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Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1
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- 2,352,991 plays
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- 471 shares
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- Led Zeppelin
- Released 1999
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- The Battle of Evermore
- 05:52
- 87,428 plays
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- What Is and What Should Never Be
- 04:44
- 85,933 plays
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- Stairway to Heaven
- 08:02
- 591,898 plays
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songs
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Good Times Bad Times
- 02:48
- 189,760 plays
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- 2
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Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
- 06:41
- 167,346 plays
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- 3
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Dazed and Confused
- 06:27
- 149,097 plays
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- 4
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Communication Breakdown
- 02:29
- 106,586 plays
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- 5
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Whole Lotta Love
- 05:34
- 243,570 plays
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- 6
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What Is and What Should Never Be
- 04:44
- 85,933 plays
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- 7
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Immigrant Song
- 02:25
- 138,415 plays
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- 8
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Since I've Been Loving You
- 07:24
- 108,164 plays
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- 9
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Black Dog
- 04:54
- 184,088 plays
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- 10
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Rock and Roll
- 03:41
- 183,399 plays
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- 11
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The Battle of Evermore
- 05:52
- 87,428 plays
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- 12
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When the Levee Breaks
- 07:08
- 117,311 plays
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- 13
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Stairway to Heaven
- 08:02
- 591,898 plays
album review
As legend has it, Led Zeppelin never played the singles game. That's not entirely true -- "Whole Lotta Love" was a gold-selling, Top Five single, while "Immigrant Song," "Black Dog," and "D'yer Mak'er" all went Top 20. But since their reputation was built in part through album rock radio, and since they never released "Stairway to Heaven" as a single, the impression that they were above hits and singles grew and grew. Zeppelin fostered it by refusing to issue compilations for years, forcing every fan to become familiar with the group on an album-by-album basis. Things began to change a bit in 1990, when Jimmy Page assembled the four-disc Led Zeppelin box, the group's first official compilation; it eventually opened the door for the 1999 release of Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1. Early Days focuses on the first four Zeppelin albums, taking four songs from the first, just two apiece from the second and third, and the entire first side of IV, along with "When the Levee Breaks." And for the diehards, a video clip of Zeppelin performing "Communication Breakdown" on an English TV show is thrown onto the enhanced CD portion of the disc. It's basically the album longtime Zeppelin fans thought would never be released: a straight-up greatest-hits album. At one point, this may have been seen as sacrilege among devotees, but at this point, it's hard to imagine who would care about Early Days one way or another. Apart from the handful of casual fans who just want the radio staples on one disc -- while not caring that other classics are absent -- there really is no audience for this, since it doesn't recontextualize the catalog like the box sets. It's still pretty entertaining, yet Early Days feels unnecessary. Yet that cover photo is priceless. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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listener reviews
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Greatest band of all time.....
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- By ZEPFAN17
- 2/19/2009 15:11:59
- THIS IS A MUST HAVE ALBUM FOR ZEPPELIN FANS.HAS A LOT OF THIER BEST MUSIC ON THIS ALBUM.I RECCOMEND IT TO EVERYONE THAT ROCKS WITH ZEPPELIN!ZEPPELIN IS THE GREATEST ROCK N'ROLL BAND OF ALL TIME
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