Going To California (track)
by Led Zeppelin
Year: 1971
From the album Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (track #7)
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Going To California appears on the following album(s) by Led Zeppelin:
- Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) (track #7) (this album) (1971)
- BBC Sessions (track #21) (1997)
- How The West Was Won (track #8) (2003)
- The Complete Studio Recordings (track #35) (compilation) (1993)
- Led Zeppelin (Box Set) (track #22) (compilation) (1990)
- Led Zeppelin X Led Zeppelin (track #7) (compilation) (2018)
- An Introduction To Led Zeppelin (track #7) (compilation) (2018)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/08/2025 13:55 |  Tamthebam | 44,468 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 16:54 | Exist-en-ciel | 51,048 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 12:12 | bloosy | 1,084 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/14/2025 19:10 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,174 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 12:03 | dukeboxkool | 6,779 | 75/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.8/100, a mean average of 88.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.0.
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Squonk007 04/17/2022 13:40 | #284325
Beautiful song, love it.
I love the Joni Mitchell influence here.
I love this song, probably my favorite Zep song. It's so sad and melancholy, yet hopeful.
Possibly the best song off of the album if I'm being honest.
Beautiful song!
AAL2014 06/25/2016 04:41 | #169739
Beautiful guitar work from Page and another beautiful vocal track from Plant who also wrote some gorgeous lyrics for this.
Very nice
Anti 04/20/2014 22:19 | #109626
Very folky...
Jasonconfused 12/04/2012 02:09 | #56677
I guess it helps that I'm from California... but seriously. This is a beautiful song.
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