Led Zeppelin’s fourth studio album—1971’s unnamed Zoso (so called for the enigmatic symbols on its cover)—is the most famous hard-rock album ever recorded, not to mention a watershed moment for every grizzled old man who’s ever carried a bundle of sticks on his back. Zoso is not Zeppelin’s best album (that would be Houses of the Holy) or their heaviest (Physical Graffiti) or even their “most metal” (Led Zeppelin II). However, it’s the defining endeavor for the band, and for the genre it accidentally created. Epic, ethereal, and eerily sexual, Zoso is the origin of everything that sounds,
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