Shaken 'n' Stirred is Robert Plant third solo album following the demise of Led Zeppelin and easily his worst. His first two solo albums; "Pictures at Eleven" and "The Principles of Moments" were a distinct and purposeful move away from Led Zeppelin and their bombastic sound but at the core they held onto Plant's blues roots. Unfortunately, while there are a few bright spots on the album, the single "Little By Little" is one of them, the rest of the album is a mess. The album is a mixture of synthesizers, overbearing background vocals, incoherent lyrics and over lack of musical focus. The album has contributions from the same musicians who played on his first two albums with one exception being Little Feat's Richie Hayward assuming the drumming from Phil Collins who returned to Genesis and his own solo career. "Little by Little" should have been the example for the entire album and it would have been much better for it. Throughout Robert Plant's solo career, he has explored various musical genres in the hopes of expanding his sound and deliver to the listener a rich landscape in this instance it did not happen on Shaken 'n' Stirred and renewed calls from fans to return to a more Zeppelin-esque sound which would happen on 1988's Now and Zen.
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