Last Three Zep albums Remastered

The outtakes of ITTOD sound like a slightly inferior exact copy of ITTOD. Presence is worth it for prog heads for the Pod song.  It's a JPJ thing and very nice as it builds up when the guitars and drums come in. Royal Orleans has Bonzo on vox. Captain Beefheart fans will worship the devil to this.

Coda could be a 2 CD thing but for some reason they're all spread over 3 discs. Really I suppose all the essential extra tracks would fill up Coda to maybe 3 - 4 full discs except for the concert with the first one. That's killer. But Coda is still worth it for the ever increasing odds and sods nature of it.

There are still ommissions and suspicious absences. I know he wanted to avoid material out there in bootleg land but I suspect there's more to Swan Song than the two fairly complete cuts unofficially released. He ddi say when Coda was released thT "that is all there is, really." Uh,um, not quite Jimmy. 17 unofficial CDs later...

OK now what Zeppelin cut features on a Zeppelin album but does not feature Zeppelin?

What it tells us is that they used every bit of viable material they had for their albums, as it should be.  Consequently almost no feasible, unused content appears to exist.
 

I mean if they were truly rarities or interesting passages, I'd consider it.   Even if I had the material in boot form I'd still want the presumably better-sounding remaster.   An actual unreleased or unknown song-- a real song?  Yeah, I'll take it.   But that's not what this looks like.

^ it's good marketing but if you're a lifelong Zep collector, what you read is:  "One old single that's been around for twenty-five years; A blues trifle that is sub par to their live blues medleys; Two disjointed, spontaneous outtakes; And an unproduced, flat-sounding reject from the Stairway sessions".   You got five times that on the bootleg LPs that were around in the 70 & 80s.  

I'll get Presence I am sure as my copy is almost wore out, the other two I will pass on prolly.

I think I've outgrown the whole 'Remastered' thing. Some of the 70's stuff that was 'Re-Mixed' was happily received, but most of the remastered stuff I've heard has been more of a let down than not.

Pass.


Edited by JD - August 01 2015 at 23:12

Man, now I want to hear the updated Presence.....am I'm I going to have to pony up for ANOTHER copy of Presence?  I've always thought they should have a "trade in" policy - come in with a reasonably maintained copy of the previous remaster and get a discount on the next. 

This whole slew of rereremasters is confusing, but also enticing.  Who wouldn't want to hear what Page did with "his" album - Presence.  It's a great riff record, and Jimmy was all about the riffs.  It isn't as immediately gripping as any of the first four, not as diverse as Houses, not as epic as Graffiti......and the songs from the album don't mesh smoothly with any of the previous tunes in the catalog.  I remember traveling with a friend who'd brought the Latter Years cassette (yeah, that long ago) and was shocked to hear how "off" the Presence stuff sounded - it put me off the album for a while.  But, man, Presence is a standout when played front to end.....heavy bloozy riffs....pure Pagey!  And Achilles is by far my fave Zep epic. 

No.....not really interested for the same reasons  mentioned and I already have original vinyl, original cd's , and the 2 cd box sets.

I will probably get Presence as it is a favorite and I'd like to hear what Page does with the sound.  Coda is great but my current copy is fine.   Not interested in Out Door, a dreadful album.