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Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV

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Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1971
Time:
 42:00
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 1998.05.02
Price in €: 5,99



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[1] Black Dog (Page, Jimmy) - 4:54
[2] Rock and Roll (Page, Jimmy) - 3:40
[3] The Battle of Evermore (Page, Jimmy) - 5:51
[4] Stairway to Heaven (Page, Jimmy) - 8:00
[5] Misty Mountain Hop (Page, Jimmy) - 4:38
[6] Four Sticks (Page, Jimmy) - 4:44
[7] Going to California (Page, Jimmy) - 3:31
[8] When the Levee Breaks (Page, Jimmy) - 7:07

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Robert Plant - vocals, harmonica
Jimmy Page - electric & acoustic guitars, 12-string guitar, mandolin
John Paul Jones - bass, keyboards
John Bonham - drums, percussion

Additional personnel:
Sandy Denny - vocals
Ian Stewart - piano

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Recorded at Headley, Grange, Hampshire, Island Studios, London, England; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California.All tracks have been digitally remastered.All songs written by members of Led Zeppelin.LED ZEPPELIN IV is the definitive Led Zeppelin recording. It was on LED ZEPPELIN IV that the band's sound and concept, Plant's vocals, and Page's arranging skills finally crystallized into something completely distinct and original. The earthy hedonism of their earlier work was deepened and extended on rockers like "Black Dog," "Rock And Roll" and "Misty Mountain Hop." Their interest in traditional folk music (and a more tender form of sentiment) found fresh expression on "Going To California" and "The Battle Of Evermore" (with Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention). And "When The Levee Breaks" was yet another powerhouse blues.LED ZEPPELIN IV was also the recording which produced Led Zeppelin's most celebrated composition, "Stairway To Heaven". From its familiar opening chord progression, the song steadily grows in intensity, reflecting Led Zeppelin's growing interest in metaphysical imagery, gradually transforming itself from a folkish ballad into a rocking anthem.



"...it's...big room ambience still best described by `When The Levee Breaks'..."New Musical Express (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #56 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

Q Magazine 10/94, p.141 5 Stars - Indispensable



Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll and blues, Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuses its majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock & Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythologies, religion and the occult. Plant's mysticism comes to a head in the eerie folk ballad "The Ballad of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven." Of all of Zeppelin's songs, "Stairway to Heaven" is the most famous, and not unjustly -- building from a simple finger-picked acoustic guitar to a storming torrent of guitar riffs and solos, it encapsulates the entire album in one song. Which, of course, isn't discounting the rest of the album. "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop" or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks." But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is the one song truly equal to "Stairway," helping give IV the feeling of an epic. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



"The perfect mixture of Zeppelin's trademark heavy rock, plus some old-time rock 'n' roll and the band's folkie influences, all of which culminated in its greatest song, "Stairway to Heaven".

All-Music Guide *****
 

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