A big part of me right now wants to vent about my day and briefly touch on why this album helped me calm the fuck down at about 5:30 PM...

I feel a lot better now that I'm at home and I'm getting to spend time curled up on the couch, catching up on things that are completely unrelated to work.

That however wasn't the case earlier and I needed to hear something familiar on in the background that I could work to and not find myself entirely distracted.

I've said this before on the blog, but I've always been a little ashamed for not owning any Led Zeppelin albums in my collection. I'm intimately familiar with their work... and I'm planning on purchasing their first three albums when they get re-issued on Vinyl this June, but I couldn't really until then to listen and weigh in on this album.

I forget how old I was when I first listened to this album... I didn't listen to their stuff in the order that they were released. I'm pretty sure I listened (and loved) Zeppelin II - first. ZoSo was probably the second album I heard by the band and Houses of the Holy was likely the third...

I do however remember the feeling I got when I heard Babe I'm Going to Leave You for the first time tho'. I couldn't believe that a group of kids in their late teens and early 20's recorded and produced this album. I still can't believe it...

Well... there's that plagiarism thing that sorta hangs over their head.

Stand out tracks:

Artists: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin
Producer: Jimmy Page
Label: Atlantic
Recorded: Olympic Studios