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Led Zeppelin. These guys have become known as gods of rock over the years, and with good reason. Their music puts that of this or any other decade to shame. Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and John Bonham were musical geniuses, and it was about time they put all of their albums together in one handy set. The Led Zeppelin Complete Studio recordings brings it all together at long last. Read on for my review of this set.
PROS:
-Every last one of Led Zeppelin's studio albums is in this set. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, Houses Of The Holy, Presence, Physical Graffiti, In Through The Out Door, and the outtake collection album Coda are all here for your listening pleasure.
-The version of the Coda compilation included with this set features four hard-to-find bonus tracks.
-Unlike the other Led Zeppelin box sets, this one isn't a scattershot mixture of tracks - it's got EVERY studio album.
-A handy booklet is included with the set. The booklet contains useful information (release dates for albums/singles, etc.), as well as a new essay by legendary rock journalist Cameron Crowe.
-You save money by purchasing this set. If you were to buy every Led Zeppelin album separately, you would end up spending more than you would for this box set. The price looks steep at first glance, but in actuality, it's a great deal.
CONS:
-I'm not too crazy about the way the individual CDs were packaged in the set. Two CDs each are in five slipcases, each of which contains the art to the two albums, as well as the basic liner note informaton. It's hard to get the CDs out of these slipcases, because you must grab the edge of them. It also gets confusing looking at the liner notes (you actually have to own or see the set to see what I mean.) I was hoping they'd all be individually packaged. Oh, and what's up with the shrunken cover art?
-Because it's the complete STUDIO Recordings, you don't get the band's early BBC session recordings or the live releases The Song Remains The Same and How The West Was Won.
-Just a little word of caution - this is common knowledge to most people, but the following material is NOT in this box set: Robert Plant solo material, David Coverdale/Jimmy Page material, and Led Zeppelin's live albums.
OVERALL:
One of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time has put together all of their master works, and at long last, you can get all of these works together in one convenient set. Sure, the set isn't quite perfect, but it doesn't have to be - the quality of Zeppelin's music more than makes up for it. If you're a rock and roll fan, and this set isn't in your collection, what the hell are you waiting for?
By marc challis-thompson
Led zeppelin. The Complete Studio Recordings.
I have just purchased the above boxed CD set and it is with great pleasure and confidence that I write this review for any interested parties.
I don't really listen to rock music much these days. I am more likely to listen to Bach and Hayden. Ambient piano musics...
But there does come a time when I want to listen to rock music, to hear a group of guys get it on; doing the boy thing, blues based exploratory debauched travelogue. Sex, drugs n youth. Led Zeppelin have always met all these criteria. Look no further. Its all here.
No need to review the music. We all know it. On receiving it the first thing I reached for within the beautifully packaged box was Houses of the Holy. Why?
Well for me, it always appeared to be the weakest link in continuity on the relentless upward march on the Stairway to Kashmir. If Kashmir (or there about) was their peak. Then Houses never made sense to me in the scheme of things.
By scheme of things I mean 4 PERFECT albums each succeeding the other, ever onwards, upwards and inwards. Led Zeppelin 1. A debut. An acknowledgement of their roots. A statement of intent. These are our parameters these are the paths we want to follow. Light n shade. Led Zeppelin 2. The Shade. The brown Bomber. The mother of all riffs... Led Zeppelin 3. The light. Just when you thought you had it figured. Subverting the subversives. Break the moulds before the moulds have set.
Led Zeppelin IV (call it what u like) All that has gone before focused and pinpointed, finely tuned down and edited to eight tracks. No excess baggage. This is rock n roll. A professional unit. The 60's are over.
I know no other group with such a faultless succession of albums. And so with this in mind I put on Houses of the Holy. The album that out of all the albums on the ascending side of the slope to Kashmir I understood least. And here it is! I can hear it for the first time. I now know exactly what digitally remastered means. I am not sure if I my old school vinyl was a bad pressing but wow! I can hear this so well. There are textures and guitar sounds on Houses that appear nowhere else in zeps catalogue. (Even the cover is the only fully multi-coloured zep album). Now for the first time in sharp digital relief. Zeps album in the sun.
As you can see I could go on forever. Like a tattoo my zep can only be removed by painful operation.
A quick word about two of the four bonus tracks. White Summer Black Mountain: Excellent and about time to. In this 1969 live almost naïve solo you will hear all that came to pass.
On Baby Come Home (1968) you will be reminded that Page n Jones as hard grafting session musos could do anything and do it well.
The box is lovingly designed and assembled. It has the Jimmy Page hallmark all over it: Quality control and artistic integrity. Dark and ominous. Always understated.
If you have already purchased the four disk remastered sets then I suggests you buy some wrapping paper and give them to a friend.
I am writing this having only listened to two of the 10 CD's.
What more can I say, I Am the Proud Owner.
Explosive energy, well know classics, surreal, moody songwriting combined with a quality of soul rarely present within bands of this ilk all combine to form a considered and complete band.
Buy it. An audiological roller-coaster reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, from teenage angst to soulful and wise commentaries on the nature of human relationships. Yes, there's fun in there too.
You will never be the same again.
Although it has mixed reviews in terms of packaging I like it. Read more
The packaging is probably to some peoples taste but not to mine. Read more
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