Audio CD review:
Led Zeppelin - Mothership 2CD/1DVD

Led Zeppelin - Mothership 2CD/1DVD

Band: Led Zeppelin Title: Mothership 2CD/1DVD Rating: Release Date: 13 November, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Good Times Bad Times 2: Communication Breakdown 3: Dazed and Confused 4: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 5: Whole Lotta Love 6: Ramble On 7: Heartbreaker 8: Immigrant Song 9: Since I've Been Loving You 10: Rock and Roll 11: Black Dog 12: When The Levee Breaks 13: Stairway To Heaven 14: Song Remains The Same 15: Over The Hills And Far Away 16: D'Yer Maker 17: No Quarter 18: Trampled Under Foot 19: Houses Of The Holy 20: Kashmir 21: Nobody's Fault But Mine 22: Achilles Last Stand 23: In The Evening 24: All My Love 25: We're Gonna Groove 26: I Can't Quit You Babe (DVD) 27: Dazed & Confused (DVD) 28: White Summer (DVD) 29: What Is & What Should Never Be (DVD) 30: Moby Dick (DVD) 31: Whole Lotta Love 32: Communication Breakdown 33: Bring It On Home 34: Immigrant Song 35: Black Dog 36: Misty Mountain Hop 37: Going To California 38: In My Time Of Dying 39: Stairway To Heaven 40: Rock and Roll 41: Nobody's Fault But Mine 42: Kashmir 43: Whole Lotta Love(DVD)

Editoral Review Their tunes languished in the haze of substandard remastering--until now, at least for the 24 tracks on Mothership and the final fullness of the new Song Remains the Same reissue. For years, as playlists and multidisc players put Led Zeppelin tracks into a mix, there was a perpetual need to adjust the volume when Zep came on. For its part, Mothership's crisper, warmer audio owes its heft to the troika of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, who helped oversee the mastering, bringing out untold shades even in the throes of "Heartbreaker" and the sinews of "No Quarter. " It's an impressive sonic leap. Where tinny high-ends and muffled lows used to co-exist, fatter and louder depths prevail. It's ever more astonishing that Zep got on with just four blokes. You can quibble with the 24 tracks here (where's "The Ocean"?), but the band picked each track here, from the stone-cold locks ("Communication Breakdown" and "Stairway to Heaven," no, duh) to the robust throb of "When the Levee Breaks. " As for "The Ocean," you can find that in fantastically full form, along with five other gems on the newly remastered Song Remains the Same, which shows up for 2007's holiday season on DVD, too. Only rarely have four lads from England made so memorable an auditory and visual blast. --Andrew Bartlett .. You can see a complete list of all Led Zeppelin discography, or go back to the Led Zeppelin tabs