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Led Zeppelin I: Remastered | 
| Artists: Led Zeppelin, Led Zepplin
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 559
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 075678263224
UPC: 075678263224
EAN: 0075678263224
ASIN: B000002J01
Release Date: August 25, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Good times bad times | | • | Babe I'm gonna leave you | | • | You shook me | | • | Dazed and confused | | • | Your time is gonna come | | • | Black mountain side | | • | Communication breakdown | | • | I can't quit you baby | | • | How many more times |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
Best album ever August 1, 2008
Along with Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Follow the Reaper (Children of Bodom), and Clapton's CD with the Bluesbreakers, this is the best album ever. You should already own this. Seriously. The songs are all completely different, not a single filler track!
 Rough diamond June 16, 2008
This was the work of a band trying to find itself. Robert Plant was still finding himself as a vocalist but put in a good performance, one he would build on for future records. There aren't too many full-band compositions to speak of as the album was put together in something of a rush by Page, so apart from the covers most of the writing was his. Not that this was a bad thing, perhaps the only genuine criticism of this record is that it lacks a clear direction. Page clearly was leaning toward the Blues and yet, having only just emerged from the yardbirds, he placed a little moment of throwaway pop on here too, along with a version of a Yardbirds instrumental. Alongside the occasional pop moment and the deep blues there are, of course, two songs which some say invented punk, some say invented metal, but most say are beyond brilliant. 'Communication Breakdown' and ballsy opener 'Good Times, Bad Times' are fast paced, heavy and have incredibly energetic guitar work which many bands of the future would use as a blueprint for their entire career. The true gem here, however, is 'Dazed and Confused'. A 6-minute epic (generally stretched out to over half an hour in the live arena) of blues with what became customary Pageisms added is (the violin bow became legendary). One of the most ambitious, and one of the finest debut albums ever.
Awesome Debut there's a reason why led zeppelin are one of the most famous rock bands ever. June 7, 2008
This album is a fantastic debut and has supposedly the first metal song ever Communication Breakdown ( which to be honest it's not metal). This album has alot of classics like Good Time The Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, You Shook Me, Dazed And Confused, Communication what am i doing the whole albums a classic. Led Zeppelinare an awesome rock n' roll band buy this album then buy Led Zeppelin 2, Led Zeppelin 3 & Led Zeppelin4 and continue on from their. LED ZEPPELIN ROCKS!!!
Spine-tingling November 27, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is where it all started for me. The first long playing record I bought. There's not one duff track and it still sounds fresh and exhilarating, especially in this re-mastered format, as it did all those years ago. A mixture of some re-worked covers and original material, it's strongly rooted in the blues but with an electrifying rock slant. This is the daddy debut album of all time (see also "Marquee Moon" by Television). The bass is powerful and melodic, the drumming tight and thunderous, and, after the demise of the Yardbirds, Jimmy Page must have been straining at the leash to get these blistering guitar tracks down, sizzling with crackle and spit, the spontaneity of the solos - not too long, inventive - catch that strangled squeak at the end of the fast break just before it all comes crashing down into the final verse of Dazed & Confused and the tempo resumes its trance-like drone. And of course in the midst of it all, the soulful blues wail of Robert "Percy" Plant.
There is nothing antique about this music. In fact, it's so warm it sounds like they're playing in your front room - I believe it took them 3 days to record - in complete contrast to the bloated old dinosaur that is Physical Graffiti (six years later), which is laboured, lumpish and far too long.
The follow up album, released in the same year is almost equally as good - yawn inducing drum solo aside, de rigueur for that time - whilst the third was rather patchy, again the blues (a great performance of "Since I've Been Loving You" recorded live in the studio) but on the original second side some twee folk elements which have dated somewhat. Their fourth, much better, ruined however by the awful "Stairway to Heaven", much loved by everybody except me, guitar shop owners and the band members themselves it would seem! If we're talking ballads, I much prefer "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" from Zep I and "Thank You" from II.
Led not Lead, Blues not Metal November 15, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
So Jimmy Page's New Yardbirds - are they any good? Well yes you'll hear more about them I'm sure. Eric Clapton famously left the Yardbirds as they were too poppy and not bluesy enough. Ironic then that from the ashes of the Yardbirds - LZ toured Scandanavia as the new Yardbirds as a contractural obligation - the greatest blues rock band of them all took flight, and Clapton never made abluesier record than this. The debut album must have been a punch in the guts to any first time listener in 1969.
The intensity and virtuosity of the band which went on to conquer the world are incredible when you consider they were two session musicians and two jobbing musicians from the West Midlands, but what sets them apart is the obvious chemistry from the outset. There has never been a tighter band.
Half of the first album is composed of a number of reworked Chicago blues classics courtesy Mr Willie Dixon, Otis Rush and the excellent Howlin' Wolf. Page's guitar work and Plant's primal screaming would elicit nods of approval from the old bluesmen. The rhythm section is peerless.
The balance of the album is made up of a number of great Zeppelin originals, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You with its delicate intro and verse contrasts with is vicious, raucous chorus, the building intensity of Your Time is Gonna Come. Heavy metal (although I want to strangle anyone that thinks Zep are a metal band) was invented with the aural assault that is Communication Breakdown.
The signs that LZ were not another run of the mill member of the British blues movement were apparent on the trippy Dazed and Confused, the mesmeric JPJ bass line and Page's guitar as violin. Yes it is bluesy but it is also otherworldly. Page demonstrates his virtuosity on the dextrous guitar workout of Black Mountain Side.
This genuinely music changing album closes with the pounding blues of How Many More Times.
If you know this album - the remaster is a huge improvement and more involving that previous cds. If it's new to you then prepare to be dazzled, look at what else was happening in 1969 and put yourself in the shoes of people hearing a revolution as it happened.
Blues only louder but definitely not metal.
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