Led Zeppelin Early Days - The Best of Led Zeppelin Vol 1 (MP3) {CTShoN} [CTRC]

As legend has it, Led Zeppelin never played the singles game. That's
not entirely true -- "Whole Lotta Love" was a gold-selling, Top Five
single, while "Immigrant Song," "Black Dog," and "D'yer Mak'er" all
went Top 20. But since their reputation was built in part through
album rock radio, and since they never released "Stairway to Heaven"
as a single, the impression that they were above hits and singles
grew and grew.
Zeppelin fostered it by refusing to issue
compilations for years, forcing every fan to become familiar with
the group on an album-by-album basis. Things began to change a bit
in 1990, when Jimmy Page assembled the four-disc Led Zeppelin box,
the group's first official compilation; it eventually opened the
door for the 1999 release of Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin,
Vol. 1.
Early Days focuses on the first four Zeppelin albums, taking
four songs from the first, just two apiece from the second and
third, and the entire first side of IV, along with "When the Levee
Breaks." And for the diehards, a video clip of Zeppelin performing
"Communication Breakdown" on an English TV show is thrown onto the
enhanced CD portion of the disc.
It's basically the album longtime
Zeppelin fans thought would never be released: a straight-up
greatest-hits album. At one point, this may have been seen as
sacrilege among devotees, but at this point, it's hard to imagine
who would care about Early Days one way or another.
Apart from the
handful of casual fans who just want the radio staples on one disc -
- while not caring that other classics are absent -- there really is
no audience for this, since it doesn't recontextualize the catalog
like the box sets. It's still pretty entertaining, yet Early Days
feels unnecessary. Yet that cover photo is priceless.
Led Zeppelin Early Days - The Best of Led Zeppelin Vol 1
The Best of Led Zeppelin
Compilation album by: Led Zeppelin
The Best of Led Zeppelin is a two-volume greatest hits
compilation album series by English rock group Led Zeppelin
released by Atlantic Records.

Release date: November 19, 2002

Duration: 01:08:09

Artist: Led Zeppelin

Label: Atlantic Records

Producers: Jimmy Page

Genre: Heavy metal, Hard rock

1."Good Times Bad Times" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page) – 2:48

2."Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Anne Bredon, Page, and Robert Plant) – 6:41

3."Dazed and Confused" (Page) – 6:27

4."Communication Breakdown" (Bonham, Jones, and Page) – 2:29

5."Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Willie Dixon, Jones, Page, and Plant) – 5:34

6."What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page and Plant) – 4:44

7."Immigrant Song" (Page and Plant) – 2:25

8."Since I've Been Loving You" (Jones, Page, and Plant) – 7:24

9."Black Dog" (Jones, Page, and Plant) – 4:54

10."Rock and Roll" (Bonham, Jones, Page, and Plant) – 3:41

11."The Battle of Evermore" (Page and Plant) – 5:52

12."When the Levee Breaks" (Bonham, Jones, Memphis Minnie, Page, and Plant) – 7:08

13."Stairway to Heaven" (Page and Plant) – 8:02

Duration: 01:08:09