I’m sure everyone who will be reading this will have heard this album before, and with all the tracks still be being played on classic rock stations everywhere it doesn’t feel like a record that was released way back in 1969. That’s right Led Zeppelin 1 is 55 years old.
Where blues meets rock. I know the Stones had been doing the blues and putting out as their own but Zeppelin were adapting it to create their own sound. Sure, there are a couple of blues standards here but tracks like Good Times Bad Times, Dazed And Confused, Communication Breakdown, and Your Time is Gonna Come were taking the blues into a whole different universe. My favourite tune is the photo metal riffage of Communication Breakdown.
Did Zeppelin ever get better after the first two albums? We can debate that one forever and a day.
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
