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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 2815
Released: August 16, 1994 |
| Our Price: $6.14 |
| Used Price: $4.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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In Through the Out Door Track Listing:
1. In the Evening
2. South Bound Saurez
3. Fool in the Rain
4. Hot Dog
5. Carouselambra
6. All My Love
7. I'm Gonna Crawl
Editorial Review:
Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this classic album from the Rock legends, originally released in 1979. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.
Description of In Through the Out Door:
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
In Through the Out Door Reviews:
It's almost a "Dear John" letter... 
2009-12-05 - As a final statement from the band that defined hard rock in the 70s, it's more than a little strange. "In Through the Out Door" feels like a final love letter from someone who's far away, and seems to know that they just might not be coming back.
"In the Evening" opens this metaphorical love letter with what is a complete and heartfelt admission of love. It's a mid tempo ballad that very directly expresses deep longing. "Southbound Suarez" picks up the mood, our distant letter writer perhaps considering that he might have started off a little too heavy. "Suarez" is a snappy Piano Rocker that I like as much as the vastly under-rated "Candy Store Rock" off "Presence". It's a welcome respite as our despondent writer has, for the moment, left off his doleful pining. It's then followed by some sweet reminiscing with "Fool In the Rain", as the writer recounts that ridiculous time he forgot just where he was supposed to meet his lover for a date. This song is a staple of adult rock radio and I'm amazed that I still love hearing this gem, and crank it up every time. One of the all time great guitar solos. Now, in a decidedly silly mood we hear "Hot Dog", an almost absurd western ditty of lost love. This curious tune doesn't rate too high in most Zep fan's book, but I really like its simple, genuine joy, and the drumming is spectacular. And then, our distressed letter writer goes off on an almost incoherent ten-plus minute description of his fractured mental condition with "Carouselambra." Confusion and fear have crept into this letter, with rambling phrases like "Still stand to turn in seconds of release, Await the call they know may never come", and "...Powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand Toward the foe that threatened from the deep." The words are as poetically vague as the music is insistently hypnotic. Eventually our writer will return to his wits and resumes his soulful confession with "All of My Love". It's a gorgeous, sentimental ode with nicely blended synthesizers. I can hear this one, too, very often without tiring. And then, finally, writing what may very well be his final words to his absent lover, the tone turns even heavier, darker with the grandly opulent "I'm Gonna Crawl". It's a soul wrenching, haunting, cry of love that transcends any simple blues or rock description. A true classic.
Does "In Through the Out Door" sum up Led Zep's career? No, of course not. No one album could. But it does make for a remarkable bookend to an amazingly spectacular decade of some of the hardest, deepest, most compelling music ever performed. The tragedy of Bonzo's death has only made this final album even sweeter and sadder. "In Through The Out Door" is infused with the bitter perfume of John Bonham's passing.
makes me feel young
2009-10-20 - I'm 63 and hadn't heard some of these songs in years. Very refreshing and I knew most of the words!
This is what a classic sounds like....memorable!
Led Zeppelin's Last Studio Record. 
2009-09-25 - Shortly after this record came out, John Bonham died, so the tour was cancelled, which I probably would have seen. In any case, their final record, was pretty much an extension of where they were going with their music, no real surprises, just straight forward FM radio orientated, rock music, which still gets airplay today.
One good one 
2009-08-26 - I bought this for bonzo`s masterpiece of drumming "Fool In The Rain"
His version of the halftime shuffle on that track is one for the ages. He gets your attention with the finely layered hi hat and ghost note snare pattern that features accents on the down beats on the hi hat.
Then, he lays into a quarter note triplet ride pattern for the chorus while keeping the bass drum pattern the same as the verse.
All the while his left foot is playing an eighth note hi hat time keeping rhythm.
Definitely His best work in my opinion, and i`m a bonzo type of drummer who knows his entire catalog. The rest of the CD is okay featuring tunes like "In The Evening", "Carouselambra" and "All Of My Love" but none of them compare to their earlier work or "Fool In The Rain".
30 years later it still holds up
2009-08-09 - I remember the first time I heard this album. I was a year out of high school and working a graveyard shift at a gas station. I believe I heard it either on KLOS 101 or KILT in Houston, TX as a new release midnight album. This was a very popular radio feature on FM in those days. However I regress. At the time I thought it was not up to the usual Zep standards as their first seven albums. Thirty years later methinks I jumped to conclusions. If you listen to Zeps albums over their careers you'll hear that above all things they were innovators. At the time of this release; disco was waning, punk was "dying", and "new wave" was really creating a resurgence in innovation. My point here is that disco didn't survive, punk became today's alternative, and new wave became irrelevant because it hasn't stood the test of time. ITTOD however has stood the test of time quite well. Is it their best? IMHO no. That title will always go to Physical Graffiti. All that said, I love the diversity on this album as I loved the same quality of PG. Other reviewers will give you a track by track breakdown to sway you one way or another. I simply say, kick back and listen to this and then tell me...does it hold up? Is it still innovative in it's sound? And my favorite meter as to whether I or anyone should by an album, do you like it? If you like it then all negative reviews be damned! We all still have the right not to be sheep but to follow our own internal compass. Which way is your compass pointing?
