Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

Now if Led Zeppelin 2 and Led Zeppelin 4 are the best albums the band produced where does that leave Led Zeppelin 3? In my view it is still a pretty good album but some of the tracks just did not come off. When the band reconvened for the 4th album it was back to basics and back to doing what they did best. The album begins with The Immigrant Song and this is an excellent album opener. I remember this getting a lot of radio airplay despite Led Zeps insistence on never releasing singles. Frenetic in pace and evoking lyrical references to Norse mythology it drives along on a Page guitar riff and staccato drum line. The defining part though is Robert Plants ...  Read the complete review

Led Zeppelin III, released in 1970, is an important album in the Led Zeppelin catalogue, because (1) with one exception, it was the first step in the band's departure from the blues style that influenced them so much, and (2) Jimmy Page's acoustic guitar became more prominent in their work. The songs on the album, and a brief description of each, follows. 1. The Immigrant Song--This is a song driven by the bass and drums, and it features some tremendous high range vocals by Robert Plant. Lyrically, the song demonstrates the band's infatuation with mythology, and in this particular song, it's Norse mythology ("Tell Valhalla I am ...  Read the complete review

Following much speculation in the comment section I have decided to write an op on the greatest band to grace the earth: Led Zeppelin. ...who thinks this is Zep's best? Thank goodness, I've always thought there was something wrong with me - whenever people have the old "is Led Zep IV or Physical Graffiti their best album" discussion, I've mumbled "what about Led Zep III" under my breath. I bought this album in the week of it's original release, back in the early 70s, and loved it from the opening bludgeoning banshee wail of Immigrant Song onwards on first listen. What happy memories... This was the album ...  Read the complete review

Sorry peeps, I love Zepp but I don't like this one too much. After the bombast of LZII, the boys retreated to Wales to get in touch with their artistic side, with the result of this, a mish-mash of a record that is half diamond-true rock and half hippie-dippie rubbish. Read on!! The original album came in gatefold sleeve with a turning dial that depicted the changing of the seasons, very rustic, and inside had such things as the Montgolfier balloon, a wasp on a Zeppelin, an RAF WW1 biplane, a butterfly and for some reason a stick of corn on the cob. Remains one of rocks great sleeves. Curses to CDs!! Immigrant Song opens things up, ...  Read the complete review

We come from the land of the ice and snow In England the band had a few weeks off before they had to record their third album, which Atlantic wanted to release that autumn, with Led Zeppelin II (fans called it the “Brown Bomber” because of its sepia jacket) still high on the charts. Some songs the band had already worked out, “Immigrant Song” reflected Robert’s fascination with Celtic Britain and the tides of English history, especially the four-hundred-year period from the eighth to eleventh centuries when the English fought for their island with generations of Viking invaders from Denmark to Sweden. “Immigrant Song”, ...  Read the complete review