My Top 1000 Songs #174: When The Levee Breaks

Led Zeppelin are another band I feel almost obligated to include somewhere on the list, because, c'mon, it's Led Zeppelin. But I can't say there's a lot of passion behind it.

My Zep agnosticism is undoubtedly based largely on radio overplay in my youth; even if, like any other white blooded male in the 70s, I had great love for 1971's LZ IV (and Houses of the Holy, and other works scattered across their catalog), it was always hard to motivate myself to pull out those records very often when I kn...