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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album, even Hot Dog. Open your mind !!!, 2 Aug 2010
Why do fans of a band, and even a genre of music, believe that any variation to that is a bad thing. Maturity is a great thing. Listen. Explore. You might enjoy. This is a great album.
Listen to Hot Dog with an open mind, and you will tap your feet, the steel guitar solo in the middle is class.
If this was The Clash, who I am sure share many fans with Zep, no one would bat an eyelid about numerous styles on an album. Yet Zep get criticised for differing styles.
This album shows why Plant's subsequent solo work is so good. (Roll on Sept 13th).
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pity about the Frankfurter, 17 Dec 2003
This was my introduction to Led Zeppelin, the first Zep LP I bought as a 15 year old. It got me hooked and my ELO habit soon faded. So this album has a special resonance for me and when I bought it on CD it was the first of the original albums I bought on CD. In the Evening is a superb opening with Jimmy Page on top form. Southbound Suarez and Fool in the Rain have a latino feel and many Zep fans hate these tracks but to me they just show that the band could go where they wished. Hot Dog, however, is a waste of space and spoils the whole album, it should have been on Coda instead of Darlene. What was side two opens with the prog of Carouselambra before going into the tender ballad on, All of my Love. The album closes out with the bluesy I'm Gonna Crawl.
In Through The Out Door may not have been Led Zeppelin's magnus opus but it does not deserve the opprobium heaped on it by many Zepheads. Well apart from Hot Dog!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not the greatest, but not bad., 5 Feb 2006
This is ofcoarse not Zeps greatest album. Nonetheless it contains great songs. But if you compare it to for example LZ II it just isn't that good. The album starts of rocking with In The Evening and its a great song. The next is South Bound Saurez, which is a song that I just don't understand. Its average i guess. Fool In The Rain is not very typical LZ, but has a great riff and a good vocal prestation from Plant. The drumming is also great. Hot Dog is a behated song, but i love it. It shows that LZ had a great sense of humor, and it actually is funny. If you don't like the song, you don't like the humor. Carouselambra (or whatever it is) is the only song that I actually don't like on the album. (But maybe you will?) All Of My Love. Nice ballad, good lyrics. Its an OK song. I'm Gonna Crawl. This song reeks of blues and its simply awesome. Maybe not as great as LZs earlier bluesy stuff, but it still makes skivers go down your spine. All in all a good album and worth buying. But if you don't have the earlier albums buy them first.
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