# Okay, first time listener. Tell me what's good RE: Led Zeppelin albums. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095 "2017-04-09T01:20:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/21 "2017-04-09T02:01:15Z")
KIND of a prick? I am a total prick. Right now I’m listenin’ to some live Grateful Dead from Chicago, 1981! “He’s Gone!” It’s great! Feel free to judge me. EVERYONE likes to shit on the Dead! Give me your best shot, I still hate Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/22 "2017-04-09T02:07:21Z")
I agree with I - II - (III) - IV. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/23 "2017-04-09T02:09:32Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Right now I’m listenin’ to some live Grateful Dead from Chicago, 1981! “He’s Gone!” It’s great! Feel free to judge me. EVERYONE likes to shit on the Dead! Give me your best shot, I still hate Led Zeppelin. I don’t think I’ve ever heard any Grateful Dead. They’re a band whose music didn’t really cross the Atlantic to any great extent, I think. Recommendation? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/24 "2017-04-09T02:21:24Z")
Led Zeppelin has some really neat ties back to early blues. If you’re interested after your listening party, I’ll try and dig up a list of some of their early influences and some good tracks for you. It’s fun to listen to the early stuff and then listen to Led. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/25 "2017-04-09T02:26:27Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever heard any Grateful Dead. They’re a band whose music didn’t really cross the Atlantic to any great extent, I think. Recommendation? Thank you for your graciousness. I apologize for denigrating a band you enjoy, and I respect them for buying Aleister Crowley’s old Scottish estate at Boleskine on the Loch Ness. Although someone else owns it now. I hope they make it into a bed & breakfast! Here’s a tasty taste of the Grateful Dead from October, 1974, part of the "Grateful Dead Movie,’ which includes a slice of the opening animation. I hope you enjoy it. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DPBLfzTPCDc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC6AKKAgwIABABGH8gGyhJMA8=&rs=AOn4CLB3H6bkJRObiJNeLZSiouF9KWFy8A "Grateful Dead - US Blues (1974-10-19)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBLfzTPCDc) If you do, you can find all kinds of stuff form the famous “Europe '72” tour on YouTube. (England seemed to love them.). And pretty much everything else from 1965 to 1995. Ta! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/26 "2017-04-09T02:35:16Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever heard any Grateful Dead. They’re a band whose music didn’t really cross the Atlantic to any great extent, I think. Recommendation? LSD first, music from the Dead second. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/27 "2017-04-09T02:35:37Z")
Okay, going to start the albums now. I’ll return with my thoughts and opinions on them in a few hours. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/28 "2017-04-09T02:37:58Z")
I agree that if you’re looking for original albums, the first three are the best starting point, but if you don’t mind compilations, I really like the 2CD version of ‘Remasters’ as an introduction to LZ. I’m not actually sure if it’s still available, but it’s easy to find at low cost. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/29 "2017-04-09T02:39:35Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > LSD first, music from the Dead second. Nonsense! The Dead can be enjoyed after a simple indulgence in strong cannabis! (The link I gave can also be appreciated by those who appreciate attractive hippie chicks. Ah, my youth) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/30 "2017-04-09T02:50:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Nonsense! The Dead can be enjoyed after a simple indulgence in strong cannabis! > > (The link I gave can also be appreciated by those who appreciate attractive hippie chicks. Ah, my youth) I’m just kidding. Of course, your admission that _some_ type of chemical indulgence to really “get into” the Dead is quite telling! I keed, I keed! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/31 "2017-04-09T02:51:17Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > houses of the holy! > > mc “Me wife’s on 'oliday in the Caribbean.” “Jamaica?” “No, she left of her own accord.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/32 "2017-04-09T03:02:42Z")
"I had a date last night with a girl from the Caribbean.’ “Jamaica?” “No, I didn’t even kiss her.” “I had a date last night with a girl from Maine.” “Bangor?” “…” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/33 "2017-04-09T03:04:12Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ll just listen to albums I through IV. Excellent decision to go in order, but don’t stop there. Definitely continue with _Houses of the Holy_ and _Physical Graffiti_ (it’s an extra two hours of your life you won’t miss) and finish the night with “Achilles Last Stand” from _Presence._ Nothing else from LedZep is essential; _In Through the Out Door_ I happen to love to death, but I’m weird. (…you’ve never heard a Rush song? Not even “Tom Sawyer”? Finding that VERY hard to believe…) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/34 "2017-04-09T03:04:38Z")
Led Zeppelin I and IV. Their best work, without any weak songs. Even the stuff that never makes the radio is great. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/35 "2017-04-09T03:13:58Z")
By the way, according to music experts and prominent psychologists, the “critical age” for discovering Led Zeppelin is 16 to 35. Which sadly means you’re just a bit outside that range; you may become a fan, but it probably won’t become part of your soul. Then again, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/36 "2017-04-09T03:45:20Z")
I’d say 1 and 4. But there might be songs on 2 and 3 and HOTH that might to some ears be the very best: Ramble On, The Song Remains the Same etc. 2 has some cliches like whole lotta love, livin lovin maid and the big drum solo, Moby Dick. 3 has a lot of acoustic stuff, not a lot of their best melodies though. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/37 "2017-04-09T03:46:19Z")
When you’re done going through the Led Zeppelin catalog: Moving Pictures Permanent Waves 2112 That ought to tell you where you stand with regard to Rush. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095/38 "2017-04-09T03:58:31Z")
Okay, so I’ve listened to Led Zeppelin I. It wasn’t bad. Long songs, although a lot of long-held notes and repetitive lyrics and sounds. Not that that’s a bad thing…but when you hear stuff like “uuhhh huuuhhh…huuuuhhh…huuuhhhh…” four times in a row, it loses its appeal just a tad. But overall, pretty good music and, no, I had never heard any of those songs before. My favorite was probably Dazed and Confused, it was pretty upbeat and had a nice melody, IMO. I also liked Communications Breakdown. My least favorite was probably Baby, I’m Going To Leave You. I’m not a big fan of the “slow” and “pessimistic and depressing-type” songs. Nothing really jumped out at me at being overly amazing and incredible, though. ---
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Two of my favorite bands of the 70s: Grand Funk Railroad Blue Oyster Cult [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0JyplhIZU) ---
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> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Okay, so I’ve listened to Led Zeppelin I. It wasn’t bad. Long songs, although a lot of long-held notes and repetitive lyrics and sounds. Not that that’s a bad thing…but when you hear stuff like “uuhhh huuuhhh…huuuuhhh…huuuhhhh…” four times in a row, it loses its appeal just a tad. Worth noting that over half of those tracks are effectively [covers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Led_Zeppelin_songs_written_or_inspired_by_others), either fairly direct or reworked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-first-time-listener-tell-me-whats-good-re-led-zeppelin-albums/784095.md?page=3)