Best Led Zeppelin album?

Most people seem to opt for IV (Zoso), but i think their first album is better... What do people here think?

Originally posted by dfm65
Most people seem to opt for IV (Zoso), but i think their first album is better... What do people here think?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
One of the most cringeworthy tracks ever recorded is Whole Lotta Love, so II is out of the question.

Originally posted by dfm65
I like the riff, but the part where Robert Plant sounds like he's holding back a sneeze...well, yeah...

I come back to the first album more often than the others.
More bluesy.

3 gets a look in now and then for "Since I've been loving you"
4 for "Battle of Evermore" & Stairway

I think Remasters is a good best-of, but my copy got nicked when I had a car stolen, and I never got round to replacing it.

I only have 1, 2 & 4.
I used to like them a lot, but nowadays I only ever play the odd song from each one, never a whole album, and not sure which one I would consider best.

I love 3 for Ramble On and Gallows Pole... actually I love 3 for all the tracks, I vote for 3.

edit: though Stairway still raises the hair on my neck if I haven't heard it in a while.

When I wa in Morocco I heard those recording - on shabby tapes - that Hendrix and Mick Jagger did with the Jill Jilala over there like in the late sixties. I aint sure no if the Leds went there as well. They are Legends no doubt anyway - vote for one too

Originally posted by mochiron
My favorite is Houses of the Holy. Not the best mabye but for me the tightest album...

Originally posted by dfm65
Most people seem to opt for IV (Zoso), but i think their first album is better... What do people here think?

Originally posted by dfm65
Most people seem to opt for IV (Zoso), but i think their first album is better... What do people here think?

Originally posted by blade68
I'm not passing comment on the content of their albums 'cos I've never really been in to them... but didn't they only make 4?

Not much of a choice is there?

III

Please. You must all be joking. There is only one correct answer, and that is II. Especially if you claim to enjoy the bluesy side of Zep (I does get a mention in this area). "Lemon Song" was Howlin' Wolf's "Killin' Floor", Sonny Boy Williamson cover of "Bring It On Home", "What Is and What Should Never Be", Bonzo cutting loose on "Moby Dick" (his performance of MD in The Song Remains the Same was epic).

Now that I think of it, the soundtrack from the SRTS concert film was good, too...if only they had included the live version of Since I've Been Loving You from the film instead of Celebration Day.

edit: Indivdual tracks are a different story.

1. Since I've Been Loving You
2. Fool In The Rain
3. What Is and What Should Never Be
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine (ever hear the Paul Butterfield version?)
5. Stairway To Heaven (sorry, I know...)
6. Dazed & Confused
7. The Rain Song
8. Kashmir
9. Black Dog
10. No Quarter

QED

"Led Zep, Greatest Hits Live"