade singing both powerfully and subtly with the first emergence of the signature ‘baby baby baby’ we would hear thought the rest of his career. The powerful acoustic guitar riff was reminiscent of Chicago’s track ‘25 or 6 to 4’. Track 3 – You Shook Me – This is a great blues from the pen of Willie Dixon, that sees Jones on the Organ and Plant on wailing ... Read review

Advantages: Virtually everything
Disadvantages: One bad song

...hard to believe it’s their first album. However, not all the tracks are good. You Shook Me is a fairly shambling blues piece which just shambles that bit to much, but overall the album is great. I definitely recommend it – especially if you had bought the ReMasters double CD and want more, which is what I did. ... Read review

Advantages: Classic
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The first album was recorded in less than 30 hours just a few weeks after Led Zep's formation. This album contains a old song named "Dazed & Confused" which starts of as a ballad blues number and becomes fused with metal riffs, a classic song. "Dazed & Confused" and "How Many More Times" were leftovers from Page's last days with the Yardbirds. "Good Times Bad Times" combines funk with rock and was created alongside "Communications Breakdown" from ...
...guitarist Bert Jansch's Black Water Side. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" starts of as a ballad but progresses into a heavy rock track ,they were before their time on this one and the ending sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody. This number was borrowed from a Joan Baez album. "You Shook Me" is a classic blues cover of a Willie Dixon & JB Lenoir song. 'I Can't Quit You Baby' is a Otis Redding song. The album displays Page and Plants affinity with the blues and ... Read review