Artist: Robert Plant

Title: Nine Lives

Year Of Release: 2006

Label: Atlantic Catalog Group

Genre: Classic Rock

Quality: WAVPack (image+.cue,log,scans)

Total Time: 08:55:32

Total Size: 3.6 GB



The title of this bonus-track-rich, 10-disc chronicle of Robert Plant's post-Led Zeppelin career refers not only to the number of solo albums the singer has released since Zep flamed out in 1980, but also his penchant for stubborn endurance and artistic reinvention in the face of time and the tides of fashion. While both Plant and Jimmy Page have never been able to fully escape the lengthy shadows of their original world-beating collaboration, it's the vocalist who's best--if irregularly--tempered, teased, and folded Zep's legacy into his mercurial solo career, with his 1982 debut Pictures at Eleven and 1988's Now & Zen being the most overt about it. More crucial to Plant's restless muse has been a willingness to move beyond Led Zeppelin, whether successfully casting a more structured set of songs in synth-drenched new wave veneer on "Principle of Moments" (supplemented here by the previously unreleased "Turnaround" and three live cuts, including an unlikely cover of Bob Marley's "Lively Up Yourself"), revisiting a wide swath of influential roots on the Honeydrippers EP and his first release with contemporary backing band Strange Sensation on 2002's Dreamland, or the symphonic ambitions of Manic Nirvana and multihued folk retrenchment of Fate of Nations. Enhanced by 26 bonus tracks of outtakes, demos, live cuts, and remixes, the nine albums anthologized here are also covered in an insightful essay by journalist Ed Vulliamy. The set's bonus DVD contains an hour-long retrospective hosted by Plant himself and features rare film clips and comments from many of his collaborators and admirers, as well as 20 career-spanning solo videos. --Jerry McCulley



Tracklist:

Pictures At Eleven 1982

1. Burning Down One Side

2. Moonlight in Samosa

3. Pledge Pin

4. Slow Dancer

5. Worse Than Detroit

6. Fat Lip

7. Like I've Never Been Gone

8. Mystery Title

9. Far Post

10. Like I've Never Been Gone (live)



The Principle of Moments 1983

1. Other Arms

2. In The Mood

3. Messin' With The Mekon

4. Wreckless Love

5. Thru' With The Two Step

6. Horizontal Departure

7. Stranger Here...than over there

8. Big Log

9. In The Mood (Live)

10. Thru' With The Two Step (Live)

11. Lively Up Yourself (Live)

12. Turnaround



The Honeydrippers Volume One 1984

1. I Get A Thrill

2. Sea Of Love

3. I Got A Woman

4. Young Boy Blues

5. Rockin' At Midnight

6. Rockin' At Midnight (Live)



Shaken'n'Stirred 1985

1. Hip To Hoo

2. Kallalou Kallalou

3. Too Loud

4. Trouble Your Money

5. Pink And Black

6. Little By Little

7. Doo Doo A Do Do

8. Easily Lead

9. Sixes and Sevens

10. Little by Little (Remixed Long Version)



Now and Zen 1988

1. Heaven Knows

2. Dance On My Own

3. Tall Cool One

4. The Way I Feel

5. Helen of Troy

6. Billy's Revenge

7. Ship of Fools

8. Why

9. White, Clean and Neat

10. Walking Towards Paradise

11. Billy's Revenge (Live)

12. Ship of Fools (Live)

13. Tall Cool One (Live)



Manic Nirvana 1990

1. Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes On You)

2. Big Love

3. S S S & Q

4. I Cried

5. She Said

6. Nirvana

7. The Dye On The Highway

8. Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night

9. Anniversary

10. Liars Dance

11. Watching You

12. Oompa (Watery Bint)

13. One Love

14. Don't Look Back



Fate of Nations 1993

1. Calling to You

2. Down to the Sea

3. Come into My Life

4. I Believe

5. 29 Palms

6. Memory Song (Hello Hello)

7. If I Were a Carpenter

8. Promised Land

9. The Greatest Gift

10. Great Spirit

11. Network News

12. Colours Of A Shade

13. Great Spirit (Acoustic Mix)

14. Rollercoaster (Demo)

15. 8.05

16. Dark Moon (Acoustic)



Dreamland 2002

1. Funny in My Mind (I Believe I'm Fixin' to Die)

2. Morning Dew

3. One More Cup of Coffee

4. Last Time I Saw Her

5. Song to the Siren

6. Win My Train Fare Home (If I Ever Get Lucky)

7. Darkness, Darkness

8. Red Dress

9. Hey Joe

10. Skip's Song

11. Dirt in a Hole

12. Last Time I Saw Her (Remix)



Mighty Rearranger 2005

1. Another Tribe

2. Shine It All Around

3. Freedom Fries

4. Tin Pan Valley

5. All the Kings Horses

6. The Enchanter

7. Takamba

8. Dancing in Heaven

9. Somebody Knocking

10. Let the Four Winds Blow

11. Mighty Rearranger

12. Brother Ray

13. Red, White and Blue

14. All the Money in the World

15. Shine It All Around (Girls remix)

16. Tin Pan Valley (Girls remix)

17. The Enchanter (Unkle reconstruction)