Time to get the Led out!

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (1970)

Hello friends!

Is there any doubt that Led Zeppelin III is the best Led Zeppelin LP? 

Its smack in the middle of a string of five albums that form a "murderer's row" of classic FM rock.

Also, is there a human alive who doesn't get pumped when hearing those opening lines from the lead-off, "Immigrant Song"?  To this day, whenever I hear it, I want to dress like a Viking, navigate across a frozen tundra and kill a wild boar with my bare hands. 

"Ah... Aaaaaaahaaaah... Ah!"
"Ah... Aaaaaaahaaaah... Ah!"

But its the ballad-y, acoustic numbers that makes me feel that Led Zep III has probably stood the tests of time better than any of their other LPs.   Not to mention there's some really fine Jimmy Page guitar-playing, especially on the C-minor blues, "Since I've Been Loving You" and the rawking "Celebration Day".

Plus, the original record has a spinny wheel thing that changes the images on the front cover.  This is a lot of fun for like five minutes.

RATING: 5 hammers of the gods out of a possible 5