Album List 1971, The Who, Led Zeppelin

This album from 1971 shows The Who at the top of their game. Roger Daltrey's voice has clearly evolved from their earlier work, and with the collective contributions of Moon, Townshend and Entwhistle, they laid the foundations for many generations to come. Classics like the progressive sounding Baba O'Riley and mournful power ballad Behind Blue Eyes (which was mandatory in their set lists) and most of all the riot-inciting Won't Get Fooled Again which reached number 9 in the UK Charts and #15 in the US.

A definitive album that marks the beginning of a new decade of rock, respectful of it's roots but looking forward and eager to reach new heights. The Who are one of those bands that spontaneously gather a hardcore following of dedicated fans normally only reserved for cult bands who move in more underground circles.

The Who and their fans with the mod movement were responsible for a lot of exceptional music and mirror-clad Lambrettas around the seaside resorts at the weekends during the sixties and seventies. Also of their own making was the reclaiming of icons like the Union Jack at that time deeply rooted within the establishment and extremely unfashionable. Just for these reasons alone The Who would deserve a place on this list, never mind the fact that this album is the dogs bollocks. How many more bands can claim to have started a youth movement single handed? Surely not many, and the number is even slimmer if we expect those bands to have members recognised by their peers as some of the best in the world ever, as it was the case of Keith Moon.

The only bad thing to come out of this album was the cover version of Behind Blue Eyes from Limp Bizkit. It was such a bad taste joke, as I refuse to think for a second that a band of such limited capabilities done the version in good faith, expecting to improve it, thinking that perhaps they had something to add to a song of itself so close to perfect. I suffered with excruciating pain during the first and only audition. It took me ages to recover, being only possible with successive non stop top volume sessions of the original, thank god for the repeat button in these modern contraptions.



Who's Next - The Who (1971)

1 - Baba O'Riley
2 - Bargain
3 - Love Ain't For Keeping
4 - My Wife
5 - The Song Is Over
6 - Getting In Tune
7 - Going Mobile
8 - Behind Blue Eyes
9 - Won't Get Fooled Again


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What else can Confessions of a Vagabond say about Led Zeppelin IV that wasn't said many times before by people far more qualified then us, humble scribes at your orders?!? Nonetheless we face the ordeal with a smile on our lips as only an opening track like Black Dog could manage, the smile broadens even more as soon as Rock and Roll follows. The two opening tracks would guarantee the entrance of this album in any sort of list, let alone in one made by people who grew up thinking of Jimmy Page as the ultimate guitar virtuoso and John Bonham as the perfect drinking mate.

So we establish the first two tracks are quite something, what to say when we know that the next two tracks are Battle of Evermore and Stairway to Heaven. If the ideas for this review seem to pale in comparison to the larger than life side A of this album. Oops! You never owned the original album on vinyl? Maybe you only have it on cd, we are old farts here, and apologise for the assumption that you ever owned a copy of one of the best rock and roll albums of all time. But, we have news for you - this album due to the law of physics also had a side B, which by sheer luck or ingenuity and originality of Led Zeppelin contained a none less celebrated Misty Mountain Hop and Going To California plus another two tracks which we won't bother you with the names for two simple reasons - if you are as old as us... you already know their names. If you are younger, you are not used to so much quality in one album alone.

Go and see for yourself, enough said. And please be assured we are not patronising you... this album is. What else do you expect when your generation produced only Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, and your only good musicians are rip-offs from the past, i.e Amy Winehouse and Jack White.





Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971)


1. Black Dog
2. Rock & Roll
3. The Battle of Evermore
4. Stairway to Heaven
5. Misty Mountain Hop
6. Four Sticks
7. Going to California
8. When the Levee Breaks



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