LED ZEPPELIN IV [ZOSO] **COLLECTOR**JAPAN VINYL LP NM OBI ATLANTIC P-10125A 1976

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I had 5 brick and mortar stores in Portland, OR, Boise, ID, Fairbanks, AK, and 2 stores in Anchorage, AK. I operated under the name Nickelodeon Records & Tapes from 1973 to 1978, hence the eBay name Original 1976 Nickelodeon Records.

All of my Listings are NEAR MINT VINYL By Visual Inspection UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Not Play Graded

EACH COVER CONDITION is INDIVIDUALLY NOTED

THIS LISTING is for LED ZEPPELIN IV [OFFICIALLY UNTITLED "ZOSO"] ATLANTIC P-10125A 1976
GATE FOLD COVER, OBI, VINYL, ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVES, ABSOLUTELY PRISTINE

VINYL LOOKS UNPLAYED

PRESSED IN JAPAN BY WARNER-PIONEER CORPORATION

NUMBER 69 on ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME LIST

NUMBER 7 ON PITCHFORK MEDIA [GREAT BRITAIN] BEST ALBUMS OF THE 1970s

NUMBER 5 on SPIN Magazine 25 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

NUMBER 26 on Q Magazine 100 GREATEST BRITISH ALBUMS EVER

NUMBER 1 in The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe, Chuck Eddy, 1991

"The untitled fourth studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. Led Zeppelin IV was a commercial and critical success, featuring many of the band's best-known songs, including "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll", "Going to California" and "Stairway to Heaven". The album is one of the best-selling albums of all time  with more than 37 million copies sold.  It is tied for third highest-certified album in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America 23x platinum. Writers and critics have regularly cited it on lists of the greatest albums of all time". WIKIPEDIA

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RELEASE AND RECEPTION

Led Zeppelin IV received overwhelming praise from critics. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Lenny Kaye called it the band's "most consistently good" album yet and praised the diversity of the songs: "out of eight cuts, there isn't one that steps on another's toes, that tries to do too much all at once." Billboard magazine called it a "powerhouse album" that has the commercial potential of the band's previous three albums. Robert Christgau, writing for The Village Voice, originally gave Led Zeppelin IV a lukewarm review, but later called the album a "genre masterpiece", and wrote that it showed the band at the pinnacle of their songwriting. Even though he found their Medieval musical ideas typically limited, he said that it is "the definitive Led Zeppelin and hence heavy metal album". [Ed. Note: Christgau is the self-appointed rock-music critic for the nation, known for his very stingy used of A grades, but in fairness he has gained wisdom over the years]". In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Earlewine credited the album for "defining not only Led Zeppelin but the sound and style of '70s hard rock", while "encompassing heavy metal, folk, pure rock & roll, and blues". In his album guide to heavy metal, Spin magazine's Joe Gross cited Led Zeppelin IV as a "monolithic cornerstone". BBC's Daryl Easlea said that the album made the band a global success and effectively combined their third album's folk ideas with their second album's hard rock style, while Katherine Flynn and Julian Ring of Consequence of Sound felt it featured their debut's blues rock, along with the other styles from their second and third albums. Led Zeppelin's Rock Hall biography described the album as "a fully realized hybrid of the folk and hard-rock directions". Music journalist Chuck Eddy named it the number one metal album of all time in his 1991 book Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe".WIKIPEDIA