Led Zeppelin IV Remastered @ 320 kbps
The fourth album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on November 8, 1971. It has no easily expressed official title and is commonly referred to as Led Zeppelin IV. Atlantic Records catalogues have used the names Four Symbols and The Fourth Album, and it is also variously referred to as Untitled, Runes, Sticks, Man With Sticks, Four and ZoSo (after the appearance of the first character or symbol printed on the LP label). Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page frequently refers to the album as Led Zeppelin IV in interviews, while singer Robert Plant thinks of it as "the Fourth Album, that's it." The album is one of the best-selling albums in history, with over 23 million units sold in the United States alone. Estimates for worldwide figures usually top 30 million units.
The album was recorded at Island Records's newly opened studios in Basing Street, London, around the same time as Jethro Tull's Aqualung, and at Headley Grange, a remote Victorian house in East Hampshire, England.
After the fairly negative critical reaction Led Zeppelin III had received in the autumn of 1970, Page decided that the next album would not have a title, but would instead feature four hand-drawn symbols on the inner sleeve and record label, each one chosen by the band member it represents. Page explained, "We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket. Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing."
These symbols are the official title of the album, and Atlantic Records initially distributed graphics of the symbols in many sizes to the press for inclusion in charts and articles. The album was the first to be produced without conventional identification, and this communicated an anti-commercial stance that was controversial at the time (especially among certain executives at Atlantic).
Led Zeppelin IV remains a perennial favorite on classic rock radio and features "Stairway to Heaven", one of the most famous and popular rock songs ever recorded. This was the band's third consecutive U.K. chart topper, and it reached #2 in the U.S., lasting 259 weeks on the chart there. During the track's 35 years of existence, its combined radio airplay in the United States alone has totaled over 50 years.
In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Led Zeppelin IV the 26th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 26 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is number 7 on Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. A 2005 listener poll conducted by Toronto classic rock station Q107 (CILQ) named Led Zeppelin IV the #2 best classic rock album of all time. In 2006, the album was rated #1 on Classic Rock magazine's100 Greatest British Albums poll. In 2006, the album was rated # 1 on Guitar World 100 Greatest Albums, voted by the readers.
Track listing
"Black Dog" (Page/Plant/Jones) – 4:56
"Rock and Roll" (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham) – 3:41
"The Battle of Evermore" (Page/Plant) – 5:52
"Stairway to Heaven" (Page/Plant) – 8:03
"Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones) – 4:39
"Four Sticks" (Page/Plant) – 4:45
"Going to California" (Page/Plant) – 3:32
"When the Levee Breaks" (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Memphis Minnie) – 7:07
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