LED ZEPPELIN II

As for a basic rock'n'roll album this is probably a quite good and a real classic record, but somehow I don't find inspiration to listen through it anymore, the tapes being stretched as out of tune and uninteresting in the old car cassette player. During the years I have found some other groups approaching blues in my opinion more interesting way, and my own antipathy towards the singer's style has grown with time. The opener "Whole Lotta Love" has a funny slightly psychedelic middle part, where I believe the band members are trying to open a champagne bottle and not succeeding in it. "What is and What Should Never Be" is a quite good song with slower and more powerful parts discussing interestingly, and it's the best track here for me with the romantic "Thank You" (I'm open to some syrup ballads). In addition of the other rocker rants "Moby Dick" is a worthy to mention, as it's a drum solo song in style of Cream's "Toad", failing to bring anything new to this concept however and Bonzo losing in my opinion clearly to Ginger (on all levels). Deep Purple also gave this kind of treatment in 1970's for their version of "Paint It Black", I guess it was kind of an infection going on during those days. However, the album should be recommended for all fans of classic bluesy 1960's rock'n'roll.