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Led Zeppelin - Box Set (1980)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Whole Lotta Love 5:35
  2. Heartbreaker 4:14
  3. Communication Breakdown 2:28
  4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 6:41
  5. What Is and What Should Never Be 4:44
  6. Thank You 4:47
  7. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:16
  8. Dazed and Confused 6:26
  9. Your Time Is Gonna Come 4:14
  10. Ramble On 4:23
  11. Travelling Riverside Blues 5:09
  12. Friends 3:54
  13. Celebration Day 3:28
  14. Hey Hey What Can I Do 3:56
  15. White Summer / Black Mountain Side 8:02
CD2
  1. Black Dog 4:55
  2. Over The Hills And Far Away 4:46
  3. Immigrant Song 2:23
  4. The Battle Of Evermore 5:51
  5. Bron-y-aur Stomp 4:17
  6. Tangerine 2:58
  7. Going To California 3:32
  8. Since I've Been Loving You 7:24
  9. D'yer Mak'er 4:23
  10. Gallows Pole 4:58
  11. Custard Pie 4:13
  12. Misty Mountain Hop 4:39
  13. Rock And Roll 3:41
  14. The Rain Song 7:39
  15. Stairway To Heaven 8:00
CD3
  1. Kashmir 8:33
  2. Trampled Under Foot 5:35
  3. For Your Life 6:21
  4. No Quarter 7:01
  5. Dancing Days 3:43
  6. When The Levee Breaks 7:07
  7. Achilles Last Stand 10:23
  8. The Song Remains The Same 5:29
  9. Ten Years Gone 6:32
  10. In My Time Of Dying 11:05
CD4
  1. In the Evening 6:50
  2. Candy Store Rock 4:07
  3. The Ocean 4:31
  4. Ozone Baby 3:36
  5. Houses of the Holy 4:03
  6. Wearing and Tearing 5:29
  7. Poor Tom 3:02
  8. Nobodys Fault but Mine 6:28
  9. Fool in the Rain 6:13
  10. In the Light 8:46
  11. The Wanton Song 4:06
  12. Moby Dick / Bonzo's Montreux 3:50
  13. Im Gonna Crawl 5:32
  14. All my Love 5:51
CD5
  1. Good Times Bad Times 2:47
  2. We're Gonna Groove 2:38
  3. Night Flight 3:36
  4. That's The Way 5:38
  5. Baby Come On Home 4:31
  6. The Lemon Song 6:20
  7. You Shook Me 6:28
  8. Boogie With Stu 3:51
  9. Bron-Yr-Aur 2:06
  10. Down By The Seaside 5:14
  11. Out On The Tiles 4:05
  12. Black Mountain Side 2:05
  13. Moby Dick 4:21
  14. Sick Again 4:43
  15. Hot Dog 3:17
  16. Carouselambra 10:32
CD6
  1. South Bound Saurez 4:12
  2. Walter's Walk 4:32
  3. Darlene 5:07
  4. Black Country Woman 4:24
  5. How Many More Times 8:28
  6. The Rover 5:37
  7. Four Sticks 4:45
  8. Hats Off To (Roy) Harper 3:44
  9. I Can't Quit You Baby 4:43
  10. Hots On For Nowhere 4:43
  11. Living Loving Maid (She's Just 2:39
  12. Royal Orleans 2:58
  13. Bonzo's Montreux
  14. The Crunge 3:15
  15. Bring It On Home 4:20
  16. Tea For One 9:27

Notes

Led Zeppelin's primary method of artistic expression was their albums. Although they had a handful of hit singles and selected album tracks were played endlessly on the radio, the true range of their music is only evident on the original albums, which were carefully sequenced and assembled. Consequently, the notion of a Led Zeppelin anthology is a bit strange — their records worked as individual pieces. Nevertheless, the four-disc box set Led Zeppelin includes most of their best and most famous material. Jimmy Page determined the set's running order, taking the songs out of their familiar contexts and placing them in a new, occasionally jarring, sequence, providing new insights to the band's music that dedicated fans will appreciate. Led Zeppelin is the only album in their catalog to include the classic B-side "Hey Hey What Can I Do," as well as their unreleased version of Robert Johnson's "Travelling Riverside Blues" and a live medley of Page's "White Summer/Black Mountain Side." Most fans will find these three tracks essential, but will balk at the price, especially since all of Zeppelin's albums have been re-mastered since the original release of the box set. While the box contains a wealth of brilliant music, all of it is better heard in its original incarnation.

Rounding up all of the studio tracks that didn't appear on the first box (as well as the pleasant, but unremarkable, "Baby Come on Home"), Boxed Set 2 is the perfect way to complete a Led Zeppelin library begun with the first box set.