Product Description
Rare “E” Cover Actual 1979 First Japanese Pressing Of The Final Led Zeppelin Studio Album. Includes Original Brown Outer Bag, Magic Paint Inner Sleeve & Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. Features “In The Evening”, “Fool In The Rain”, “All My Love” & More.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Labels are clean. SUPERIOR pressing with dynamic sound! (FAR, FAR BETTER than the muddy-sounding NZ pressing). Hard to believe this record is over 42 years old!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Light ring wear, three small spine creases, frayed top right corner. The magic paint by wetting INNER SLEEVE is VG+ It has been partly coloured, has some foxing, due to age. OUTER BAG & INSERT are EXCELLENT!
COVER VARIANT is E. The original ‘In Through The Out Door’ album included an inner sleeve, which featured black & white line artwork, which would become permanently fully coloured, if washed with water. There were also six different covers (letters A – F) featuring a different pair of photographs (12 shots in total, one on each side). The photos represent the view of each person situated in the bar.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
In The Evening
South Bound Suarez
Fool In The Rain
Hot Dog
Side 2:
Carouselambra
All My Love
I’m Gonna Crawl
Geoff –
The final studio recording from Led Zeppelin was all class… Essential Zep! The album's opening number, "In the Evening," with its stomping rhythms and heavy, staggered riffs, suggests that Zeppelin haven't deviated from their course, but by the time the rolling shuffle of "South Bound Suarez" kicks into gear, it's apparent that they've regained their sense of humor. After "South Bound Suarez," the group tries a variety of styles, whether it's an overdriven homage to Bakersfield county called "Hot Dog," the layered, Latin-tinged percussion and pianos of "Fool in the Rain”. Plant laments the loss of his son on the beautiful ballad ,"All My Love." "Carouselambra," a lurching, self-consciously ambitious synth-driven number, and the slow blues "I'm Gonna Crawl"... the record was a graceful way to close to Zeppelin's career, even if it wasn't intended as the final chapter.