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Led Zeppelin IV

  • AMG Review of Led Zeppelin IV

    Amg
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine
    All Music Guide

    Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure ock & roll, and lues, 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 on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their 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 and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult. Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk allad "The Battle 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 fingerpicked 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.

If you're not doing anything tonight from midnight to 2...
over 2 years ago

Listen to my radio show. I play all different kinds of non-mainstream rock. Just go on http://kanm.tamu.edu to pick up a live streaming audio feed.

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So My Wife Found This Online...
over 2 years ago
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Saw this on a forum...someone was asking about California cos they got a job offer & they wanted to know about Califronia...One more thing: when I go to Idaho from here (San Diego), I notice something. People are REALLY NICE, and it's just how things are. They're not wierd nice, just polite. Don't expect that here, especially in the city, or anywhere near San Francisco, Los Angeles, or the weal...

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Walking in the park just the other day, baby...
over 2 years ago

Whatdya, what do you think I saw?One of my favorite Zeppelin songs. Woke up to it this morning and thought I would share.

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gah
over 2 years ago

jesusfuck, i hate this job. i feel like i haven't slept for days and i have to come in ass-early almost every day this week. i'm just so fucking tired. and this new girl is starting and i'm going to have to train her. great. greatgreatgreat. the details of this job are just so inane and boring and my brain feels like it might freeze up.i hate school. really, i always have. but at this p...

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And as we wind on down the road...
over 3 years ago

And as we wind on down the roadOur shadows taller than our soulsThere walks a lady we all knowWho shines white light and wants to showHow everything still turns to goldAnd if you listen very hardThe tune will come to you at lastWhen all are one and one is allTo be a rock and not to rollAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven...This, according to me, is the BEST rock and roll song ever produced. A...

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30 days of non-stop rock video war Day 3
over 3 years ago

well officially my time it's 12:08 A.M.you know what this means boys and girlsit this don't get your ass outta yo seatwell you just don't ROCK....k?see MisterBo's MOGand Phantom's MOGfor video wars of tha day.VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITEyou got nuthin better to doDO IT.CAPICHE?

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"A Proud American Web Site"
about 1 year ago

I'll say. And a proud country, and a happy rest of the world, at that. Yes, America, the world is relieved and cheering today, because the world has been suffering, just like you have. You can feel the spirits lifting. I guess this is a small European cheer of some sort. Here's to you and your new president. May he have the courage, patience, and strength to sort through the mess. Here's to the...

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CA Moggers Don't Eat The Candy!
about 1 year ago

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH WARNS CONSUMERS NOT TO EAT TAMANLORIN CANDY AND BARRICHICLE MINI CHEWING GUM IMPORTED FROM MEXICONUMBER: 08-11DATE: March 11, 2008CONTACT: Suanne Buggy or Lea Brooks, (916) 440-7259.SACRAMENTO – Dr. Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), today warned consumers not to eat Tamanlorin Tamarind Candy or BarriChicle Mini .

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Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust
about 1 year ago
Led Zeppelin Visual Biography To Hit Shelves This Fall
2 months ago

Led Zeppelin : Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography Of The Ultimate Band by Jerry Prochnicky and Ralph Hulett, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis captures the public and private lives of rock gods Led Zeppelin through rare and iconic photographs. More than any other band, they embodied the rock-star lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock and roll and came to define the music and culture of the...

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So My Wife Found This Online...
over 2 years ago
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Saw this on a forum...someone was asking about California cos they got a job offer & they wanted to know about Califronia...One more thing: when I go to Idaho from here (San Diego), I notice something. People are REALLY NICE, and it's just how things are. They're not wierd nice, just polite. Don't expect that here, especially in the city, or anywhere near San Francisco, Los Angeles, or the weal...

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Walking in the park just the other day, baby...
over 2 years ago

Whatdya, what do you think I saw?One of my favorite Zeppelin songs. Woke up to it this morning and thought I would share.

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30 days of non-stop rock video war Day 3
over 3 years ago

well officially my time it's 12:08 A.M.you know what this means boys and girlsit this don't get your ass outta yo seatwell you just don't ROCK....k?see MisterBo's MOGand Phantom's MOGfor video wars of tha day.VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITEyou got nuthin better to doDO IT.CAPICHE?

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Flooded Out?
about 1 year ago
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This post is for all my fellow Missourians and those in Iowa and Illinois who are underwater...Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

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Just another Vid on the Tube
over 3 years ago
I'm alive...
over 2 years ago

...only all I want to do is bitch & moan, or occasionally weep and moan...... the levee will have to hold in the shit-storm that seems to have settled right above my head... because I don't think it's better in Chigago...(Sigh). I have the "my-mother-is-sick-my-boyfriend's-5,000-miles-away-my-credit-card-got-canceled-my-car-needs-repair-I-don't-have-the-dough-for-my-decks-and-iMac-were-stolen-m...

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Led Zeppelin
about 1 year ago

please come and tour in the westeither cali or arizona

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If you're not doing anything tonight from midnight to 2...
over 2 years ago

Listen to my radio show. I play all different kinds of non-mainstream rock. Just go on http://kanm.tamu.edu to pick up a live streaming audio feed.

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Led Zeppelin Tour!!!!
about 1 year ago

HELLS TO THE YEAH!!!I soooooo hope this is true. The Sun reports Robert Plant finally agreed and they are going to hit the road next summer.Thanks Bertolet for the info....http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article1735624.ece Get ready to.....

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gah
over 2 years ago

jesusfuck, i hate this job. i feel like i haven't slept for days and i have to come in ass-early almost every day this week. i'm just so fucking tired. and this new girl is starting and i'm going to have to train her. great. greatgreatgreat. the details of this job are just so inane and boring and my brain feels like it might freeze up.i hate school. really, i always have. but at this p...

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Great song
about 1 month ago

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