Led Zeppelin (studio album) by Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 64th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 2,515 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1969 (5th)
Award Top 20 albums of the 1960s (16th)
Award Top 100 albums of all time (64th)

Led Zeppelin bestography

Led Zeppelin is ranked 3rd best out of 23 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 44,947.

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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 86.4/100, a mean average of 85.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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75/100
From 05/08/2023 23:14
This record is packed full of potential but I don't think it is realised on this release. You can clearly see the talent of each member and I would have loved to be able to experience this record when it first came out to be able to see them grow from this album onwards. The obvious signs they are going to do great things arrive in the first 4 tracks in the form of Good Times Bad Times, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You and Dazed And Confused. All three songs are absolute classics and deserve all the praise they receive. The rest of the release I find to be decent but nothing that would bring me back to experience it again. A few of the songs I would even argue are skippable and feel insignificant to the music on here. Overall, this is the starting point for one of the greatest bands of all time and so is a must listen even though I do think it gets slightly over rated.
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From 08/31/2022 03:36
Solid album
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85/100
From 08/07/2022 20:28
Top 3 Songs

1. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Good Times Bad Times
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From 04/13/2022 17:48
An awesome, massive sounding rock and roll record with serious punch with band members that are clearly unbelievably skilled.
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From 02/22/2022 21:19
fave tracks - Good Times Bad Times, Communication Breakdown, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
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From 01/17/2022 10:13
This is great start of the great band. Dazed and Confused is incredibly influential for heavy metal.
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From 01/15/2022 10:27
For some reason I never got in to this album as much as all of their albums from Led Zep II to Physical Graffiti. For me the best was still to come. But no one can deny there's some incredible guitar riffs. My highlights are Good Times Bad Times and How Many More Times.
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From 12/09/2021 04:51
One of the best debut albums in rock history, that would help fuel a kickstart to heavy metal and psychedelic rock. Truly a sound no one could replicate that would translate into to early 70s. Screw you Rolling Stones for all the hate you put on this album!
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From 11/03/2021 01:10
For me, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is such a tease for LZ II, and one of the band's best tracks in their discography.
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From 09/09/2021 15:46
Grandísimo debut de una de las mejores bandas de la historia, donde ya empiezan a dejar claro su virtuosismo.

Mejores canciones: Good Times bad Times, Dazed anda Confused
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