BBC Sessions 11/18/1997, Yahoo! Music, Mike Lipton
The vintage black & white photo on the tray card speaks volumes; no racks of drums or stacks of amps, just a quartet of gangly bell-bottomed Brits with drummer John Bonham...
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Led Zeppelin's BBC sessions were among the most popular bootleg items of the rock & roll era, appearing on a myriad of illegal records and CDs. They were all the more...
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I suppose it was only a matter of time before Led Zeppelin became "repackage"material. Unlike the Doors, who have issued more greatest hits albums thanactual...
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Latter Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 2 offers ten highlights from Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti, Presence, and In Through the Out Door. While all fans can...
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They continued to develop, explore and expand--and this may have been their most eclectic release ever, running the gamut from dynamic folk-rock that exploded ("Over The...
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Houses of the Holy follows the same basic pattern as Led Zeppelin IV, but the approach is looser and more relaxed. Jimmy Page's riffs rely on ringing, folky hooks as much as...
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Punk had pretty much made them irrelevant in many eyes by this point; as a result, even without Bonham's death, this may very well have been the end of the road, especially...
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Somewhere between Presence and In Through the Out Door, disco, punk, and new wave had overtaken rock & roll, and Led Zeppelin chose to tentatively embrace these pop...
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On their first two albums, Led Zeppelin unleashed a relentless barrage of heavy blues and rockabilly riffs, but Led Zeppelin III provided the band with the necessary room to...
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They were supposedly one of the greatest rock concert attractions of the '70s--so whey did they release such a weak "official" live document? The "bootleg" LPs from the same...
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Led Zeppelin's initial popularity was based as much on the band's concerts as its albums, and The Song Remains the Same, released in conjunction with the pseudodocumentary...
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An odds-and-sods collection assembled after John Bonham's death, Coda is predictably a hit-or-miss affair. The best material comes from later in Led Zeppelin's career,...
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Rounding up all of the studio tracks that didn't appear on the first box (as well as the pleasant, but unremarkable, "Baby Come on Home"), Boxed Set 2 is the perfect way to...
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Led Zeppelin's primary method of artistic expression was their albums. Although they had a handful of hit singles and although selected album tracks were played endlessly on...
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A collection of most of Led Zeppelin's best-known tracks, this double-disc set is of interest to listeners who only want a collection of all the hits heard on the radio. ~...
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Collecting all of Led Zeppelin's groundbreaking studio albums (as well as a reworked Coda) in one unattractive box, The Complete Studio Recordings is only necessary for...
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As legend has it, Led Zeppelin never played the singles game. That's not entirely true -- "Whole Lotta Love" was a gold-selling, Top Five single, while "Immigrant Song,"...
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For years, Led Zeppelin fans complained that there was one missing item in the group's catalog: a good live album. It's not that there weren't live albums to be had. The...
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Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin's first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. Since the group could...
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