Robert Plant: Pictures At Eleven (Remastered + Expanded) CD Track Listing
Robert Plant
Pictures At Eleven (Remastered + Expanded) (1982)
Pictures At Eleven (Remastered + Expanded)\n2007 Es Paranza/Rhino\n\nOriginally Released June 28, 1982\nCD Edition Released 1988 ??\nNine Lives Boxed Set Released September 12, 2006\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released March 20, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: For his debut solo album, Robert Plant doesn't exactly succumb to everyone's expectations. With a less-potent vocal style, Plant manages to carry out most of the songs in smooth, stylish fashion while rocking out rather convincingly on a couple of others. He gets some pretty good help from guitarist Robbie Blunt, who truly comes to life on "Worse Than Detroit," and both Phil Collins and Cozy Powell give Plant enough of a solid background to lean his sultry yet surging rock voice against. Plant channels his energy quite effectively through songs like "Pledge Pin" and "Moonlight in Samosa," while the single "Burning Down One Side" is a creditable one, even though it failed to crack the Top 50 in either the U.K. and the U.S. The most apparent characteristic about the album's eight tracks is the fact that Plant is able to escape most of his past and still sound motivated. Without depending too much on his Led Zeppelin days, he courses a new direction without changing or disguising his distinct vocal style whatsoever. Pictures at Eleven peaked within the Top Five on both sides of the Atlantic, successfully launching Plant's solo career. \n\n[The 2007 reissue adds two bonus tracks including a live version of "Like I've Never Been Gone" that has Phill Collins on drums.] -- Mike DeGagne\n\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The directions in which Plant seemed to be heading in the later Zeppelin records -- toward lighter, more melodic music, tempered with sometimes odd rhythms -- are continued on his first solo album, which finds him singing more and screaming less. It wasn't Led Zeppelin, but then, that was the whole point. -- William Ruhlmann\n\nCMJ New Music Report\nTo one who's never felt much of an affinity for the musical genre which Led Zeppelin personified, this album comes as a surprise-and a relief. Plant possesses one of the most distinguishable vocal instruments in rock, and could easily have surrounded himself with heavy metal hacks for a bombastic-and no doubt highly commercial-solo release. Instead, he pulled together Phil Collins, bassist Paul Martinez and a subtly interesting keyboard/synth player named Jezz Woodruffe to produce an LP that relies as much on restraint as it does on power riffs. Though fans of the Page pyrotechnics may miss the fire (or indulgence) of the electric guitar master, Robbie Blunt does a credible job of complementing Plant's sturdy singing, and other touches (like the sax work on "Pledge Pin") make for varied, satisfying fare. Give Plant credit-while offending no Led Heads, he's shown the willingness to expand his horizons. \n
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: Music
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: music songs tracks rock Rock
- Robert Plant - Burning Down One Side (03:58)
- Robert Plant - Moonlight In Samosa (04:01)
- Robert Plant - Pledge Pin (04:03)
- Robert Plant - Slow Dancer (07:47)
- Robert Plant - Worse Than Detroit (05:59)
- Robert Plant - Fat Lip (05:08)
- Robert Plant - Like I've Never Been Gone (06:00)
- Robert Plant - Mystery Title (05:22)
- Robert Plant - Far Post (Bonus Track - UK 12'' Single Sep '82) (04:42)
- Robert Plant - Like I've Never Been Gone (Live) (07:31)
