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Led Zeppelin III | 
 enlarge | Artist: Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  272 reviews
Sales Rank: 830
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 82678
UPC: 075678267826
EAN: 0075678267826
ASIN: B000002J1U
Release Date: August 16, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Immigrant Song | | • | Friends | | • | Celebration Day | | • | Since I've Been Loving You | | • | Out On The Tiles | | • | Gallows Pole | | • | Tangerine | | • | That's The Way | | • | Bron-Y-Aur Stomp | | • | Hats Off To (Roy) Harper |
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After plundering the Yardbirds' legacy and Willie Dixon (among others) for their blues-riff-heavy first two albums, Jimmy Page and company surprised many listeners with the strong acoustic/folk sensibility displayed on III. Page aficionados shouldn't have been caught off guard; the guitarist had toyed with similar sensibilities and modalities during his brief tenure with the Yardbirds (most notably "White Summer" from the Little Games album). Ever the creative thieves, Zep kick off the album by nicking the riff from "Bali Ha'i" no less, with Robert Plant wailing it to punctuate the thundering FM warhorse "Immigrant Song." Even other electric rockers like "Celebration Day" and "Out on the Tiles" have an inventive, offbeat musicality to them that suggest the band was already wary of stereotyping. But it's the decidedly mellower acoustic groove of the album's latter half that's the news here, from the graceful beauty of "That's the Way" and "Tangerine" to the raw, folksy charm of "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," "Hats Off (to Roy Harper)," and the traditional "Gallows Pole." --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Led Zeppelin's 1970 album. Features the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.
Album Details
Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Out of Reach! October 2, 2008
Wayne Dawson (New Zealand)
The light/heavy ideas of Led Zeppelin really come to fruition with the third where much has been written about its obvious folk leanings, certainly Page's twelve string guitar is a treat but these arrangements have the orchestrated detail of a symphony. This musical collage doesn't in any way impede the powerful sense of spontaneity, with Bonzo creating a jazz feel to keep his boogie backbeat loose (dig the extended coda to Out On the Tiles).
The single release for this album was the magnificent Immigrant Song, a Viking saga in miniature but Zep III also contains what may be considered their finest moment with Since I've Been Loving You; a monumental piece that provides big climaxes for stretching Plant's rambling vocals, to where he delivers all the feverish emotions of an Anglo-Saxon blues opera, while Jimmy Page's flowing guitar solo has incomparable strength and sound. The sheer transcendence of these two tracks alone makes accusations of plagiarism seem irrelevant!
Led Zeppelin covered a lot of musical ground in a very short space of time but with their third album a mature disenchantment begins to show through as on That's the Way, the black humour to Gallows Pole, and Since I've Been Loving You; proof that the blues creeps into every corner of peoples lives, irrespective of colour. Despite negative experiences Zep's optimistic spirit surged on.
Alongside all of this one can't help but feel the fine touch of John Paul Jones arranging talents combining with those of Jimmy Page; married to that sophistication is the creative rawness, range and energy of Robert Plant and John Bonham. No small wonder then that the results are of a volcanic artistry way out of reach of any heavy metal band. Consequently I've often found the fourth or so called Runes album bordering on the bland in comparison to this jewellery box.
My favorite Led Zeppelin Album September 23, 2008
Rick Highman (Ashland, Oh)
I have always been a big fan of Zeppelin. I think this is one of the albums that didn't get the extensive airplay as some of the others. It is loaded with great songs though. I can always put this on and listen to the entire album everytime.
Led Zeppelin III September 22, 2008
Ninefingers5 (Pa USA)
This Album shows the depth, length and width of Led Zeppelins talent and is one of the best albums to mellow out to after a grueling day of noise and aggravation. I have worn through the grooves in this album, stretched out the tape on the 8-track, broken all the teeth on the cassett and look forward to having a digital copy that will last a life time.
Led Zeppelin April 15, 2008
S. Tyler (Seattle WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am collecting some great music classics now. Led Zeppelin is one of the best.
 Essential and often over-looked March 15, 2008
Steve (Nevada)
This is head and shoulders above the previous two releases even if one is apt to hear more from the former two on the radio. While the first two albums tried hard and often overdid it, this album finds the band settling into a comfort level, spreading out, and demonstrating the kind of diversity and damn the torpedoes attitude that would come to define their uniqueness. While I am curious as to the sagacity of delineating so clearly the hard side and soft side (whereas IV/Zoso intermixed the loud with the quiet), there is no doubt that LZ III was their best effort to date. Plant's Norseman's wail and the thundering gallop of "Immigrant Song" knocks you backward as is typical of Zeppelin's opening numbers and from there it only gets better. "Friends" is one of my top five favorites, and the straight-forward blues of "Since I've Been Loving You" is about as genuine and defining as this band ever did the curious stepchild of the blues which owed as much to the American masters of the genre as it did to the heavily amplified and excessive machismo of the British electrified interpretation.
The songs are nearly all exceptional with the only misstep being the closer "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" which is a bit too clever for its own good. The second half of the album features the more acoustic influences of Page and Plant and allows the listener to hear how diverse and capable this band was, and in particular, how Page's studio experiences and varied influences allowed this band to separate itself from its Yardbirds roots and forge a path that no band had yet traversed. As this album clearly underscores, the genealogy of this band were clearly broader than Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon.
Along with the follow-up and Physical Graffiti, this is an essential release from Led Zeppelin.
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