Talk:Coda (album)

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[edit] Article needs a lot of rewriting

I don't remember wiki being a place to review albums, do you? --Keith, evil dude 21:37, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Compilation?

i dont think this is a compilation because none of the tracks had been released before. and if we are to consider this a compilation,then we will have to call Physical Grafitti a compilation too,the same with Let It Be from The Beatles...you get my point here? Lord revan 21:08, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

It's not a compilation. That's like saying a live album is a compilation, just because they play the same songs. Just because Coda has a few (or 1?) live songs doesn't mean it's a compilation.

I think Jimmy Page released it as a compilation, because these songs were recorded a lot earlier, and it wasn't supposed to be released until Bonham's death.

I've always thought of it as a studio album winding down Led Zeppelin with unreleased songs spanning their career. Also, Coda is a separate disc in the Complete Studio Recordings collection. Had it been a compilation album, the songs would have been bonus tracks on the each of the albums (For instance, "Hey Hey What Can I Do?" would have gone to Led Zeppelin III). The songs that were live are listed as studio sessions, which gives me the impression that Page considered it to be a studio album.--Ninjaryu 18:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

In addition to what I said earlier, the sticker that comes on the Complete Studio Recordings says something to the effect of, "all nine studio albums". I don't remember the exact wording, but I remember that it said nine, which includes Coda.--Ninjaryu (talk) 06:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It is a studio album, not a compilation album

Coda should be categorised as a studio album rather than a compilation album, as indicated by the following sources:

• Liner notes for the Led Zeppelin Box Set, Vol. 2, which states that Led Zeppelin released nine studio albums.
• Label attached to the Complete Studio Recordings boxed set, officially released by Atlantic Records, which states that the set includes "all nine of Led Zeppelin's studio albums"
• Global Bass magazine interview with John Paul Jones
• 1993 interview with Jimmy Page in Guitar World magazine
• Article in the Telegraph newspaper
• Article in the Mirror newspaper
• Led Zeppelin expert Dave Lewis, in his publication The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin (London: Omnibus Press, 1994 ISBN 0-7119-3528-9) lists Coda as one of the ten Led Zeppelin albums released in its own right (TSRTS being the only live album of the ten). That is, he puts the album in the same bracket as the other nine albums which preceded it. All of these albums he distinguishes from later Led Zeppelin compilation albums, such as Led Zeppelin Remasters. Edelmand (talk) 14:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)