Editing Led Zeppelin (album) (section)

==Legacy==
{{Music ratings
| title = Retrospective professional ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/led-zeppelin-mw0000194593 |title=Led Zeppelin |website=AllMusic |access-date=27 September 2018 |archive-date=22 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622060524/https://www.allmusic.com/album/led-zeppelin-mw0000194593 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2234|title=Led Zeppelin|journal=Blender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122232708/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2234 |archive-date=22 November 2005 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2006|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|page=141|publisher=MUZE|edition=4th|isbn=0195313739|volume=5|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev4score = 4/5<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=978-1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/662 662]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/662}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/led-zeppelin-20010820 |title=Rolling Stone Review |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=20 August 2001 |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=19 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119003103/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/led-zeppelin-20010820 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/led-zeppelin/albumguide |title=Rolling Stone Artists – Led Zeppelin |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=15 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811130830/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/led-zeppelin/albumguide |archive-date=11 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = Sputnikmusic
| rev7score = 3/5<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/8171/Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin/ |title=Sputnikmusic Review |publisher=Sputnikmusic.com |date=12 July 2006 |access-date=1 January 2012 |archive-date=17 September 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917211205/http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/8171/Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]''
| rev8score = A−<ref>{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Tom |date=n.d. |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Led+Zeppelin |title=Grade List: Led Zeppelin |website=Tom Hull – on the Web |access-date=18 July 2020 |archive-date=18 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718153558/http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Led+Zeppelin |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
The album's success and influence is widely acknowledged, even by publications that were initially sceptical. In 2006, [[Mikal Gilmore]] commented in ''Rolling Stone'' on the originality of the music, and Zeppelin's heavy style, contrasting them with Cream, [[Jimi Hendrix]], the [[MC5]] and [[the Stooges]], and noting that they had mass appeal.<ref name="RS2006"/> ''Led Zeppelin'' was cited by [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] as "a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal".<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r11459|pure_url=yes}}Review by AllMusic]</ref> According to arts and culture scholar Michael Fallon, it "announced the emergence of a loud and raw new musical genre" in metal.<ref name="Fallon 2014 107">{{cite book |last=Fallon |first=Michael |page=107 |title=Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s |publisher=Counterpoint |year=2014 |isbn=978-1619023437}}</ref> Greg Moffitt for the BBC said that the band was "a product of the 60s, but their often bombastic style signposted a new decade and ... a new breed of rock bands".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3pvh/ |title=Led Zeppelin: ''Led Zeppelin'' review |last=Moffitt |first=Greg |year=2010 |publisher=[[BBC]] |language=en-GB|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-date=22 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422220540/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3pvh/|url-status=live}}</ref> Sheldon Pearce from ''[[Consequence of Sound]]'' regarded it as Zeppelin's "ode to rock's progressive metamorphosis" and "the first hard rock domino" for their future accomplishments: "Its orchestration delves adventurously through hard rock and heavy metal with bluesy undertones that often cause the chords to weep poignantly as if struck with malice".<ref name="COS">{{cite magazine|last=Pearce|first=Sheldon|date=2 June 2014 |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/06/album-review-led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-i-reissue/ |title=Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin I Reissue|magazine=[[Consequence of Sound]]|access-date=5 September 2018|archive-date=4 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904174032/https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/06/album-review-led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-i-reissue/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The album was described as a "brilliant if heavy-handed blues-rock offensive" by popular music scholar Ronald Zalkind.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zalkind|first=Ronald|year=1980|title=Contemporary Music Almanac|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarymusi00zalk|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarymusi00zalk/page/255 255]}}</ref> [[Martin Popoff]] argued that while the album may not have been the first heavy metal record, it did feature what was likely to be the first metal song – "Communication Breakdown"{{snd}}"with its no-nonsense machine gun between the numbers riff".<ref>{{cite book|page=206|last=Popoff|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Popoff|year=2003|title=The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time|publisher=[[ECW Press]]|isbn=1550225308}}</ref> In 2003, [[VH1]] named ''Led Zeppelin'' the 44th-greatest album of all time. The same year, the album was ranked 29th on [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] (their highest-charting album on the list); an accompanying blurb read: "Heavy metal still lives in its shadow,"<ref>{{cite magazine |title=500 Greatest Albums Of All Time (2012) |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-19691231 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=27 April 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604043240/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-19691231|archive-date=4 June 2012}}</ref> maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-168929/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=23 September 2019| archive-date=23 September 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923140337/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-168929/| url-status=live}}</ref> and ranked 101st in a 2020 revised list.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-2-1063132/|title=Led Zeppelin ranked 101st greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=22 September 2020 |access-date=28 September 2020|archive-date=30 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930004448/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/led-zeppelin-led-zeppelin-2-1063132|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, the album was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame|title=Grammy Hall of Fame Award|website=Grammy Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-date=22 January 2011 }}</ref> [[Aerosmith]]'s [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]] observed that Jimmy Page "was an incredible producer and he wrote all these great songs. When he was cutting the first Zeppelin album, he knew what he wanted. His vision was so much more global than [[Jeff Beck|Jeff [Beck]]] and [[Eric Clapton|Eric [Clapton's]]]. Playing guitar was just one part of the puzzle{{nbsp}}… I have to have the first four Led Zeppelin albums on me at all times."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Joe|last=Perry|author-link=Joe Perry (musician) |title=Young, hip and loud!|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=129|date=August 2004 |page=69}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
|+Accolades for ''Led Zeppelin''
! scope="col" | Publication
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Accolade
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Rank
|-
|''[[The Times]]''
|United Kingdom
|"The 100 Best Albums of All Time"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/times100.htm |title=The Times: The 100 Best Albums of All Time — December 1993 |access-date=10 February 2009 |website=The Times |archive-date=8 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208180815/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/times100.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
|1993
|41
|-
|''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rowspan="2" |United States
|The ''Rolling Stone'' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time<ref name="Rolling Stone"/>
|2020
|101
|-
|[[Grammy Award]]s
|[[Grammy Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/hall-of-fame 
|title=The Grammy Hall of Fame Award |access-date=18 August 2007 |publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-date=22 January 2011 }}</ref>
| rowspan="2" |2004
|*
|-
|''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|United Kingdom
|"The Music That Changed the World"<ref>{{cite news |title=The Music That Changed The World (Part One: 1954 – 1969) |work=Q Magazine special edition |location=UK |date=January 2004}}</ref>
|7
|-
|Robert Dimery
|United States
|''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''<ref name="1001albums">{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Dimery |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die |publisher=Universe|location= New York, [[New York (state)|NY]] |isbn=0-7893-1371-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/albumsyoumusthea00dime/page/n456 910] |date=7 February 2006|title-link=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die }}</ref>
| rowspan="3" |2006
|*
|-
|''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''
| rowspan="2" |United Kingdom
|"100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/classicrock2.htm |title=Classic Rock – 100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever – April 2006 |access-date=10 February 2009 |website=Classic Rock |archive-date=15 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515072650/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/classicrock2.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
|81
|-
|''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
|100 Greatest Debut Albums<ref>{{cite news |title=100 Greatest Debut Albums |work=Uncut Magazine |location=UK |date=August 2006}}</ref>
|7
|-
|''[[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]''
|United States
|The Definitive 200<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.definitive200.com/200_list.php |title=The Definitive 200 |access-date=18 August 2007 |website=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813004137/http://www.definitive200.com/200_list.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=13 August 2007}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" |2007
|165
|-
|''Q''
|United Kingdom
|21 Albums That Changed Music<ref>{{cite news |title=21 Albums That Changed Music |work=Q Magazine 21st anniversary issue |location=UK |date=November 2007}}</ref>
|6
|}
{{small|<nowiki>*</nowiki> denotes an unordered list}}