A two-volume best-of compilation album series Volume One, Early Days, was released on November 23, 1999.

This enhanced CD contained a never-before-seen promo video for the studio version of "Communication Breakdown", lip-synched to television footage from Sweden 1969.

Track listing:

    "Good Times Bad Times" 
    "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" 
    "Dazed and Confused" 
    "Communication Breakdown" 
    "Whole Lotta Love" 
    "What Is and What Should Never Be" 
    "Immigrant Song" 
    "Since I've Been Loving You" 
    "Black Dog" 
    "Rock and Roll" 
    "The Battle of Evermore" 
    "When the Levee Breaks" 
    "Stairway to Heaven"  

Early Days debuted at #71 on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart and Latter Days debuted at #81. A combined disc set, called Early Days and Latter Days, was released on November 19, 2002. Both Early Days and Early Days and Latter Days were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.