Originally Posted by Trollheart

For myself, I look at Led Zep and think, why no Deep Purple? No Sabbath? No Hendrix? There may be reasons, but surely if you enjoy the down-and-dirty rock and roll of Zep mixed with the odd progressive element, you would gravitate naturally towards the others in the Big Four of Classic Rock, as it were?

For Purple I'd suggest In Rock, Machine Head and maybe Live in Japan, if you decide to get into Black Sabbath I'd try the debut s/t as well as Paranoid and Volume 4 plus Master of Reality, throw in Heaven and Hell too for a different perspective on the band. Hendrix? Well, just about any album but I find the collection Cornerstones is good to start off with. Then if you end up liking Deep Purple you might move on to "spinoff" bands like Whitesnake and Rainbow and perhaps Dio, though this does verge more away from the Classic Rock and towards the Heavy Metal side of things. Speaking of metal, if you decide to try that out (after perhaps listening to Sabbath, and I see you have a Metallica album on your list so guess youre no stranger to that) I'd suggest Iron Maiden as your first port of call.

Beyond that, it really depends. There are some great progressive rock acts (Yes, Camel, Genesis, Rush, ELP etc) you could try out, though whether you'd want to move in that direction or not I don't know.

But hey, it's a start. If you want to know any more about any of the above bands, or bands like them, or those genres, let me know.

Oh, and check out the "education" threads here and the "recommendation" ones too, could be a big help in making your decision.

Best of luck.
TH