LED ZEPPELIN II

The first song "Whole Lotta Love" opens with a monster, stuttering riff from Page who later around the 3 minute mark follows Bonham's thundering drums with a scorching guitar solo.There is some experimental stuff in between including Page using the bow on his guitar.There is a nice contrast in the next song "What Is And What Should Never Be" between the gentle vocals of Plant with bass and cymbals, and the heavy drums and guitar with Plant's aggressive vocals. Man can Bonham pound the drums ! "The Lemon Song" is a great blues song. I like the way the song speeds up a minute and a half in as Plant is crying the blues. Nice long guitar solo and the vocal and guitar interplay is incredible.

"Thankyou" is truly an amazing ballad. Check out Page's guitar solo on "Heartbreaker" ! This song blends into "Living Loving Maid". "Ramble On" has long been a favourite of mine. "I guess i'll keep on rambling". "Moby Dick" is a drum solo that fortunately is less than 5 minutes long. I'm not big on drum solos, but I love the first minute of this one as Page let's it rip on his guitar a few times. Nice. "Bring It On Home" features Plant on harmonica and the instrumental breakout 2 minutes in is steller. Page's guitar solos are so raw and so good ! Yes, if you haven't noticed i'm a big Jimmy Page fan.

I think they improved on the debut with this one, as difficult as that was.This is such a powerful, blues based album full of energy and attitude.

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