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Summary: Love this Disk...
Comment: I'm a Zep fan for 30 years now, still listening to the Zep classics. This disk is one of my favorites as it breathes new life into Zep's old art. Sheryl Crowe's funky interpretation of D'yer Mak'er is particularly good. Fortunately, these artists stayed away from Zep's best known material (although Heart did a great job with Rock'n Roll years ago).
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Summary: Nice Diversity - Decent Tribute - Some Good, Some Bad
Comment: Encomium:Tribute to Led Zeppelin.
Out of the gate, I'll say my personal favorite here is STP's Dancing Days. The whole understated vibe of it worked. It honors the vibe and feel of the original while STP puts thier subtle stamp on it. Overall, a very cool cover. It reaffirms my belief that STP is one of the most underappreciated 90s rock bands.
Being a big fan of Zep, its nice to see some bands taking the music in a whole different place. Sheryl Crow not my favorite artists by anymeans does a interesting job with D'yer Mak'er. She makes it more poppy, but keeps it interesting. This does have its limits. Tori Amos along with Plant doing "Down By the Seaside" just didn't work for me. Its just too far removed from the original to be recognizable to me.
Others who put on reasonable performances are Hootie and the Blowfish, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Duran Duran and Cracker.
The stinkers of the album are the Rollin's band stuff, Helmet and Never the Bride. Henry Rollin's screaming style and David Yow, just don't compliment the material. Its my belief when doing a cover try to compliment it.
As to the song selection it isn't too bad. The cliche's are avoided ala Rock and Roll or Stairway. You see some interesting choices like Custard Pie and Four Sticks. I would've loved to see someone try to have tackled In the Evening.
Overall, for what it is its interesting. Shows the creativity of the artists taking the material and putting thier spin on it. That equals some good times and bad times.
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Summary: A very solid tribute CD. I was definately surprised.
Comment: I lost this CD a few months ago, but I used to listen to it occasionally. Most of the songs on this disc are very good, but for my money, the best track on here is "Thank You" performed by Duran Duran. I really don't like Duran Duran so I was pretty surprised by that. Most of the other tracks are good too. If you like Zep, this is definately a disc to check out if you are looking for something different.
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Summary: Big Names Salute Zeppelin
Comment: Led Zeppelin really is one of the greatest legendary band in the world. They sold more albums than The Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson combined. They even have two of the biggest selling albums of all time. On this compliation popular names like Duran Duran, Sheryl Crow and Hootie & The Blowfish cover very popular Zep tunes. However nobody has done a cover od Zepplin's most popular tune Stairway to Heaven.
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Summary: Better then your average tribute
Comment: I rarely enjoy tributes. I'm more of a purist when it comes to my music. So, when I heard about this, a tribute album of Zeppelin greats I was very skeptical.
Well I listened to this at a listening station at a local bookstore. I was immediately hooked.
The selection of thse groups to play each of these songs were very well matched to the songs that they've played.
Misty Mountain Hop - 4 Non Blondes. One of the most criticized songs in Zep's collection is played fairly well by this eclectic collection of souls. They hit the feel of the song.
Hey Hey What Can I do - Hootie And The Blowfish. Darius Rucker's voice and the style of the Blowfish, one of the most mis-understood, under-rated groups take on a song that's so perfectly suited to their style of playing. Rather enjoyable.
D'yer Maker - Sheryl Crow.Love her or hate her. She's decent on this Zep Great. I've never really liked Sheryl Crow. But, doing D'yer Maker she carries the song well.
Four Sticks - Rollins Band Once again, not one of my favorite groups. But, this album was a break out for them.
It's nice to see that these groups decided to take on some real classics from a bygone era. So often you hear groups these days just play their own music without having the nerve to take on an older style of Rock N Roll. Well I hand it to:
4 Non Blondes
Hootie & The Blowfish
Sherly Crow
S.T.P
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Duran Duran
Blind Melon
Cracker
Helmet
Rollins Band
Never the Bride
and of course Robert Plant getting together with Tori Amos.
They looked past their own fears and took on some classic Zep tunes. I'm also glad that they took songs like Down By The Seaside, and Out On The Tiles, songs you almost never hear played anywhere.
So stop all the crying and complaining about this collection. Listen to it for what it is. It's modern groups that people know here playing songs that were written before many of the artists featured here were born.
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