Led Zeppelin - The Complete Studio Recordings
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Free Music Review: Great Led Zeppelin Package
Hit: 5 Stars
What a great deal this is! All nine stuido albums "Led Zeppelin" (1969), "Led Zeppelin II" (1969), "Led Zeppelin III" (1970), "Led Zeppelin IV" (1971), "Houses Of The Holy" (1973), "Physical Graffiti" (1975), "Presence" (1976), "In Through The Outdoor" (1979), and "Coda" (1982), each with remastered sound, are featured here.
I don't think this awesome, influential band needs a big introduction but let's name the band members which were Robert Plant (vocals/harmonica), Jimmy Page (guitar), John Paul Jones (bass/keyboards) and John Bonham (drums). As you listen to each album chronologically, you can hear how the band evolves from their initial blues-rock act to incorporate a lot of different styles like funk, reggae, folk, and some eastern influenced songs. That's one of the reasons why this band still sounds fresh today!
Also included in the "Coda" album are four interesting bonus tracks: "Baby Come On Home" is a great outtake from their debut album, then there's "Travelling Riverside Blues" where Jimmy Page utilizes slide guitar comes from a BBC session and is based on an old Robert Johnson tune, "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" was recorded live for the In Concert BBC program and shows Page's eastern influence in his playing, and finally the most memorable of these is "Hey Hey What Can I Do" which goes in the folk direction so prominent on their third album. Easily the best of these four songs!
The only minor complain might be that the live album from 1976 "The Song Remains The Same" was left off. So don't forget about it!
Try to get both versions of it if you can though. That is the original CD issue and the new 2007 remastered & expanded edition because apparently there are some edit differences between them!
So the best thing is to get both and also don't forget about the "BBC Sessions" and the other excellent live album "How The West Was Won" too!!
In conclusion, this is a must buy for the Led Zeppelin fan!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
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Free Music Review: Definitive collection - just spend the money and get it!
Hit: 5 Stars
I was one of the suckers who bought the orignial CD catalogue from the 1980s, then bought the original four-disk remasters box set in 1990 (with its supplement from 1993). But THIS box set is the way to go.First, unlike the 1990 4-disk box set and its 1993 2-disk supplement, you get the orignal records in the original running order, and unlike the orignal catalog releases in the 1980s, you get all the original artwork, which was previously unavailable. These original studio records include the following:
1. Led Zeppelin I (1969) - "Communications Breakdown", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Good Times Bad Times"
2. Led Zeppelin II (1969) - "Whole Lotta Love", "Thank You", "Ramble On", "Heartbreaker", "What Is and What Should Never Be"
3. Led Zeppelin III (1970) - "Immigrant Song", "Since I've Been Loving You", "Gallow's Pole"
4. "IV" (1971) - "Stairway to Heaven", "Rock and Roll", "Black Dog", "Going to California"
5. Houses of the Holy (1973) - "Over the Hills and Far Away", "Dancing Days", "D'yer Mak'er", "The Ocean"
6. Physical Graphitti (1975) (2CD) - "Kashmir", "Housses of the Holy", "Trampled Underfoot", "Black Country Woman"
7. Presence (1976) - "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
8. In Through the Out Door (1979) - "All My Love", "Fool in the Rain", "In the Evening"
9. Coda (1982) - "We're Gonna Groove", "I Can't Quit You Babe"
Second, on the 'Coda' disk (which was nothing more than a posthumous collection of unreleased tracks to begin with), you get four of the five nonalbum tracks released with the 1990 box set - "White Summer/Black Mountain Side", a semi-live track from 1969, "Traveling Riverside Blues" and "Baby Come Home", recorded between the first and second records, and the hit b-side "Hey Hey What Can I Do", orignially a b-side of "Immigrant Song", one of the few singles released by this quintessential AOR band. The only thing missing is the remixed version of "Moby Dick", which was included on the first 1990 box set, but which is hardly essential.
Free Music Review: Absolutely Essential
Hit: 5 Stars
This box set is where my love of music, and certainly my love of Led Zeppelin and rock and roll in general began, so the following review might seem a bit biased, but oh well.
Anyway, if you are a curious new fan of this excellent band, than this set is not the best place to start, as that would be the "Early Days and Later Days" boxed set, as it contains most of the big hits that are on heavy rotation on the classic rock stations. After that, if you are hungry for more, which chanses are that you will be, than you'll find an enormous feast of great, almost peerless music in this boxed set. You should check out the Runes album, Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin II first before you listen to Led Zeppelin I and III, and then try Physical Graffiti on for size after that, not because the music is worse by any strech of the imagination, they just aren't as accsessible as the the other three. After that, you might want to consider listening to Coda, In Through The Out Door, and Presence, because they are sort of an acquired taste.
I can't vouge for the live albums, since I have not heard them yet, but I hear that they are great. As for seasoned veterans, it would be less expensive just to buy the individual albums that you want instead of putting down the money for the set. For anyone else that wants all of the studio recordings, than this set is obviously the thing to buy. Anyway, on to the music!
I am a massive fan of this band, so I love almost all of their songs, about 85% in fact. I can honestly say that these albums were all I listened to for about six months, and I'm still not sick of them! So, if you want some excellent music that you will probably like for the rest of your life, than this set is one of the best purchases you can make. Certainly worth the money.
Free Music Review: God's Gift to Rock N' Roll
Hit: 5 Stars
It was a blessed day indeed when Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham got together to start Led Zeppelin. They were the start of the New Testament of the Rock N' Roll Bible. Led Zeppelin- Adonai's (God's) Gift to Rock N' Roll.
If you agree with me (or even if you don't but at least agree that Led Zeppelin is an incredible band and it would in fact be cool to have all of their albums), then you need to get this set. You get every single incredible album of Led Zeppelin's (and I am indeed including Coda and Presence in that statement), and a few rarities and b-sides.
Believe it or not, this set is cheap. Actually, it's cheaper... it's a steal! If you tried to collect all of their albums seperately, then you would be spending twice as much money. And I'm sorry, but crappy sleeves vs. good cases is not a reason to spend twice as much money. If you have that much of a problem with the sleeves, simply take out the CD's and put them in your CD Case.
After this, all that remains to get is the Early and Latter Days, How the West was Won (which the footage of might be incredible on DVD), BBC Sessions (the live footage here should also be put on DVD), The Song Remains the Same (CD and DVD), the Led Zeppelin 2-Disc DVD Set, and then the bootlegs. Then, if your heart so desires, there's Jimmy Page's and Robert Plant's No Quarter (on both CD and DVD). I am blessed to have all of these except for the bootlegs (which I have been searching for).
If you like Zeppelin, then get this set.
Now, I noticed that the Doors also have a Complete Studio Recordings, but what about The Beatles, The Who, ELP (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer), Nirvana, and other Rock bands? If they did, it would make the lives of many Rock lovers much easier.
Free Music Review: Your collection's cornerstone
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this box set about four years ago, and to this day i am still cycling through the albums, listening to a few every week. Though Zeppelin can be heard in many forms, most notably through the MANY re-hashings that Page and Plant have done as of late, this is the best way to become acquainted with them. A greatest hits collection of this band is simply inadequate to fully capture Zeppelin at their peak. You must listen to Zeppelin as it was intended to be heard: through an album, not from a random single on the radio (though there are quite a few from which to choose). As instrumentalists, Zep redefined what it meant to be a well-oiled music machine. Bohnam reinvented drumming as a tribal, intuitive stomp, but with the delicacy and attention to detail so critical for each song. Jones proved versatile as well as inventive (any bass line in Zep II is worth a listen through), providing piano, organ, bass, and more to the already-talented group. Plant was simply unequalled in range and expression at his time. It's interesting to hear his growth as a singer from album to album, but one sadly must note the decline in vocal quality once you hit, say, Coda. And Jimmy Page is simply one of the most prolific writers of ferocious riffs that has yet been produced by the rock scene. It wasn't even about hard rock, but, rather, about "light and shade", as so many have noted. There were folksy numbers, and then a bombastic blues romp, and then back to something a bit more mysterious, etc. Simply unparalleled in rock in pure achievement and inventiveness, Zeppelin offers the step-by-step guide to tasteful rock here in an affordable package. DEFINITELY worth the money!