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Early Days & Latter Days: Vol. 1 & 2

Led Zeppelin - Early Days & Latter Days: Vol. 1 & 2 Audio CD

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Band: Led Zeppelin
Title: Early Days & Latter Days: Vol. 1 & 2
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Release Date: 2002-11-19
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: Battle of Evermore 12: When the Levee Breaks 13: Stairway to Heaven 14: Song Remains the Same 15: No Quarter 16: Houses of the Holy 17: Trampled Under Foot 18: Kashmir 19: Ten Years Gone 20: Achilles Last Stand 21: Nobody's Fault But Mine 22: All My Love 23: In the Evening

I can't rate this sell.

I didn't get the item. The album is a great album. They were out of it.

The Complete Introduction To Zep...
The powerful, bluesy wail and incessant and inventive riffs just sweep one into a world of powerful emotion and life well-lived. Early Days, Later Days includes almost all the must haves from the impressive catalogue of this Iconic Band. Perhaps the only addition to this tomb that may have made it even more essential to Zep beginners would be Ramble On; Heartbreaker; Livin' Lovin' Maid; and Misty Mountain Hop. However, given the legnth and grandeur of their hits- I am hard pressed to see what Jimmy Page would have left out of this jam packed 23 song compilation. This 2 CD set also includes a video of Kashmir, which complements nicely the Communication Breakdown Video in Early Days. An amazing tour de force- or better yet, a force of nature. Short of their much more expensive box set- this is the perfect compilation of Zep songs at a nice price. Enjoy!!.

Good.
This is a prety good selection of songs although there alot of Zeppelins best songs that are missing. Good colection of songs from the greatest band that ever lived. Still it is worth the money.

Does its job very well, but you gotta hear III and Houses of the Holy
On the one hand, they've got the musicianship (except for Robert Plant. You know, I'm not at all sure what I think of Led Zeppelin. Screw him), they put out a couple real classics: III and Houses of the Holy come to mind, and they certainly know how to put together a big sweeping massive epic. On the other hand, they certainly had their faults - lack of a great songwriter; inconsistency; the fact that their last two albums sucked wang. . . yeah.
Now, there are some really great songs here, but lack of balance is its issue. A whopping five tracks are taken from the hit-packed but massively overrated ZOSO/IV, and while they picked the five best (and indeed, the only five worth listening to), they REALLY underrate my two favorite Zeppelin albums. I'm sorry, but a Led Zeppelin compilation without "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "The Rain Song" (my two favorite Zeppelin songs) is missing a lot. And then in their place? "Communications Breakdown" (that's right, I hate that song. Eat me)? "Nobody's Fault but Mine"? (Cool drumming there, though). "All of My Love"? (Love the synthesizer solo, hate the rest). "In the Evening"? (total worthless arena-rock in the style of Journey). That ain't gonna fly. Hell, while I'll admit that "Houses of the Holy" is a lot of fun, I'd rather hear something like "Tangerine" or "That's the Way" or "Gallows Pole" or "Ramble On". I know that this was just supposed to give everyone the best-known cuts, but hey, most Zep fans I know like "Tangerine" a lot. But yeah, I'll admit you can't squeeze every random fan favorite on a collection, which probably screws my bid for "The Rain Song". But "Over the Hills" and "Ramble On" are radio staples. If an artist records songs that are radio staples some thirty-whatever years after their recording, it's generally advisable you throw 'em on greatest-hits albums. Unless they suck (i. e. "Communciations Breakdown" - yes, Jimmy, I understand you can play guitar really really fast), in which case it is advisable you run away from them as far as possible.
But hey, there are a lot of GREAT radio staples on here, most of them leaning towards the big bad hulking collossal epic side of things. You ever hear "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"? "Dazed and Confused"? "Since I've Been Loving You"? That one about the device that gets you to the second level of a building and an afterlife of eternal happiness, you know, "Escalator to Nirvana" or whatever? "When the Levee Breaks"? "No Quarter"? "Kashmir"? "Achilles Last Stand"? Those are rock classics! I mean, even I, Mr. Casual Zeppelin Fan, love the hell out of each and every one of 'em. And I'm glad they included "Ten Years Gone" instead of "The Wanton Song" - I know that "Wanton" is a bigtime radio favorite, but it's a smelly piece of crap that's even worse than "Communications WWE SMACKdown, Which I Don't Watch Because Only Idiots Watch Wresting". "Wanton" indeed! Now, "Ten Years Gone", on the other hand, is the only Zeppelin song that can bring me close to tears. From a group that I don't hugely love and is usually as subtle as a bulldozer! It's a friggin' guitar ORCHESTRA! How cool is that? Much cooler than "The Wanton Soup Song", that's for sure.
And then some of their genre experiments rule too, like the funky "Trampled Underfoot". The only problem with it is that it was ripped off of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". Yeah, very smart, guys. For one, Stevie Wonder is in a whole different league than Zeppelin, up there with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis. For another, "Superstition" is one of my favorite songs ever. For a third, I can't believe they didn't think nobody would notice them ripping it off, because it just became a hit three, four years before Physical Graffiti came out. Yeah, that bugs me about Led Zeppelin: they blatantly rewrite so many tunes and claim them as theirs (see "Whole Lotta Love", which nevertheless RULES in its awesomeness - other than the stupid sex part, anyway. See what I mean? No subtlety. That and simulated canoodling does not sound good at all. That and Robert Plant's voice sucks, and he moans a lot on that song. But the guitar solo and main riff are just piledriving power). Anyway, back to genre experiments. They pull another one off with soft-rock on "What Is and What Should Never Be" (which is hypnotic! I love it!) and Celtic folk on "The Battle of Evermore". Oh yeah, and some of their famous rockers are a real power surge: "Good Times Bad Times", "Immigrant Song", "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll". I think the Who do the same thing better, but at the same point, all four of those have great riffs, and "Rock and Roll" is (to me) the best song on Led Zeppelin IV - better than the two epics, "When the Levee Breaks" and "Stepladder to Valhalla" (God, still can't come up with the name!), which is saying a lot.
By the way, Robert Plant must've been a really weird teenager. Look at his two main lyrical themes: Sex, and Sword 'n'Sorcery. He'd probably go down to the Renaissance Festival dressed up as Aragorn or Sir Galahad or something like that (I'd know because I dress up for the Renaissance Festival every year because I'm a nerd) and chase after the scantily-clad Elven women, don't you think? Robert Plant, the horny nerd with the bad voice. I don't like his lyrics much, either. But whatever.
Oh yeah, and they forgot "Hey Hey What Can I Do", a spectacular little folk-pop song. I adore it. I'm not sure why, but I adore it. .

The Historical Rock Combo
Even radio stations play them together. How in the world do you include "Heartbreaker" and not follow it with "Living Loving Maid"? Insane. I never hear the first played without the other! This is why I will not be buying this set.

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