Robert & Alison-Raising Sand


I just got this gem on vinyl the other day and i must say its fantastic. Quite the combo doing what they do best!

Anybody else had the chance to listen to this yet?
Opinions?

Cheers
mariasplunge
It took a couple of listens to grow on me, nice calming, early morning, driving to work in the dark wintertime, type music.
Sorry Jaybo, hate to disagree - No comparison to the Harris/Knopfler effort. on All The Roadrunning which is phenomenal.

If you are hoping for shades of Zeppelin fuhgeddaboutit

It's not that its bad or poorly done, but most folks can safely skip this one
This one's a little deceptive - at first it sounds like straight up easy listening, but there's a lot of intersting, if subdued, rythmic stuff going on. I was just listening to the 7th track and heard references to early Brian Eno and Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". Don't know that I'll ever love this record, but I'll certainly give it a bit more time.

Marty
At least Zep are sort of back together again, but in the Rolling Stone article I'm gnashin' my teeth because there was no mention or suggestion of them writing original music together again; have these guys nothing left in them? And I was hoping that even though Jason is 41, he could inject a bit of "new Zep" into the fold so that they might, just might, continue where they left off so many years ago. And yes let him be their drummer and if takes on a new sound, so be it, I'm all ears. And heck yeah, let Alison sing along with Zep too if it helps, I'm sure she can rock when the mood suits, after all, it ain't rocket science, but simply well-dated, hydrogen dirigible stuff, after all, guitars, bass, keyboards and drums weren't invented yesterday.
Plant's recent solo career suggests he has plenty left in him but maybe he just wants to get away from expectations like Stevechams.................