BBC Sessions (live album)
by Led Zeppelin
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BBC Sessions is ranked 12th best out of 24 albums by Led Zeppelin on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Led Zeppelin is Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) which is ranked number 12 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 38,809.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/12/2025 12:18 | spinout | 3,171 | 81/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2025 14:29 |  EyeKanFly | 8,092 | 65/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2025 14:17 | MarkusN | 933 | 78/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2025 02:41 | RainW | 173 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2024 14:44 | matterhornrider | 4,748 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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This is the best live Album recorded, because they didn't live when playing an orchestra and them instead living when listening to it.
Good album, the best section is from tack 15 to 24. Great version of Thank You.
Beautiful Bustling Cool Sessions, always a hit!
UofTBlues 12/30/2019 18:22 | #246153
Some excellent performances when they were good.
I suppose that with a compilation like this you'll get some unnecessary tracks, such as sitting through 3 takes of "Communication Breakdown", but you should come to this looking for those brief moments where your ear is surprised. Plenty of them to be found here, plus you get "Traveling Riverside Blues", which somehow never found its way onto any of the original albums.
Zeppelin may sometimes lose the heart of their studio works when playing live, but they never cease to entertain. Sometoimes, they're downright bombin'.
Honestly, this is my favorite Zeppelin album. It complies much of the best material they recorded prior to 75, and captures them at the peak of their live prowess.
Well worth buying just for Travelling Riverside Blues. Cover it may be (although unrecognisable from the original), but one of my favourite Led Zep songs.
Romanelli 05/20/2011 03:13 | #22011
This makes me wish even more that there was a truly great Led Zeppelin live album. Guess it'll have to do.
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