Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin’s first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. Since the group could only enter the studio for brief amounts of time, most of the songs that compose II are reworked blues and rock & roll standards. Some of the group fe3els like it was a rushed album and doesn’t have the same teeth as the first but still enjoyable.
157 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
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Dammit, I’m going to give this pretentious, derivative, plagiaristic, screechy-vocaled nerdrock made by pedophiles five stars aren’t I? *guitar starts jumping between channels on “What Is and What Should Never Be”* Yep. I am indeed going to give this five stars. Because I have two ears and they’re connected in some way that I do not in any way understand to a set of balls. It can be as dumb or wankish as it wants to be, but this is rock & roll. If someone had never heard rock & roll music and wanted to know what that term meant, you could play them Led Zeppelin II and say “this is what rock & roll is” and they would say “did they just mention Gollum and Mordor and then have a several minute-long drum solo?” and you would just smile and do that thing with your hands that looks like devil horns and start nodding your head. And they would either get it or they wouldn’t it, but you would have done all you could to bring them into the dark, dank, wood-paneled basement/wizard’s laboratory wherein dwells rock & roll. Motherfucking five stars and fuck you for even considering anything else. Dammit.
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