Led Zeppelin I: 40th Anniversary Edition (or Bonus Tracks, whatever works)

[W%SL]

Here's food for thought: 40th Anniversary Remaster of Led Zeppelin I (and II and so on and so forth). I'm thinking something along the lines of Truth or the first Fleetwood Mac album or Blind Faith (not necessarily as extensive as the Blind Faith one and its three discs). Jimmy would slap on some alternate takes and/or a couple live tracks and we would all be happy. Unless they're the ones on the Antrabata 11-disc set, because many of us probably already have them.

[Anarchy2Howard]

That'd be awesome! Led Zeppelin I was released on my birthday and it's my favourite album. It'd be cool to see some alternate or live tracks on there.

[Gervox]

Here's food for thought: 40th Anniversary Remaster of Led Zeppelin I (and II and so on and so forth). I'm thinking something along the lines of Truth or the first Fleetwood Mac album or Blind Faith (not necessarily as extensive as the Blind Faith one and its three discs). Jimmy would slap on some alternate takes and/or a couple live tracks and we would all be happy. Unless they're the ones on the Antrabata 11-disc set, because many of us probably already have them.

Those albums have been remastered to within an inch of their lives already!.

For me, one of the the many unique things about Led Zeppelin was the clarity of sound and crispness of the original production, when compared to the murk of contempory fare.

I have made no secret of the fact that as soon as I could, in the early 80's,I swiftly collected all of the albums from the UK charts in 1969,and played them just to compare and experience the impact of Led Zeppelin's first album.I was not dissapointed!.

In the process though, I found many many other great artists and albums,and It turned out to be not a chore in the least!.I discovered not a few talents that I still rate to this day!.

Zep 1 still has for me a "new" feel about it.The first C.D releases in the 90's were a different story,I know, but they have long since been rectified.But is that a good thing?.

What do we want?.

I heard Whole Lotta Love on a friends new sound system only today, and marvelled at the detail.The things that I used to think was a fault on first my cassette tape; I.e the echoing vocals,leaking though Roberts head phones, were right to the front of the mix,and sounded the better for it!.I enjoyed these subtile things that I had nearly forgotten,then looked at his source, and it turned out to be an early '90's "poor" copy from a second generation 'master' tape!.

[croquet'n'cocaine]

Here's food for thought: 40th Anniversary Remaster of Led Zeppelin I (and II and so on and so forth).

You missed out III.

[Gervox]

You missed out III.

Everybody seems to miss Zep III!.

I am heartened though by several young people that I know (one of whom is in a death metal band) who fully appreciate it!.

[DragonOfDarkness]

You missed out III.

Definitely my favorite album. III is just fantastic.

[W%SL]

Well, I did say "so on and so forth" . I would never forget III, I love that album.

[mos6507]

Aside from the tape hiss and occasionally overdriven vocal, the early Zep albums really are quite high fidelity to my ears, even better than today's highly compressed garbage. Take the opening crash of Your Time is Gonna Come, for instance, followed by the ultra-crisp pricklings of the acoustic fingerpicking that fade into reverb. During that time I think only the Beatles and Pink Floyd were capable of recording that well.

[W%SL]

Oh yeah, the Pink Floyd stuff sounds great, pretty much no matter what. I think audio engineers still use Dark Side of the Moon to test audio fidelity.