Led Zeppelin II

A great listen to start the day ! Loved it so 4*

Forceful, but not belligerent hard rock with a few sweet tunes to boot. At times grating due to Robert Plant ad libbing too damn much but, thankfully, everyone else is there to help ignore him when he does. Jimmy is at his sloppy, fantastic best (before heroin made it worse), Bonham could knock over buildings with the weight of his groove, and John Paul Jones is the one keeping everything together and nailing it every time. Basic parts put together well, and played effectively. It would have been something to experience when it first came out, as opposed to living in the world after it exists and too many people rehashing and treading on its desiccated remains. Favorite track is “What is and What Should Never Be”. Gotta love a track about LotR that isn’t being obvious about it.

I think it says a lot that I’ve heard all these songs more times than I can count, even though I don’t think I’ve ever listened to this record from front to back before now. The whole record gets radio play. A fairly radical white british take on black american blues, undeniably fundamental rock record. With this played-out classic, I gotta ask: is it really necessary to hear before you die? Every rock band for half a century has emulated it. Will it even resonate as innovative theft at all if you are just now hearing it for the first time? The Lemon Song is still ridiculous to me. What part of Lord of The Rings is this? Livin, lovin… its just a walrus. Ruined by car commercial. Moby Dick and Bring It On Home might be my favs at this time, still jam. The drums are fantastic throughout the record. Some of the vocals on the record are my least fav part. Obviously a 5 star record in rock circles, highly influential, but some of the thrill is lost on me from overexposure I guess.

Really liked this one.

I've got a whole lotta love for the Zep, but I think my fave from this album is Heartbreaker.

Yep, solid stuff. I don't like it as much as I and IV, but more, I think, than III. Actually I maybe need to re-listen to III, as I only gave it 3 stars, but that was right back at the start of this project when I was only listening to things once on average - I might have just been in a mood that day? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fave track - well, "Whole Lotta Love" is embedded pretty firmly in my childhood due to Top of the Pops, and then anyone that wanted to spoof TotP. "Thank You" is pretty darn awesome too...

Can’t knock a classic

Hard rock, lidt psyk, flere bangers, bare bundsolidt

T3B 1. Whole Lotta Love 2. Ramble On 3. Heartbreaker I mean, it’s Led. It’s a 4 or 5. Nothing else. Led II is a solid 4.

Great album, nuff said.

Ace.

I always love myself some early Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love, Moby Duck, and Ramble on are top tier in my opinion

i love led zeppelin. they're a really talented group of individuals, and come together as a unit very well. a good portion of these songs could and should be considered classics. BUT!!!! for everyone ounce of grief we give elvis for stealing rock and roll from Black people, we need to give led zeppelin the same grief. behind its guitar solos and slightly unsettling moans, whole lotta love is just willie dixon's "you need love," adapted from a muddy waters recording. now, due credit is given in the year 2022, but this album came out in 1969. do you think white people cared that they stole this track? absolutely not. so, as a result, they became idyllic rock gods because of their tasty licks and shredding voices and pounding drums (also john paul jones was there too) here's a list of songs on this album that were either ripped off from Black artists entirely or "inspired by" Black songwriters who were given a paltry writer's credit: whole lotta love the lemon song moby dick bring it on home that's 4 out of 9 songs. i dunno. this is an album that was truly legendary to me as a kid. my dad got the led out all the time, and i was always happy to hear it. these songs are great, they're just not theirs, and there's a hurtful history behind the music on a lot of these tracks, and the tracks that make led zeppelin the iconoclasts that they are. when they write their own music, they write about hobbits and shit, because they're actually nerds. if i were to look at it from a general talent lens, this album is insane. we all know that. led zeppelin is a group full of crazy talents, and they popularized the concept of blues rock for a white audience of dudes with really shitty haircuts, like my dad and his friends in akron, ohio. i owe a lot to bands like led zeppelin, because it made my dad who he is and in turn shaped me and my taste. there's a bittersweetness to this record, but you can't deny that it's damn good. also it's pretty funny that robert plant sings from a cuck's perspective on heartbreaker

LP

Lots of great songs by a great band.

86/100: First Led Zeppelin album of the project! Yay! Looks like the album generator is easing me into their works, thankfully. I’d hate to start with their best work, but none of their stuff is bad. Each and every Led Zeppelin album is an album that can be listened to over and over again, ad nauseam (but you’ll never get sick of it, so not really nauseam per se). This makes rating their albums exceedingly difficult, though. “Led Zeppelin IV,” for example, is a much better album than “Led Zeppelin II,” but when you’re discussing albums this good on a 1-100 scale, they’re both near the top of that scale, so it’s hard to really display the difference. Perhaps I should employ a logarithmic scale. Either way, this album is incredible. Like teaching a baby to swim by dropping them into a pool, this album mercilessly swings for the fences from the get go. “Whole Lotta Love” kicks things off by kicking you in the ass. This is followed by a much more laid back song, “What Is and What Should Never Be,” or so it seems. This song showcases one of my favorite aspects of Led Zeppelin. A “New Yorker” music critic once described Led Zeppelin’s sound as clash of velvet and energy. “What Is and What Should Never Be” is a velvet-y smooth song intermittently punched through by high octane energy. Or is it a high octane song intermittently pulling into velvet? I suppose both. It’s through this lens that I appreciate this album as a whole. The album itself proves the velvet/high-energy balance found within their songs to be a microcosm of the album as a whole. You have songs that are entirely velvet, like “Thank You,” songs that are an uncontrolled fire hydrant of diesel, like “Heartbreaker,” and then some songs that are both, like “What Is and What Should Never Be.” I feel like a whole section ought to be devoted to “Moby Dick.” John Bonham is the greatest drummer to ever live, and he absolutely kills this song, as he does every song on this and all their albums; however, this is one of those rare songs that is only good live. In fact, it stretches the definition of a “song” in that each live version was completely different than the last, and completely different than the studio version on this album. I love this song, but not because of how it sounds on this album. I love it for all of the versions that exist—for its fluidity, the spotlight it shines on the world’s greatest drummer, for its elusive freedom. Fantastic album, but not Led Zepellin’s best.

Vet hor!

Zeppelin stelt nooit teleur.

Pretty good

classic!

Awesome sound.

Blues and rock

Another good album from Led Zeppelin. A lot of songs that I have heard before. This is not as bluesy as Led Zeppelin III. The drum solo on Moby Dick did not need to be that long.

Great album. Love Zep

Musically amazing, but I can't stand Plants shrieky vocals. He sounds like he's in physical pain. I have to assume it's the pain of trying to keep up with amazing musicians.

Totally a good Album, a little to experimental in the end

One of their absolute best.

The longest I’ve sat on a record was for this right here. I wanted it to be the perfect album from one of the greatest bands of all time, but it’s not. The album varies in quality. Not every song is up to the standards set by the rest of the songs but to have an album that consistent would be nearly unattainable. This doesn’t mean the lows are low, it just means the highs are so high like holy fuuuuckkkkk😩😩😩. Every member of this band is so fucking good going back to listen to each individual member is such a rewarding task. Crazy melodic shredding with heavy blues influence and psychedelic overtones, Bonhams ridiculous drumming with his own solo track in the vein of rat salad, bass you can actually hear and have take the lead at times(going back some of the tracks it sounds like he’s soloing the entire time.) I can’t help but duck ride the musicianship in this band they’re so good. A gold standard for dad rock. Although imperfect this is a must listen no matter what because these guys have so many fun ideas and manage to all take the lead while working off each other perfect. Not listening to this would be a disservice, like you don’t already know a bunch of this shit lmaooo

I keep wanting to compare it to IV, which isn't fair because IV (or ZOSO or untitled or whatever we're officially calling it) is perfect from start to finish. This one opens with maybe Zep's greatest song ever, but then it meanders a bit. Do we really need that long drum solo on Moby Dick? We get it, Bonzo was an amazing drummer.

Ramble On & Bring It Home = Top Tier

fun, classic that is rock n roll. except for that middle earth shit, its bangin

Not the greatest Led Zeppelin but certainly not the worst. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Good but there wasn't anything that really stood out.

This is a quintessential Zepplin, full-throated and full of rage, sex and passion.

Such a classic

Classic

darkish bluesy psychedelic rock with some legendary tracks. somehow felt like the artists were messing with me during this one

Not quite as good as 1 or 4 but it's still a great one

Led Zeppelin évolue d'album en album. Ils ont des succès sur pratiquement tous leurs albums. Le premier album jette à terre par son énergie, sa production, sa pochette et l'authenticité des 4 membres. Ici on a une solidification du côté rock. C'est fou comment ces 4 musiciens se complètent bien. Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, Living Living Maid et Moby Dick sont des classiques à connaître absolument. Cet album a longtemps été mon préféré du groupe. Je l'aime un peu moins aujourd'hui, mais ça reste un incontournable.

Cool album. Guitar is really sick. Didn't really pay attention to lyrics, but sonically the album is dope. Fav songs are Whole Lotta Love, The Lemon Song, Heartbreaker (fav one), and Living Loving Maid.

Classic, I think I like III and IV more though.

The band has less of their incisive power on II than they do at their best, but the capital-S Sound on display is an instant attractor. There's musical breadth if not the amount of depth I was looking for based on IV. Lyrics take a backseat for the most part but everything about the mix suggests that is intentional.

Lots of great classics with a few duds.

great

An album years ahead of its time. What I particularly like about this album is that as a second release, LZ have yet to believe their own hype and descend into self indulgent track lengths. Probably my favourite LZ release and possibly the best entry point for the uninitiated

Some prime LZ here, Rob is in fine voice and there's a nice mix of styles and moods.

4.5 stars. Some massive tracks and a handful of less memorable ones.

great but not their best, imho

The Brown Bomber! I love Wikipedia's description of the three blues classics knockoffs here as "reinterpretations", which is both diplomatic and charitable... Sounds remarkably coherent considering its somewhat complicated making; what actually grabbed me on this revisit for some reason was Jones' bass, I listened to the 2014 remaster and the bass just jumped out in a way I don't recall it doing before. Fantastic stuff.

Chill Zeppelin

Do I have to have a Backdoor Man? If I could opt out of that, that would be preferable for me. Killer riffs but I generally find Led Zep a bit stressful.

It is a nice album for sure

Great fun - Bonham grooves and great songs - was a nice trip down memory lane.

Great album. Songs about Gollum

As much as Led Zeppelin gets on my nerves, it is impossible to deny the sheer power of these songs.

Another great led zeppelin album. Starting to become a fan! Love the guitars and the way they build up their songs. Favourite songs: - Whole lotta love - Ramble on

rock n roll!

Man that’s a good rhythm section.

Best Tracks: Whole Lotta Love Heartbreaker Ramble On Moby Dick

15th February 2022 Listened in the late morning while pottering about the flat. Lazy day, watched PSG Real in the evening. Laying down their bluesy, folksy and little glam rocky roots.

Many of my most-liked Zep songs are on this album. I wonder what it was like to get another fantastic album right after the first, which was also groundbreaking.

I'm ashamed for a few reasons: 1) I have never listened to this album in full, 2) I never realized I knew so many of these songs, 3) I want to live in the moment between "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid" forever, and finally, 4) I am now a fan of Led Zeppelin. Surprised to hear so much progressive rock in here!

Another album that I was already pretty familiar with, though it had been a while since I had heard it front to back! Led Zeppelin II has has some of my all-time favorite Led Zep tracks, while others on the album are "sometimes foods". That said, this is an album that I do enjoy listening to as one whole piece. This album is truly a pioneer among a few other late 60s trailblazers, building a foundation for a musical sound that would define an entire genre.

I now can safely say I enjoy Led Zeppelin and I think this album was solid. I think I still prefer 3 to this, but I respect this album quite a bit.

It's LZ II. If you haven't heard this yet you're either deaf or living somewhere with no music. It's a classic for a reason BUT it's not their best. I think it's lauded so much on the strength of a couple of songs. You know what they are. Best Tracks: Whole Lotta Love; Heartbreaker; Ramble On

Massive massive massive album. Had to put I, III and IV on straight after. Still iconic after all this time

These guys totally ripped off Greta Van Fleet!!!!!!

Gigantic

I've never listened to a led zeppelin album all the way through before and this is a good place to start. It's a lot more energetic than songs on led zeppelin 4 and it sounded like an ancestor to the black keys in a lot of ways. Fav: whole lotta love

Great rock album, contains some hits like "Whole Lotta Love" and "Heartbreaker" but some songs are forgettable.

big textured rock

It really rips. Minimal psychedelic jam band nonsense.

Saved Prior: Whole Lotta Love, Thank You Off Rip: Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman), Ramble On Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Still a little more blues for my buck than I typically ask for, but it's still pretty good and an improvement on I. III remains my favorite, but II slots into IInd of the III Led Zeppelin records I've listened to thus far. On to IV. Hail Caesar.

4/5 oooh nice :)

Very good band. This album is nice, songs like "Whole lotta love" or "Ramble on" are the best.

fye

Ahhh what can I say? Led Zep just rules. 4/5.

It's no IV, but then again, what is?

Revolutionary

Good album, I forgot what I was gonna write but I liked it Favorite Track: probably What Is And What Should Never Be

Classic

bluesiger als gedacht

Great drums

A strong classic rock and blues album. I've always felt that moby dick could have been one of their best songs if they just developed it a bit more rather than a big drum solo.

I can't relate this to anything really. Some tunes just hit (I think I am calling the 'tunes' incorrectly here).

Þessi negla! Elska þetta.

All in all a very good, very nice album.

Would be even better if Moby Dick lasted more than 20 mins

Quite very good, but just misses out on excellent

Quality although think I preferred III

Another 4.5 stars, better than LZIII

Yes

Incredible opener and although album doesn't live up to it, still an absolute classic.

So many good tracks, great vocals.

Every song slaps

egendary riffs (Whole Lotta Love ) and drum solos (Moby Dick). Simple and good. I love his voice and its sound. (7/10) Favourite Tracks: Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On

Great rock album that just slightly missed the 5* mark. Definitely revisit though🤘

Very strong album and lots to savour

Classic. TB naar kwijlende gitaristen op live aid. en het is niet de plant van de groep. Heerlijke riffs weer, mannen stonden aan de top maar drugs en alcohol took their toll. NU is het aan GVF. ik neem dit wel mee in mijn lijst, toedels

Very decent, echt van genoten

An all time classic rock album. Not necessarily Zeps best album but this one rocks hard and the solos show their talent. Not much wrong with this one. 8.6/10

8/10. Led Zeppelin all kind of blends together for me, but in a pretty positive way.

4 stars. Some aspects are a little overindulgent but still.....a rock and roll education

Fuck yeah. Eh overall it was good but didn't blow me away. 4 stars instead of 5.

Classic.

Amazing. Ofcourse.

Good listening, was traveling so I couldn’t read lyrics and didn’t rate each song. I enjoyed more than I thought I would

Great album. Solid, a couple of classics. Just short of being amazing.

More kickass rock and roll

Just good rock music all the way through.

Ramble on is best song. WLL is overrated. Not my favorite Zep album but solid for sure.

Classic is a work thrown around a lot when talking about Led Zeppelin. This album in a classic, from the classic rock genre by a classic band. not much else to say other than this album deserves most all of the praise it garners. some really good tunes here, and another one I'm glad I was made to listen to it.

Now you’re TALKING! Tremendous album! Proper bluesy rock! Just what you want when someone says “wanna listen to some Zeppelin?”

Blah

Good good rock, really my style. Not a song that dissapoints or becomes boring

Not entirely to my tastes, but an excellent album nonetheless.

I got into rock music just led zeppelin were being hyped as the greatest. But were they really? You bet. Lots of classic tracks here.

The classic hard rock sounds in this album are awesome! I enjoyed listening to this piece of music, but I wish there were more tracks on the album.

hell yes. this whole ass album is crackin'!

i was driving down 6th ave at night listening to this so issa vibe. would normally be a 3 but tonight it’s a 4 baby

Très clairement en avance sur son temps, les riffs sont formidables, mais globalement on se fout un peu de notre gueule à faire passer ça pour un des 15 meilleurs albums du site

Great album!! One of my favourite Zeppelin discs

Absolutely CLASSIC riffs. Whole Lotta Love is so iconic. Also some more bluesy sounding stuff which I liked. 4/5

the best zeppelin album.

Not much to add that 90% of the music listening population doesn’t already know. This is a solid album from an extremely solid/tight super band who were before their time. All the tracks are at least as good as any others from Zeppelins releases...and that’s saying something. 4 Stars!

That Led Zeppelin sound 👍

I’d give a 5 to JUST the Moby Dick drum solo. I’m not going to squeeze this lemon until the juice runs down my leg, the album is great. All songs are good. String rifs, great technique, etc. something tells me Robert Plant was cheated on during the recording of this album. It’s a 5.

On connait tous Les Zeppelin, Mais écouter 9 tounes de suite, pas pareil. J’aime les pauses relax dans les tounes, les instruments sont souvent plus importants que la voix du chanteur.

4 i guessss but really i'd give it a 3.

I understand that drugs were used heavily during this time frame. Long solos and lots of screaming. 7 out of 10

This is not my all time favorite Zeppelin album, but the sound here gets under my skin and into my bones. I found myself dancing and singing along even though I don't really know all the words. Caught for the first time the references to Mordor and Gollum in Ramble On.

I guess I get it

Have always enjoyed the odd lep Zep album without ever getting into them fully and never really understood the legend. Liked all of this without ever really loving any of it. 3 or 4/5 not decided yet.

Lekker rocken

Casi heavy metal

Pensei que seria 5 estrelas mas só 4 mesmo, ai ai acabou minha fase rockista mesmo

The art of subtly being unsubtle... fantastic album

It has some of their best songs but it's not perfect. The last two tracks are not ones I could ever want to listen to. The weird garbled vocals on the last track and the long drawn up drum jam are just not interesting. It's sad because with some different tracks in place there this could've been a perfect album.

Classic

Like Queen but worse. Gets better towards the end.

4

Zeppelin is always a win. Not as good as III or IV but still good.

Me puso de buenas el disco, muy rockero, la voz de Robert Plant siempre se me ha hecho que estaba destinada para hacer rock (?). Además hay arreglos muy padres, algunos que Jack White se ha robado yo digo, o no, pero de repente me lo recordó. El rolón es "Ramble On" y "Moby Dick" no se queda atrás. Bonus: descubrí que Led Zeppelin le robó (jajaja) a Ale Guzmán unos riffs y demás con "Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)". Cfr. "Dame un martillo" (1991) de Alejandra Guzmán. 9/10

hehe - 4

Nostalgic. Great classic rock!

Great. A little overrated in Led Zeppelin's catalogue. 4th/5th best LZ album. Riffy. 8-9/10 1. Heartbreaker 2. Living Loving Maid 3. Ramble On

Good album, the whole album is a nice chill vibe with some fun spots of jamming out.

A classic that still rocks. Always enjoyable to revisit.

Great album by one of my favorite bands. I do prefer some of their later work that had a bit more nuance and mixed the hard with the soft, but this is still great especially putting it context of the time. Really one of the first great heavy metal albums. 4 stars.

very good

Freaking awesome Like 2 songs are too slow though

Pleasantly surprised by this, I thought there were some really good jams. Favorites are probably "Whole Lotta Love" "Lemon Song" and "Moby Dick". And "Ramble On." Hard to decide on favorites here, mark of a good album.

Led Zeppelin takes me back to being a Freshman in HS. I had the phase of wearing the black t-shirts with the logos/album art on them. When Led Zeppelin is good, they are very good. When they are not good, it is almost bad to me. Many good songs on this album, but some duds as well.

Strongly suggest the Deluxe Edition as it has a lot of rough cuts, backing tracks, and other behind the scenes. That rough mix of Heartbreaker... hnnng

Classic album. If you're driving in your car and Living Loving Maid comes on and you DON'T crank it to the edge of blowing your speakers, I'm not sure you're human. Great songs throughout!!

I’ve only heard this album once, more than 30 years ago. Considering I could clearly remember parts of a couple songs having never heard them since, I’d say it left quite the impression. What a fun, testosterone-filled trip.

Another album I barely need to actually listen to, since I've been playing it pretty routinely since my teens. And frankly still thinking rocks pretty hard.

I used to not really appreciate Led Zeppelin. Perhaps it was them being overplayed on classic rock radio that turned me off. But after some friends of mine had me focus more on the rhythm section of Bonham and Jones I developed a taste for their sound. I do think it is Bonham and Jones who are the real power behind their heaviness. Their first two albums from 69 are definitely my favorites. Amazing to hear this album was recorded essentially on the fly at various studios while on the road. Listened to the deluxe edition. Ramble On might be my favorite track for the bass line, second favorite is What Is... (Also for the bassline). I feel like the demoey sounding intro to Bring it on Home kinda makes the album lose its momentum right at the end.

Good

Good overall, but busy. Prefer more tracks you can sing along with.

A good Led zep album, but not a great one.

Arhmen det dejligt

Honestly this is my least favourite of the early great Zeppelin records. Still an amazing record, though.

Really the only thing holding this album back from the likes of Physical Graffiti and LZIV is a comparative lack of ambition, but the classics on here are still primo classics.

A mes yeux, meilleur que Led Zeppelin III.

Way better than I expected

Holder seg godt.

Heard many of these songs before. Great energy in them. What's interesting is that they're also quite complicated in their instrumentation too. It's not "normal" payoff rock. It tells you it's going one way and then goes another. Pretty rad. Every song is good. Great background music too.

So, so good man.

Such a class, Tracks 1, 4, and 7 and my jams.

i like the album but it doesn't feel spectacular, and I've heard most of it before.

Think it's fair to say classic rock radio has burned a good majority of this record into my brain. It's still tasty, and the production on this remaster I'm listening to is fantastic, especially the bass. Favorite tracks: "Bring It on Home", "Ramble On"

1969. Key Songs: Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On, What is Said and Should Never Be

3/24 More bluesy than I liked, but overall a damn great album. Standout Tracks: Whole Lotta Love, The Lemon Song, Thank You, Ramble On

Stone wall classic! Hits the spot every time.... almost like a greatest hits.

Dia 04 de 1001 albumes Claramente hay calidad y conocimiento de lo que se hace, suena bien, pero supongo que no es nada novedoso... No se que repercusión tuvo en la época y como era el panorama actual. Intuyo que sea un gran influyente para el rock y blues surgidos años posteriores. La cancion de Moby Dick debo decir que me parece increible. Quizás este album de momento no sea para mí...

Kevin: enjoyed it but it's kind of crass and dated Jamie: definitely biased because I consider this "dad music" but it was alright

Definitely not their best album but not the worst

love

Objectively good methinks. Could learn to love it if I listened a couple more times, but ultimately too heavy rah rah Harley Davidson Hulk Hogan stache for me rn. 3 1/2 stars asf

3.5

Bra album, men tycker dom har bättre. 7.5/10

A good listen overall but nothing to go back to for my liking

Familiar

Maybe I'll revisit that one at a later point but I doubt it. I find the most experimental and progressive bits more miss than hit. I thought I would enjoy this album more.

not bad, not really my thing but enjoyable nontheless. clearly made to be listened to as loud as possible

yeahhhh groovy

Baby's first time listening to a led Zeppelin album, not the kind of music I normally listen to and more bluesy than I thought it would be, moby dick spoke to me though, they're doing interesting things with noises, need to relisten Likelihood that the members were lezzing out imo: 2/5 I had to look up led Zeppelin kissing on Google to do some research and found a few pics but I don't think that was as much their thing

this and zeppelin iv were in the first stack of albums my mom gave me when i was a kid rock music just isn’t as horny as it used to be. i love the absolute grime all over this record favs: what is and what never should be, bring it on home, heartbreaker solo honorable mention: lemon song there should be way more songs about handjobs the only other one i can think of is caress me down by sublime

Never been a Zepp fan. Never hated them, but never, ever thought "I could listen to some Zepplin now". I already got III in this list. On that album, Since I've Been Loving You has long been a favourite and the only real Zepp song I genuinely enjoy. I preferred II to III, but it also don't have Since I've Been Loving You, so it gets the same rating in the end. I will say that JPJ really stands out on a lot of these songs. I can see why some people evaluate him as the best musician in what is a pretty generational lineup.

hmmmmmm not my favorite from Led Zepplin. favorite: Ramble On

Ok ramble on and whole lot of love are the same song sorry

First few songs are really solid, but the rest doesn't hit as hard for me, I especially don't get all the hype around Moby Dick. Highlights-Whole Lotta Love, What Is and What Should Never Be, The Lemon Song, and Heartbreaker.

Another album with a lot of big songs, probably second favourite zep album. Ramble On is one of my favourite bass lines of all time, and a great song. Moby Dick is one of the best drum solo songs of all time and a fantastic groove. Whole Lotta Love is an amazing riff. Robert Plant is also there. There’s a few mid songs, drags a bit sometimes. 3.5/5.0 Best Song: Ramble On

Simply had too many Led Zep albums recently. This is definitely their most Dad rock album for sure, which i don't necessarily think is a bad thing, because i think its one of their best. Moby Dick is such a massive track

Good album. Highlights were Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, and Ramble on. Guitar solo on Heartbreaker was a little clunky in a good way. Overall 5/10

Unmistakably Zeppelin.

A pencil must be led

Sacriligious, perhaps, but this is a three-stars for me. There's flashes of classic brilliance in the setlist - Heartbreaker, Ramble On - but all that flashy playing doesn't grok with me the way it must be for other people. The more self-indulgent highs are high in the sky (like a zeppelin, ha) but then there's something like Moby Dick. I dunno. I prefer Lep Zep 1, despite the sound feeling more evolved here. Fav Tracks: Heartbreaker, Ramble On

Decent album with more to offer than just Whole Lotta Love. Great vocals and guitar work.

It's a Led Zeppelin album

Overall pretty good but the heartbreaker to ramble on trio is fantastic. Otherwise ok … never been a big fan / think they were massively overplayed when I was growing up

A little too psychodelic for me but some great Bonham drums and Page guitar throughout

Again, Plant's vocals tend to be grating after a few songs. The music itself is fantastic. Sometimes I wonder what they would sound like with a more reeled in singer ...

Not nearly as good as IV.

So Led Zeppelin has really good players. Jimmy Page is a great guitar player but he decided to take from blues players and use it in his songs as his own without giving proper credit. With all his talent he didn’t need to do it that’s the sad thing. The lyrics are misogynistic and just terrible. Robert Plant wrote sang some of the worst lyrics but hey it’s a classic album. I can enjoy the music but it’s also terrible at the same time. I understand why it’s here but it’s not for me.

weird album but has some high points

Dependable guitar riffs and rhythms with just about the right level of passion and tone. Enjoyable listen.

Another album I listened to a million times. I think it'd be a natural four or five. It's been a bit since I heard it in full, and I have to say it did not grab me the same way it once did. I base these ratings on how I felt this moment when I heard it.

There are a lot of cool things happening in this album that unfortunately get bogged down anytime there is space in the song for Robert Plant to sing. This is not really because I find him to be a particularly bad singer. But, the trend this album follows is to become far less musically interesting during the verses. When our guitarists (bass, rhythm, and lead) get the opportunity to ball out, the songs sound fucking fantastic but the energy tends to die rather than evolve. “Thank You” is a good example of this, everything just stops when it’s Plant’s turn to sing, it’s sucks. Also, some of his scatting is straight up dookie ass. To give some compliments before another stretch of discontent, the bass player on this album is a fucking monster. Eeeeeevery single bass line is the most interesting part of the song. I am one of the sinful many that does not focus on bass most of the time, it has been extremely fun to switch up my habits with this album. Okay one more thing, then I’m gonna go back to being salty and parts of this album that suck. “Ramble On” is an all timer. It is easily Plant’s best performance on the album and the proof that the band and him learn to play around each other better in the future. The baseline is fucking beautiful and I meaaaaan, guys, he’s singing about gollum, cmon, that’s great. Alright, back to my hater era. The drummer, while not offensively bad, is super fucking boring. “Moby Dick” is seriously one of the most sauceless drum solos I’ve heard. It starts off well, but the second he stops keeping time with the high hat it loses its swag. Bro sounds like he’s going for a west African drum beat without having the beauty of a drum ensemble that would usually accompany such an improvisation. It is such a mfing tragedy that the instrument that most controls the energy of a song is so often sleepier than everyone else on the song. Give me a good drum fill during the climax of a song, please!!! I’m BEGGING you. 3.5/5 This album is deeply conflicting, every one with a stringed instrument is carrying the fuck out of it.

Not a big fan of, but not a bad album

It was led zeppelin

That’s sure Zeppelin!

Classic, not their best but worth the hype. Standouts are Whole Lotta Love, Lemon Song and Heartbreaker. Also Jeff Buckley sang Whole Lotta Love as he walked to his end, sad little fun fact.

6/10. Un disco de Led Zeppelin, no hay mucho más que agregar. Un sonido muy reconocible, con esas guitarras cebadas. Tiene algunos temas muy buenos, pero en lo demás no destaca.

Stark 3a

Im not a huge Zeppelin guy to be fair but this just might be my favorite one so far. And what's especially crazy about that is i was certain in the first few songs it would be my least favorite. Whole Lotta love is a song i know but it has this weird directionless section in the middle. And that rubbed me the wrong way. The lemon song is also one in the memory banks vut its just gross. Not into it at all lyrically speaking. But once we hit heartbreaker its all uphill. Living loving maid is a good one. And ramble on is a classic. Its just good for half of the runtime. Pretty inconsistent but still a good one all yhe same. I can ignore the things I dont like pretty easy.

See album omas mõnda klassikat, aga üldiselt jäi see taustamuusikaks, mis mind eriti kuulama ei tõmmanud.

bands like these always throw me off because nowadays if this music came out it would be considered like, alt-rock or borderline pop-rock. but this is?? apparently "hard rock"? sir this is pop music

This Zed Leppelin was alright

I listened to it twice and don't really remember much one way or the other. So it was a fine album, but not one that really caught my attention.

5/5 musicianship combined with overindulgent song arrangements have always made Led Zeppelin a little less enjoyable than the sum of their parts for me and this album is in keeping with that. 3.5/5

Qualidade musical muito bom, mas achei meio parecida as músicas. Não fez muito meu estilo não

Whole lotta love is a great song, but less bothered by the rest of the album.

(4/7) could be worse

Whole Lotta Love is one of the greatest album openers of all time, but the rest doesn't live up to that track. I feel like all the things people criticize Zeppelin of can be found on this album (like 1:1 ripoffs of black musicians, LOtR fandom and impromptu sex squeaks). This was probs the Zeppelin album I was least looking forward to.

I hope this is the last of the Led Zep albums on the list, I don't hate them but no band should have more than 2 albums on this list, especially when they all sound the fucking same.

Alright, starting off with Led Zeppelin. This is a solid album, couple of classics on it. 3/5

not goin in my playlists

Solid album, Thank You was the highlight. I've never listened to Led Zeppelin in the past beyond Stairway to Heaven so this was a pleasant moment of discovery. Many fantastic riffs but also a few dissonant chromatic moments which to me felt jarring and didn't sit right with my taste.

Its a classic! but I dont listen to it often

This was fine. Nothing really standing out for me or feeling that impactful

3,8/5

- More pedos/SAers. - I like this one a lot more than III. - It starts out great with the first two hits (I really only like their hits). The other ones don't interest me as much - I just get tired of their sound pretty quickly. I also like Ramble On. - Really great bass throughout and some nice guitar riffs, but again, I get tired of them fast. - No thanks to a drum solo song. - I just can't listen to pedos sing about "love" or say "baby" (for obvious reasons).

Good! my favorite was ramble on or living loving maid

Good but not their best

Driving, raw rock. Heavy guitar solos.

They were the template for hard rock, an essential album, but not one that I need to go back to

+1 star more than this deserves because of Whole Lotta Love. But baby, baby, baby, baby, oh noooo is right

It is very appropriate that the first track of the first album allocated to me in this project is the song that Top of the Pops used as its theme tune for the top 10 countdown. Overall the album has the feel of a polished live performance or jam session. Makes full use of the possibilities of Stereo, with many tracks sweeping wildly widely to and fro. "Thank You" was the standout song on this for me - lovely and melodic!

Doesn't feel as iconic as their first album and was hoping for a breakout. May require further listening. I lament not being able to give half scores.

Kind of meh. There isn't much going, and "The Lemon Song" is... yeah. Very odd lyrics to most of the songs in the album.

Wednesday June 3rd, 2026. This album has some really good guitar parts - I love the bass. The lyrics didn't really resonate with me, but they are unique and interesting. 7/10

I enjoyed. Moby Dick was a really annoying song, the random banging on a drum at the end just pmo, otherwise had quite a good feel to the whole album. 3.5/5

For me, this one is far less immediately effective than IV, and honestly not as strong as the debut or Physical Graffiti. To each their own. It’s still a good album, with plenty of great moments.

Never been of a huge fan of led zeppelin for some reason. On paper I should love them and I tried to like them. An old rock and roll band with some of the most respected and talented musicien ever. I absolutely get where the praise is comming from and trust me, I would love to like them. I always tought Plant voice was annoying and sounded stupid. That paired with the cheesy lyrics doesnt help. Average led zeppelin song: OoooOOOOooOoohhh baby baby baby I love yoooou *worst guitar solo ever* That said they have amazing songs. "Heartbreaker" is a fucking banger. But overall theyrs too much crap man...Not just on this album, on all of their discography. And im sorry but Jimmy page is such an overrated guitarist. Hes just spamming random blues licks all the time. I dont find him interesting at all. He also did made great stuff, like the "Stairway to heaven" solo wich is obviously really good. Wanna whole lotta mid/5

Look, Zeppelin are great, is this their greatest album, no, are there some great songs on this, without a doubt. Should you listen to it, most definite

Just not a big Zeppelin fan

Just not my fave

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Heartbreaker

At last I enjoyed a Led album, listening to the 1001 albums has brought me into the “Blues rock” side of Zeppelin- read about John Bonnin yesterday, very sad at 32, then the band disbanding in respect🙌

Someone, release the nipples of the vocalist

done

The received wisdom about Led Zeppelin is true: they shamelessly ripped off black musicians, they're all creeps, and about 75% of their songs are just Robert Plant repeating "baby baby baby baby..." over indulgent drum fills and guitar solos. I did kinda like this album though...

seggs out of 10

I'm not a fan of Led Zeppelin. It feels like a very long 40 minutes. 2.5

Aye grand

Couple of great ones but not as good as IV 3.5

Not their best one but a decent listen

Idk

fine

C'est pas excellent Mais c'est pas mauvais C'est pas trop long Et c'est pas trop court C'est pas hyper original par rapport au premier Mais c'est pas non plus maintenant stream C'est pas mon groupe préféré Mais je ne les déteste pas non plus C'est pas hyper varié Sans être trop répétitif C'est pas un 1 C'est pas un 5 non plus C'est un 3

Mag vielleicht ein wichtiges Album sein, trifft aber nicht meinen persönlichen Geschmack.

5/10

Mid

Song one started great ... then just became them futzing around for a few minutes .. then returned to good.

I like Zeppelin in small doses. When they hit, they hit well, but there's a lot of misses that just annoy me. Whole Lotta Love is still a banger. And I've pretty sure I've heard the riff from Heartbreaker in a movie before. I guess this album is just average to me. so a 3

My loyal readership knows two things: The fact that I hate white guy blues, and the fact they they in fact, do not exist. Now what that legion of imaginary readers may not know, is that blues INFLUENCE, is actually pretty great. We're not trying to be Muddy Waters or Lightnin' Hopkins, but you can hear that they might have had a small part to paly in the formation of this music. The bizarre order in which I have now listened to these albums (III, IV, II) and without the reference point of the first Led Zeppelin record, has made it difficult to see the progression. This release feels more psychedelic, and when it picks up steam, it really rocks. If you try to imagine what it would be like to have heard this in 1969, it will blow your fuckin' mind. Heartbreaker in 1969??? Fuck. That's two swears. I get one more. uhhh PISS! I got nothing else. I rue the passage of time, as it dilutes even the most potent of expression. Led Zeppelin II hits these ears as dated, but behind the faded façade, you can see pieces of the once revolutionary tapestry that was put to tape here. 3.5 HIGHLIGHTS: You guys wanna go to the amusement park? Yeah they've got this American civil war photo thing, I was thinking it could be our album cover.

Led Zeppelin IV is amazing, but this didn't land for me. First track aside, proper banger, the rest was on the mellow side (Moby Dick was good though). Nice riffs, some jams, the drums are certainly noteworthy. I was a bit disappointed.

Very good

Classic!

You can hear how tight this band already is. 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘐 sounds confident and direct, built around big riffs and strong performances, but the heavy blues influence starts to feel a bit limiting after a while. It hits hard at first, then settles into a pattern that doesn’t change much. There are clear highlights — 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 stands out immediately, and there are stretches where everything just clicks. But in between, it leans a lot on the same ideas, which starts to feel repetitive after a while. Nothing here is badly done — the playing is great throughout — but I don’t find myself that engaged over a full listen. It’s solid, just not something I’d come back to often.

Great songs but not a complete listening.

I liked I better.

Look, I went through a huge Led Zeppelin fan girl phase in high school, and I do still love them, but listening to this a fully grown adult I’m kind of over a lot of it. Zeppelin III and IV will always be my favorites and this one just isn’t holding up to me. I will probably always prefer Zeppelin’s quieter and nerdier LOTR themed songs. I still love Ramble On and Thank You. But my patience for their cockier, ripped off from Southern blues songs has worn thin. Lemon Song sounds particularly ridiculous to me these days. Three stars for the nostalgia, but probably more accurately a 2.5

Some good songs, but overall they were pretty repetitive

pretty good, some of the lyrics made me uncomfortable

me gustó bastante, tiene 2 canciones que reconoci

I can’t imagine what ‘Whole Lotta Love’ would be like performed live. There is just a whole lotta shouting, loud instruments, and pauses???

Solid album, but lowkey every song kinda sounds the same.

Buen album

I appreciate them of course but have never been a fan

I dunno, this is just more led zepplin. I think their middle era stuff is better but there's some cool bluesy rock here too and everyone in the band is just so fucking sick at that

Unfortunately, as good as the good songs on this record are, I think the level of absolute stinkers on it bring it down from a 4 to a 3.

bueno

very rocky

Pretty good but a bit indulgent in parts

Not a fan of the vocals on this album but musically it was reasonably interesting and had some decent riffs. Lyrics were pretty naff... Very little of it was new to me, and the bits that were weren't all that good, like Moby Dick which was... dull.

Generally good. Moby Dick stood out to me as a bad song because who likes long drum solos...? I mean probably some people I'm just a solo hater. Led Zeppelin were clearly ahead of their time but coming in as a new listener nothing here is that impressive Mid 3

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It’s Led Zeppelin. It has 2 outstanding songs. You all know them and can probably sing them. There are 5 mid-tier tracks. They are likable enough. They definitely sound like Led Zeppelin. Everything about these tracks screams average. They are songs designed to fill out the record. Then there are 2 songs that are just shitty. In fact, so shitty, they offset all of the good will produced by the 2 classic tracks. So, I’m transparent, the 2 shitty songs on this record are easily identifiable: The Lemon Song and Moby Dick with its interminable fucking drum fucking solo. So, it’s not a great record. It’s good and 2 tracks too long. 3/5

Some great songs on here, just not sure it develops much from Led Zep I. Still, it's hard to argue with a band that wrote the TOTP theme tune but never released a single! 3 - deserves to be on this list

Felt less significant and more freewheeling than the other Zeppelin album on here

Unlike what most music fans probably think, I find *Led Zeppelin II* to be the band’s most boring and weakest album. Too much blues, too much posing, too many swaggering guitar solos and “every inch of my love”. Yes, I know, that’s what many people love about rock ’n’ roll, but it’s also exactly what bores me out of my mind. Fortunately, the band has made far better albums. Highlights: Ramble on, Thank you.

It was ok.

I tried for years, but the truth is that I don't really enjoy Led Zeppelin. All the ingredients are there (the absolutely godlike rhythm section in particular), but they just never clicked for me, right from their debut and all the way to Physical Graffiti, so I've definitely given them a fair shake. I really dislike Robert Plant, so it could be down to that. There are a couple of tracks here I really dislike and it's mostly down to him. I do have to point out that this album is probably my personal favourite out of all of them, but I have to revisit the rest because it's been a while. Favourite track - The Lemon Song

It sounds like the music they put in American movies when the lead role is waking up and doing his morning routine. It sounds decent but it’s not something I’d genuinely listen to, unless, you know, if i’m trying to imagine that i’m a lead role in an American movie!