Wanna whole lotta love neeeow whole lotta love neeeow whole lotta love neeeeeeeeeow...that's the essence of the song.
Is Robert Plant laughing or coughing at the very beginning of Whole Lotta Love? You make the call. This is Led Zeppelin's version of the Small Faces You Need Loving version of Willie Dixon's You Need Love. This was the early Zep blueprint; i.e., stealing ideas from the older American blues guys, then turning their amps up to eleven and radio sexting it all to the bulging collective consciousness of 1969's young white male population. Ah keep it cooling baby.
The main riff is kind of like the heavy equivalent of The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction, which is their equivalent of Beethoven's 5th. You need coolin...wanna whole lotta love, neeeeeeow....
The middle part starts at 1:19. It is a trippy experimental sound collage of primal passion, with theremin and twiddled knobs, John Bonham keeping the groove, Robert Plant's voice ducking in and out of the shadows. Warning!...scary Robert voice at 2:44! Without this middle section, we get a whole lotta talk and nothing to back it up.
Then at 3:02 the massive drums shatter our illusions and Jimmy Page's dry distorted electric guitar machete splits our reality in half. Back on the outside trying to look in. 'Aw, sod off, ya perv.' Sorry, Robert.
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