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Led-Zep II. Sabroso!

Advantages: Musicality, Drumming, Guitar Solos, etc.
Disadvantages: No One.

Led Zeppelin II is the second album released by the English rock band Led Zeppelin in 1969. The album was recorded during a hectic and much-traveled period of the band's career from January through August 1969, when they completed four European and three American concert tours. Each song was separately recorded, mixed and produced at various studios in the UK and the U.S. Some of the recording studios utilised by the band were far from state-of-the-art. ...
...It has been suggested that Led Zeppelin II largely writes the blueprint for 1970s hard rock. Blues-derived songs like "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", "The Lemon Song" are now standards of the genre, where the guitar-based riff (rather than vocal chorus or verses) defines the song and provides the key hook. ...

mig-bri 21.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Led Zeppelin II (Vinyl Replica Edition) [Digipak] [Remastered] - Led Zeppelin

Hammer Of The Gods

Advantages: Heavy Rock overtones with strong blues and folk influence
Disadvantages: Not long enough

...gentle folk tied in with Led Zep's typical transferance to the opposite extreme. A good chorus, but not too overstated. Next, is my personal favourite song of all time, The amazing "Heartbreaker". This starts as it means to go on, and we even get a big Jim Page solo in the middle. Granted, live versions of this song are often better, but this one is still worth a listen. This is immediately followed by "Livin Lovin Maid" a little known Led Zep song, ...
...as they never played it live, which is a shame. "Ramble On" comes next, which is a very folky song, but with a heavy chorus and build up. This song has strong lyrical references to the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The John Bonham masterpeice comes next in "Moby Dick" An excellent riff, with an amazing drum solo. The last song "Bring It On Home," does exactly what it says on the tin. A stomping blues song, that draws the album to a scorching climax ...

sirsexton 09.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Led Zeppelin II [Remastered] - Led Zeppelin

Magical helter skelter!!!

Advantages: Crahing drums,overpowering bass solos played to ultimate perfection,organs,keyboards,amazing vocals and romantic guitar playing!!!
Disadvantages: NONE

...their name it would be Led Zeppelin! The album contains pure and utter raw power, bursting power and magical packages of potential energy ready to explode out like compressed gas.Crashing rythmic drums, dmashing coherent symbols and loud dronings on the bass drums and possesive strikes of the drums making use of every part of the drum kit for each tune, each melody the whole album is carried on this magic carpet up to the heavens at night to the ...
...of my fave tracks by Led Zeppelin is on this powerful debut, 'Your time is gonna come' tis a very sad and magical song which i will never be able to comprehend,the beutiful sob beutiful organ playing at the start makes me feel as if i'm lying in a churchyard by a river lazing in the haze of miday,with amazingly thumping and vibrating bass solos Jones is a bass wizard,he welds that guitar as if it were the backbone of every song as an energy reserve ...

darkangelwing 13.08.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Led Zeppelin I [Remastered] - Led Zeppelin

GaGa still brings the Excitement!

Advantages: 8 Great different sounding tracks
Disadvantages: Always leaves you wanting more & then you have to wait for her next masterpiece album.

...her earlier stuff on The Fame album. It reminds me of a summer track, listening to it whilst just chilling on the beach. It's not as catchy as the other songs but it does bring something different to this album. 8) Teeth - To be honest when i first listened to this song i thought 'What the Hell is she doing?!?' Its hard to describe this song. It reminds me of a song that would be performed in a cabaret bar and it really is an old-fashioned number. ...
...Dangerous album. He uses old school beats and strange sounding vocals to create a unique song for Lady GaGa. After a few listens to this song i found myself clicking my fingers and tapping my feet to the beat. I'm looking forward to seeing her perform this live when i go see her in concert in 2010. The album booklet is a simple black 14 page booklet which includes the lyrics to all the songs. There is also 3 pictures of Lady Gaga in her typical ...

djs89uk 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fame Monster, The - Lady GaGa

Why it may not be Pulp, Jarvis maintains his solid solo catalogue

Advantages: Excellent, witty lyrics with a decent range of style. Jarvis is just too cool..
Disadvantages: No real 'big hitter' of a track that you'd find on a Pulp album if your a more general listener

...of the 90's. Further Complications is Jarvis' attempt towards a more indie Brit rock album which still oozes the class of a brilliant frontman. The title track is certainly a great opener, catchy and witty which pretty much sums up the rest of the Album. 'Angela' is one of those songs that will get in your head until people end up asking you why the hell you keep saying Angela in a funny accent and who the hell she is! other examples of this raspy ...
...tracks; not the sort that will come on your iPod shuffle and you'll skip. There are more soleful elements to the album too; Discosong and Hold Still, Hold Still especially as one of those typical 'I can barely hear him but it sounds so good' Cocker songs. It's probably become obvious that I mention nearly every song as 'Solid' but this is definately where this album comes in and it does not really contain a big chart hitting song. Then again, who ...

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Review of Further Complications [PA] - Jarvis Cocker