LED ZEPPELIN Presence DELUXE 2 LP Audiophile 180g set (New)

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LED ZEPPELIN Presence DELUXE 2 LP Audiophile 180g set (New)

Tracklist

A1 Achilles Last Stand A2 For Your Life A3 Royal Orleans

B1 Nobodys Fault But Mine B2 Candy Store Rock B3 Hots On For Nowhere B4 Tea For One

C1 Two Ones Are Won (Achilles Last Stand) C2 For Your Life (Reference Mix)

D1 10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod) (Reference Mix) D2 Royal Orleans (Reference Mix) D3 Hots On For No One (Reference Mix)

• Recorded At – Musicland Studios
• Mixed At – Musicland Studios
• Manufactured By – Warner Music Group
• Manufactured By – Pallas USA
• Pressed By – Pallas – -28694-
• Record Company – Warner Music Group

Notes

Reissue Remastered Deluxe

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Sticker): 0 81227 95574 8
• Matrix / Runout (Side One Runout, Stamped): R1-535334-A2 P.USA -28694- JD
• Matrix / Runout (Side Two Runout, Stamped): R1-535334-B2 P.USA -28694-
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, Side One Runout, Etched): BE77369-01 A4 A3 JD
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, Side Two Runout, Etched): BE77369-01 B3 B3

Deluxe Edition Features Original Album on 180g Vinyl PLUS Companion LP on 180g Vinyl!
Newly Remastered by Jimmy Page from the Original Master Tapes! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!

Originally released in 1976, Presence was recorded during a whirlwind 18-day session at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany. The album--which peaked at #1 in both the U.S. and UK and was certified triple platinum--crackles with energy on Zeppelin classics like "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and "Achilles Last Stand" and delivers powerful jolts of the group at its visceral best. 

The companion audio disc that accompanies Presence has five unreleased reference mixes from the sessions, which reveal works in progress. Along with alternate incarnations of "For Your Life," "Achilles Last Stand," and "Royal Orleans," there is also the previously unheard instrumental curiously titled "10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod)." 

This 1976 release has earned its place with the other great titles from the biggest rock band of that decade. Languishing for years in the intimidating strength of its predecessor (Physical Graffiti) Presence was quickly recorded and issued, mainly while vocalist Robert Plant sported a cast on his leg from a car accident. It's heavy on the rock side featuring high octane guitar from Jimmy Page and no acoustic guitars or keyboards to be found. John Bonham's thunderous bashing and layers of guitar are highlighted in "Achilles Last Stand" while "Nobody's Fault But Mind," a reworking of a blues tune by Blind Willie Johnson gets goosed in the rear Zep-style by Page & Co. Other highlights include For Your Life, Royal Orleans, Candy Store Rock, Hots On For Nowhere, and Tea Is For One.

Original album remastered on first LP, plus a second LP of companion audio on 180 gram vinyl in a tri-fold sleeve. The companion audio features five unreleased reference mixes from the sessions, which reveal works in progress.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
     Created at a time of intense turmoil for Led Zeppelin -- they scrapped a planned international tour in the wake of Robert Plant's car accident in Greece in August 1975 -- Presence is a strange, misshapen beast of a record that pulls upon its own tension. With Plant somewhat on the sidelines -- he recorded many of the vocals while in a wheelchair -- Jimmy Page reasserted himself as the primary creative force in the band, helping steer Presence toward a guitar-heavy complexity, perched halfway between a return to roots and unfettered prog. This dichotomy means it feels like Presence sprawls as wildly as Physical Graffiti even though it's half its length: the four epics tend to overshadow the trio of lean rockers that really do hark back to the Chess boogie and rockabilly that informed Zeppelin's earliest work. Each of these three -- "Royal Orleans," "Candy Store Rock," "Hots on for Nowhere" -- plays as snappily as the throwaways on the second half of Physical Graffiti, containing a sexy insouciance; the band almost seems to shrug off how catchy Page's riffs and how thick the grooves of John Bonham and John Paul Jones actually are. No matter how much fun this triptych is, they're lost underneath the shadow of "Achilles Last Stand," a ten-minute exercise in self-styled moody majesty and the turgid blues crawl of closer "Tea for One." In between, there are two unalloyed masterpieces that channel all of the pain of the period into cinematic drama: a molten blues called "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and "For Your Life," as sharp, cinematic, and pained as Zeppelin ever were. Added together, Presence winds up as something less than the sum of its parts but its imbalance also means that it's a record worth revisiting; it seems different upon each revisit and is always compelling.