Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)
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Artist: Led ZeppelinBrand: LED ZEPPELIN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1994-07-19
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Black Dog
- Rock and Roll
- Battle of Evermore
- Stairway to Heaven
- Misty Mountain Hop
- Four Sticks
- Going to California
- When the Levee Breaks
Music reviews of Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)
Music Review: The album to listen to on a lazy afternoon
Rating: 5 Stars
I just discovered Led Zeppelin recently when I read Dave Grohl's article on Rolling Stone about his greatest influence, the biggest rock band of the 70s, Led Zeppelin. It was from reading his article that I decided to take a listen on this album famously know as the Four Symbols album. I must admit that I'm not a big Led Zeppelin at all, but after listening to this I might as well have been one. From the first two songs Black Dog and Rock and Roll, which is by far two of the most rocking classic songs I've ever heard, to the mysterious Battle Of Evermore, which sounds very much like a Lord of the Rings tribute (think Hobbit and you are there), to a song that needs no introduction: Stairway to Heaven which is a miracle of songwriting and rifts and rhythms and melodies, to Misty Mountain Hop which is just as rocking as the first two, with the overlying rift getting to you, Zeppelin IV never ceases to amaze and entertain.
If there is a perfect example of Led Zeppelin's versatility this is it. You wanted Folk? Battle of Evermore. Country? Going to California. A good rock song? You got so many to choose from here, including Four Sticks which is classic Zeppelin with its rifts and flowing rhythm. You want the all-important hit to play all day long? Stairway to Heaven is a no-brainer. You want lyrics, you want good singles, you got it all in this album, making it probably the tightest Rock I've ever listened to. Only One Hot Minute by the Red Hot Chili Peppers stands close, for me.
If you ever wondered what the best Rock album sounds like, this is it.
Description of Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Led Zeppelin's 1971 album. Features the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.Also known as the "rune" album or Zoso because of the medieval symbols adorning the inner sleeve, Led Zeppelin's fourth album, released in 1971, turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world. On tracks like "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "Rock and Roll," the combination of Robert Plant's banshee wails and Jimmy Page's frenetic guitar playing forever altered the stylistic bent of hard rock music. And the foreboding "When the Levee Breaks" demonstrated that Zeppelin could indeed play the blues fairly straight if they so desired. Still, everything here ultimately took a back seat to the album's (and, ultimately, the band's) magnum opus--the expertly constructed and deftly executed classic, "Stairway to Heaven." --Billy Altman
Jimmy Page was a top London studio guitarist before he got rich and famous as the musical leader of Led Zeppelin. The group's fourth--and arguably their finest--album is as much a tribute to his technique as a monument to his versatility. Page produced the album, co-wrote all eight songs, and played mandolin as well as all the guitars. Musically, this 1971 disc ranges from acoustic English folke ("Goin' to California" and "The Battle of Evermore," the latter featuring the late Fairport Convention frontwoman Sandy Denny) to bone-crushing, bluesy riff-slinging. On the album's centerpiece, "Stairway to Heaven," these light and dark strains are dramatically intertwined. The chiming "Four Sticks" aside, it's the Little Richard-inspired "Rock and Roll" and the tricky time changes--a Zeppelin trademark--of the fast-and-furious "Black Dog" that elevate this album into more than just a bustle in aspiring guitarists' hedgerows. --Don Waller
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