In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin (1979)
- In the Evening
Same old woman woman woman vocals with a pre-80's sound. Meh.
- South Bound Saurez
Fun sounding song, just not my kind of fun. Again, lots of repetition and typical lyrics that don't really go anywhere or create pictures in the mind.
- Fool in the Rain
TIGHT rythm and groove here!!!! Love the timing on this one Bonham really makes this one sway and the counter rythms create a tactile tension that can almost be felt in the back of your throat that captures that infatuatious/love at first sight you get and that keeps you thinking about and chasing someone. This song perfectly captures what it feels like to fall in love and the blissful carefree feelign of the whole experience. That build up and return at 3:44 makes even this relatively unmoved (I don't physically resond to music much) move to the beat.
- Hot Dog
Kind of a comical sounding song that I just can't take seriously.
- Carouselambra
Too much synth for my liking. This sounds like Manheim Steamroller (spelling?) tried to write a rock song and.......failed.
- All My Love
Ugh, more sythn, yeah I know it's the onset of the 80's.....
- I'm Gonna Crawl
Well, that was a slow out with lots of spacey reverb.
I'll make sure to revisit Fool in the Rain, but I wouldn't mind forgetting the rest of this album. 4/10
Thus concludes my official album Led Zeppelin listening experience. I know many people love and idolize this band, but I just don't have the same connection with their music.The one consistent thing that I did find mysellf enjoying was Bohnam's drumming. He was an absolute monster on the drums. He and John Paul Jones perfectly complimented eachother across the spectrum of their studio albums. While Page has many groove tastic riffs, outside of LZ II and a couple hits sprinkled here and there among the other albums, I found the chord progressions to be pretty redundant. They were usually fun, had a tasteful groove, but ultimately lost their flare after the 100th measure of the same thing. Robert Plant pens osme absolute amazing work in their hits, but overall I was pretty shocked at how in inspiring and so hormonally driven his lyrics were. I had hoped for more material like Stairway or some of the more poetic songs, but the majority of all the songs were just straight up love and lust topics. Sure, that's a pretty common thing for most people, but I was hoping they would take it to a more introspective and analytical space. Led Zeppelin II is an amazing album that serves as the DNA structure for most of the rock that I love and enjoy and that one album alone shows the importance Led Zeppelin has in supplying the genetic structure for all of the good rock to come since. I'd love to go and listen to their influences to seek for those missing links further back in the chain of musical evolution.