I love this album: 10/10 ...my girlfriend likes it too.

Maybe keep your g/friend away from the band if you ever go see them live (just jokes).

That artwork...

You know, it is kinda weird, saying who gave heavy metal a bad reputation. The 80s glam rock/metal scene might now have been one without excesses, but come on, stuff like these were released even before. If anything, I think it brought metal into a wider audience with landmarks such as Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue), Stay Hungry (Twisted Sister), The Last Command (W.A.S.P.), To Hell With The Devil (Stryper), Back For The Attack (Dokken), Hysteria (Def Leppard), Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (Warrant), Appetite For Destruction (Guns n' Roses), Metal Health (Quiet Riot), 1987 (Whitesnake), Night Songs (Cinderella) and many more.

Even legendary acts such as Scorpions (Blackout, Love At First Sting, Savage Amusement), Black Sabbath (Seventh Star), Judas Priest (Turbo) and not to mention Led Zeppelin, have released albums that can be categorized as glam. Not to mention that Zeppelin was one of the bands that started the movement.

If we talk about who gave heavy metal a bad reputation, we could go on forever, as people tend to also blame the extreme metal genres more than glam. And looking at the groupies that accompanied these bands, I think that the lyrical apporach was more for the image. While some bands like Motley Crue or even W.A.S.P. in the early days took it too far, saying that the whole glam phenomenon induced the image of women as sex toys is a big exaggeration.

I don't even consider "glam" to be metal. It's basic rock music that was marketed to the masses and played to stereotypes and basic themes. Interested to hear what album you think Zeppelin released that could be considered glam? I do take your point about other genres of metal giving it a bad name, especially those associated with burning down churches and the like.