Physical Graffiti 2015

The only reason I decided to give this 5 stars is because the album was in perfect condition. Everything looks new but it wasn't sealed in plastic like every album i bought in the past. I'm one of those people who leave the plastic on as protection to the album cover except if it's a double album that opens like a book, in that case you really can't. I will go elsewhere for future purchases if this happens again. If I pay full price, I expect to be the one to open it, thank you very muich.

The media could not be loaded. Everyone should know by now, this CD (album) gets 5 Stars. Classic album, still relevant. My only issue with this purchase is it was sold at 31% off but listed as new. If you watch my attached video and look at the pictures I uploaded, you can see clearly this CD was used and sold as new. The 40th Anniversary sticker was inside the shrink wrap stuck on the actual CD cover and there are two holes in the shrink wrap as if it was overheated during resealing it. I describe what I see in my video. I decided to keep the CD however I will return it if there are any surface marks or defects in the CD itself. For this, I give Amazon 2 Stars for reselling me a used CD as new.

Wonderful

In my opinion Led Zeppelin's most rock-and-roll album. A Masterpiece that turns 50 years.

I'm giving this CD five stars, although I haven't heard it yet. Nevertheless, I am anticipating it will be totally awesome.I ordered it two days ago, and requested the Prime free two day delivery, which is also totally awesome if you think about it. Unfortunately, the promised delivery of Thursday Feb. 26th was not to be. It was shipped via USPS, which is also totally awesome, because who else will come to your house and pick up a letter and deliver it directly to the home of someone thousands of miles away for only 49 cents? But I digress.I'm guessing the bad weather caused some kind of delay, because the tracking info said that it took my CD 24 hours to make its way from a depot that is about a three hour drive from the local USPS facility. Perhaps the roads were icy and the driver had to seek respite at a truck stop along the way, where he or she enjoyed a fine country fried steak and canned green beans along with hours of pinball or video games or whatever it is they have at those places to pass the time.Parenthetically, I have a vinyl copy of the album from back when it was released decades ago. I can only vaguely remember hearing it, because those memories are somewhat, uh, fuzzy as I approach my twilight years. I would put it on and play it as I await my errant remastered CD, but alas my vintage Technics SL-B3 turntable has been packed away in the garage for 30 years after an unfortunate incident. It seems my wife, who I love dearly, was dusting around our stereo equipment and apparently tripped the automatic play feature of the Technics SL-B3 turntable. Sadly, there was no album on the platter, and no one noticed until a couple of days later that it had been sitting there playing the rubber platter surface, round and round and round and round. Needless to say, this was not an optimal situation for the stylus installed on the turntable's totally awesome Audio Technica cartridge. But I digress.So anyway, I went down to the mailbox today, eagerly anticipating the arrival of my new Physical Graffiti CD, remastered with loving care by Jimmy Page himself, in breathless anticipation of ripping it to my music server and listening to it via my HTPC on our fairly decent by today's standards (these kids today and their earbuds, meh) home hi-fi setup. But alas, it was not to be. My mailbox contained only a sad assortment of "dear recipient" coupons, that did not appear to be worth much. And to top it off, in my exuberance I slipped on the ice, which had previously most likely contributed to the delay of delivering my new Physical Graffiti remastered CD that was promised for today, and wrenched my back. All for naught. Now I will be bedridden for a few days, and even if my new Physical Graffiti remastered CD arrives tomorrow I doubt I'll be able to sit up long enough to listen to it.I would ask my lovely wife to rip it and play it for me to sooth my suffering, but alas she does not know how to operate our fairly decent by today's standards home hi-fi setup beyond pressing "Watch TV" on the Harmony remote and queuing up one of her many Law and Order or King of Queens episodes recorded on our Tivo (which is also pretty awesome if you think about it), much less how the home media server setup works. Plus, she will likely be busy tending to me and my infirmaries, because that's how she rolls. Did I mention I love her dearly? But I digress.So sometime over the next few days I anticipate settling in to listen to my new Physical Graffiti remastered by Jimmy Page CD that was not delivered today as promised yet led to an untimely and unexpected setback in my daily routine, for which I totally do not blame Amazon at all because they can't control the weather, truck drivers just looking to get home to their family safe and sound, Jimmy Page, or the ice on my driveway. I am supremely confident it will be worthy of the five star review I have bestowed in advance. If not, I will let you know.UPDATE: Got my Physical Graffiti CD today. My five star review stands, in terms of the music and the sound quality. So there you go.

Nice

I bought the Deluxe Edition 180g vinyl today at a local record store after buying the CD version from Amazon, getting it yesterday. So I'm listening to the vinyl & checking it out now.I won't go into a critique of the original LP as there are enough good, too long, or too short reviews on Amazon already.I'll just discuss the new Deluxe Edition. The original LP mixes sound good on both CD and vinyl so far. I will warn you that recordings of the time onto tape tend to be compressed some, so it isn't as stellar in detail as we'd like but it's at least as good as the original vinyl and the CD seems to be somewhat of an improvement over previous masters, but not much. I doubt it will get better than this on CD. And the CD includes a booklet of photos which any LP set (other than the Super) doesn't have.Getting the CD Deluxe Edition first, the booklet in it has a handful of great photos, and too many micro-film size promo pics in B&W, but I thought that'd be great to get the vinyl deluxe edition and get those blown up to a size I can appreciate. Nein. All you get is a reproduction of the original LP itself with the bonus disc in a similar sleeve with no extra details about anything. NO PHOTOS AT ALL! Flimsy packaging.The original LP is one of my all-time favorite rock LPs. Now let me get into the bonus tracks themselves. All you get is around 40 minutes of barely different mixes of the same takes. Only about 3 songs have much of a difference, my favorite being "In My Time Of Dying" (not much different), but ~18 extra good minutes for an extra $20 for the 3rd LP just isn't worth it.As other reviewers have already mentioned, it does kind of suck the LPs come in flimsy paper sleeves which add extra paper matter & dust to the LPs. For the price, we should have at least gotten anti-static sleeves.So my recommendation is, unless you are a rabid fan who has to have everything, don't bother spending the extra cash on the Deluxe Edition vinyl. Just get the regular 2 LP edition, clean the LPs, then place the vinyl into anti-static sleeves. The CD of the Deluxe Edition is a much better deal and sounds better than the LP, actually, for the format.If you are new to Led Zeppelin, or an old fan, you should know how good this LP is already.REVIEW UPDATE 3/3/15: I have listened to the whole vinyl & CD Deluxe editions and now I'm fairly certain the vinyl was from a digital source and isn't outstanding; and I have a moving coil cartridge to judge it with. The CD definitely sounds better by comparison of format.