Led Zeppelin II

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Led Zeppelin II, also known by the unofficial nickname The Brown Bomber, is a rock and roll album, the second released by English band Led Zeppelin in 1969. Here they further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work which became even more widely acclaimed and arguably more influential.

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 US. The finished tracks reflect the raw, evolving sound of the band and their innovations as live performers.

Led Zeppelin II largely writes the blueprint for 1970s hard rock. Blues-derived songs like "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", "The Lemon Song" and "Bring It on Home" 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. Such arrangements and emphases were at the time atypical in popular music. As such, the album is generally considered to be very influential on the development of rock music, being an early forerunner of heavy metal, and inspiring a host of other rock bands including Deep Purple, Van Halen and Guns N' Roses.

Track listing

"Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham/Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) – 5:34
"What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page/Plant) – 4:46
"The Lemon Song" (Howlin' Wolf/Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 6:18
"Thank You" (Page/Plant) – 4:47
"Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 4:14
"Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" (Page/Plant) – 2:38
"Ramble On" (Page/Plant) – 4:24
"Moby Dick" (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 4:21 [instrumental]
"Bring It on Home" (Dixon/Page/Plant) – 4:21

Note: Some cassette versions of the album altered the song order so that Side One ended with "Heartbreaker" and Side Two began with "Thank You". Other cassette versions also presents "Heartbreaker" as second track in Side One and "What Is And What Should Never Be" as track one in Side Two. All this presumably to make the length of each side approximately the same. On vinyl versions, Side One ended with "Thank You" and Side Two began with "Heartbreaker." This order is reflected above and is preserved on all CD releases.

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