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Title: Bluesey beginnings
Review: "Led Zeppelin I" is the most overtly blues influenced album in the band's catalogue. In fact, a few of the songs on here are blues cover songs. Despite this, it still has their own stamp on it, making it just as essential as some of their later, more recognized albums.Although not as diverse as later efforts, there's still a lot of ground covered. You have catchy rockers ("Good Times Bad Times"), prog-folk epics ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"), raucous rockers ("Communication Breakdown"), pop ("Your Time Is Gonna Come"), slow burning blues ("You Shook Me", "I Can't Quit You Baby"), and even a Middle Eastern-tinged accoustic instrumental ("Black Mountain Side").It also features the blistering "Dazed & Confused", a meandering rock/blues dirge that is probably the most recognized Zeppelin tune on here.Although it's not bloated with radio favorites like "Led Zeppelin IV" or "Houses of the Holy", Led Zeppelin's debut album is really just as essential.
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