Frownland

Genre-defining record full of great musicianship and all that ****. Stairway is certainly overplayed but that doesn't discredit its place on the album. If anything, we should be setting our sights on Going to California. 9/10

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OccultHawk

It’s a curious thought experiment to try to imagine what your initial impression of Zep 1 would be when it came out. It’s much easier to understand why every second bristles with genius when you already know what everything blossoms into.

Once the critic heard Communication Breakdown he should have realized he was dealing with something revolutionary and profound and adjusted his lenses so he could see that that mystical power was all over every track on that album. But hindsight is 20/20.

I know there’s a lot of who did what when but I don’t care about that.

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OccultHawk

And really Batlord, a 6?

Be honest, man.

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The Batlord

Not much after Exile on Main Street. Up to Aftermath they never bettered the debut by a mile. Aftermath is great but still doesn't make up for that raw rock n roll majesty with its songwriting prowess, while still being a ****ing monster. I just really love the debut hard. Haven't heard the next album, but Their Satanic Majesties Request didn't do much for me the one time I tried listening to it. Oh and I guess I haven't heard Beggar's Banquet. Didn't even realize. But then their classic trilogy are vastly overrated to me. They got some great rock, but more polished than I'd like compared to the debut, and when I hear the country rock **** I'd just rather listen to real country. It sounds like what I'd imagine would have gotten rock fans into country before they'd ever heard outlaw country, but I already had when I tried so I didn't care.

There's Rolling Stones I'd still like to hear, but their late 60s/early 70s material sounds heavily overrated.

Edit: Oh wait I have tried to listen to Beggar's Banquet. So they had four albums of wannabe country? Bleh. Did they realize Merle Haggard already existed?

I am being honest. Half of the album is absolute magic rock, but half the album is ridiculously dull and I just can't be arsed to an extent that I don't even want to listen to it, with a bit more that's good enough to raise it by a point. The half of the album I don't care for really is enough to drop the album that far for me. I'd be absolutely condescending to give it a seven or an eight. And this is my favorite of at least LZ's first four albums, so their other three fair even worse for me. I haven't listened to their others besides at least most of Physical Graffiti so I won't pass judgement on them. But of the LZ albums I've listened to I legit find them to be 50/50 awesome and boring as ****.

I really just don't like LZ pretending to be a folk or blues band.

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Neapolitan

**** nuclear bombs. Radiation fall-out of an nuclear explosion causes cancer and health issues. What are you trying to say with your little meme there, Led Zeppelin IV is a toxic album that causes sickness and death?

"The Rolling Stones are better than Led Zeppelin" - J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Pet_Sounds

Killer album, but I don't like LZ enough as a band to give it any more than an 8. "Going to California" is my favourite track and "Rock and Roll" is always fun.

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The Batlord

Of course it is.

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Pet_Sounds

The tracks that sample Tolkien are cool too.

LZ's best song, however:

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Frownland

Absolutely!

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March 1969.

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