Robert Plant

The former lead singer for Led Zeppelin. I shouldn't have to tell you that....

"Pictures at Eleven"

  1. "Burning Down One Side" (3:55)
  2. "Moonlight in Samosa" (3:58)
  3. "Pledge Pin" (4:01)
  4. "Slow Dancer" (7:43)
  5. "Worse than Detroit" (5:55)
  6. "Fat Lip" (5:05)
  7. "Like I've Never Been Gone" (5:56)
  8. "Mystery Title" (5:16)

Originally I taped this album off the radio, and loved the hell out of it. The sound is not far removed from Led Zep's last album, although with a more modern-rock feel to it. This wound up being like the 3rd or 4th CD I ever bought. Oh yeah, Phil Collins plays drums here, too.

"The Principle of Moments"

  1. "Other Arms" (4:20)
  2. "In the Mood" (5:19)
  3. "Messin' with the Mekon" (4:40)
  4. "Wreckless Love" (5:18)
  5. "Thru' with the Two Step" (5:33)
  6. "Horizontal Departure" (4:19)
  7. "Stranger Here...than over there" (4:18)
  8. "Big Log" (5:03)

A few interesting stories behind this album. When I originally bought the crappy vinyl, except for "Big Log" and "Other Arms", I didn't like it at all. Finally, I decided to return it--a whole YEAR after I bought it! (That was back when Blockbuster Music was still known as Music Plus, and they had a very lax return policy at the store I frequented.) I told them it was scratched, which was probably true, since crappy vinyl is so...well, crappy. But when I told them I wanted a different album in exchange, I had to do some fast talking to convince them. I even remember which album I got: Love at First Sting by the Scorpions. Pretty shrewd, eh?

And yet another anecdote...you know the video for "Big Log", where Robert Plant breaks down at an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere? Well, I was driving across the desert when my car picked up this nasty grinding noise, forcing me to pull over in a dead, shithole town in the middle of nowhere (anyone who's been to New Cuyama, California will know exactly what I'm talking about!) And I pulled into an abandoned gas station, which eerily resembled the one from the "Big Log" video! Maybe they filmed it there? Anyway, as I walked around the building looking for signs of life, that song of course started playing through my head--I half expected Robbie Blunt to come walking around the corner, playing guitar.

"Shaken 'N Stirred"

  1. "Hip to Hoo" (4:51)
  2. "Kallalou Kallalou" (4:17)
  3. "Too Loud" (4:07)
  4. "Trouble Your Money" (4:14)
  5. "Pink and Black" (3:45)
  6. "Little by Little" (4:43)
  7. "Doo Doo a Do Do" (5:09)
  8. "Easily Lead" (4:35)
  9. "Sixes and Sevens" (6:04)

A weird mix-up on this album, lots of dance and techno riffs in a pseudo-progressive vein. Mostly an experimental departure which didn't work as planned, I suppose. And look at those ridiculous song titles! "Sixes and Sevens" is an excellent song, but other than that, this CD has nothing to recommend it. The Honeydrippers project was pretty cool, though.

"Now and Zen"

  1. "Heaven Knows" (4:04)
  2. "Dance on My Own" (4:29)
  3. "Tall Cool One" (4:37)
  4. "The Way I Feel" (5:40)
  5. "Helen of Troy" (5:05)
  6. "Billy's Revenge" (3:33)
  7. "Ship of Fools" (5:01)
  8. "Why" (4:14)
  9. "White, Clean & Neat" (5:27)
  10. "Walking Towards Paradise" (4:41)

More of a mainstream rock/pop CD, but at the time, I was on a total Robert Plant kick for some reason and I didn't mind. :) Jimmy Page plays guitar here on "Tall Cool One" (which segues into various Led Zep riffs towards the end...geez, how lame.)

My brother's CD player, however, loved the hell out of this CD. I'm not joking. Whenever I ran 6 CD's on shuffle mode, it would choose this one more than 50% of the time! In fact it got so annoying, after hearing "Billy's Revenge" for the five hundredth time, that I had to remove this CD in order to get a decent mix. (Of course, then the CD player totally ignored the CD I put in its slot, I guess it was pissed off...who says machines don't have feelings??)

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