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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

Alice Coopers First Album

Advantages: Great First Album
Disadvantages: Some Tracks A Little Dated

Frank Zappa spotted the Alice Cooper Group and funded this their first album in November 1968. It is an interesting album and contains many dark numbers which hinted at what was to come. Indeed Alices former mentor supported Alice Cooper many years later as the Prodigy eclipsed the Masters work. The album cover uses a paininting by Ed Bearsley which has got nothing to do with either the band or what appears on the record but is more apparent to ...
...briefly in the recording studio to help out on some of the tracks due to prior commitments. 1. Titanic Overture (An Epic Masterpiece as listenable today as when it was first produced) 2. 10 Minutes Before The Worm (Darkly Humourous) 3. Sing Low Sweet Cherio (Fun Rock Number) 4. Today Mueller (About A Friend of The Bands Called Tootie, the lyrics got changed from Tootie to Today) 5. Living 6. Fields Of Regret 7. No Longer Umpire 8. Levity ...

rocking 28.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Pretties For You - Alice Cooper

What does it all mean?

Advantages: Trippy experimental 60s album
Disadvantages: Bad drumming!

Pretties for You was Alice Cooper's first release in 1969 and anyone listening to it without being familiar with it would struggle to recognise it as Alice Cooper. The work is psychedelic rock n roll and sounds like The Doors with more emphasis put on guitar work and mouth organ as opposed to keyboard. This album was released at a time when the band were yet to have really dabbled with shock rock, when they were based in California playing to hippies ...
...dressed "as barbie dolls" by another Zappa band The GTO's, an enterage of female groupies from the sunset strip. The songs are trippy and fun, guitar work is fairly good, vocals are sound, drum sounds like someone tapping on a car steering wheel and the lyrics themselves seem to make little sense in the order they are written. Infact they make Syd Barrett look incredibly coherent, despite this fact - it doesn't stop me listening and listening again ...

dangaroo 21.11.2008 · Read full review
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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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