Line #9 Music/LedZeppelinII


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"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..."'']]
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4	''Led Zeppelin II'' is the second studio album by Music/LedZeppelin, released in 1969 through Creator/AtlanticRecords. It is one of their best-selling, heaviest and most influential records. It's famous for the hit songs "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker" and "Ramble On".
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7	!! Tracklist:
8	[[AC:Side One]]
9	# "Whole Lotta Love" (5:33)
10	# "What Is And What Should Never Be" (4:47)
11	# "The Lemon Song" (6:20)
12	# "Thank You" (3:50)
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14	[[AC:Side Two]]
15	[numlist:5]
16	# "Heartbreaker" (4:15)
17	# "Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)" (2:40)
18	# "Ramble On" (4:35)
19	# "Moby Dick" (4:25)
20	# "Bring It On Home" (4:19)
21	[/numlist]
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23	!! Bonus Disc (Deluxe Edition):
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25	# "Whole Lotta Love (Rough Mix)" (5:38)
26	# "What Is And What Should Never Be (Rough Mix)" (4:33)
27	# "Thank You (Backing Track)" (4:21)
28	# "Heartbreaker (Rough Mix)" (4:24)
29	# "Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) (Backing Track)" (3:08)
30	# "Ramble On (Rough Mix)" (4:43)
31	# "Moby Dick (Backing Track)" (1:37)
32	# "La La" (4:07)
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35	!! Principal Members:
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37	* John Bonham - drums, timpani
38	* John Paul Jones - bass, organ
39	* [[Music/TheYardbirds Jimmy Page]] - guitar, vocals, theremin
40	* Robert Plant - lead vocals, harmonica
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43	!!Whole Lotta Tropes:
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45	* AlbumFiller: "Living Loving Maid" was written with this purpose, according to Jimmy Page. If you don't like drum solos then "Moby Dick" might also come across as this.
46	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''L'''iving '''L'''oving Maid".
47	* {{Blues}}: A lot of songs take their inspiration from blues music, but the most recognisable song InTheStyleOf is "Bring It On Home", where a harmonica adds to the atmosphere.
48	* BreakupSong: "Heartbreaker", about an adulterous woman whom the protagonist knows from the past, but whom he now downright rejects when she returns in his life.
49	* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Whole Lotta Love"
50	--> '''LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!''
51	--> [[Main/TheImmodestOrgasm AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH!]]
52	*ChronologicalAlbumTitle: "Led Zeppelin II".
53	* CoverVersion: "Bring It On Home", a cover by Sonny Boy Williamson II, based on lyrics by Willie Dixon.
54	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover.
55	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover by David Juniper.
56	* TheDrifter: "Ramble On", where the protagonist wants to keep on searching for his girl, for "my freedom I hold dear".
57	* EpicRocking: "The Lemon Song" (6:20).
58	* FakeOutFadeOut: "Thank You" has a false ending, then comes back ten seconds later.
59	* GagPenis: "Whole Lotta Love".
60	--> ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Gonna give you every inch of my love."]]''
61	* GratuitousPanning:
62	** "Whole Lotta Love" keeps the driving riff on the left channel, and furiously twiddles during the middle freakout and was made specifically to be appreciated with headphones.
63	** The coda of "What Is and What Should Never Be" has the guitar bouncing between the left and right channels.
64	** "The Lemon Song" keeps the guitars mostly on the left, "Thank You" does the same but on the right channel, and "Bring It On Home" alternates.
65	* GroupieBrigade: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" was inspired by a groupie the band considered to be annoying.
66	* {{Homage}}: "Thank You", to Page's then wife Maureen.
67	* TheImmodestOrgasm: Robert Plant has one during "Whole Lotta Love".
68	* IncrediblyLamePun: The album cover, designer David Juniper, asked to just come up with something "interesting", took a photo of [[UsefulNotes/TheRedBaron Manfred "The Red Baron" von Richthofen]] and his Flying Circus from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, filtered it and airbrushed the band members' heads onto the bodies. All good. He then put in manager Peter Grant and tour manager Richard Cole's heads. So far so good. But then, you notice there's a woman on the cover too, namely actress Creator/GlynisJohns. You may ask what she has to do with Led Zeppelin? The answer is: bugger all. She was just thrown on there because she has a similar name to Glyn Johns, who engineered the band's first album. One wonders why Juniper even bothered since Glyn's brother Andy replaced him as engineer for ''II''.
69	* {{Instrumental}}: "Moby Dick".
70	* IntercourseWithYou: The very intense "Whole Lotta Love" and "The Lemon Song", which borrows a line from Music/RobertJohnson:
71	--> ''Squeeze my lemon, baby, 'til the juice runs down my leg''.
72	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "[[Literature/MobyDick Moby Dick]]"
73	* TheNotRemix: The first vinyl pressing was quickly recalled and remastered due to the extreme frequencies causing record players with ceramic cartridges to skip.
74	* OneWomanSong: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)".
75	* OneWordTitle: "Heartbreaker".
76	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)" was inspired by a groupie that annoyed the band.
77	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)", aimed a groupie that annoyed the band.
78	* SelfTitledAlbum: "Led Zeppelin II".
79	* SexualEuphemism: They certainly aren't being very subtle when Plant sings "Gonna give you every inch of my love" in "Whole Lotta Love".
80	* ShoutOut:
81	** The album cover was based on a World War I photograph of the Jagdstaffel 11 Division of the German Air Force with faces of the four band members air brushed in.
82	** In 1962, Music/MuddyWaters recorded "You Need Love", written for him by peer Willie Dixon. In 1966 Music/TheSmallFaces recorded the song as "You Need Loving". Some of the lyrics of "Whole Lotta Love" version were copied from the Willie Dixon song, a favourite of Plant's. Plant's phrasing is particularly similar to that of Steve Marriott's in the Small Faces' version. Similarities with "You Need Love" would lead to a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin in 1985, settled out of court in favour of Dixon. The Small Faces were never sued by Dixon, even though "You Need Loving" still only credits Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott.
83	** "Moby Dick" is a shout-out to ''Literature/MobyDick''.
84	** "The Lemon Song" was inspired by Music/HowlinWolf's "Killing Floor", Albert King's "The Hunter", and Music/RobertJohnson's "Travelling Riverside Blues", which shares a similar line about lemon juice dripping down legs.
85	** "Ramble On" was inspired by ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
86	---> ''T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair''\
87	''But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her''
88	** The opening lines to "Thank You" about the sun refusing to shine and the mountains crumbling to the sea might have been inspired by the opening lines to The Music/JimiHendrix Experience's "[[Music/AxisBoldAsLove If 6 Was 9]]", which has the same apocalyptic imagery.
89	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)".
90	* TheSomethingSong: "The Lemon Song".
91	* StopAndGo: "What Is And What Should Never Be" and "Thank You".
92	** "Heartbreaker" ends abruptly mid-word before the next song, "Living Loving Maid"--and as [[SiameseTwinSongs these two songs are often air-played together on classic-rock stations]], it has this effect.
93	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Between all the loud and lustful songs there is "Thank You", a tribute to Robert Plant's wife Maureen.
94	* {{Theremin}}: "Whole Lotta Love".
95	* TitleOnlyChorus: "Whole Lotta Love", (well, "Wanna Whole Lotta Love")
96	* TruckDriversGearChange: "Heartbreaker".
97	----
98	->''"Leaves are falling all around, It's time I was on my way\
99	Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay..."'''

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