2015, EAN: 0081227957957

{|Led Zeppelin|} returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with the double album {|Physical Graffiti|}, their most sprawling and ambitious work. Where {|Led Zeppelin IV|} and {|House… Altro …

{|Led Zeppelin|} returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with the double album {|Physical Graffiti|}, their most sprawling and ambitious work. Where {|Led Zeppelin IV|} and {|Houses of the Holy|} integrated their influences on each song, the majority of the songs on {|Physical Graffiti|} are individual stylistic workouts. The highlights are when {|Zeppelin|} incorporate influences together and stretch out into new stylistic territory, most notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced Kashmir. Trampled Underfoot, with {|John Paul Jones|}' galloping keyboard, is their best funk-metal workout, while Houses of the Holy is their best attempt at pop, while Down by the Seaside is the closest they've come to country. Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute In My Time of Dying, the tightly wound Custard Pie, and the monstrous epic The Rover -- are louder, more extended and textured than their previous work. Also, all of the heavy songs are on the first record, leaving the rest of the album to explore more adventurous territory, whether via acoustic tracks or grandiose but quiet epics like the affecting Ten Years Gone. The second half of {|Physical Graffiti|} feels like Zeppelin are cleaning the vaults out, issuing every little scrap of music they set to tape in the preceding few years. That means that the album is filled with songs that aren't quite filler, but they don't quite match the peaks of the album, either. Still, even these songs have their merits -- Sick Again is the meanest, most decadent rocker they ever recorded and the folky acoustic rock & roll of Boogie with Stu and Black Country Woman may be tossed off, but they have a relaxed, offhand charm that {|Zeppelin|} never matched. It takes a while to sort out all of the music on the album, but {|Physical Graffiti|} captures the whole experience of {|Led Zeppelin|} at the top of their game better than any of their other albums. [{|Led Zeppelin|} launched a massive, {|Jimmy Page|}-supervised reissue campaign in 2014, where each of their studio albums was remastered and then expanded with a bonus disc of alternate versions (in the case of the super deluxe editions, they were also supplemented by vinyl pressings, download codes for high-resolution digital audio files, and massive hardcover books). All previous expansions featured alternate versions of nearly every song that showed up on the finished album but {|Physical Graffiti|}, the first in the series to appear on its lonesome (and the first to show up in 2015), has a mere seven songs on its bonus disc -- less than half of the sprawling double album. Fortunately, most of these seven songs offer something different from the released versions. The rough orchestra mix of Driving Through Kashmir is nearly identical to Kashmir and Boogie with Stu has minutely different solos but Brandy & Coke, which is a rough mix of Trampled Under Foot, is leaner and funkier, emphasizing {|John Paul Jones|}' jumping clavinet. A rough mix of In My Time of Dying is drier and boasts different guitar solos, Sick Again is stripped of {|Robert Plant|}'s vocals and sounds appropriately greasy, and Houses of the Holy is larded up with perhaps too many vocal overdubs, which leaves the reissue's real revelation as Everybody Makes It Through, a very rough and fascinating early version of In the Light that's heavy on keyboards and finds {|Plant|} still sorting through his vocal. Like most of the {|Zeppelin|} reissues, the alternate versions reaffirm that {|Page|} made the right decisions the first time around, but these seven versions all make for worthy listening in their own right.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Music>Music>Pop Rock>Pop Rock>Pop Rock, Wea Core >3<

2020, ISBN: 0081227957957

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2020, ISBN: 0081227957957

[PU: Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH / Hamburg], Neuware -, DE, [SC: 3.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 66g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand

2020, ISBN: 0081227957957

[PU: Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH / Hamburg], Neuware -, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 66g], Banküberweisung, PayPal