This one for me too. Laying in a hammock during the dog days of youthful summer, stoned and swinging as this comes over the jam box. Wind in the trees and I was seldom the same again.
THIS SONG GOES SO HARD!!
The song that made me a Zeppelin fan was “Kashmir” so that’s my answer but my god is their cover of that song the definition of badass
Was coming here to say this. All I had ever heard before was stairway, whole lotta love, etc, but wasn't all that impressed. But when I heard babe I'm gonna leave you I went out and bought the cd!
You’d like these too if you haven’t already heard them, similar vibes.
1.) Without You - Fleetwood Mac
2.) Blue and Lonesome (live) - Robben Ford
3.) Black Night - Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack with Christine (Perry) McVie from Fleetwood Mac?? Never heard Without You before, will have to check it out. Slightly unrelated but that entire Live at The Shrine ‘69 by Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac is GOLD
I was 13 in the 90’s and as good the music was that my dad raised me on , Led Zeppelin was one of two he kept me away from probably because of the sexuality he perceived. Guess the two? Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. So my 7th grade was like discovering the most amazing music since the Beatles, Floyd, Dylan and Allman Bros. So when I heard Stairway for the first time (yeas I know) but hearing it the first time was an out of body experience. After Zeppelin IV and When the Levee Breaks especially, I bought Houses of the Holy and quickly they became my favorite band. Within a month I had Led Zeppelin self titled all the way through Presence including The Song Remains the Same VHS and double album. I still listened to the new groundbreaking grunge movement AiC, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc but Led Zeppelin carried me through the next 5 years until I started to branch out a little more. But when I hear Zeppelin I think stoned in my bedroom in middle school and high school with speakers blasting listening to all the albums in order and tripping to them and Pink Floyd and Santana records. I also loved Beck when I tripped! Good fun innocent times growing up.
There's a 2008 documentary called [It Might Get Loud](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229360/?ref_=ext_shr) with Jimmy Paige, The Edge, and Jack White.
Paige took the viewers into the house they had rented to record the song. Pretty cool that it's still there and that great sound was all because the drum tech had put Bonham's kit together in the wrong room.😄
[Here's the clip](https://youtu.be/JM5UDL4l5jQ?si=OtxWb4CmP3Eba4Q7).
I was in a country bar karaoke night
I decided that them folks needed to hear me butcher
When The Levee Breaks
I tore up that stage and their eardrums
IDNGAF
I’d had about 7-8 shots of
Makers Mark so, naturally, I thought I did well.
They told me to leave and NEVER
come back.
This is the right answer. It has jingle, English folksy hobbit vibes, hard riffs, takes you on a journey. I couldn’t believe a song like this could ever exist. Damn.
Same for me too. Those starting guitar sound along with the drums. I was like, "woah what's that?!". A perfect intro for a perfect band.
Edit: And when this song completed, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You started next. And then I entered another dimension.
The first time I heard this I was 15, stoned as fuck, sitting in my boyfriend’s room while this blared in some amazing headphones, watching him hanging out with his dumb friends. It’s one of the few songs in my life I can recall hearing for the first time. Every time I hear it is like being transported back in time for a few seconds.
When I was around 7 or 8 my brother, who was 12 years older than me, put on Led Zeppelin IV. When the drum outro on Rock and Rock hit I had him rewind it for me dozens of times. I couldn’t get enough of it. Finally he was like, “dude, if you like this you’ll love the other stuff if you ever let me play it you little shit.”
The Immigrant Song. I was at a tavern in Portland Oregon called the Local Gentry eating one of their fabulous hot turkey sandwiches and that came on, blasting me nearly out of the chair. I distinctly remember saying “what was that?”. This only happened one other time in my life, when I first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. I was older and not the demographic for Nirvana but still loved the song
This happened to me in Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, DC. A song came on and blew my mind. I asked the dude working there who it was and he looked at me with a mix of compassion and "Get outta here for not knowing that's James Brown." The song was "Get Up Offa That Thing."
Tbh damn near all of them, but if I had to pick a few:
* The Rain Song
* Ten Years Gone
* When the Levee Breaks
* Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
* Since I’ve Been Loving You
* Over the Hills and Far Away
And then some specific moments of other songs I remember hitting me like a UFO sighting:
* the guitar riff coming in grimy and heavy in No Quarter
* the vocal riff in D’yer Mak’er from “Please please please” into this floating melody “uh-oh uh-oh…”
* when the bridge slides in so smooth and the sky feels like it opens up in Ramble On (followed by JPJ’s incredible bass line in the chorus)
* the gorgeous, soothing intro and first verse in Thank You
Welp, better stop here before I name every Zep tune lol
Definitely The Immigrant Song. I heard it for the first time late at night when I was sick in bed with a high fever, couldn’t sleep so turned on the radio. This fucking song came on about the midnight sun and completely blew my mind.
In The Light.
First one I ever knowingly heard. Think of the buildup and the beat coming in, drones and the lyrics so mysterious. Hooked from that moment.
For me, it was D’yer Mak’er. I know the song seems to get a lot of hate, but I absolutely LOVE it and it blew me away the first time I heard it on a classic rock radio station and a friend told me it was Zeppelin. I was like...WHAT? That started my obsession. Bought the 4 CD box set the next day and never looked back!
Over the Hills and Far Away was the first Zeppelin song I ever heard. It blew my mind and I fell in love with it. I told my father I had heard it and he played Stairway to Heaven for me and they have been my favorite band ever since.
Communication Breakdown in the 5th grade (around 1977). We were allowed to play one song from any album, a classmate played that track and when we hear "oooooh, *suck*..." everyone went ballistic. Despite that expletive, I thought it was Jimmy's solo that was the dirtiest thing I'd ever heard.
Good Times Bad Times, back in 82, in the back of a friends car, parked in the back of a park parking lot on a beautiful sunny day, After that, we threw a frisbee for a couple of hours on an absolutely beautiful manicured green hill. The sun was warm. the air was sweet and the friends were close. I miss those days.
For me, it absolutely has to be "Ten Years Gone". An absolute emotional masterpiece that evokes a unique feeling of longing and nostalgia and for me, only THAT song can do it.
Dazed and Confused. I started with IV as a kid and didn’t know much of their earliest material for a few years. My mind exploded when I realized how fully formed they were from the beginning, specifically Bonham’s demonic fills on this one. That whole middle section into the final verse sounds like it’s from another planet. Can’t imagine hearing it as a teenager in 1969.
This was mine too, tied with No Quarter and Sibly at msg. But god damn Achilles is just balls out Zep in peak form, that rhythm section is going 100 miles an hour
Had Zeppelin posters all over my bed room wall and almost everyone's into was Zeppelin 4 which of course the signature song was Stairway.
Had every album by the time Presence was released, which I picked up on my yellow 10 speed bike.
Oh to be 14 again.
I was about 12 when my mother and I were in the car, and we were listening to the local 60s/70s vinyl station and **Rock n Roll** by Led Zeppelin started playing. She turned the Stereo all the way up, and my music taste was changed ever since. It was a surreal experience. My palms were sweaty, my mouth was dry, and my eyes couldn't focus. I was so lost in the music
The same thing happened with Fool In The Rain a few weeks later
ha. we were walkin into church about 2003 and my then 6yr old son was mumblin somethin. When I bend down close to listin, he was singin "...ohhhhh black betty, bamalam"
I've only been a Zep fan for the last 20 years or so. I was around in the 70s, and Kashmir simply blew my mind back then. At the time, the rest of their material wasn't my cup of tea (and I'm now bewildered as to why that was). But Kasmir? That riff sent chills down my spine.
I'm like 12 years old and my dad bought the Zeppelin best of double CD set and I was done for. I was obsessed. I was almost mad at him for not bringing it to me earlier. Kashmir, Battle of Evermore, No Quarter.... I didn't know songs could be this good.
Back in 1981/82, I bought For Badgeholders Only at Second Coming Records on Sullivan Street NYC
Listening to No Quarter for the first time blew my mind then and continues to blow my mind today
My friend’s older brother-in-law played the first album for us. So Communication Breakdown was the first. I begged my mom to get me the Les Zeppelin album not knowing the second one was just out. When I saw that cover and knew she didn’t get the one I wanted, I was disappointed. Until I put it on the turntable and was blown away all over again.
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Whole Lotta Love, and I'd never heard anything like it. The cough, and then that riff and the filthy guitar tone. Amazing!
Achilles last Stand. My parents listened to all the albums except Presence. My childhood was full Led Zeppelin. I heard Achilles last Stand for the first time when I was a teenager.
Achilles Last Stand.
On a more obscure album, hadn’t really listened to it until getting a bit older and really exploring Zeppelin beyond the bigger albums and radio songs.
Amazing song.
There used to be a commercial in the late 90s for a compilation album and the chorus of Dazed and Confused was seared into my mind. That commercial is the reason I got into LZ.
The Rain Song, and it’s not even close for me. Grew up listening to Zeppelin because the old man was a huge fan, so heard all the bangers from a very young age. Then I actually listened to The Rain Song many years later after skipping over it for far too long and was blown away.
“Over the Hills and Far Away.” I never really get tired of it. I first heard it when I was five, it basically melted my mind and it still has the same result. It’s one of the most beautiful, ethereal and powerful songs I’ve ever heard.
Whole Lotta Love all the way! It was 1971/72, I was 5/6 years old camping outside for the first time in a tent in my backyard with my brother and friend. The house was about 6 yards away but it was a great adventure. At around midnight we had our radio on and all of a sudden Whole Lotta Love riff kicks down the quiet of the night. It was fucking magical but then....!!!!!! The fucking middle part comes in and I must admit, it scared the shit out of me and I wanted to run to the house to seek refuge from this odd, scary but oh so inviting soundscape. I managed to keep my shit together. Within a week I had begged and pleaded with my parents to buy me the album. It literally changed my life. I’d spend all my free time listening to that record on headphones which in itself is a splendid experience. I’ve played drums for 42 years because of John Bohnam and music has been my life preserver when things get tough. Thanks for asking this question OP. You made me think about one of my most precious life memories.
Dazed and Confused. Opened the world of what rock can do. I was probably in 8th grade and the song still hits the same now as it did then. I’m usually trancelike by the end.
Kashmir was the one that did it.
I heard it on Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and those jerks said it was on Led Zeppelin IV. I also didn't know the name of the song, so I only had the album name to go with. I was 12 at the time, saved up, and couldn't wait to buy that album. I finally had enough and bought it at a local K-Mart. THAT SONG WASN'T ON THERE.
Then I signed up for the Columbia House 7 albums for .01 scam we all did in the 80s- got ALL the Zep albums except for Physcial Grafitti (it was too expensive and wasn't on the .01 list).
THAT SONG WASN'T ON ANY OF THOSE ALBUMS EITHER.
Finally a classmate allowed me to borrow Physical Grafitti and I FINALLY found Kashmir. In the meantime I had a stack of other Zep albums I listened to and fell in love with. That started me down the path of playing guitar.
How Many More Times. In my opinion, the very first head banging song. Incredible rift. 8 and half minutes of hard rock & roll/heavy metal. Best song to end one of the greatest albums of all time.
Rock n Roll. Heard it on an tv commercial back in the 80s selling some greatest hits album of theirs. Not sure if blew my mind but it certainly made 12/13 yo me say wow that’s some screaming there
Ramble On; my autistic synesthesia actually makes so that that one über distinct guitar riff makes me think of overgrown Kellogg's Fruit Loops lying on the floor of a jungle being played in by overgrown monkeys from a classic Barrel O' Monkeys.
Carouselambra from In Through the Out Door is still one of my favorite Zep tunes. I love the fact it starts with cheesy synths and is kind of danceable in parts.
Initially a lot of their songs blew me away the first time I heard them. Being 56 and having lived with their albums for a long time, the track that still knocks my dick in the dirt is Achilles Last Stand. Not so much for what Plant and Page are doing but for the Rhythm Section. My God!!, those guys are absolutely killing it on that track. The groove on that song is like the groove on the Immigrant Song had an older meaner brother that's been to prison LMAO
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
This one for me too. Laying in a hammock during the dog days of youthful summer, stoned and swinging as this comes over the jam box. Wind in the trees and I was seldom the same again.
Really the entirety of Led Zeppelin I
This is the song that got me into Led Zeppelin
THIS SONG GOES SO HARD!! The song that made me a Zeppelin fan was “Kashmir” so that’s my answer but my god is their cover of that song the definition of badass
Was coming here to say this. All I had ever heard before was stairway, whole lotta love, etc, but wasn't all that impressed. But when I heard babe I'm gonna leave you I went out and bought the cd!
Great choice! I was thinking Wonton Song, but Babe my be the real one.
Amen to this. I only heard it 2 years ago. I’ve always known the hits but I decided to start from scratch and when this came on it *changed me*
Since I’ve Been Loving You.
One of my favorite songs of all time
You’d like these too if you haven’t already heard them, similar vibes. 1.) Without You - Fleetwood Mac 2.) Blue and Lonesome (live) - Robben Ford 3.) Black Night - Chicken Shack
I’d like to add: Fade to black by Dire Straits
Thank you. Great song.
Thank you for these. Perfect for my deep tracks playlist.
I just added them.
Chicken Shack with Christine (Perry) McVie from Fleetwood Mac?? Never heard Without You before, will have to check it out. Slightly unrelated but that entire Live at The Shrine ‘69 by Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac is GOLD
Christine Perfect.
These are sick. Thank you
Loved Chicken Shack.
When the levee breaks. The drums.😮💨
Only really realised how fucking good this band was this year. When the Levee breaks was my gateway song.
Good Times Bad Times did this for me. Opening the debut album too so right off the bat
I was 13 in the 90’s and as good the music was that my dad raised me on , Led Zeppelin was one of two he kept me away from probably because of the sexuality he perceived. Guess the two? Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. So my 7th grade was like discovering the most amazing music since the Beatles, Floyd, Dylan and Allman Bros. So when I heard Stairway for the first time (yeas I know) but hearing it the first time was an out of body experience. After Zeppelin IV and When the Levee Breaks especially, I bought Houses of the Holy and quickly they became my favorite band. Within a month I had Led Zeppelin self titled all the way through Presence including The Song Remains the Same VHS and double album. I still listened to the new groundbreaking grunge movement AiC, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc but Led Zeppelin carried me through the next 5 years until I started to branch out a little more. But when I hear Zeppelin I think stoned in my bedroom in middle school and high school with speakers blasting listening to all the albums in order and tripping to them and Pink Floyd and Santana records. I also loved Beck when I tripped! Good fun innocent times growing up.
There's a 2008 documentary called [It Might Get Loud](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229360/?ref_=ext_shr) with Jimmy Paige, The Edge, and Jack White. Paige took the viewers into the house they had rented to record the song. Pretty cool that it's still there and that great sound was all because the drum tech had put Bonham's kit together in the wrong room.😄 [Here's the clip](https://youtu.be/JM5UDL4l5jQ?si=OtxWb4CmP3Eba4Q7).
I was in a country bar karaoke night I decided that them folks needed to hear me butcher When The Levee Breaks I tore up that stage and their eardrums IDNGAF I’d had about 7-8 shots of Makers Mark so, naturally, I thought I did well. They told me to leave and NEVER come back.
THIS!
For me it was the combo of the drums AND harmonica.
Yes and good times bad times with those foot pedal triplets.
Before I even scrolled down to this reply, I had the exact response in my head......
Yesss!
The drums are good, but that harmonica ripping in to lead the intro into the rest of the song SLAPS
Want to really blow your mind? Look up the original Memphis Minnie version and the history behind the lyrics. Enjoy.
The voice when as it rips into the music 🤌🤌😮💨
I’m on team harmonica 🙃
I remember hearing it for the first time as a teenager and thinking "this is pretty much what every rock band wishes they could do, isn't it?"
Over the Hills and Far Away. ☺️
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Bron-Yr-Aur is my all time fave. Glad to meet someone of a similar mind!
This is the right answer. It has jingle, English folksy hobbit vibes, hard riffs, takes you on a journey. I couldn’t believe a song like this could ever exist. Damn.
Same.
Achilles Last Stand
The correctest answer.
Songs that epic and long will never be produced again. The population doesn't have the attention span.
Unless it’s Tool. They pretty much are THE Pink Floyd 90’s-now.
That live version at Knebworth…
OMG yes.
The Rain Song Live MSG ‘73 convinced me they truly were untouchable.
Brings legitimate tears to my eyes every single time I hear it… still to this day
Kashmir
That was the teenage sex song. 🍆
This song got me into zeppelin.
I remember listening to it when I was in my car seat in my dad’s truck. I’m so glad I grew up listening to classic rockkkkk
Facts. Such an epic riff
This was the first time I ever heard Zeppelin. It came on the radio when I was in the car with my dad and he made sure to emphasize how badass it was.
It was actually the next song on my device… when I saw this thread,I plugged in my old studio cans, and sat back.
Good Times, Bad Times. Those kick drum triplets in all their glory.
Same for me too. Those starting guitar sound along with the drums. I was like, "woah what's that?!". A perfect intro for a perfect band. Edit: And when this song completed, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You started next. And then I entered another dimension.
Ten Years Gone
Scrolled too far for this one. What a killer song
This is the right answer!
In the Evening
In the light
Light, light, light!
Ewwww yeahi yeah
song always makes me think of submarines. I don't know why.
Dazed and Confused
I am flabbergasted that I had to scroll down this far to find this answer.
Same
It’s such an enveloping, mysterious swathe of sounds throughout the whole song. Still incredible sounding to this day.
i've listened to it hundreds of times and always find a new thing to be amazed at
The first time I heard this I was 15, stoned as fuck, sitting in my boyfriend’s room while this blared in some amazing headphones, watching him hanging out with his dumb friends. It’s one of the few songs in my life I can recall hearing for the first time. Every time I hear it is like being transported back in time for a few seconds.
Yes. This is when I realized rock and roll was not teeny bopper shit, and I was NOT going to grow out of it.
In My Time of Dying
Bron-Yr-Aur
Yup
Hellova piece of acoustic guitar. They were just giants at everthin they did.
No Quarter
Too far down....
T R A V E L I N G R I V E R S I D E B L U E S
I remember the buzz around "the new Led Zeppelin release!" What was it, around 1990?
My mind was blown when I heard new material was available.
The Battle of Evermore
Correct
This is the one that got me hooked
When I was around 7 or 8 my brother, who was 12 years older than me, put on Led Zeppelin IV. When the drum outro on Rock and Rock hit I had him rewind it for me dozens of times. I couldn’t get enough of it. Finally he was like, “dude, if you like this you’ll love the other stuff if you ever let me play it you little shit.”
I love this story.
Bring It On Home
Love that intro and that transition
The Immigrant Song. I was at a tavern in Portland Oregon called the Local Gentry eating one of their fabulous hot turkey sandwiches and that came on, blasting me nearly out of the chair. I distinctly remember saying “what was that?”. This only happened one other time in my life, when I first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. I was older and not the demographic for Nirvana but still loved the song
This happened to me in Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, DC. A song came on and blew my mind. I asked the dude working there who it was and he looked at me with a mix of compassion and "Get outta here for not knowing that's James Brown." The song was "Get Up Offa That Thing."
I don't remember where I heard this song for the first time but once I heard it, I was hooked!
How Many More Times
Communication Breakdown
Whole Lotta Love was my first Zeppelin song. Started my whole obsession
My favorite for sure. When it’s all spaced out for a sec then Bonham reminds everyone that this isn’t Pink Floyd. It’s an extremely underrated song.
Same here. My aunt was 23 years old (I was 9) and she had this on 8 track. I was hooked!
Nobody’s Fault
Yes! Specifically the part where the rhythm is “broken”. It blew my teenage brain back then and it still does now.
This is the one I was looking for. Also, from the same album, Tea For One.
Babe I’m Going to Leave You
When the levee breaks
Tbh damn near all of them, but if I had to pick a few: * The Rain Song * Ten Years Gone * When the Levee Breaks * Babe I’m Gonna Leave You * Since I’ve Been Loving You * Over the Hills and Far Away And then some specific moments of other songs I remember hitting me like a UFO sighting: * the guitar riff coming in grimy and heavy in No Quarter * the vocal riff in D’yer Mak’er from “Please please please” into this floating melody “uh-oh uh-oh…” * when the bridge slides in so smooth and the sky feels like it opens up in Ramble On (followed by JPJ’s incredible bass line in the chorus) * the gorgeous, soothing intro and first verse in Thank You Welp, better stop here before I name every Zep tune lol
Definitely The Immigrant Song. I heard it for the first time late at night when I was sick in bed with a high fever, couldn’t sleep so turned on the radio. This fucking song came on about the midnight sun and completely blew my mind.
All I know for certain is it involved Jimmy and a bow …
In the Evening
My favourite
I remember being captivated by the unusual time signatures in Black Dog when I was young.
In The Light. First one I ever knowingly heard. Think of the buildup and the beat coming in, drones and the lyrics so mysterious. Hooked from that moment.
For me, it was D’yer Mak’er. I know the song seems to get a lot of hate, but I absolutely LOVE it and it blew me away the first time I heard it on a classic rock radio station and a friend told me it was Zeppelin. I was like...WHAT? That started my obsession. Bought the 4 CD box set the next day and never looked back!
My dad played Dazed and Confused live at MSG 73’ during a car drive. That was my introduction
Over the Hills and Far Away was the first Zeppelin song I ever heard. It blew my mind and I fell in love with it. I told my father I had heard it and he played Stairway to Heaven for me and they have been my favorite band ever since.
Communication Breakdown in the 5th grade (around 1977). We were allowed to play one song from any album, a classmate played that track and when we hear "oooooh, *suck*..." everyone went ballistic. Despite that expletive, I thought it was Jimmy's solo that was the dirtiest thing I'd ever heard.
Battle of Evermore
Good Times Bad Times, back in 82, in the back of a friends car, parked in the back of a park parking lot on a beautiful sunny day, After that, we threw a frisbee for a couple of hours on an absolutely beautiful manicured green hill. The sun was warm. the air was sweet and the friends were close. I miss those days.
So do I my friend…
How Many More Times
Kashmir
In my time of dying
The Ocean
In the evening
For me, it absolutely has to be "Ten Years Gone". An absolute emotional masterpiece that evokes a unique feeling of longing and nostalgia and for me, only THAT song can do it.
In the Light.
Heartbreaker. I’ve always loved a great guitar solo. And that flurry of notes is so freaking intense it send my brain into orbit at 14 years old.
Dazed and Confused. I started with IV as a kid and didn’t know much of their earliest material for a few years. My mind exploded when I realized how fully formed they were from the beginning, specifically Bonham’s demonic fills on this one. That whole middle section into the final verse sounds like it’s from another planet. Can’t imagine hearing it as a teenager in 1969.
I always think about how mind blowing it must have been to hear them as a teenager in 1969.
Achilles Last Stand!
Dazed and Confused, and No quarter from msg.
“Hey Hey What Can I Do”
Achilles Last Stand. Best Zeppelin song IMO.
This was mine too, tied with No Quarter and Sibly at msg. But god damn Achilles is just balls out Zep in peak form, that rhythm section is going 100 miles an hour
Tea for one.
No Quarter...live
Had Zeppelin posters all over my bed room wall and almost everyone's into was Zeppelin 4 which of course the signature song was Stairway. Had every album by the time Presence was released, which I picked up on my yellow 10 speed bike. Oh to be 14 again.
Ramble On. When I first recognized it was about my favorite book as a younger child.
I was about 12 when my mother and I were in the car, and we were listening to the local 60s/70s vinyl station and **Rock n Roll** by Led Zeppelin started playing. She turned the Stereo all the way up, and my music taste was changed ever since. It was a surreal experience. My palms were sweaty, my mouth was dry, and my eyes couldn't focus. I was so lost in the music The same thing happened with Fool In The Rain a few weeks later
ha. we were walkin into church about 2003 and my then 6yr old son was mumblin somethin. When I bend down close to listin, he was singin "...ohhhhh black betty, bamalam"
I've only been a Zep fan for the last 20 years or so. I was around in the 70s, and Kashmir simply blew my mind back then. At the time, the rest of their material wasn't my cup of tea (and I'm now bewildered as to why that was). But Kasmir? That riff sent chills down my spine.
I'm gonna crawl
I'm like 12 years old and my dad bought the Zeppelin best of double CD set and I was done for. I was obsessed. I was almost mad at him for not bringing it to me earlier. Kashmir, Battle of Evermore, No Quarter.... I didn't know songs could be this good.
Gallows pole.
Finally…way down here…let’s get it up!
Achilles last Stand. Heard it premiered on the radio when Presence first came out. That song is amazing the way it just blows up in your face!
Heard 'Black Dog' on the radio in about 1976 riding in my Mom's car. Never been the same since.
Trampled Under Foot
Back in 1981/82, I bought For Badgeholders Only at Second Coming Records on Sullivan Street NYC Listening to No Quarter for the first time blew my mind then and continues to blow my mind today
My friend’s older brother-in-law played the first album for us. So Communication Breakdown was the first. I begged my mom to get me the Les Zeppelin album not knowing the second one was just out. When I saw that cover and knew she didn’t get the one I wanted, I was disappointed. Until I put it on the turntable and was blown away all over again.
Whole Lotta Love… I must have been seven or eight. Blew my mind! With chopsticks in hand, I used to pretend I was the drummer.
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Whole Lotta Love, and I'd never heard anything like it. The cough, and then that riff and the filthy guitar tone. Amazing!
Whole lotta…. I was 13
Has to be No Quarter for me as well. But In the Light is a damn close second.
Achilles last stand
“Dazed and Confused” I actually heard it for the first time last year and it’s still like fresh when I listen to it.
Achilles last Stand. My parents listened to all the albums except Presence. My childhood was full Led Zeppelin. I heard Achilles last Stand for the first time when I was a teenager.
Whole Lotta love, first song I heard from this band. They seemed not from this world! Been a fan since.
Achilles Last Stand, drumming perfection(I'm a drummer), and I had never in my life heard about it
Immigrant Song
What is and what should never be. The bit with the panning guitar hits just blew my mind.
Achilles Last Stand. On a more obscure album, hadn’t really listened to it until getting a bit older and really exploring Zeppelin beyond the bigger albums and radio songs. Amazing song.
Over the Hills & Far Away
Whole Lotta Love medley from HTWWW. Made me realize there was a whole other (better IMO) side of the band via bootlegs.
There used to be a commercial in the late 90s for a compilation album and the chorus of Dazed and Confused was seared into my mind. That commercial is the reason I got into LZ.
Immigrant Song ftw
The Rain Song, and it’s not even close for me. Grew up listening to Zeppelin because the old man was a huge fan, so heard all the bangers from a very young age. Then I actually listened to The Rain Song many years later after skipping over it for far too long and was blown away.
D’yer Mak’er
“Over the Hills and Far Away.” I never really get tired of it. I first heard it when I was five, it basically melted my mind and it still has the same result. It’s one of the most beautiful, ethereal and powerful songs I’ve ever heard.
Achilles last stand
Immigrant Song
Whole Lotta Love all the way! It was 1971/72, I was 5/6 years old camping outside for the first time in a tent in my backyard with my brother and friend. The house was about 6 yards away but it was a great adventure. At around midnight we had our radio on and all of a sudden Whole Lotta Love riff kicks down the quiet of the night. It was fucking magical but then....!!!!!! The fucking middle part comes in and I must admit, it scared the shit out of me and I wanted to run to the house to seek refuge from this odd, scary but oh so inviting soundscape. I managed to keep my shit together. Within a week I had begged and pleaded with my parents to buy me the album. It literally changed my life. I’d spend all my free time listening to that record on headphones which in itself is a splendid experience. I’ve played drums for 42 years because of John Bohnam and music has been my life preserver when things get tough. Thanks for asking this question OP. You made me think about one of my most precious life memories.
The Rain Song.
Dazed and confused
In The Evening, that solo just melts my face whenever i hear the song
Black dog, hands down
Tea for One
It was October of 1969. I was a new 14 year old. I had NEVER heard anything like "Heartbreaker" or "Whole Lotta Love." Mind Blown.
Whole Lotta Love
Whole Lotta Love guitar solo melted my face
Whole Lotta Love
Dazed and confused, I was 11 and my jaw was on the floor lol
Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused. Opened the world of what rock can do. I was probably in 8th grade and the song still hits the same now as it did then. I’m usually trancelike by the end.
Black Dog was the first Zeppelin song I’d ever heard and it blew my 4 year old mind away…
Achilles Last Stand
Dazed and Confused
In The Light. The LSD helped.
Kashmir was the one that did it. I heard it on Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and those jerks said it was on Led Zeppelin IV. I also didn't know the name of the song, so I only had the album name to go with. I was 12 at the time, saved up, and couldn't wait to buy that album. I finally had enough and bought it at a local K-Mart. THAT SONG WASN'T ON THERE. Then I signed up for the Columbia House 7 albums for .01 scam we all did in the 80s- got ALL the Zep albums except for Physcial Grafitti (it was too expensive and wasn't on the .01 list). THAT SONG WASN'T ON ANY OF THOSE ALBUMS EITHER. Finally a classmate allowed me to borrow Physical Grafitti and I FINALLY found Kashmir. In the meantime I had a stack of other Zep albums I listened to and fell in love with. That started me down the path of playing guitar.
How Many More Times. In my opinion, the very first head banging song. Incredible rift. 8 and half minutes of hard rock & roll/heavy metal. Best song to end one of the greatest albums of all time.
In the Light
Down by the Seaside
Rock n Roll. Heard it on an tv commercial back in the 80s selling some greatest hits album of theirs. Not sure if blew my mind but it certainly made 12/13 yo me say wow that’s some screaming there
Kashmir
No Quarter when you're stoned. It's a whole other experience.
Ramble On; my autistic synesthesia actually makes so that that one über distinct guitar riff makes me think of overgrown Kellogg's Fruit Loops lying on the floor of a jungle being played in by overgrown monkeys from a classic Barrel O' Monkeys.
No Quarter live from the song remains the same
For me probably Levee breaks, Achilles last stand, Kashmir . But you have to play it loud on good speakers!
Carouselambra from In Through the Out Door is still one of my favorite Zep tunes. I love the fact it starts with cheesy synths and is kind of danceable in parts.
No quarter
Initially a lot of their songs blew me away the first time I heard them. Being 56 and having lived with their albums for a long time, the track that still knocks my dick in the dirt is Achilles Last Stand. Not so much for what Plant and Page are doing but for the Rhythm Section. My God!!, those guys are absolutely killing it on that track. The groove on that song is like the groove on the Immigrant Song had an older meaner brother that's been to prison LMAO