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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A superb collection of fine songs, November 10, 2003
A superb special collection of 35 songs in 2 cd's, featuring the voice of one of the main singers in rock history. CD 1: features material from his solo albums; but CD 2: is full of rarities, bonus tracks, pre-zeppelin works with groups like Listen and Band of Joy and a live performance in Timbuktu. Sad, but no songs from the first solo Plant CD Pictures at eleven(Because I think "Like I've never been gone" is the best of the Plant's solo career), and no other hits like "In the mood" and "Other Arms"; The cd 1 contains "Big Log" from Principle of Moments; "Sea of Love" from Honeydrippers vol.1; "Little by Little" from Shaken and Stirred; "Heaven Knows; Tall cool one; Ship Of fools" from Now and Zen; "Tie dye on the highway" from Manic Nirvana; "Calling to you, 29 Palms; I believe; If I were a carpenter; Promise Land" from Fate of Nations; and "Darkness, Darkness; Song to the siren; Dirt in the hole" from last cd Dreamland. The rest are the "good news" of the track list: "Hey Jayne; Naked If I want to; 21 years"; 3 unreleased tracks: "Upside Down; Road to the sun; Red for Danger"; early tracks: "You'd better run; Hey Joe; For what's is worth; Operator"; a side project song recorded under the moniker Crawling Kingsnakes:"Philadelphia Baby"; special appearances: "Let's have a party; If it's really got to be that way; Rude World; Little Hands; Life begins again; Let that boogie woogie roll" and live performance in Timbuktu: "Win my train fare home". This cd sounds great, and worth to be part of your own collection. 5 stars.
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46 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a greatest hits, but great b-sides disk, November 10, 2003
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))
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Robert's Greatest Adventures, May 1, 2004
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~]
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