Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Popular Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 21-JUN-1994
Amazon.com essential recording: Riff rock had been what Jimmy Page's former band, the Yardbirds, were all about, and on Led Zeppelin's second album, released, like its predecessor, in 1969, the inventive guitarist demonstrated that he'd indeed learned his lessons well. Witness "Whole Lotta Love," a woozy epic based on one simple, head-banging-friendly guitar riff. Or the mock-dramatic "Heartbreaker," propelled by far more intricate but similarly effective note squashing. Between Page's sonic wizardry, John Bonham beating his drums into submission ("Moby Dick"), and the juice running down Robert Plant's leg ("The Lemon Song"), Led Zeppelin here just about succeeded in raising rock & roll excess to an art form. --Billy Altman
Amazon.com: Led Zeppelin II is an album of Jimmy Page riffs so huge, and John Paul Jones/John Bonham rhythms so deep, that the heavy metal genre this classic helped create has tried for decades to catch up, mostly without success. And no wonder: since II catches the band before they'd headed too far into their ridiculous medieval fancies, this might be as good as Zep would ever be. Regardless, the thunderous "Whole Lotta Love," a Top 5 hit, and "Bring It on Home" are very nearly as fierce and twisted as British white blues would ever get. --David Cantwell
Binding: Audio CD Brand: LED ZEPPELIN EAN: 0075678263323 Format: Original recording remastered Item Dimensions:20 Label: Atlantic / Wea Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea MPN: 075678263323 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic / Wea Release Date: June 21, 1994 Studio: Atlantic / Wea
Customer Reviews
Great Album -Disappointed by Low Fidelity
Beware if you get an IMPORT from Industria Argentina you will be very disappointed. I have enoyed The Zepplin for forty years, THIS is not what the LP was like. It is hard to believe this was remastered, it is far worse than the original. I sounds like a bad pirarted copy.