Led Zeppelin / Led Zeppelin IV
Artist Led Zeppelin
Album Title: Led Zeppelin IV
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Primary Genre Rock: Classic Rock
Format CD
Released 11/08/1971
Label Atlantic Recording Corporation
Catalog No 19129-2
Bar Code No 0 7567-80084-2
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Black Dog (4:56)
2. Rock & Roll (3:40)
3. The Battle Of Evermore (5:51)
4. Stairway To Heaven (8:01)
5. Misty Mounatin Hop (4:38)
6. Four Sticks (4:44)
7. Going To California (3:35)
8. When The Levee Breaks (7:07)
Date Acquired 06/06/1987
Personal Rating
Acquired from Down In The Valley
Purchase Price 15.00

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Notes

Produced by Jimmy Page
Executive Producer: Peter Grant
Inside Illustration: "The Hermit" Barrington Colby Mom
Design Coordination: Graphreaks
Originally Released As Atlantic 7208 on November 8, 1971.
"Stairway To Heaven" Lyrics © 1971 Superhype Publishing, Inc.
All Rights Administered By WB Music Corp., ASCAP.
All Rights Reserved.  Used By Permission.
Digitally Remastered From The Original Master Tapes By Jimmy Page and George Marino At Sterling Sound.

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -1.84 dB   -18.23 dB      4:57 01-Black Dog
DR12      -1.90 dB   -15.84 dB      3:41 02-Rock and Roll
DR11      -3.97 dB   -19.21 dB      5:51 03-The Battle of Evermore
DR13      -1.82 dB   -19.24 dB      8:02 04-Stairway to Heaven
DR11      -3.12 dB   -16.83 dB      4:39 05-Misty Mountain Hop
DR11      -1.43 dB   -15.44 dB      4:44 06-Four Sticks
DR12      -3.64 dB   -19.88 dB      3:36 07-Going to California
DR11      -2.57 dB   -15.77 dB      7:08 08-When the Levee Breaks
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           880 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues, Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album is a monolithic record, defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock. Expanding on the breakthroughs of III, Zeppelin fuse their majestic hard rock with a mystical, rural English folk that gives the record an epic scope. Even at its most basic -- the muscular, traditionalist "Rock and Roll" -- the album has a grand sense of drama, which is only deepened by Robert Plant's burgeoning obsession with mythology, religion, and the occult. Plant's mysticism comes to a head on the eerie folk ballad "The Battle of Evermore," a mandolin-driven song with haunting vocals from Sandy Denny, and on the epic "Stairway to Heaven." Of all of Zeppelin's songs, "Stairway to Heaven" is the most famous, and not unjustly. Building from a simple fingerpicked acoustic guitar to a storming torrent of guitar riffs and solos, it encapsulates the entire album in one song. Which, of course, isn't discounting the rest of the album. "Going to California" is the group's best folk song, and the rockers are endlessly inventive, whether it's the complex, multi-layered "Black Dog," the pounding hippie satire "Misty Mountain Hop," or the funky riffs of "Four Sticks." But the closer, "When the Levee Breaks," is the one song truly equal to "Stairway," helping give IV the feeling of an epic. An apocalyptic slice of urban blues, "When the Levee Breaks" is as forceful and frightening as Zeppelin ever got, and its seismic rhythms and layered dynamics illustrate why none of their imitators could ever equal them.
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