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I prefer Shaken' n' Stirred by some distance over Now And Zen too. I still really like his first three albums and feel they are all of a piece and seem to work through a natural progression where he found his own identity. However i can see that the production and style of Shaken was probably a step too far for most of his audience. Maybe it helped that i first heard Zep when i was 11 in 1981 and was ready for his solo albums when they came out.

I was so enthusiastic when i started buying Zeppelin albums between 1981 and 1983 and when Robert started releasing new material i was very much into whatever he was putting out. Having got into more rock material after being into bands like the Police and other new wave post punk pop artists, what Plant began doing sounded natural to me. I liked Now And Zen when it came out and was excited that Jimmy Page was on the record thinking it would be closer to Zep. However very quickly i thought it sounded like Zep lite with no real purpose.

He had got rid of a good band that was on the first three albums and i was disappointed he stopped working with Robbie Blunt. That was a real band playing interesting music and he swopped them for a bunch of rather faceless session musos. He saw his commercial career going downhill and lost his nerve and went back to music closer to his original audiences expectations. It took him until Strange Sensation and then the current band to get a bunch of sympathetic musicians together to support him in that way again. Having said that, Ship Of Fools is a beautiful song and better than anything on Shaken.

I am also partial to 'Why' with its synth pop sound. Manic Nirvana is an album i haven't listened to in years, i remember it being forced sounding although the rocking tracks sounded more authentic than the ones on Zen. From the brilliant Fate Of Nations onwards i think he has consistently made great albums.

One thing that stands out for me is, stupid as it sounds, I don't think Robert Plant is a hard rock singer. He has a lot of versatility and a brilliant band like Zeppelin let him show that off. He could belt it out in the early days like on Immigrant Song but there was so much more to him than that. On Now And Zen and Manic Nirvana he tried to be a hard rock singer and failed as he did not have Page, Jones and Bonham and the brilliant light and shade of that band to support him.

Outside of Zeppelin when he tries hard rock singing he falls flat. I think that is primarily because he is into old 50's rock'n'roll, late 60's west coast psychedelia and folk/country roots as well as powerful blues and doesn't really like heavy rock music and never has despite being in one of the greatest hard rocking bands ever.

LZ had the musical backdrop to let him go to all these places above but solo he is better just following his muse and singing what he likes and not pandering to his rock audience to shift a few units. I think he has realised that now.

Click to expand.I'm with you. I saw him on the Shaken N Stirred tour. Air Force Oil Filled Radiator Manual Treadmill more. BTW, Shaken N Stirred is frequently seen in used vinyl bargain bins and the record sounds fabulous I've also got the 'Little By Little' maxi-single that includes a couple of live tracks recorded from the show I was at in Dallas TX Actually Now And Zen is the last Plant album I bought, so I cannot offer an opinion on whether or not he continued sliding into mediocrity, but it was certainly mediocre enough to put me off buying any more of his albums. I don't think either album has aged too well. Those horrible 80s synths are not to my liking. I much prefer Percy's first two solo releases. Shaken was the album where Robert finally got Mick Jagger syndrome and chased every musical fashion that was in the air.

Shaken was also his first album where he felt confident enough to completely ditch any musical link to Zep. The ablum does have the wonderful Toni Halliday on backing vocals. Toni went on to co-found 90s shoegazer pop icons Curve.

Upon it's release Now and Zen was heralded as a return to classic form. It had Page, Zep samples, and more traditional song writing, but still reeks too much of the 80s. I saw Plant on tours for both albums. The Shaken gig was at the Rosemont Horizon just outside of Chicago. The big buzz at the gig was that Jimmy Page would be guesting on the encores as a warm up to the big Live Aid gig a few days away. The gig was still fun. I remember there being a lot of Honeydrippers material being played.