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Led Zeppelin IV |  | Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 714
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 82638
UPC: 075678263828
EAN: 0075678263828
ASIN: B000002J09
Release Date: August 25, 1997
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Black dog | | • | Rock 'n' roll | | • | Battle of Evermore | | • | Stairway to Heaven | | • | Misty mountain hop | | • | Four sticks | | • | Going to California | | • | When the levee breaks |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Also known as the "rune" album because of the medieval symbols adorning its cover, 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". i--Billy Altman /i
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Creative classic that time cannot erode May 18, 2006
Some Bloke (UK)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This was a pioneering rock album by the band everyone aspired to be at the time, and are influenced by now. Unlike many other groundbreakers, this isn't particularly dated and still holds its own in a market that has moved on.
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br /'Stairway to Heaven' deserves to be remembered as one of the all-time great tracks, but the others aren't fillers. More a case of 'Stairway' as the pinnacle of the album. Plant's vocals are forthright, bluesy and angst-ridden. Page's guitar lines are ideal in each situation and provide some great riffs. Bonham's drumming really is incredible rock drumming - hard, heavy, and not always as predicted. Somehow John-Paul Jones and his bass are by comparison, merely perfect.
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br /There's a variety here - rocky numbers like 'Black Dog' and 'Rock n Roll', then slow blues like 'When the Levy Breaks'.
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br /Since this album, the rock guitar has become louder and heavier through Motorhead, AC/DC, Anthrax, Slayer, through to the modern thrash. Despite that, this album still sounds fresh and has an edge of creative genius that many new bands just don't have as much of.
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br /I write this not as someone who was there when it came out and is nostalgic (I'm too young!) but someone who found it after discovering the modern rock and metal world. And it's still, really, that good.
essential June 3, 2000
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Led Zeppelin are the group who have seeped into your consciousness even if you're not aware of having actively listened to any of their music: virtually every rock group since has lifted mannerisms, riffs, attitudes from them, and when you see the variety on II you can understand what a broad inspiration they provided. From the defining, thrilling intro to Rock'n'Roll, through the power of Black Dog, to a gentle tenderness in Going to California - you wouldn't think to associate tenderness with the great cliche of Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant's religion-revealing jeans - this album wraps you up completely. Even if you think you're sick of Stairway to Heaven, hearing it again in the setting of this album freshens it up into a whole new experience. Since discovering Led Zeppelin, I just find most modern music such a let-down, it's almost painful. After a period of total unfashionability, the passion and skill of all four musicians is like a bright light next to today's two-dimensional product.
FIVE STARS ISN'T ENOUGH! January 28, 2000
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
I hated Led Zeppelin until I was forced to listen to IV. By the time 'Black Dog' was over I'd changed my views for ever. By the time 'When The Levee Breaks'had ended Led Zeppelin had become the greatest Rock 'n' Roll band ever to give rise from these shores. Deep Purple had some SERIOUS competition. People rave about how great a guitarist Jimmy Page is (and he is) or how gifted a vocalist Robert Plant is (and he is) ,but the man who IS (or tragically was) Led Zeppelin, is John Bonham...what a drummer! The way he drives 'Black Dog' along, and the intro to 'Rock And Roll'puts him in the ranks of the immortals. The album switches from sheer gutsy heavy metal to melodic and acoustic music, to the climax to the album, where 'When The Levee Breaks' leaves you somewhere in mid air.It's unfair...this should have been a double album!
The greatest album of all time. Bar none. October 28, 2005
Mr. B. J. Allen (Manchester, UK)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Four Symbols, Zoso, IV, The Runes Album. To be honest, Led Zeppelin could have called their 4th studio album "A load of b****cks" and it wouldn't have made any difference.pLed Zeppelin IV is simply the greatest album ever recorded. In America, only Thriller, The Wall and Eagles-Very Best Of have sold more. And let's face it, in musical terms, only Pink Floyd of these three can be mentioned in the same breath as Led Zeppelin.pJust looking at the track listing is like looking at a greatesT hits album. Black Dog was the product of a jam between John Paul Jones and John Bonham. It remained a steady fixture of their live shows for years to come. pMisty Mountain Hop is simply mesmerising, fusing the brilliance of multi-instrumentalist/arranger supreme Jones with the awesome riffery of Jimmy Page, arguably the greatest guitarist of all time. I say this because Page's legacy, both as producer, live performer, songwriter and guitarist is far greater than Clapton, Beck and even Hendrix, who didn't stick around long enough to show off his sublime talents. pGoing To California is essentially a nod to Joni Mitchell and gives a brief respite from the barbaric rock of numbers such as Rock Roll and Four Sticks. To finish the album, When The Levee Breaks is just incredible. Robert Plant's wailing lyric above the blues inspired guitar lines and two-bar drum intro is simply breathtaking.pIf you haven't heard any Led Zeppelin music, shame on you. And until you do, you haven't heard music. Real arse kicking music, that is.
Man, oh man!... October 29, 2001
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
What can I say?! A rollercoaster of god given work that has inspired and still inspires today? A dream-like album that feels like a Zeppelin greatest hits? A memory of the seventies mood trapped in cd form? An inspired artistic run through of a selection of brilliant themes? pIt is all of these and much more. pTurn it up real loud, turn out the lights, and watch a candle flame flicker. You haven't experienced music until you listen to this.
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