How the West Was Won

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共18首歌曲

艺人: Led Zeppelin
语种: 英语
厂牌: Atlantic
发行时间: 2003年05月26日
专辑类别: 现场专辑

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2003年5月27日，Atlantic公司发行了Led Zeppelin这张3cd装的现场精选专辑。久违的Led Zeppelin这个名字再次被人提起。回想Led Zeppelin，其最大的魅力之一就是Jimmy Page手中那把吉他，而在现场，Jimmy Page那大篇幅的充满Blues味道的solo部分得到了更大限度的发挥，这也许就是本张唱片的一大卖点。

与录音版相比，演唱会更能直接体现出一个乐队的才华，尤其是摇滚乐队的即兴创造，扎实功底。在本张精选的《Whole Lotta Love (Medley)》这首23分钟的超长曲目中，Jimmy Page这个吉他天才就将其Blues即兴演奏发挥得酣畅淋漓。

此张现场精选专辑所选18首歌，涵盖了Led Zeppelin在Atlantic公司其间发行的从《Led Zeppelin I》到《Houses of the Holy》的所有专辑。无论是极富冲击力的《Black Dog》,还是乡村小调一般的《Going To California》，都使我们沉浸于永恒的Led Zeppelin音乐之中，难以自拔。尤其是那首《Stairway To Heaven》，可谓是百听不厌，此曲被认为是Led Zeppelin最具代表性的作品。

Led Zeppelin的音乐是不会因时间的推移而被遗忘的，随着这张精选的推出又会唤起众多摇滚乐迷们对Led Zeppelin的美好回忆！同时这张精选辑推出后的销量也是令人鼓舞的，上榜第一周便把新金属的杰出代表Staind从冠军的位置拉了下来，让这些毛头小子们领略到了老前辈永恒的魅力！Led Zeppelin的实力无可争议，唯一的疑问是这支解散了多年的老牌蓝调摇滚乐队能否对新时代的年轻人有同样的吸引力？这将是决定这张LIVE精选是否可以在榜上创造神话的关键。(转自新浪)

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

For years, Led Zeppelin fans complained that there was one missing item in the group's catalog: a good live album. It's not that there weren't live albums to be had. The Song Remains the Same, of course, was a soundtrack of a live performance, but it was a choppy, uneven performance, lacking the majesty of the group at its peak. BBC Sessions was an excellent, comprehensive double-disc set of their live radio sessions, necessary for any Zeppelin collection (particularly because it contained three songs, all covers, never recorded anywhere else), but some carped that the music suffered from not being taped in front of a large audience, which is how they built their legacy -- or, in the parlance of this triple-disc collection of previously unreleased live recordings compiled by Jimmy Page, How the West Was Won. The West in this case is the West Coast of California, since this contains selections from two 1972 concerts in Los Angeles: a show at the LA Forum on June 25, and one two days later at Long Beach Arena. This is the first archival release of live recordings of Zeppelin at their peak and while the wait has been nigh on interminable, the end result is certainly worth the wait. Both of these shows have been heavily bootlegged for years and while those same bootleggers may be frustrated by the sequencing that swaps the two shows interchangeably (they always prefer full shows wherever possible), by picking the best of the two nights, Page has assembled a killer live album that captures the full, majestic sweep of Zeppelin at their glorious peak. And, make no mistake, he tries to shove everything into these three discs -- tight, furious blasts of energy; gonzo freak-outs; blues; and rock, a sparkling acoustic set. Like always, the very long numbers -- the 25-minute &Dazed and Confused,& the 23-minute &Whole Lotta Love,& the 19-minute &Moby Dick& -- are alternately fascinating and indulgent, yet even when they meander, there is a real sense of grandeur, achieving a cinematic scale attempted by few of their peers (certainly no other hard rock or metal band could be this grand; only Queen or David Bowie truly attempted this). But the real power of the band comes through on the shorter songs, where their sound is distilled to its essence. In the studio, Zeppelin was all about subtle colors, textures, and shifts in the arrangement. On-stage, they were similarly epic, but they were looser, wilder, and hit harder; witness how &Black Dog& goes straight for the gut here, while the studio version escalates into a veritable guitar army -- it's the same song, but the song has not remained the same. That's the case throughout How the West Was Won, where songs that have grown overly familiar through years of play seem fresh and new because of these vigorous, muscular performances. For those who never got to see Zeppelin live, this -- or its accompanying two-DVD video set -- is as close as they'll ever get. For those who did see them live, this is a priceless souvenir. For either group, this is absolutely essential, as it is for anybody who really loves hard rock & roll. It doesn't get much better than this.

How the West Was Won

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