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Well I sure wish Beck would just come out and do a bluesy sharp album again...oddly Rod Stewart would be great for the vocals.....not so odd actually.

I've wished for the same thing for many years and Beck's running out of time. Beck and Stewart always reminded me of the musical version of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Though their brief reunion in the 80s did produce a couple of great songs like "People Get Ready".

I liked Zep for the whole package and the aura of it all. I sort of lost immediate interest after HOTH...although PG was not too shabby. I bet most middle aged Zep fans recall PG as the highwater mark....for me it was IV...not a bad song on it.

By now I'm not surprised you'd have this opinion. ZepIV was tough act to follow--yet the band still did an admirable job with their later works. For me that was mostly in retrospect.

Album preference has a lot to do with age timeline in the formative years.

LZI was recorded in 1968 and released in early 69....7th grade for me.

LZII was released probably less than a year later and whole lotta love really put them on the map...arguably the most powerful rock song to that date...(Hendrix was different)

LZIII an anomaly that I loved was what late 1970 or 71...8th grade or so

LZIV....Stairway took off summer of 1972...it had been released what about 6 months earlier.(recording, release, and heavy airplay were pretty spread out back then)..man I can remember that like yesterday. I was ready to follow that pied piper right off the inside cover page artwork of a book on medieval fairy tales...it had such a strong aura of that...overlaid with Delta blues...a very familiar genre in my blood given my locale.

HOTH....took off the fall of my junior year..1973...very crisp...different.

My tastes sort of evolved after that....it just happens. I was in college when PG came out and I was not superimpressed but I bet highschoolers were ga-ga.

Like ZZ Top is for me First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres but for younger it might have been Fandango or Tejas or Billy's later infatuation with synthisizers.

Or Skynyrd...for me it was "pronounced" and Second Helping and then they got cliche till Street Survivors...(the end)

Or Floyd...for me all pre-Wall....for some all pre DSOTM

My cousin thinks of Lou Reed as garage band sounding Velvet Underground (which is pivotal granted) but for me it'll always be Transformer and Rock and Roll Animal (with Alice's Steve Hunter of I"m 18 on axe)....I love that still listen to Sweet Jane on occasion.

You get my drift.
By the time I was in college, I was going back and discovering older 60s stuff I'd missed because it was too esoteric for my youth...Beefheart, old Dead, old Airplane, Buff Springfield, The Byrds (Untitled..a must have)...and so on.

Now...I don't explore as much...I just re-up. My lovely wife is better at the exploring part.

We watched a video last night about the guy who managed Joy Division and the Mondays and started the Manchester Ecstasy rave music scene later in the late 80s....damn she knew every frigguin band from 1976 punk to New Order (I knew New Order myself but.....I never knew Joy Division was named after a Hitler gentic coupling experiment with a "division" of SS troopers and willing frauleins...lol

Music is such a timeline for us all...I'm sorry to see that fade as I've aged.