Today is the 40th Anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin IV, the high water mark of the rock era. Thanks to Sir Tom Kipp for notifying me of this momentous release date anniversary.
By “high water mark,” I mean the point where the wave crested and broke. It’s not that there would be no great music after 11/8/71 (a similarly weighty classic from the Stones, Exile on Main Street, was released a few months later on 5/12/72) it’s just that the great music would be fewer and further between until eventually fading away decades later.
Though Sir Tom disagrees about the density of great music released post-Zoso, as an assertion such as the one above tends to discount classic albums of the punk and post punk eras, he will admit, “there is, at the very least, a MYTHIC COMPONENT that has been forever lost, or at least forever changed.
“Wish it could be elsewise, but one must not deny Reality too fervently, after all…”
