Page & Plant - No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded

Japanese edition of the Led Zeppelin member's 1994 collaboration album in a miniaturized LP sleeve. Contains 14tracks, including 'Thank You', 'Friends', 'That's The Way', 'Gallow's Pole' and 'Four Sticks'. 1994 Mercury Records release. Album Description

A big deception

I like Led Zep a lot, also, I like Robert Plant as a solo artist.
I was surprised by the Coverdale Page album,I like it a lot.
I had big expectation for this one, Page and Plant again together...
It was a big deception. I don,t like the new songs, "No Quarter" is horrible, what a disaster ! I'll give my cd to somebody who, I hope, will like it. August 7, 2007

in a new light

robert plant and jimmy page unledded no quarter cd with a great backing band featuring african instruments and a eastern favour to many led zeppelin classics this album is needed in any zeppelin fans collection just for the version of kashmir classic
robert's voice may sound a bit croaky he still rocks and page hasn't lost his talent both playing with their full alblities
i love this cd a new light to led zeppelin songs and you thought robert plant and jimmy page would never play together again
well they did and it was superb November 22, 2005

Means vocal is not a quarter?

At the beginning I was worried, what if Page's guitar or Plant's voice dissapoints me.
However it was not necessary. Although the first number "Nobody's Fault But Mine" slightly confuses me, but the sound was getting better and better
Most of numbers originally from Zeppelin are all my favorites, Five of them are from the 3rd album, I am very glad that as a 3rd album lover.
"Gallows Pole" and "Four Sticks" were even better than the original. I didn't feel it was nice the string section in "Since I've Been Loving You".

Anyway overall, this album has good balance of the sound. Zeppelin was a great band but also I was feeling the balance of the sound was unusual as a Rock Band. Usually the vocalist is a leading part in the rock band, but in Zeppelin each member is so great that Plant's vocal sounded like just one of them. Sometimes as if a back chorus. I always wondered it should be called great features or weakness of them.
But here, Plant acts as a leading roll and Page's guitar supports him.

So "No Quarter" means the vocalist is not a quarter here?
October 11, 2005

Eastern flavours and brilliant lyrics

As usual, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have turned out a winner. This album has nothing superflous. Every track is fantastic, from the addictive 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' to sad and beautiful 'That's the Way'. There are the clear eastern influences found in much Led Zepplin, and, and as always the lyrics are poetry in themselves - take:
"And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.

I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?"

It can be listened to over and over again - No song becomes tired or repetitive despite many many hearings. It's a valuable addition to any collection of rock music. September 26, 2005

A chance to see Plant and Page together again

After Live Aid, the Atlantic Records birthday concert, and some other live brief appearances, I was excited to see this effort during the "unplugged" era....I was hoping Plant and Page would tour and tour they did. For fans who were not old enough to see Led Zep in concert, this had to be the closest I would ever get. Although I saw the Firm and solo shows by Plant, and only recently did Plant start to go back to Led Zep tunes, nothing compared to the Plant/Page tour that followed the release of this cd. Fine selection of songs fit real well with all of the backing musicians. October 28, 2004

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