Good Times Bad Times is a pretty good tune, although a bit short and it just seems to really.. go away quite randomly. I had to check if everything was okay! But it's not a special tune, really, I don't think. Just seems to be a tune they did. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, however, is an incredible tune. I love Plant's vocal peformance as well as Bonham's drumming on it, but I think the real highlight of the song is Page's guitar work. It's pretty incredible to hear, and I'm impressed with how.. I don't know, how despairing that song really sounds with this performance.
The third track, You Shook Me seems like exactly what it is. A Blues Cover. Unlike Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, I feel like Led Zeppelin don't really try their hardest to make this song their own. I mean, the band performances on it is pretty good, but it doesn't sound.. I don't know. It just sounds like a blues cover. I can say I find the wails surprised me a bit, and it got a bit strange at the end there. The bass line on Dazed and Confused is fantastic. I really enjoy that slow plodding beat it starts. It's a pretty neat song that the band does quite well. Page really makes that guitar work under Plant's voice and over Jones' Bass Guitar.
THAT ORGAN. Your Time Is Gonna Come starting with that real church organ sound is amazing, and it works so very well with Plant's voice. I think that this is the most comfortable Plant performance on this album. Seems like a song he really had practiced for. That ending with the guitar over the top of it to lead into Black Mountain Side really seemed to catch me off guard, but it's some neat acoustic guitar work, with a cool drum pattern to go with it. Nothing special as an instrumental, although it was interesting for the first minute or so, before I was waiting for Plant to come in with vocals and got a bit impatient.
Communication Breakdown is amazing. Simply put, it's the band working at full power to make a rockingly good short song. Not my favourite I've heard on this first spin, though. I have the same problem I had forYou Shook Me I have for I Can't Quit You Baby. It very much just sounds like a blues cover. It's still good, just, I don't know. It's just good. Nothing too special. I might be pissing people off with repeating that, but that's just how I feel! The Page solo is godly, though. I'll give it that. The notes just flowing from those fingers, I love it.
For the last track, How Many More Times, yet again, praise for the bass. John Paul Jones does yet another one of those walking style bass lines, and I love it. It's a really good drumming performance, actually Bonham steals this song and makes it awesome, especially during the spacey section. It's an amazing song to end this album, really. It went from simply good to great with this song alone, I feel. It's a strong debut album, certainly. If I was ranking it with number, I'd say it's a 8/10.