How The West Was Won (live album)
by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin bestography
How The West Was Won is ranked 10th 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 38,598.
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How The West Was Won track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 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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| ! | 2 hours ago | mutant | 1,634 | 55/100 |
| ! | 08/24/2025 08:00 |  nextorgd | 1,127 | 84/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 21:52 |  UofTBlues | 3,572 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/05/2025 00:54 |  BroknsocialShawn | 262 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/23/2025 15:01 | thepardunk | 2,546 | 69/100 |
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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 82.2/100, a mean average of 80.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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A really great album, and on par with the 2007 version of the song remain the same. The sound quality is superb , and apart from some of the tracks being bit on long side its thumbs up.
UofTBlues 12/30/2019 18:13 | #246149
A great live album when they were at the peak of their career.
One of the best live albums I've ever heard. Many live albums do not translate well. Such is not the case here. Some of the live versions of these songs are even better than the studio recordings, such as Moby Dick.
I own this on CD but don't class it as a true Zeppelin classic, mainly because it was released several years after the band ceased to exist and after the sad departure from this world of John Bonham. For this reason I cannot really see how it sits ahead of Presence and In Through the Outdoor. The high score is for the content of songs, not the album as a whole if that makes sense.
jdenny2018 05/03/2018 04:15 | #214085
Truly Zeppelin at their peak, just wished the vinyl didn't cost an arm and a leg
Solid Live album, probably would've been much more successful if it was released during their career.
Also, I find myself coming back to listen to the acoustic songs at least like 3 times a week, simply fantastic renditions of those songs.
VADERBREWING 04/22/2017 23:26 | #189698
Please release on vinyl Jimmy.
Certainly better than, the song remains the same. Finally, Led Zeppelin release a live album worthy of their legendary status. Great performances, still, Moby dick, is as boring, as dull, and as tortuous as ever. The rest? Brilliant.
Great 1972 live. Led Zeppelin are the best live band of the history.
For three hours, not a bad album at all. I would do without the 20:00 tracks, but the rest was great, and the beginning rocked!
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