Led Zeppelin – In Through The Out Door

I ordered a Diament 1986 CD but the seller sent this in error. I have the Marino Remasters and the 2007 Remasters. I must say this sounds very good but again the album itself is a pig. I always put it at the bottom of the list. I don't like the synths and chorus clad guitars. The sound is diffuse and irritating. It's like a Plant solo album! The best thing on it are John Bonham's brilliant drums. In The Evening goes on forever and ever! Stop! South Bound Saurez is like old Zeppelin but the stuttering rhythm get's annoying after a minute. Fool in The Rain, now we're talking! Fantastic half shuffle by Bonzo. (Jeff Porcaro, another brilliant drummer, was influenced by this on Rosanna by Toto). This drum track is so good I'd happily listen to it in isolation all day long! Then the big latin-tinged blow out that lifts the roof and beautifully settles back into the shuffle just in time for Page's MXR Blue Box solo. I swear Bonzo is the best drummer of all time god bless his soul. I really like Hot Dog, it's a breath of fresh air and a fun slice of country rock n roll and rock n roll is all we need. Now here comes the albums overambitious stinker, Carouselambra. It's like a Genesis outtake from the late 70s. Terrible synths, Plant's vocal buried in the mix and super irritating clean guitar arpeggios that repeat too often. The worse part here is the "diddila, diddila, diddila-dat" that sounds like an arcade game tune. This is the worse track Led Zeppelin ever committed to tape.
Is it prog? Is it smog? No it's Fog! It's a marathon of bad taste by a mile or 26 miles. The best part is when it ends. Next All My Love, yeah, I hate the repeated lines in the chorus and for once Plant is up front but the lyrics are pure toffee. Lastly, I'm Gonna Crawl. Well apart from JP Jones toying with his ginormous Yamaha GX-1 synth, (the Bugatti Veryon of keyboards back in 1979) on the intro I like this song and Zeppelin's worse album ends on a high note. There are three outtakes from the 1978 Polar sessions (Polar Studios, Stockholm were owned by Swedish super stars ABBA) Wearing And Tearing, Oozone Baby and Darlene which were released in 1982 on Coda. I wish they were on this album as they are far better than what ended up as the finished release.