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Go baaaaack to the main Led Zeppelin Jimmy! Looks Like I've Done a Led Zeppelin. Again.
Overall Album Score: 8.2 out of 10 Hey! Who the $#*# said I don't like hard rock! If I didn't have a hangover, I'd be bangin' my head along with the lot of them! This is a sweet album! We get the same message from almost everybody, except for a few select rock critics out there. Everybody loves Led Zeppelin better than Led Zeppelin II. I was THINKING about deviating from that, but my head was being smashed in by the notorious Wichita, Kansas drug lord (Rev. Robert Gutt of the First National Episcopal Church) and he made me change my mind. One thing I wish Led Zeppelin would have done to this album is to get rid of all this non-heavy metal stuff! Sure... I'm all for experimentation, but this ain't the band to do it. (Though, I do support this band, usually, when it 'muses' with its instruments.) They are all great musicians, and they work well together, but I doubt any of their ancestors were related to Thomas Edison. Okay ... granted ... the drum solo on track number 8 would have been much better had John Bonham decided to stick his drumsticks up his arse and leave them there. There are also a few other tracks on here that I deem yawn-inspiring. Yiiiikes! From a hard rock band? No way! Yes way! That's why I want them to stick to their power-chords and stuff. Forget all these POODIE BALLADS! I DON'T WANT NO STEENKIN' BALLADS! I WANT POWER CHORDS AND 'OOOOO! I'M ROCKIN' LIKE A BADASSSS STUFF!' (Okay... I don't REALLY like albums that consist entirely of power chords, but ... I don't know ... if there ever was a band to do that, it might just have well been Led Zeppelin.) This is practically the only band I even listen to who I actually appreciate it when they do this cocky, show-offy stuff. I haven't even given their third album a listening-to yet. I have it in my possession, though. The rock critics are all over the place on it! Some call it average, some call it their worst early album, one guy even calls it their best ever! It'll be interesting to see where I will stand on that, which I hope is more favorable than this poo-patty I'm standing on. Man! I *knew* I shouldn't have let those COWS in my house! They chewed up one of my Queen albums, too. Hmmph. Good night, Bohemia. Mama will never be able to kill again. *sniff* Overall Album Score: 8.2 out of 10 (Well... in spite of the tiny boost I gave it in the album category, it still turned out to be an 8.2. And, I guess, the score IS appropriate. While the first two tracks are particularly awesome, the rest of the album does have some minor downers about it. Notably the drum solo. And other bits also get boring.) Average Song Score: 8.2 (The first two songs are REALLY kick-butt. Some of the other ones fail to interest me, however.) Album Tilt: 8.5 (Okay... I'm going out on a limb here, but as I was listening to this album to prepare for the review, it seemed to me that I enjoyed the songs more than an 8.2. As an album altogether, however, there's nothing particularly impressive about it.) Artist Tilt: 8.0 (Sure, they revolutionized a few things ... but that was on their last album! This album just helps some of the advances of the last album become established for all to use! Also, a lot of these songs are allegedly ripped-off, but I really wouldn't know. And, I don't care! Rip off stuff all you like if it you can make it sound something like this!) Track Reviews A Whole Lotta Love 10/10 Oh! What a riff! Okay... maybe I'm more impressed with the way it's used rather than the riff itself. It's a CLASSIC power rock song that makes Kiss look like granny's girlfriend at the bridge club. I mean ... you're going to listen to hard rock no matter what I tell you, right? So! Listen to this! These guys are actually able to sing and *gasp* play their instruments! Isn't that completely awesome? And there was some nice, innovative, and relatively simple work done in the studio. Okay... given... Robert Plant just spouts off nonsense at the end of the song, but that's what all Led Zeppelin is to me, anyway! NONSENSICAL CRAZY DUDES WHO CAN PLAY THEIR INSTURMENTS LOUUUUUD! In fact... Aerosmith and Kiss try it ... and they SUCK! In fact, they can just line up right now and Kiss my butt. Yes! KISS IT! ***MUUUUUUUAH!*** Tank ya! Dat felt guud! What is and Never Should Be 10/10 This is a neat song! It starts off very slow and then suddenly takes off with this VERY NICE hard rock sequence that, well, is awe-inspiring to this MANNNNNESS of mine. You know. I think I'm going to split a few logs. ...And then he wonders what real men listen to. Do they really listen to this? I bet they don't! They listen to KUNTRY. Real log-splitters don't sit on their asses writing maniacally on word processors like this, listening to Led Zeppelin albums. They are out in the mountains, splitting every tree in their path. You know... I didn't want to be a music reviewer. I wanted to be a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! The Giant Redwood! The Larch! The Fir! The Mighty Scots Pine! With my best girl by my side, we'd sing! Sing! SING! (I think, perhaps, by "manness" I really mean my "primitiveness." Oooooh.) The Lemon Song 8.5/10 Ewwwww! A lemon song! It starts out with another nice riff that is so good that Kiss would give up their make-up box for it, I bet. The instrument-playing is ONLY top-notch by EVERYBODY! (You know??? I don't think I ever gave enough credit to John Bonham in these reviews! Great drum-playing, yo! Oh! Whatabout that bass? Oh yes! GREAT bass, Mr. John Paul Jones ... vocals? Well, naturally! What would Led Zeppelin be without Robert Plants electric vocals? Ooooooooh! And Jimmy Page, essentially the center of this band ... bangabanga!) Well, this is essentially John Paul Jones' song as about the only thing we hear in this song is the bass guitar. By giving it MERELY an 8.5, that doesn't mean I didn't like his performance! If it was any lesser, it would have been *down* there. Like a 5. Or something. There is not really too interesting of a tune to begin with. There ya go! I gave the band line-up in a band review! All this innovation of mine surely means that I am the Beatles of web reviewing. Right? ... No? ........ Klaatu? Thank You 7/10 Man! This song is on the VERGE of sucking. While the melody is actually pretty good, they actually sound like they're trying to be sincere on here. No can do! Ohhhh! Where's that BASS??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Scream, Robert! SCREAM YER HEAD OFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!! NONE OF THIS *I'm the lead singer, and I'm a boring narcotic addict* stuff. Poooooooooop. Oh well. It's not a "failed" song at all, even though it doesn't have a power riff, or anything like that I would actually care to hear from this band. Heartbreaker 8/10 You know what? There's nothing too these riffs, right? I mean, you come up with something simple and you play it a lot. NO PROB. I guess that's why, when I go through Kiss albums, I always feel like I have to say the riff is coo... cause an idiot can make it. Well... Led Zeppelin are able to make good use of these riffs ... that's why they are so awesome!!! To this song, I say: Mmmmm... okay ... it does little for me. Though, has that CLASSIK hard rock sound, which is probably why everybody loves this track so. Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) 8/10 That last track ending, for some reason, makes the beginning of this song sound really nice! Well... the melody is very nice, and there are some inspired hard rock sequences at the end. To tell you the truth, I'm getting a little bit BORED. Ramble On 7.5/10 Hey! I just reviewed Shine On Brightly by Procol Harum, and it's got a track by the same name! Duud! Maybe Robert Plant is secretly Gary Brooker, and he just disguised his voice a lot. Ramble On? This track is not really even a hard rock song ... and if it wasn't for parts of the instrumentation (not a whole lot, unfortunately), it would have been almost entirely boring. Oh well. There is a Lord of the Rings reference on here FOR SOME REASON. Moby Dick 6/10 Oh look! I can play the DRUMS! This track has a good riff to it, but they don't put it to particularly good use! Pooooooooggogogogogoooooooo! This is the part in the album where everybody gets to show off their stuff ...... and it gets boring especially during John Bonham's show-offey and not-particularly-interesting drum solo. But ... I don't know ... the only other drum solo I remember ever hearing is some guy at a talent show at my middle school. Now that was CRAP! At least John Bonham can actually PLAY the drums. Well ... lengthy drum solos simply aren't EVER necessary! How do I know? 'Cause I said so! Bringing It On Home 9/10 Sounds a little bit like the early Stones if you ask me! It has a simple acoustic guitar riff and the harmonica going off to places. The occasional vocal (that sounds kinda like ELVIS). Well this intro takes WAY TOO LONG, but the wait is well worth the wait, as it progresses into one of the best hard rocking songs on this album. And then it returns to the boring stuff at the beginning. Hey! Do you agree? Or, am I retahded? Leave your commentitoes here slb23@shaw.ca (Simon B.) received Sept. 1, 2004 This is certainly one of the best sophmore albums I've ever
heard! It's even better than their first record! Jimmy Page delivers
the riffs on a silver platter on this one (granted he 'stole' some of
them from blues artists of the past...*ahem*...I'm talkin' about you,
"Whole Lotta Love")
By the way, you made a comment that "Thank You" was "on the verge of
sucking". This is just my opinion, but I happen to think it's one of
their best ballads (next to "Going to California"). All in all a darn fine
second album. [Side note about "Moby Dick": I find that drum solos on
studio records are generally not as good as they are on live records.
Cool riff though].
schmidte@lamadd.navy.mil (Eric) received Jan. 5, 2005 In the world of Zep fans this album is considered one of, if not the greatest album ever. I think all would be much more impressed if they listened to it with head phones, the arrangements are incredible. Also the Bohnam drum solo on Moby Dick was done without drum sticks, the use of just his hands makes it amazing. |
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