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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (II)

Led Zeppelin (II)

by Led Zeppelin

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Released
90-03-01
Music Genre
Rock

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Description

Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin's first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. Since the group could only enter the studio for brief amounts of time, most of the songs that compose II are reworked blues and rock & roll standards that the band was performing on-stage at the time. Not only did the short amount of time result in a lack of original material, it made the sound more direct. Jimmy Page still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. "Whole Lotta Love," "The Lemon Song," and "Bring It on Home" are all based on classic blues songs -- only, the riffs are simpler and louder and each song has an extended section for instrumental solos. Of the remaining six songs, two sport light acoustic touches ("Thank You," "Ramble On"), but the other four are straight-ahead heavy rock that follows the formula of the revamped blues songs. While Led Zeppelin II doesn't have the eclecticism of the group's debut, it's arguably more influential. After all, nearly every one of the hundreds of Zeppelin imitators used this record, with its lack of dynamics and its pummeling riffs, as a blueprint.

Product Details

Artist
Led Zeppelin
Run Time (minutes)
41
Label / Studio
WARNER
Recording Environment
Studio
CD 30days Sales Rank
#1430
Media Content Format
Album
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
1997
Number of Discs
1
WOW HD Sales Rank
#1753
Original year of release
1969
SPARS Code
AAD
Cast & Crew
Led Zeppelin (Music Performer)
Jimmy Page (Producer)

Press Reviews

...chock-full of monumental riffs and ear-piercing wails. Classic Rock (04/06, p.69)

Ranked #37 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...A chugging monster, derailed into a lengthy free-form ju-ju freak-out. Then 'The Lemon Song' reverts to straight-ahead blues-rock pastiche... Q (6/00, p.75)

Included in Q's "Best Metal Albums Of All Time Q (8/00, p.126)

...'Whole Lotta Love'...has to be the heaviest thing I've run across....The album ends with a far-out blues number called 'Bring It On Home', during which Rob contributes some very convincing moaning and harp-playing... Rolling Stone (12/13/69, p. 50)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Whole Lotta Love
  2. What Is and What Should Never Be
  3. The Lemon Song
  4. Thank You
  5. Heartbreaker
  6. Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
  7. Ramble On
  8. Moby Dick
  9. Bring It On Home
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