Led Zeppelin - Mothership - Music & Performance - CD

This Deluxe edition includes a DVD that features newly remixed and remastered sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, and boasts more than 40 minutes of added bonus material, including never-before-released performance footage of "Over the Hills And Far Away" and "Celebration Day"; plus performances of "Misty Mountain Hop" and "The Ocean"; a rare 1976 BBC interview with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page; vintage TV footage from the Drake Hotel robbery during the New York concert stand; and a Cameron Crowe radio show.

Led Zeppelin's reunion for an Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in November 2007 (pushed back a couple of weeks due to a finger injury Jimmy Page sustained during rehearsals) seemed like a spur of the moment thing -- but how spontaneous could it have been if it just happened to coincide with the release of an expanded The Song Remains the Same on both CD and DVD, the debut of their catalog as digital downloads, and the new two-disc compilation Mothership as a sampler of the whole shebang? Considering this full-scale, multi-prong assault -- which also included a new album by Robert Plant, after all -- it was probably not all that spontaneous. Such a precise attack suits this most mythic of classic rock groups, who always benefited from an enormous sense of scale. Weighing in at two discs and 24 tracks, Mothership has a sense of scale that the previous round of compilations -- the two-part Early Days & Latter Days, delivered in 1999 and 2000 respectively -- lacked, not just because it pushes these two phases together but because it is heavy on the heavy epics, emphasizing Zeppelin's sheer sonic ballast over either their lighter or more idiosyncratic moments. This effects the second disc more than the first, as the band started out heavy and expanded outward, and while it would have been nice if "Fool in the Rain" represented In Through the Out Door instead of "In the Evening," this is a minor quibble as Mothership hits the obvious high points without seeming perfunctory. And that, along with Page's new remastering, is the real selling point behind Mothership: as a compilation it is both gripping listening and a good introduction to this very album-oriented band, which is what makes it a welcome addition to their catalog. [The deluxe edition of Mothership contains a DVD with highlights from their eponymous live DVD -- it's a nice bonus but really, you'd be better off getting the full set.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Performer	Led Zeppelin
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	European
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Edition	Standard
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	3
Series title	Led Zeppelin - Mothership [COMPACT DISCS] Ltd Ed, With DVD, Deluxe Ed, Rmst
Track listing	Good Times Bad Times, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Whole Lotta Love, Ramble on, Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song, Since I've Been Loving You, Rock and Roll, Black Dog, When the Levee Breaks, Stairway to Heaven, Song Remains the Same, Over the Hills and Far Away, D'yer Maker, No Quarter, Trampled Under Foot, Houses of the Holy, Kashmir, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Achilles Last Stand, In the Evening, All My Love, We're Gonna Groove, I Can't Quit You Babe (DVD), Dazed & Confused (DVD), White Summer (DVD), What Is & What Should Never Be (DVD), Moby Dick (DVD), Bring It on Home, Misty Mountain Hop, Going to California, In My Time of Dying, Whole Lotta Love (DVD), Whole Lotta Love [DVD]
Record label	Atlantic
Songwriter	songwriter
Track name	Over the Hills And Far Away
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	Y