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 - Simply awesomeThis completes the loop. Of course, when BBC Sessions came out in late 1997, they added two more unreleased songs - Something Else and Girl I love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair. No band can fully compete with these guys. They are the best! Rating: - very pleasedi am very pleased with the item, the price and the delivery.everthing went very well Thank You! Rating: - The more eclectic of the two box sets, filled with gems...It might be heresy, but I actually like this box set better than the offical one. This set proves conclusively how eclectic and diverse Led Zeppelin really are. Too often they are labeled as a heavy metal band, which doesn't do them justice. They incorporated folk, blues, country, reggae, well, almost every musical genre in their work. They weren't a simplistic heavy metal band screaming about drinking and partying. This album has some of my all time favorite Zeppelin songs, and has some stuff that should have made it on the big box set. The song We're Gonna Groove (recorded in 1969, but not released until Coda in 1982) is awesome. Other gems include the beautiful That's the Way (from their 3rd album), Boogie with Stu (from Physical Graffitti), the beautiful, lilting Down by the Seaside (also from Physical), Hot Dog (a country number from In Through the Out Door), and Carouselambra (a boogie (!) epic from In Through the Out Door as well). And that's just the first disc! The 2nd disc has South Bound Saurez (a piano raveup from ITTOD), the epic blues thunder How Many More Times (from their 1st album), Four Sticks (the lone track from IV/Zoso), the awesome The Rover (from Physical), and the weary, tired, brilliant blues number Tea for One (from Presence). I play this set more than the other one, surprisingly. Zeppelin was a much more nuance, complex band than critics ever gave them credit for, and the proof is here. Rating:  - Should have just been done as a 6 disk set....A word of warning on this box set: It is not complete in itself; nor is it for the casual fan looking for a hits collection, or anyone who does not already own the first Led Zeppelin 4 CD set. This is for those who started their Zeppelin collection with that set and now would like everything else LZ recorded (with the exception of the BBC Sessions, for which there is a separate compilation). And as such, it does well. Again, Jimmy Page personally did the remastering of these tracks and arranged the sequencing of them, in an attempt to continue the excellent listening experience of the first set. The sad thing is it does not work quite as well, somehow. Oh, you get the handful of hits the first set inexplicably misses, most notably "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" as well as "We're Gonna Groove". And some fantastic album cuts, "Carousellambra" being among my personal favorites. And it's not as though any of the music here is not as highly entertaining as anything Zeppelin has recorded (although the previously unreleased "Baby Come On Home" is actually nothing remarkable; other artists have done this sort of thing much better). No, but the problem is that one gets the feeling that Page was frustrated with not being able to fit some choice cuts on the first set, so he included them on a second, surrounding them with everything else to justify the compilation of five or six songs. This appears to be the result of not thinking the sequencing through as well as was done on the first set or the original albums. He probably should have just planned a six-disk set from the beginning. That way there would have been no left-overs to try to "fit in"; they would have been part of the master plan from the inception of the project. And really, the way to view the first box set was not simply a way to get the "hits", but as a re-sequenced masterpiece of a listening experience, not meant as a replacement for the original albums, but as an alternate way of enjoying and thinking about this ground-breaking group's music. For hits, you would be better off buying Mothership. But for deeper insight into the music of Led Zeppelin, the first Box Set and the albums are the way to go. To sum up, buy this if you have Box Set 1 and love it. You'll complete your collection economically; but don't expect it to be the great work the first was. But, if you don't have Box Set 1 and really appreciate Zeppelin's music, you might be better served to buy the re-mastered albums. And if you are devoted fan and already have the albums, put the first set down as a hint for your spouse to buy as an anniversary gift and forget Box Set 2 altogether! At that point, it's little more than a redundancy. Rating:  - At last, my collection is complete.The rest of the songs in the catalog not in the first box set. Frankly some of these should have been in the original; 'Good Times, Bad Times', 'You Shook Me', 'Bron-Yr-Aur', 'Hot Dog', 'Darlene', 'Hots on For Nowhere', 'Down By the Seaside' and 'How Many More Times' all great tunes that would be better off in box set 1 as opposed to some of the dreck that somehow got on there, particularly some of the stuff from the 3rd album.
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