Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about Led Zeppelin, apart from the small tidbits I picked up while looking up the lyrics for the album. I'm doing this album because a friend requested it. That being said: this sure is rock and roll, huh. I hate to be a contrarian or buzzkill here, but this just isn't "greatest album of all time" levels (as I saw many people say it was). The music is just ok at best, with one or two exceptions. Most of the songs on here are just the minimum standard for rock. Like, when I think of "generic rock song" this is what comes to mind. It's not inventive or too creative with it's music, and a good amount of the songs follow the same structure complete with nearly identical bridges in some of them. A couple songs might hint towards the album maybe having a more blues-oriented style, namely Rock and Roll and When the Levee Breaks, but every other track shoots down that thought with the aforementioned genericness. As for the quality of the music itself apart from it's feel, it's fine. They sure can play well enough, with no element being too special or unique. The mixing, though, was a little wonky throughout the whole album, sometimes making the vocals too quite compared to the instrumental, or constantly changing what part had the audial focus without any pattern that I could make out. Other than that though, it too is fine. And this is just a personnel nitpick of mine that doesn't really affect the album too much, but they just couldn't keep a consistent meter. They constantly tried to squeeze more syllables into lines than they should have, especially in lines that relied on the meter more, so it stuck out even more. It's not too important, but it just bothered me throughout the album. To me, this whole album is just the bare minimum of what "rock" is.
Rating: 3/6
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