
A boring ramble
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Well, I hate to be amongst the minority here, but I think this album is rubbish. I have been a Led Zep fan forever but if you're buying this on the strength of his Zeppelin days, forget it. I'm afraid to say it but I think Mr Plant shows the first frailities of his ageing voice on this album. No longer can he reach the passionate cries and blues-rock emotion, and he ends up sounding like a soft rock vocalist with a slighty (and I mean 'slighty') edgier rock band behind him. Track 3 for example, 'Come into my life' has strengths akin to Zeppelin; a great Powerhouse of a chorus that is completely underplayed, mixed down and overshadowed by watery, wistful production. 29 Palms was something of a hit for Mr Plant and is a pseudo religious dirge of truly biblical proportions.
I find it difficult to dis-associate Led Zeppelin and Mr Plants solo output. Unfair possibly as for example, McCartney never matched the collective of the Beatles for example, (but he at least came up with some very good albums now and again), not so in the case of Mr Plant.
The album has percussive influences of the North African continent, not a bad thing, but for me it detracts from the British rock image he enjoyed (or edured) for years.
I just find the album boring. Sorry. But there it is !
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