MB Classics: Led Zeppelin IV
 

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If there's an early Led Zeppelin album to make me care then it's IV, but I still can't get over the boring folk ****. But the rock songs are 11/10 more often than not. Will rate after listening to it again.

For me, this is a 10/10 album.

Stairway to Heaven might be a little overrated, but I love it.

Black Dog
Rock & Roll
Battle of Evermore
When the Levee Breaks

This is a flawless record.

I am going to listen to it, on CD, right now.

I want to like "The Battle of Evermore", but it just sounds silly to me. Robert Plant is trying too hard to sell a low key song and it trivializes the song.

Completely flawless start to finish.

When the Levee Breaks has the best hard rock drumbeat ever drummed

Unassailable

That meme is appropriate to the poster.

Trump’s growing on me.

Oh and the last couple minutes of awesomeness do not detract from the tedium of the rest of "Stairway to Heaven".

Oh ****, I forgot what song "Going to California" was. I used to want to skip this song desperately when it would come on the radio and **** nasty do I want to do the same right now.

What part of anything made you think that wasn't stupid, Led Zeppelin?

Zep I: Four young Brits explode out of the gate and help define "Heavy Metal".

Zep II: Written and recorded while the band was touring. English heavy metal blues at its best.

Zep III: Written at Bron-Yr- Aur. Page always said that he wanted Zep to be the perfect mixture of "light and shade".

Zep IV:

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Alright so my initial rating was good: half the album is fire, most of the rest is dull ****, with some other **** that's good. 6/10

I had to be a little contrary and gave it a 9. It's an excellent album but the first three are still better as is Physical Grafitti. I'm especially partial to Stairway To Heaven, When the Levee Breaks, and Misty Mountain Hop.

PG is their best one yeah.

The first half is clearly the best, though "Misty Mountain Hop" and "When the Levee Breaks" are indeed unassailable."Misty Mountain Hop" just has such a weird bounce to it that's almost electronica with the production.

Na.

Song just kind of builds up nicely until the end.

Song is just kind of ****ing boring until the end.

ftfy

For me, an album has to be flawless from start to finish to give it a 10/10 and this one fulfills that requirement. A perfect blend of Led Zep's rocking/folk/heavy musicianship all the way through. Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham at the top of their musical game. The album even features the added bonus of having the late, great, vocalist extraordinaire Sandy Denny (of Fairport Convention fame) singing on "The Battle of Evermore" (the only song Led Zeppelin ever recorded with a guest vocalist.)

10/10

9/10 for personal enjoyment but considering 'IV' is the most musically notable record in their discography, it has to be a 10/10 from me.

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Amen Hawk!

Free > Led Zeppelin

One of very few musical preferences that I will actually fight people over.

Give me an album so I can help you troll the Zep losers.

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Paul Rodgers is good but he's no Robert Plant.

West Mids represent.

Bitch, Free is lucky to measure up to Bad Company.

If you want some cool cred you should point out The Firm was underrated.

Representing.

:beer:

Free's debut is basically Led Zep but a year earlier, with a singer that sounds like a man, and no lame folky nonsense. Just straight dirty white boi blues rock.

Free's self titled utterly destroys everything Zep ever did. When Free dips into funk, folk, or whatever, they don't halfass it.

Bad Company is just an overproduced Free with no Paul Kossof. So yeh, still pretty awesome, but come on.

When Plant is on, he's fantastic. When Rodgers is on, he's otherworldly.

When Rodgers is off, he's still fantastic. When Plant is off, I want to kill myself to make it stop.

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Nah, Free outclasses BC imo.

Paul Kossoffs tone is too much.

You're insane, Plant's solo work is pure class, LZ work is pure class and he's never off.

Free's primary charm is the dirty tone not the dirty vocals.

Plant's still touring new material and he's still got it.

I have to admit though, the album Bad Company by Bad Company, on the Bad Company record label, named after the movie Bad Company, is unassailable.

Makes me laugh every time I see it.

Every time I hear that god damn song about "light of the love that I found" or whatever, I vomit towards the heavens for allowing such a thing to exist. Same thing with that "oh oh oh, you don't have to go" noncery, and many others.

Paul Rodgers is what happened when the god of music looked at Robert Plant and was like "hang on, I can do better." Except Free came first.

They both formed in 68...

The rest of the post is a strawman.

A couple tracks subjectively disliked doesn't take away from the musicianship presented throughout an entire discography.

Can we all just admit that Led Zeppelin are pissed they didn't come up with a sound half as cool as Black Sabbath? I mean has anything Zeppelin has ever done compare to this?

Free recorded an album first.

Get fucced.

Yeah I agree with this tbf.

I mean, if your criteria of quality is whether or not a band is as cool as Sabbath on a good day, then yeah, pretty much every band is fucked.

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (January 1969)
Free - Free (October 1969)

Get fucced.