Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
As it turned out, Led Zeppelin's infamous 1969 debut album was indicative of the decade to come--one that, fittingly, this band helped define with its decadently exaggerated, bowdlerized blues-rock. In shrieker Robert Plant, ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page found a vocalist who could match his guitar pyrotechnics, and the band pounded out its music with swaggering ferocity and Richter-scale-worthy volume. Pumping up blues classics such as Otis Rush's "I Can't Quit You Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Times" into near-cartoon parodies, the band also hinted at things to come with the manic "Communication Breakdown" and the lumbering set stopper "Dazed and Confused." --Billy Altman
1. Good Times Bad Times 2:46
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:42
3. You Shook Me 6:28
4. Dazed and Confused 6:28
5. Your Time is Gonna Come 4:34
6. Black Mountain Side 2:12
7. Communication Breakdown 2:31
8. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:42
9. How Many More Times 8:30