I became obsessed with Zeppelin shortly after Presence was released. I was 16 years old and salivating like pavlov's dog waiting for ittod to be released. I mowed some lawns, grabbed the cash and cranked up that first track thinking OMFG...it's here spinning on my turntable finally. That impending opening of "promised" greatness oozing from my speakers...oh this is gonna be so fucking good. Fuck you eddie van halen, my Lords are Back!
By the end of the record I was like...wtf? where is black dog 2.0, For More Life, and The Deeper Ocean?? Depression actually set in for a few weeks. Started playing Sabotage a lot to spite them.
About ten years later I started thinking Fool In The Rain was really damn good in fact. Amazing actually. The middle of Carouselambra was like soaring through clouds in a dream.
Twenty years later I'm Gonna Crawl(which originally made my 16 yr old self cringe) I finally came to realize was a perfect ending to one of the most amazing decade long collections of sounds ever produced by humans.
I still suspect they scribbled Hot Dog as the Starship flew over texas in 1977