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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Atlantic
Salesrank: 658
Released: November 13, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Mothership 2CD/1DVD Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Communication Breakdown
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
5. Whole Lotta Love
6. Ramble On
7. Heartbreaker
8. Immigrant Song
9. Since I've Been Loving You
10. Rock and Roll
11. Black Dog
12. When The Levee Breaks
13. Stairway To Heaven
Disc 2:
1. Song Remains The Same
2. Over The Hills And Far Away
3. D'Yer Maker
4. No Quarter
5. Trampled Under Foot
6. Houses Of The Holy
7. Kashmir
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine
9. Achilles Last Stand
10. In The Evening
11. All My Love
Editorial Review:
Led Zeppelin redefined rock in the Seventies and for all time. They were as influential in that decade as the Beatles were in the prior one. Their impact extends to classic and alternative rockers alike. Then and now, Led Zeppelin looms larger than life on the rock landscape as a band for the ages with an almost mystical power to evoke primal passions.
- from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's web page on the band s 1995 induction
It's rare that a group can truly rock today s world, but the arrival of MOTHERSHIP, the first-ever comprehensive 2CD Led Zeppelin compilation with the soon to follow re-release of The Song Remains The Same on CD & DVD and a concert event reuniting Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones qualifies. Produced by Page and mixed by Kevin Shirley, MOTHERSHIP's 24 monolithic tracks were selected and sequenced by the band, who also oversaw the painstaking remastering. Spanning their epic career, the unprecedented collection pulls immortal songs from all eight of the band s classic studio albums, one of the 20th century s most enduring bodies of musical work. Arguably the most influential and innovative rock band ever, Led Zeppelin has sold over 200 million records worldwide. They continue to inspire successive generations with their passionate, groundbreaking, genre-transcendent, mystic, heavy and blues-infused rock n roll. Forty years since they formed, the song indeed remains the same.
Description of Mothership 2CD/1DVD:
For years, as playlists and multidisc players put Led Zeppelin tracks into a mix, there was a perpetual need to adjust the volume when Zep came on. Their tunes languished in the haze of substandard remastering--until now, at least for the 24 tracks on Mothership and the final fullness of the new Song Remains the Same reissue. For its part, Mothership's crisper, warmer audio owes its heft to the troika of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, who helped oversee the mastering, bringing out untold shades even in the throes of "Heartbreaker" and the sinews of "No Quarter." It's an impressive sonic leap. Where tinny high-ends and muffled lows used to co-exist, fatter and louder depths prevail. It's ever more astonishing that Zep got on with just four blokes. You can quibble with the 24 tracks here (where's "The Ocean"?), but the band picked each track here, from the stone-cold locks ("Communication Breakdown" and "Stairway to Heaven," no, duh) to the robust throb of "When the Levee Breaks." As for "The Ocean," you can find that in fantastically full form, along with five other gems on the newly remastered Song Remains the Same, which shows up for 2007's holiday season on DVD, too. Only rarely have four lads from England made so memorable an auditory and visual blast. --Andrew Bartlett
Mothership 2CD/1DVD Reviews:
Sonically very harsh 
2008-09-03 - I am about the biggest LZ fan there is but I goto tell you.If you like harsh,bright,and loud then by all means buy this.If you want to hear Led Zeppelin in a warm and natural way do yourself a favor and buy a turntable and the 200 Gram LP reissues from Classic records.After a few listens you will toss this in the trash.
Mothership - Led Zeppelin 
2008-08-10 - So you are thinking to yourself: I have everyone of these Led Zep songs. Got the box sets, the "other" greatest hits cd. Why should I plunk down $18 to buy the same old tunes in yet another repackaged cd? Because it is worth it based on the total overall package. The inner booklet is crammed with informative tidbits and pics plus a song by song description of when it was released, etc. Sound and mix is so outstanding, its like hearing these songs for the "first" time. They could have used Fool In The Rain and Dancing Days instead of Nobody's Fault But Mine and Achilles Last Stand, but that's my personal choice. Highly recommended!!!! Especially if you are one of the few Earthlings who has never heard of Led Zep, this would be a great intro into the mystical, magical and musical world of Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham.
An unnecessary, substandard "best of" album 
2008-08-05 - How many times does Led Zeppelin need to be remastered? Zeppelin has long been a high-water mark for audio mastering... screwing with it to make it "louder" is sacrilege. It's called "dynamic range," people. That "fatter sound" that you love to hear from today's radio crap is compression killing sonic clarity. There's no way around the trade off between dynamic range and compression.
But the worst part about this CD, despite all the great tracks it includes, is all the great tracks that it's missing. I could do without "Communication Breakdown" (a great song, but one that has been superseded by other better songs), "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You," "Since I've Been Loving You," "Stairway to Heaven" (as if we haven't heard it enough already), "No Quarter" (a song I've always hated), "Trampled Under Foot," and "Achilles Last Stand." I know some of these are inexplicably popular enough to throw on a greatest hits CD, but they're not my first choices.
If I had to choose 24 Zeppelin tracks, here's what I would pick:
"Good Times Bad Times"
"You Shook Me"
"Dazed and Confused"
"How Many More Times"
"Whole Lotta Love"
"What Is and What Should Never Be"
"The Lemon Song"
"Ramble On"
"Bring It On Home"
"Immigrant Song"
"Black Dog"
"Four Sticks"
"When the Levee Breaks"
"Over the Hills and Far Away"
"Dancing Days"
"The Ocean"
"In My Time of Dying"
"Kashmir"
"Nobody's Fault But Mine"
"We're Gonna Groove"
"I Can't Quit You Baby" (Coda)
"Traveling Riverside Blues"
"White Summer - Black Mountain Side"
"Hey Hey What Can I Do"
I would have listened to that all the way through instead of skipping half the tracks the first time around like I did with "Mothership." My list is surely different than some people's taste in Zeppelin, but the fact is that several of the songs included are great, but have been ruined by overexposure. For instance, after "Rock and Roll" became mentally attached to a car commercial in my head, I lost all desire to listen to it again (which is a shame because it's a good song).
I know people are going to hate me for putting down this CD and some of their favorite songs, but these just aren't all the best Zeppelin songs in my opinion, and I think it's a mistake for Jimmy Page to keep screwing with his material over and over again, the way George Lucas ruined the Star Wars films. You want Zeppelin louder? Turn the volume up! There's a reason why the "punchier" music of today sounds so much more duller than music from the 60's and 70's.
Plus, I already own all of these songs.
I'm Confused, Not Dazed
2008-07-08 - The re-masters of these songs are fantastic. SAVE YOUR MONEY ON THIS SHAMELESS CASH IN. Get it at the library. WAIT FOR INDIVIDUAL ALBUM RE-MASTERS TO GIVE MONEY.
Led Zepplin Mothership
2008-06-20 - I love Led Zepplin and this package has all the great songs rolled into 2 cd's along with footage from their concerts. Anyone who is a Led Zepplin fan, this is a must for their library
