Fantastic debut. And it's one of the few albums I can think of where I actually prefer the album tracks even more than the ones that are more well known.

It's so heavy, and I love it for that! I don't care if it's entirely a blues album, I'm a sucker for blues music. I don't care if people say that it's not original because it's hard and rare to find something truly original nowadays. Overall, I would consider it better than VI despite me liking it, I just love how it's so heavy for a debut album.

Powerful. Zep at its most psychedelic, Plant at his most ferocious. Communication Breakdown: true proto-punk.

Talk about copying other riffs. Still good but a little too heavy for my liking.

Great debut album. Began changing the landscape of music from this point on.

Best Track: Dazed and Confused

Led Zep's Led Zeppelin. A great start for the world's best band. Too bad it was entirely a blues album. Led Zeppelin probably didn't know they were great with pretty much any genre back then.

A debut heavy

Sure, a lot of the stuff on here isn't original, but it's the way they played these songs that makes this my favorite Led Zeppelin album. It has the blues that I love with the hard rocking that I grew up on. How Many More Times has one of my favorite riffs/bass lines ever. I can listen to this album through everyday.

This is the only Led Zeppelin album I like. As somebody said previously, it really does explode out of the speakers. The bands debut emerged at the time of Woodstock just as the hippie ideal was beginning to wane. Certainly, there are traces of Eastern mysticism in the albums instrumental track and the softer blues passages also nod in the direction of the hippy generation - the connection to which is real, if tenuous.

That aside, the band homed in on the fashion for pyrotechnic guitar virtuosity and heavy riffs. In this regard they upped the anti by extending the aesthetics of Hendrix whilst simultaneously popularizing the album format without saturating the popular medium of FM radio in the process.

They were one of the first bands to successfully fuse a heavy supersonic brand of rock with the traditional blues standards of legends like Howlin' Wolf. But there is also a softer psychedelic undercurrent that keeps the music relatively interesting.

It's the combination of these various elements that distinguishes their debut from their subsequent albums. By the time of their second they had settled on a format that negated the softer side, which in my view, worked to the detrimement of their subsequent output.

Led Zeppelin's first album is their best.