LED ZEPPELIN I [1ST ALBUM] VINYL 1ST PRESSING LP EX [VG++] ATLANTIC SD 8316 1969

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I had 5 brick and mortar stores in Portland, OR, Boise, ID, Fairbanks, AK, and 2 stores in Anchorage, AK. I operated under the name Nickelodeon Records & Tapes from 1973 to 1978, hence the eBay name Original 1976 Nickelodeon Records.

All of my Listings are NEAR MINT VINYL By Visual Inspection UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Not Play Graded

EACH COVER CONDITION is INDIVIDUALLY NOTED

THIS LISTING is for LED ZEPPELIN I [DEBUT ALBUM] ATLANTIC SD 8216 1969
THIS IS A FIRST EDITION PRESSING WITH THE FOLLOWING OBSERVED MATRIX/RUNOUT INFO.

    LABEL SIDE A..ST-A-681461-PR
RUNOUT SIDE A..ST-A-681461-A
                 VARIANT..ST-A-681461C AT GP PR

    LABEL SIDE B..ST-A-681462-PR
RUNOUT SIDE B..ST-A-681462-A
                 VARIANT..ST-A-681462C AT GP PR
 
NOT PERFECT BUT IT IS LED ZEPPELIN I w/LIGHT WEAR

COVER IS EX [VG++] LIGHT  WEAR
VINYL IS EX [VG++] LIGHT PLAY w/NO CUTS, NO MARKS, ONE HAIRLINE SIDE ONE

ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE IS EX [VG++] NO TEARS, NO WRITING

NUMBER 29 on ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME LIST

NUMBER 41 on THE TIMES [LONDON] THE 100 BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

NUMBER 5 on SPIN Magazine 25 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
NUMBER 6 on Q Magazine 21 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED MUSIC
NUMBER 81 on CLASSIC ROCK Magazine 100 GREATEST ROCK ALBUMS EVER
1001 ALBUMS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE BOOK

NUMBER 7 UNCUT MAGAZINE
NUMBER 44 on VH1 GREATEST ALBUMS of ALL TIME

"Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. Featuring integral contributions from each of the group's four members, the album was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and established their fusion style of both blues and rock music. It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band; Zeppelin's take on the emerging hard rock sound endeared them to parts of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean". WIKIPEDIA

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RELEASE AND RECEPTION

In a stinging assessment, Rolling Stone magazine asserted that the band offered "little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago … It would seem that if they are to fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer, editor and some material worthy of their collective talents." It also called Plant "as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near so exciting". Rolling Stone March 15, 1969.

However, press reaction to the album was not entirely negative. In Britain the album received a glowing review in Melody Maker. Chris Welch wrote, in a review titled "Jimmy Page triumphs – Led Zeppelin is a gas!": "their material does not rely on obvious blues riffs, although when they do play them, they avoid the emaciated feebleness of most so-called British blues bands".In comparing the record to their follow-up Led Zeppelin II, Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that the debut was "subtler and more ambitious musically", and not as good, "because subtlety defeated the effect. Musicianship, in other words, was really incidental to such music, but the music did have real strength and validity: a combination of showmanship and overwhelming physical force. Robert Christgau Village Voice February 12, 1970". WIKIPEDIA