Most fans allude to this album as Led Zeppelin IV. The album was released on November 8, 1971. Just kidding, ITS FREAKING LED ZEPPELIN IV !!!! If we had to pick a top 10 list for the most famous covers of all time this one would have to be on it just for the sheer popularity of the album. Well, its a picture of a picture on a wall. Led Zeppelin’s Presence was released on March 31, 1976. In interviews over the years, there has been mention of this intent by the band. It seemed it was Led Zeppelin’s way of reacting to the concept of the divine without pulling in the aspects of religion. It seemed that there was an attempt to argue that on some sort of universally level every society feels the presence of some superior force that is present in everyday life no matter where one may be. Some fans may have been correct when they argued that the title Presence and the Object were tied together. It seemed to really be just a joke that of course was over-scrutinized by millions of Led Zeppelin fans. The use of what Zed Zeppelin termed as the Object was, in essence, a spoof on the monolith. So the image and concept of the monolith were still fresh in popular culture. The first time I saw this album in the record store when it was first released, I immediately thought of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Although it may seem like that movie came out so long ago the fact is the Led Zeppelin Presence album was released less than 10 years after Stanley Kubrick’s film first hit the theaters. Top 10 Led Zeppelin Album Covers # 10 – Coda But for the rest of the catalog, it was just a series of images that we stared at for hours listening to the greatest rock band of all time. On their third record, the band appeared on the inner pinwheel mages on the limited run issues of that amazing record. Out of the ten album releases, the band actually only appeared on the cover of their second album. We were originally going to include all the greatest hits packages, box sets, and various lives issues that have been released in the past thirty years, but we decided that it would be best to stick to the original issues released up to the year 1980 when it pretty much all ended. So in essence, we are just picking the order of covers according to what we think were the best ones. Led Zeppelin only released nine studio albums and one live record before the band broke up after the death of John Bonham. Photo Credit: By Jim Summaria, (Contact us/Photo submission), via Wikimedia CommonsWell it’s much easier to pick the Top 10 Led Zeppelin album covers than it is to pick the Top 10 Led Zeppelin songs or albums.
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