Artist.......: Led Zeppelin
Album........: Definitive Collection Mini-Lp Replica
Label........: Atlantic Recording
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: R2-513820
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-01-15
Str.date.....: 2008-11-04
Quality......: 202kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.ledzeppelin.com/
track title time
Disc 1/12
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1. Good Times Bad Times 2:47
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:41
3. You Shook Me 6:28
4. Dazed And Confused 6:26
5. Your Time Is Gonna Come 4:34
6. Black Mountain Side 2:12
7. Communication Breakdown 2:29
8. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:42
9. How Many More Times 8:28
Disc 2/12
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1. Whole Lotta Love 5:35
2. What Is And What Should Never Be 4:45
3. The Lemon Song 6:19
4. Thank You 4:49
5. Heartbreaker 4:14
6. Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) 2:39
7. Ramble On 4:24
8. Moby Dick 4:20
9. Bring It On Home 4:21
Disc 3/12
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1. Immigrant Song 2:25
2. Friends 3:54
3. Celebration Day 3:29
4. Since I've Been Loving You 7:23
5. Out On The Tiles 4:06
6. Gallows Pole 4:56
7. Tangerine 3:10
8. That's The Way 5:37
9. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp 4:16
10. Hats Off To (Roy) Harper 3:42
Disc 4/12
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1. Black Dog 4:57
2. Rock and Roll 3:40
3. The Battle of Evermore 5:52
4. Stairway to Heaven 8:03
5. Misty Mountain Hop 4:38
6. Four Sticks 4:45
7. Going to California 3:31
8. When the Levee Breaks 7:08
Disc 5/12
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1. The Song Remains The Same 5:30
2. The Rain Song 7:38
3. Over The Hills And Far Away 4:50
4. The Crunge 3:17
5. Dancing Days 3:43
6. D'yer Mak'er 4:22
7. No Quarter 7:00
8. The Ocean 4:31
Disc 6/12
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1. Custard Pie 4:14
2. The Rover 5:37
3. In My Time Of Dying 11:06
4. Houses Of The Holy 4:02
5. Trampled Under Foot 5:36
6. Kashmir 8:28
Disc 7/12
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1. In The Light 8:47
2. Bron-Yr-Aur 2:06
3. Down By The Seaside 5:16
4. Ten Years Gone 6:33
5. Night Flight 3:37
6. The Wanton Song 4:09
7. Boogie With Stu 3:53
8. Black Country Woman 4:33
9. Sick Again 4:43
Disc 8/12
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1. Achilles Last Stand 10:25
2. For Your Life 6:24
3. Royal Orleans 2:59
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine 6:16
5. Candy Store Rock 4:11
6. Hots On For Nowhere 4:44
7. Tea For One 9:27
Disc 9/12
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1. Rock and Roll 3:56
2. Celebration Day 3:37
3. Black Dog 3:46
4. Over the Hills and Far Away 6:11
5. Misty Mountain Hop 4:43
6. Since I've Been Loving You 8:23
7. No Quarter 10:38
8. The Song Remains the Same 5:39
9. Rain Song 8:20
10. The Ocean 5:13
Disc 10/12
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1. Dazed And Confused 29:18
2. Stairway To Heaven 10:53
3. Moby Dick 11:02
4. Heartbreaker 6:19
5. Whole Lotta Love 13:52
Disc 11/12
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1. In The Evening 6:51
2. South Bound Saurez 4:14
3. Fool In The Rain 6:12
4. Hot Dog 3:17
5. Carouselambra 10:34
6. All My Love 5:56
7. I'm Gonna Crawl 5:30
Disc 12/12
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1. We're Gonna Groove 2:37
2. Poor Tom 3:02
3. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:18
4. Walter's Walk 4:30
5. Ozone Baby 3:35
6. Darlene 5:07
7. Bonzo's Montreux 4:18
8. Wearing and Tearing 5:31
9. Baby Come On Home 4:29
10. Travelling Riverside Blues 5:11
11. White Summer / Black Mountain Side 8:03
12. Hey Hey What Can I Do 3:56
Runtime 568:43
Size 823.62
Release Notes:
Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It
wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the
blues -- it was how they incorporated mythology,
mysticism, and a variety of other genres (most notably
world music and British folk) -- into their sound. Led
Zeppelin had mystique. They rarely gave interviews, since
the music press detested the band. Consequently, the only
connection the audience had with the band was through the
records and the concerts. More than any other band, Led
Zeppelin established the concept of album-oriented rock,
refusing to release popular songs from their albums as
singles. In doing so, they established the dominant format
for heavy metal, as well as the genre's actual sound.
Led Zeppelin formed out of the ashes of the Yardbirds.
Jimmy Page had joined the band in its final days, playing
a pivotal role on their final album, 1967's Little Games,
which also featured string arrangements from John Paul
Jones. During 1967, the Yardbirds were fairly inactive.
While the Yardbirds decided their future, Page returned to
session work in 1967. In the spring of 1968, he played on
Jones' arrangement of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man." During
the sessions, Jones requested to be part of any future
project Page would develop. Page would have to assemble a
band sooner than he had planned. In the summer of 1968,
the Yardbirds' Keith Relf and James McCarty left the band,
leaving Page and bassist Chris Dreja with the rights to
the name, as well as the obligation of fulfilling an
upcoming fall tour. Page set out to find a replacement
vocalist and drummer. Initially, he wanted to enlist
singer Terry Reid and Procol Harum's drummer B.J. Wilson,
but neither musician was able to join the group. Reid
suggested that Page contact Robert Plant, who was singing
with a band called Hobbstweedle.
After hearing him sing, Page asked Plant to join the band
in August of 1968, the same month Chris Dreja dropped out
of the new project. Following Dreja's departure, John Paul
Jones joined the group as its bassist. Plant recommended
that Page hire John Bonham, the drummer for Plant's old
band, the Band of Joy. Bonham had to be persuaded to join
the group, as he was being courted by other artists who
offered the drummer considerably more money. By September,
Bonham agreed to join the band. Performing under the name
the New Yardbirds, the band fulfilled the Yardbirds'
previously booked engagements in late September 1968. The
following month, they recorded their debut album in just
under 30 hours. Also in October, the group switched its
name to Led Zeppelin. The band secured a contract with
Atlantic Records in the United States before the end of
the year. Early in 1969, Led Zeppelin set out on their
first American tour, which helped set the stage for the
January release of their eponymous debut album. Two months
after its release, Led Zeppelin had climbed into the U.S.
Top Ten. Throughout 1969, the band toured relentlessly,
playing dates in America and England. While they were on
the road, they recorded their second album, Led Zeppelin
II, which was released in October of 1969. Like its
predecessor, Led Zeppelin II was an immediate hit, topping
the American charts two months after its release and
spending seven weeks at number one. The album helped
establish Led Zeppelin as an international concert
attraction, and for the next year, the group continued to
tour relentlessly. Led Zeppelin's sound began to deepen
with Led Zeppelin III. Released in October of 1970, the
album featured an overt British folk influence. The
group's infatuation with folk and mythology would reach a
fruition on the group's untitled fourth album, which was
released in November of 1971. Led Zeppelin IV was the
band's most musically diverse effort to date, featuring
everything from the crunching rock of "Black Dog" to the
folk of "The Battle of Evermore," as well as "Stairway to
Heaven," which found the bridge between the two genres.
"Stairway to Heaven" was an immediate radio hit,
eventually becoming the most played song in the history of
album-oriented radio; the song was never released as a
single. Despite the fact that the album never reached
number one in America, Led Zeppelin IV was their biggest
album ever, selling well over 16 million copies over the
next two and a half decades.
Led Zeppelin did tour to support both Led Zeppelin III and
Led Zeppelin IV, but they played fewer shows than they did
on their previous tours. Instead, they concentrated on
only playing larger venues. After completing their 1972
tour, the band retreated from the spotlight and recorded
their fifth album. Released in the spring of 1973, Houses
of the Holy continued the band's musical experimentation,
featuring touches of funk and reggae among their trademark
rock and folk. The success of Houses of the Holy set the
stage for a record-breaking American tour. Throughout
their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin broke box-office records --
most of which were previously held by the Beatles --
across America. The group's concert at Madison Square
Garden in July was filmed for use in the feature film The
Song Remains the Same, which was released three years
later. After their 1973 tour, Led Zeppelin spent a quiet
year during 1974, releasing no new material and performing
no concerts. They did, however, establish their own record
label, Swan Song, which released all of Led Zeppelin's
subsequent albums, as well as records by Dave Edmunds, Bad
Company, the Pretty Things, and several others. Physical
Graffiti, a double album released in February of 1975, was
the band's first release on Swan Song. The album was an
immediate success, topping the charts in both America and
England. Led Zeppelin launched a large American tour in
1975, but it came to a halt when Robert Plant and his wife
suffered a serious car crash while vacationing in Greece.
The tour was canceled and Plant spent the rest of the year
recuperating from the accident.
Led Zeppelin returned to action in the spring of 1976 with
Presence. Although the album debuted at number one in both
America and England, the reviews for the album were
lukewarm, as was the reception to the live concert film
The Song Remains the Same, which appeared in the fall of
1976. The band finally returned to tour America in the
Spring of 1977. A couple of months into the tour, Plant's
six-year-old son Karac died of a stomach infection. Led
Zeppelin immediately canceled the tour and offered no word
whether or not it would be rescheduled, causing widespread
speculation about the band's future. For a while, it did
appear that Led Zeppelin was finished. Robert Plant spent
the latter half of 1977 and the better part of 1978 in
seclusion. The group didn't begin work on a new album
until late in the summer of 1978, when they began
recording at ABBA's Polar studios in Sweden. A year later,
the band played a short European tour, performing in
Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Austria. In
August of 1979, Led Zeppelin played two large concerts at
Knebworth; the shows would be their last English
performances.
In Through the Out Door, the band's much-delayed eighth
studio album, was finally released in September of 1979.
The album entered the charts at number one in both America
and England. In May of 1980, Led Zeppelin embarked on
their final European tour. In September, Led Zeppelin
began rehearsing at Jimmy Page's house in preparation for
an American tour. On September 25, John Bonham was found
dead in his bed -- following an all-day drinking binge, he
had passed out and choked on his own vomit. In December of
1980, Led Zeppelin announced they were disbanding, since
they could not continue without Bonham.
Following the breakup, the remaining members all began
solo careers. John Paul Jones returned to producing and
arranging, finally releasing his solo debut, Zooma, in
1999. After recording the soundtrack for Death Wish II,
Jimmy Page compiled the Zeppelin outtakes collection Coda,
which was released at the end of 1982. That same year,
Robert Plant began a solo career with the Pictures at
Eleven album. In 1984, Plant and Page briefly reunited in
the all-star oldies band the Honeydrippers. After
recording one EP with the Honeydrippers, Plant returned to
his solo career and Page formed the Firm with former Bad
Company singer Paul Rogers. In 1985, Led Zeppelin reunited
to play Live Aid, sparking off a flurry of reunion rumors;
the reunion never materialized. In 1988, the band
re-formed to play Atlantic's 25th anniversary concert.
During 1989, Page remastered the band's catalog for
release on the 1990 box set Led Zeppelin. The four-disc
set became the biggest-selling multi-disc box set of all
time, which was followed up three years later by another
box set, the mammoth ten-disc set The Complete Studio
Recordings.
In 1994, Page and Plant reunited to record a segment for
MTV Unplugged, which was released as No Quarter in the
fall of 1994. Although the album went platinum, the sales
were disappointing considering the anticipation of a
Zeppelin reunion. The following year, Page and Plant
embarked on a successful international tour, which
eventually led to an all-new studio recording in 1998, the
Steve Albini-produced Walking Into Clarksdale.
Surprisingly, the album was met with a cool reception by
the record-buying public, as Page and Plant ended their
union shortly thereafter, once again going their separate
ways (Page went on to tour with the Black Crowes, while
Plant resumed his solo career). Further Zeppelin
compilation releases saw the light of day in the late
'90s, including 1997's stellar double-disc BBC Sessions,
plus Zep's first true best-of collections -- 1999's Early
Days: The Best Of, Vol. 1 and 2000's Latter Days: The Best
Of, Vol. 2.