Led Zeppelin Iv - Led Zeppelin (1971)

[DudeAsInCool]

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971)

"I put a lot of work into my lyrics," Robert Plant toldRolling Stone in 1975. "Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though. Things like 'Black Dog' are blatant let's-do-it-in-the-bath-type things, but they make their point just the same." On their towering fourth, rune-titled album, Led Zeppelin match the raunch of "Black Dog" with Plant's most scrutinized lyrics ever for the epic ballad "Stairway to Heaven," while guitarist Jimmy Page leads Zeppelin from the extreme heaviness of "When the Levee Breaks" to the mandolin-driven "Battle of Evermore." ("It sounded like a dance-around-the-maypole number," Page later confessed.)

Total album sales: 22 million

Peak chart position: 2

[DudeAsInCool]

Stairway to Heaven is probably the most overplayed song of all time...

[rainbowdemon]

Another Zep classic. It was funny, at the high school dances when it first came out. Everyone would be slow-dancing to "Stairway" then it would start to rock. Nobody knew quite what to do.

[MikeHunt]

@ rainbow....hahahahaah..prom nightmare it was...but everyone was too stoned and distracted to do anything but leap around like the fools we were.

Thank.. God no cameras were present.

Re: Zep IV

yeah ...well.. it put them on the top of the pack for a while...but I think Plant's high range voice was about gone by then..

Imagine having to sing 'Whole Lotta Love" at full strength night after night.

The other guys also had stepped it up a notch musician wise and showmanship wise by the time IV was released too.

Of the official albums... I prefer 3...1...2....& 4 ...in that order. groovin'

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

This was a great album too. I would say that any lover of the rock in the 70's should have this in their collection. It took me a while, but I got it.

[DudeAsInCool]

I liked 1, 2, 4, and 3 in that order

[desdemona]

how about "house of the holy" I love that album, and physical graffiti - best track, "kashmir" I pulled in the attached garage one day with that blaring in the car, it must have rocked the house! my daughter and her friend opened the door and my daughter said "wow, mom, you ARE jammin!" of course I insisted it was just one of those songs that could only be played at full volume, lol :P