Is this new Zep the best live record ever?

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Comes damn close. Just heard it this weekend. As Sasha says in his Voice review, first disc is just tops!! Drums on "Over the Hills and Far Away" are ridiculous.

I'm still partial to Who, Allmans and Built to Spill, but this is really f'n sublime.

― Chris O'Connor, Monday, 11 August 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

u smoke mad crack

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 11 August 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, probably.

Care to elaborate?

― Chris O'Connor, Monday, 11 August 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and add James Brown's "Sex Machine" to the list.

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Monday, 11 August 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The first disc is the best live album I've ever heard. The second two discs will depend on your tolerance for 20 minute spacecapades. But still pretty good.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 11 August 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Better live albums:

Curtis Live
Miles at Plugged Nickel
JB at the Apollo
Dylan at Royal Albert Hall

I mean, it's really good and all, but it doesn't give you anything substantially different from what they put on the studio albums.

― Ben Williams, Monday, 11 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

How long till someone posts getting freaky deaky about "It's Alive". It is probably bound to happen.

I still haven't heard the new Zep collection yet, but someday I will.

― earlnash, Monday, 11 August 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm disappointed.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The first disc is the best live album I've ever heard

Oh, except for this:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d950/d95085wbqa5.jpg

And I'm talking live rock albums.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

If I may, Concrete Blonde's double-disc Live In Brazil (which came out this year), is great. "Joey" is a gem.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's great, yes. However: James Brown 'Love Power Peace: Live in Paris 71'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

X - Unclogged to thread (I'm serious!)

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Second vote for James Brown, Love Power Peace.

Other albums better than the new Zep (which I listened to twice and sold, and I didn't get a promo, I bought it):

Ted Nugent, Double Live Gonzo
Black Sabbath, Past Lives (Disc One anyway)
Motorhead, No Sleep Till Hammersmith
Funkadelic, Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan 12th September 1971

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't be better than Sam Cooke's "Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963"!!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the name of the new album?

― David Allen, Monday, 11 August 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've really grown to loathe it, but since loathing it allowed me to buy groceries for a few weeks, maybe I love it?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup, I can dig Love Power Peace as well. Also, I have a friend who's swearing by CB's Live From Brazil ... will have to check that out eventually.

The 25-minute Dazed and Confused is about the only spot where the Zep record threatens to lose it ... I kinda like the medley in "Whole Lotta Love." It sustains the song, and then comes "Rock n Roll," so s'all good.

Guess maybe I'm partial to How the West Was Won cuz I'm partial to Zeppelin to begin with -- refreshing to hear those songs with so much energy and Bonham booming like a MF.

Groceries for a week, huh? Do you eat?

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the s weekly pays very well. even for hatchet jobs.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd just like to note that I finally got to see some Concrete Blonde love on ILX. It might be a first (I really should buy their hits album).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, my bad. Forgot we're all working critics here. Doh! :-) Thought you were talking about it selling it back to the local record store. Then again, maybe I should ask, "Do you eat much?"

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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