{"id":10899,"date":"2015-08-28T06:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T19:21:02","slug":"new-music-revue-last-round-of-led-zeppelin-reissues-ends-campaign-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/08\/28\/new-music-revue-last-round-of-led-zeppelin-reissues-ends-campaign-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Last round of Led Zeppelin reissues ends campaign successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Presence\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin
\nPresence
\n<\/i>(Atlantic Records)
\n5\/5<\/p>\n

And so the Led Zeppelin reissue series comes to an end, for now, until the whole damn catalogue gets reissued again. You know what? Ain\u2019t a rock band since that\u2019s created so much richness in such a small amount of space as Zep did, so that\u2019s fine by me.<\/p>\n

1976\u2019s Presence<\/i> was the beginning of the end for the band, a dense, difficult album containing a mere seven tracks, the first of which is ten damn minutes long. And that song, \u201cAchilles Last Stand,\u201d is wonderful, very much a forgotten Zep classic.<\/p>\n

But ask anyone what\u2019s on the rest of this album and you always get confused looks, nervous silences. I\u2019ve listened to it a zillion times and I still don\u2019t know what the hell \u201cRoyal Orleans\u201d or \u201cTea for One\u201d sound like. But when it\u2019s spinning, it\u2019s majestic, deceptively simple, the sound of a band unravelling and kinda not caring, the blues monstrous, the rock even moreso.<\/p>\n

The extras are uninteresting demos. But the seven originals are a true classic-rock treat.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin
\nIn Through the Out Door
\n<\/i>(Atlantic Records)
\n5\/5<\/p>\n

\n

Led Zeppelin\u2019s final album has long fascinated me. Like the album that came before it, Presence<\/i>, it only has seven songs. One is ten and a half minutes long and I\u2019m pretty sure it is horrible (\u201cCarouselambra\u201d), but other songs on this album lift the listener like no other rock band is capable of.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll My Love\u201d and \u201cFool in the Rain\u201d are those songs, both absolutely captivating classics, the band uninterested in rock conventions, drummer John Bonham totally, inappropriately, awesomely pounding the heck out of his kit during even the quiet moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Gonna Crawl\u201d ends the album, and the Zep saga, with a brutally morose blues, one that actually works instead of sedates like most blues rock does.<\/p>\n

And \u201cHot Dog\u201d? Hell, it\u2019s ridiculous, but it\u2019s Zeppelin, it\u2019s 1979, we\u2019ll let \u2019em have a silly shuffle\/hoe-down number if they want.<\/p>\n

Again, the extras are nothing special unless you\u2019re a Zep diehard, but the album is classic.<\/p>\n

\"Coda\"<\/a>
\nLed Zeppelin
\nCoda
\n<\/i>(Atlantic Records)
\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n

\n

The postscript to the most amazing spree of studio albums in rock, Led Zeppelin\u2019s 1982 odds \u2019n\u2019 sods collection Coda<\/i> is no one\u2019s favourite Zep album, with eight tunes gathered from the band\u2019s history, songs that never made the cut to the albums proper.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where the reissue series finally gets interesting: Coda comes with no less than 15 bonus tracks spread over two bonus discs, featuring an incredible Zep rarity called \u201cSt. Tristan\u2019s Sword.\u201d Amazingly, it\u2019s an outtake from back in 1970 that never made it to the band\u2019s incredible Led Zeppelin III<\/i> album.<\/p>\n

The track is raging proto-metal, quite possibly one of Jimmy Page\u2019s heaviest moments; I can see why it wouldn\u2019t have worked on their very mellow third album, but I\u2019m shocked it\u2019s never, to the best of my knowledge, seen the light of day.<\/p>\n

The 14 other tracks are mainly demos and are nothing too special. Sad this reissue series is over; Led Zep were one of a kind, and it\u2019s nice to be reminded of that now and again.<\/p>\n

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Led Zeppelin Presence (Atlantic Records) 5\/5 And so the Led Zeppelin reissue series comes to an end, for now, until the whole damn catalogue gets reissued again. You know what? Ain\u2019t a rock band since that\u2019s created so much richness in such a small amount of space as Zep did, so that\u2019s fine by me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-august-19-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}