The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

Posted 02/21/2013 at 7:37am | by Jimmy Brown

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The 50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs

Guitar World presents a critical analysis of Led Zeppelin's 50 best tracks.

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07. “Communication Breakdown” (Led Zeppelin)

With its down-picked “pumping” eighth notes and syncopated power-chord stabs, this song’s urgent verse riff embodies the spirit of Chuck Berry–style rock and roll. Not surprisingly, it served as the quintessential prototype for both heavy metal and punk rhythm guitar.

Page’s piercing, well-crafted solo, with its climactic, chromatically ascending unison bends, is like Berry on steroids and demonstrates that Page, on his new band’s freshman outing, was already thinking “outside the box,” both figuratively and literally (the physical “box” being a pentatonic fretboard shape).

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jimmylerxst

February 21, 2013 at 4:56pm

Honorable Mention: Misty Mountain Hop !

jamescashin

February 21, 2013 at 4:22pm

Every flippin' Zep tune is in my top 50, it just depends on what day you ask me.