LED ZEPPELIN LANDS! My Review Of Their 1st Album, Led Zeppelin! 

I want to add that John Paul Jones ,even as a teenager, was a session musician. At 18, 18! John wrote the orchestra arrangements to LuLu's "To Sir with Love."

This is the most atmospheric album of all time and is still as fresh some 50+ years later. Awesome! Loving your channel. Thank You!

I had seen this album on the shelves when it first came out. The cover definitely caught my attention. A few weeks later a friend comes over to my house with a copy. “You have got to hear this!” He said. The first 10 seconds of cut 1 was all I needed to hear. Practically wore out my first copy, and bought a second copy. In 1972 I bought the British import pressing. Still have it. It sounds great to this day. It is one of those albums that you can’t just listen to one track. You will listen to the whole album. One of my favorites. Great video.

Without doubt The Best Debut ever !!!!😎

I had their posters on my bedroom walls...still have the bad hair jet cloth poster hanging in my garage...finally saw them in 77...still the best live show I have ever seen...and I have seen them all...with all their accolades and millions of fans I still believe their best honors are yet to come.

Been watching your videos about LZ. I really love the insight and tidbits of knowledge you pass along in these videos.

This was my favorite album' for a long time .Never get enough of ZEPPLEN or SABBATH could listen them forever. ROCK ON BROTHER.

Great review. My mouth was watering to hear those songs as he spoke about them in the first 5 minutes. Led Zeppelin I is my favorite album of all time. I’m surprised Michael didn’t spend more time on Dazed and Confused. In my opinion Page’s solo on that song is one of the greatest of all time. Of course music is art and not everyone feels the same emotions about certain songs/music, etc. I’ve seen Zep three times. The first time was at the LA Forum center stage, five rows back in 1972 or 73 I believe. The best concert I’ve ever seen.

Hey there…, Hi FINESSE! Nice to see you here!

Bro I am going through your channel right now and I’m loving it!! Super job! Going to watch this new episode now. Love your Zeppelin stuff especially. All the best! ✌️❤️🇨🇦

If you want to get an idea of the true extent of John Paul Jones' talents, it might interest you to know that he arranged the strings on the Rolling Stones' She's a Rainbow. The interplay between Jones' strings and Nicky Hopkins' Piano (another studio musician) is outstanding--a true rock and roll highpoint. Check it out.

I have to say that it's hard for millenniums to understand 70's albums bcz they were not there. I'm turning 60 in a few months, but I remember our household had tons of albums. Spanish, pop, rock, soft, etc. We had every genre of music including Led Zeppelin's first album. which at that time probably the heaviest album, hands down. I remember staring at the band photo on the back side of the album while listening to the album and it was truly a super excellent album! I still love it to this day.

It was so cool that they opened with Good Times Bad Times at their Celebration Day O2 concert in 2007 …. After all, that WAS our introduction to them.

As Kid Leo used to say in Cleveland Ohio, at WMMS radio,The debut of debuts! New subscriber here thanks for your Content, Brian

What a debut!! You Shook Me my personal favorite. Such a total jam!

@3:30 about hearing things in their music you’ve never heard before. Led Zeppelin truly is a gift that keeps giving. Every few years I hear new things and laugh at how genius they were and are.

Awesome album!! I remember it sitting in a barracks bat in 1969. Unlike anything I have ever heard!

Another great video . Glen Johns said this was probably the best album ever recorded, he said it only took a couple of weeks to record. I think he also said Page was prepared in the studio which made this a pleasure. He committed on Steve Miller being so disorganized he was going to walk out . But this Zeppelin album was a pleasure to work on. My favorite albums would probably have to be in order 1-2-3 they were bold and rough artistic bluesy . Then graffiti then 4 -5-presence . There were 3 Zeppelin. Periods 1-3 then 4-5-6 then 7-8-coda. All 3 were great in there own way . But 1-3. Were the solid blues rock acoustic. Then the polished epic period then the dinosaurs all the way through innovation style rough and ready playing on top of their game , IMHO

I'm glad you made specific reference to the sound of the drums on "I Can't Quit You Babe". I've been a drummer for 40 years so I'm always paying particular attention to how "real" they sound in recordings - whether they're over compressed or muted in some way. It's sad when they don't let the ambient sounds of a percussive instrument ring out in all its natural glory. So at the 1:52 mark of that song when Bohnam switches over to the ride and you hear the whole kit open up, that's why the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I feel like I'm sitting on the drum throne myself listening to it just as it sounded to John and anyone standing in the booth at the time. It's just the most glorious drum sound I've ever heard.

My favorite Zeppelin song is on this album and I guarantee it’s one nobody ever picks as their favorite, Your Time is Gonna Come. I love it, I listen to it back to back all the time just amazed at all of it.

The album’s crisp production set it apart from everything else at the time. Jimmy’s producing skills resulted in being able to pay the bills - ten fold.

This is my second favorite Led Zeppelin album behind IV. It’s my favorite album from 1969. It’s better than most Beatles albums.

I heard it in a friend's new VW bug for the first time while driving up to Sequoia National Park in 1969. It was a revelation. I was an instant fan. You have made me want to listen to it again. I have it of course, and several others. The whole band was monstrous.

I bought this album in my first term at university in 1969. At that time it was the only Zeppelin album released. Perhaps as a result it has always been my favourite. At the age of 19, putting it on the turntable and playing it loud was a life changing event for me. I wonder if you are aware of the Classic Records edition released in limited quantity in about 2006 (?)? This was a monster box which was almost too heavy to lift with one hand. Every album was included, Coda as well. All were pressed on 200 gm vinyl at 45 rpm. And each disc was only pressed on one side to ensure total flatness and stability. As a consequence some discs contained only one track. (In my time of Dying for example). Once you've heard Dazed and Confused in this format you are changed forever!!! The resolution and weight of the sound are unequalled. I don't know whether you also know a piece of trivia on that first release? On the rear of the sleeve the track timings were included. But the timing listed for Dazed and Confused was wrong. There is a point in the track where there is a long pause before the long coda kicks in. Whoever was noting the track timings seems to have assumed that pause was the end and clicked his stopwatch then. Imagine my joy to discover that the track was 15 minutes long not about 8 minutes! I'd be interested to know whether anyone else who bought the first release in the UK noticed this.

Great video about my favorite music genius! Roger Mayer is the gentleman who was a navy admiralty electronics whiz that befriended Jeff, Jimmy and also Jimi. Page being a session guy, he probably had all the different Vox or Sola Sound Tone Bender fuzzes that had been available, probably a few of those with modifications from Roger Mayer. He probably had a fuzz face and a mosrite too. I wouldn’t even put it passed Jimmy having fresh and old batteries on hand for his Germainium fuzzes when recording the first Zeppelin album. Some of that can’t be left to luck and chance. I’m also now a very firm believer that Page was an early pioneer (even if secretly) of re-amping signals. I’m quite certain some of his guitars and even some vocals on LZ1, were somehow sent back into his Supro amp (and or direct into the console) for extra gain, girth and even sometimes other effects. Listen very close to Roberts’ vocal on You Shook Me, sometimes it seems there’s almost parallel process guitar amp Tremelo being used to add excitement. Notably on Roberts’s scream at 1:54 on You Shook Me, he sustains a note but doesn’t add vocal vibrato. That warbling on his voice sounds like an amp tremelo to me!

Mr Noland,thanks,danke,domo! First heard this on WBCN,Boston,yes in 1969!

UK band the Creation’s guitarist Eddie Phillips predates Jimmy Page with the usage of guitar and violin bow. 2 examples are tracks from 1966 called Making Time and Painter Man. I’m not certain though as to whether Page used this technique before 1966 or whether he was actually aware of what Phillips was doing beforehand , but I’m quite sure it was the Creation who were the first band to release a record using a guitar and bow. Good video sir! Enjoying the rest of em’ too!!!

I remember being an elementary school kid in the '70's - 1972 through 1978 - and being scared of Led Zeppelin, kinda. They were the band that all of the scary looking older kids - long hair, jean jackets, etc. - liked.

Nice work as usual 👌.

Great presentation brother!!!

From here to eternity. Jimmy consider 1 + 2 3 as the foundation of LZ. Masterpiece.

I'm catching up on the Zeppelin videos. You have mentioned that Deep Purple and Black Sabbath were the only similar sounding band at the time of the release of Led Zeppelin1. It would be a good subject to discuss on what music was popular just before it's debut. I always hear how they were so different than anything up to then. Plus, music critics (Rolling Stone magazine) hated their music. Keep up the good work.👍

My favorite album from 1969.

great! great! eye really enjoyed this video! u know, it's a treasure 4 me to find your channel since this year! u got unique point of view but also eye like the way u talk. eye want u to do review or rank some rolling stones sometime in the future if u can. cheers!

You know what is causing me some cognitive dissonance with this post? Talking about Zep while having busy piano jazz in the background. You really don’t need a soundtrack to your monologues IMO. But of course your channel, your choice.

Not a bad or even mediocre song on the whole album......all big hits TO THIS DAY .

Opening the O2 show with "Good Times, Bad Times" proved the band knew no less. Although "For Your Life" & "Trampled Underfoot" are my faves at that setlist.

Michael, are you aware that a documentary on The Section (the studio musicians who took over from The Wrecking Crew around 1970) is in final editing? It will be coming out later this year. Are you familiar with The Section…. And the overlap with the current band The Immediate Family? If not, I can bend your ear for a good long while about it

In my mind, Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II could be one long album.

I didn’t hear the 1st album until the 2nd album came out. I think that was pretty common.

All recorded with a harmony acoustic and the Dragon tele with a fender supro amp...😉

The song lost from this album Baby please come home if you had to replace one track from the original with-it Wich song would you choose to lose?

Is Led Zeppelin's debut album the best debut album in rock history? Jimmy did a lot of "Borrowing" from other artist's in the past. half the material are not their songs, but the actual songs Jimmy wrote for the album were fantastic! I think he might have done this because he did not have any new material ready, and he just wanted to launch Zeppelin as soon as he could... I don't know, just a theory.

Musically, I really like the arrangement of Babe, I'm gonna leave you. A pure 60's vibe the way it's engineered in the studio proving they are musicians and it wasn't going to be a one and done band.

Any one own the mono version? its out there!

I think your background music is fighting for attention to the point of distraction...I want to hear your opinion!

A lot of versions wrongfully start first side with-your time is gonna come ,I’m pretty sure cassette pre recorded had different order

this channel is not about classic rock, it's about your favorite bands,,, correct?

great video, but, please, turn down the background music!

I love your channel. Great content. Thank you. However, why the music in the background? You don't need it. We love what you say. Therefore, again, why the background music?

Can you turn off the blues with the mistakes left in?

IT NEVER GOT BETTER. THAT AND THE SECOND ALBUM WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT DOUBLE LP.. THE REST WAS A STEADY DECLINE INTO FAIERIE MYSTICISM. THERES 2 WAYS FOR A BAND TO GO. AS WITH THE STONES,ESPECIALLY THE STONES,A CONTINUAL UPWARD PROGRESSION,A PEAK,AND A LONG SLOW DECLINE. THEN A BAND LIKE LED ZEP, POW. RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE ZEP MADE THEIR STATEMENT ON 1 AND 2.

Babe, I'm Going To Leave You

Really improve your videos by taking off your annoying background music

The BEST solo he's done is No Quarter live Song Remains the Same. Besides that his solos suck! He only sounds good on albums because you can twerk the whole solo to perfection. I'd listen to a lot of live led Zeppelin concerts on RU-vid and he's either always dropping the pics and playing with his fingers or he just doesn't put any studio quality solos into them even Van Halen said the same thing and they went to see led Zeppelin twice according to a documentary and yeah.. they said the same thing, Jimmy Page sucks live and I agree. Don't get me wrong I'll always listen to their albums though but I got tired of listening to bootleg albums and he sounds like shit.

For every Zeppelin album the Stones did one better. They even let them use their mobile recording studio and that didn't even help. 😎

This vid would be better’s if you would PLAYED SOME OF THE MUSIC!!!! This is damn near A BAIT IN VID!!!!!

This album is a total rip-off of uncredited artists. Zepp is so overrated!

their best album