Satan'sDaughter

Miki Page: I didn’t appreciate your review because 1) you didn’t understand this album (and this criticism goes for everyone on this page, I’m not just picking on you): is it really so difficult to comprehend that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are making music together again because THEY WANT TO? BECAUSE THEY LOVE PLAYING TOGETHER? It doesn’t seem that inconceivable to me. And why would they make such a commercially unviable album to make money? Besides, it doesn’t seem like they’re exactly broke. And let’s stop saying that music is made for money; maybe that’s true for Kylie Minogue, who is famous, but I want to see how many emerging bands can actually live off their music. They work and play. Extra money may come in, but that’s not the goal. Music is art, it’s pleasure; if you don’t get it, go to the movies instead. 2) I want to clarify for the benefit of anyone potentially listening to the album that it is YOU who are unbearable, but "Wonderful One" and the other new songs are NOT "ultimately catchy and enjoyable," they are the soul of the album. If you don’t like them, it’s clear you’re stuck in the Led Zeppelin era, so you might as well keep listening to their CDs, because these are Robert Plant and Jimmy Page 15 years after Led Zeppelin. They have changed and evolved; THEY ARE NOT Led Zeppelin anymore, not to mention that Led Zeppelin died with Bonham. You have obviously decided to ignore Plant's evolution, his present, because if you had listened to his latest album ("Mighty Rearranger"), you would have realized that this album is not meant to celebrate some sort of "reunion" (I hate hearing about reunions) of Page & Plant to make money, but is an expression of the new direction Plant has taken. Lastly, if we’re being honest, "Nobody's Fault but Mine" is the least interesting track on the album, while I don’t understand why you didn’t praise the version of "Kashmir" as it deserved, as well as "Friends" and "Four Sticks," which are truly well-executed reinterpretations. This album is magnificent, but evidently aimed at lovers of Led Zeppelin not as a "hard rock" band (a narrow and limiting category) but as a multifaceted group, full of influences and nuances.