Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700



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Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
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Artist...............: Led Zeppelin
Album................: In Through the Out Door
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 68 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 31/07/2015

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Tracklisting
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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”

Companion CD

1. “In the Evening” (Rough Mix)
2. “Southbound Piano” (South Bound Saurez – Rough Mix)
3. “Fool in the Rain” (Rough Mix)
4. “Hot Dog” (Rough Mix)
5. “The Epic” (Carouselambra – Rough Mix)
6. “The Hook” (All My Love – Rough Mix)
7. “Blot” (I’m Gonna Crawl – Rough Mix)

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Marshalling their strength after the dark interlude of Presence — a period that extended far after its 1976 release, with the band spending a year in tax exile and Robert Plant suffering another personal tragedy when his son died — Led Zeppelin decided to push into new sonic territory on their 8th album, In Through the Out Door. A good deal of this aural adventurism derived from internal tensions within the band. Jimmy Page and John Bonham were in the throes of their own addictions, leaving Plant and John Paul Jones alone in the studio to play with the bassist’s new keyboard during the day. Jones wound up with writing credits on all but one of the seven songs — the exception is “Hot Dog,” a delightfully dirty rockabilly throwaway — and he and Plant are wholly responsible for the cloistered, grooving ”South Bound Saurez” and “All My Love,” a synth-slathered ballad unlike anything in Zeppelin’s catalog due not only to its keyboards but its vulnerability. What’s striking about In Through the Out Door is how the Plant-Jones union points the way toward their respective solo careers, especially that of the singer’s: his 1982 debut Pictures at Eleven follows through on the twilight majesty of “In the Evening” and particularly “Carouselambra,” which feels like Plant and Jones stitched together every synth-funk fantasy they had into a throttling ten-minute epic. With its carnivalesque rhythms, “Fool in the Rain” also suggests the adventurousness of Plant, but it’s also an effective showcase for Bonham — it’s a monster groove — and Page, whose multi-octave solo is among his best. Elsewhere, the guitarist colors with shade and light quite effectively, but only the slow, slumbering closer “I’m Gonna Crawl” feels like his, a throwback to Zeppelin’s past on an album that suggests a future that never materialized for the band.

The deluxe editions of In Through the Out Door containing a bonus disc with alternate mixes of all seven songs from the 1979 album. Usually, these rough mixes are just that: versions that sound similar to the final product, only not quite as polished. Often, this amounts to slightly different vocal takes and guitar parts (sometimes solos, usually coloring through fills and overdubs or lack thereof), and while none of these rough mixes is revelatory (perhaps the closest is the alternate “Carouselambra,” aptly titled “The Epic” in its early incarnation; here, it doesn’t seem quite as stitched together as it appears on the final version), they’re all worth a listen.

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