Led Zeppelin/Talk

By the release of "Presence" and the disappointing "In Through the Out Door"

Begging your pardon, but I would have written it the other way. I find "Presence" rather disappointing (well, to be frank, unlistenable) but am quite pleased with "In Through the Out Door." Critics at the time weren't unanimous in calling it a step down, either, as most of them were unimpressed with the previous efforts also. Critics now are not unanimous in calling it a step down, as there are such a wide variety of critics in such divergent fields writing on music of the 70s. Perhaps the comment should be made much more specific or removed altogether. --KQ

When "In Through the out door" was released, at least a few in my neighborhood (heh Teter Quad) were incensed by the "disco" influence. We hated it! In retrospect, I would have to agree with KQ, "Presence" fell flat and ITTOD is a much better work.