Robert Plant: Manic Nirvana (Remastered + Expanded) CD Track Listing

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Robert Plant Manic Nirvana (Remastered + Expanded) (1990)
Manic Nirvana (Remastered + Expanded)\n2007 Es Paranza/Rhino\n\nOriginally Released March 19, 1990\nNine Lives Boxed Set Released September 12, 2006\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released March 20, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Manic Nirvana essentially continued the revitalized hard rock crunch of Now & Zen. Unlike the previous record, Manic Nirvana played it a little closer to the vest, concentrating on a set of lean, driving riff-rockers instead of ponderous Led Zeppelin pomp. While the overall result is successful -- especially on the frenzied "Hurting Kind," the Technicolor stomp of "Tie Die on the Highway," and the affectionate rockabilly cover "Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night" -- the album sounds like a holding pattern instead of a step forward. The remastered edition of Manic Nirvana includes completely remastered sound, but doesn't do much to change the overall feeling of th laabum. After all, Now & Zen was a very difficult act t follow and proved to be so until the 21st century. The Rhino version contains three bonus cuts, all of which were B-sides to the "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes On You)," and "I Cried". They are the utter throwaway pop rock ballad "Oompa (Watery Blint)," the Bo Diddley-beat drenched "One Love," and the embarrassing rockabilly, funk futurist funk of "Don't Look Back offering one of the few places where Plant was actually off key throughout the tune. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Thom Jurek\n\n\nCMJ New Music Report\nApart from his musical talent and the other, er, natural gifts that God has bestowed upon him, the thing that separates Robert Plant from nearly all of his contemporaries is that he keeps up with music like a true fan-while David Bowie attended one Cro-Mags gig and produced an album like Tin Machine, Plant has merged his classic sound with current ones and emerged with an album that comfortably straddles two decades. By far the most deliberately Zeppelin-ish record of his solo career ("Tie Dye" is total "Kashmir," and on "Your Ma" he reprises the first verses of "Black Dog" for no apparent reason), Manic Nirvana combines his last album's more commercial moments (the first track is a virtual rewrite of "White, Clean And Neat") with more adventurous and more metallic excursions. It's much more guitar-oriented (with thankfully fewer keyboards), and there's much less quasi-mystical shit and more BALLS! Throughout, the band (the same on his last tour) beautifully fulfills the music's considerable demands, veering between sizzling rock and elaborate textures with ease; the production by Plant and keyboardist Phil Johnstone is spot-on. Picks: "Big Love," "SSS & Q," 'She Said" and the bluesy "Your Ma Said You Cried" for loud rock, "I Cried," "Nirvana," the mega-ballad "Anniversary" and "Watching You" for a dose of something else. \n

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