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Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin

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Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1969
Time:
 44:54
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 1997
Price in €: 5,99



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[1] Good Times Bad Times (Bonham, John) - 2:46
[2] Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Bredon, Anne) - 6:41
[3] You Shook Me (Dixon, Willie) - 6:28
[4] Dazed and Confused (Page, Jimmy) - 6:26
[5] Your Time Is Gonna Come (Jones, John Paul) - 4:14
[6] Black Mountain Side (Page, Jimmy) - 2:05
[7] Communication Breakdown (Bonham, John) - 2:27
[8] I Can't Quit You Baby (Dixon, Willie) - 4:42
[9] How Many More Times (Bonham, John) - 8:28

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Jimmy Page - Acoustic & Electric) Guitar, Steel Guitar, Background Vocals, Producer
Robert Plant - Harmonica, Vocals
John Paul Jones - Organ, Bass, Keyboards, Background Vocals
John Bonham - Drums, Background Vocals, Tympani

Viram Jasani - Tabla
Sandy Denny - Vocals

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Recorded in October 1968 : Olympic Studios, London

All tracks have been digitally remastered.All songs written by members of Led Zeppelin except "You Shook Me" and I Can't Quit You Baby" (Willie Dixon).Rising from the ashes of his old band the Yardbirds, session guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin, one of the most powerful, influential and enduring of the great rock bands to emerge from Great Britain in the '60s. So enduring that to this day practically every song on their debut disc is a staple of FM radio formats. So enduring that to this day their 1969 maiden voyage remains a classic. So enduring that to this day Led Zeppelin remains the standard by which most hard rock/heavy metal bands are judged. Yet despite the presence of such classic thrashoramas as "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown" (both clocking in at under 3:00), what sets Led Zeppelin apart from their rock offspring is the depth and range of their music. Like their power trio forebearers, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin's music is bathed in the blues, from rootsy covers of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby," to the crunching rhythm changes of "Dazed And Confused." On the latter, many of the band's trademark sonic signatures are already in place, from Robert Plant's howling vocals, John Paul Jones' solid bottom and John Bonham's thunderous backbeat, to Page's churning rhythm, bumblebee leads, cunning multi-tracked stereo panning effects and rich studio sound. In addition, few bands before or since possessed Page's sense of pacing and dynamics, as exemplified by the traditional acoustic folk elements which frame the big arena gestures on "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," and the raga-flavored acoustic mystery of "Black Mountain Side." This element of their presentation would continue to evolve on subsequent albums, and lead to some of Led Zeppelin's greatest moments.



"...the rites of passage, Marquee-style bluesbreaker album, recorded in just 30 hours (no record contract, no cash), it's peak `Dazed And Confused,' wherein half-inch blues exploded into riffology..."

Q Magazine 10/94, p.141 3 Stars - Good



Led Zeppelin had a full-formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted electric blues of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Cream to an extreme, Zeppelin created a majestic, powerful guitar-rock constructed around simple, memorable riffs and lumbering rhythms. But the key to the group's attack was subtlety -- it wasn't just an onslaught of guitar noise, but it was shaded and textured, filled with alternating dynamics and tempos. As Led Zeppelin proves, the group was capable of such multi-layered music from the start. Although the extended psychedelic blues of "Dazed and Confused," "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" often gather the most attention, the remainder of the album is a better indication of what would come later. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" shifts from folky verses to pummeling choruses, "Good Times Bad Times" and "How Many More Times" have groovy, bluesy shuffles," "Your Time Is Gonna Come" is an anthemic hard-rocker, "Black Mountain Side" is pure English folk, and "Communication Breakdown" is a frenzied rocker with a nearly punkish attack. Although the album isn't as varied as some of their later efforts, it nevertheless marked a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



"Led Zeppelin's debut album provided a blueprint for its overall approach - hard rock with ornate guitar textures and powerful riffs, topped by singer Robert Plant's high-pitched singing on roaring rockers like "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown", plus drawn-out blues performances like "Dazed and Confused".

All-Music Guide *****

 

 L y r i c s


Good Times Bad Times

In the days of my youth,
I was told what it means to be a man.
Now I've reached the age,
I've tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try,
I find my way to do the same old jam.

Good times, bad times,
You know I've had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.

Seventeen I fell in love,
With a girl as sweet as could be.
It only took a couple of days,
Till she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine,
And love me till the end.
When I whispered in her ear,
I lost another friend.

Good times, bad times,
You know I've had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.

I know what it means to be alone,
I sure do wish I was at home.
I don't care what the neighbors say,
I'm gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize sweet babe we ain't ever gonna part.


Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you.
I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you.
I'll leave you in the summer time,
Leave you when the summer comes a rollin.
Leave you when the summer comes along.

Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe,
Baby, baby, I don't wanna leave you,
I ain't joking woman, I got to ramble.
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I won't be there,
Really got to ramble.
I can hear it calling me the way it used to do,
I can hear it calling me back home.

Babe, oh, babe, I'm gonna leave you.
Oh, baby, you know I really got to leave you.
Oh, I can hear it calling me.
I said, don't you hear it calling me, now baby do, do, oh.

I know, I know,
I know, I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you baby.
But I got to go away from this place,
I've got to quit you yeah.
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
Baby, ooh don't you hear it calling?
Woman, woman, I know, I know it's good to have you back again
And I know that one day baby, it's really gonna grow yes it is.
We gonna go walking through the park every day.

Every day,
Oh, I'm gonna let you go away.
Sweet baby, it was really really going,
You made me happy every single day,
But now I've got to go away, oh.

Baby, baby, baby,
That's when it's calling me,
That's when it's calling me back home.


You Shook Me

You know you shook me,
You shook me all night long.
You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
Baby baby please come home.

I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird won't do nothing,
Oh buy a diamond ring.

You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
I said you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
You shook me all night long.


Dazed And Confused

Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below.

You hurt and abused telling all of your lies,
Run arounds sweet baby lord how they hypnotize.
Sweet little baby I don't know where you've been,
God I love you baby here I come again.

Every day I work so hard bringing home my hard earned pay
Try to love you baby but you push me away.
Don't know where you're going only know just where you've been,
Sweet little baby I want you again.

Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true,
Wanted a woman never bargained for you.
Take it easy baby let them say what they will.
(Did your) tongue wag so much when I sent you the bill?


Your Time Is Gonna Come

Lying cheating hurting,
That's all you seem to do.
Messing around with every guy in town,
Putting me down for thinking of someone new.
Always the same playing your game,
Drive me insane trouble's gonna come to you.
One of these days and it won't be long,
You'll look for me but baby I'll be gone.

Your time is gonna come.

Made up my mind to break you this time,
Won't be so fine it's my turn to cry.
Do want you want I won't take the brunt.
It's fading away can't feel you anymore.
Don't care what you say because I'm gone away to stay,
Gonna make you pay for that great big hole in my heart.
People talking all around watch out woman,
No longer is the joke gonna be on my heart.
You been bad to me woman,
But it's coming back home to you.

Your time is gonna come.


Black Mountain Side

instrumental


Communication Breakdown

Hey girl stop what you're doing.
Hey girl you'll drive me to ruin.
I don't know what it is about you but I like it a lot.
Oh let me hold you.
Let me feel your loving charms.

Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.

Hey girl I got something I think you ought to know.
Hey babe I wanna tell you that I love you so.
I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah.
I'm never gonna let you go.
Yes I like your charms.

Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.

Communication Breakdown,
It's always the same.
I'm having a nervous breakdown,
Drive me insane.


I Can't Quit You Baby

I can't quit you babe.
So I think I'm gonna put you down for a while.
I can't quit you babe.
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while.
I said you messed up my happy home.
Made me mistreat my only child.

You know I love you babe.
My love for you I could never hide.
You know I love you babe.
My love for you I could never hide.
When I feel you near me little girl,
I know you are my one desire.

When you hear me moaning and groaning babe,
You know it hurts me deep down inside.
When you hear me moaning and groaning babe,
You know it hurts me deep down inside.
When you hear me, You know you're my one desire.


How Many More Times

How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do.
How many more times,
Treat me the way you wanna do.
When I give you all my love,
Please please be true.

I'll give you all I've got to give,
Rings pearls and all.
I'll give you all I've got to give,
Rings pearls and all.
I've got to get you together baby,
I'm sure you're gonna crawl.

I was a young man I couldn't resist.
Started thinking it all over just what I had missed.
Got me a girl and I kissed her and then,
Whoops oh lord well I did it again.
Now I got ten children of my own.
I got another child on the way that makes eleven.
But you know I'm in constant heaven.
I know it's all right in my mind.
I got a little schoolgirl and she's all mine.
I can't get through to her because it doesn't permit.
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.

Oh Rosie,
Oh, girl.
Oh Rosie,
Oh, girl.
Steal away now, steal away.
Steal away baby, steal away.
Little Robert Anthony wants to come and play.
Why don't you come to me baby.
Steal away.

They call me the hunter,
That's my name.
They call me the hunter,
That's how I got my fame.
Ain't no need to hide.
Ain't no need to run.
Because I've got you in the sights of my gun.

How many more times,
Barrelhouse all night long.
How many more times,
Barrelhouse all night long.
I've got to get to you baby.
Please come home.
Why don't you please come home.
Why don't you please come home.

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