Led Zeppelin - Mothership 2CD/1DVD
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Free Music Review: Finally a remastered greatest hits album from the best band ever.
Hit: 5 Stars
A remastered greatest hits led zeppelin album has been log overdue, and I'm glad that it is finally here. Considering this has two cds and a dvd, this is an incredible bargin of a price. You will listen to this album for weeks straight.Free Music Review: great !!
Hit: 5 Stars
Lost my houses of the holy and this comes along great cds and dvd A++++Free Music Review: Oh boy....another Led Zeppelin greatest hits collection!
Hit: 3 Stars
Led Zeppelin were one of the mightiest forces in rock music, with a stomp that resounds even today, primarily because they did something no band had ever done or has been able to do since, make rock and roll larger than life to the point of being mythic! Even their down-and-dirty first album, which was mainly confined to blues and folk based rock, managed to raise a normally down-to-earth genre to the level of the grotesque, and I mean that as a high compliment. LZ II was one of the most astonishing breakthrough albums ever, a major advance, and it was released in the same year as its predecessor! A decade's worth of great music followed, which holds up even today..is it any wonder that Led Zeppelin continue to be biggest band in the world?
The problem is, since the death of drummer John Bonham almost thirty years ago, Zeppelin has created no new music. Still, that hasn't stopped the folks in marketing from continuing to release the old material over and over again while packaging it as though it were something brand new. Hence Mothership, the latest effort at cashing in. The come-on this time is that the music was allegedly remastered to absolute perfection, yet it sounds like the same old Zep to my undiscriminating ears, but then I listened to a library copy on my car stereo and perhaps did not get the full effect. But even if the songs do sound perfect, overproducing Led Zeppelin, as far as I'm concerned, is like colorizing old black and white movies or adding modern special effects to the original Star Trek. What's the point? One of the glories of Trek was its ability to overcome its technical limitations and still tell brilliant stories. Likewise, sound quality that maintains a degree of muddiness isn't such a bad thing when it comes to a band like Zeppelin, it just makes their blues rock epics sound even edgier, and heavier. Who wants a cleaned up version of Led Zeppelin?
The song selection here could have been better as well. This is more of a greatest hits package than a best of, in other words the choice of tracks is pretty uninspired. Not that the songs are weak...yeah, right. This is Led Zeppelin we're talking about. Still, they could have been better, they certainly could have been more adventurous. Granted, any fan's best of Led Zeppelin list is going to be subjective, and fans can argue until they're blue in the face over which songs are the strongest. But including four tracks from the first album, which happens to be one of my least favorite Zeppelin releases, and only three from the whopping double album Physical Graffiti, arguably the greatest hard rock album ever, is a travesty as far as I'm concerned. Where are The Wanton Song, Ten Years Gone or In the Light? Frankly the whole list is predictable to the point of being boring, inasmuch as a band like Led Zeppelin can ever be boring. Personally, I would have preferred How Many More Times to Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, The Lemon Song or What Is and What Should Never Be to Whole Lotta Love, That's the Way or Gallows Pole over Immigrant Song, Goin' to California over Black Dog or Stairway to Heaven(sacrilege, I know) Dancing Days or The Rain Song over D'yermaker, I'm Gonna Crawl over In the Evening, I could go on and on. And Heartbreaker without the severely underrated Livin' Lovin' Maid sounds, I hate to say this, incomplete. On the whole, this set is not a good overview of the band at its most creative or diverse(although we do get No Quarter and Kashmir). So I wouldn't recommend it to Zeppelin neophytes, if there are any.
The target audience for this, I'm assuming, is Zeppelin fans who want to have everything state-of-the-art, and who can afford to throw away money on songs they already own. Those people are going to buy this no matter how harsh of a review it gets. But everybody else can steer clear.
Free Music Review: They Did it All
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are any kind of Zeppelin fan this one is well worth picking up. In fact if you like rock/alternative/emo etc etc and never even heard of Zeppelin it's even more important you pick it up, cuz these guys did it all and, for my money, nothing new really comes close to the rock magic these guys created in the studio or on-stage!
CD 1 is early days with all the ferocious hits (Whole Lotta Love)
CD 2 is later days post-'73 with a healthy dose of Physical Graffiti (Kashmir)
Purists will note several MIAs including "Bring it on Home," "Fool in the Rain" and perhaps most-egregious of all "How Many More Times"; however, Page only had 2 CDs to work with and these omissions just motivate you to have the best fun of all and pick up the entire discography and get to know all the B-tracks! One can discern the disco influence in Presence and the stirrings of 80s-style riffs in In through the Out Door. Or you can just buy Zeppelin I and II and blow the doors off the guy in the civic blaring nonsensical bass.
Finally, the best purchase to accompany Zep is the book "Hammer of the Gods" which discusses the phenomenon of the band and all their dimensions. One realizes that basically any dumbass contemporary musician who throws a TV out of a hotel window, slams an entire bottle of JD before taking the stage, or has a sex orgy with a multitude of hot blonde groupies owes a nod to Zep for starting it all.
Free Music Review: Best $12 of my life...
Hit: 5 Stars
I didn't know Led Zeppelin before this disk, I knew of the band, but didn't know them. These 2 discs were a perfect way get to know the band and appricate their music. If you don't know where to start with their music here is a good place