- Audio CD (3 Oct 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Radioactive
- ASIN: B00025OJ50
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 482,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dazed and Confused was not "reinvigorated" by Led Zeppelin. It was stolen by them. Check the sleeve notes to any Zeppelin album the song appears on. It is credited to Page and Plant. Jake Holmes is completely dismissed. A truly impressive and underrated songwriter and performer, this album is worth a purchase regardless, but the original, murky version of Dazed and Confused contained here is startling. Far superior to the Led Zeppelin version, which was far too stadium rockish to really capture the mood of the song. Buy this album.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Contains a song which Led Zeppelin would later reinvigorate. Although not as well performed as Led Zeps version, "Dazed and Confused" has more energy and emotion ... with the subject matter, it may lead you to believe it is the better version. Great for any Led Zep fan ... showing great folk can easily change into great rock.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
A true legend of songwriting.
21 April 2006
Format:Audio CD
This album has the original erie acoustic version of 'Dazed & Confused', later done by The Yardbirds and Jimmy Page, before the Led Zepplin version came out. This is true late '60's psychadelica at its best. This entire album is full of deep bass riffs and broken guitar chords and Holmes' voice deliver lyrical perfection. A great forgotten singer/ songwriter lost in time.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
forgotten psych-folk gem
25 Sep 2007
Format:Audio CD
Though often footnoted by Led Zeppelin apologists for "Dazed and Confused," Holmes' long out-of-print debut album for Columbia's Tower imprint contains much more than that pilfered song. It often blurs into the more speedy, acid-drenched songs of the Byrds, the warped balladry of early John Hartford, or the sort of folk orchestrations that would be toned down and delivered with greater refinement on Nick Drake's "Bryter Layter."
Holmes is to be lauded for his daring production risks, mixing Greenwich village folk with fleeting horns, strings, and quick-fingered jazz leads. The electric bass underpinning many of the arrangements is nimble and ever-so unpredictable. The album is indeed a lost psych-folk classic, albeit one the casually aware often slight with "if it's so good why haven't I heard it" dismissal. That said, Holmes does slip into some "poor me" lyrical missteps here and there.
Quality-wise, it sounds as if the CD were mastered off of vinyl (though the liner notes indicate that the original stereo masters are lost -- thus we have the mono mix, brought back into print in an affordable budget version by itsaboutmusic.com). Considering the difficulty of hearing this music at all, this is a small hurdle to adjust to, and even lends a sepia-toned nostalgia to an album that is far more than a curio.
Holmes is to be lauded for his daring production risks, mixing Greenwich village folk with fleeting horns, strings, and quick-fingered jazz leads. The electric bass underpinning many of the arrangements is nimble and ever-so unpredictable. The album is indeed a lost psych-folk classic, albeit one the casually aware often slight with "if it's so good why haven't I heard it" dismissal. That said, Holmes does slip into some "poor me" lyrical missteps here and there.
Quality-wise, it sounds as if the CD were mastered off of vinyl (though the liner notes indicate that the original stereo masters are lost -- thus we have the mono mix, brought back into print in an affordable budget version by itsaboutmusic.com). Considering the difficulty of hearing this music at all, this is a small hurdle to adjust to, and even lends a sepia-toned nostalgia to an album that is far more than a curio.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A neglected gem
11 Feb 2008
Format:Audio CD
Jake Holmes deserved so much more. Sure, he wasn't Dylan (or, for that matter, Lennon or Jagger), but he was good. Damn good. In fact, on some of these songs, he was utterly brilliant: "Did You Know" and "Too Long" are ethereal, haunting, and utterly gorgeous, full of sonorous, moaning guitars and pained longing. "Dazed And Confused" (which Led Zeppelin would later cover without crediting, heartlessly depriving Holmes at what may have been his best chance for success) is an apocalyptic psych-folk masterpiece, dripping with raw paranoia and emotional chaos. "Lonely" features a chaotic and acrobatic guitar run, with harrowed vocals exploding over caustic melodies. "She Belongs To Me" swings with humor and attitude, while "Penny's" is just plain engaging. In general, this album is both gorgeous and harrowing, full of surreal melodic constructions drifting through a dreamy haze of ringing guitars and haunted vocals. The music is hypnotic, the vocals motive, the ideas original and the overall tone often otherworldly. This is a mid 60s folk classic that belongs in the collection of anybody and everybody with even a passing interest in the decade.
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