#258 LED ZEPPELIN IV - Album Dive

Metal Nerdery Podcast

Imagine being in a record store, just flipping through the LED ZEPPELIN section of albums on November 8, 1971, and finding an album that appeared unfamiliar, mysterious, and perhaps even a bit out of place. The album cover gave no reference as to the band’s name or any discernible album title, the back cover had no track listing, there were no pictures of the band.

There was nothing.

On the front cover, there is nothing more than a framed picture showing an old, bearded man standing with a cane and carrying a large bundle of sticks on his back, hanging on the weathered wall of a semi-demolished home once belonging to someone who has long since passed away. On the back cover, a high-rise apartment building jutting into the bleak, grey sky, surrounded by smaller apartment homes and lush greenery in the foreground. On the spine of the album, where one would expect to see the name of the band and the name of the album, there were only four distinct, unusual symbols. In time, it would come to be known by many names: RUNES, ZOSO, UNTITLED, and the most common name of them all, LED ZEPPELIN IV, which would go on to become the biggest selling album in the band’s catalog and one of the top 10 biggest selling albums in the history of ALL music.

Get ready to “have a good August” and remember that “sometimes words have 12 meanings” because it’s time to take “Dry July” a step further and step up your “pause game” while we share some kind words regarding our neighbors that were likely caused by a case of “Alabama jet lag”. Discover the only other thing that was missing from Gojira’s historic performance at the Olympic opening ceremonies other than “dragons and more fire”, understand the real reason why we ALL had to learn to play “the recorder” in elementary school, and JOIN US as we pay tribute to the sonic “transmogrification” of LED ZEPPELIN and dive into the enigmatic mystery that is their 4th (and otherwise “Untitled”) album, LED ZEPPELIN IV.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Let’s do #afterdark early…” / #instagram #pausegame #softcorehardcoreporncore #glazeddonut / “Ooooh, it’s a snake with it’s mouth open…”/ #subliminalporn / “It’s still #DryJuly and I took it a step further…”/ #dryjacking / “I got laid yesterday…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “That is…a tasty beverage…” / #BoylanBottlingCompany #CremeSoda #CaneSugar / “Three more days…”/ “You don’t have to though…you’ve exorcised the demon…” / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “Counting down the end…”/ ***If you wanna skip the nonsense…go to #TheDocket *** / “The appetizers are sometimes as good, if not better, than the main course…” / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #AkademiaBrewing #Skal / “That’s the #blackmetal #Norwegian dot…” / “Sorry…”/ #powerburpASMR / “It’s like #instantforgiveness …”/ “I kinda dig your state, man…” / #HooverAlabama / “There were a lot of pretty people there…” / “Everybody’s baby and honey out there…”/ #RussellsRoadtripReflectionsASMR / #ToddPacker #TheOffice / “I’ve seen clips, and that’s it…” / “Is that guy a porn star?” / “You were way off…”/ #OfficeTrivia / “Dude, that sounded wet and cavernous…”/ “He came down and did some crowd work (with my wife) …”/ #StardomeTheater / “Food was good…”/ #TheNewPunchline vs #TheOldPunchline

(11:41): You can #correspondancize with us on #Instagram and #Facebook and #YouTube OR you can email us at [e-mail] OR you can JOIN US on #Patreon at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast OR you can GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!! / #skoobitaboosh #VoicemailSegment #KenFromConnecticut / “Listening to a lot of your old episodes…again.” / #AllThatRemains and #PrideAndGlory / “Twangle…”/ “The pictures that #TripSix sent us…” / #ScreamFromTheBalls and #WhisperFromTheBalls #GeoffTaint #BestSellers / “Matthew is my #ghostwriter …”/ “Check this shit out…”/ #allegedly / #turkeysdone / ***THANK YOU TO OUR PATREONS!!!*** / #PatreonShoutout / “It’s a hard G…”/ ***If y’all have requests for #ThePatreon send us an email or a voicemail!*** / #DoomsicleASMR / “Dude, that sounded chunky…and wet…”/ #ANALysis / “PS, do a #Dethklok episode…”/ #fixitinpost / #AshesOfLeviathanTour / “Three days ago…” / #ohhhdamn

(19:53): “Did you guys see #Gojira?” / #OpeningCeremonies #Olympics (NOTE: “Ah! Ca Ira” is the song that #Gojira performed, which translates to “It will be fine…”) / #letthemeatcake / “They should bring that back…”/ “They need dragons and more fire…she needs to have her tits out.”/ “That’s last month’s news…”/ “That sounds Arabic…what you did.” / “Whichever one is more offensive…we’re trying to get female listeners…”

(24:31): “Let’s do #TheDocket …” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: LED ZEPPELIN IV / RUNES / #ZOSO / UNTITLED / #LedZeppelin #LedZeppelinIV / “I think we’re ALL thinking it, let’s go ahead and say it…c’mon, is it NOT!?” / “That’s not what I said, I did not say it!” / “I wonder if I heard this first and went backwards…” / “Almost everything on here was radio stuff…”/ #HeadleyGrange / Everything had to be louder because of #JohnHenryBonham / Released November 8, 1971 / “Isn’t that weird to think about?” / “He’s not just a bass player…” / “Obviously a bass player can be a musician, but not all musicians can be bass players, I don’t think…” / “He went from guitar to bass…you can’t use that word anymore…” / #transition #transform #transportation #transmogrification #TransAm / #killeropener BLACK DOG / “The time is weird…the drums kind of overlap…”/ “It’s kind of a WTF opener…”/ “I don’t know what I’ve been told…” / #sixtomidnight / “What do you think was THE most played song on the radio other than Stairway?” / “Of the songs on here, what’s your LEAST favorite?” / “It’s folky…”/ “I think it’s almost like their #EnterSandman …” / ROCK AND ROLL #killeropener on #TheSongRemainsTheSame #TheMovie / “The rhythm section of that band made Jimmy Page’s guitar sound WAY bigger…” / “Live, his guitar sound was kickass…” / #MidnightMovies

(40:10): “I didn’t like it initially…but I like it now.” / “It’s like a cloudy, rainy day…”/ #boinkboink / THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE (“It’s kinda got a creepy vibe to it…”) / “She looks like a witch…”/ “Bring it back…” / “Okay, be honest…at what point did you strive to learn #StairwayToHeaven ?” / #fingerings / “They were telling you how to finger…”/ #guitarlessons / “It’s a D suspended 4 pentagramian testicular chord…”/ “He put in the time…I wanted to get laid…”/ “I could do instant…instant’s cool.”/ #cricketsASMR / STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (“Let’s just reflect on this…on a Sunday afternoon”) / “There are no happy accidents…just babies.” / NOTE: That’s actually a recorder, not an organ or a flute…a recorder. Remember, the recorder? That one instrument we ALL learned to play in elementary school for whatever bizarre reason? / #TwelveMeanings / “But I’ve got some good news…” / “It sounds so big…it’s totally huge.” / “That’s something that’s not done anymore…”/ “Oh there’s #backmasking and weird stuff…”

(56:29): “What do you mean there’s ‘moments’?” / #HaveAGoodAugust / “Side 2 might be better than Side 1?” / “You’ve got #AlabamaJetLag …” / MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP #killeropener #sidetwo / “I like this one a little more now than I did then…”/ “That’s a lot of material for such a short timespan…”/ “It’s like #antimarketing …”/ “There was no internet…you had to guess…”/ FOUR STICKS (“Somebody should do a doom version of this if they haven’t already…”) / “I don’t remember…that part…”/ “And THEN I went backwards…most everything I heard was on the radio…” / “When they did that in the death metal voice…every single fucking time…that’s what they played.” / “I know it’s not June, but it’s gotta be made before we go to California…” / #logistics #topsandbottoms

(1:07:58): “Big Gulps, huh?” / GOING TO CALIFORNIA (“Someone told me there’s a squirrel out there…”) / #LedZeppelinIIIASMR / “It’s a #motif …”/ NOTE: It was recorded in the LOBBY (and/or Hallway) of #HeadleyGrange but there were microphones hung in the stairwell / #BeastieBoys RHYMIN’ & STEALIN’ / #drumsamplingASMR / WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS (“The harmonica makes it heavier…”) / “How did I miss that? You must have pounded the other one then…” / #itssore #downthere / (Potential) Tracking changes / “Even a casual listener probably has this record…”/ #RussellsReflections80sEditionASMR / “Did you buy the 45 or the whole album?” / “I had #PacManFever …#YouTube it, we’ve got a few minutes…”/ PAC-MAN FEVER (“Now we’ve gotta listen to #Sabbath”) / #arcades (“$5 then was like a month’s worth of groceries today…”) / #videogames #videoarcades #Intellivision #ColecoVision #Atari2600 / “Dude, that did not age well…” / “You could do it, but why would you?” / “They’re all ROMs…whatever…”/ #tobefair / “The irony which is not lost on me…” / #SpareChange #allegedly / THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND THANK YOU TO OUR PATREONS AND THANK YOU TO LED ZEPPELIN!!! / #outroreel / ***COME GRAB YOUR METAL NERDERY GEAR AT metalnerdery.com/merch ***