XM Lets You Get Your Led Out
Posted by Fred on November 9, 2007
XM Radio launched a new channel yesterday on channel 59. XM LED is all Zeppelin all the time:
A 24/7 celebration of the music and magic of Led Zeppelin.
A handcrafted channel dedicated to everything Led Zeppelin, including studio albums, rare and archival concerts, interviews, and listener interaction. A continuous and mystical radio voyage into the past, present, and future of the mighty Led Zeppelin.
For a band that released its last real studio album in 1979 (Coda, released in 1982 after John Bonham’s death and the breakup of the band, doesn’t count), Zeppelin is fairly ubiquitous these days. On Tuesday, they release Mothership, yet another compilation of old material (which follows 2003’s Remasters and How the West Was Won, 2000’s Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Vol. 2, 1999’s Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Vol. 1, 1993’s Complete Studio Recordings box set and Led Zeppelin Box Set Vol. 2, 1992’s Led Zeppelin Remasters and the 1990 Led Zeppelin Box Set). Mothership will be available at the iTunes Music Store, as will the 165-track Complete Led Zeppelin. The band is reuniting for a concert in London on December 10.
I own several of the compilations and a few of the studio albums on CD, and will likely download Mothership on Tuesday, so the new channel is right up my alley. During this morning’s commute, XM played Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Kashmir, Ramble On, The Battle of Evermore, Robert Plant’s solo In the Mood, and Gallows Pole. I just wish the channel had started during WCVE’s three week beggathon Fall Membership Campaign so I could have turned to it when the host spent a half hour begging for money.
This sort of thing is why I have a satellite radio in the first place (that and listening to Tom Hamilton do Tribe games).
