Track Listing

1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
3. Dazed And Confused
4. Communication Breakdown
5. Whole Lotta Love
6. What Is And What Should Never Be
7. Immigrant Song
8. Since I've Been Loving You
9. Black Dog
10. Rock And Roll
11. The Battle Of Evermore
12. When The Levee Breaks
13. Stairway To Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10920 in Music
• Published on: 1999
• Released on: 1999-11-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Import

Album Description
Limited edition polyprop box (like NIN's 'Fisted') with silkscreened artwork. Contains the 'Early Days' CD (a 13 track 'best of' of their first four albums), two tattoos, a printed t-shirt, a sticker and a numbered certificate. 500 copies only.

Amazon.com
Having previously released no less than four boxed repackages of their studio output, Led Zeppelin may well be the band who made redundancy redundant. Well, surprise! They've done it again. Culled from the band's first four albums by Jimmy Page himself (as if a fourth-grader with an FM radio would have been hard-pressed), this collection captures Page and company's blues-riff-ripping prime, relieved only by the folksy "Battle of Evermore" and the song that made Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (almost) tolerable, the ubiquitous "Stairway to Heaven." Strung end-to-end, this is pretty heady stuff, and a great introduction to Zep's core early work for anyone who's spent the last couple of decades hangin' with Gilligan and the Skipper. The rest of us may just grumble and fast-forward to the previously unreleased 1969 live video clip of "Communication Breakdown." The package includes a 24-page booklet with many rare photos. -Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

For casual Zeppelin fans
This Led Zeppelin set spans their early years, as the title says, from 1969-1971. That means 'Led Zeppelin I,' 'Led Zeppelin II,' 'Led Zeppelin III' and 'Led Zeppelin IV' all get coverage.

This is a great set to own, but what true fans like me really want is a single-disc career retrospective. They should just make a 'The Very Best of Led Zeppelin' compilation that spans ALL of their albums instead of their first four.

But, if you're looking for most of the early year hits, you'll find most of them here. 'Stairway To Heaven,' 'Communication Breakdown,' 'Immigrant Song,' 'Whole Lotta Love,' 'What Is And Should Never Be' and more all appear on this set. And, Atlantic did a great job remastering the set.

Despite all of that, there are some disappointments. Where are 'Living Loving Maid,' Ramble On,' We're Gonna Groove' and their cover of Robert Johnson's 'Travelling Riverside Blues'? These are all great early tracks, and yet, THEY ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!

But, other than those few complaints, this is a great set to own if you're a casual Zeppelin fan. A great addition to your Zeppelin CD collection!

Highly recommended. ENJOY!!!

Makes You Hungry for More!
Yet another compilation that I've since traded away. And, once again, I did so because a compilation simply isn't enough for a band of this caliber. Everything on this album was a winner, and it made me wonder what else I was missing.

Best of Early Zep
This CD collects the best of early Led Zeppelin, 1 through 4. Immigrant song and Stairway to Heaven are highlights.