Rating: 5/5
Review:
Still a very fine album
Led Zeppelin III hardly
needs another review from me after all this time, but I recently listened to it
all through for the first time in ages and I think it's worth saying that it is
still a very fine album.
Less relentlessly heavy than its two predecessors, there is
a pleasing mix of folk, blues and rock here.
Jimmy Page is a guitarist who is still genuinely worth listening to and
Plant's vocals remain extraordinary. Some of his extemporising looks a bit OTT
from this distance ("See-saw, Margery Daw?" Perhaps not.) but the overall effect with the
often unsung brilliance of John Bonham and John Paul Jones is still quite
thrilling in places.
This album was a backdrop to some of my university days and
remains not only very evocative of a time but a fine album in itself which has
stood up well over the decades. Warmly
recommended.
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