Favorite Led Zeppelin Album

@rajugsw - Page and Plant were great; I got to see a couple of their shows, and I liked them better than the LZ shows I'd seen between '69 and '77 - I found them to be a lot more tight and less sloppy.... And no drum solos! 

Another vote for the first album.  I had been playing guitar for 2 years when it came out, and I thought they were doing what I would want to do if I had such a great band.

It has to be LZII for re-writing the landscape of heavy metal music.

LZI was/is great too, but after hearing the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love on a dash-mounted, one speaker AM radio (with Mom & little brothers), in our '62 Bel Air station wagon, nothing musically was the same.

For those of us with ears back then, we remember there was nothing like it to be found elsewhere and yes, it was played to death.

Got to hear the Houses of the Holy tour (7May-Jacksonville; go to setlist.fm) after the Zep had extensively rehearsed (see Rolling Stone , Greatest Concerts), and the arena quad speaker system was in it's glory. They opened with Rock and Roll and never looked back. On Dazed and Confused Page would "bow" his guitar and point it at which of the three upper speaker arrays he wanted the sound to come from. As I dimly recall, there were amazing pyrotechnics too (?).

I don't diss anyone's choices, but after a few of the songs on Houses I felt that they lost their pioneering, blues-based spark. Heavy drugs no doubt took their toll, not to mention the pressure to come up with new material, and don't forget, they were SUPER RICH. Hunger and desire, IMHO, makes a rock musician great!

Led Zeppelin I, it all started there.

1st lp overall probably my fav, IIs Whole Lotta Love has huge soundstage, IV has some great songs, really like accustic cuts on Physical Graffitti, some cuts on Presence kinda erie futureistic but cool.

Liked Zep alot decades ago because they rocked on my BFs modest stereo. I never owned their albums. My buddy willed his full Zep disograghy to me last year. He took great care of them even "LASTED" some, but sadly the recording quality falls short as so many 70s rock recordings do.