
^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending APRIL 26, 1969". ^ "Led Zeppelin Chart History (Hot 100)". ^ " Led Zeppelin – Good Times Bad Times" (in Dutch). ^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 5981." RPM. "10 Classic Albums Rolling Stone Originally Panned: Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin' (1969)". Led Zeppelin FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Greatest Hard Rock Band of All Time. launching pithy hard-rock rave-ups like "Good Times Bad Times" and "Communication Breakdown." Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Their version reached number eight on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 28 on its Modern Rock Tracks charts in 2007. The American rock band Godsmack covered the song in 2007, for their album, Good Times, Bad Times. Godsmack version "Good Times, Bad Times"įrom the album Good Times, Bad Times. Hard rock would never be the same." Charts (1969) In a reassessment of Led Zeppelin in 2016, Andy Greene of Rolling Stone praised "Good Times Bad Times", writing that the song begins the album with a bang: "Jimmy Page's guitar pounces from the speakers, fat with menace John Bonham's kick drum swings with anvil force Robert Plant rambles on about the perils of manhood. The version of "Good Times Bad Times/Communication Breakdown" released 15 April 2014, on iTunes, is from 10 October 1969 in Paris, on the European Tour of Autumn 1969.
It was also the opening song for Led Zeppelin's reunion show at the O2 Arena, London on 10 December 2007. It also appeared in almost complete form within the "Communication Breakdown" medley performed at the LA Forum on 4 September 1970, where it included a bass solo by Jones (as can be heard on the Led Zeppelin bootleg recording Live on Blueberry Hill), and several " Whole Lotta Love" medleys in 1971. In a few instances in 1969 it was used as an introduction to " Communication Breakdown" (as seen in Led Zeppelin (Deluxe Edition)).
"Good Times Bad Times" was rarely played live at Led Zeppelin concerts in its entirety.
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