Ranking 10 Greatest Albums Made Out Of Contractual Obligation

Even the worst Led Zeppelin album is still going to be an album worth listening to for rock purists. That's pretty much the case with Coda, an album that was pushed out following the untimely death of John Bonham to make good on their contract with Atlantic Records and pay off some back taxes.

Coda is a tight 30 minutes of previously unreleased tracks that span the band's career but focus primarily on the bookends. Jimmy Page suggested these odds-and-ends were culled together to combat the ferocious bootlegging that happened immediately after the band's dissolution.

"Wearing and Tearing" is the closest thing to a Zeppelin punk song you're ever going to hear, but it's possible Jimmy Page was actually too masterful of a musician to deliver a proper punk track. There are a few of those Zeppelin Goes... style of songs on this album, including the Zeppelin Goes New Wave jauntiness of "Ozone Baby" and the Zeppelin Goes Folk acoustic menace of "Poor Tom".

This isn't the best representation of the band's hugeness, but it's a pretty solid snapshot of the things they did so well. Namely, kick you in the face with grooving guitars and howling vocals.