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Music CD - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: Walking Into Clarksdale
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Music CD: Walking Into Clarksdale
Artist: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $48.00
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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1. Shining in the Light
2. When the World Was Young
3. Upon a Golden Horse
4. Blue Train
5. Please Read the Letter
6. Most High
7. Heart in Your Hand
8. Walking into Clarksdale
9. Burning Up
10. When I Was a Child
11. House of Love
12. Sons of Freedom
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0075678309212
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 2
Publication Date: 1998
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 1998-06-02
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Please Remaster this!!!!
Comment: "Walking into Clarksdale" has several great songs on it..."Most high"...."Heart in your Hand"....."Blue Train".....But the Sound is horrific! Where were Jimmys ears during this creation? Steve Albini should be hung by his balls.....There is so much bottom, you can`t here the drums or the bass....they come across as if you are listening to it under water!!! Take Page/plants.."No Quarter/Unledded"....Crank it up, listen....And then, without changing the volume or bass/treble...put on this cd....blagh! This needs to be Remastered right away!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly good
Comment: I was pretty fearful about first hearing this album, since I really hated most post-Zeppelin releases, but was excited to hear this as it was engineered by Steve Albini, a recordist who I had always wished was around to help make a Led Zep reunion album.
Albini is very adept at recreating a Zeppelin-like sound for the album, and it's no wonder he was chosen as engineer, despite his dark horse status -- the drums and guitars sound terrific, and there are many details of Robert Plant's voice that were not captured on his earlier solo efforts. Jimmy Page shows off a great arsenal of different guitar sounds, and while he plays no really blistering solos, the work bears his unmistakable signature, expertly recorded to boot. The mixes have almost 3-D depth, and when turned up loud they will kick you right in the guts.
The songs here must be applauded simply for not trying to make it sound like they are young again. These are middle-aged men, with a stock of tunes that tend to favor ballads (with loud bridges, of course); the lyrics often seem to reflect on loss and aging, rather than describing elves, fairies, and cavorting with Los Angeles groupies. They sound older, but all the wiser. On "Blue Train", there is obvious and very affecting sincerity in such lines as "love's true flame dies without the warmth of your sun," -- something that would sound ridiculous coming from a younger band, but here Plant gives it an earnest quality that makes it totally believable.
It's not a perfect record. The single, "Most High", loses me after a few minutes, and the title track lacks focus even though it's based on a pretty good guitar riff. But "Shining In the Light" sounds very new and refreshing, as well "When the World Was Young," which could have sounded quite at-home on an album like "Presence".
This album won't change your life, but more or less, it rocks. Sometimes, conviction is all you need, and there's plenty of it here.
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Summary: very underrated
Comment: This is the last Led Zeppelin album. The songs grow on you with time and are all really great. Almost a decade after I bought this album I still love listening to it. i wish I could have heard these songs live. Zeppelin should get back together because life is too short and rock n' roll needs them as well as other classic rock bands. I hear rumors of a new album somewhere down the road, and if that's going to happen I hope they'd really do it right and make some bold social statements and offend a lot of people. These days, a lot of people need to be awakened from their spiritual slumbers.
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Summary: Lyrical and Guitar Masterpiece!
Comment: I am blown away. This album completely resonates with me. I know that music is subjective. IMHO, Walking Into Clarksdale is a masterpiece, No, it's not Led Zeppelin. It's almost better. We have Robert's enlightened lyrics (listen)! combined with Jimmy's masterful retro guitar and production. Much love to Page and Plant. Thank youl
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Summary: Less than Zeppelin
Comment: I was very disappointed with my purchase of this album when it was first released. It was heavily promoted when it first came out and, as a Led Zepp fan since the days of my youth, and one who also greatly enjoyed the latter solo releases by Robert Plant I had great expectations for this album. Sadly it in no way were those expectations met. My copy got played twice, the second time in the hope that I had somehow missed something when I first played it. It has for years sat in a box of old cassettes that never get played. This album seems to me to be more an attempt to cash in on their reputations of a than as a true artistic effort. Both Plant and Page simply do not expend the energy or show the interest to create an album worthy of their talents. There seems to me to be a sense of hostility between the two of them that could be blocking the creative process. Don't spend your money on this one. Go for some classic Zeppelin or something by Plant that has some energy and effort in it. This album is souless and lazy.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Pity the aging rock star. All those declarations about sugar mountains and hoping to die before he got old don't leave much room for middle age. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant understood this in 1997 as they began work on Walking Into Clarksdale, the duo's first album-length collaboration on all-new material since Led Zeppelin blew apart in 1980. Despite inevitable comparisons with the music of their youth, their work here (recorded by punk deity Steve Albini) is no embarrassment. Too many of the tracks are frustratingly dry and somber, but the duo find shades of "Kashmir" on the epic "Most High," while Plant croons a beautifully Zeppelinesque chorus on "When the World Was Young." Dancing days are here again. --Steve Appleford
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