..:: audio-music dot info ::..


Main Page     The Desert Island     Copyright Notice
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz


Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1969
Time:
 41:00
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 1998.05.02
Price in €: 5,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Whole Lotta Love - 5:34
[2] What Is and What Should Never Be - 4:44
[3] Lemon Song - 6:19
[4] Thank You - 4:14
[5] Heartbreaker - 4:14
[6] Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) - 2:39
[7] Ramble On - 4:23
[8] Moby Dick - 4:21
[9] Bring It on Home - 4:20

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jimmy Page - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar, Background Vocals
Robert Plant - Harmonica, Vocals
John Paul Jones - Organ, Bass, Background Vocals
John Bonham - Drums, Background Vocals, Tympani


 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


"...swollen rock excursions..."

Q Magazine 10/94, p.141 4 Stars - Excellent



Additional engineers: George Chkiantz, Andrew Johns, Chris Huston.All tracks have been digitally remastered.All songs written by members of Led Zeppelin.From the first grinding notes of that famous vamp which introduces "Whole Lotta Love," LED ZEPPELIN II announces for all to hear that they are the definitive hard rock band of their generation. But before the listener can even settle into the groove, Led Zeppelin takes a hard left turn into a spacey new rhythm, exotically flavored by Page's droning feedback and innovative use of a violin bow. By tune's end Led Zeppelin has repeatedly toyed with the listener's expectations. This subversive quality distinguishes most of the arrangements on LED ZEPPELIN II, as in the soft/hard/soft/hard design of "What Is And What Should Never Be," the gospelish moods of "Thank You," the rocking vamps and funk rhythm changes of "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid," and the country music echoes of "Ramble On." And in their appropriations of source materials from Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson, Page and company continued to mine the rich vein of the blues.

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, the material that comprises II is almost entirely re-worked blues and rock & roll standards that the band were performing onstage at the time. Not only did the short amount of time result in a lack of original material, it made the sound more direct. Jimmy Page still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. "Whole Lotta Love," "The Lemon Song," and "Bring It on Home" are all based on classic blues songs, only the riffs are simpler and louder, and each song has an extended section for instrumental solos. Out of the remaining six songs, two sport light acoustic touches ("Thank You," "Ramble On"), but the other four are straightahead heavy rock, that follow the formula of the revamped blues songs. While Led Zeppelin II doesn't have the eclecticism of their debut, it was arguably more influential. After all, nearly every one of the hundreds of Zeppelin imitators used this record, with its lack of dynamics and its pummeling riffs, as a blueprint.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



"Jimmy Page still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. While 'Led Zeppelin II' doesn't have the eclecticism of their debut, it was arguably more influential. After all, nearly every one of the hundreds of Zeppelin imitators used this record, with its lack of dynamics and its pummeling riffs, as a blueprint."

All-Music Guide *****
 

 L y r i c s


Whole Lotta Love

You need cooling,
Baby I'm not fooling.
I'm gonna send you,
Back to schooling.
Way down inside,
Honey you need it.
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.

Wanna whole lotta love.

You've been learning,
Baby I been learning.
All them good times,
Baby baby I've been yearning.
Way way down inside,
Honey you need I.
I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you my love.

Wanna whole lotta love.

You've been cooling,
Baby I've been drooling.
All the good times,
I've been misusing.
Way way down inside,
I'm gonna give you my love.
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.

Wanna whole lotta love.

Way down inside woman,
You need love.


What Is And What Should Never Be

If I say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand child come with me,
It's to a castle I will take you,
Where what's to be they say will be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us pretty baby,
But what is and what should never be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.

But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl the answer lies with you.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

Everybody I know seems to know me well,
But does anybody know I'm gonna move like hell?


The Lemon Song

If I say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand child come with me,
It's to a castle I will take you,
Where what's to be they say will be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us pretty baby,
But what is and what should never be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.

But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl the answer lies with you.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

Everybody I know seems to know me well,
But does anybody know I'm gonna move like hell?


Thank You

If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.

Kind woman,
I give you my all.
Kind woman,
Nothing more.

Little drops of rain,
Whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong,
With you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
Inspiration's what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.

And so today,
My world it smiles,
Your hand in mine we walk the miles.
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness, I'm glad.

If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.


Heartbreaker

Hey fellas have you heard the news?
You know that Annie's back in town.
It won't take long just watch and see,
How the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face is the same,
As it was so long ago.
But from her eyes a different smile,
Like that of one who knows.

Well it's been ten years and maybe more,
Since I first set eyes on you.
The best years of my life gone by,
Here I am alone and blue.
Some people cry and some people die,
By the wicked ways of love.
But I'll just keep on rolling along
With the grace of the lord above.

People talking all around,
About the way you left me flat.
I don't care what the people say,
I know where their jive is at.
One thing I do have on my mind,
If you can clarify please do,
It's the way you call me by another guy's name,
When I try to make love to you.

Work so hard I couldn't unwind,
Get some money saved.
Abuse my love a thousand times,
However hard I tried.
Heartbreaker your time has come,
Can't take your evil way.
Go away heartbreaker.


Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)

With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
She's going aroung town in her aged Cadillac,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.

Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.

Alimony alimony paying your bills,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
When your conscience hits you knock it back with pills.
Living, loving, she's just a woman.

Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.

Telling tall tales of how it used to be,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
With the butler and the maid and the servants three,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.

Nobody hears a single word you say,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.
But you keep on talking till your dying day,
Living, loving, she's just a woman.

Come on babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round.
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.

Living, loving, she's just a woman.


Ramble On

Leaves are falling all around,
It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you I'm much obliged,
For such a pleasant stay.

But now it's time for me to go,
The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain,
And with it pain,
And it's headed my way.
Sometimes I grow so tired,
But I know I've got one thing I got to do,

Ramble on,
And now's the time the time is now.
To sing my song,
I'm going around the world,
I got to find my girl.
On my way,
I've been this way ten years to the day.
Ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

Got no time to for spreading roots,
The time has come to be gone.
And though our health we drank a thousand times,
It's time to ramble on.

Ramble on,
And now's the time the time is now.
To sing my song,
I'm going around the world,
I got to find my girl.
On my way,
I've been this way ten years to the day.
Ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

I ain't telling no lie.

Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old,
When magic filled the air.
It was in the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum and the evil one crept up,
And slipped away with her.

Ain't nothing I can do no,
I guess I'll keep on rambling.
I'm gonna shake.
Gonna ramble on, sing my song.
Gonna work my way around the world.
I can't stop this feeling in my heart,
Gotta keep searching for my baby.


Moby Dick

instrumental


Bring It On Home

Baby, baby.
I'm gonna bring it on home to you.
I've got my ticket, I've got that load.
Got up, gone higher, all aboard.
Take my seat, right way back, ooh yeah.
Watch this train roll down the track.
I'm gonna bring it on home,
Bring it on home to you.
Watch out,
Watch out,
Man move.

Try to tell you baby,
What you trying to do.
Trying to love me baby,
Love some other man too.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.

Went a little walk downtown,
Messed and got back late.
Found a note there waiting,
It said, daddy I just can't wait.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it back home.
Bring it back home to me baby.

Tell you pretty baby,
You love to mess me round.
I'm gonna give you loving baby,
Gonna move you out of town.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.

Sweetest little baby,
Daddy ever saw.
I'm gonna give you loving baby,
I'm gonna give you more.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
Bring it on home.
All right.

Bring it on home,
Bring it on home to you.

 M P 3   S a m p l e s


Currently no Samples available!