Fwd: Plant Nine-Lives

["Oner Ozaylak" <oner.ozaylak@xxxxxxxxx>]

<Well-received but dated-sounding '80s pop-rock outings like Pictures
at 11 (11 is missing on web page), Principle of Moments, Shaken 'n'
Stirred and Now and Zen...>

these albums, dated sounding, pop-rock???

<the remarkable creative rebirth of 2002's Dreamland...>

creative??? isn't Dreamland an album of covers?

now, dear darryl, you might receive an invitation for an editor's
position from rolling stone if you alraedy have one...

öner

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From: Vilma <zepgirly@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Dec 1, 2006 9:50 PM
Subject: Plant Nine-Lives
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx

I agree that this box set should have included No
Quarter & Walking Into Clarksdale.

December 1, 2006

NINE LIVES

Not the full Plant package

By DARRYL STERDAN -- Winnipeg Sun

Robert Plant
Nine Lives
(Rhino/Warner)


How much Robert Plant does a person need? Depends who
you're talking to and what you're talking about.

When it comes to his work with the immortal Led
Zeppelin, most fans can't get enough. When it comes to
his solo career, however, they aren't interested. At
least, not enough to shell out $100 for Plant's
comprehensive box Nine Lives.

This 10-disc set is a near-complete chronicle of the
leonine frontman's long and winding post-Zep road. It
has all eight of his solo studio albums: Well-received
but dated-sounding '80s pop-rock outings like Pictures
at Principle of Moments, Shaken 'n' Stirred and Now
and Zen; adventurous but overlooked '90s releases
Manic Nirvana and Fate of Nations; and the remarkable
creative rebirth of 2002's Dreamland and last year's
Mighty Rearranger.

For good measure, it has his 1984 nostalgia excursion
The Honeydrippers Volume One and a DVD with 20 videos
and an hour-long documentary.

Between the nine CDs, you've got a laundry list of
FM-rock classics: 29 Palms, Big Log, Burning Down One
Side, In the Mood, Little by Little, Pledge Pin, Sea
of Love, Shine it All Around, Tall Cool One, Tie Dye
on the Highway and more. Along with the 85 old tunes,
you've got 25 bonus cuts -- live recordings and
remixes peppered with a few so-so leftovers and demos.

You've got eye-catching packaging and a 60-page colour
book containing more biographical data, plus an
album-by-album chronicle. It is exhaustive. And
exhausting. Yet, amazingly, Nine Lives still fails to
tell the whole story.

Two major pieces of the puzzle are conspicuous by
their absence: 1994's No Quarter and '98's Walking
Into Clarksdale, his two most recent reunions with Zep
foil Jimmy Page.

We can understand Percy not wanting to muddy the
waters of his solo work with Zep-related fare. But
sound as his principles might be, on a practical
level, Nine Lives suffers for it.

When all is said and done, what you end up with is
more Robert Plant than most people need -- but still
not the Plant they want.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/P/Plant_Robert/AlbumReviews/2006/11/29/2546229-sun.html

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