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I am listening the records I bought when I was younger and dumber, records that I have not listened in the last decade. First, EMF's "Schubert Dip".

Now I am listening Page and Plant's "No Quarter". This is the best reunion album ever! The did not simply played their past songs for a younger generation. They recreate them in brilhant ways, using world music players. And the new songs are very good too - I specially like City Don't Cry.

So, is it classic ou dud? In my opinion, classic, of course.

― Elvis is Dead, Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the best reunion album ever!

No, it's not. It's an okay album, yes, but I wouldn't get all that rapturous about it. Plant's voice just can't cut the mustard as it once could. Sad but true.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I always found it pretty hit-and-miss -- 'Four Sticks' was the highlight for me; the slow blues ones (e.g. 'Since I've Been Loving You') don't feel much different from the originals. And 'Kashmir' really didn't need to be messed with.

There's a DVD of this just out with some extras. . .

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it alright. Gallow's Pole and Four Sticks are great. And while no one's John Bonham, the drummer on there is pretty fucking killer (according to Allmusic, he's hardly recorded with anyone except Echo & the Bunnymen?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The classic rock revival was the worst thing about the 90's.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Porl Thompson of The Cure looking like a Hare krishna (is he?) freaked me out when I first watched "No Quarter". Alex is right about Plant's voice, but i think he pulls it off on a few things here.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 30 October 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Billie Holiday recorded some of her best known music with a voice that... well, let's say that it was not as good as her first recordings.

And Plant with only 30% of his voice is better than almost all rock singers in history.

I cannot think of a reunion album so adventurous and interesting as "No quater". Maybe you can name one.

― Elvis is Dead, Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard this - I want to - but I just want to chime in that I really really like Plant's recent voice on Dreamland. He doesn't go for the really high screamy stuff, which is wise, but I think his voice is just beautiful for the softer material. He still does a lot with it, just not the same stuff, which would probably seem passe anyway. It's more 'pleasant', which isn't necessarily better but isn't necessarily bad either. I can imagine that it might not still work on Zeppelin songs though.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What made me want to hear this album was reading Chuck Eddy's glowing review.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If sundar recommends it I will check it out -- I'm a huge Zep fan and am a little frightened to hear these guys now after holding up their records with such awe for so many years. But Ok...
Also -- what's up with naming the album after Jonesy's old showcase, his theme song?

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, thanks. I was only talking about Plant's solo Dreamland though. I haven't heard No Quarter.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a big pile of dud that Page and Plant get back together, don't call John Paul Jones and yet end up calling their reunion record "No Quarter".

As for the album, I haven't heard it. In the little bit of the TV special that I saw, I also was really impressed with the drummer they found. He was really good.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i think the kashmir re-think is crap, despite the sterling reviews i'd read of this version, .. a real let-down

the whole thing feels lacking in that very bombastic rhythmic area zep made their own, so i don't think the zep songs work (but then i did hear the originals first)

― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither classic or dud, but a worthwhile album. I like the material they chose to re-visit. "Friends", "Four Sticks", "That's The Way", "Battle Of Evermore", "Gallows Pole", "Nobody's Fault". Oddly enough, Kashmir doesn't really work. The four new songs are quite trancey and surprisingly good, but maybe not essential. Tracks like "Thank You" and "Since I've Been Loving You" are solid but agree, they sound much like the old renditions. "Nobody's Fault..." from memory is awesome.

― Piers (piers), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly enough, Kashmir doesn't really work.

Given the total absence of ye olde Zeppelin rhythm section, that's kinda not surprising.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 November 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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