The Complete Studio Recordings

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 1, 1994)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1993
• Number of Discs: 10
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we’ll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Atlantic

Editorial Reviews Big enough for Led Zeppelin’s towering sound, this 10-CD box set collects allnine of the legendary band’s original studio albums released from 1969 to1982. Included are: Led Zeppelin I (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), LedZeppelin III (1970), IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffitti(1975) (2CD), Presence (1976), In Through the Out Door (1979), and Coda(1982). A true stairway to heaven for Zep fans, this massive box originallyreleased in 1993 features each classic title with its original album artwork. As Basil Bunting wrote about Ezra Pound’s _Cantos_, “There are the Alps… youwill have to go a long way round/if you want to avoid them.” Led Zeppelin’swork is the central fact of 1970s rock & roll; in its loving homage to andshameless piracy from the blues, its glorious and wretched excess, itstransformation of hippie and folk-rock graces into a foundation-shakingkaboom, and its offhanded myth-making, the band turned everything caught inits wake into a reaction to it–or against it. The three non-album tracks thebox includes are grace notes rather than lost jewels, but the point of the setis to be a Rosetta stone of album rock, the stairway to a gaudy paradise thatthey constructed. _–Douglas Wolk_