Led Zeppelin — Mothership

Mothership

Atlantic

Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack)

11/13/2007 8:46am

Mothership, as a clinical collection of songs, is perfect. For the first time ever, all of Led Zeppelin's most ubiquitous, most get-the-Led-out, defining classic rock radio tracks are here, from "Good Times Bad Times" through to "All My Love." If you know the rawk, you very likely know each and every one of these songs by heart and you've got no shortage of love for them. And if you really know the rawk, you'll also know that a parade of hits barely scratches the surface of what listening to Zeppelin should be. See, as any real Zep fan will likely attest, a slick, new double CD where you can get "Whole Lotta Love," "Stairway To Heaven" and "Immigrant Song" all in one place will never compete with the magic of, say, Physical Grafitti's side four. And besides, doesn't everyone who remotely digs the Zep have all these songs already anyway? It's a grave injustice, the incredibly rare instance where a stunning collection of songs actually does a disservice to the band and the very compilation they're on. This happens by tearing these songs away from the albums they came from — their natural and already timeless classic homes — and repurposing them for musical tourists. The result is a well-shined anthology for the least committed of dabblers. People who buy this package hate music.

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