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Presence

Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Presence scales back the size of Physical Graffiti to a single album, but it retains the grandiose scope of that double record. If anything, Presence has more majestic epics than its predecessor, opening with the surging, ten-minute "Achilles Last Stand" and closing with the meandering, nearly ten-minute "Tea for One." In between, Led Zeppelin add the lumbering blues workout "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and the terse, menacing "For Your Life," which is the best song on the album. These four tracks take up the bulk of the album, leaving three lighthearted throwaways to alleviate the foreboding atmosphere -- and pretensions -- of the epics. If all of the throwaways were as focused and funny as those on Physical Graffiti or Houses of the Holy, Zeppelin would have had another classic on their hands.

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Releases

Year Type label Catalog #
CD Swan Song SS-8416-2
1994 CD Atlantic 92439
1994 CS Atlantic 92439
1995 CD Atlantic AMCY-4012
2001 LP Classic Collection 8416
2003 CD Warner Music WPCR-11618
2003 CD Swan Song 11618
2003 CD Atlantic 7567924395
2005 CD Warner Music WPCR75008
2005 CD WEA International 924395
2007 CD WEA 75008

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