Old Enough to Forget

Hailed as one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever, Led Zeppelin II would peak at number one on most charts around the world when it was released, and would go on to sell more than 12,000,000 copies in the US and just shy of a million here in Canada. My earliest memories are hearing this constantly on my cousin's record player. "Whole Lotta Love" would be confusing to me for years as I had no idea Robert Plant wasn't saying, "You need Kool-Aid." It was awesome, but it was too weird for me at the same time. When Houses of the Holy came out, my cousins tacked the cover to their bedroom wall. This was the album with "D'yer Mak'er," a song that to this day makes me throw up a little in my mouth when I hear it. This was essentially what I thought Led Zeppelin was ... and it wasn't good. My cousins were cool. When the band released In Through the Out Door in 1979, it was a perplexing record, as "Fool in the Rain" was irritati...