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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 687
Released: July 19, 1994 |
| Our Price: $6.14 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO) Track Listing:
1. Black Dog
2. Rock and Roll
3. Battle of Evermore
4. Stairway to Heaven
5. Misty Mountain Hop
6. Four Sticks
7. Going to California
8. When the Levee Breaks
Editorial Review:
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Led Zeppelin's 1971 album. Features the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.
Description of Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO):
Also known as the "rune" album or Zoso because of the medieval symbols adorning the inner sleeve, Led Zeppelin's fourth album, released in 1971, turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world. On tracks like "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "Rock and Roll," the combination of Robert Plant's banshee wails and Jimmy Page's frenetic guitar playing forever altered the stylistic bent of hard rock music. And the foreboding "When the Levee Breaks" demonstrated that Zeppelin could indeed play the blues fairly straight if they so desired. Still, everything here ultimately took a back seat to the album's (and, ultimately, the band's) magnum opus--the expertly constructed and deftly executed classic, "Stairway to Heaven." --Billy Altman
Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO) Reviews:
Led Zeppelin Ace 
2009-12-10 - Release of Led Zeppelin's IV in 1971 cemented their statue of a super group at forefront of the new frontier establishing itself in music partially because of them. It was called hard rock. Over a year earlier another band called Deep Purple had released their album called In Rock which also was becoming one of the most influential albums of this new hard sounding field. One of the songs of that album called Child In Time was a 10 minute long epic rock song connecting the beauty of melodic rock with the hard sounding rock, and featuring a long lasting guitar solo by Ritchie Blackmore. It is very possible that Stairway To Heaven was Led Zeppelin's answer to Child In Time. These two songs were compared and played together very often by us in the early 1970s. The beauty of Stairway To Heaven was breathtaking in terms of a concept, lyrics, the mood created by its first soft acoustic melodic minutes as well as by its harder progression. It has to be said that the main guitar riff does belong to the American band Spirit which you can hear in their song Taurus but by all means, all of you active musicians out there, go back to the 1960s and 1970s and do pick some beautiful moments you can find and elaborate on them, bring them to the wider audience who probably never heard these riffs and wouldn't have otherwise anyway. The progression of Stairway To Heaven is spectacular in its very even build up of tempo and energy, but not until we are allowed to float in the beauty of the acoustic part of this song long enough. Lyrically and spiritually this song was truly inspiring. The title was perfect, the beginning lyrics quite meaningful making us feel like we understand the following poetic progression in which clear thoughts were dressed in abstract catchy phrases allowing us all to make up our own stories. However, I would love to know how many of us might not have migrated west without `there's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving' inside of us. Personally I can also relate to the final words: `and if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last when all are one and one is all...to be a rock and not to roll'. These words perfectly describe my musical taste in rock... I am just kidding now (sort of) and back then (in 1972 it probably was when I heard this album for the first time at the age of 9), and even for the following 2 or 3 years I have not developed my symptoms, yet. But by 1975 or so I have been diagnosed (by myself) with that very rare and strange allergy towards rock'n'roll. I'm sorry, I know it is so un-cool, but I just can't help it. That is why a few songs of Led Zeppelin IV are just not for me at this point in my life but I absolutely love Stairway To Heaven as well as Going To California, The Battle Of Evermore and When The Levee Breaks. How on earth were they able to come up with such spectacular magic, all at once? Every one of these songs is special in its own way. These are the songs you need one of, to elevate the rank of your entire album by a couple of stars. That is how I evaluate songs which beauty and power overwhelms me. Going To California has for a long time been my favorite song of this album. Its simple beauty of melodic line, acoustic sound and Robert's voice make this song perfect to me. I remember listening often to it back in late 1970 when after watching the tv serial Streets Of San Francisco I was already sure I wanted to end up there. I didn't know the song was addressing Joni Mitchell but smoking that stuff and drinking that wine and girls with love in their eyes and flowers in their hair all sounded really good to me, and made me a bit impatient. The Battle Of Evermore's poetic and mysterious lyrics addressing Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings probably mean more to you if (as I have in my teens), you have walked into Tolkien's kingdom at some point in your life, but the main power of this song lies to me in the beautiful harmony of vocals (Robert Plant was singing this song together with Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention) with the acoustic folk music carried mainly by mandolin and guitar. There is this simple repetitive element to this harmony which attracts me a lot. When The Levee Breaks has this spectacular distorted sound to it echoed and engineered perfectly to give us this very unusual addictive atmosphere. Back in 1996 I have put together my favorite songs by Led Zeppelin. At about the same time I had read an interview with Wayne Hussey of The Mission who had said `it's about time somebody screamed (or something like that) Led Zeppelin Ace', so I did.
Led Zeppelin Ace:
1. Battle Of Evermore
2. All My Love
3. Since I've Been Loving You
4. Baby I'm Gonna Leave You
5. When The Levee Breaks
6. Going To California
7. Kashmir
8. I'm Gonna Crawl
9. Tangerine
10. The Rain Song
11. Thank You
12. Stairway To Heaven
The album to listen to on a lazy afternoon
2009-11-27 - I just discovered Led Zeppelin recently when I read Dave Grohl's article on Rolling Stone about his greatest influence, the biggest rock band of the 70s, Led Zeppelin. It was from reading his article that I decided to take a listen on this album famously know as the Four Symbols album. I must admit that I'm not a big Led Zeppelin at all, but after listening to this I might as well have been one. From the first two songs Black Dog and Rock and Roll, which is by far two of the most rocking classic songs I've ever heard, to the mysterious Battle Of Evermore, which sounds very much like a Lord of the Rings tribute (think Hobbit and you are there), to a song that needs no introduction: Stairway to Heaven which is a miracle of songwriting and rifts and rhythms and melodies, to Misty Mountain Hop which is just as rocking as the first two, with the overlying rift getting to you, Zeppelin IV never ceases to amaze and entertain.
If there is a perfect example of Led Zeppelin's versatility this is it. You wanted Folk? Battle of Evermore. Country? Going to California. A good rock song? You got so many to choose from here, including Four Sticks which is classic Zeppelin with its rifts and flowing rhythm. You want the all-important hit to play all day long? Stairway to Heaven is a no-brainer. You want lyrics, you want good singles, you got it all in this album, making it probably the tightest Rock I've ever listened to. Only One Hot Minute by the Red Hot Chili Peppers stands close, for me.
If you ever wondered what the best Rock album sounds like, this is it.
An Absolute Must-Have
2009-11-18 - food, water, shelter, ZOSO.
if every other album/song in the world ever made had to be destroyed forever, save one, this would be the one to keep.
A Timeless Classic!!!
2009-10-06 - The MORON reviewer who stated that Led Zeppelin is/was an "over rated" band should be beaten within an inch of his miserable life with his entire Brittany Spears collection. What an idiot!!! This band has not only stood the test of time but as compared to most of the drivel being recorded today actually gotten stronger over the years. I am, as I type this listening to a boot of a live show they did in Southampton England on January 22, 1973 and trust me they were truly the best rock band on the face of the earth at the time (followed VERY closely by The Rolling Stones) and will still be in heavy rotation on my ipod when I die 30 years from now. Led Zeppelin IV is a masterpiece with every single song on the disc a classic. If you do not already own this album then you really need to start here with this cd and then get the entire Led Zeppelin catalogue as this is truly music for the soul to be cherished for your entire lifetime!
B-B-B-B-BORINGGGGGG 
2009-08-20 - Overrated album, Overrated band, overrated everything.
Zeppelins music is the most boring music I have ever listened to. Even the late garbage drugged up albums of the dying hippies have more to offer than Led Zeppelin.
Grow up and get over yourselves Led Zeppelin fans. This album offers nothing.
Anyone who can sit through a whole Led Zeppelin song should pack up and move into the woods and live alone with their dog, using wood for heat and moss and bark for food.
