Led Zeppelin- PRESENCE

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Led Zeppelin- PRESENCE- CD- 1976/1994-
- Atlantic Recording Corporation "The Object"/Swan Song Inc.- 075679243928- 100 grn
PRESENCE is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by their own label Swan Song Records on 31st March 1976 in the United States and on 2nd April 1976 in the United Kingdom. While the record was commercially successful, reaching the top of both the British and American album charts, and achieving a triple-Platinum certification in the United States, it received mixed reviews from music fan and is the lowest-selling album by the band. The title came from the strong presence the group felt as they worked together. The LP's artwork featured several photographs focused on a mysterious black object, called "The Object". The cover and inside sleeve features images of people interacting with a black obelisk-shaped object. Inside the sleeve, the item is referred to simply as "The Object". It was intended to represent Zeppelin's "force and presence". Both Page and Plant have said that the presence of the object in the photographs made people stop and think about what is real, which reflected the music. PRESENCE stands as Zeppelin's album darkest. "Achilles Last Stand" is one of the greatest Zep tunes with its incredible drumming and complex fretwork from the master. "For Your Life" is a decent tune, though not memorable at all. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" is a classic with Plant's scream in the forefront. ''Royal Orleans'' is a fun track that recalls the whimsy of Christmas past on tunes like ''The Lemon Song''. "Candy Store Rock" and "Hots On For Nowhere" are lackluster tunes, but the album ends on every high note with the gorgeous ''Tea For One'', featuring one of Page's most inspired solos. Led Zeppelin has no bad album. Any fan of hard rock or heavy metal should own all of their studio albums.
PERSONNEL: John Bonham – drums, percussion; John Paul Jones – 4- and 8-string basses, piano; Jimmy Page – guitars; Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica.
Created at a time of intense turmoil for Led Zeppelin, 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. It feels like PRESENCE sprawls as wildly as Physical Graffiti even though it's half its length. Four epics tend to overshadow the trio of lean rockers. 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.
Replica From Original Germany Edition.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray Includes Foldout Inlay.
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