Over the years I've been asked to name my top 10 albums and, when contemplating my favorite band Led Zeppelin, I came to the decision that my favorite abum of their's is their first.  It's not that there aren't songs that I like better than "Good Times Bad Times," or "You Shook Me."  But when you look at the album as a whole, and as a first release for the band, imagine hearing "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," and "Dazed and Confused" -- on the same album side, no less -- for the first time in January of 1969.  If "How Many More Times" came out today, radio stations would go back to playing new album rock!  No, I take that back.  There are fewer people today with the foresight to realize great music who are in the position of power to be able to do something about getting it out there.  Even an American music bible got it wrong when it reviewed Led Zeppelin I back in '69  -- I have to chuckle reading this part of the review from Rolling Stone Magazine :  Led Zeppelin  brought "little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago... It would seem that if they are to fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer, editor and some material worthy of their collective talents."  Rolling Stone also said Robert Plant was "as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near so exciting."  Most of the reviews for Zeppelin's debut were negative, but look at what Oz Magazine (London's late '60s early '70s psychedelic mag) writer/reviewer Felix Dennis had to say exactly 43 years ago today before the album came out in the U.K. in March of '69:  The album “defies immediate classification or description, simply because it’s so obviously a turning point in rock music that only time proves capable of shifting it into eventual perspective.” I find it fascinating the one writer could put it in so few words.  And 43 years later, Led Zeppelin I is still (and always will be) timeless!