The Best Album Of All Time - Led Zeppelin v Leftfield

[milo]

Led Zeppelin II is the second studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in October 1969 on Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969. Production was credited to lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page, while it also served as Led Zeppelin's first album to utilise the recording techniques of engineer Eddie Kramer. With elements of blues and folk music, Led Zeppelin II also exhibits the band's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar and riff-based sound. It has been described as the band's heaviest album.[1]

Upon release, Led Zeppelin II sold well and was the band's first album to reach number one in the UK and the US. In 1970, art director David Juniper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the album. On 15 November 1999, it was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 12 million copies. Since its release, writers and music critics have regularly cited it in polls of the greatest and most influential rock albums.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_II

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEB118822DF80C95

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Leftism is the first studio album by electronica musicians Paul Daley and Neil Barnes under the name Leftfield. The album was released in 1995 on Columbia Records. Leftism consisted mostly of reworked versions of previous singles by Leftfield and new original pieces. The album contains guest spots from musicians not associated with dance music at the time such as John Lydon from Public Image Ltd. (and formerly of Sex Pistols) and Toni Halliday from Curve. The album was described as progressive house, although some journalists found that label too limiting, suggesting the album incorporated many genres. After completing the album, the duo in Leftfield initially were not happy with it.

On its release, the album was well received from the British press with positive reviews from the NME and Q. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1995 but lost to Portishead. Leftism sold well and was released months later in the United States. Critics have praised the album as one of the major album-length works of dance music, with Q referring to it as "the first truly complete album experience to be created by house musicians and the first quintessentially British one".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftism_(album)

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[milo]

I'm guessing that I will be on the losing side of this one. I've never got Zeppelin, so my vote goes to Leftfield.

 

[stinkfoot]

I'm guessing you're right.

Voted.

 

[Baleforce]

i expect this to be another landslide, used to listen to a bit of leftfield and similar stuff (to my ear) back then but LZ get in your blood don't they, i can't remember a time when there wasn't a LZ album near the stereo or in the car, so many good albums, i think i initially suggested II in the first thread but it could have been IV, houses of the holy, physical graffiti or LZ itself

the whole lotta love riff just hooks you, Page is legendary, linking back to the prior poll there is a lot of Page's influence in Slash's guitar playing as well, its all blues box pentatonic, irresistible

 

[Jordinho]

I'm guessing that I will be on the losing side of this one. I've never got Zeppelin, so my vote goes to Leftfield.

Could never get into Zeppelin myself, but it is still a pretty damn good album.

 

[milo]

Could never get into Zeppelin myself, but it is still a pretty damn good album.

It's got it's moments but Zeppelin songs go on far too long. I'm suspicious of indulgent musos.

I don't like a lot of classic/muso rock for the same reason that I don't get a lot of jazz, there is a lack of focus. I prefer music by people with lots of original ideas but who cannot play their instruments over virtuoso musicians aiming for authenticity.

 

[Mulletperm]

It's got it's moments but Zeppelin songs go on far too long. I'm suspicious of indulgent musos.

I don't like a lot of classic/muso rock for the same reason that I don't get a lot of jazz, there is a lack of focus. I prefer music by people with lots of original ideas but who cannot play their instruments over virtuoso musicians aiming for authenticity.

Average length of songs on Led Zep II is about 4 minutes. Not particularly long?

 

[Jordinho]

It's got it's moments but Zeppelin songs go on far too long. I'm suspicious of indulgent musos.

I don't like a lot of classic/muso rock for the same reason that I don't get a lot of jazz, there is a lack of focus. I prefer music by people with lots of original ideas but who cannot play their instruments over virtuoso musicians aiming for authenticity.

I love everything epic. Different variations over the same theme, changes, bridges, breakdowns, solos, it's what music is all about.

My top 10 favorite songs would include a lot of 10+ minute ones.

 

[Seedy Ron]

I'm not a huge fan of Zep, don't particularly like Robert Plant's voice, but it's the better of the two.

 

[milo]

I love everything epic. Different variations over the same theme, changes, bridges, breakdowns, solos, it's what music is all about.

My top 10 favorite songs would include a lot of 10+ minute ones.

I prefer things stripped down to the essentials.

 

[Notmegov]

Robert Plants a nice chap, used to stay in the hotel every now and then.

 

[Notmegov]

but i voted Left

 

[milo]

Led Zep are through to the next round