Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin-An Introduction To Led Zeppelin-24-96-WEB-FLAC-2018-OBZEN
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:36:28 minutes | 3,51 GB | Genre: Rock
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Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same (Remastered) (1976/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:52 minutes | 2,76 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Still in the framework of Led Zeppelin’s fiftieth anniversary, Jimmy Page wanted to add a new iteration to the double live that wasn’t unanimously received upon its release. Granted he had already dusted it off in 2007, adding no less than six new tracks, including Black Dog, Heartbreaker and an epic version of Since I’ve Been Loving You that might actually top the original. For a total of 34 minutes and 40 seconds of additional happiness. But, despite these presents, the criticism is once again the same: even in Hi-Res Audio (at last!), The Song Remains the Same remains very frustrating compared to the studio-album versions. Released a little later in 1976, because the film had been delayed, it seemed offbeat compared to the band’s two latest productions, Physical Graffiti and Presence. This also meant giving a miss to a few marvels, like the immortal Kashmir and a few other gems. An injustice that hasn’t been repaired to this day, except for Led Zeppelin DVD and Celebration Day, as the first didn’t feature a purely audio version, and the second was only recorded in 2007, without the late John Bonham.

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Led Zeppelin – Presence (Deluxe Edition) (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:18 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records

Originally released in 1976, Presence was recorded during a whirlwind 18-day session at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany. The album which peaked at #1 in both the U.S. and UK and was certified triple platinum crackles with energy on Zeppelin classics like Nobody s Fault But Mine and Achilles Last Stand and delivers powerful jolts of the group at its visceral best. Presence have been remastered for 2015 by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio comprised of previously unreleased music related to the original release. The companion audio disc that accompanies Presence has five unreleased reference mixes from the sessions, which reveal works in progress. Along with alternate incarnations of For Your Life Achilles Last Stand and Royal Orleans, there is also the previously unheard instrumental curiously titled 10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod).

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Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin x Led Zeppelin (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:36:28 minutes | 3,51 GB | Genre: Rock
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30-tracks, career-spanning compilation titled Led Zeppelin x Led Zeppelin. The digital album features tracks from all eight of the group’s studio albums and includes the digital debut of the “Sunset Sound Mix” of “Rock and Roll,” which previously was issued this past April on vinyl.

Among the many other classic tracks on the retrospective are “Immigrant Song,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Black Dog,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Good Times Bad Times,” “Ramble On,” “Kashmir,” “D’yer Mak’er,” “All My Love,” “Heartbreaker,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Fool in the Rain,” “Misty Mountain Hop,” “Communication Breakdown,” “Thank You,” and “Trampled Under Foot.”

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Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (HD Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1971/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:08 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records

The second round of reissues begins with one of the most artistically influential and commercially successful albums in the history of music, Led Zeppelin IV. Released in November 1971, the album—which is officially untitled—defined the sound of rock music for a generation with ubiquitous anthems such as “Stairway To Heaven, ” “Rock And Roll, ” “Black Dog, ” and “When The Levee Breaks. ” The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, has been certified 23x platinum by the RIAA. The Led Zeppelin IV deluxe editions include unreleased versions of every song heard on the original album including alternate mixes of “Misty Mountain Hop” and “Four Sticks, ” mixes of “The Battle Of Evermore” and “Going To California” heavy with guitar and mandolin, and the fabled, alternate version “Stairway To Heaven, ” mixed at the Sunset Sound Studio in Los Angeles which lets fans hear one of the most revered songs of all time as they have never heard it before.

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Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (HD Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:56:07 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records

Led Zeppelin had a fully formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted electric blues of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, and Cream to an extreme, Zeppelin created a majestic, powerful brand of guitar rock constructed around simple, memorable riffs and lumbering rhythms. But the key to the group’s attack was subtlety: it wasn’t just an onslaught of guitar noise, it was shaded and textured, filled with alternating dynamics and tempos. As Led Zeppelin proves, the group was capable of such multi-layered music from the start. Although the extended psychedelic blues of “Dazed and Confused,” “You Shook Me,” and “I Can’t Quit You Baby” often gather the most attention, the remainder of the album is a better indication of what would come later. “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” shifts from folky verses to pummeling choruses; “Good Times Bad Times” and “How Many More Times” have groovy, bluesy shuffles; “Your Time Is Gonna Come” is an anthemic hard rocker; “Black Mountain Side” is pure English folk; and “Communication Breakdown” is a frenzied rocker with a nearly punkish attack. Although the album isn’t as varied as some of their later efforts, it nevertheless marked a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.

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Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won (Live) (1972/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:32 minutes | 3,05 GB | Genre: Rock
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Led Zeppelin continue their reissue campaign with a new edition of their celebrated live album ‘How The West Was Won’, originally released in 2003, featuring newly remastered audio supervised by Jimmy Page. How the West Was Won has been a long time coming. For a band with such an overarching legacy, the official record of Led Zeppelin’s legendary and unpredictable live act has previously been poorly represented by the disappointing, scattershot soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same. But this triple-disc live set (culled from 1972 Long Beach/LA shows in advance of Houses of the Holy) addresses history with a vengeance, if a few decades late. These shows have rightfully assumed cult status in the bootleg market, showcasing a band at the peak of its creative and performing powers.

The Zep faithful will welcome this belated release as evidence for enduring loyalty, but younger fans may find its diversity and dynamics even more enlightening indeed, whole careers have since been built on the musical ideas Jimmy Page and company throw out here as decorative filler. Crucially rooted in the amped-and-hammered American blues of the guitarist’s former band, the Yardbirds, the marathon work-outs of “Dazed and Confused” and “Whole Lot a Love” (which consume nearly an hour all by themselves) somehow encompass Ricky Nelson, Morocco, James Brown, Holst, Elvis Presley and Muddy Waters amidst their trademark sturm und drang, while the acoustic set that closes out Disc One showcases the band’s and particularly Robert Plant’s good-natured, crypto-Celtic folk appeal with energetic aplomb. Bigger and brasher than just about any rock act that followed in its historic wake, yet ever fan-loyal to its myriad influences, Led Zeppelin’s live juggernaut finally gets the monument it deserves.

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Led Zeppelin – House Of The Holy (Deluxe Edition) (1973/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:07 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Led Zeppelin reissue campaign got off to an remarkable start in June 2014 as deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, and Led Zeppelin III debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The albums achieved similar international success with debuts near the top of the charts in more than a dozen territories, including Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For the second round, the band prepared the reissues of Led Zeppelin IV (the third best-selling album in U.S. history) and Houses Of The Holy. As with the previous deluxe editions, both albums have been newly remastered by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page and are accompanied by a second disc of companion audio comprised entirely of unreleased music related to that album.

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Led Zeppelin – Coda (Deluxe Edition) (1982/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:37:09 minutes | 2,10 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records

The appropriately titled Coda was Led Zeppelin’s final album of studio recordings. Released in 1982, it was comprised of eight unreleased tracks recorded between 1970 and 1978. It peaked at #6 on the album charts and has been certified platinum in the U.S. Coda have been remastered for 2015 by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio comprised of previously unreleased music related to the original release. The reissue campaign ends with a double-barrel blast of Led. Coda will be the only Led Zeppelin deluxe edition to include two companion discs, featuring 15 tracks recorded between 1968 and 1974. The oldest song in the collection is also perhaps the most interesting. The frenetic blues jam Sugar Mama was recorded in 1968 at Olympic Studios during sessions for the band’s eponymous debut. The song was completed but never officially released until now. Baby Come On Home from the same session is also included in the set. Also included is the previously unreleased St. Tristan’s Sword, a rollicking instrumental recorded during the Led Zeppelin III sessions in 1970.

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Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:55:28 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Rock
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On December 10, 2007, Led Zeppelin took the stage at London’s O2 Arena for a historic performance, headlining a tribute concert for dear friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Celebration Day is an exhilarating tour de force of the band’s signature blues-infused rock n’ roll, a sound that instantly became part of the legend of Led Zeppelin. John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were joined by Bonham’s son to perform sixteen landmark tracks including “Whole Lotta Love,” “Rock And Roll,” “Kashmir” and “Stairway To Heaven”.

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Led Zeppelin – Coda (Deluxe Edition) (1982/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:37:09 minutes | 2,10 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records

Released two years after the 1980 death of John Bonham, Coda tied up most of the loose ends Led Zeppelin left hanging: it officially issued a bunch of tracks circulating on bootleg and it fulfilled their obligation to Atlantic Records. Coda doesn’t contain every non-LP track Zeppelin released – notably, the B-side “Hey Hey What Can I Do” and anything from the BBC sessions were left untouched (they’d be added to Coda on a 1993 CD revision of the compilation, and also appear on the major three-disc overhaul Jimmy Page masterminded in 2015) – but it does gather much of what was floating around in the wake of their demise, including three blistering rockers that were rejected for In Through the Out Door. If “Ozone Baby,” “Darlene,” or “Wearing and Tearing” – rockers that alternately cut loose, groove, and menace – had made the cut for In Through the Out Door, that album wouldn’t have had its vague progressive edge and when they’re included alongside a revival of the band’s early raver “We’re Gonna Groove,” the big-boned funk of the Houses of the Holy outtake “Walter’s Walk,” and the folk stomp “Poor Tom” (naturally taken from the sessions for Led Zeppelin III), they wind up underscoring the band’s often underappreciated lighter side. For heaviness, there’s a live version of “I Can’t Quit You Baby” and “Bonzo’s Montreux,” a solo showcase for the departed drummer, and when this pair is added to the six doses of hard-charging rock & roll, it amounts to a good snapshot of much of what made Led Zeppelin a great band: when they were cooking, they really did groove.

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