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Led Zeppelin: Mothership

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Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2007.02.24
Time:
 66:18 / 69:21
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double + DVD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 2001.03.20
Price in €: 17,99



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Disc 1:
[1] Good Times Bad Times (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/J.Page) - 2:47
[2] Communication Breakdown (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/J.Page) - 2:28
[3] Dazed and Confused (J.Page) - 6:28
[4] Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Brendon/J.Page/R.Plant) - 6:41
[5] Whole Lotta Love (J.Bonham/I.Dixon/J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 5:32
[6] Ramble On (J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:22
[7] Heartbreaker (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:15
[8] Immigrant Song (J.Page/R.Plant) - 2:26
[9] Since I've Been Loving You (J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 7:23
[10] Rock and Roll (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 3:41
[11] Black Dog (J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:54
[12] When the Levee Breaks (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/M.Minnie/J.Page/R.Plant) - 7:10
[13] Stairway to Heaven (J.Page/R.Plant) - 8:02

Disc 2:
[1] The Song Remains the Same (J.Page/R.Plant) - 5:32
[2] Over the Hills and Far Away (J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:49
[3] D'Yer Mak'er (J.Bonham/J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:23
[4] No Quarter (J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 7:00
[5] Trampled Under Foot (J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 5:36
[6] Houses of the Holy (J.Page/R.Plant) - 4:04
[7] Kashmir (J.Bonham/J.Page/R.Plant) - 8:29
[8] Nobody's Fault But Mine (J.Page/R.Plant) - 6:16
[9] Achilles Last Stand (J.Page/R.Plant) - 10:23
[10] In the Evening (J.P.Jones/J.Page/R.Plant) - 6:51
[11] All My Love (J.Page/R.Plant) - 5:53

DVD:
[1] We`re Gonna Groove
[2] I Can`t Quit You Babe
[3] Dazed And Confused
[4] White Summer
[5] What Is And What Should Never Be
[6] Moby Dick
[7] Whole Lotta Love
[8] Communication Breakdown
[9] Bring It On Home
[10] Immigrant Song
[11] Black Dog
[12] Misty Mountain Hop
[13] Going To California
[14] In My Time Of Dying
[15] Stairway To Heaven
[16] Rock and Roll
[17] Nobody's Fault But Mine
[18] Kashmir
[19] Whole Lotta Love

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Jimmy Page - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Producer
Robert Plant - Vocals, Background Vocals
John Bonham - Drums, Percussion
John Paul Jones - Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Mellotron

Keith Harwood - Engineer, Mixing
Andy Johns - Engineer, Mixing
Eddie Kramer - Engineer, Mixing
Glyn Johns - Engineer
George Chkiantz - Engineer
Leif Mases - Engineer
Ron Nevison - Engineer
John C.F. Davis - Remastering
Dick Barnatt - Photography
Bob Bruen - Photography
Ian Dickson - Photography
Carl Dunn - Photography
Neal Preston - Photography
Christian Rose - Inlay Photography
Peter Simon - Photography
Laurens Van Houten - Photography
Chris Walter - Photography
Baron Wolman - Photography
Neil Zlozower - Photography
Shepard Fairey - Art Direction, Design
David Fricke - Liner Notes
Ross Halfin - Research
 

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2007 CD Atlantic 344700
2007 CD Rhino 313148
2007 LP Atlantic/WEA 344700

It's rare that a group can truly rock today s world, but the arrival of MOTHERSHIP, the first-ever comprehensive 2CD Led Zeppelin compilation with the soon to follow re-release of The Song Remains The Same on CD & DVD and a concert event reuniting Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones qualifies. Produced by Page and mixed by Kevin Shirley, MOTHERSHIP's 24 monolithic tracks were selected and sequenced by the band, who also oversaw the painstaking remastering. Spanning their epic career, the unprecedented collection pulls immortal songs from all eight of the band s classic studio albums, one of the 20th century s most enduring bodies of musical work. Arguably the most influential and innovative rock band ever, Led Zeppelin has sold over 200 million records worldwide. They continue to inspire successive generations with their passionate, groundbreaking, genre-transcendent, mystic, heavy and blues-infused rock n roll. Forty years since they formed, the song indeed remains the same.



Led Zeppelin redefined rock in the Seventies and for all time. They were as influential in that decade as the Beatles were in the prior one. Their impact extends to classic and alternative rockers alike. Then and now, Led Zeppelin looms larger than life on the rock landscape as a band for the ages with an almost mystical power to evoke primal passions.

from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's web page on the band s 1995 induction



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. 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 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 - Amazon.com



Das Mothership-Boxset lässt die Karriere der wichtigsten und erfolgreichsten Hardrock-Band aller Zeiten Revue passieren und wendet sich vor allem an Musikliebhaber, die bislang noch keine Led-Zeppelin-Veröffentlichungen im Regal stehen haben. Die Doppel-CD enthält bei einer Spielzeit von 136 Minuten 24 der größten Zeppelin-Klassiker, wobei sämtliche regulären Studioalben der Briten von Led Zeppelin I bis In Through The Out Door abgedeckt werden. Neben den üblichen Verdächtigen wie "Communication Breakdown", "Dazed And Confused", "Whole Lotta Love", "Immigrant Song", "Stairway To Heaven" und "Kashmir" präsentiert der Doppeldecker auch späte Perlen der Marke "Achilles Last Stand", "Nobody´s Fault But Mine" oder "In The Evening" in remasterten Versionen, wobei im direkten Vergleich einmal mehr auffällt, wie gut die Songs der oft unterschätzten letzten beiden LPs mit den Überhits der Band mithalten können. Kenner der Zeppeline werden auf Mothership nichts Neues entdecken, da der komplette Song-Katalog von Jimmy Page & Co. schon seit Jahren in remasterter Form erhältlich ist und sich auch auf der Bonus-DVD der Deluxe Edition, die einen 90-minütigen Zusammenschnitt der Led Zeppelin DVD enthält, leider kein für Sammler interessantes Bonusmaterial verbirgt. Einsteiger, die die Kopplungen Early Days und Latter Days nicht besitzen, können sich auf dem Mothership jedoch einen soliden Überblick über das Schaffen des legendären Quartetts verschaffen, und Vinyl-Liebhaber dürften Gefallen an der Vierfach-LP-Version finden.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



Led Zeppelin's reunion for an Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in November 2007 (pushed back a couple of weeks due to a finger injury Jimmy Page sustained during rehearsals) seemed like a spur of the moment thing - but how spontaneous could it have been if it just happened to coincide with the release of an expanded The Song Remains the Same on both CD and DVD, the debut of their catalog as digital downloads, and the new two-disc compilation Mothership as a sampler of the whole shebang? Considering this full-scale, multi-prong assault - which also included a new album by Robert Plant, after all - it was probably not all that spontaneous. Such a precise attack suits this most mythic of classic rock groups, who always benefited from an enormous sense of scale. Weighing in at two discs and 24 tracks, Mothership has a sense of scale that the previous round of compilations - the two-part Early Days & Latter Days, delivered in 1999 and 2000 respectively - lacked, not just because it pushes these two phases together but because it is heavy on the heavy epics, emphasizing Zeppelin's sheer sonic ballast over either their lighter or more idiosyncratic moments. This effects the second disc more than the first, as the band started out heavy and expanded outward, and while it would have been nice if "Fool in the Rain" represented In Through the Out Door instead of "In the Evening," this is a minor quibble as Mothership hits the obvious high points without seeming perfunctory. And that, along with Page's new remastering, is the real selling point behind Mothership: as a compilation it is both gripping listening and a good introduction to this very album-oriented band, which is what makes it a welcome addition to their catalog. (The deluxe edition of Mothership contains a DVD with highlights from their eponymous live DVD - it's a nice bonus but really, you'd be better off getting the full set.)

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide
 

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