Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin adalah album pertama dari band asal Inggris, Led Zeppelin. Album ini direkam pada bulan Oktober 1968 di Olympic Studios, London dan diterbitkan oleh Atlantic Records pada tanggal 12 Januari 1969. Album ini dilengkapi dengan kontribusi yang menyatu dari masing-masing anggota Led Zeppelin dan meletakan dasar fusi blues dan rock khas Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin juga menciptakan sekelompok besar penggemar, dengan konsep heavy metal yang unik, yang turut menciptakan gerakan kontra-budaya di kedua sisi Samudera Atlantik.
Led Zeppelin | ||||
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Album studio karya Led Zeppelin | ||||
Dirilis | 12 Januari 1969 | |||
Direkam | Oktober 1968, Olympic Studios, London | |||
Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock | |||
Durasi | 44:26 | |||
Bahasa | Inggris | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Produser | Jimmy Page | |||
Kronologi Led Zeppelin | ||||
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Singel dalam album Led Zeppelin I | ||||
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Meskipun pada awalnya album ini mendapatkan pandangan negatif, album ini laku keras di pasaran dan kritikus pun sudah mulai melihat album ini dengan pandangan positif. Pada tahun 2003, album ini tercatat di peringkat ke-29 pada daftar 500 Album terbaik Sepanjang Masa yang diterbitkan majalah musik, Rolling Stone.
Latar belakang
pada bulan Agustus 1968, band rock Inggris, The Yardbirds telah bubar secara resmi. Gitaris Jimmy Page, satu-satunya anggota The Yardbirds yang masih tersisa, ditinggalkan hak nama band tersebut dan kewajiban kontrak untuk mengadakan serangkaian tur konser di Skandinavia.[1] Untuk band barunya, Page merekrut bassis John Paul Jones, vokalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham. Selama bulan September 1968, kelompok toured Scandinavia sebagai The New Yardbirds, memainkan serangkaian lagu lama dari The Yardbirds beserta lagu-lagu baru seperti "Communication Breakdown", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "You Shook Me", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" dan "How Many More Times".[2] Sebulan sekelmbalinya mereka ke London, pada bulan Oktober 1968, Page mengganti nama The New Yardbirds, menjadi Led Zeppelin, dan Led Zeppelin kemudian memasuki Olympic Studios di London untuk merekam album perdana mereka.[3]
Recording dan produksi
Sesi rekaman
Pada sebuah wawancara tahun 1990, Page menyatakan bahwa album ini hanya memakan waktu sekitar 36 jam saja (tersebar di beberapa minggu) untuk membuat (sekaligus proses mixing). Page menambahkan lebih lanjut, bahwa dirinya mengetahui hal ini berdasarkan jumlah tagihan pemakaian studio mereka.[4][5] Salah satu alasan utama dari waktu perekaman yang tertgolong singkat ini adalah bahwa material album yang akan direkam sudah sering dilatih dari awal dan telah direncanakan sejak tour of Scandinavia pada bulan September 1968.[6] Seperti yang dijelaskan oleh Page, "[Band ini] telah mulai mengembangkan aransemen aransemen pada saat tur di Skandinavia, dan saya tahu persis suara seprti apa yang saya cari. Semuanya datang bersamaan dengan sangat cepat."[7]
Sebagai tambahan, sejak band ini belum menandatangani kesepakatan apapun dengan Atlantic Records, Page dan manajer Led Zeppelin, Peter Grant membayar semua sesi perekamannya sendiri, yang artinbya adalah tidak ada uang perusahaan rekaman yang dipergunakan kala membayar jam perekaman yang berlebih.[8] Pada sesi wawancara yang lain, Page mengakui bahwa swadana ini untuk memastikan kebebasan berseni mereka, "Saya menginginkan kontrol artistik pada tingkat yang berbeda, sebab saya mengetahu denga tepat apa yang ingin saya lakukan bersama teman-teman saya ini. Bahkan sebenarnya. saya mendanai dan merekam sepenuhnya album pertama ini sebelum saya ke Atlantic (perusahaan rekaman). ... Bukan cerita biasa ketika Anda maju selangkah di depa pada proses pembuatan album-kami tiba di Atlantic dengan rekaman di tangan ... Reaksi Atlantic sangatlah positif-maksud saya, mereka membuat konrak dengan kita, kan?"[9]
Biaya yang erhitung saat Led Zeppelin merekam album ini adalah sebesar £1,782.[8][10] Pakar Led Zeppelin, Dave Lewis mencatat bahwa "[d]engan pengecualian perekaman 12 jam yang the Beatles ambil untuk merekam album pertama mereka di Abbey Road, jarang ada pemakaian studio yang sangat ekonomis seperti ini. Album pertama Led Zeppelin laku terjual lebih dari £3.5 juta, hanya sedikit kurang dari 2,000 kali lebih dari yang mereka investasikan!"[8]
Untuk perekama ini, Page menggunakan sebuah Fender Telecaster yang di-cat psychedelic, sebuah hadiah dari Jeff Beck setelah Page merekomendasikan teman masa kecilnya ke the Yardbirds pada tahun 1965 sebagai pengganti yang potensial untuk Eric Clapton pada posisi lead guitar.[11] Ini berbeda dari gitar yang lebih banyak dipakai pada album-album beikutnya (yang paling terkenal, Gibson Les Paul). Page memainkan Telecaster ini dengan memakai amplifier Supro.[11] Dia juga menggunakan Gibson J-200, yang ia pinjam dari Big Jim Sullivan, untuk merekam lagu-lagu akustik pada album ini.[11] Untuk lagu "Your Time Is Gonna Come" ia memakai steel guitar Fender 10-senar.[11]
Produksi
Led Zeppelin diproduseri oleh Jimmy Page dan ditangani secara teknis oleh Glyn Johns, yang sebelumnya sudah pernah bekerja bersama The Beatles, The Rolling Stones dan The Who. Kata Page, "Album pertama adalah album live, benar-benar live, dan ini dilakukan dengan sengaja. Terdapat banyak overdubs disana-sini, tetapi lagu aslinya adalah live."[12]
Page dilaporkan menggunaka ruangan dengan nuansa alami untuk meningkatkan efek reverd dan tekstur perekaman saat pengambilan suara, menujukan inovasi pada perekaman yang telah ia pelajari selama hari-hari awal kariernya. Sampai akhir 1960-an, mayoritas produser musik menempatkan mikrofonnya tepat di depan amplifier dan drum. Untuk Led Zeppelin Page mengembangkan ide untuk menempatkan mikrofon tambahan yang diletakan agak jauh dari amplifiar (beberapa sejauh hampir 20 kaki) dan kemudian merekam dengan seimbang keduanya. Dengan menerapkan teknik "jarak sama dengan kedalaman" ini, Page menjadi produser pertama untuk merekam "suara-nuansa"-jarak dari setiap time-lag' not dari ujung ruangan ke ujung ruangan lainnya.[13][14]
Fitur lainnya yang patut dicatat dari album ini adalah "kebocoran" pada perekaman vokal Robert Plant. Pada sebuah interview yang dilakukan oleh Guitar World tahun 1998, page menyatakan bahwa "Suara Robert sangat kuat dan, sebagai hasilnya, akan bocor ke track lainnya. Tetapi anehnya, kebocoran ini tampaknya disengaja."[13] Pada lagu "You Shook Me", Page memakai teknik "backward echo". It involves hearing the echo before the main sound (instead of after it), and is achieved by turning the tape over and employing the echo on a spare track, then turning the tape back over again to get the echo preceding the signal.[13]
Album ini adalah salah satu album pertama yang dijual ke pasar hanya dalam format stereo; pada saat itu, para produser biasanya merilis ke pasaran baik versi mono maupun versi stereo.[8]
Artwork
Cover depan Led Zeppelin, yang dipilih oleh Page dilengkapi oleh gambar monokromatik dari terbakarnya kapal udara Hindenburg. Gambar ini merujuk terhadap asal nama band ini sendiri:[8] ketika Page, Jeff Beck dan anggota The Who, Keith Moon dan John Entwistle sedang mendiskusikan ide membentuk sebuah grup band, Moon berkelakar, "Band itu mungkin akan jatuh seperti balon udara", dan Entsistle menambahkan, "...sebuah balon Zeppelin!"
Cover belakang Led Zeppelin dilengkapi oleh foto anggota Led Zeppelin yang diambil oleh mantan anggota Yardbird,Chris Dreja.[8] Desain cover album sepenuhnya dikordinasikan oleh George Hardie, desainer yang akan terus dipakai oleh Led Zeppelin untuk cover-cover berikutnya.[8]
Hardie mengingat bahwa pada awalnya ia menawarkan Led Zeppelin sebuah desain berdasarkan sebuah lambang club tua di San Francisco-sebuah gambar multi-sekuen dari kapal udara Zeppelin yang melayang di udara. Page menolak, tetapi logo ini tetap diterima sebagai logo untuk sampul belakang untuk kedua album pertama dan juga beberapa iklan pers awal.[8] Selama beberapa minggu pertama rilis album di Inggris, sampul album dilengkapi dengan nama band dan logo Atlantic berwarna turquoise. Ketika sampul ini diganti menjadi warna oranye yang umum dipakai sekarang, album yang bersampul warna turquoise menjad benda koleksi langka.[8]
Sampul albu, ini mendapat perhatian massa ketika, pada sebuah sesi bulan Februari 1970 di Kopenhagen, Led Zeppelin diundang sebagai "The Nobs" sebagai hasil dari ancaman hukum Eva von Zeppelin (saudara dari pembuat kapal terbang Zeppelin). von Zeppelin, ketika melihat logo Hindenburg terbakar, mengancam untuk menghentikan acara dari saluran radio.[15] Pada tahun 2001, Greg Kot menulis di majalah Rolling Stone bahwa "Sampul album Led Zeppelin. . . menunjukan kapal udara 'Hindenburg' pada kejatuhannya yang agung, terbakar. Gambar ini cukup sukses untuk merangkum isi dari album ini: seks, bencana, dan barang-barang terbakar."[16]
Komposisi
Keaslian konsep album ini ditunjukan pada lagu-lagu seperti "Good Times Bad Times", "Dazed and Confused" dan "Communication Breakdown", yang memiliki suara berat yang khas untuk fans rock muda di era akhir 1960-an. Led Zeppelin juga dilengkapi dengan suara gitar akustik yang lembut oleh Page pada lagu "Black Mountain Side", dan kombinasi pendekatan akustik dan elektrik pada versi adaptasi mereka untuk lagu "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You".
"Dazed and Confused" acap kali dikatakan sebagai inti dari album itu sendiri: sebuah aransemen yang penuh firasat dilengkapi dengan nada bass menurun dari Jones, hentakan drum yang berat dari Bonham, dan beberapa riff dan solo yang kuat dari Jimmy Page. Lagu ini juga memperdengarkan Page yang memainkan gitarnya dengan sebuah penggesek violin (ide yang disarankan oleh David McCallum Sr., yang ditemui Page saat melakukan perekaman di studio).[17] Permainan gitar yang digesek di bagian tengah lagu membawa psychedelic rock ke eksperimen di ketinggian baru, khususnya pada versi tambahan panggung, menciptakan bentuk awal musik Page yang dulu pernah dilakukan pada masa akhir The Yardbirds. "Dazed and Confused" akan menjadi lagu kunci setiap konser Led Zeppelin di tahun-tahun mendatang. Teknik penggesekan gitar juga digunakan pada lagu "How Many More Times", sebuah lagu yang dilengkapi riff berpola "bolero" dan pergantian-pergantian cadence yang diimprovisasi dengan baik.[8]
Banyak lagu-lagu awal Led Zeppelin yang berasal dari lagu standar blues, dan album ini juga dilengkapi dengan tiga lagu yang diciptakan oleh artis lain: "You Shook Me" dan "I Can't Quit You Baby", keduanya dibuat oleh artis blues, Willie Dixon; dan "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You".[8] Mengenai lagu terakhir ini, pada waktu itu gitaris Jimmy Page mengira bahwa ia sedang melakukan adaptasi dari sebuah lagu rakyat tradisional he had heard on a Joan Baez record, but this was corrected on subsequent rereleases after it was revealed that the song was composed by Anne Bredon in the 1950s.[8] Dixon, on the other hand, received proper credit as the composer of his two songs on this album (although "You Shook Me" would later be additionally credited to J. B. Lenoir) but would go on to settle out of court with Led Zeppelin over partial use of other material of his on Plant's lyrics to "Whole Lotta Love". On "You Shook Me", Plant vocally mimics Page's guitar effects—a metallicised version of the "call and response" blues technique.
Jeff Beck had previously recorded "You Shook Me" for his album, Truth, and accused Page of stealing his idea.[8] With John Paul Jones and drummer Keith Moon of The Who, Page had played on (and says he arranged) "Beck's Bolero", an instrumental on Truth that would be grooved into the mix of the Led Zeppelin jam "How Many More Times". These cross-pollinations led to a rift between Beck and Page, who had played in the Yardbirds together and been friends since childhood.[18] In fact, it was Page who first suggested Beck for the Yardbirds' guitarist position when he was contacted by the band after Eric Clapton's departure.
In an interview he gave in 1975, Page offered his own perspective on the album's music:
For material, we obviously went right down to our blues roots. I still had plenty of Yardbirds riffs left over. By the time Jeff [Beck] did go, it was up to me to come up with a lot of new stuff. It was this thing where [Eric] Clapton set a heavy precedent in the Yardbirds which Beck had to follow and then it was even harder for me, in a way, because the second lead guitarist had suddenly become the first. And I was under pressure to come up with my own riffs. On the first LP I was still heavily influenced by the earlier days. I think it tells a bit, too... It was obvious that somebody had to take the lead, otherwise we'd have all sat around jamming for six months. But after that, on the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together.[19]
Plant is credited on the album with "occasional bass". In an interview he gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 2005, Plant made reference to this:
In truth, I was an occasional bass player. It says so on Zeppelin I, next to my name: vocals, harmonica and occasional bass. Very occasionally -- once, I think, since 1968. How in God's name that ended up on the cover is so funny. I'm sure Jonesy [John Paul Jones] didn't like it [laughs]. But I suppose every time he fucked up he could say it was me.[20]
Reception
Penilaian profesional | |
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Skor ulasan | |
Sumber | Nilai |
Allmusic | [21] |
Blender | [22] |
Entertainment Weekly | (A-)[23] |
Oz | (favourable)[24] |
Q | [25] |
Rolling Stone (1969) | (unfavourable)[26] |
Rolling Stone (2001) | [27] |
Yahoo! Music | (favourable)[28] |
The album was advertised in selected music papers under the slogan "Led Zeppelin — the only way to fly".[8] It initially received poor reviews. In a stinging assessment, Rolling Stone magazine asserted that the band offered "little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago ... It would seem that if they are to fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer, editor and some material worthy of their collective talents."[29][30] It also called Plant "as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near so exciting".[31] John Paul Jones later recalled:
We had appalling press at the time. Nobody seemed to want to know us for one reason or another. We got to America and read the Rolling Stone review of the very first album, which was going on about us as another hyped British band. We couldn't believe it. In our naivety we thought we'd done a good album and were doing all right, and then this venom comes flying out. We couldn't understand why or what we'd done to them. After that we were very wary of the press, which became a chicken-and-egg situation. We avoided them and so they avoided us. It was only because we did a lot of shows that our reputation got around as a good live band.[30]
As was noted by rock journalist Cameron Crowe years later: "It was a time of "super-groups," of furiously hyped bands who could barely cut it, and Led Zeppelin initially found themselves fighting upstream to prove their authenticity."[32]
However, press reaction to the album was not entirely negative. In Britain the album received a glowing review in the Melody Maker. Chris Welch wrote, in a review titled "Jimmy Page triumphs — Led Zeppelin is a gas!": "their material does not rely on obvious blues riffs, although when they do play them, they avoid the emaciated feebleness of most so-called British blues bands".[5]
The album was very commercially successful. It was initially released in America on 17 January 1969 to capitalise on the band's first U.S. concert tour. Before that, Atlantic Records had distributed a few hundred advance white label copies to key radio stations and reviewers. A positive reaction to its contents, coupled with a good reaction to the band's opening concerts, resulted in the album generating 50,000 advance orders.[8] Within two months of its release the album had reached Billboard's Top 10.[33] It stayed on the Billboard chart for 73 weeks and held a 79-week run on the British charts. By 1975 it had grossed $7,000,000.[34]
Legacy
The success and influence of the album is today widely acknowledged, even amongst those critics who were initially sceptical. In 2006, for example, Rolling Stone stated that
[The album] was pretty much unlike anything else. The arrangements were more sculpted than those of Cream or Jimi Hendrix, and the musicianship wasn't cumbersome like Iron Butterfly's or bombastic like Vanilla Fudge's. The closest comparisons might be to MC5 or the Stooges—both from Michigan—yet neither had the polish or prowess of Led Zeppelin, nor did Led Zeppelin have the political, social or die-hard sensibility of those landmark bands. What they did have, though, was the potential for a mass audience.[14]
According to Lewis:
Time has done nothing to diminish the quality of one of the finest debut albums ever recorded. There's an urgency and enthusiasm about their performance that retains timeless charm. The nine cuts offer a tour de force of powerful yet often subtle dynamics ... And let's not forget the fact that with this album, Page virtually invents the guitar riff as a key songwriting component.[8]
In 2003, VH1 named Led Zeppelin the 44th greatest album of all time, while Rolling Stone ranked it 29th on the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is widely regarded as marking a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.[35]
Accolades
Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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The Times | United Kingdom | "The 100 Best Albums of All Time"[36] | 1993 | 41 |
Rolling Stone | United States | The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[37] | 2003 | 29 |
Grammy Awards | United States | Grammy Hall of Fame Award[38] | 2004 | * |
Q | United Kingdom | "The Music That Changed the World"[39] | 2004 | 7 |
Robert Dimery | United States | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die[40] | 2006 | * |
Classic Rock | United Kingdom | "100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever"[41] | 2006 | 81 |
Uncut | United Kingdom | 100 Greatest Debut Albums[42] | 2006 | 7 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | United States | The Definitive 200[43] | 2007 | 165 |
Q | United Kingdom | 21 Albums That Changed Music[44] | 2007 | 6 |
* denotes an unordered list
Track listing
No. | Judul | Pencipta | Durasi |
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1. | "Good Times Bad Times" | John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page | 2:47 |
2. | "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" | Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Anne Bredon | 6:41 |
3. | "You Shook Me" | Willie Dixon, J. B. Lenoir | 6:30 |
4. | "Dazed and Confused" | Jimmy Page | 6:27 |
No. | Judul | Pencipta | Durasi |
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1. | "Your Time Is Gonna Come" | John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page | 4:34 |
2. | "Black Mountain Side" | Jimmy Page | 2:13 |
3. | "Communication Breakdown" | John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page | 2:30 |
4. | "I Can't Quit You Baby" | Willie Dixon | 4:43 |
5. | "How Many More Times" | John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Albert King | 8:28 |
"How Many More Times" was listed as 3:30 on the record sleeve deliberately by Jimmy Page in order to trick radio stations into playing the song.[butuh rujukan]
Robert Plant participated in songwriting but wasn't given credit because of unexpired contractual obligations resulting from his association with CBS Records.[8]
Some cassette versions of the album reversed the order of the sides. For these versions, side one began with "Your Time Is Gonna Come" and ended with "How Many More Times", while side two began with "Good Times, Bad Times" and ended with "Dazed and Confused".
Sales chart positions
- Album
Chart (1969) | Peak Position |
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Canadian RPM Top 100 Chart[45] | 11 |
UK Albums Chart[46] | 6 |
US Billboard The 200 Albums Chart[47] | 10 |
French Albums Chart[48] | 115 |
Japanese Albums Chart[49] | 36 |
Chart (1970) | Peak Position |
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Norwegian Albums Chart[50] | 16 |
Spanish Albums Chart[51] | 1 |
German Albums Chart[52] | 32 |
Australian Go-Set Top 20 Albums Chart[53] | 9 |
- Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1969 | "Good Times Bad Times" | US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (Pop Singles)[54] | 80 |
Sales certifications
Country | Sales | Certification |
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Canada (CRIA) | 1,000,000+ | Diamond[55] |
France (SNEP) | 100,000+ | Gold[56] |
Switzerland (IFPI) | 25,000+ | Gold[57] |
Germany (IFPI) | 100,000+ | Gold[58] |
Argentina (CAPIF) | 30,000+ | Gold[59] |
Australia (ARIA) | 140,000+ | 2x Platinum[60] |
United States (RIAA) | 8,000,000+ | 8x Platinum[61] |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) | 80,000+ | Platinum[62] |
United Kingdom (BPI) | 600,000+ | 2x Platinum[63]* |
Netherlands (NVPI) | 30,000+ | Gold[64]* |
Note: (*) Remastered sales only
Personnel
- Led Zeppelin
- John Bonham – drums, timpani, backing vocals
- John Paul Jones – bass guitar, organ, keyboards, backing vocals
- Jimmy Page – acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, production
- Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica, and occasional bass
- Additional personnel
- Barry Diament – original Compact Disc mastering
- Chris Dreja – back liner photo
- Peter Grant – executive producer
- George Hardie – cover design
- Viram Jasani – tabla on "Black Mountain Side"
- Glyn Johns – engineering, mixing
- George Marino – remastered Compact Disc
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