Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Good Times Bad Times
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Communication Breakdown
5. Whole Lotta Love
6. What Is and What Should Never Be
7. Immigrant Song
8. Since I've Been Loving You
9. Black Dog
10. Rock and Roll
11. Battle of Evermore
12. When the Levee Breaks
13. Stairway to Heaven

Disc 2:

1. Song Remains the Same
2. No Quarter
3. Houses of the Holy
4. Trampled Under Foot
5. Kashmir
6. Ten Years Gone
7. Achilles Last Stand
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine
9. All My Love
10. In the Evening

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183395 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-04
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Since they never properly released a single, it could be said that Led Zeppelin were definitely an album band. Early Days and Latter Days tries to piece together the best standalone tracks from their output in the late 1960s and 1970s. It combines two discs that have previously been released separately and together they form a great value package of vintage British rock.

Early Days has 13 songs from their first four albums in chronological order including classics like the pioneering stoner rock of "Dazed and Confused", the riff-tastic "Whole Lotta Love" and naturally one of the few songs that gets rated along with Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Stairway to Heaven". Latter Days opens with the drawn-out, wailing blues of "The Song Remains the Same" and then moves on to the crawling guitar and mythological vocals of "No Quarter". The epic moment comes in the shape of "Kashmir", one of the grandest and most distinctive guitar hooks in history, offering a very different perspective to the four-minute "pop" songs of the first disc.

One drawback, as with many best-of collections, is that there just isn't enough room for everything. This will lead to bickering among Zeppelin enthusiasts: Why are there only two songs from the third album? Surely "Tangerine" and "Gallows Pole" are more worthy (although less sampled) than "When the Levee Breaks" from IV? Why pick "What Is and What Should Never Be" from the second album when you could have "Ramble On"? The solution is simple: if you enjoy Early Days and Latter Days, get the full albums. A two-CD compilation could never accommodate even a semi-comprehensive anthology of the most prolific of pioneering rock bands. --David Trueman

Customer Reviews

Led By Example
I think this is an absolute cracker. You are never going to get a perfect "Best Of" because no two people will ever agree on the song list...............and why should they? What a boring or limited band Led Zep would be if everybody picked the same list.

Such is the musical variety within the different types of music that Zep can put out, there has to be a compromise. You can't really complain about what is on offer here.

"Communication Breakdown", "What Is And What Should Never Be", "Since I've Been Loving You" & "Rock & Roll" and that's just a sample of the first disc. I haven't even started with disc 2 and "Kashmir" etc.

Zep were/are a terrific band, with quality musicians and songwriters within. I personally love the Zep II & III period, but that's just being picky. This is a great selection but remember it is only part of an even greater catalogue.

With some artists, a greatest hits is all you really need to have of them. Not so with Zep, they have far too much more to offer on other CDs. Get this to complete your collection or to serve as an introduction. Either way, a gem of a purchase

Great compilation album - great song selection!
I really love this Zep compilation album. I totally disagree with the reviewer before me who said the song choice was crap. With classics like Kashmir, Houses of the Holy, Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven and my personal favourites - All of My Love and Ten Years Gone, the reviewer possibly got confused with another band!!?? Considering that a compilation album can only have a certain number of songs, I think they chose a good selection. Highly recommended!

The Best Of Led Zeppelin?! Of Course It Isn't!
OK, Stairway To Heaven is an all time rock classic that i absolutly love! But apart from that, this album is really terrible! This CD is missing more than 30 great Led Zeppelin tracks, and the ones that have been chosen are completely crap!!!!!!! Why didn't they put on the fantastic Four Sticks and House Of The Rising Sun?! Eh?! What do u think? Anyway! I think u shouldn't buy this album. A best of Led Zeppelin would most definatly include Four Sticks, Moby D*ck and House Of The Rising Sun! Stupid Page and Plant to bot put their other classics on it! Don't buy it!