All of My POLL: The Led Zeppellin "In Through the Out Door" Poll

"Carouselambra"

This album has the best drum sound in the history of pop music EVER.

"In the Evening"

"Carouselambra" running a very close second.

I love this album. Probably my favorite Zep these days. "In The Evening", but it is such an album that I find it hard to not think of the flow and high points from track to track. All killer no filler.

Love this album, too. I voted "In The Evening", but it's hard to choose between it and Carouselambra.

This album also has more slapback delay echo on Plant's vocals than even Houses of the Holy. As much as I love the idea of "John Paul Jones' record," I'm not sure it's dated terribly well.

In the Evening for me.

My first Zep album and it really blew my mind. I remember my uncle saying 'I think this is the weakest Led Zeppelin record' and me 'what...?'.

Carouselambra

Never understood all the love for In the Evening, voted for Fool in the Rain for the solo and the steel drum thingy

"In the Evening" for me too, but it's still their weakest post-IV album. I prefer Robert Plant's solo takes on the sincerity evinced in "All My Love" ("Big Log," fer instance) to what he records here.

"In the Evening" -- possibly my fave Zep song ever.

I really can't stand "Fool In teh Rain", especially because of the steel drums and that big whistle that starts it all.

That's the one song I hear on the radio and think, "Are these really the guys who wrote and performed 'Stairway to Heaven'?"

Another vote for "In The Evening." Love the bendy guitar riff.

All My Love.

Never could stand In The Evening

"fool in the rain" forever and ever

its between in the evening and carouselambra for me, with all of my love and i'm gonna crawl as runners up

i love i'm gonna crawl.

I'm still waiting to read someone repping for "Hot Dog".

"Fool in the Rain" for me, despite sharing Pleasant Plains' reaction each time I hear it.

I can't find it anywhere (a search for "In the Evening" also pulls up any post with just the word "evening" inside it), but some ILXor long ago made a great mention of that sound that kicks off the guitar solo that sounds like a freaking metal garage door being pulled open, seals the song.

some ILXor long ago made a great mention of that sound that kicks off the guitar solo that sounds like a freaking metal garage door being pulled open,

GONGRRGNNGGGGOOOONG.

The only Zep album I still haven't gotten around to buying. Heard it of course.

I like the groove of South Bound Saurez.

rogermexico fabricated that GREAT story about the beginning of the solo from "In the Evening," but no one could find it the last time we looked. It may be lost in the sandbox.

The beginning solo is supposedly music Page recorded for Kenneth Anger's "Lucifer Rising."

I thought that was the instrumental part before the song kicks off.

Along with Houses of the Holy, it's the only Zep studio LP that I've never called "my favourite" at one time or another. But I've grown to like it a lot over the years, and yeah, John Paul Jwns pwns. "Carouselambra" is epic and "South Bound Suarez" is a sleeper but really it's all about "Fool in the Rain"

You know that part of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain" where they come out of the silly Latin section back into the main piano riff and there's like a steadily rising drum roll and

xpost - I think that's what Alex is referring to.

i think the "hits" from this, the stuff that still gets airplay on classic rock stations - in the evening/all of my love/fool in the rain - are kinda weak (love the drumming in fool tho)

south bound suarez is fun, but i'll go with Carouselambra

I have to admit that I probably would have voted "Carouselambra" but I once got mercilessly clowned by a girlfriend when playing it loudly in my car. I know I shouldn't let that influence my decision, but I am weak. Saurez is more GF friendly.

[This is one album that deserves a 2CD reissue with the demos and unused bits. There's a bootleg floating around out there which is just Bonham's drum takes on everything and it's massive.

Here it is: http://www.saladrecords.com/bonhamfiles.htm

"Fool in the Rain", without a second's hesitation

Also, linked off of there is this: http://www.saladrecords.com/PolarStudioClosesEN.htm

We sit down in the control room and Lennart Östlund finally finds a working socket for a CD-player. Proudly I pull out the surprise out of my bag, Led Zeppelin's last album "In through the out door" in a brown paper cover. Lennart was here helping to record it in December 1978. He hasn't really listened to it since then.

-They were here for three weeks, they came on a Monday and left on a Friday. I remember that they weren't allowed to stayed at Grand (Hotel), because the drummer John Bonham had a bad reputation. But they were mellow. No one recognized them when we went out. The most important thing to them was that each week they'd have a cassette to bring home to their wives, as a proof that they had been working.

He sniffs at the fact that three songs are missing on the CD. Then once again John Bonham's powerful drums echo throughout the studio.

-He sat there, in the "stone room" in front of the cloud panel. With two sets of drums, Lennart Östlund remembers. But to get the right echo effect, we moved the speaker for the base drum out to the reception and put a microphone in front of it.

He shows me the wooden room, where the guitar player Jimmy Page stood, and the soft room, the extremely dry, where Robert Plant sang what we're listening to right now.

-Oh, he really sang false there, did you hear it? But it doesn't matter. These days you can correct things like that, but the music hasn't necessarily become any more fun because of that.

We listen to another track. The next song begins with a synthesizer sound which sounds familiar. ABBA? Lennart nods.

-Led Zeppelin liked ABBA. And that is really ABBA's synthesizer, the "Does your mother know"-synthesizer. I even think that Benny got the string sound from John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin's bass- and piano player).

I call Benny back to check with him.

-This is how it was, says Benny. I had the same synthesizer as Led Zeppelin, a so-called dream machine. It was there in the studio. So John Paul Jones just brought his own sounds with him and put them in. He has a fantastic string sound which he had made. "Oh", I said, "that sounds so good, can I have it?"

-Then later I received a package in the mail with four cassettes in it. That string sound appears in many ABBA songs. I still use it quite often.

"I'm Gonna Crawl" is soooooooo good. First of all it's very easy to imagine Prince singing it. I mean, it's basically a Prince song.

Second of all, that chord interval is so freaky. it's like what, C to .. G sharp?? What the hell is that??

I ain't gonna go by plane.. I ain't gonna go by car.. For once Plant's total nonsense works perfectly.

Well OK it's not just ONCE but you know.. at this point in his career he was just babbling basically.

Glad to hear I'm not alone with the love for Fool in the Rain. That song kind of has reflexive-ILM--hate written all over it. Forgot about I'm Gonna Crawl, which I love almost as much

hat song kind of has reflexive-ILM--hate written all over it.

Why?

for me I'm Gonna Crawl is almost ruined by Plant's caterwauling at the end. He does one thing where he sounds like Goofy falling off a cliff.

I have to admit that I probably would have voted "Carouselambra" but I once got mercilessly clowned by a girlfriend when playing it loudly in my car. I know I shouldn't let that influence my decision, but I am weak. Saurez is more GF friendly.

― Trip Maker

I lol'd hard at this, because my gf does this for pretty much any Zeppelin I play. She really really hates Robert Plant, and the end of I'm Gonna Crawl is my personal example of self-induced Zep banishment due to getting clowned by my gf. I rock out on headphones now. :(

hat song kind of has reflexive-ILM--hate written all over it.

Why?

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't know, guess I shouldn't have thrown that in--I feel like FitR must come off as kind of goofy, or it's too pop-py, to purists like the poster above who recoils when(s)he hears the steel drums and the whistle. I imagined it as sort of the anti-In the Evening for this crowd, In the Eve being sort of last in the line of typical Zep stompers. Nevermind...

I love South Bound Suarez. Voted for it.

yep, South Bound Saurez for me too.

oh, sure, there are probably a couple "objectively" better songs on the lp (and yeah, "Carouselambra" is truly epic), but when i've had a couple cocktails there's no song on here that sounds better to me than SBS. big fan

I really can't stand "Fool In teh Rain", especially because of the steel drums and that big whistle that starts it all.

That's the one song I hear on the radio and think, "Are these really the guys who wrote and performed 'Stairway to Heaven'?"

― http://tinyurl.com/zom720 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:29 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is why fool in the rain is awesome .... dont care if this is a challop to hate on stairway but seriously, its the greatest

Page's James Burton solo on Hot Dog is just so blazing and fresh — really one of my favorites. Hardly sounds like the sound of a Dead Man Walking, as he reputedly was during these sessions.

That they were able to drop such a piss-take in the middle of a seven-song album w/o it being too goofy or disruptive says it all about Zeppelin. Love this album top to bottom.

I'm still waiting to read someone repping for "Hot Dog".

My son would, he loves it. He has publically stated that it is his favourite LZ track after Black Dog.

For me 'In The Evening' followed by 'Carouselambra'. The changing gears guitar riff on ITE is fantastic.

I may have asked this before somewhere else, but just how does Page make that noise?

He pressed the whammy bar all the way down and then just let it loose, so you hear the springs whipping the bridge back into position.

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Indeed it is "In the Evening"!!!

What a band!

are there any other album titles that unintentionally suggest butt sex?

Not sure it was unintentional in this case.

good point. possibly that elton john brown dirt cowboy one too...

I finally bought this album last week thanks to this poll. This is loads better than Presence! I'd go with 'Carouselambra' for those huge, crashing chords in the middle section.

The White Stripes 'Get Behind Me, Satan' xp

Houses of the Holy?

xxxpost

In the Evening here. Fool in the Rain is pretty much the only Zep song I'll switch off if it comes on the radio.

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Here's another vote for "All of My Love."

(Oh wow, look, when I use a public library PC that isn't running an eight year old browser, I can see the little "Suggest Ban Permalink" which I otherwise keep accidentally clicking on since it's invisible in IE 6.0.)

lolz who voted for Hot Dog

one of the few zep albums (besides coda) i don't own.

xxpost - I have that same problem! And it's fortunate that we're required to click twice to confirm, otherwise I'd have accidentally suggest-banned many undeserving folks. (Never SB'd anyone and never will.)

"all my love" was robbed
for many hours and days that pass ever soon the tides have caused the flames to dim: at last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom -- is this to end or just begin?

I hate that weak synth sound on "Carouselambra" and the riff sounds like background music from an old ABC Wide World of Sports episode.

I need to listen to this RIGHT NOW

I rate Bonzo's shuffle on "South Bound Saurez" higher than the "Fool In The Rain", the one that everyone always talks about. He plays so perfectly behind the pocket, total effortless propulsion of the boogiewoogie rockabilly swing.

And in spite of Page's rhythm parts being so melodic and smooth, the solo is pretty noisy and abrasive.

I read somewhere that this was the 2nd to last song they ever recorded ("Wearing & Tearing" being the last).

Great underrated deep cut.

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