Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic, 1971) songs graded!

When it comes to Zep (and Sab and numberless other brontosauri), it's simple. I would like to be clodhopped, pretty please. Keep your ballads and Tolkeinisms and prog peanut butter out of my head-banging and ass-shaking chocolate, thank you kindly. So this is how their greatest album shakes down for me. 

1. "Black Dog" - A

2. "Rock and Roll" - A bit hokey, yes, but I love how it sounds as if the album is already climaxing. A

3. "The Ballad of Evermore" - Nice. B+ (2/25/22 update: Ya know, I do dig this. I just don't need a change of pace here. But, ok, A-minus.)

4. "Stairway to Heaven" - Although I listen to Heart's Kennedy Center rendition just as much nowadays. A+

5. "Misty Mountain Hop" - OK this track DANCES! And it's a quintessential karaoke classic to boot.  A+

6. "Four Sticks" - A-minus

7. "Going to California" - Yeah, no. B

8. "When the Levee Breaks" - A+

Grade: A