Led Zeppelin IV

Rating

Album: Led Zeppelin IV (Deluxe CD Edition)
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Black Dog	More Info...
2)	Rock and Roll	More Info...
3)	The Battle of Evermore	More Info...
4)	Stairway to Heaven	More Info...
5)	Misty Mountain Hop	More Info...
6)	Four Sticks	More Info...
7)	Going to California	More Info...
8)	When the Levee Breaks	More Info...

Album: Led Zeppelin IV (Deluxe CD Edition)
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Black Dog	More Info...
2)	Rock and Roll	More Info...
3)	The Battle of Evermore	More Info...
4)	Stairway to Heaven	More Info...
5)	Misty Mountain Hop	More Info...
6)	Four Sticks	More Info...
7)	Going to California	More Info...
8)	When the Levee Breaks	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Remasterer: Jimmy Page.
Illustrator: Barrington Coleby.
Photographers: Armando Gallo; Koh Hasebe; Barrie Wentzell; Alec Byrne.
Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, 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 epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, tradtionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology and mysticism. These obsessions come to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven," which encapsulates the entire album in one song. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.113) - Ranked #66 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Towering..."

Rolling Stone (12/23/71, p.63) - "...out of the eight cuts, there isn't one that steps on another's toes, [or] that tries to do too much all at once..." - Lenny Kaye

Spin (p.89) - "[With] whipsaw riffs that treated the blues like ancient runes..."

Q (6/00, p.76) - Ranked #26 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"

Q (10/94, p.141) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...it's...big room ambience still best described by 'When The Levee Breaks'..."

NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #56 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'