Led Zeppelin II

Four nonces dry hump their instruments for 40 minutes. Some good guitar solos.

Kind of underwhelming

6/10 - it was alright. I didn’t love it but some of the songs I had heard before and were decent. Ramble on is pretty good and whole lotta love is alright but the middle was strange.

It’s fine but I expected a lot more from one of the highest rated albums on the site

I really like Led Zeppelin and the thing is that although pretty much all of their songs are nice, the majority are pretty meh, especially compared to the really great several hits that they have. There is one song that is really good in this album, and also 2-3 ones that are half good, and because I am rating this whole album, I have to give it a mid rating, unlike this one Led Zeppeling album that I rated, which had a few really good songs.

I've heard that this album was heavily influential, and several of the songs hold up well 50+ years later. As an entire album, I don't find it very cohesive. The remaster makes me wish it was recorded better. One particularly bright point was "Bring it on Home" at the end; a track I hadn't heard before but loved.

Liked it but didn’t really listen properly as Russ was here and we were chatting. I have times when I love them and times when I can’t be bothered with them

*puts album on* ... "hmm, I'm beginning to think he's not actually talking about love" *gets to 'lemon song'* ... "😐" I liked it more than Physical Graffiti but less than Led Zeppelin IV

This was more boring than I was expecting based on the tracklist. I like "Ramble On", but other than that, nothing really stood out.

i mean, i'm never gonna argue with the RNG giving us led zeppelin. even mid led zeppelin is neutral listening for me.

Horny white British nerds pretending to be black American blues musicians. As a white nerd I'm not completely turned off of led Zeppelin generally, but this album kinda rubs me the wrong way. I think it's just too much led Zeppelin.

Sure

A few goodies, a few boring moments. Nothing that really blew me away.

Not as iconic as other Led Zeppelin albums, but still one or two bangers

Led Zeppelin II: A Solid but Uneven Effort Led Zeppelin II is a cornerstone of classic rock, but this album showcases a band still finding its footing. Tracks like "Whole Lotta Love" and "Heartbreaker" are undeniable anthems, raw and powerful. However, the album's consistency falters, with some tracks feeling filler-like. While it’s a must-listen for any rock fan, Zeppelin's later work would surpass this album in terms of overall cohesion and brilliance.

Well made album, just for whatever reason not really my thing. Feels like too much chanting instead of actual music

It's definitely Led Zeppelin but not my favorite Led Zeppelin.

enjoyed but sometimes forgot i was listening

Potentiale men vil gerne høre ddt igen

Too bluesy. They stole too much. Whole Lotta Love is damn catchy though.

I enjoyed the melodic vocal fry of Robert Plant and the instrumental rather than lyric emphasis. I can very much appreciate the place at the beginnings of heavy metal that this album claims. Also was nice to hear the obligatory all drums track somewhere in the middle of the album. Reminded me a lot of BS's Rat Salad. Overall I won't listen to this again but won't rate it too low because i dislike it for reasons relating particularly to personal taste.

Everybody was clearly high AF in the 60’s.

Obra prima do rock

This is probably a 3.5. 4’s and5’s LZ albums coming soon.

Musically good and legendary although not quite to my taste

This band is really all you need from this era of rock

I went into this wanting to give it at least a 4/5 purely for Led Zep’s influence & reputation, but by the end I wasn't feeling it, it's been downgraded to a 3. Yes, Whole Lotta Love is one of the all-time greatest rock songs, and there are a few other bangers like Heartbreaker and Ramble On, but as a collection it didn't draw me in as much as I thought it would.

Highlights: Heartbreaker, Ramble On, Moby Dick In a nutshell: the rush album. It was a fast record (the band were surprised by the sales of the previous album) but it feels more structured and lyrically mature to the first self titled album. Overall: 6/10

this cover art sucks and this cheese makes me queasy

I actually liked this one more than I thought I would, but it's still 3 stars.

this more enjoyable than the other led zep I've listened to from this list, but still nothing stellar. just more overrated, dusty, dry dad rock made by cultural appropriators with a penchant for underage girls. i knew whole lotta love going into this, but none of the other tracks. found a few other decent ones, especially the lord of the rings-inspired ramble on. the rest ranged from mid (thank you) to masturbatory (moby dick) to downright unsavory (the lemon song). i really don't need to hear ol' bobby plant demanding a woman squeeze his lemon until the juice runs down his leg. favorites: whole lotta love, heartbreaker, living loving maid, ramble on

Whole Lotta Love+++ Heartbreaker++ Ramble On+ The lemon song+ Je trouve les autres morceaux moins intéressants.

just kind of bland classic rock

I listened on CD as I own this album, and... well. The only song I'll put it on for again is Ramble On. Blues Metal Cock Rock wankery, that one. Oh god, so much wankery. Oh, and fucking. The fucking.

It's pretty good. I found it easy to get distracted while listening to it. I'd take IV over it.

Much bluesier than my impression of Led Zeppelin. Enjoyed this, but didn't have any of their classic all-time singles.

While this isn't my cup of tea, I can see how it was revolutionary. What a mix of all genres. I sometimes felt like I was at a church revival. The big guitar riffs and drums are spot-on, coupled with the repeated "hey" and "baby" lyrics of "The Lemon Song" for example. Reading their sexiest history, yikes!

Pretty standard classic rock album. I enjoyed the guitar riffs, however the mix however was a bit rough on the ears at some parts. It kinda felt like I was listening to the same song over and over again without any real standouts so the album did get a little tiring after a while. Loved that weird ass drum solo near the end of Moby Dick though 5/10

Listening to this again, it’s pretty clear that Spinal Tap really wasn’t all that much of a parody. When the opening track bangs on about being a ‘back door man’ giving every inch of his love there isn’t really any doubt about what he’s singing about. We also get a folky song about Gollum making off with the hero’s girlfriend in Mordor which I don’t remember from the books. Oh, and let’s not talk about the drum solo. The remastered version sounds good though

Great album, but to my ears it's become over played. I honestly prefer Zeppelin I or III.

Not bad for a record I totally underestimated.

Liked but didnt love

I know friends are going to hate me for this, but...meh.

These guys keep surprising me with a much softer aesthetic than I expect from their hits. All pretty good.

Some of the rough cuts were preferable to the album cuts. I can't get past some of the lyrics and noodling, but the bass is ten stars.

A mixed bag. Some great stuff (WLL), and some some well executed but otherwise run of the mill blues (Lemon Song)

On one hand Led Zeppelin is a competent blues rock band singing about sex with crunchy guitar riffs. On the other hand, they're myth and fantasy lyrics with English folk. When the latter is mixed with the former the band has originality, without it they are quite overrated. This album is Led Zeppelin still firmly entrenched in their blues side. For the white audience of the time, and probably much of the audience now, such a competent rendition of the former probably blew away many. As someone who loves the blues, I find the band good but a little too smug and lacking heart. If you want deeper expression the likes of Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bukka White, and many other classic blues artists are better choices. This band follows in the footsteps of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, where a masculine posturing and attitude is front and center, throwing other emotions away in the process. Their music is higher production than Wolf, but when he goes long and indulgent he is genuine. For an example listen to Wolf's Tell Me What I've Done live at Cambridge Ma. 1966. It's on YouTube at the time of this post. What separates Zeppelin from the blues classics is their rough rock sound that crunches along thickly and the band's flashiness mixed with their solidly structured music. It is sure to attract people more attuned to rock due to the 'heavy' sound of its time, but it isn't as mind-blowing to blues lovers because while musically competent, it lacks a certain emotional oomph next to the greats of the genre they take from. The small peeks into their fantasy side in the track Ramble On is therefore the highlight for me.

it's not too bad, not my favourite zeppelin album. aside from whole lotta love and heartbreaker it feels a bit ehh

Their weakest effort, excepting Coda. It was put together hurriedly, while touring, and it sounds it. There are high points ("Whole Lotta Love," "The Lemon Song"), and part of the problem is that it suffers by comparison with their rip-roaring debut. But on its own merits it's just not all there.

Like this, but don't love this. This is gonna sound sacrilege - I feel like the guitar is "too much" on this album. Instead of adding to the music or complimenting the vocals, at times it's competing at the same time. A little too "noodle-y" for me. There are a couple songs that have these goofy solo parts that just take me out of it completely.

favorite: heartbreaker least favorite: moby dick

Nostalgia pull was there for this one. After hearing it again, I don't know if I'd ever return to it in full. "Heartbreaker" remains the repository of sloppy Jimmy Page guitar playing. But man, what a rhythm section.

Il y a quelque chose d'alternatif et d'intéressant chez Led Zeppelin que je devrais creuser. 3,5

Whole lotta love slaps of course and the whole album is nice. But…. No other track wowed me.

Unobjectionable!

The guitars on this album are so good I'm literally obsessed with them, the vocals alone knock it down to a 3 though

I’ve had a few Led Zeppelin albums generated now. So far, I’ve generally enjoyed them but haven’t really been blown away by them. Perhaps they’re a band where you had to be there at the time to really appreciate them, although I once thought that about The Beatles and I love them now… Songs I already knew: Whole Lotta Love Favourites: Whole Lotta Love This felt pretty much in line with the other albums I’ve heard. I enjoyed it, but I don’t think it will stick with me. I can’t really see myself seeking out this album again. The guitars are catchy and the vocals unique, but it just didn’t really catch me for whatever reason.

2.5 - I'd say this one is more consistently good than the first album, but there was nothing that grabbed me like the best tracks on Led Zeppelin I. Even those good songs are a bit long... I don't think Led Zeppelin will ever fully click for me, but I like some of their songs. While a couple songs on this album were better than the rest of the track list, I still don't really care about them, thus the rating.

The magna carta of hard blues rock for classic rock programmers.

Some good stuff

More like the last album, sublime blues rock that moves between soft and hard. B

Почему-то не словил кайфа чтобы прям вау. Ну да, Лед Зеппелин, но я уже слушал и I и III...

Nice

Underwhelming

having a hard time with this one cause i was really into zep in college, and ii has so many classics on it. and it's easy to see how they were so influential with this coming out in 1969...but idk, as a finished front to back project it makes me feel gross. i hate the lyricism, and while a song like a heartbreaker or whole lotta love is fine on its own, these songs form a nasty package all together. deep cuts aren't too good either. 2.5/5

SEX, sex, sex....and some serious rock and roll. Guitar work is energetic, wonderful and fun, but lyrics are lacking. The style is certainly appropriate for the time and while fun to listen to, I found it still a little one noted. I should say that is one of my favorite times in US rock though, and maybe why I critically rate this one a little low.

Some great moments

Good to listen to again. Can’t help chuckling about Duran Duran’s cover of Thank You (and the whole of that covers album tbh) whenever I hear that track though

Of all the big hard rock bands that came out in the 60s and 70s, Led Zeppelin is one that I've been mildly on the fence about. While I love their 4th installment in the self-titled series, and admittedly I do love many of Page's riffs here, many of the songs on this album end up falling flat for me. This album is at its best during the punchier moments when the drums, bass, and riffs are driving these thunderous and relentless grooves. The muddiness, grit, loudness in the mix, and sheer stickiness of the riffs have always been what made LZ so iconic to me. The perfect example of this is the entire song "Heartbreaker", which especially during its final minutes, goes disgustingly hard with these noisy layers of guitar crashing against one another in the mix. It's such a great moment. I just wish the rest of the album was this thunderous and powerful. Rather, it's dominated by slower moments that are redundant, and uninteresting. I never understood the purpose nor placement of the percussion-driven interlude on "Whole Lotta Love" for example, it just bogs the song down. I'd say the worst part about the slower moments is that Plant's powerful vocals tend to shine better when he's being complimented by equally powerful instrumentation. This album meanders a lot and I think Plant's vocals, at least here, run a bit dry when he's just waffling. An example of this is in the quieter interlude of "The Lemon Song". I generally don't enjoy LZ's music for Plant's vocals; I even find them quite grating at times like on "Ramble On". Funnily enough, I sort of like "Moby Dick" a lot because it doesn't feature Plant's vocals, even the strange percussion interlude I find moderately charming. My thoughts on this album aren't all negative. Again when the riffs DO hit (usually at the beginning of most of these tracks), they sound great, rough, and dirty. I think that's what I generally like about these guys' albums. I also like the organ-backed love ballad "Thank You". I generally enjoy it when LZ switches up their songs with lighter acoustic instrumentation in the middle of their harsher albums. I enjoy the serenity of the synth-driven closing minute of this song, both lyrically and instrumentally. Overall, there are still many great *moments* here, but when looking for songs that I can say I enjoyed from front to back as just songs, I find they're few and far between.

Pretty good. What else to say? I expected to enjoy Led Zeppelin a bit more, but it was just a pretty solid album. 7/10 Top 3: 1. Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman) 2. Thank You 3. Moby Dick

standouts: whole lotta love, living loving maid some single songs were good but i probably wouldnt listen to the whole album again

It is very clear where Greta Van Fleet's sound came from. Overall I liked the album, not heavy rock, some nice instrumentals.

probably closer to a 3.75 could i write poetry to this? y

Similar to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin was a band I loved (and still dig their music!) but the shine has come off of them because of decades of poor imitators.

Never been a big fan of Led Zep and this did nothing to change my mind. Not bad but nothing that made me perk up. High 3.

Nothing on this album resonated with me very much. I listened to the Deluxe Edition with some bonus recordings and backing tracks, and they definitely didn't improve the experience.

good

Enjoyed it less than I thought I might but this is in the context of 2/3 of my first 20 albums being from the 60s and 70s - if I was a boomer it would be a dream come true to be hearing what I would truly believe was the best music ever made. I’m sure when you were a teen or twenty something in the era it would have absolutely felt that way and you’d be tutting at the terrible noise the kids these days listen to. Does this list have anything from the naughties (0/20 so far)? Only snippets from the 90s? I’m finding it hard to appreciate these albums on their individual merits while being ground down with a boomers eye view of music.

Horny rock should be a genre all of its own! I adore Led Zeppelin - this isn’t my favourite album, but it’s still fantastic. Unfortunately I can’t seperate the art from the artist, so this one is getting a star taken away for preying on underage girls. I spent so much of my teen years listening to Led Zeppelin with friends - they remain an important part of my music taste profile and nostalgia for that time in my life and the people I hung out with Fave track: every inch of Whole lotta love

Yet more boomer blues rock

It is a classic, but not exactly my kind of classic. The band sounds great, but I believe the first album captures better the blues and rawness of the group, and that they would achieve greater musical moments later in their career. But indeed, a fan album nonetheless.

Zeppelin is cool, especially the old stuff

The songs were almost always full with ups and downs moments, but overall nice album

Enjoyed but wasn’t amazing. A bit long winded.

Definitely a classic of hard rock with a strong blues influence. "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On" are notable,

Led Zeppelin are good but never really grabbed me. Maybe I am missing something

I enjoyed hearing this. Though I never liked Led Zeppelin enough to buy any albums, discs, or downloads, I do enjoy hearing them. Driving rhythms, searing blues and family friendly lyrics. Squeeze my lemon until the juice runs down my leg.

I was never the biggest Led Zepplin fan. Their classics are indeed classics and I have many in my master mix and will crank them way up when needed, but I also felt there was a lot of self-indulgent stuff in there which I can skip over with little remorse. That's just me. Give it a listen. It's a classic.

Nice album! I don’t have much to say, but Jimmy Page absolutely rips. I kinda hate how 1/3 of the album was just covers, but it’s okay because they do those covers justice. 3.7/5 Fav: Heartbreaker Least Fav: Moby Dick

Highs: Ramble On and Thank You Lows: Robert Plant’s porn impression on Whole Lotta Love If these guys keep it up, they could be the next Greta Van Fleet!

Later led better

Pretty chill Zepp album. never listened to the whole thing. knew a couple of the popular ones, but didn’t hate the other songs. ez 3

Unfortunately I didn't love this as much as LZIV, I might give it another chance in the future but some choices were a bit too weird for me.

I'll be honest, when Led Zeppelin writes a hit, it's an all time best song. But when they miss, the solos are becoming boring, the rest of the instruments anonymous, and worst of all, the vocal becomes unbearable. This album mixes those two in their most extremes. Whole Lotta Love is a masterpiece, 55 years later its being used in every other movie, I feel like. But the rest of the album, with slightly exceptions, is a mediocre slog. I felt really bad trying to sit through it all. Very disappointing and quite surprising. I used to be a big fan of Led Zeppelin, but somehow I closed my eyes (or ears) for many of those songs. Being more conscious about it now, all I can give is 5 for The hits, and 3 for the rest, which equals to 4. Still pretty high, but I don't have a heart to give it an average note.

Drum solos are a terrible waste of time. Fave tracks: Thank You, Ramble On 3.1/5

okay, i don’t like led zep. and in the past i would have thought this would be a 2. but … didnt feel terrible today. a mid 3.

Finally completed the quad

The beat and mix sounds great.

3/5

p176. 1969. 3 stars. Adequate Brit blues/folk/rock blend, a couple of standout tracks and a lot of overly long filler. Bonus point for 'fessing up to losing his girl to Gollum.

Me ha gustado en general. Me gusta mucho como juegan con el sonido estéreo.

I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to! Ramble on and Living Loving Maid were my favorites!

ya it’s good. the lyrics are what you would hear in any blues song. they work for the music i guess but they don’t do much for me. ofc you listen to this album for the shredding arrangements. it’s classic rock. but it doesn’t do a lot for me.

zeppelin stole a lot of music

Surprising blend of classic rock and R&B. One of the most musically varied Led Zepplin albums I've heard. Seems to be very exploratory, the songs don't entirely fit a cohesive album style or theme. It's a patchwork, but mostly enjoyable as a whole.

Not my favorite music but I gave it a brief listen.

Appreciate the guitar playing and history of classic rock. But not my everyday listen playlist. Be a good gym workout album.

I do appreciate Led Zep and some of their songs are absolute classics, the band themselves are supremely talented. I can just never really get into them, I think it bores me, maybe I really need to be in the mood, who knows.

I understand why these are classics. Nothing really jumped out at me on this listen.

Weder Fleisch noch Fisch dieser Blues Rock.

earlier Led Zeppelin>over popularized later Zeppelin

Greatest performing band in rock and roll history - by far. Greatest because their technical abilities were considerable, but didn't overshadow the music that they made together; because they listened to one another and played like a band made up of people who's only goal was to sound great together. You can pick apart their individual talents all you like and find individuals better at the component instruments. But show me any four people in the world of rock and roll who could create a more mind-blowing sonic experience together. That said, they were just beginning to realize their own sound with this album. It's like the cocoon is starting to split open but the butterfly is only starting to emerge. True brilliance was still two albums away.

Music was so much longer in the 60s.

good not great lmao

Decent, but not spectacular all the way through

Okay

Legendary but kinda drags

Objectively brilliant but I didn’t want to listen much. I grew up with this as a bit of a backdrop and always knew it was important music but it never entertained me.

Track 2 good Track 3 sucks Ramble on - good Thank You - Good Heartbreaker- okay Moby dick - bongos for a long time. Waste of everyone's time

It’s good but I’m not that big on this kind of rock

Some pretty iconic tunes but not my favorite Led Zeppelin.

It's nice, but I really don't see anything special in this band

Damn I only had Led Zep IV a couple days and now I get another one. Also heard this before but not enough to remember anything except obviously 'Whole Lotta Love', which is a banger. I actually like this quite a bit more than IV, there's a lot more raw energy here and they also get a little weird with it which I enjoy (i'm thinking the bridge on 'Whole Lotta Love' and all the drums on 'Moby Dick'). That stuff works here whereas on IV it felt like the weirder stuff really dragged it down. Still not blowing my mind like Led Zep does for a lot of people, but I did enjoy this one.

Moby Dick was erg vreemd. Voor de rest maakte dit album mij niet warm of koud

Ja gewoon led zeppelin wel lachen maar niet mijn ding

Ik vind het dus allemaal op elkaar lijken, het is wel goed! Maar veel hetzelfde

Whole Lotta Love/Living Loving Maid/Ramble On are the standouts and tied for my favorite. Guitar solo on Heartbreaker was incredible. Amazing instrumentals and singing throughout.

3/5

This is one of Led Zeppelin’s best releases but it just goes to show how overrated they are in the best band conversation

Vindt het een beetje gekte af en toe en heb het gevoel dat een liedje vaak gewoon een mix is van random geluiden enzo. Weinig echte liedjes. Ik vond de radar love vibes wel goed

Never really been a fan of Zeppelin, but this was listenable.

Still sounds good. Too bad they stole so much from other bands.

Bland by todays standards. Kinda the same.song over and over. I know why it's s classic but I was bored.

It’s good, and musically proficient but for me not all that memorable in any of the individual songs.

Er zitten lekkere stukjes in, zoals het openingsnummer, maar niet alles blijft boeien. En sowieso krijgt elke plaat met een te lange drumsolo van mij een punt aftrek. Het zij zo.

I know the riff to Whole Lotta Love, obviously, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard the whole song. I was fearing the worst when it came to that self indulgent midsection of the song but the rest of the album was pretty good…

A bit overhyped but you can see why the singer is doing what he does now.

I think it's good music, I just don't like it that much.

The Lemon Song is fun. Thank You is lovely. I think the Moby Dick drum solo is too long.

Good album, would listen again passively in the background. Definitely before its time.

It's a good 70's rock album. Very representative of the times. Needs to be listened to loud in good company. Would be a good record, not a great office listen, ha. Would be 4 stars with an iconic hit.

Je ne connecte pas beaucoup avec ce groupe, mais je reconnais le travail de recherche et d’exploration. J’ai préféré Moby Dick

Classic but not incredible

Thought it wound be better. Clearly iconic in its day though

Well I liked and enjoyed that more than I thought I would. Look we have all heard Led Zeppelin thousands of times forever. I'm not saying I never need to hear them again, but I'm not not saying that either. I know they rock. Clearly they rock. I just get so tired of them. But for whatever reason this hit right today and I really enjoyed it.

LZ I, LZ IV and Physical Graffiti were sooo good. especially IV and PhG but this album is kinda boring? It has standout tracks but... it's still not that great...

Bom, mas faltou algo a mais do LZ.

okii 7/10

An easy listen and a good album.

Didn’t think I need another classic rock album to listen to. Obviously this is good with well known songs. And, it is Zeppelin. I found myself really listening to John Paul Jones on this album. He really stood out. Solid three but won’t be a regular listen for me.

A bit white old man music

Heard before: yes I assume we will get to 7 or 8 Zep records before we're done. This record is one that builds a template for decades of other bands: super influential, everyone loves it, everyone wants to be them. But other than a few specific moments, Zep II leans on their instincts that I'm least drawn to: the heaviness for heaviness sake, the recycled, blue-eyed blues, the arena cock rock of it all. There's a lot more to the band, like when they work in references to Mordor in a strummy little folk ditty. So even though I'm nodding my head through the whole thing, I think I'd rather they be the stoner in the corner than the upperclassman with shades on. Top tracks: Ramble On, What Is and What Should Never Be, Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)

I normally hate sequels but I'll give this one a go, why not? I still know this album front to back and I haven't spun it in YEARS!! this is a record that is a part of me and I don't know how and I don't know why but every song is so familiar to me it just is! Probably not my go to album by them but it hits all the notes!

# 57 : Good Record, not their best but a great classic album. Whole Lotta Love

Sympathetic album that I listened to while working. Not really my usual jam and I probably won't listen to it ever again but it was nice on the moment. However it then lead me to some really nice songs that I will definitely add to my playlist.

Solid Zeppelin album, neither the best nor the worst. I don't know if I'll ever get sick of Ramble On. Moby Dick is, despite all I keep hearing and many attempts to be into it, still just ok. Yeah; overall, s'good.

they’re like pagan gods come to earth but worshipping such gods has never ended well

As the lady swooned under the spell of the bard's guitar, she tried to keep her wits about her as she indulged in her guessing game: how many inches, after all, was the incubus her minstrel had summoned? And was it, indeed, after all, "love"?

Every single one of these songs is pretty well-known and played on the radio. This is straightforward rock that Zeppelin does well. Listening to this in 2023, it doesn’t sound “interesting” but it’s good rock n’ roll.

Hyvä musiikkivuosi 1969! Tuntuu, että tältä musiikin pitää kuulostaa: vähän bluesihtavaa, vähän jumittavaa. Harmillisesti tää levy menee paikoin liikaa jammailun oloiseksi. Nauhoittaessa lienee ollut mukavaa.

Minulla ei ole mitään intressiä kiistää Bonhamin tai Pagen taitoja, mutta jos heidän otteensa vain on liian raskas kutitellakseen minua oikeista paikoista, mitä voin tehdä? Eikä siinä - kyllä minä nautin levyllä ilmenevästä neroudesta. En vain rakastu.

Aika perus zeppeliini meisinki. Noin puolet oli tuttuja kappaleita

Idk, it’s got some good stuff on it but I just prefer their songs about hobbits

Dang these guys are all horned up. definitely some classics on here but there wasn't a lot that I would listen to again

It was ok but unpopular opinion prob since Led Zeppelin is so popular but I think this album is only like a 3

good

I don't know why I never connected with Zeppelin. They're cool, I guess, but I never became a fan. I do like some of their songs. On this listen, "Thank You" sounded glorious. Just perfect production from beginning to end. But I also get (perhaps unnecessarily) annoyed by how much Zep stole from other artists. Plus, Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor is just better than The Lemon Song. And even though it's well known that Plant lifted the lyrics from Whole Lotta Love from Willie Dixon's "You Need Loving," listen to The Small Faces cover of "You Need Loving" to see how much of the vocal delivery Plant stole from Steve Marriott. (Especially noticeable in the begging and at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0jZ4BGuDw) I mean, yeah, Jimmy wrote an all-time killer riff, but come on Robert. OTOH, JPJ and Bonham are such monster players, I spent this listen just paying attention to them. Page is an excellent rhythm player and songwriter, but his solos ... meh. Ramble On is still great, though that verse about Gollum and Mordor is weird.

Not quite as good as their other work in my opinion

3.5 stars, not my favorite of theirs but solid.

So much Led Zeppelin. Not the biggest fan, but it wasn’t the worst.

led zep is the epitome of solid idea and near perfect execution. while this album isn’t amazing, it executes its ideas amazingly. Performances are great and in particular the bass tone is wonderful. best tracks: whole lotta love, what is and what should never be, living loving maid

Classique, mais un peu bruyant pour moi.

2nd listen. I think this is one of the more forgettable Led Zeppelin albums.

3/5. Not a perfect zeppelin album. Lemon song to living loving maid is not super fun. Everything else is a banger though. Thought I would like it more but it feels like it’s missing something.

i don't think it's my music taste but i do respect the effort put in this album and i like some of the songs in it :)

Some classic tracks, for sure, but a bit of an uneven album.

A straightforward outing from rock’s most consistently stellar group. Doesn’t wow as much on the compositional side as its follow-ups, but still pulls out some fun studio tricks and exceptional instrumentation as always to deliver a great listen.

This album is pretty hit n miss

pretty good

Mjeh det är väl OK i guess. typiskt kill musik

I liked it. However, i get bored of the none stop noise sometimes

It’s Led Zeppelin being Led Zeppelin. They’re alright.

One of their more bombastic collections - and maybe I'm getting old, but I do like a little light and shade these days. A whole lotta plagiarism going on (allegedly). I used to love 'Moby Dick', now it bores me. Still, this is pretty good for some crotch-grabbin' rawk action.

Not my favorite work by the band. It's cool, but it doesn't remotely reach the heights of IV or even their debut.

Just sitä mitä bändiltä voi odottaa: räminää, ryminää, rockia! Hyviä biisejä, mutta kokonaisuus taitaa hintsusti jäädä kolmosen puolelle.

Good trippy rock songs. Way too long for me.

"Ramble On" is a great song. Other than that though there wasn't a lot here that I liked. Never really was big into Led Zeppelin (which made college difficult) so maybe that explains it. Still, nothing bad here, just a bit overrated in my opinion. 3.5 stars

I struggle to get Led Zeppelin the same way that some people do - particularly when listening to a whole album. Their songs are always just a little bit too long, and often a bit too waily - don't particularly like Robert Plant as a vocalist and it's just a bit too tortured (and creepy in places). That said, Whole Lotta Love is a great song, but the album is no more than a 3/5 for me.

Pretty standard blues/rock album. 3/5 Fave tracks:Whole lotta love,Heartbreaker, Ramble on, bring it on home

Mostly classic tracks I love and other jam tracks I could do without. I found it interesting that there were only 9 tracks. 6/10.

Probably a bit harshly only giving it a 3 but I didn't really vibe with it yesterday.

Very good, doesn't quite hit the spot for me though

Inte min stil men gillade albumet ändå

I remember thinking this was a good album. Oh boy, was I wrong! After an album of uncredited covers, they tried to make original stuff and it's not that good. Good thing they got better for the 3rd one (maybe because they went back to stealing other artist's music again, who knows?)

CTRL-C CTRL-V

This one wouldn't have been in my choices for 3 or 4 Zeppelin albums to figure in the 1001, but I can understand that a few of the songs were groundbreakers, like Whole Lotta Love (even if it's plagiarism from The Small Faces interpretation of a Muddy Waters song) with the vocal effects, Ramble On which is very good and catchy or Moby Dick, which shows the incredible talent of John Bonham accompanied by a monster riff. However, if these 3 songs wouldn't exist, this album would be pretty boring and average. In terms of album, this band did really better than this one.

Some good songs, but didn’t like all of them.

Whole lotta love is great! This was a solid album

I love Led Zeppelin, but in my opinion this is one of their weakest albums. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels like that, it's just that the songs lack the riffs and excitement of I,III,IV and physical graffiti. In particular, whole lotta love pales in comparison to the title track of any of those other albums

klassiekers zijn lekker, dat bluesy gedoe vind ik minder

I'm finding that I'm running hot and cold with the Led Zeppelin. This is the fourth album I've listened to in this project (that's like halfway through their œuvre!) and it is definitely lower on my list than I or IV. This one often sounds like why I avoided Led Zeppelin as a youth.

Whole lotta love: banger What is and should never be: lesser banger The lemon song: I never thought I'd hear a dick referred to as a lemon before. Thank you: I just finished it and I don't remember anything. Heartbreaker: the guitar solo was cool Living loving maid: ok Ramble on:I liked this one Moby dick: this rules Bring it on home:ok This whole album sounds like one big song and I don't like it.

Experimental instrumentals and vocals work well together.

Love Ramble On, but I think I've cooled on Led Zeppelin's overall style since I listened to them so much on Q104.3 when I was in high school.

It's ok

Man merkt, dass der Sound in seiner Zeit wohl wahnsinnig originell u neu war. Klingt viel moderner als es ist, aber Rock ist nicht do meines

Good easy rock album

A perfect rock opener leads into a mixed bag of decent blues rock and overblown self indulgence.

3 1/2

This is the third Led Zeppelin I’ve listened to for the purposes of broadening my horizons and listening to the best of classic rock. Three albums in and I still feel the same: they’re good, but I prefer them as background music.

For 1969, this was pretty progressive stuff, right at the cross-roads of blues-rock and riff-up-front, heavy metal. Jimmy's playing is great and varied throughout. The signature track would have worked better without the 90 second "solo" IMO. Deduct a point for the plagiarism.

I've never been a Led Zep fan so if it wasn't for 1,001 I would never seek this out for a listen. Overall, I thought it was good, if you like bluesy heavy rock and can get over Robert Plant's screechy voice. But I must say that it's an iconic rock moment when the drums and guitar kick in at the 3:00 mark of Whole lotta love. I've never heard Thank You before and I thought it was quite good also.

A very musical heavy metal album.

Some killer songs on this album and I want to take a road trip just to blast it in my car. I think my liking of it overall will improve with repeated listening

Plenty of bangers on here but, blasphemously, this is one of the Led Zeppelin albums that could’ve been cut. Shoutout John Paul Jones

No the best Zep, but hey.

3.5

Led Zeppelin was seminal. On the cuts from this album, many are still landmark today

Led Zeppelin have acquired legendary status but, at times, its not hugely interesting

Favorites: What Is and What Should Never Be Ramble On

First song - banger though even that goes on a bit at times. Rest, good but honestly goes on a bit too long.

Oh yea buddy. What Is and What Should Never Be is a great example of the range that Zepplin found in being able to explore this heavy sonic space. There is a lot of blues in this, which is not my favorite; see The Lemon Song. Ramble On is a perfect song. Moby Dick is a shit song. This album is just so blues heavy that I cant say i loved it. Good album I can appreciate the sonic space they were staking, but its not for me.

I've always found them vastly overrated. But Whole Lotta Love kinda slaps still.

Two songs I liked, but overall too many random noises. Can appreciate the classic rock vibe.

There are some terrific riffs and some toe tapping head banging tracks on Zep II but there are also moments which feel a little self satisfied - the extended riffs, the drum solo, the roll-your-eyes-in-embarrassment euphemisms concerning lemons, the LOTR references. From time to time you start to wonder which blues singer they stole the music from. Undoubtedly influential and heavy metal inspiring, just not worthy of the adulation. There are better Zep albums.

We got all 4 of them now

How many times can you sing 'baby' on an album? Answer within!

Classic rock, Whole Lotta Love opens with its infectious riff. Good stuff

No doubt many Brits will be familiar with the iconic rift of the strong opening track 'Whole Lotta Love' thanks to the tv program 'Top of the Pops'. You can really hear the blues influence on some of the tracks however I don't feel as though the following songs are as good as the opener. Although I quite liked Ramble On and the drums of Moby Dick.

Went on too long and transitions between slow a fast parts could be better

The Village Voice jokingly referred to the band as "the best of the wah-wah mannerist groups, so dirty they drool on demand", while complaining that "all the songs sound alike.”

All the songs sound the same and apparently they ripped off a lot people.

Classic Zep

Ok

Some solid songs but overall not my favorite of theirs.

Classic rock. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Whole Lotta Love Ramble On Moby Dick

I thought it was very good despite it being a little dated. The instrumentals are always good for Led Zeppelin and the vocals are also pretty standard as well.

I liked it.

Pretty good album, not as intense as I thought it would be, classic rock, 7/10

There were some great tracks on this album and the legendary riffs get stuck in my head, but some songs were indiscernible from others. I enjoyed the album but only a few songs really stood out for me.

Personally, I prefer LZ4, as I find the sound more varied. That said, who am I to fault Led Zeppelin

boring.....

Starts off real solid, then fades as it plays on. Kept resisting the skip button.

3.5 if I could

Zeer Led Zeppelin.

Another typical "not bad, not great" album :P

Meh

Excellent classic rock

Nunca he entendido el hype por Led Zeppelin, y creo que nunca lo haré. Agradable rock, me la pasé chido, pero pues no me quedan ganas de volver a escucharlo. Ramble On me gustó, tiene un sonido re hippie. Mood: el autentico rock rebeldón de abuelos.

Album qui inclus des hits des connus, par contre je trouve que cet album est seulement le début de la légende de Led zep, on ne retrouve pas leur son original qui sort le groupe du classique rock des années 70. Je l’évite: Lemon song, auss agréable que du jus de citron dans une plaie Je lévite: living loving maid, heartbreaker

A classic album fairly ground breaking at the time

Some good rock anthems though suffers a bit from some indulgences eg: overly long drum solo (snore).

Psicodélico. Típico Led Zeppelin. Algunas cosas chulas.

-J'ai bien aimé les sons de blues dans l'album. -Instrumentalement très fort, j'ai particulièrement aimé la bass. -Parfois, les longs solos ne sont pas si impressionnant pour moi, je les trouve juste longs. -Je n'aime pas beaucoup les vocals. Pas mon style. Mon hit de l'album: Heartbreaker

actually more psychedelic and bluesey than i would have thought

This album went by so smoothly, I didn’t even recognize when it was done. It was pleasant enough to listen to that I didn’t find myself wanting to turn it off, but nothing really caught my attention, either.

Well it's time to write about Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin. It's another band and album that has been written about so many times - there is nothing much I can say. I was never a big Zeppelin fan to be honest, and I've mainly heard their music from secondhand listening. I gave this album a fresh listen and it's everything that people say it is. Will I listen to this again anytime soon? No. It's too ingrained in our lives to really appreciate it beyond it's mythology.

Pretty sure half these lyrics are about sex and the singers penis. Cool dude. Instrumentally it's good and I see the cultural "value" bit personally doesn't fit into anything I'd listen to on my own time. I wouldn't ask someone to turn it off.

hard to believe I hadn't listened to this album before. not at all what I expected and I liked it more than I thought I would

Good but not amazing

Thank you - great track

Yksittäiset biisit oli tuttuja. Toimi myös levynä.

A few bops

Weird and not what I expected. Mostly enjoyable though. Not much to latch onto? Maybe will have to re-listen

2.5

cuesta creer que alguien se siente a escuchar esto por gusto.

Not my thing but worth listening to once. Decent classic album.

Eh. Ramble on is a high point. Whole lotta love is good too. The rest kinda boring to me.

Oh it's the Top of the Pops song. Anyway, praying to the 1001 album generator gods to bring me no more albums by an English rock band active in the 1960s and/or 70s.

Very inconsistent. Some songs are really good and others are just... not. I can see why it's a classic but it falls apart the more you think about it. It's fine. I just currently prefer Led Zeppelin I.

idon't like rock i only like rock if its not that hard

all sounds the same, not my style

When you feel relief when an album is over, that's a sign it's not for you.

2.5

In general, I think the whole Zeppelin catalog could be one album. Or maybe an email.

Eh

Im just not a zeppelin girl

Pretty good?

Very far outside my taste. Peculiar vocals but some interesting rhythm parts.

Yani güzel bi albüm. Ama benlik değil açıkçası

se parecen a dorian gray

I think I liked this more than the other two? Not sure

Led Zeppelin, but bland.

This is fine just not my thing. No real difference from the first album in my opinion

I can’t stand this album now that I’m a fully functioning adult

I can tolerate led zep but not this era

First impression: The albums is not quite bad, but my music interests don't match with the vibes of this specific album from Zed Zeppelin. It will remain on a 2/10 for me

Couple of classics but the usual Led Zeppelin self indulgence.

Oh man, I still can’t stand his voice, and I can’t ever see that changing now. Even musically, blues rock doesn’t do it for me.

Not to crazy for this album

sehr elektronisch

Heard it before. The Lemon Song is one of the worst things ever. If it wasn't here then it'd be an ok album. Whole Lotta Love is a banger after all 2/5

Mmmm gandriz visam dziesmam bija daļa, kura man ļoti patika, bet tad kādi 65% no dziesmas bija tādi eh soo idk. Nu man ne isti patika, ka daudzām dziesmam bija kaut kāda repetitive daļa tādu diezgan ilgu laiku, uun es pat nezinu vai man bija mīļākā dziesma.

Fuck moby dick

Fun

Led Zeppeling might be a classic for many, but for me I feel none of it. All I hear is terrible vocals delivered by shrieking. To be fair some of the music is catchy and some of the riffs are good, but it does not stand out as anything amazing to me.

I felt asleep

Blues rock again...'Whole lotta Love' is ok but in general lyrics are as tiring as the sex it references but not a whole lotta fun really. Cock Rock is an apt description.

Not a zeppelin fan.