I remember buying this album and playing this song for the first time. First song on the album. I had never heard anything like it. To this day it’s my favorite Led Zeppelin song for that reason.
My college roommate and I went to the record store and bought this album….took it back to our dorm room and put it on the turntable. Then the needle drooped and this song started. What an introduction to a new band….and it was HARD. We sat rapt through the entire album, scarcely believing what we were hearing, especially Dazed and Confused, which you’ve already done. One of the most exciting debut albums in rock IMO.
As you both said, it happened to me in 1969. I went to a friends house ,aged 18, and he had just bought Led Zep's first album, and he put it on the record turntable, and Good Times Bad Times sounded out. And it was fabulous then, as it is fabulous now. And the whole album was fabulous then, as it is fabulous now. I still play my vinyl album of it on my turntable to this day.
Me too, although I was the friend who bought the album and played it for the first time with a friend. We were blown away. Quite an era. I think the Are You Experienced album had dropped just before LZ1.
My 1st concert was Led Zep @ Pirates World 1969 in Hollywood Florida. WOW! Thx for your reaction ✌🏻 fun fact, Plant had a sock strategically placed in his pants. lol. He mentioned it in a recent interview.
MY COUSIN SAYS, LAY DOWN ON THE COUCH WITH THE HEADPHONES ON, CLOSE UR EYES N LISTEN TO THIS… ITS BRAN NEW ON A REEL TO REEL TAPE… BAAAMMMM ..!!! THAT WAS THE REAL BEGINNING OF MY ROCK WORLD … GREAT REACTIONS ROCK ON 👊🖖
I was one of those people that bought this the first week it came out after hearing it on a New York radio station. Music was so different from the eighties on, there was good music after the seventies but the sixties was seminal rising out of folk, blues, Rock n' Roll (was originally dance & teen romance oriented), the seventies took the end of the sixties in many directions. Led Zeppelin was The Yardbirds to the power of two and beyond. King Crimson, Moody Blues, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, etc. were pushing an avant garde classical direction while still connecting with the blues elements of rock. Record companies hadn't yet quantified the sales models that killed rock in many ways.
I'm 77 and this album came out while I was in college. I bought it immediately based on the advice of a trusted record store clerk. I put it on when I got home and it was a life changing experience. Most people pay 90% of their attention to the vocals in any song they listen to, but if you don't pay 90% of your attention to the interplay of the drums and bass in this song, you're missing the most exciting part of it from a musical standpoint.
This song hooked me the first time I ever heard it. I still play guitar it influenced me so much. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that at the time.
I was 17 when this came out...mind blowing! The first track on the first album set the bar insanely high, but It still holds up all these years later. Just amazing.
I bought the Led Zeppelin album when it came out in 1969. I was in college in a band and we did a bunch of songs from the first album. Then I saw them in concert in late 1969.
Strange but at age 69 now i can still absolutely get blown away just like i was in 1969 ! Zep were my first love and always have been ! Enjoy you two !
I was one of the lucky ones who bought this iconic album when it was first released. I purchased it based on the fact that I recognized the face of Jimmy Page on the back cover. I knew him from one of my favorite groups, the Yardbirds, one of the most unique and experimental groups in the history of rock music. I figured if he was in the new group, Led Zeppelin, it should be a group worth listening to. And, boy, was I right! My 17 year old mind was blown ! It went beyond the Yardbirds into new & powerful sounds unheard of before! And it still sounds ahead of its' time ....
Andrei best statement - If we could go back and listen when it was released…. Can one imagine?!?! I’m 59 and remember hearing as a kid, but to back at my age and hear it for the first time! WOW! Thanks for the share!
It’s cool to watch them start their one-off 2007 O2 Celebration Day concert with this song. Very fitting. It’s on RUclips. When the drums start that beginning beat on a dark stage, The energy of the audience is electric, as you might imagine
Oh WoW that is **Wonderful** i have not seen everything from the Celebration Day concert so i was a bit said for them as **Andrei** said he wanted to see it being played **Live** cuz i thought to myself "Oh no there is NOT a Live version of this out there" BUT YAY now i KNOW there IS Thanx to **You** Hopefully they will see your comment so that YAY they can experience it in ALL its **Glory**
@@CosmicVagabondPixie helene here….I hope so too! But hey, YOU check it out and tell me how much you enjoy it! 😁 the excitement and expectation build to a fever pitch during the video “introduction” segment…..so by the first drum beats by Jason, everybody just explodes with joy!
A banger right out of the gate, and I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Bonham did some incredible drumming and I think Andrei picked up on his triplets, which he performed on a single bass drum. Bonham wasn't considered a legend for nothing. 😉 The next track, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", is one of my personal favorites and it's a folk song like you've never heard folk before, I guarantee it. I highly recommend giving it a listen.
As I already wrote to boboworld - saw your reaction later - I'm looking for a good live recording, and so far I've mainly found Fillmore West with the song predecessors Killing Floor and Pals Delight. Do you know of a better recording of Baby I'm Gonna Leave You? Thanks for an answer.
@@ursgeiser6570 Actually, I don't know of any better, but I don't listen to a lot of bootleg because the sound quality is usually pretty bad, especially of their performances in the 1960s, and it drives me nuts. I have a friend who listens to a lot of bootleg so I'll ask her. Have you seen their Danmarks Radio 1969 performance. It's pretty good.
LZ, el album en su totalidad es una joya. Lo guardo como uno de mis mejores tesoros. Ojalá reaccionarán a todo el álbum. Son una pareja envidiable. Saludos.
they had been together less than a year when they released this album...simply incredible...promise you that the live performance of the 1st album during the Danmarks Radio Show in 1969...its black and white, but they play the first album...you haven't yet reacted to "Babe and Gonna' Leave You" and/or "How Many More Times"..it's a live show in Denmark I think...but you will find the video of that performance...enjoy and thanks
They got together first time in early August of 1968. They went into the studio in October I think. Album released late December 1968 in Britain….January in US. So..about three months from first meeting to album. That’s just freaky!
It’s hard to put yourself back in that time musically , having heard so much rock and metal by now. But believe me when I say that Jimmy’s solo playing, even on this first song and even though short, was electrifying then. Other than Hendrix, that guitar sound was hard and heavy to our ears….and fantastic! 😁🤘✌️ a new guitar “god” announced his arrival.
Saw them live in 1969 in Cleveland! They did the whole first Album and most of the as yet unrealeased second album! BLEW OUR MINDS!😂❤ So glad that you're getting to know the soundtrack of my life!😊
My suggestions for your next song would be Black Dog, live at MSG ‘73. Or the third song in their live acoustic set That’s The Way. Or Achilles Last Stand…. Studio first, then live at Knebworth ‘79. Or When The Levee Breaks, studio.
I saw them live at Surrey University Guildford Surrey in 1968 never hears a band up till then play so loud and so many different styles Have all there original vinyl as well as all Pink Floyd’s
1969, University of Dayton, music listening room, sophomore year, WVUD-FM, sit on the floor, sound activated lights around the room, Led Zeppelin, Good Times Bad Times - WOWZAH 😳
I love watching and hearing your reactions to these classics. I was 15 when this album came out and it has remained a favorite throughout my life. This is in particular my favorite Led Zeppelin LP and I find often that debut albums can really cement a band's sound in in your soul. This album was so heavy and bluesy that I really connected to it. I love the entire LZ catalogue, but the latter works I came to love over time. What the British bands took from and American blues and added was so original and moving. Led Zeppelin definitely was a worldwide phenomenon. There was, a movement of great rock/blues bands that came out of the 60's, Yardbirds, Cream, Savoy Brown, Rolling Stones, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Animals, Ten Years After, Jeff Beck Group to name a few. Keep mining the gold, I am loving your journey.
I remember getting this record way back in 1970, 12 years old, and thinking definitely need more from these guys. Oh the Zeppelin on the album cover, the Hindenberg, crashed about 50 miles south of where I live. I've actually been to the site back when I was in the Marine Corps on Lakehurst Naval airstation.
girls coming and going in the lyrics is coming straight from the BLUES style -- where most lyrics are describing sad or dangerous incidents. LZ are continuing this BLUES tradition. the name BLUES comes from the feeling it gives you ...
All the members of the band were enamored of the old 1940s and 1950s blues singers Like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Howlin Wolf, Lightnin Hopkins. Many of these old songs have lines like "evil hearted woman" or "Devil woman" ect. Songs written about how women lead men around by their........emotions.
It would be cool if you reacted to all the songs in order in the album version and obviously skipping the ones that have already been reacted to. Led Zeppelin doesn't have a very large discography.
Thanks! 2 new bands to suggest...first, Yes - 2 songs from studio albums..."Starship Trooper" from the Yes Album and "Roundabout" by. Yes from the Fragile album...i promise you both songs are incredible; 2d band to suggest is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Southern Man" from "Four-Way Street"...live performance of a Neil Young tune that I think was recorded at Woodstock in 1969...its about 13 minutes long and I suggest you check out lyrics...its a. song about segregation in the south...it is incredible and very much improvised ... thanks as always...look forward to more Zep as well...take care
If you would like to see how the drum part is played look no further than YOYOKA 8. Robert Plant himself considered it well done. And it is. At 11 she was placed in the top 500 drummers of all time.
Everything is better with a cowbell Don't know if anybody has mentioned this before. but there is a Japanese girl called Yoyoka who does a pretty fair impression of Bonham from age of six or something. She is probably sixteen or something now. You should check her out.
I know you have a lot of other bands to do but while we’re on the first album might as well do Communication Breakdown, a real banger and pretty much unlike anything that anybody else was doing in 1968 when it was recorded. Especially the Plant vocal! Make it loud! ruclips.net/video/2atkj_KWLl0/видео.htmlsi=EWJw1TttPUJ6ey7n
Want to see something amazing? A nine year old girl covering the drum part on "Good Times Bad Times." Search yoyoka and led zepplin on youtube. It would be a great reaction for you to do.
I remember buying this album and playing this song for the first time. First song on the album. I had never heard anything like it. To this day it’s my favorite Led Zeppelin song for that reason.
Whole Lotta Love for me. Same thing different album. 🙏
One of the best debut albums of all time in my opinion. They were undoubtedly headed for greatness.
This is the birth of hard rock/metal with the guitar riff and powerful drumming and the bass and plants voice is killing it. Simply awesome 👌
More Zeppelin please
Do them all in order. You'll love it
Andrei was feeling that groove! Dominica was all smiles. Dig it! 🤘😎✌️
The best band is back. Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
My college roommate and I went to the record store and bought this album….took it back to our dorm room and put it on the turntable. Then the needle drooped and this song started. What an introduction to a new band….and it was HARD. We sat rapt through the entire album, scarcely believing what we were hearing, especially Dazed and Confused, which you’ve already done. One of the most exciting debut albums in rock IMO.
As you both said, it happened to me in 1969. I went to a friends house ,aged 18, and he had just bought Led Zep's first album, and he put it on the record turntable, and Good Times Bad Times sounded out. And it was fabulous then, as it is fabulous now. And the whole album was fabulous then, as it is fabulous now. I still play my vinyl album of it on my turntable to this day.
Me too, although I was the friend who bought the album and played it for the first time with a friend. We were blown away. Quite an era. I think the Are You Experienced album had dropped just before LZ1.
Coming in the top 5 of my all time Zeppelin hits....
My 1st concert was Led Zep @ Pirates World 1969 in Hollywood Florida. WOW! Thx for your reaction ✌🏻 fun fact, Plant had a sock strategically placed in his pants. lol. He mentioned it in a recent interview.
MY COUSIN SAYS, LAY DOWN ON THE COUCH WITH THE HEADPHONES ON, CLOSE UR EYES N LISTEN TO THIS… ITS BRAN NEW ON A REEL TO REEL TAPE… BAAAMMMM ..!!! THAT WAS THE REAL BEGINNING OF MY ROCK WORLD … GREAT REACTIONS
ROCK ON 👊🖖
I remember hearing that album when it came out. Startling!
The best 1st song, from a best 1st album from all the time, fron the best Band, ;-)
I was one of those people that bought this the first week it came out after hearing it on a New York radio station. Music was so different from the eighties on, there was good music after the seventies but the sixties was seminal rising out of folk, blues, Rock n' Roll (was originally dance & teen romance oriented), the seventies took the end of the sixties in many directions. Led Zeppelin was The Yardbirds to the power of two and beyond. King Crimson, Moody Blues, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, etc. were pushing an avant garde classical direction while still connecting with the blues elements of rock. Record companies hadn't yet quantified the sales models that killed rock in many ways.
I'm 77 and this album came out while I was in college. I bought it immediately based on the advice of a trusted record store clerk. I put it on when I got home and it was a life changing experience.
Most people pay 90% of their attention to the vocals in any song they listen to, but if you don't pay 90% of your attention to the interplay of the drums and bass in this song, you're missing the most exciting part of it from a musical standpoint.
YAY!!! This is a BANGER, YA'LL!! Hope you like it!! HUGS!!
You guys are the BEST review couple around. Sincere, intelligent, and charismatic.
First song on first album, this started it all for me.
This song hooked me the first time I ever heard it. I still play guitar it influenced me so much. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that at the time.
I was 17 when this came out...mind blowing! The first track on the first album set the bar insanely high, but It still holds up all these years later. Just amazing.
I bought the Led Zeppelin album when it came out in 1969. I was in college in a band and we did a bunch of songs from the first album. Then I saw them in concert in late 1969.
Led always had that heavy ethereal sound. Another place in the world of rock and roll.
Just as fresh today as the days of our youth
This came right after Love Love me do...Beatles...Its was such a mind blowing experience...and it just kept getting better.
Every rock drummer had a life changing experience the first time they heard John Bonham explode into greatness on this track!❤❤❤❤❤
Strange but at age 69 now i can still absolutely get blown away just like i was in 1969 ! Zep were my first love and always have been ! Enjoy you two !
I was one of the lucky ones who bought this iconic album when it was first released. I purchased it based on the fact that I recognized the face of Jimmy Page on the back cover. I knew him from one of my favorite groups, the Yardbirds, one of the most unique and experimental groups in the history of rock music. I figured if he was in the new group, Led Zeppelin, it should be a group worth listening to. And, boy, was I right! My 17 year old mind was blown ! It went beyond the Yardbirds into new & powerful sounds unheard of before! And it still sounds ahead of its' time ....
Andrei best statement - If we could go back and listen when it was released…. Can one imagine?!?! I’m 59 and remember hearing as a kid, but to back at my age and hear it for the first time! WOW! Thanks for the share!
It’s cool to watch them start their one-off 2007 O2 Celebration Day concert with this song. Very fitting. It’s on RUclips. When the drums start that beginning beat on a dark stage, The energy of the audience is electric, as you might imagine
Oh WoW that is **Wonderful** i have not seen everything from the Celebration Day concert so i was a bit said for them as **Andrei** said he wanted to see it being played **Live** cuz i thought to myself "Oh no there is NOT a Live version of this out there" BUT YAY now i KNOW there IS Thanx to **You** Hopefully they will see your comment so that YAY they can experience it in ALL its **Glory**
@@CosmicVagabondPixie helene here….I hope so too! But hey, YOU check it out and tell me how much you enjoy it! 😁 the excitement and expectation build to a fever pitch during the video “introduction” segment…..so by the first drum beats by Jason, everybody just explodes with joy!
A banger right out of the gate, and I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Bonham did some incredible drumming and I think Andrei picked up on his triplets, which he performed on a single bass drum. Bonham wasn't considered a legend for nothing. 😉
The next track, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", is one of my personal favorites and it's a folk song like you've never heard folk before, I guarantee it. I highly recommend giving it a listen.
As I already wrote to boboworld - saw your reaction later - I'm looking for a good live recording, and so far I've mainly found Fillmore West with the song predecessors Killing Floor and Pals Delight. Do you know of a better recording of Baby I'm Gonna Leave You? Thanks for an answer.
@@ursgeiser6570 Actually, I don't know of any better, but I don't listen to a lot of bootleg because the sound quality is usually pretty bad, especially of their performances in the 1960s, and it drives me nuts. I have a friend who listens to a lot of bootleg so I'll ask her. Have you seen their Danmarks Radio 1969 performance. It's pretty good.
I remember everyone at the time raving about Bonham's drumming when this first came out. Yeah, I'm old....
you know i've had my share
And they had only been together a few weeks before recording this album.
This is the opening song on the Celebration Day concert. You’ve watched several of that concert videos .
LZ, el album en su totalidad es una joya.
Lo guardo como uno de mis mejores tesoros.
Ojalá reaccionarán a todo el álbum.
Son una pareja envidiable.
Saludos.
they had been together less than a year when they released this album...simply incredible...promise you that the live performance of the 1st album during the Danmarks Radio Show in 1969...its black and white, but they play the first album...you haven't yet reacted to "Babe and Gonna' Leave You" and/or "How Many More Times"..it's a live show in Denmark I think...but you will find the video of that performance...enjoy and thanks
They got together first time in early August of 1968. They went into the studio in October I think. Album released late December 1968 in Britain….January in US. So..about three months from first meeting to album. That’s just freaky!
you twos need to go song by song and get it all. You should do the entire album, 2 songs at a time (depending on the length)
I bought this album in 1969 because of the artwork on the cover. I had no idea what it would sound like. This is what I heard at age 14.
First song on their debut album...we were BLOWN AWAY!!
It’s hard to put yourself back in that time musically , having heard so much rock and metal by now. But believe me when I say that Jimmy’s solo playing, even on this first song and even though short, was electrifying then. Other than Hendrix, that guitar sound was hard and heavy to our ears….and fantastic! 😁🤘✌️ a new guitar “god” announced his arrival.
Another Great one from Led Zeppelins first album. I was soo amazed way back then when l heard it!! ❤
Thanks guys for doing my pick, thought you would enjoy hearing how the world was first introduced to the mighty Led Zeppelin! More to come!!!
The first song from their first album, and STILL my favorite riff from them. What a way to open up to the world!
You two are so cute!
Saw them live in 1969 in Cleveland! They did the whole first Album and most of the as yet unrealeased second album!
BLEW OUR MINDS!😂❤
So glad that you're getting to know the soundtrack of my life!😊
When you press the headphones closer to your ears that’s when you’re really jamming.
My suggestions for your next song would be Black Dog, live at MSG ‘73.
Or the third song in their live acoustic set That’s The Way.
Or Achilles Last Stand…. Studio first, then live at Knebworth ‘79.
Or When The Levee Breaks, studio.
I saw them live at Surrey University Guildford Surrey in 1968 never hears a band up till then play so loud and so many different styles Have all there original vinyl as well as all Pink Floyd’s
The way bonham used each piece of the drum kit comes thru in this song. Its almost like this song was built around him
great reaction you two. I love the enthusiasm. If you want to hear them get funky and bluesy check out their song the Lemon Song
The last song on their last album, I'm gonna crawl. Greatness.
1969, University of Dayton, music listening room, sophomore year, WVUD-FM, sit on the floor, sound activated lights around the room, Led Zeppelin, Good Times Bad Times - WOWZAH 😳
There is no question why Led Zeppelin didn't try to replace John Bonham. 🥁💰
✌ 😎
Good song.
This band is one if not the greatest of all time, keep enjoying your musical journey with them. Love your reactions ✌️
Song 1 Album 1 and the world was never the same
Andrea you are so lucky to have a girl that can feel it...
In The Evening from Knebworth '79, you're welcome.
I love watching and hearing your reactions to these classics. I was 15 when this album came out and it has remained a favorite throughout my life. This is in particular my favorite Led Zeppelin LP and I find often that debut albums can really cement a band's sound in in your soul. This album was so heavy and bluesy that I really connected to it. I love the entire LZ catalogue, but the latter works I came to love over time. What the British bands took from and American blues and added was so original and moving. Led Zeppelin definitely was a worldwide phenomenon. There was, a movement of great rock/blues bands that came out of the 60's, Yardbirds, Cream, Savoy Brown, Rolling Stones, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Animals, Ten Years After, Jeff Beck Group to name a few. Keep mining the gold, I am loving your journey.
I remember getting this record way back in 1970, 12 years old, and thinking definitely need more from these guys.
Oh the Zeppelin on the album cover, the Hindenberg, crashed about 50 miles south of where I live. I've actually been to the site back when I was in the Marine Corps on Lakehurst Naval airstation.
Lead guitar, Vocals, Bass guitar, Drums - YOWZAH 🤯
Your faces say everything .classic Zep
The GOATS, brought to us by the GOATS of reactors! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Listen to Bonzos Triplets! The best Drummer EVER!
girls coming and going in the lyrics is coming straight from the BLUES style -- where most lyrics are describing sad or dangerous incidents. LZ are continuing this BLUES tradition. the name BLUES comes from the feeling it gives you ...
All the members of the band were enamored of the old 1940s and 1950s blues singers Like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Howlin Wolf, Lightnin Hopkins. Many of these old songs have lines like "evil hearted woman" or "Devil woman" ect. Songs written about how women lead men around by their........emotions.
Love y'all, so do you love zeppelin or is it Robert plant? Ever react to Honeydrippers, his band or solo Liten up.
It would be cool if you reacted to all the songs in order in the album version and obviously skipping the ones that have already been reacted to. Led Zeppelin doesn't have a very large discography.
Just keep going album by album.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Fastest 20-year-old base pedal foot in the business.....
Thanks!
2 new bands to suggest...first, Yes - 2 songs from studio albums..."Starship Trooper" from the Yes Album and "Roundabout" by. Yes from the Fragile album...i promise you both songs are incredible; 2d band to suggest is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Southern Man" from "Four-Way Street"...live performance of a Neil Young tune that I think was recorded at Woodstock in 1969...its about 13 minutes long and I suggest you check out lyrics...its a. song about segregation in the south...it is incredible and very much improvised ... thanks as always...look forward to more Zep as well...take care
Hello Richard, thank you kindly for your support and suggestions. We will check them out for sure! 💚
If you would like to see how the drum part is played look no further than YOYOKA 8. Robert Plant himself considered it well done. And it is. At 11 she was placed in the top 500 drummers of all time.
Everything is better with a cowbell Don't know if anybody has mentioned this before. but there is a Japanese girl called Yoyoka who does a pretty fair impression of Bonham from age of six or something. She is probably sixteen or something now. You should check her out.
I no longer have my first copy of this album. I wore it out.
This track has to played at high volume!
More cowbell!!!
Apropo black sabbath, look for the album "never say die", for me the best album of Black sabbath. Released 1978.
Please, check Kashmir from O2 Arena concert
I think, you have to listen to ne er say die from black sabbath.
this track is LZ original sin.
I know you have a lot of other bands to do but while we’re on the first album might as well do Communication Breakdown, a real banger and pretty much unlike anything that anybody else was doing in 1968 when it was recorded. Especially the Plant vocal! Make it loud!
ruclips.net/video/2atkj_KWLl0/видео.htmlsi=EWJw1TttPUJ6ey7n
Hi Ed, is added to our list! Many thanks 💚
Want to see something amazing? A nine year old girl covering the drum part on "Good Times Bad Times." Search yoyoka and led zepplin on youtube. It would be a great reaction for you to do.
19-20 year olds.