Led Zeppelin : Remasters Box

CD [Cover Art for Led Zeppelin / Remasters Box]

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Sell date: 1/2008
Label: Import
Mfg's Catalog#: 908847
CDC Part#: 1155893
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Not Returnable, Not Cancellable.
 
 
This excellent 4CD box-set also comes with a brilliant booklet, filled with great essays on Zeppelin from people like Cameron Crowe & Robert Palmer, topped off with great photos of the band & concise recording information for each song. The box-set touches on every Zep release, bar the live collection 'The Song Remains the Same'. Disc One takes in tracks from the first three albums, from the obvious (Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On, Communication Breakdown, Dazed & Confused) to the more obscure (the 'Coda' take of I Can't Quit You Baby from a soundcheck at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970; the Jimmy Page solo White Summer/Black Mountain Side & Immigrant Song b-side & Hey Hey What Can I Do). The second disc is more varied - the 15 tracks coming from the bestselling untitled fourth album. We have several acoustic tracks (Battle Evermore, Bron Y Aur Stomp, Tangerine, Going to Califonia) before the epic blues of Since I've Been Loving You. The third disc takes in the more epic side of the band. Physical Graffiti is well represented by the vast Eastern inflected Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot (the next step on from The Doors LA Woman album), the fragile beauty of Ten Years Gone & the 11-minute In My Time of Dying (which was requoted on Spacemen 3's 'Come Down Easy' from 1987's 'The Perfect Prescription'). There are three tracks from 'Houses of the Holy': the rockin' Dancing Days, the powerfully structured Song Remains the Same & the epic keyboard-based No Quarter. When the Levee Breaks is included here & still sounds great- the drumbeat being sampled/mimicked on records such as Beastie Boys Rhymin & Stealin and Chapterhouse's Pearl. Great to see two of the best tracks from the underrated Presence album: the huge hurt of For Your Life & possibly the band's finest moment- the 10 minute primal thrash of Achilles Last Stand. The final disc contains 14 tracks- a reworked Coda-track, alongside several other Coda-songs: Ozone Baby, Poor Tom & Wearing and Tearing. There's also another Houses Of The Holy song, 'The Ocean'. There are more delights from 'Physical Graffiti': the experimental 'In the Light', the belated title track Houses of the Holy & the acoustic based 'The Wanton Song'. Finally we have a few songs from the 'In Through The Outdoor' album: the vast 'In the Evening' the blue I'm Gonna Crawl & arguably the best track from that album - the touching All My Love - which ends a suitably great boxset from a suitably great band.

 
 Tracks
 
Whole Lotta Love
Heartbreaker
Communication Breakdown
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
What Is & What Should Never Be
Thank You
I Can't Quit You Baby
Dazed & Confused
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Ramble On
Traveling Riverside Blues
Friends
Celebration Day
Hey Hey What Can I Do
White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Black Dog
Over the Hills & Far Away
Immigrant Song
Battle of Evermore
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Tangerine
Going to California
Since I've Been Loving You
D'yer Mak'er
Gallows Pole
Custard Pie
Misty Mountain Hop
Rock & Roll
Rain Song
Stairway to Heaven
Kashmir
Trampled Under Foot
For Your Life
No Quarter
Dancing Days
When the Levee Breaks
Achilles Last Stand
Song Remains the Same
Ten Years Gone
In My Time of Dying
In the Evening
Candy Store Rock
Ocean
Ozone Baby
Houses of the Holy
Wearing & Tearing
Poor Tom
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Fool in the Rain
In the Light
Wanton Song
Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux
I'm Gonna Crawl
All My Love
 
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