Nice quiet sensitive songs and a couple of harder songs

"Houses of the Holy" was my first album the group that I mitbekam aware the radio. I was 12 years old and thought to date that Led Zeppelin had a female singer. The emotional dichotomy between this vowel and the excellent heavy (heavy) Drums had fascinated me. It is this emotional opposites met the melancholy hard German music taste just like Deep Purple or Uriah Heep. These early days of rock is no longer recur, the listeners were also from classical, soft and Blue lovers. I remember that the album was recorded in the newspapers very mixed. There were quite a few negative reviews. For me it's still a very good and atmospheric plate, you need not be a fan of Gruupe order to love a little. Very impressive are "No Quarter" and "Rain Song" and "Over the Hills", quiet, excellent guitars, soft songs with a few harsh highlights. Toll is also "The Ocean" with its rollercoaster of child's voice of Plant and the dominant loud drum of Bonham, chosen by several polls regularly as one of the world's best drummers. In my opinion, the album has only a boring song (Crunge), everything else is great. What you can from the other Led Zeppelin albums not necessarily say that often exist only halfway out of good songs and half weaker compositions. The album also had a better recording sound as IV. The cover design is also reminiscent of Celtic myths and orginell. With III. (Also folklore oriented) my favorite album of the group and the last album the group has happened on something innovative. Radio broadcasts as "Club 16" played the songs very often, they could take effect at that time, with the Heyvy wave from 1976 (AC DC, Iron Maiden, ...) lost the music of Led Zeppelin at originality and uniqueness, because it - was associated with this genre and focused on this market - incorrectly. The punk went a long way to take music in this sort his innocence and right to exist by force. But here, in 1973, they were still very original and young, I am pleased that the Group has won many new listeners today. Thomas Richter, Frankfurt