Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin 1 [Enhanced, Import]

Led Zeppelin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B00002SSRG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (153 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Good Times Bad Times

2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

3. Dazed And Confused

4. Communication Breakdown

5. Whole Lotta Love

6. What Is And What Should Never Be

7. Immigrant Song

8. Since I've Been Loving You

9. Black Dog

10. Rock And Roll

11. The Battle Of Evermore

12. When The Levee Breaks

13. Stairway To Heaven

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Zep Head, July 2, 2000

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This review is from: Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin 1 (Audio CD)

I was torn between 4 stars and 3 and decided to give it 3 because I really wouldn't like to steer anyone wrong by getting them to think this is a great CD. It is decent, and thats it. Just decent. Led Zeppelin is a great band, lets get that point across right away. But the producers of the two CD's named Led Zeppelin's greatest hits volumes one and two gave themselves the dubious task of condensing such a great, and influention rock band into just 23 songs (13 earlier days, 10 latter). Its just not possible. I guess if you just like the song "Stairway to Heaven" and are a rather casual fan, this does the job. But for those of us who are serious fans looking to really get to know the essence of Zeppelin, I'd say bust out the big bucks and either buy all of Zeppelin's original releases, or just buy the box set. The Greatest hits of the early years does the job for a casual fan. But a serious fan should opt for the boxed set or each individual album.

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, But..., June 18, 2000

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Bill R. Moore (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin 1 (Audio CD)

There is a good selection of great music on here, so I have to give it 5 stars by default. However, if you want to experience Led Zeppelin then either buy the albums or the other two boxed sets. Zep was an album band and is not served well by compilations such as this one. Besides, it is missing a few essential tunes (as is volume 2), Ramble On and Heartbreaker are missing from this collection. That is a crime! Those are two of Led Zeppelin's best songs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You and Good Times Bad Times (not even included on the 60 track Led Zeppelin boxed set, but included here) are good songs, but should they be on this compilation? Not really. Could've been better.

On a sidenote: I wish Jimmy would stop releasing "best of" compilations of Zeppelin, God knows there is enough of them already. What all the fans want is official releases of classic Led Zeppelin concerts! So release them already!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars All Great Songs, But Not Enough, April 23, 2000

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"buboni" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin 1 (Audio CD)

This was the first Led Zeppelin CD I bought after I heard some of their music elsewhere and really liked it. After buying this CD and listening to it, I was very satisfied... for a while. I didn't have much knowledge (I really didn't have any) of Led Zeppelin at the time. Then I found out more about them and the very wide range of music they play. I have also listened to other songs of theirs and they are great. It is also a well-known belief that Led Zeppelin are the kings of album rock. I, myself, am thinking about buying a virtually complete box set of Led Zeppelin's music. The only reason I even gave this CD 3 stars is because the songs are great, and it might be a good introduction, but, if you're like me, you'll probably want a lot of their other albums or the box set, which will have all of these songs anyway.