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# Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV

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Review: A sociology breakdown of the album, track by track - An upper division undergraduate (or middling graduate level?) term paper run amuck. Two stars for the content, but it's a five star book for the over-the-top style putting over the joke. This is one of those books, beautifully, gorgeously, at great and stylistic depth, that argues for artsy high-falutin' social "meaning" in a pretentious kiddie rock record. In short, the author has written an elaborate joke in the vernacular of '70s teenage ideas of "great art," and he has a blast establishing it (see the introduction, page 4, "that launched a thousand keggers,..." and you catch onto it) as a writing exercise. The method that Erik Davis takes is a simple method of telling an English Lit term paper, albeit polished, inflated, methodically built and argued, blown to gargantuan proportions: he methodically and in order retells the album tracks, interpreting them with a steam shovel helping each time as poetic interpretation. If you're looking for an ironic (like Machiavelli, you don't quite know if he's serious or pulling your leg) justification that this album is a great poetic statement, a study of meaning of life questions, an IMPORTANT art, this book is a loo loo of the first magnitude. If you're looking for the nuts-and-bolts about its recording/commercial background, nope you won't get it here. This book is both an elaborate joke about and for the band's disciples who take this ART (album as sacred, beyond "it's a nice record," religious icon) very seriously. In short, this book is about legend. Well, I (record junkie) only recently paid any serious attention to Led Zeppelin's now old catalog, buying the first five albums because they are important, as part of the '60s audio soundtrack. Like picking up the works of Glenn Miller for a '40s flavor, or Pat Boone for the '50s; I'm not a fan, er, devotee of rock gods, but Led Zeppelin, pre-disco 'Stones, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, and the Doors are the good dominant flavors of the period/genre'. And they are part of the ground zero of the backward masking hoax, record burning goblin preachers casting Christian spells as proven fact, spooking beehived-doo-ed mothers to righteous panic in cigarette ash homes to fits of vinyl breaking and pinup shredding, scaring stereo junkies of my generation. Olivia Newton-John might've been trying to seduce us to lesbian exercise rhapsodies, but 'Zeppelin, Judas Priest, and Styx were in charge of ferrying the dead when our albums played. I found what I was curious about, beginning page 126, Davis's, well, rather truncated explanations about "Stairway to Heaven," which I unfortunately found lacking in this book. He does note that the hub-bub more or less dates back only as far as maybe mid-'81, though he ascribes it to Michael Mills (more or less Battle Creek, Michigan), which I think is a dead end side alley. Since the book is written WELL after 1980, the backmasking treatment here is from long told tales. (Backward masking seems to have been invented/publicized out of Texas in mid-'81 ("Satan's Attack"), picked up and amplified up to Denver, then migrated to Southern California, where it blew up late April, 1982, and put to footnote print "fact" out of the Denver area in 1982 for endless distorted retelling; I think the catalyst for the affair was the introduction of built-in cassette recorders in cheap shelf record changers/AM-FM radio/tape decks replacing 8-track player/recorders. Anyone with a cheap record player and a $2.00 ferrous oxide cassette could test for satan secret messages. You could finally cue an Lp and make a tape easy and on-the-cheap in semi-hi fi, using your fingers to spin/grind records backwards with a ceramic cartridge $7 "diamond" split 78/45-Lp needle on a plastic free-spinning turntable and the tape punched "play-record." An out-of-the-box and plug-in-the-wall shelf stereo set cost about $150 bucks at Sears, Monkey Wards, or Radio Shack; it looked better than it sounded. Serious record addicts built up component stereos that started at $400, not including a tape deck.)
Review: One of the better books in the series - The first 40% of the book explores the times that the album grew up in, the band's influences, both musical and mystic, the iconic cover and the four symbols. The remainder of the book is a superb dissecting of the songs, a lot of fun to explore. But the final chapter is as fitting an epitaph as the 70s deserves and was very touching. This book is definitely worth the money, particularly if you're a Zep fan.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #772,289 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #778 in Music History & Criticism (Books) #1,199 in Rock Music (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (108) |
| Dimensions  | 4.89 x 0.46 x 7.41 inches |
| Edition  | 0 |
| ISBN-10  | 0826416586 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0826416582 |
| Item Weight  | 4.8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | 33 1/3 |
| Print length  | 184 pages |
| Publication date  | February 18, 2005 |
| Publisher  | Continuum |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A sociology breakdown of the album, track by track
*by S***N on February 11, 2016*

An upper division undergraduate (or middling graduate level?) term paper run amuck. Two stars for the content, but it's a five star book for the over-the-top style putting over the joke. This is one of those books, beautifully, gorgeously, at great and stylistic depth, that argues for artsy high-falutin' social "meaning" in a pretentious kiddie rock record. In short, the author has written an elaborate joke in the vernacular of '70s teenage ideas of "great art," and he has a blast establishing it (see the introduction, page 4, "that launched a thousand keggers,..." and you catch onto it) as a writing exercise. The method that Erik Davis takes is a simple method of telling an English Lit term paper, albeit polished, inflated, methodically built and argued, blown to gargantuan proportions: he methodically and in order retells the album tracks, interpreting them with a steam shovel helping each time as poetic interpretation. If you're looking for an ironic (like Machiavelli, you don't quite know if he's serious or pulling your leg) justification that this album is a great poetic statement, a study of meaning of life questions, an IMPORTANT art, this book is a loo loo of the first magnitude. If you're looking for the nuts-and-bolts about its recording/commercial background, nope you won't get it here. This book is both an elaborate joke about and for the band's disciples who take this ART (album as sacred, beyond "it's a nice record," religious icon) very seriously. In short, this book is about legend. Well, I (record junkie) only recently paid any serious attention to Led Zeppelin's now old catalog, buying the first five albums because they are important, as part of the '60s audio soundtrack. Like picking up the works of Glenn Miller for a '40s flavor, or Pat Boone for the '50s; I'm not a fan, er, devotee of rock gods, but Led Zeppelin, pre-disco 'Stones, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, and the Doors are the good dominant flavors of the period/genre'. And they are part of the ground zero of the backward masking hoax, record burning goblin preachers casting Christian spells as proven fact, spooking beehived-doo-ed mothers to righteous panic in cigarette ash homes to fits of vinyl breaking and pinup shredding, scaring stereo junkies of my generation. Olivia Newton-John might've been trying to seduce us to lesbian exercise rhapsodies, but 'Zeppelin, Judas Priest, and Styx were in charge of ferrying the dead when our albums played. I found what I was curious about, beginning page 126, Davis's, well, rather truncated explanations about "Stairway to Heaven," which I unfortunately found lacking in this book. He does note that the hub-bub more or less dates back only as far as maybe mid-'81, though he ascribes it to Michael Mills (more or less Battle Creek, Michigan), which I think is a dead end side alley. Since the book is written WELL after 1980, the backmasking treatment here is from long told tales. (Backward masking seems to have been invented/publicized out of Texas in mid-'81 ("Satan's Attack"), picked up and amplified up to Denver, then migrated to Southern California, where it blew up late April, 1982, and put to footnote print "fact" out of the Denver area in 1982 for endless distorted retelling; I think the catalyst for the affair was the introduction of built-in cassette recorders in cheap shelf record changers/AM-FM radio/tape decks replacing 8-track player/recorders. Anyone with a cheap record player and a $2.00 ferrous oxide cassette could test for satan secret messages. You could finally cue an Lp and make a tape easy and on-the-cheap in semi-hi fi, using your fingers to spin/grind records backwards with a ceramic cartridge $7 "diamond" split 78/45-Lp needle on a plastic free-spinning turntable and the tape punched "play-record." An out-of-the-box and plug-in-the-wall shelf stereo set cost about $150 bucks at Sears, Monkey Wards, or Radio Shack; it looked better than it sounded. Serious record addicts built up component stereos that started at $400, not including a tape deck.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the better books in the series
*by G***S on May 3, 2013*

The first 40% of the book explores the times that the album grew up in, the band's influences, both musical and mystic, the iconic cover and the four symbols. The remainder of the book is a superb dissecting of the songs, a lot of fun to explore. But the final chapter is as fitting an epitaph as the 70s deserves and was very touching. This book is definitely worth the money, particularly if you're a Zep fan.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A very good book for the well-read fan, but maybe not for the novice
*by T***E on March 4, 2012*

Led Zeppelin are a band who are much written about, and a large chunk of that has been written about "IV". So Erik Davis, when starting this book, obviously had a huge challenge: how could he bring something new to the table? How could he possibly shed light on such a cornerstone of modern rock that had already been poked, prodded, and dissected throughout its 40 year history? I believe this weighed heavily on the author, and his tack was both lowbrow and highbrow at the same time: he focused really sharply on the occult, metaphysical interests which were near peaking in Jimmy Page throughout the conception and execution of the record. This is good book for someone like me who has pored over every Zep biography, liner notes, Mojo articles, etc over the years in addition to digesting the records to near-fanatic levels and believe they know EVERYTHING about the record. He mentions classic Zep lore - Bonham using a brand new drum set at the bottom of a huge stairwell for "Levee", for instance - as an afterthought, as if to say "but you knew that already". And I did. And the focus on the occult influence through every song, not just "Evermore" or "Stairway", is great. Some of it may be reaching, but he DID bring something new to the table, the book was NOT boring, and it did make me want to listen to the record again. But if you've never read anything about IV, you might want to start with something more basic. Good book, though, very good.

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