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Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door

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Label: Swan Song
Released: 1979.08.15
Time:
 42:32
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.led-zeppelin.com
Appears with: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Purchase date: 2001.08.27
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] In the Evening (Jones/Page/Plant) - 6:49
[2] South Bound Saurez (Jones/Plant) - 4:12
[3] Fool in the Rain (Jones/Page/Plant) - 6:12
[4] Hot Dog (Page/Plant) - 3:17
[5] Carouselambra (Jones/Page/Plant) - 10:32
[6] All My Love (Jones/Plant) - 5:53
[7] I'm Gonna Crawl (Jones/Page/Plant) - 5:30

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ROBERT PLANT - Lead Vocals
JIMMY PAGE - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals, Digitally Remastering
JOHN PAUL JONES - Bass, Keyboards, Background Vocals, Whistle on [3]
JOHN BONHAM - Drums, Percussion

LEIF MASES - Engineer, Mixing
PETER GRANT - Executive Producer
AUBREY POWELL - Cover Art
GEORGE MARINO - Digitally Remastering

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1979 CD Swan Song SS-16002-2
1979 LP Swan Song SS-16002
1979 CS Swan Song CS-16002
1990 CD Atlantic 16002
1994 CD Atlantic 92443
1994 CS Atlantic 92443
1995 CD Swan Song 7567-92443-2

Recorded: November - December, 1978 at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.



Somewhere between Presence and In Through the Out Door, disco, punk, and new wave had overtaken rock & roll, and Led Zeppelin chose to tentatively embrace these pop revolutions, adding synthesizers to the mix and emphasizing John Bonham's inherent way with a groove. The album's opening number, "In the Evening," with its stomping rhythms and heavy, staggered riffs, suggests that the band haven't deviated from their course, but by the time the rolling shuffle of "South Bound Suarez" kicks into gear, it's apparent that they've regained their sense of humor. After "South Bound Suarez," the group try a variety of styles, whether it's an overdriven homage to Bakersfield County called "Hot Dog," the layered, Latin-tinged percussion and pianos of "Fool in the Rain," or the slickly seductive ballad "All My Love." "Carouselambra," a lurching, self-consciously ambitious synth-driven number, and the slow blues "I'm Gonna Crawl" aren't quite as impressive as the rest of the album, but the record was a graceful way to close to their career, even if it wasn't intended as the final chapter.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Though the band likely didn't know it at the time, this would prove to be the last studio record by one of the most famous rock & roll bands in the world. Drummer John Bonham died shortly after its release. Although nothing compares to early Led Zeppelin--and they lost many longtime fans in the late 1970s--this LP is nothing to be embarrassed by. They were quick to embrace and experiment with synthesizers, and while it wears a little thin by record's end (the synth-bloated "Carouselambra" and the slick AOR hit "All My Love"), it adds a certain majestic tone to the heavy-hitting opener, "In the Evening," and gives a rollicking good-time feel to "South Bound Suarez." Plant's howl and Page's bluesy guitars are in fine form on "I'm Gonna Crawl" and the lilting "Fool in the Rain" recalls the pretty numbers from their early career.

Lorry Fleming, Amazon.com



Auch wenn es Led Zeppelin damals wohl selbst noch nicht ahnten, entpuppte sich In Through the Out Door als das letzte Studio-Album einer der besten Bands aller Zeiten -- Drummer John Bonham starb kurz nach der Veröffentlichung. Obwohl es den Vergleich zu den frühen Led Zeppelin-Werken in keinster Weise zuläßt und sich viele hartgesottene Fans Ende der ‘70er abwandten, muß sich dieses Album für nichts rechtfertigen. Flugs hatten sich Led Zeppelin daran gemacht, mit Synthie-Klängen herumzuspielen, und auch wenn dieser Einfluß gegen Ende des Werks -- so auf "Carouselambra" und "All My Love" -- kaum noch zu spüren ist, so sorgt er beim durchschlagenden Opener "In The Evening" doch für eine majestätische Note und bei "South Bound Suarez" für gute Laune mit Langzeitwirkung. Auf "I'm Gonna Crawl" zeigen sich die Herren Plant, Page und dessen Blues-Gitarre in Bestform, bevor mit "Fool In The Rain" gar Erinnerungen an gute alte Led Zeppelin-Zeiten aufkommen.

Lorry Fleming, Amazon.de



...by far their most keyboard-oriented, guitar histrionics-free album....songs showing that there were also other, altogether different sides to Zeppelin...

Q Magazine (1/95, p.273) - 3 Stars - Good



In Through the Out Door should've been another triumph for the mighty Zep. Despite the fact that when the album was released in 1979, disco and punk were the styles du jour, the album debuted at No. 1 in both England and America (this was pre-Soundscan, when debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard charts actually meant something).

Even more important than its commercial success, the album marked the band's comeback after a three-year absence between albums. Following the 1976 releases of both Presence and the double-live album, The Song Remains the Same, the group embarked on a 1977 tour. Shortly into the American leg of the tour, Robert Plant's six-year-old son, Karac, tragically died of a stomach infection.

Plant immediately went into seclusion, while people speculated about the future of the world's most popular rock & roll group. Zeppelin finally responded to the speculation with In Through the Out Door, a masterful work with its roots in the band's heavy metal sound, but branches in honky-tonk ("Hot Dog"), synthesizers ("Carouselambra") and the blues ("I'm Gonna Crawl") the band had explored since its first album.

The album's most popular tracks were the up-tempo, slightly Latin-tinged "Fool in the Rain," the explosive, intentionally droning, heavily layered "In the Evening" and the enticing ballad "All My Love."

Of the album's seven tracks, only "All My Love" ranks up there with the best of Led Zeppelin's individual songs, but as a complete work, In Through the Out Door, showed Led Zeppelin was far from over.

Only tragedy would once again intervene. In September of 1980, drummer John Bonham became another cliched rock & roll tragedy, dying by choking on his own vomit after an endless drinking binge. The group, which was always just that, disbanded in December of that year, leaving In Through the Out Door as the final all-new studio release from arguably the greatest band rock & roll has ever seen.

Steve Baltin - May 2, 2000
Copyright © 1994-2001 CDnow Online, Inc. All rights reserved.



The Zep comes through with a package that wisely avoids their metal barrage of the past in favor of a more contemporary approach. Most of the adventurous material is placed on side one, with an inspired Salsa section surprisingly fitting into "Fool In The Rain" and an attempt at rockabilly/bluegrass with "Hot Dog." The latter is kind of funny in its own way--although Robert Plant handles the vocal well, Jimmy Page's flatpicking proves no threat to Doc Watson. However, Page shines through on the bluesy "I'm Gonna Crawl" and the "Stairway"-tesque "All My Love." All in all, a stunning performance which breathes new life into the Zeppelin legend.

Jeff Tamarkin - Sep 27, 1982
© 1978-1999 College Media Inc. CMJ New Music Report Issue: 1



Hearing John Bonham play the drums is the aural equivalent of watching Clint Eastwood club eight bad guys over the head with a two-by-four while driving a derailed locomotive through their hideout. Either you are horrified by all that blood on the floor, or you wish you could do it yourself. No one's ever going to accuse Bonham of subtlety, but everyone should give him credit for consistency. Even on Led Zeppelin's worst effort (Houses of the Holy), he flails with so much exuberance that I find myself hoping that thugs from strange foreign countries will attack me on the street so I can play "Moby Dick" on their strange foreign heads.

Sadly, Bonham's exuberance on In through the Out Door is matched only by Robert Plant's appetite for inanity. Never a power as a lyric writer, Plant has followed a simple pattern in his singing: when Jimmy Page gave him great guitar riffs to phrase around, Plant was great. When Page didn't, Plant wasn't. On their masterpiece, "Dazed and Confused," for example, Plant made the same old misogyny sound like profound insight, while Page thundered through his orchestral guitar rumble.

Of the seven songs on In through the Out Door, only one has orchestral guitar rumble, and Plant's singing has fallen to the occasion in the other six. With this paucity of good music to work with, Plant fails to create phrasing good enough to disguise the lyrics, which are horrible. Three out of four tunes on side one are addressed to "Baby." Granted that Plant is very upset with Baby because she left him, but thirteen and a half minutes is stretching the mourning period a bit far.

If perchance Robert Plant meets someone who doesn't dump on him, he should avoid calling her "the apple of my eye" or she will probably reject him, just as I am rejecting "I'm Gonna Crawl," in which he sings that cliché almost as if it meant something. Any band portraying itself as mystical romantic poets ought to go to the minimal trouble of being obscure enough to cover up its lack of anything to say.

As you might suspect, In through the Out Door's best number is the one in which you can understand the least words. This is "In the Evening," a classic Zeppelin orchestral guitar rumble halfway between "When the Levee Breaks" and "In the Light." The only line I was able to understand was "Oh oh I need zoo love." Judging by Plant's convincing orgasmic moans on the rest of it, I would rather guess at the remaining lyrics.

Back when Led Zeppelin was setting the heavy-metal standard (LPs I through IV) for all time, Jimmy Page was coming up with two or three great guitar riffs on damn near every tune. A lot of them were copped from Mississippi Delta blues masters like Robert Johnson, but knowing where to steal is every great artist's dirty little secret. Page now appears to have fallen victim to the law of diminishing returns, because "In the Evening" has the only great guitar riff on the entire album. The rest of the songs are based on John Paul Jones' keyboard work. Though an excellent musician, Jones functions best behind Page, not in front of him.

Side two consists of three of the least effective songs the band has ever recorded. "Carouselambra," the opener, is built on an extremely lame keyboard riff and clocks in at an absurd 10:28. Repetition to weave a hypnotic effect has always been part of the Zeppelin sound, but what they are repeating here is not worth the effort. "All My Love" and "I'm Gonna Crawl," both slow and incorporating synthesized violins, let the record peter out instead of climax. Side one qualifies as occasionally interesting — particularly the heavy-metal square dance, "Hot Dog," and Bonham driving a locomotive through the mariachi (I think) beat in the middle of "Fool in the Rain"—but the only cut I'll return to with any enthusiasm is "In the Evening."

I thought Van Halen was going to be the next Led Zeppelin until they succumbed to the law of diminishing returns on their second album. Now — with Page's creativity apparently failing and no one able to compensate — even Led Zeppelin is not Led Zeppelin. I wonder who wants the throne bad enough to take it.

CHARLES M. YOUNG (RS 302)
© Copyright 2001 RollingStone.com
 

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IN THE EVENING

In the evening, When the day is done
I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come
So don't let her, Play you for a fool
She don't show no pity baby, she don't make no rules

*Chorus: Oh, oh, I need your love, I need your love
Oh, I need your love, I just got to have

So don't you let her, Oh, get under your skin
It's only bad luck and trouble, From the day that you begin
I hear you crying in the darkness, Don't ask nobody's help
Ain't no pockets full of mercy baby, Cause you can only blame yourself

Chorus

Oh it's simple, All the pain that you go through
You can turn away from fortune, fortune, Cause that's all that's left to you
It's lonely at the bottom, Man, it's dizzy at the top
But if you're standing in the middle, Ain't no way you're gonna stop

Chorus

Oh whatever that your days may bring
No use hiding in a corner, Cause that won't change a thing
If you're dancing in the doldrums, One day soon, it's got to stop, it's got to stop
When you're the master of the off-chance, When you don't expect a lot

Chorus


SOUTH BOUND SAUREZ

Baby, when you walk that sweet walk
Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good
Baby, when you talk that sweet talk
Oh, it sounds so good, oh so good

With a little bit of concentration
And a little bit of helpin' hands, yeah
And a little bit of raving madness
You know it makes me feel, baby
Both my feet are back on the ground

And when the rhythm takes me
It feels so good, oh so good
Baby if it keeps a-shaking
It will do you good, oh so much good

With a little bit of stop-a-shakin' shakin'
And a little bit of ?fly right down?
And a little bit of sweet con-carne
It makes me feel, makes me feel
I got my feet on the ground

Ooh now baby, when you move it makes me
Really feel so good, oh so good
And I'm so glad, so glad, so glad, so glad
And I'm good, oh, so good
With a little bit of concentration
And a little bit of helping hand
And a little bit of ?saving madness?
You know it makes me feel, baby
I'm back on the ground oh yes, sure does
It makes me feel back on the ground.

I'm feelin' good child!
Down on the ground.
Sha la la la...


FOOL IN THE RAIN

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for the night
I hate to think I've been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?

And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin'
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up, make it all right?
Yeah, it's all right.

And if you promised you'd love so completely
and you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me, baby:
What ever happened to you?

And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true
It ain't the first time believe me, baby
I'm standin here feeling blue
Yeah I'm blue

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turning around

The clock on the wall's moving slower
My heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found

Now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet
I've got no reason to doubt you baby,
It's all a terrible mess

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that I found...


HOT DOG

Well I just got into town today
To find my girl who's gone away
She took the Greyhound at the General Store
I searched myself I searched the town
When I finally did sit down
I find myself no wiser than before

She said we couldn't do no wrong
No other love could be so strong
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer
Now she took my heart she took my keys
From in my old blue dungarees
And I'll never go to Texas anymore

* Chorus: Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do
She took my love and walked right out the door
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before

I took her love at seventeen
A little late these days it seems
But they said heaven is well worth waiting for
I took her word I took it all
Beneath the sign that said "U-haul"
She left angels hangin round for more

Chorus

I thought I had it all sewn up
Our love, a plot, a pick-up truck
But folks said she was after something more
I never did quite understand
All that talk about rockin' bands
But they just rolled my doll right out the door
Oh yeah, they just rolled my doll right out the door!


CAROUSELAMBRA

Sisters of the way-side bide their time in quiet peace,
Await their place within the ring of calm;
Still stand to turn in seconds of release,
Await the call they know may never come.
In times of lightness, no intruder dared upon
To jeopardize the course, upset the run;
And all was joy and hands were raised toward the sun
As love in the halls of plenty overrun.

Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast,
Unending dances shadowed on the day.
Within their walls, their daunting formless keep,
Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay.
Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep,
Just turn a coin, bring order to the fray;
And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed,
But no one seemed to question in anyway.

How keen the storied hunter's eye prevails upon the land
To seek the unsuspecting and the weak;
And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand
Toward the foe that threatened from the deep.
Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand
Adrift upon a sea of futile speech?
And to fall to fate and make the 'status plan'
Where was your word, where did you go?
Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow.
Dull is the armour, cold is the day.
Hard was the journey, dark was the way. Way.
I heard the word; I couldn't stay. Oh.
I couldn't stand it another day, another day,
Another day, another day.

Touched by the timely coming,
Roused from the keeper's sleep,
Release the grip, throw down the key.

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the peace.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

They had to stay!

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the beat.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed...


ALL MY LOVE

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light
To chase a feather in the wind
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight
There moves a thread that has no end.

For many hours and days that pass ever soon
the tides have caused the flame to dim
At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom
Is this to end or just begin?
* Chorus: All of my love, all of my love, All of my love to you. (repeat)

The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again
One voice is clear above the din
Proud Aryan one word, my will to sustain
For me, the cloth once more to spin

Chorus

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time
his is the force that lies within
Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find
He is a feather in the wind

Chorus


I'M GONNA CRAWL

Oh she's my baby, Let me tell you why
Hey, she drives me crazy, She's the apple of my eye
'Cause she is my girl, And she can never do wrong
If I dream too much at night, Somebody please bring me down

Hey, I love that little lady, I got to be her fool
Ain't no other like my baby, I can break the golden rule
'Cause I get down on my knees, Oh, I pray that love won't die
And if I always try to please, I don't know the reason why, yeah

If she would come back, Only stay with me

Every little bit of my love, etc., I give to you girl

I don't have to go by plane
I ain't gotta go by car
I don't care just where my darling is
People I just don't care how far
I'm gonna crawl
I don't care if I got to go back home
I don't care what I got to stand to her back
I'm gonna crawl
I'm gonna move the car, baby
She give me good lovin
Yes I love her, I guess I love her
I'm gonna crawl.

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