Led Zeppelin IV |  | Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 491
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: 826382
UPC: 075678263828
EAN: 0075678263828
ASIN: B000002J09
Release Date: August 1, 1997
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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". --Billy Altman
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Creative classic that time cannot erode May 18, 2006
Some Bloke (UK)
17 out of 18 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.
'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.
There's a variety here - rocky numbers like 'Black Dog' and 'Rock n Roll', then slow blues like 'When the Levy Breaks'.
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.
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.
It Has That Something.....They Who Dared, Won!!! November 5, 2009
Tommo 18/7 (England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Led Zeppelin IV..Ok, this album should never work in a million years, the diversty ( for a hard rock band) is such, that it should be laughed right out of town, but nearly 40 years on, it still sounds fresh, inspired and groundbreaking.
You go from the driving, hard blues rock of " Black Dog" & " Rock And Roll" into the ultra mellow folk of " The Battle Of Evermore" into the enigmatic accoustic/metal classic that is " Stairway To Heaven", then into the swaggering " Misty Mountain Hop" that leads you into the intense " Four Sticks", into the folk laden " Going To California" and ends with the slice of blues metal that is " When The Levee Breaks". It's as if each track manipulates you into listening to the next.
These tracks aren't neccessarily Zeppelin's best, but there is just something about this album. Maybe it was the confidence, lack of compromise and pure balls of a legendary band on top of their game, doing what it did best. Breaking new ground and excelling.
Legendary: AAAAAAAAAA++++++++++
Best Rock Album Ever! July 8, 2009
I. M. Knight (Huddersfield, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's not a lot I can add to what others have said apart from `Four Sticks' is by far the best rock album ever by the best rock band of all time and has on it the best rock song - `Stairway to Heaven'. Enjoy!!
Deserves it's reputation September 29, 2008
haunted (IRELAND)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album has a reputation as being one of the all time great rock albums. And it totally deserves it.
It is the product of a band at the height of their powers.
Stairway to Heaven is the best known track and is so familiar that we shouldn't take notice of it anymore. However even at this remove it isn't possible to hear the opening bars without a frisson of glee going through me.
Black Dog is another classic "Rock" tune.
There are also a few excellent folk influenced songs on the album, such as "Battle of Evermore" and "Going to California" and these demonstrate the band's versatility.
And the epic is rounded off with the dark and threatening "When the Levee Breaks", which for me has even more resonance since Katrina hit New Orleans a few years ago.
Quite simply you must have this album.
A masterpiece March 31, 2006
M. Weatherall
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you look at Led Zep's major attributes: passionate vocals, pioneering guitar work, towering drums, booming rhythm, they are all here in abundance on this album. For me it is the pinnacle of their achievement, combining the mystical with the masterful. There isn't a weak track as the music moves between out and out rock 'Rock and Roll' 'Black Dog' to the lyrical 'Going to California' via the transcendent 'Battle of Evermore' and peerless anthem 'Stairway to Heaven'. I know Stairway has had hours of airplay over the years, but it is a great track, and if anything this whole album in many ways seems too obvious a choice for best album for a lot of Zep fans. But Zep 2 is less textured, Physical Graffiti less unified. I love all their albums but always come back to this one because it is satisfaction guaranteed. They just don't make them like this anymore!
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