Rolling Stone may have panned Led Zeppelin's debut album 40 years ago, but readers of the magazine have now voted it their favorite album of 1969.And Led Zeppelin II, reviewed that same year without a straight face, was voted the year's No. 2 album.
Both LPs best the '69 releases by the Beatles, the Stones and the Who.
The list includes a total of 15 records from the year that yielded the Woodstock festival, and artists from that show are well represented: Woodstock performers Neil Young, the Band, and Sly & the Family Stone all have discs on the list, as do the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Blind Faith, the Kinks and Captain Beefheart.
To read the complete list, click here.
The cover art for the current issue of Rolling Stone, shown at right, was designed by Shepard Fairey, who in 2007 lent his creative hand and pop-art stylings to the artwork of Led Zeppelin's best-of set, Mothership.
While I agree with some of this list I still think that The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East should be on it. Maybe they compiled studio only albums. But still....
ReplyDeleteZep I and II are appropriately listed as no's 1 and 2 though. They should and would rank there in any year!!!
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