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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Audio CD

A fair review of the Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Led Zeppelin reviews here, or go back to the Led Zeppelin tabs.

Band: Led Zeppelin
Title: Led Zeppelin
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Release Date: 1990-09-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Whole Lotta Love 2: Heartbreaker 3: Communication Breakdown 4: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 5: What Is and What Should Never Be 6: Thank You 7: I Can't Quit You Baby 8: Dazed and Confused 9: Your Time Is Gonna Come 10: Ramble On 11: Travelling Riverside Blues [#] 12: Friends 13: Celebration Day 14: Hey Hey What Can I Do 15: White Summer/Black Mountain Side [#] 16: Black Dog 17: Over the Hills and Far Away 18: Immigrant Song 19: Battle of Evermore 20: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp 21: Tangerine 22: Going to California 23: Since I've Been Loving You 24: D'Yer Mak'er 25: Gallows Pole 26: Custard Pie 27: Misty Mountain Hop 28: Rock and Roll 29: Rain Song 30: Stairway to Heaven 31: Kashmir 32: Trampled Under Foot 33: For Your Life 34: No Quarter 35: Dancing Days 36: When the Levee Breaks 37: Achilles Last Stand 38: Song Remains the Same 39: Ten Years Gone 40: In My Time of Dying 41: In the Evening 42: Candy Store Rock 43: Ocean 44: Ozone Baby 45: Houses of the Holy 46: Wearing and Tearing 47: Poor Tom 48: Nobody's Fault But Mine 49: Fool in the Rain 50: In the Light 51: Wanton Song 52: Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux 53: I'm Gonna Crawl 54: All My Love

great box set
I actually prefer the individual CD's I guess because they remind me of when the Albums fist came out but there are songs available on here that I enjoy but I would never have purchased the whole CD. I bought this box set when it first came out, I have found this to be an invaluable tool as far as the music is concerned, the choice of songs and the quality is superb. Also there are songs that never made to to any CD, I would hear them on the radio and couldn't figure out what album they were on, not I have them.

Most of what you need is right here
You get the vast majority of the classic Zeppelin tunes. For anybody who wants to buy a huge amount of Led Zeppelin material but doesn't want or need everything they have ever released, then this is the collection for you. While they left off SOME popular songs, this 4-CD set gives you most of them. The sound quality is superb. The tracks are re-mastered to sound better than ever. Some songs really benefit from the re-mastering more than others. A good example is the song Achilles Last Stand. Crystal clear.

If you're somebody who tends to buy "greatest hits" CDs, then this is the collection for you. I recommend these 4 CDs more than a single CD because there are so many good Zeppelin songs and so much material over the course of their career. Included in this set is a booklet detailing their entire career, with lots of interesting facts and stories about the band members, along with great photos.

I highly recommend this collection. It is worth the extra money spent.

A Great Listen to Zep
Remastered versions of the original albums have been available for more than a decade now. It's 2009, 40 years after "I" came out; almost 20 years after this box set hit the market. As one review said: this box set is passe. LZ has always been an album band. Get the original discs. I'm here to provide an opposing view, not to the historical and entertainment value of the original albums, but rather to wonderful alternative provided by this set. The four CDs here (and two discs of box set 2) enable you to listen to Zeppelin in a larger context, spanning the different styles of songs, moods, and instrumentation, in a way that makes sense and ultimately captivating.

In my frequent readings of reviews posted on the Amazon site, a common theme for just about any artist or band is the disputed role of compilation CDs. From the viewpoint that they provide all you need of the artist, invariably loyal fans will point out that this or that chestnut is missing and therefore you cannot be happy with just that CD. From the view of the listener who first explores the band, gets a taste for it and starts digging into the original albums, the compilation quickly becomes obsolete. (Should have listened to the reviews and gone for the original albums. . . )

But what about the proposition: suppose an album is put together of the best songs of the artist. Could that collection be better than any of the original CDs? That's where this box set comes in strongly. Through clever sequencing the four discs included in this set not only collect the bulk of the best songs produced by Led Zeppelin, they also provide a most satisfactory listening experience, one that goes beyond the original albums and adds something new, enabled by the longer CD format.

Purists who gringe at the idea should consider this: In the days that these albums came out, the sequencing of the song was adapted to the two sides of an LP. That's why, on "IV" for example, "Stairway" concluded side one--as such it was not immediately followed by another song, leaving the listender time to reflect and hold those last chords in his/her ear. In line with this thinking, in all compilations thus far, "Stairway" concludes a disc. Not so on the reissue of the original album: with the final chords of "Stairway" still ringing in your ears, noisy Misty Mountain Hop comes up as a not yet wanted intruder. . .

This is not to put down the original albums in CD form (the music is timeless), but instead of listening straight through on the discs as they are, I challenge the purists to see if, for Houses of the Holy, for example, the sequence 1. The song remains the same, 2. Dancing days, 3. D'yer mak'er, 4. The rain song, 5. Over the hills, 6. No quarter, 7. The Ocean, 8. The crunge, doesn't make for a better listening experience than the simple sequence of putting the two LP sides back to back. On "IV", try
the sequence: 1. Black dog, 2. Rock and roll, 3. Four sticks, 4. Going to California, 5. The battle of evermore, 6. When the levee breaks, 7. Misty mountain hop, 8. Stairway to heaven. Isn't that closer to the spirit of the orginal LP sides? Knowing that these albums comprised two "programs", is there really anything "sacret" about the song order of the issued CDs?

The key here is the pacing of the songs. I read that Jimmy Page himself put this box set together. Like LZ concerts of the days, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't deliberately followed the format of those concerts in these CDs, i. e. an energetic opener of three or four songs, a slower/quieter middle part, then picking up steam again for the final conclusion. And boy does it sound good! The original album sides were sequenced that way too, although the effect is not as clear because of the relatively brief playing length. In this box set you see this sequencing very clearly in discs one and two. Discs three and four pick up on the direction Zeppelin went into starting on "IV": songs that are loud, dirty, and droning. Of these, disc three cherry picks perhaps the best of the type, and keeps going with high energy from beginning to end ("No quarter" provides some respite). Disc four attempts to do the same; although it does not sustain the quality of disc three it still contains great songs sequenced in way that enhances the impact while allowing you to take a breath from time to time.

Many of the songs contained in the second box set are ones that often dissuade me from listening to some of the original albums (the ones that I think hold up best as separate CDs are "III", "I", and "Physcial Grafiti", in that order). It's not that these are bad songs, but they're just not ones that I long to hear. There are still many great songs on the second box, though, and together with this first box, you have all songs that were issued. And you have them in a format that makes sense 30-40 years hence.

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless.
Guitarist Jimmy Page selected and sequenced the songs himself. This four CD box set presented newly remastered versions of Led Zeppelin songs. You might think that he selected the "best" Zeppelin songs, which he mostly did, but a few classics like "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Living Loving Maid" were left off (those songs and everything else can be found on Led Zeppelin Box Set, Volume 2). There are a few previously unreleased tracks in this collection, like a couple of BBC recordings and a remix/medley of "Moby Dick" and "Bonzo's Montreux". This is a great collection, but real Led Zeppelin fans will also want to own the group's original albums.

Very pleased
The item was just as described and arrived in the time frame they told me it would. I was very pleased doing business with cd wharehouse. I was just about to inquire about its where abouts when the mailman arrived with in hand. Packaging was very professional and well done.

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