Product Details
Artist : Robert Plant
Format : Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0081227416225
Label : Rhino-Atlantic
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-04-03
UPC : 081227416225
ASIN : B000HWZ5WY
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Heaven Knows
2. Dance on My Own
3. Tall Cool One
4. Way I Feel
5. Helen of Troy
6. Billy's Revenge
7. Ship of Fools
8. Why
9. White, Clean and Neat
10. Walking Towards Paradise
11. Billy's Revenge [Live][#][*]
12. Ship of Fools [Live][#][*]
13. Tall Cool One [Live][#][*]
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Customer Reviews
the decline of the ciupciup (2004-07-05)  why some people doesn't accept the natural course of age and don't retire at the right moment?mr. plant used to be a nightingale but now he has a scratchy throat. buy the led zeppelin records instead.
Annoying (2004-05-15) No one can say that I didn't try. I've attempted to like this album - I've listened to it three times, but I just can't like it. The music is grating; Plant's voice sounds thin; the songs are forgettable. As is often the case, the work of the individual musician hardly ever lives up to the music produced by the parent band. Talent will get you far, but the "magic" of the lineup will take you to the musical heights that all aspiring rockers seek. Robert Plant's work is a prime example of a gifted vocalist throwing away his talents on 80's garbage.
Still sounds good (2004-01-31)  This was a big album for Plant. I remember when it came out. It wasn't popular at my highschool, but there was a crowd of cool kids into music who dug it. It's interesting to note that Jimmy Page (guitarist for Led Zeppelin, Plant's former band for the uninitiated) did the solos for "Heaven Knows" and "Tall Cool One" (including Led Zep-era samples of Page and Plant on the latter). Also, not only does great musician Kirsty MacCall sing back-up, but so does future Curve mastermind Toni Halliday. The Breakdown: "Heaven Knows" - I remember how modern this sounded when it first came out. It still sounds great to me. ***** "Dance On My Own" - is a cool, fun song about sexual frustration and what to do about it when you're alone. ***** "Tall Cool One" - I find cheesy, tacky and weak. A big hit. * "The Way I Feel" - The best on the album . . . you just gotta feel it. ***** "Helen of Troy" - rocks out. Then there's the dreamy choral passage with the words, "The world is waiting here for you/ Don't you feel it anymore?" ***** "Billy's Revenge" - Rocks with old-school strut and features male back-up singers who cover many bases including doo-wap. **** "Ship of Fools" - excellent guitar from Doug Boyle (as usual) not to mention a typically captivating vocal from Plant. A huge hit, deservedly so. ***** "Why" - is a wimpy synth overdose ** "White Clean and Neat" - interesting and pretty unique song with more old-school flavor (we're talkin' 50's) including sampled voices and other effects. **** "Walking Towards Paradise" - a bonus track, more 80's synth shenanigans. Best left off the album, it still could've fit in somewhere but should not occupy the place that belongs to "White Clean and Neat." ***
Ship of Fools is awesome (2004-01-24)  This is an interesting work by Plant on the '80s with the typical pop-rock sound of the period. Now, even if you do not want to spend the money for the whole album, go and buy the "Ship of Fools" song as soon as it becomes available on a download store. It is such a great song and totally worthy of the $0.99. I don't know if Plant's material is already available at the itunes stores of the world but as soon as it becomes, remember: Ship of Fools.
One great single pretending to be a pop Album :-{ (2003-07-16)  I immediately ejected the tape after the first minute of "heaven knows" in the early 90s, lost it and bought this thing on disc,USED,FOR A cheap-CHEAP price. I love "Ship of Fools" and maybe "The way I feel",,,I used to like "tall cool one" until I found out it was used as a theme to a Coke commericial. "Tall Cool One" kinda worked as ironic cheesy hair-band stuff with the Guitar samples from Jimmy Page...it was always like "this is kinda cool." No so coool once I found out it was used for a commmericial. I saw Plant in an old commerical circa 1998 on a fan(web)site. There was something repellant about it, when zeppelin was mystical and above that sort blatant commercialism- they were always selling a product, but it was the Zeppelin mystique, no mundane products. Of course "rock and roll"(LZ4) was used to like sell Pontiac's in 2001 but that worked b/c it was already overplayed it wasn't NEW like "tall cool one" in 1988!!! It works for some artists to plug things like Coke or Pepsi..like Britany Spears or Micheal Jackson...or even old bluesman like bbKing plugging KingBiscuit baking flour in the 50s... ...But it's like just more evidence that the Zeppelin lyricist was crass and not as sincere about thier music together as one maybe led to believe. Although, I really love some of Plant's stuff. I'm gonna buy another album soon. I switch back and forth between liking/hating "why" and "heaven knows"....they are an acquired taste. The rest of the album is not memorable. The was Robert Plant's big pop album... "SHIP OF FOOLS" is the gem of the album, is it about any former bands he was in? I wonder.
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