Led Zeppelin II

All day

(6 estrellas)

This album is full-on hard and raw. While listening I felt pure energy, aggression, and raw emotion pouring out of every track. It’s heavy, rhythmic, and unapologetically loud — exactly what you want from Zeppelin at their peak. The whole record just hits you in the chest. Jimmy Page’s guitars are massive and dirty, John Paul Jones’ bass lines are thick and groovy, John Bonham is a beast behind the drums, and Robert Plant’s voice is wild and powerful. Everything blends together into this bluesy, heavy rock monster that barely takes a breath. It’s aggressive, sexual, loud, and completely addictive. Led Zeppelin II is very good — one of their strongest and most intense albums. Pure classic rock fire from start to finish.

One easy way to make your day better

★★★★★

All, I’m a sucker for II

One of the easiest 5s.

Glorious

It's hard to find a Led Zeppelin album that's not a complete classic, but this one always seems a bit overlooked to me. It's got no "Stairway to Heaven" like LZ IV. No "Immigrant Song" to kick things off in a completely unforgettable manner (though "Whole Lotta Love" is also a solid banger, of course). But song for song, it's hard to argue than any LZ album provides a stronger 40 minutes of rock than this one.

This is the third 5/5 album this week and this one may be the best of the three.

Before reading this album, I had a specific opinion about the band, but listening to it, I realized that I missed out on a lot. From start to finish I had a surge of energy and drive, but also with that there was a sense of greatness beyond comprehension. Unexpected transitions make you feel that atmosphere. I did not find any weak point in this album, although I have no right to evaluate it at all, I just want to convey my emotions and feelings. Every self-respecting music lover should get acquainted with this band and this album all inclusive.

I loved this album. It made me wanna shake my booty in the 70s.

Guess I am a fanboy

It feels so boring rating LedZep albums

Jimmy Page, you glorious bastard.

Whole Lotta Love has got to be up there as one of the greatest album openers of all time. And following it up with What Is and What Should Never Be is great as well. Things drop off a tad with The Lemon Song (Still a good song, just a little too bluesy for my tastes), but pick back up with Thank You (I wouldn't be surprised to learn that The Marshall Tucker Band had that song on mind when writing Can't You See). And the hits keep coming with Heartbreaker, Living Loving Maid, Ramble On (Jesus Christ are Led Zep fucking nerds with their references to Tolkien), Moby Dick. The album ends on a slightly lesser note with Bring It on Home (Again, like The Lemon Song, still good). But overall this is an amazing album that just rattles off great tracks one after another. The songs that are just merely good aren't enough to bring it down below a five star for me. It's that good of an album.

Apart from moby dick, the rest of the songs are all top tier

конечно же лучший альбом в мире

I mean it’s let zeppelin what can I say. Instrumentation is impeccable, plants vocals can be grating but also can be beautiful. Probably my favorite zeppelin record. Best songs: what is and what should never be, lemon song, living loving maid, ramble on

One of the best hard rock records ever. It influenced every major rock band that came afterwards.

its so good, i shed a tear.

easiest 5 star

Sometimes dismissed as a collection of blues standards reworked by Page, for me this is their most vital record, the band sounding powerful, cohesive and muscular, the production a big step up from LZ I, with hints of late blues psych. Bonham reinvents rock drumming here, Plant is brilliant (it would be a few albums before he began to grate). phenomenal stuff.

Born when I was an infant, this is the gold standard for rock albums. It does suffer a bit from listener fatigue, but is absolutely solid and if you listen closely, still a bit surprising. Hard to count it down on anything relevant.

Excellent

One of the best albums of all time, such a unique sound. With incredible riffs, lyrics and production. Best dad rock there is

I think I like Led Zeppelin I more, but this is still a damn good album, especially considering it was released in the same year as LZ I. The Heartbreaker to Living Loving combo has always been a favorite of mine. Likes: Whole Lotta Love; What Is And What Should Never Be; Heartbreaker; Living Loving Maid; Ramble On; Moby Dick

Great album start to finish. No skips. Absolutely fantastic!

Classic album

Awesome!

Another numbered album, another classic. Led Zeppelin really were on fire between 1969 and 1971, every song feels just right. It's been a weird experience for me to re-listen all these albums in their original format. I grew up with the "Remasters" box set, which I basically knew by heart. But the song order is completely different here (with a couple of extra tracks I didn't know or had forgotten), so it's a nice mix of surprise and familiarity. Getting three Led Zeppelin albums in three weeks feels a bit repetitive, but it's still one of the very few bands I never grew tired of over the years, so I can't give this less than a 5*. 9/10

A long time favourite of mine. I cant say anymore which one is my favourite but this is a serious contender. Surprisingly what I find most remarkable here is the bass. When it's not running paralell with the guitar riffs for this heavy sound (Whole lotta love, heartbreaker, Ramble on and Bring it home, even the first minute before the 3 mn drum solo !), the bass is going on strolls of its own, a space often generously left by the guitar and voice that go on their usual Q&A. It's also like the first album still a very bluesy album, heavy but dry, with often just the 4 instruments (voice included) with the occasionlal second guitar and a synth ( in thank you?). Space is alo given to the drum. i mentionned Moby Dick, but the powerful wave of Whole Lota Love also get its piece of bravery from the drum (aven a Q&A drum/guitar). Well I just love it. A whole lot of love!

Franchement un bon son, devenu un classique et je me surprends moi même à hésiter entre un 4 et un 5. J'ai réécouter l'album et il mérite bien ses 5 étoiles même si ce n'est pas mon style de musique préféré !

Heerlijk

Duh

best Led Zeppelin album imo, the hardest rock they made and I love it so much

Amazing! One of the pioneering hard rock albums from one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time! It's one of my favorite Led Zeppelin albums and it definitely deserves it's spot here! It's truly amazing and expanded on the heavy sound that their first album created! Truly amazing!

So ridiculously good. Four dudes at the absolute top of their game two albums in. Historic and incredible. I still, to this day, wholeheartedly believe that the few seconds in "Whole Lotta Love" coming out of the psychedelic interlude...best 10ish seconds in music, ever. God mutha fuckin damn, that's some good guitar.

Absolute classic one of their best two albums not a bad track on it.

Classic

I love this album.

LED ZEP Ça suffit!

This record has served me well, from the drug-fuelled sonic trips of the 1970's to today's appreciation of the American blues influence on British music... the musicianship of all 4 fellows is astounding.

This album is 100% amazing

HELL YEAH! The day I get Led Zeppelin I, I will be unstoppable, but this is an easy 5 star album for me too.

Utter classic, they really start rocking here. Some all time Zeppelin classics that define the early 70's and made album rock a thing. The singles of the 60s were left in the past and the studio was its own instrument at last.

No notes

4.5 stars This is my 4th Led Zeppelin album on here so far and the first one I’m giving 5 stars to. I never considered myself big on Led Zeppelin II but I guess it’s up there. Maybe I’d put House of the Holy higher if it were on the list. And I haven’t gotten Zoso yet but that’s an obvious full five star album. The album doesn’t feel like a skipless album even though I don’t skip and tracks. Just a lot of tracks that don’t reach the status of much of their catalog.

I really liked this one and I think it's a perfect album. It sounds kind of cohesive and I like the blues-iness. I was struck by Plant's voice sounding like an old blues singer and how much it sounded American - sometimes it's a bit ridiculous actually. Bonham is having a great time. So much groove in all the tracks and I think pretty much EVERYONE would love this! I understand why it's rated so highly. It sounds blue with a serrated edge on the vocals, and there's silver in there too. This is how I find out about Robert Johnson!

It's Led Zep II. So many riffs and bangers. Five stars, no question.

Nothing profound to say here. Just a damn good 5-star album.

Amazing album, so many great riffs and tunes!

Together We Shall Go Until We Die 1001 Albums Generator 295 (5/20/2026) Led Zeppelin II has always been one of my favorite LZ albums. It's just perfection top to bottom. Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, Living Loving Maid, and Ramble On all being on one album is absurd. Ramble On might be the finest song the band ever did, between the addicting acoustic guitar in the verses, the melodic basslines, and Plant's references to Lord of the Rings. Thank You is also criminally underrated. It's a step up from the (already good) debut in virtually every way. I guess The Lemon Song is a bit repetitive, but I'm splitting hairs. It's a 5/5. Favs: Heartbreaker Living Loving Maid Ramble On Least Fav: The Lemon Song

One of my favourite band. Love this amazing album

great album!

classic !!! j'adore

5 classic

Classic album. I think ive heard every song except one or two of them on the radio during my life, and yet despite hearing these songs zillions of times, I still don't get sick of them.

Another classic Zeppelin record. So. Damn. Good.

classicasso

Went through a huge Zeppelin phase back in Junior High so when this one came up I wondered if it would hold up. While I think I still prefer their early 70s output this one still rocks hard. Great riffs, incredible melodic bass lines, still unmatched vocal swagger. While this album is maybe a bit self indulgent at times - looking at you Moby Dick - but it still holds up for me. Great record.

Led Zeppelin? Led where? Sometimes life is mysterious, like the fact that I randomly thought about Whole Lotta Love yesterday, which never happens normally, and now this album shows up

Easy 5. When my children ask one day what Rock and Rock is all about, this is what I will show them.

I don’t think I really have anything new to say about this album. It’s a classic for a reason! What Is and What Should Never Be and Ramble On are two of my all time favourite Zeppelin tracks and Bring It On Home is definitely underrated.

One of my favorite rock albums.

Rico en todo

wow! very good! huge improvement from I. but then they dropped the ball with III.

so good. nothing more to add

Oubliez la fusion, on a trouvé la source d'énergie infinie. Toutes les chansons de cet album sont des monstres du rock, c'est incroyable. On a quand même droit à Thank You qui vient magnifiquement ralentir un peu la cadence, mais ça repart de plus belle ensuite. Moby Dick pourrait être pénible mais la perf est juste mythique, avec des percus variées qui font plaisir, et Bring it on Home est formidable si on oublie le début... Playlist pick : Ramble On

AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

This is legendary music. You can hear the influence on so much that came after this.

Is there anything left to say? It's a classic, of course it's an album you should listen to before you die

This album is just about perfect

Landmark album

The star of this record remains Jimmy Page-producer. Even more than the debut album, Led Zeppelin II sounds ten years ahead of other recordings at the time. Only Abbey Road comes to mind as an album that stretched well beyond the 4-8track, mono recordings of the mid-late 1960s. Other factors were certainly at work to help separate this record from Cream, Jeff Beck’s Truth and the Yardbirds, but the booming sound leaps off the turntable. Page, and engineer Eddie Kramer, deserve the credit as the band used multiple studios to make this record, which means we cannot credit the special sound of any one place. Led Zeppelin II jumps to a new level from their excellent first album. Maybe creating the songs while playing an intense touring schedule got the band into the habit of speeding their music up. There is nothing plodding here such as “You Shook Me” and “I Can’t Quit You, Baby.” Even its most derivative song, “Bring It on Home”, eventually marshalls the power of the band. Led Zeppelin II’s massive influence could come off as a caricature to someone whose listening leans towards the 1990s onward. I liken it to the same fate as The Godfather from a movie goer familiar with the mob genre only from Goodfellas and The Sopranos. Familiar patterns might seem like tropes, instead of groundbreaking. The quiet-loud sequence of “Ramble On”, “What Is and What Should Never Be” and “Thank You” may sound like they are drawn from a palette rather than fairly well-crafted songs. Few later bands could pull this sweep off as majestically as Zeppelin does. The enormous leap in production undoubtedly gets aided by Page, Bonham and Jones. They bring subtle touches to the quiet-loud songs while locking into the stunning grooves that define the band. Some may call Plant the weak link as he falls back on an interpreter’s version of the blues in both his singing and lyrical ad-libs; the Tolkien lines of “Ramble On” were also fodder for Spinal Tap ridicule. However, his vocals often acted as another instrument matching the high-powered instrumentals. It takes a quality singer to keep up with this backing trio, and Plant was more than equal to the task. While the band never issued songs with the social-political commentary of The Who, they know how to lay down a groove second only to the Rolling Stones. This album, for better and worse, lacked the operatic blockbuster qualities of later records like Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti. It is less self-confident than those albums, but its looser playing makes Led Zeppelin II a more appealing record in terms of sheer fun. To knock this record out after only a year or so as a group speaks to their greatness.

Me encanta, este género y el artista en general me gusta mucho

Great riffs, great vocals, great bluesy rock all round. Another from me yoof I used to love but havent heard in a while. For me, they are so much better than most classic rock bands, this record probably introduces them perfectly. My favourite LZ after LZ 3, which probably doesnt describe them very well. But class nonethless

one if not the best rock band. 4 great musicians.

A classic

An album that changed music forever, as heavy rock bands, influenced by Led Zeppelin, departed from relying solely on blues. It's raucous, unhinged and wild, and took music to a whole new level. Play this to your kids and you'll be surprised at how many tracks have them dancefloor-walking around the house. 4 stars.

POV - flawless

This record is a goddamn classic rock clinic. It's like they bottled pure, unadulterated sex appeal and shook it until it turned into music. It's primal, it's powerful, and it's got more swagger than a room full of rockstars. Spins: 3 Playlist Additions - Whole Lotta Love - What Is and What Should Never Be - Heartbreaker - Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) - Ramble On

Imagine my surprise when I found out this isn't everyone's favorite Zeppelin record.

This is an automatic 5 stars perfect album for me because I have already liked all of the songs on this one. Thoughts while listening ... Fun story about "Whole Lotta Love" - when I first graduated college in 1987 and started working - my company had a training program where 150 of the new college grads were in a giant room for 10 days (I think). People (including me) were getting very stir crazy after a while. We were at separate tables working on training stuff and I started singing as loud as I could in my best Robert Plant impression "Way down inside ...", a whole bunch of people joined in with "Woman... you need ..." and then even more people joined in with "LOOOVVVEEEE". Good times! A lot of credit is given to Jimmy Page's guitar playing and rightfully so - it's fantastic. He's a master at creating unique and memorable riffs - AND taking old blues riffs to a new level. All of these songs I instantly know the song within the first few seconds of hearing it. The layering of acoustic guitars and electric guitars is great. And then he adds a theremin on "Whole Lotta Love". Good stuff. Robert Plant is starting to contribute even more lyrically on their 2nd album here. His song "Thank You" is still one of the best love songs there is. His interest/obsession with Lord of the Rings also starts to show up here with multiple references to this in "Ramble On". And of course his singing is great. John Bonham's drumming - as always - is peak. Some times it sounds like he's also doing bongos or just maybe playing the drums with his hands. Also of note is listen to how fast he's playing the kick drum. He is not using a double kick drum. That's just one foot going crazy. "Moby Dick" is a masterclass in excellent drumming and a really fun instrumental. I don't think enough credit is given to John Paul Jones whose bass (and organ playing on "Thank You") really provide an excellent foundation for these songs. I'm not a huge fan of most "heavy metal" - and so it kind of annoys me that this is considered prototypical heavy metal. I think all the "hair metal" bands in the 80s really ruined that genre for me. This is just night and day better than most heavy metal I've heard. Take for example AC/DC - they are better than most hard rock/heavy metal bands in my opinion - BUT they are nowhere near Zeppelin in terms of song quality and variety. AC/DC have a bunch of catchy singles - but most albums get pretty repetitive and samey. Zep is just on a whole other level. It's just great music to me - regardless of how it might get classified. One thing that is great about Zeppelin on this album and many of their songs on other albums is the change ups from slow to fast, quiet to loud, gentle to hard. "What Is and What Should Never Be" is one great example of this. I don't know what else to say about this album - I've just known it and loved it forever. The music, the singing, and usually the lyrics are all just great. Liked songs on Spotify: 9/9 (perfect album) Rating: 5/5

Classic. Easy 5. Fun game: drink every time Plant sings "baby"

Perfect

(1st) Whole Lotta Love- 10/10 (added to perfect songs playlist) (2nd) What Is and What Should Never Be- 10/10 (added to perfect songs playlist) The Lemon Song- 7/10 (Fave) Thank You- 9.5/10 (3rd) Heartbreaker- 10/10 (Fave) Living Loving Maid- 9.5/10 Ramble On- 9/10 Moby Dick- 9/10 (Fave) Bring It On Home- 9/10

What’s not to like about Led Zeppelin? Answer is nothing. Awesome album with each the singer, drummer, bassist and guitarist being one of the best of all time on their respective instruments. This album rocks and is one of the greatest of all time.

I’ve never listed to much Led Zeppelin (a little before my time) so this was new and different for me. I appreciate that they seem to use all the band in all the songs.

Loved it, i think led zeppelin is a band i need to dive deeper into. Rated their last album too harshly. Just good rock.

This record is a lot harsher and harder than Led Zeppelin III and I like this sound much better. Song after song are just bangers creating a ride from start to finish. Very strong blues influence and a sound bordering metal. This record makes me look forward to the rest of the Led Zeppelin records that will without doubt be on this list.

This is almost as good as their debut, everything turned up a notch this time. Love it from beginning to end, even Moby Dick.

No skips, in my opinion a well made piece of music

Irretocável. Classic absurdo

Имба наконец что то годное

One of the greatest 40 minutes of bass you will hear in your life.

The opening riff of heartbreaker is my review of this album

A classic rock masterpiece that set the stage for rock n roll to come. Never gets old.

Iconic. Very good listen.

Love this album. Always have. Always will.

This is rock. And blues. And passion.

I know this is White Boy Blues but I think it's a fresh and interesting take on the blues. A great album for me.

Solid album Zeppelin xlassic

One of my favs all of time!

Bangers bangers bangers

Even Top of the Pops couldn't ruin Whole Lotta Love.

Really good album. Amazing chops, and quite groundbreaking in terms of the sound, musicianship. Ramble on slaps.

Fine here, take my 5. Zep III is still better.

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969) On Day 118, I had my first ever introduction to Led Zeppelin, and there couldn't have been a better starting point. The energy, the riffs, the grit, and the production are all high-level, it’s hard to believe this is a 60s album because it feels way ahead of its time. The entire project is cohesive and provides a total immersion. While the whole album is a classic, "Bring It On Home" was my personal standout. I also loved "What Is and What Should Never Be," "Heartbreaker," and the immaculate opener that set the tone perfectly. From "Thank You" to "Moby Dick," every track delivers. This is a massive experience that absolutely guarantees my return and got me looking forward to their other album in this project. A definitive 5/5.

There's not much new to say about Led Zeppelin, so I should just leave my five stars and jog on I guess... ...but in passing, I'll mention that this is just so tight, everyone is playing so well and also so well together. The way the album sounds almost effortless belies the fact that every single member of the band is approaching some sort of musical peak for their role.

No notes. No notes!! This is exactly up my alley.

love it!!! 😍

Bass tone on Heartbreaker is worth 5 stars all by itself.

Pretty much all bangers. Got to give this a 5. Might get my Central Mainah cahd revoked if I don't.

Es increíble, no tiene una mala complicado decir la que más me gusta pero la energía de whole lotta love es salvaje.

truly excellent

Fuck yeah

The heart of hard rock is here. Few have matched it.

Outrageous. Every song has something great and something awful about it. Awful is usually the lyrics or the guitar. Squeeze my lemons till the juice runs down my leg! Give you every inch of my love! So only John Bonham and John Paul Jones emerge unscathed. Moby dick is a misstep. So this is all about JPJ and his spectacular bass guitar OMG. Despite its ridiculous tolkein lyrics, Ramble On is fantastic (bass guitar! Drums!) and any album from any band that can make a song like that gets 5 stars

Wonderful album.

I haven't listened to this for this project yet, nor do I need to in order to review it. I can replay it in my brain from start to finish anyway. Perfect hard rock album, it has Heartbreaker, Ramble On, Whole Lotta Love, The Lemon Song, it's perfect. John Paul Jones in particular is at his best here - an album every bass player should own and listen carefully to.

Not the biggest LZ fan, but this is pretty undeniable. Sets a foundation for rock music and still manages to stand up

It’s just an exceptional album.

Первые четыре альбом цеппелинов - это веха, абсолютно исторические события, памятники. Забронзовевшая музыка в самом хорошем смысле - это значит их не пошатнет то, как к ним может относиться современный слушатель. Абсолютно поебать. Это фундамент, на котором вырос весь хард-рок, а потом и весь металл. Воистину отцы-основатели. Мне сложно вообще как-то это оценивать. Я вырос с этими альбомами, буквально ходил с ними в школу. До сих пор помню, как слушал их в наушниках на уроках и даже на контрольных. И приходилось доказывать, что там не предзаписанные ответы. Короче, для меня это просто база. Причем забавно, что из той четверки этот альбом у меня на четвертом месте. Но даже так он круче лучших альбомов в дискографии многих групп. Одного Whole Lotta Love в принципе уже достаточно, чтобы всех уделать. За барабанами тут Джон Бонэм - один из лучших барабанщиков в истории. За гитарой тут Джимми Пейдж - один из лучших гитаристов в истории. То же самое можно сказать и про Роберта Планта, и про Джона Пола Джонса. Во многих списках их вообще ставят на первое место в своих категориях. Проект, который собирался по сути из сессионщиков, неожиданно для всех оказался сборной мира. И то, что они творили в те ранние пиковые годы - до чертиков культовая хрень.

Случайно за день до пика посмотрела видос про группу и решила послушать первые четыре альбома. В итоге послушала первые два и охерела. На этом альбоме очень понравилась песня thank you. А так конечно же топчик.

хороший альбом, вот думал что проставить, лично мне все песни приятно слушать, но самые любимые не в этом альбоме, получается что-то между 4 и 5, будет 4.5

GOTTA WHOLE LOTTA LOVE!!!!

It's crazy to me how quickly Led Zeppelin banged out albums. I didn't love the first one, but this one is fucking great and it came out a mere 9 months later. 8 albums in a decade is mind-blowing. I suppose it was easier to write songs back in the day when fewer guitar riffs and lyrical ideas had already been done by someone else, but still. Anyway, this holds up and gets a pretty easy 5 from me.

Personally it's not my style, but goddamn how well this album si executed and done.

Classic! Highlights: Whole Lotta Love, What Is and What Should Never Be, The Lemon Song, Thank You, Heartbreaker, Ramble On, Living Loving Maid. 5.0

que perro album tan mas bueno y hermoso, la bateria sueta de puta madre!

Still incredible

This was so good!

Whole lotta love - 5 What is and what should never be - 4 The lemon song - 3 Thank you - 4 Heartbreaker - 5 Living loving maid (she's just a woman) - 4 Ramble on - 5 Moby dick - 5 Bring it on home - 4

I forgot how good Led Zep II was. Just an incredibly cohesive work. Whilst every track may not work as a single or all time greatest hit, the cumulative effect of every track in sequence is staggeringly enjoyable.

Wouldn't have made it through high school without this album. Definitely up there with one of the greatest bands of all time with a solid portfolio of albums.

It’s a really good album - stood the test of time with (almost) uniformly good songs.

Awesome … never been better

Absolutely a classic and the distillation of rock in its highest form. Five stars down the line, nothing else needs to be added. 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Every time I listen to Led Zeppelin II, I think the same thing: Led Zeppelin is pornographic material, dopamine in musical form. All the sonic aspects, from Bonham's visceral drumming, JPJ's bass, and especially Page's guitars, are highly addictive... and on top of that, there's a hot blonde moaning on vocals. 5 stars, of course.

Take off “Living Loving Maid” and there is not a track that doesn’t reach excellence on here. Even if it packs itself to the brim with rock cliches, LZII still does those cliches better than almost any other record, and in a lot of cases, the cliches wouldn’t /exist/ without it! Crazy that it’s not even the best Led Zeppelin record…

Every song is a banger. Probably the best LZ album.

I have heard this many times before. I love this album and it holds a special place in my heart.

5 stars from me. I guess all the numbered Led Zep albums will feature on here.

no soy muy del rock pero esto me gusta en cierta forma, me encantaría poder ser parte del rock así como lo soy con otros estilos de música.

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A familiar classic, but one I haven't listened to as an album in many years. This one is older than me, but it was very much in the air in my early 90s college days: #1 album most likely to be playing through the open door or window of a dorm room or college apartment (with #2 and #3 being, Led Zeppelin IV and I respectively). Did not disappoint at all. I had forgotten the long stretch of spacy Hendrixian psychedelia in the middle section of "Whole Lotta Love" and how satisfying it is when Bonham's drums and Page's guitars bring us back to the main riff. and then... Plant is gonna be weird and start moaning again? Sure why not?! As an album opener it's strange and strangely perfect. Seriously, every song here is a 10/10, except "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" which is still a 7 or 8. Listening it today, it feels like it ought to be my favorite of the first four albums. Definite inclusion on the list of 1001, probably on my list of top 100. It's the first Zeppelin album to come up, so I'll revisit that ranking a few more times.

One of my top ten

Por favor, Sus Majestades. Pocas (por no decir ninguna) banda en la historia tiene unos cinco discos iniciales tan contundentes.

UM MEMBRO CLARO DO PANTEÃO DO ROCK. Atemporal, único Led Zeppelin ainda se consagra como um dos gigantes dessa época do Rock, e até hoje. Nesse álbum é mto mais retratado o puro suco do rock, com grandes hits que se perpetuam até hoje, e que coroaram eles como mestres de sua arte. HIGHLIGHTS: WHOLE LOTTA LOVE, RAMBLE ON, HEARTBREAKER, MOBY DICK, What Is and What Should Never Be, 10/10

It would be hard to pick a favorite Zeppelin album, but this one has to be a contender. Includes a few of my favorite Zep songs (especially Ramble On and What Is and What Should Never Be) and most of the rest are also classics. I’ve never liked Living Loving Maid very much, but the rest of the album is non-stop greatness.

Muy bueno

Hermoso álbum.

Whole lotta love, ramble on and bring it on are the best for me. Great album for the road!

An all timer!

very good songs. sleeper album fr. LOVE it. follows the led zeppelin theme of not being able to play it thru in a car full of people, but bangers otherwise

I get the appeal- it was familiar. Id heard a lot of the songs before but didn't know the source.

All time favourite

Ballsy, bluesy, and rocking. Fantastic album from start to finish with a very delicate and understated complexity for how much the album focuses on jamming out. Not much comes close to peak Led Zeppelin; truly timeless. Top tracks: The Lemon Song, Thank You, Heartbreaker, Ramble On

Sheer hard rock goodness. Nobody was making shit as head-bangable as this back then, and even nowadays it's no wonder these guys so completely changed the face of rock music.

Banger after banger after banger after banger Whole Lotta Love is just an awesome way to open it. The Lemon Song and Heartbreaker are probably my two favorite Led Zeppelin guitar songs. I maintain that Heartbreaker contains the best Led Zep guitar solo. As it kept going on I was just astounded how many great songs were on it. The last three songs all blindsided me. I was like “wait, THIS is on here?” for all three of them! And despite most of the songs all being variations of hard rock, they’re all so distinct. A true 10/10

Love, love, love, a classic

Hearing Zeppelin songs makes me wish Tolkien allegories were still in rock songs instead of the names of evil tech companies. Led Zeppelin II is classic rock at its finest, a step forward from the blues-rock of their debut album and every track has an anthemic quality. IV might be their classic, and Houses of the Holy is my personal favorite, but I'd introduce the band to a new listener with this one. Standouts: Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker/Livin Lovin Maid, Ramble On

Absolute GOAT

The Flying Circus Ramble on

como eu queria ouvir esse álbum durante uma viagem de carro ou ônibus! sempre tive uma birrinha sem sentido com led zeppelin, mas sempre calo minha boca quando percebo a gostosura de ouvir isso. é como jogar gta san andreas pela primeira vez e sintonizar na sua rádio favorita e viajar pra outra cidade mais longe do mapa favoritas: thank you e ramble on

I have already listened to this and have it on vinyl. Right off the bat, it starts with probably their most famous song. At times, too much ping pong panning with no particular intent. Very solid blues-rock 'n' roll fusion. Likely the best of its kind. Non-invasive, easy listen. The tightest drums in early rock. Ramble On is probably my favorite song on this, maybe even from their entire work. Great bluesy track with folk motives that intertwine beautifully.

It’s incredible when a band uses every instrument possible and they work together beautifully in unison. Every song on this album is arranged to the gods. The fucking harmonicas!!!! He even used his voice and dialect as an instrument like the way he sung on Bring it home elevated that song for me. Great record, 5 stars!

I mean what else do you need. Track 1 is a 10/5

Unquestionably one of the best 'sophomore' albums ever made, establishing the band as the heirs to The Beatles in terms of the numbers, and the album knocked Abbey Road off the number one spot in late 1969. You can never fail to hear the individual qualities of each member, Page generating some of rock's best riffs and getting the production of the band SO right in terms of power and clarity at the time, Plant is starting to co write effectively and is inventing the heavy metal voice, Bonham has a drum solo that doesn't drag and Jonesy's playing on Lemon song and Ramble on is highly influential. Three classics, six superior album tracks and three songs that should've credited classic blues singers as co-writers. Remarkable album and its response in the US made them what they became.

It's hard not to award every Zep album five stars...So why fight it?!?

Solid 4.5!

Exceptional

I've got a whole lotta love for this one!

Led Zeppelin has always been one of those bands that I thought it was best I just didn't have an opinion on. But now I suppose I'm about to have one. Not typically my style of music, but now I'm emotionally prepared to give it a shot. Whole Lotta Love - Was expecting the blues rock. Was not expecting the psych elements and various wooshing. Happy to be surprised. Stellar opener. I'm excited to continue to be surprised. What Is and What Should Never Be - Pretty cool vocal effects on the opening of this one. Realizing at this point that I've been conflating Def Leppard with this band to absolutely the latter's detriment. This is pretty great. Giving rock and roll Beach Boys. The Lemon Song - The riff on this one fuckin rips. And then the tempo shifts and I couldn't be more all in. Hell yeah to this song. Thank You - Enjoying the variety on this album so far. Organ and vocal harmonies nice change of pace. Rough lyrics though on "happiness, sad, glad" business. They make it up with this incredible high timbred organ solo outro though, no hard feelings. Dips out and comes back in. So cool. Heartbreaker - Side two opening coming in suitably rocking. Not entirely moved by this track, but definitely not not enjoying myself. Ending is great. Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) - Was expecting this one to go somewhere more than it did. Straight forward rocker without any of the cool compositional diversity that has colored the rest of the record. Ramble On - Folky going on here, I'm ready. Whoa to this weird sustained double guitar texture. Delicious vocal panning going on at the end of this one. Maybe my favorite so far. Everything I didn't know I wanted. Moby Dick - Fuck yeah dude Bring It On Home - Nice little cover to close out the record. Could have liked it to keep the subdued echoey sort of energy of the beginning through the whole thing, but bringing the whole band in for a grand finale works too. Okay they heard me for that ending. Splendid. Alright, alright, what a fool I was and continue to be. I'm fully taken aback by this record's creativity and artistic merit. Wayyyyy more interesting and forward thinking than I had previously assumed. Shame on me. Excited to dive deeper into their oeuvre.

This has always been my favorite Zeppelin album. Heavier and more raw than their later albums but also more refined than Zeppelin I. It’s the sweet spot for me.

You know what I'm going to do here - can't not.

El primer album de ellos que me gustó full cuando era adolescente. Y me sigue pareciendo espectacular. 9/10

Monumental

Between this and Zep 4 as their best work. We all know the answer, but every song on this album is a radio hit. Idk why else you need from it.

Better than Coldplay

already had 95% of this album liked

Amazing album. These guys like Greta Van Fleet (ragebait).

All the songs are on my playlist. Jimmy Page is an absolute genius. Watch “Making Led Zeppelin”. Amazing

Somehow the exact length of my commute home, like it genuinely ended the second I pulled into my driveway. For that it gets a 5 (and because it was awesome)

Thought it was great overall. I didn’t like Moby Dick but every other song was awesome

My brother and I were introduced to this album as a 5/6 year olds in 1970 when my dad put 4 speakers in a square on the lounge floor and played it on his new “quad” system. Loud. It’s been family DNA since.

own

One of my favourite albums ever. 6 stars!

Great album!

Always happy for an enjoyable album on this list.

Great album all the way through, except for that drum solo in mobs dick.

not bad, but not for me

Classic. Ramble On is one of my favorites songs of LZ

So many great songs. I think every single one of these tracks was played on the radio when I was growing up. Not many albums can say that.

What can you say other than this is some of the best music by the best rock musicians ever. Led Zeppelin I & II is my call for the best start to a career ever (maybe Hendrix?). The back to back of "What is and What should never Be" with "The Lemon Song" is in strong contention for best back-to-back bass songs ever. Bad ass album.

LOVE THIS

Top 3 What is and what sound never be Ramble on Whole lotta love

My favorite Zeppelin!

I thought LZ1 was good a few weeks ago… this takes that LP and dials it up to 11! More rocking, more bluesy, more adventurous and some absolutely killer tracks. I have listened to this 3 times now… 9.5/10

9.0/10

A masterpiece, rock legends in all their glory

Day 4 — Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin II (1969) Listened: Feb 26, 2026 Genre: Blues Rock / Hard Rock Vibe: Bluesy hard rock Highlights: • Whole Lotta Love • What Is and What Should Never Be • The Lemon Song • Thank You • Heartbreaker • Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman) • Ramble On • Moby Dick • Bring It On Home Impression: Great album from start to finish. Love the blues inspired rock, huge guitar riffs, epic rhythm section and perfect voice for it all. Rating: 4.6/5 Keep songs? Yes — all added to favorites Revisit album? Absolutely

Excellent

Ok I definitely get Zeppelin now That was unbelievable, night and day difference between this one and III. I really think Plant’s voice suits this hard rock style of music a lot more than the more folky sound in III. Can also see why Jimmy Page is considered a top 5 guitarist of all time, he was absolutely dealing. Heartbreaker was my favorite from this album and definitely going in my playlist, but Thank You and Living Loving Maid also deserve shoutouts, not to mention Whole Lotta Love being a classic. I loved pretty much every song on here, no real complaints. This album absolutely feels 10 years ahead of its time, hard to believe this was released just a couple months after Abbey Road. That blues sound combined with some really fun high energy music results in some of the best music you’ll ever hear, and you can tell just how may bands heard this album and decided to go in that direction. Would be very surprised if this one ends up outside my top 25 of the list when this is all said and done.

Brilliant sophomore effort from one of rock's greatest. Recorded and released the same year as their debut, 1969. It was a great year. Solid song selections, from the opener Whole Lotta Love all the way through to a dynamite closer in Bring It On Home. In between, you get another TOP TEN PERFECT SONGS in What Is And What Should Never Be, as well as Living Loving Maid straight into Heartbreaker. The DJ screwed up if you didn't hear those 2 back-to-back on the radio. And Moby Dick set the standard for songs with kick-ass drum solos. And I absolutely love Ramble On, which is rightly so the theme of the Loyola Ramblers. I had forgotten just how good of an album this was start to finish. Not a bad track in the bunch.

II is in the top 3 Zeppelin albums. Absolutely a classic.

Bangers everywhere. Overall maybe the album that made the biggest impression on me. Notes: Ramble On was when I learned a bass didn’t just have to copy the root notes of the guitar. That bass line is exquisite. I think Frank said this but Plant may be a cuck. The drum solo on Moby Dick has puzzled me for my entire life. Where I’ve landed is he was trying to be artistic? He COULD melt our faces, but this was his moment to… I don’t know. Ozzy over Plant!?!? Robby brings it from start to finish here. AI will give us LZ2 with OO in the very near future and we’ll see. So many good choices on here, some subtle. One that stood out here was the doubling of the lead on the intro to Moby Dick. Barely notice it but works so well. I’d say Page is the MVP but they all work so perfectly together. Kinda their deal. One bad choice may have been the length of that Whole Lotta Love breakdown. Coulda shaved 30 seconds. That guitar sound to open the record 🤯

No doubt 5. Maybe my favorite zeppelin album. Not much to add.

Growing up, I remember listening to Whole Lotta Love countless times in my parent’s cars. All of us knew what to do when the weird part comes on - which of course was to be cool while my parents turned the volume down and wait silently for Bonham and Plant to let Page back in 😂😂 What a shame that was, but I get it at the same time. That part is fucking weird I ended up watching Becoming Led Zeppelin recently. It paints a picture that America gave LZ a chance and really saved them from dying in their first year - particularly after their SF Filmore show. They loved America so much that they recorded this entire album on the road in different studios throughout America on their second tour One last note: To hear these sounds on a record less than one year after Abbey Road is remarkable. And it actually kicked Abbey Road out of the #1 position on the billboard top albums

Not sure if this is lame, but Ramble On was like the coolest thing I had ever heard in grade school. I just loved that contrast between verse and chorus. Still in my top LZ songs. What is and What Should Never Be plays around with that structure too - love the bass lines on the quiet parts of that song and Lemon Song too. I gotta go back through all the LZ albums, but I think this and PG do the most for me.

This album has everything that I love in one. It has good base, sick guitar rifts, and interesting melodies. The drums and the guitar rift on the song "Heartbreaker" are so good, its arguably my favorite song on the record. Some highlights of mine are "What Is and What Should Never Be", "The Lemon Song", "Thank You", "Heartbreaker". The first half of the record is in my opinion stronger than the second, however the second half has its great moments as well such as "Moby Dck" which is fully an instrumental, and "Bring it On Home" which starts off as a slow song but halfway through switches up. I give this album a light 5.

Led Zeppelin was one of my favorite bands in high school. When I started playing guitar I wanted to play like Jimmy Page. Zep II is a true classic and often considered the "heaviest" Led Zeppelin album. John Paul Jones is so underrated: the bass lines add so much depth to songs like "What Is And What Should Never Be," "Living Loving Maid," and "Ramble On." This album has everything a teenage boy could want: sex, Lord of the Rings references, sloppy guitar solos, killer riffs, and utter bombast.

I never saw the hype of led zeppelin and tbh I never really listened to them - but my godd they are good this a brilliant album - I see it now

This music is really fun to listen to, everything else aside. For me it's probably a 4, but the Tolkien imagery lifts it up to a 5.

Is Led Zeppelin II THE best Rock and Roll albums of all time?

Such a great album.

Led Zep in their full, cockrockin' pomp and at the peak of their powers. Lots of fantastic songs on here, with some of my favourite LZ tunes making an appearance - Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On. Moby Dick is a little indulgent with a drum solo that stutters on for ages, but it was the late 60's, that was how people rolled. The Lemon Song has some of the most hilarious lyrics ever, talking about squeezing old Robert Plant until the juice runs down his leg!!! This is the sound of a rock band rocking as hard as they possibly can, and having an awesome time doing it. 5 stars

This wasn't perfect like 'Led Zeppelin' but VERY VERY good and I will be returning.

Potentially the best album by potentially the best band ever. Just hit after hit and so good all the way through. John Bonham is just unreal. I feel like I don’t have to explain anything further on this album or about Zeppelin, just 300% on it.

Another album from one of the greatest bands of all time. Not much else to say.

Not my favourite of theirs but still one of the best albums of all time imo

As classic rock goes this is hard to top, just incredibly talented musicians each delivering powerhouse performances in tandem. That BASS! Those VOCALS! The RIFFS, oh and Moby Dick..A few of the best tracks ever.

This is a great album. Going to give it 5 stars. So good.

pretty good

This album squeezed my lemon

You could put Led Zeppelin albums 1-6 on here and they'd all be 5 stars to me. So yes, I'm a Zeppelin fan. My guitar teacher in 6th grade got me into them and I haven't looked back. Hell, I still remember doing my 8th grade research paper on them. This isn't even my favorite Zeppelin album but it's still absolute perfection. JPJ incredible bass lines are really outstanding amongst the rippin guitar riffs, solid drumming, and Plant's unmatched vocals. It's all good, don't get me wrong, but perhaps his best work throughout 1-6.

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Hiton kovaa meininkiä ja huikeita riffejä. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Probably the most rock and roll album of all rock and roll albums, and this band even had a song called rock and roll which wasn't even on this album. Rock and roll!!

great album

Banger. Childhood distilled.

Good classic rock and blues

Masterpiece

Fantástico!

One of the best rock albums ever, just hit after hit. I'm not even a big Led Zepplin fan and I knew like 3/4's of the songs.

Banger

Zeppelin's bluesy rock

I love Led Zeppelin. The problem is that most people do. While listening to this album, I am unable to immerse myself into the themes of the songs, because all I can imagine is sitting at a bar with my friends on a Friday evening, with no worries in my head and a cocktail in my hands while Led Zeppelin is blasting through their speakers. Their songs are ingrained in our culture and lives, we all know them, we've all heard it and we all love them. It just goes to show how timeless their music is, when half of a century later, we still listen to it. And it's such a thin line between being overplayed and timeless. Nickleback is one of the most hated bands, despite making genuinely good music, yet most people hate them because they are overplayed. However we just can't get tired of Led Zeppelin and continue to play their music everywhere.

Zak pointed out a squeaky bass pedal, I thought oh no! But guess what, I love it. Thank fucking god.

Heartbreaker now stuck in my head for 3 weeks.

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Ramble on has one of my favorite bass lines ever. I could listen to that song on repeat for ages. I don't think I've ever noticed the drums in Ramble On before and that probably speaks to the restraint and tastefulness of these musicians. But good lord the bassist is so good Are Led Zeppelin I-IV all on this list? Cause if so, hell ya. I think 4 is my favorite but they are all dope I don't think I've heard Thank You before but I loved the key solo at the end. It was kind of reminiscent of classical organ pieces, very pretty. Perhaps one of the tightest bands out there - every song is absolutely locked tf in It's a sick album.

ahh what a classic. it just makes me wonder why i refused to listen to led zeppelin when i was younger, i feel like i should've and would've loved them

Listened previously. Expectations: High - Verdict: Masterpiece - I mean, it's Led Zep 2. Did hard rock peak here? Quite possibly.

60’s Rock ⭐️Ramble On

Classic rock album. I hadn't really given the whole thing a listen before, and it really is solid all the way through. Plus you get classic like Ramble On and Whole Lotta Love. Listening to Robert Plan use his voice more like an instrument than for lyric delivery is fascinating. Good stuff.

Iconic riffs, a great Bonham drum solo, and an album that just flies by because it's so fun!

i fucking love zeppelin

Enters and exits with a bang, barely lets up in between. Call it a 4.5 rounded up. Only imaginable nitpick would be to exercise even a little brevity.

Probably the best sequel since Houmous & Chutney 2 - which was actually their 76th studio album. 4.9 1/9 Whole Lotta Love

I hadn’t listened to this intently in so long, it kind of took me by surprise how immediate it is and how hard the music itself hits. Is it all stolen? Yeah, but man do I get why it influenced generations.

An improvement on their first album, AND a gollum reference. Easy 5. I don’t know what’s wrong with the Harris boys.

One of the few times a follow-up album is just as good as the original hit album.

On par with their debut. Some lyrics do fall into cock-rock territory ('Lemon Song' being the main offender), but the music is so good you can give it a pass. Page's wailing solo during 'Whole Lotta Love' still sounds as incredible as when I was first left awestruck by it as a child. Bonzo pounds the drums like a lunatic. Even the allegations of plagiarism can't make me hate this band as they can play so damn well.

- I don't think I can write anything that would add to the cultural legacy of this record. -

Pretty much every Led Zep album is a 5 for me :)

The one and the only

Klassiker in jeder Note.

Get the Led out!

Love Led Zeppelin. Not a bad song on this album. So. So. SO good. The use of stereo panning with just the guitar on What Is And What Should Never Be towards the end of the song is just clever and fantastic. The bass on these songs is funky & great. Really tones out Jimmy Page, which makes it better. He doesnt suck, he is just sloppy. Anyways, I will always give this album a listen no matter what.

FIRE

You must find a solitary spot where you can crank this to the limits of your speakers (and your eardrums, I guess) tolerance to not liquify. Led Zeppelin had the greatest rhythm section in all of rock and your subwoofer needs to express this. This album is basically the heaviest blues-rock session of all time (ripping off Howlin' Wolf on "Lemon Song" and Willie Dixon twice on "Whole Lotta Love" and "Bring It On Home") but they don't just whitewash the blues here, instead taking into a harder, denser territory than it had been to yet and creating the blueprint for hard rock and heavy metal. For my money, their best album, and a desert island pick for me. I just have to be sure that desert island has a kick-ass stereo system.

10/10

First time listening to this Led Zeppelin album and enjoyed it a lot. Favorites are: Whole Lotta Love and Ramble On

perfect. no notes

Led Zeppelin II is the blueprint for everything heavy that would come out for the next half a century. Released (in the US) on Halloween 1969. A few months later (February 1970) Black Sabbath released its S/T debut album in which they take that blueprint, perfect it and invented Heavy Metal. Led Zeppelin II was the heaviest album released in rock history a title they would only hold for a little over three months when Black Sabbath's debut took that title & blew up the hippie rock of the last 2-3 years and became the definitive kings of heavy a title that Led Zeppelin had no use for. While both Led Zeppelin II & Black Sabbath's ST debut are both absolute flawless masterpieces, I tend to like Led Zeppelin II slightly (ever so slightly better as I might change my mind by Sunday) more. That said- Black Sabbath's debut would prove to be an endlessly more important and inspirational album in the history of Heavy Metal. No question there. The UK overrepresented on Dimey's 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die? Nah. Considering that the best music in the world has come out of the UK for the last 60 some years I would go as far as to say that the UK is underrepresented in Dimey's often hair pulling frustrating book. So, there!

One of the best hard rock albums ever—by the best hard rock band ever. When I think of five-star albums, this is one of the first that comes to mind. From start to finish, I think this is Led Zeppelin’s most consistent album. (On a side note, John Paul Jones is amazing on this album. I never paid him much attention when I was younger, and it’s not easy since his parts are buried in the mix, but it’s worth taking the time to listen for him and pick him out. Good examples are “What Is and What Should Never Be,” “The Lemon Song,” and “Ramble On.” Of course, all the other band members are amazing as well.)

Not my favorite Zeppelin record but still easily a 5 star worthy record. They were on another level.

John Paul Jones rules!!!!

I’m mean is there anything better?

Yes..oh yes. Chopped full of goodies!!

One all time rock albums

Every single track here is of outstanding quality. Put one of them on someone else’s album and it would be the highlight. As a whole this is probably the greatest album in the 1001. Easiest five starts ever.

Banger 10/10 No skips

Klassiker.

Hard rock - heavy metal essential Whole lotta love Thank you Heartbreaker Living loving

My favorite Zeppelin album. Love every track.

Great songs and you can see a bridge between rock n roll and metal.

There are quite a few things I’ve never liked Led Zeppelin. Lyrically they’re a weird mix of macho silliness alongside cringey songs mentioning damsels and castles. Some of their music is folky and/or fey. And I really don’t enjoy Robert Plant‘s voice. And yet…how can a record that kicks off with Whole Lotta Love not be a five star album? Plus, anyway, even allowing for the elements I don’t much like, plenty else on the album is fabulous. The best bits for me are when they’re playing fairly basic blues (as opposed to their Stairway to Heaven-style stuff), when they bring a kind of nerdy-but-hip white-boy swagger to the classic blues style. And this album is solidly, or at least predominantly, a blues record. Vocals aside, the drums, bass and guitar parts are off-the-scale good in places, and they have a brilliant sense of rhythm, groove and timing. It’s really, really good, despite my lurking quibbles about Led Zep generally.

I love Led Zeppelin

Freaking love this kind of music. Instrumentals were amazing and big fan of the variety and range of these people. I WILL be listening to this again.

I don’t understand why I’ve never listened to this album completely before, it’s magnificent, utterly magnificent! If you don’t give this 5 stars you have no soul.

Song for song, this is one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Not my favorite Zeppelin album, but they are consistently the best of the classic rock bands. Favorite Song: Whole Lotta Love

One of the GOATs

I fucking love this album. It’s 2 times better than The Black Album. Wink!

This is #day513 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… it's been a while since I last got a Zeppelin record on this journey, but does it really matter? Zeppelin will be Zeppelin no matter which album you put on. Their second LP isn't necessarily my favorite, but it's easy to imagine how revolutionary it must have sounded in the late '60s. Most of these songs not only stood the test of time, but also became blueprints for classic, hard, and blues rock. This is a 5 out of 5. Looking forward to #day514.

Oh hell yeah.

Complete reappraisal time. Really hated Zepplin when my sister first brought them home after the Beatles broke up and you couldn't avoid them being played and adored by all red blooded males everywhere. So listening to it again end to end for the first time since, it's all familiar, but also way more fun and more to appreciate than I heard in it all those years. I've never realized how thoroughly rooted in blues everything here is and how great the bass is throughout, how innovative and immediate and adventurous these songs sound, especially compared to what became the sound of metal kingpins over the next couple decades, and how the heavy guitar/bass riffs I never liked really put these songs into a different place in the body than anything else I've ever heard. So somehow what was once a 1 has become a 5.

Starting to feel less sick today! So you get a more in depth review from me today. I have always enjoyed Led Zeppelin. But I wasn’t too familiar with the history of the band. Apparently this is the first album of theirs to gain broader mass appeal. Even though their first album is still quite popular among fans. This album was created with a more collaborative process from the band and less of the Jimmy Page led directive. The music industry wanted more single tracks from rock artists and Led Zeppelin insisted that the album format is better than a popular single. This album was seen by many as an “unhinged and elaborate deconstruction of American blues”. Learning that Led Zeppelin was also one of the first artists of the genre to move towards big stadium and arena shows is not surprising with their huge fame. Which is wild to consider the experience of being at one of those shows. Though these shows were not always run successfully. Since you’re bringing a defiant and angsty genre of people into large crowds that had hardly been seen before. While simultaneously introducing widespread use of psychedelics and inexperienced venue hosts. Notably the Rolling Stones at this time also pushing the genre into stadium shows. Hired the hells angels to be security at their 1969 Altamont Concert. The Hell’s Angels obviously saw a secondary opportunity being present to traffic drugs to fans and were paid in beer. There is a documentary called Gimme Shelter documenting this wave of counterculture. I’m sure many crowd control measures and other lessons have been learned from these early days of large venue concerts. Ensuring better overall spectator safety, sound quality and overall total improved experience. But man would it be cool to be able to experience one of the early days of Led Zeppelin playing live in a huge arena or stadium.

Gahh think i have to give this 5 stars, maybe 4.5 if I could. This is peak classic rock, bringing sick guitar solos, drum solos, thos whiney orgasmic vocal sounds, it has it all on here! Kinda sick of Whole Lotta Love, however the interlude on that song is tight, and I kinda forgot about it till I listened through this time. Ramble On is another one ive heard a lot, but surprisingly still find very enjoyable to listen to. This one is a classic that deserves its praise, and who am I to not deliver said praise to the almighty rock gods of the name of Led Zeppelin. 9/10

Spent way too much time in my earlier years thinking Zeppelin was too overhyped. While there has been so much musical innovation in the last 60 years several bands/artists certainly get talked about more than they should. There's a lot of other incredible artists doing incredible things we could be dissecting. But at the same time being a drummer and intentionally listening to Bonham play is such an incredible experience. Praise being heaped on drummers that just play really fast or hit a lot of different things has always bugged me. But I love that Bonham can hit really hard, but also show restraint and serve the groove so much better than most highly acclaimed drummers can. Paige also gets a ton of praise and rightfully so, a lot of the sound of the band gets attributed to him and learning about their production techniques and experimenting and trying new things is one of my favorite things to learn about bands from the 60's - 80's. Plus he really is the embodiment of playing with soul, he can fuck up a bunch of notes in a solo and it doesn't make my skin crawl cause he makes it work. Robert Plant also gets his share of praise for being a great vocalist and honestly I have the least insightful commentary, but yeah he sings good. But the guy I feel like gets the least amount of talk is John Paul Jones, not surprising the bassist gets the least acknowledgment, but damn does he just hold everything together. But that's what bassists, especially blues bassists do. Hearing Them Crooked Vultures (UNFORTUNATELY, ONE AND ONLY ALBUM) really cemented that. Just absolutely holding it down while writing his own fun riffs and playing keys occasionally. So much respect for that guy. Also Them Crooked Vultures please make another album, I beg you please. Anyway, this album is incredible and totally deserving of 5 stars from me.

One of my top 10 as albums of all time!

This was the first Led Zeppelin album I purchased (I was probably 18 or so), and without ever hearing it, I knew the first seven songs from their ubiquity on classic rock radio at the time. And with good reason, they're all classics. I think this album is sort of the blueprint for what rock would become over the next several decades. Cool riffs, guitar solos, lyrics that alternate between being horny and nerdy. The only real blemish on it is a drum solo track, a trend that has thankfully gone out of style. But, everything else is s-tier rock. Highlights for me are basically everything else, but shoutouts to "Ramble On", "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid", "What Is and What Should Never Be", and their wild take on Howlin' Wolf's "KIlling Floor", "The Lemon Song". 5 stars.

No features. No Swedish songwriters. No Trap beats. 100% pure uncut Rock. Robert Plant the father of all his wife’s kids and his sister-in-law’s kid too.

This is fantastic. I loved every song. I've spent a decent amount of time with this record, but not nearly as much as LZ4. Musically, I was really blown away by the mix of gothic sounds with classic blues. Some of guitar in this sounds like it could be Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters, but then it has that British medieval gothic undertone that really sets this apart. The other thing that caught me off guard, is how sexy this album is. Its horny, man. Whole Lotta Love is straight up about Robert Plant's penis. Lemon Song is also really horny. Which, going along with classic American blues, that's kind of right in line. A lot early blues were about sex, which kind of shows Led's deep respect and admiration for that style of music. Ramble On is a pure classic. Moby Dick takes you places if you let it, especially the drumming. What is and What Should Never Be, is one my personal favorites. I can't listen to that song without thinking of the Bradley Cooper manic episode in Silver Linings Playbook. That scene with the music, is incredible. Bring It Home is a perfect bookend. I love this record! Its perfect.

Incredible instrumentation, has a depth and complexity to it that is often under-imitated by influencees. Definitely a classic.

Had originally only heard one song from this album but now that I’m listening to the full thing it absolutely slaps

Words cannot describe this album!