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Outstanding
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It's stunningly good
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None
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yes
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Today, British guitar music isn't up to much. Bands like Oasis, Reef, and the other "leftovers" of the mid-nineties Britpop Boom, are content to make repetitive, bland and utterly unoriginal rock albums, which immediately tire, and give rock a bad name. And ironically, Radiohead, the best of the few guitar bands that are willing to experiment and be daring and creative, seem to have shunned guitars for good.
So, if you want some truly great guitar rock, hark back to the Sixties, when Led Zeppelin - so named because an early critic predicted (wrongly) that they would "fall like a Lead Zeppelin" - were about to release their second album - the debatably correctly titled "Led Zeppelin 2".
My friend Henry introduced me to this album about two months ago, and since then it has barely left my CD player. It starts brilliantly, with the majestic "Whole Lotta Love", which features such lyrical gems as "Swing for me baby, I wanna be your back-door man". It also features incredible guitar playing from Jimmy Page, who at times uses violin bows; and "that guitar solo" which Noel Gallacher completely failed to play in Oasis's diabolical cover version on their recent live album, "Familiar to Millions".
Other highlights include the quite frankly superb "Lemon Song", with its key lyric, "Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg" - refering to the lemon, of course - and the triumphant Moby Dick.
All in all, it's a stunning album. If you think IV is good, you'll be amazed by this, which is, in my opinion, Led Zepp's best album. As has been said many times, music would be different without them.
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Zeppelin's second album, released, like its predecessor, in 1969, the inventive guitarist demonstrated that he'd indeed learned his lessons well. Witness "Whole ...
Zeppelin's second album, released, like its predecessor, in 1969, the inventive guitarist demonstrated that he'd indeed learned his lessons well. Witness "Whole ...
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