Audio CD review:
Led Zeppelin - Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1

Led Zeppelin - Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1

Band: Led Zeppelin Title: Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1 Rating: Release Date: 23 November, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Good Times Bad Times 2: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 3: Dazed And Confused 4: Communication Breakdown 5: Whole Lotta Love 6: What Is And What Should Never Be 7: Immigrant Song 8: Since I've Been Loving You 9: Black Dog 10: Rock And Roll 11: The Battle Of Evermore 12: When The Levee Breaks 13: Stairway To Heaven

Editoral Review Well, surprise! They've done it again. Having previously released no less than four boxed repackages of their studio output, Led Zeppelin may well be the band who made redundancy redundant. Culled from the band's first four albums by Jimmy Page himself (as if a fourth-grader with an FM radio would have been hard-pressed), this collection captures Page and company's blues-riff-ripping prime, relieved only by the folksy "Battle of Evermore" and the song that made Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (almost) tolerable, the ubiquitous "Stairway to Heaven. " Strung end-to-end, this is pretty heady stuff, and a great introduction to Zep's core early work for anyone who's spent the last couple of decades hangin' with Gilligan and the Skipper. The rest of us may just grumble and fast-forward to the previously unreleased 1969 live video clip of "Communication Breakdown. " The package includes a 24-page booklet with many rare photos. -Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Led Zeppelin discography, or go back to the Led Zeppelin tabs