Led Zeppelin / Coda (Deluxe Edition)
Artist Led Zeppelin
Album Title: Coda (Deluxe Edition)
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Rock: Classic Rock
Format CD (3)
Released 11/19/1982
Reissue Date 07/31/2015
Label Atlantic Recording Corporation
Catalog No R2-547430
Bar Code No 0 81227 95584 7
Packaging Cardboard Triple Gatefold
Tracks
Coda (Deluxe Edition) (Disc 1)
1. We're Gonna Groove (2:37)
2. Poor Tom (3:02)
3. I Can't Quit You Baby (4:18)
4. Walter's Walk (4:31)
5. Ozone Baby (3:36)
6. Darlene (5:06)
7. Bonzo's Montreaux (4:22)
8. Wearing And Tearing (5:27)
Coda (Deluxe Edition) (Disc 2)(Companion Audio)
1. We're Gonna Groove (Alternate Mix) (2:40)
2. If It Keeps On Raining (When The Levee Breaks) (Rough Mix) (4:11)
3. Bonzo's Montreux (Mix Construction In Progress) (4:57)
4. Baby Come On Home (4:30)
5. Sugar Mama (Mix) (2:50)
6. Poor Tom (Instrumental Mix) (2:16)
7. Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Session) (5:08)
8. Hey, Hey, What Can I Do (3:52)
Coda (Deluxe Edition) (Disc 3)(Companion Audio)
1. Four Hands (Four Sticks) (Bombay Orchestra) (4:43)
2. Friends (Bombay Orchestra) (4:25)
3. St. Tristan's Sword (Rough Mix) (5:40)
4. Desire (The Wanton Song) (Rough Mix) (4:08)
5. Bring It On Home (Rough Mix) (4:19)
6. Walter's Walk (Rough Mix) (3:18)
7. Everybody Makes It Through (In The Light) (Rough Mix) (8:31)
Date Acquired 08/15/2015
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Duluth
Purchase Price 21.59

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Notes

Released in a three-panel cardboard sleeve, including a 16-page booklet.
[Disc 1:]
Original album released by Swan Song on November 19, 1982.
All tracks mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire.
Track 1-1: recorded on the Pye Mobile Truck at The Royal Albert Hall, London, on 9/1/70.
Track 1-2: recorded at Olympic Studios, London, on 5/6/70.
Track 1-3: recorded during sound rehearsal at The Royal Albert Hall, London, on 9/1/70.
Track 1-4: recorded on The Rolling Stones Mobile at Stargroves, on 16/5/72.
Track 1-5: recorded at Polar Studios, Stockholm, on 14/11/78.
Track 1-6: recorded at Polar Studios, Stockholm, on 16/11/78.
Track 1-7: recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, on 12/9/76.
Track 1-8: recorded at Polar Studios, Stockholm, on 21/11/78.

[Disc 2:]
Track 2-1: studio Pye Mobile Truck, Royal Albert Hall, London, January 9, 1970. Mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire, February 19, 1982.
Track 2-2: studio Island, London, November 11, 1970.
Track 2-3: studio Mountain Montreux, September 12, 1976. Mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire.
Track 2-4: studio Olympic No 1, London, October 10, 1968. Mixed at Atlantic Studios, New York.
Track 2-5: studio Olympic No 1, London, October 3, 1968. Mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire.
Track 2-6: studio Olympic No 1, London, June 5, 1970. Mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire.
Track 2-7: recorded and broadcast on June 23 1969 for the "John Peel's Top Gear" radio show. Released by arrangement with BBC Enterprises, Ltd. ? 1990 BBC.
Track 2-8: studio Olympic No 2, London, May 29, 1970. Mixed at Island Studios, London.

[Disc 3:]
Track 3-1: recorded in Bombay, India, October 19, 1972.
Track 3-2: recorded in Bombay, India, October 19, 1972.
Track 3-3: studio Island No 2, London, July 5, 1970.
Track 3-4: studio Ronnie Lane's Mobile, Headley Grange, February 15, 1974.
Track 3-5: studio Atlantic, New York, July 24, 1969.
Track 3-6: studio Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, May 16, 1972. Mixed at The Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire.
Track 3-7: studio Ronnie Lane's Mobile, Headley Grange, February 28, 1974.

[Pink front sticker:]
3-CD Deluxe Edition
CD1: Original Album
CDs 2&3: Unreleased Tracks & Outtakes
Remastered and produced by Jimmy Page

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR8       -0.97 dB   -11.23 dB      2:38 01-We're Gonna Groove
DR11      -0.68 dB   -13.59 dB      3:02 02-Poor Tom
DR10       0.00 dB   -12.49 dB      4:18 03-I Can't Quit You Baby
DR8       -0.45 dB   -10.52 dB      4:32 04-Walter's Walk
DR9       -0.28 dB   -11.04 dB      3:36 05-Ozone Baby
DR9        0.00 dB   -11.88 dB      5:07 06-Darlene
DR10      -0.20 dB   -12.16 dB      4:22 07-Bonzo's Montreux
DR8       -0.58 dB   -10.92 dB      5:30 08-Wearing and Tearing
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           1016 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Analyzed: Led Zeppelin / Coda, Disc 2
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR10      -0.28 dB   -11.54 dB      2:40 01-We're Gonna Groove [Alternate Mix]
DR11      -0.22 dB   -12.82 dB      4:14 02-If It Keeps On Raining (rough mix)
DR9        0.00 dB   -11.29 dB      5:00 03-Bonzo's Montreux [Mix Construction in Progress]
DR10      -0.29 dB   -13.26 dB      4:30 04-Baby Come on Home
DR10      -0.26 dB   -11.87 dB      2:51 05-Sugar Mama [Mix]
DR10      -0.19 dB   -13.06 dB      2:17 06-Poor Tom [Instrumental Mix]
DR10      -0.30 dB   -11.43 dB      5:12 07-Travelling Riverside Blues [BBC Session]
DR10      -0.22 dB   -12.32 dB      3:57 08-Hey, Hey, What Can I Do
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
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Bitrate:           1004 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Analyzed: Led Zeppelin / Coda, Disc 3
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR10      -0.18 dB   -13.82 dB      4:46 01-Four Hands (Four Sticks) (Bombay Orchestra)
DR11      -0.96 dB   -15.25 dB      4:27 02-Friends (Bombay Orchestra)
DR9       -0.20 dB   -10.69 dB      5:42 03-St. Tristan's Sword [Rough Mix]
DR10      -0.08 dB   -11.82 dB      4:10 04-Desire (The Wanton Song) [Rough Mix]
DR10      -0.12 dB   -11.05 dB      2:32 05-Bring It on Home [Rough Mix]
DR9       -0.16 dB   -10.80 dB      3:20 06-Walter's Walk [Rough Mix]
DR11      -0.26 dB   -14.37 dB      8:34 07-Everybody Makes It Through (In the Light) [Rough Mix]
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Number of tracks:  7
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           842 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Released two years after the 1980 death of John Bonham, Coda tied up most of the loose ends Led Zeppelin left hanging: it officially issued a bunch of tracks circulating on bootleg and it fulfilled their obligation to Atlantic Records. Coda doesn't contain every non-LP track Zeppelin released -- notably, the B-side "Hey Hey What Can I Do" and anything from the BBC sessions were left untouched (they'd be added to Coda on a 1993 CD revision of the compilation, and also appear on the major three-disc overhaul Jimmy Page masterminded in 2015) -- but it does gather much of what was floating around in the wake of their demise, including three blistering rockers that were rejected for In Through the Out Door. If "Ozone Baby," "Darlene," or "Wearing and Tearing" -- rockers that alternately cut loose, groove, and menace -- had made the cut for In Through the Out Door, that album wouldn't have had its vague progressive edge and when they're included alongside a revival of the band's early raver "We're Gonna Groove," the big-boned funk of the Houses of the Holy outtake "Walter's Walk," and the folk stomp "Poor Tom" (naturally taken from the sessions for Led Zeppelin III), they wind up underscoring the band's often underappreciated lighter side. For heaviness, there's a live version of "I Can't Quit You Baby" and "Bonzo's Montreux," a solo showcase for the departed drummer, and when this pair is added to the six doses of hard-charging rock & roll, it amounts to a good snapshot of much of what made Led Zeppelin a great band: when they were cooking, they really did groove.
[Led Zeppelin launched a massive, Jimmy Page-supervised reissue campaign in 2014, where each of their studio albums was remastered and then expanded with a bonus disc of alternate versions (in the case of the super deluxe editions, they were also supplemented by vinyl pressings, download codes for high-resolution digital audio files, and massive hardcover books). The deluxe editions of Coda arrived in the summer of 2015, plumped up with two full discs of outtakes. Essentially, this 2015 version of Coda is a clearinghouse for everything Page didn't include elsewhere in the series, including the III-era B-side "Hey Hey What Can I Do," the BBC session "Travelling Riverside Blues" that was later released as a single in 1990 to promote that year's four-disc box, and "Baby Come on Home," a blues from 1968 that first surfaced on the 1993 Box Set 2. The rest are unreleased cuts from throughout the band's life, with only two tracks being unheard songs: the blooze-blast of "Sugar Mama," a 1968 cut that feels like a bubblegum rough draft of "Communication Breakdown," and the III-era instrumental "St. Tristan's Sword," which has a nicely funky groove from Jones and Bonham plus dry, gnarly riffs and solos from Page. Elsewhere, the rough mixes are notably different. "Bring It on Home" sounds thin and nasty, "If It Keeps on Raining" lightens the mood of "When the Levee Breaks" by pushing up the bass and pushing down the guitars, an instrumental version of "The Wanton Song" called "Desire" highlights the song's tricky turnarounds, while the versions of "Four Hands" and "Friends" recorded with the Bombay Orchestra emphasize the group's adventure. Overall, this sprawl amounts to one of the best of the Zeppelin reissues: it touches upon every aspect that made the group restless and great.]
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