Sixty Six to Timbuktu [Original recording remastered, Enhanced]

Robert Plant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered, Enhanced
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B0000DIZQQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Tie Dye on the Highway

2. Upside Down [#]

3. Promised Land

4. Tall Cool One

5. Dirt in a Hole

6. Calling to You

7. 29 Palms

8. If I Were a Carpenter

9. Sea of Love

10. Darkness, Darkness

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. You'd Better Run

2. Our Song

3. Hey Joe [Demo Version]

4. For What It's Worth

5. Operator

6. Road to the Sun [#]

7. Philadelphia Baby

8. Red Is for Danger [#]

9. Let's Have a Party

10. Hey Jayne

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

CD anthology includes all the hits along with previously unreleased rarities. This Australian version includes 2 enhanced tracks. Mercury. 2003. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert's Greatest Adventures, May 1, 2004

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doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixty Six to Timbuktu (Audio CD)

You can ignore all the crybabies around here who are blubbering about the song selection in this package. First of all, there are two discs, and Disc 2 is where the true treasures abound, while everyone is expecting Disc 1 to be a standard greatest hits package. Our whiny friends apparently didn't notice that this collection is NOT called "Robert Plant's Greatest Hits," and they also didn't notice in the liner notes that Robert himself didn't want to create that kind of package. Sure Disc 1 features a very lopsided compilation of Robert's proper solo work, with the earlier albums being almost totally neglected in favor of the later ones. If that's a problem for you, just listen to the original albums again. Of course, Robert meant for this package to focus on the more adventurous aspects of his music, which can be felt throughout Disc 2, and that's the real reason for this collection's existence.

Zep collectors will be fascinated by the first few cuts on Disc 2, which are long-lost selections from Robert's pre-Zeppelin work. The first two tracks are obscure British singles in which the teenage Robert was trying to be a pop heartthrob and sounded very little like his future blues-metal self. Robert finds his voice in the next two tracks by Band of Joy, his pre-Zeppelin group with John Bonham on drums (one of these two tracks is a surprisingly sinister version of "Hey Joe"). The collection then skips to 1983 and proceeds to take us on a tour of post-Zeppelin tracks that were often so offbeat and adventurous that they didn't even fit onto the solo albums. Here is where Robert fans will be truly reminded of his unappreciated love for the experimental and his mastery of non-Western sounds. Most rewarding are a variety of quirky covers, collaborations with Afro Celt Soundsystem and avant-garde guitar virtuoso Rainer Ptacek, and a live selection from Timbuktu (Mali) that truly integrates the authentic sounds of that land. Prepare for adventure, not a selection of radio hits. [~doomsdayer520~]

47 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a greatest hits, but great b-sides disk, November 10, 2003

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S. Baker "sdbaker70" (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixty Six to Timbuktu (Audio CD)

In the liner notes, Robert Plant makes much of trying to avoid a commercial success formula to putting together this compilation. That said, this compilation is a bit to heavily weighted toward his later material ('Fate of Nations' (1993) and 'Dreamland' (2002)) and glosses over his earlier material with no entries from his debut, 'Pictures at 11' (1982), and only one enty from the much-underrated 'Manic Nirvana' (1990). Nonetheless, it is a must for fans merely because of the b-sides disk.

In putting together a compilation, an artist basically has two commercially viable choices: (a) putting together a representative anthology with lots of b-sides for serious fans; or (b) putting together a collection of the greatest hits for casual/passing fans. Unfortunately, like many , this one tries to straddle the fence and ends up being incomplete on both fronts. A perfect greatest hits that I could recommend to casual fans would have the following:
1. Burning Down One Side (from 'Pictures at Eleven' (1982))
2. Other Arms
3. In the Mood
4. Big Log (from 'Principle of Moments' (1983))
5. Sea of Love
6. Rockin' at Midnight (from 'The Honeydrippers Vol. 1' (1984))
7. Little By Little (from 'Shakin' n' Stirred' (1985))
8. Heaven Knows
9. Ship of Fools
10. Tall Cool One (from 'Now & Zen' (1988))
11. Hurting Kind
12. Tie Dye on the Highway (from 'Manic Nirvana' (1990))
13. 29 Palms
14. Calling to You (from 'Fate of Nations' (1993))
15. Most High (from 'Walking Towards Clarksdale' (1998))
16. Morning Dew
17. Darkness, Darkness (from 'Dreamland' (2002))

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plant your Bobs on this gem!, April 30, 2004

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Patrick Earley (Edmond, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixty Six to Timbuktu (Audio CD)

In many people's books this may not qualify as a true greatest hits cd. The songs on disc 1 don't necessarily relate to chart success as much as they are Plant's personal favorites. But they are a good overview, especially since most of these tracks are from his later solo efforts, which I consider more polished efforts. Most people who are fans of Plant are going to have many of these songs anyway. The real surprise for me was the disc 2 compilation of Plant's early pre-Zep era songs and rarities and side project material. Since I was a boy and dinosaurs still walked the earth I've been listening to Robert Plant from that classic 1969 first Zep record to a more subdued Plant and his 8 post-Zep solo albums. But I had no idea he was so active before his Zepplin days. This disc starts in 1966 with recordings from his band the Tennessee Teens, where he cut the tracks "Our Song" and the Young Rascals classic "You Better Run", which is a little more rocked up version than the original. He then moved on to the band called Band Of Joy. This was a nice rockin' little band who cut the tracks "Hey Joe" and an interesting hard rock version of Stephen Stills "For What It's Worth" which offers up some mean no frills guitar work. He also sang for the Russian blues king Alexis Korner in 68' on the killer blues tune called "Operator" before moving on in 69' to a group called the New Yardbirds, aka Led Zepplin. These early gems alone are worth the price here. But you also get some rare songs off of various sountracks and tribute albums that he's done over the years. The standouts being "If it's really got to be this way" from his tribute to country soul man Arthur Alexander. Other highlights is a 1985 side project called the Crawling Kingsnkes with Phil Collins and rockabilly great Dave Edmunds called "Philadelphia Baby" which along with "let's have a party" and "let the boogie woogie roll" represent his 50's early rock and roll influences. This disc has everything from r&b, blues, rockabilly and Zepplin like hard rock in chronological order from 1966 to a killer song he did in 2003 called "win my train fare home" live from Timbuktu. But it flows nice and is never boring. Plant is really an expert on the different genres of music. And it's pretty obvious he loves his rock and roll history and influences that he's learned along the way. This also contains some very witty and humorous liner notes by Plant. He's one heck of a great music critic, and he knows his stuff. I walked away from this with a much bigger respect of this rock icon. Anyone interested in the roots of Robert Plant is sure to enjoy this cd. In my opinion one of the best rock reissues that I've ever heard. Highly recommended!