How the West Was Won

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won
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Artist: Led Zeppelin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Live
Published: 2003
CD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. LA Drone
  2. Immigrant Song
  3. Heartbreaker
  4. Black Dog
  5. Over The Hills And Far Away
  6. Since I've Been Loving You
  7. Stairway To Heaven
  8. Going To California
  9. That's The Way
  10. Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
Music CD 2
  1. Dazed And Confused
  2. What Is And What Should Never Be
  3. Dancing Days
  4. Moby Dick
Music CD 3
  1. Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
  2. Rock And Roll
  3. The Ocean
  4. Bring It On Home

Free Music Notes for How the West Was Won

Free Music Review: Call the police on this garage band
Hit: 1 Stars

Zep needed Jimmy Page's well-honed expertise in the recording studio to put across the two or three (sometimes less) listenable songs per album. And yeah, those rocked. In fact, the only tolerable Zep CD would be a 14-song compilation from their studio albums, and that might be stretching it. I really believe this band was the basis for This Is Spinal Tap, only Tap had better material. ("Big Bottom" would be a songwriting advancement for these clods.) I was watching The Song Remains The Same the other night and it was almost torture. No, it was torture except for Rock N Roll and Peter Grant foaming at the mouth. Of course, all you had to do was look at the stoned-out 16-year-olds in the audience to know Zep wasn't exactly performing for a discerning audience. And the volume was always turned to 11, so what did it matter? The sloppiness continues on these California shows. The untreated Plant vocals are fingers on a blackboard. Screeeeeeeeech. And Jimmy's thunderous riffing gets OLD OLD OLD. If Robert Johnson knew how these limeys would butcher the blues, he never would have made that supposed pact with the devil. Zep's Greatest Hits--demand it. The rest is garage band junk with a whole lotta SUPERHYPE.

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For a band with such an overarching legacy, the official record of Led Zeppelin's legendary--and unpredictable--live act has heretofore been poorly represented by the disappointing, scattershot soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same. But this triple-disc live set (culled from 1972 Long Beach/LA shows in advance of Houses of the Holy) addresses history with a vengeance, if a few decades late. These shows have rightfully assumed cult status in the bootleg market, showcasing a band at the peak of its creative and performing powers. Zep faithful will welcome the belated release as evidence for enduring loyalty, but younger fans may find its diversity and dynamics even more enlightening--indeed, whole careers have since been built on the musical ideas Jimmy Page and company toss off here as decorative filler. Crucially rooted in the amped-and-hammered American blues of the guitarist's former band, the Yardbirds, the marathon workouts of "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love" (which consume nearly an hour all by themselves) somehow encompass Ricky Nelson, Morocco, James Brown, Holst, Elvis Presley, and Muddy Waters amidst their trademark sturm und drang, while the acoustic set that closes out disc one showcases the band's--and particularly Robert Plant's--good-natured, crypto-Celtic folk appeal with energetic aplomb. Bigger and brasher than just about any rock act that followed in its historic wake, yet ever fan-loyal to its myriad influences, Led Zeppelin's live juggernaut finally gets the monument it deserves. --Jerry McCulley

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