Robert Plant sings these songs with intensity, which, considering every one is about romance gone bitter, may serve as psychotherapy. “Lots of people talk and few of them know,” he declares to a callous melody on Dazed And Confused, “the soul of a woman was created below.”

The implication is Hell. Perhaps that’s why there’s an image of The Hindenburg in flames on the album cover. Women often go from sweethearts to bitches if you stay with them long enough. This set; its biggest flaw being its lack of a proper title; is a theme to that fact.

my rating : 3 of 5

1969