Description

Deluxe 3LP set on 180g vinyls with tri-folded gatefold cover. Original remastered LP, plus 2 LPs of an unreleased concert recorded at The Olympia, Paris, France 10th of October 1969

Led Zeppelin had a fully formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted electric blues of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, and Cream to an extreme, Zeppelin created a majestic, powerful brand of guitar rock constructed around simple, memorable riffs and lumbering rhythms. But the key to the groups attack was subtlety: it wasnt just an onslaught of guitar noise, it was shaded and textured, filled with alternating dynamics and tempos. As Led Zeppelin proves, the group was capable of such multi-layered music from the start. Although the extended psychedelic blues of Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me and I Cant Quit You Baby often gather the most attention, the remainder of the album is a better indication of what would come later. Babe Im Gonna Leave You shifts from folky verses to pummelling choruses; Good Times Bad Times and How Many More Times have groovy, bluesy shuffles; Your Time Is Gonna Come is an anthemic hard rocker; Black Mountain Side is pure English folk; and Communication Breakdown is a frenzied rocker with a nearly punkish attack. Although the album isn’t as varied as some of their later efforts, it nevertheless marked a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.

Track listing:
1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Babe Im Gonna Leave You
3. You Shook Me
4. Dazed and Confused
5. Your Time Is Gonna Come
6. Black Mountain Side
7. Communication Breakdown
8. I Cant Quit You Baby
9. How Many More Times
10. Good Times, Bad Times / Communication Breakdown-live Paris 1969
11. You Shook Me-live Paris 1969
12. Heartbreaker-live Paris 1969
13. Dazed And Confused-live Paris 1969
14. White Summer / Black Mountain Side-live Paris 1969
15. Moby Dick-live Paris 1969
16. I Can’t Quit You Baby-live Paris 1969
17. How Many More Times-live Paris 1969