Led Zeppelin, In The Evening Reaction (Re-upload)

A reaction to one of the most celebrated groups in Rock history.

[@anthonypowell6234]

This tune has been a favorite of mine for forty years! Still don't know all the lyrics, and don't care. It just moves so damn well!

[@johnpetrie1918]

That crunch that kicks off the solo, like a rocket taking off... This is one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. To me it's totally what 80's Zeppelin would have sounded like. My only knock on it is the lyrics are tough to pick out. Musically, though, it's a underrated epic.

[@MrRebus777]

Yes, I hear the chorus but don't know what the heck he is singing in the verse ???!!!

[@lukeingram7655]

that crunch is a live amp being rolled down a flight of stairs, not kidding.

[@ToddLedbetterIRL]

This album is amazing start to finish, every song is wonderful.

[@DavidJacobsvo]

In Through the Out Door was underrated and underappreciated. I love this album.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I listen to this album more than some other Zep albums, so I don't know what fans are talking about. Fans deride Presence too, which is another great album. I don't see any Zep album as bad, just different. My least favorite albums are Zep I and II, but some fans swear by them. To each his own. They're all good just different.

[@IEEteammateMATT1]

Frankincensed that’s crazy to me but like you said to each his own

[@richdiana3663]

Definitely each to their own Frankincensed. I worshipped the first two and all that followed.

[@raynorlynn810]

Haha 2 is my favorite and I love 1, ok in through the out door is a bit strange so is presence and really so was houses of the holy, I think 3 is what i listen to the least...but are any of them bad?! Hell no

[@kimberlywalker3970]

I had a coworker who violently hated ITTOD. I thought isn't Fool In The Rain and All My Love on that album?! I wasn't a Zeppelin fan at the time so I didn't know any better. I now own this album, two copies by accident, it's a long story, and it's in my top half of my ranking of their albums. The only ones I like more are IV, Physical Graffiti and II. The albums I'm not terribly in love w/are Presence, though it has a couple of stellar songs, and III, thought I love Immigrant Song. But, one of the things I love about Zeppelin is that they don't put out the same album every time. Though I may not some as much, their worst is better than a lot of people's best :)

[@zacharyimran3663]

sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know of a way to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot my account password. I would love any help you can offer me!

[@sgtboz9730]

This song caused me to become a Zeppelin fan in 1979. And don't be misled (misLED?), this album was HUGE when it came out. Always on the radio. Btw, STB, you are too cool for words.

[@oscarwilde6649]

"I'm Gonna Crawl" - Best Song on the album

[@Clnt874]

Wrong. In the evening is best

[@ToddLedbetterIRL]

So good.

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

great blues tune, made for the stage imo. fool is my fave ittod fwiw

[@gabbyalvrez9679]

agree 1000 pct.

[@featherinthewind333]

I think there are 3 top 20 zeppelin tunes on ittod, in the evening, all my love, and I'm gonna crawl, it's very a very strong album only let down by the poor production on carouselambra

[@skydog6376]

In the evening When the day is done I'm looking for a woman But the girl don't come So don't let her Play you for a fool She don't show no pity, baby She don't make no rules Oh, I need your love I need your love Oh, I need your love I just got to have So don't you let her Oh, get under your skin It's only bad luck and trouble From the day that you begin I hear you crying in the darkness, Don't ask nobody's help Ain't no pockets full of mercy, baby 'Cause you can only blame yourself Oh, I need your love Oh, oh, I need your love Yeah, I need your love I just got to have Oh, it's simple All the pain that you go through You can turn away from fortune, fortune, fortune 'Cause that's all that's left to you Oh, it's lonely at the bottom Man, it's dizzy at the top But if you're standing in the middle Ain't no way you're gonna stop, oh Oh, I need your love Oh, oh, I need your love Oh, oh, I need your love I just got to have Ooh, whatever that your days may bring No use hiding in a corner 'Cause that won't change a thing If you're dancing in the doldrums One day soon, it's got to stop, it's got to stop When you're the master of the off-chance When you don't expect a lot Oh, I need your love Oh, oh, I need your love Oh yeah, I need your love I just got to have, I just got to have

[@janetwyatt3984]

My all time favorite!! I know it’s hard to choose!

[@HollisDuty60]

Thanks for the lyrics! Love Robert but can’t always understand what he’s saying. 😉

[@edriley2703]

This song was a harbinger of what Zep had planned for the 80'S - but they never made it. In The Evening was so dynamic and textured. Wow...thanks for your reaction - on the money !!

[@CamiMack5616]

One of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. I can't really describe its sound; I guess haunting, echoey, and punchy might describe it, in my bizarre choice of words.

[@raynorlynn810]

One of the biggest differences in this album was that it was really two different bands: JPJ and Plant would lay down the rhythm (without drums!) And Bonzo and Page would come in later to lay down their parts. So Page did alot less writing, this album was largely JPJ writing. This was the first one that they didn't sit in a room and play together.

[@johnsample5628]

There is just a new Led Zeppelin album. There was never a "worst" one.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

One of my all time favorite LZ songs...you just can't beat that intro...and of course the rest of the amazing song

[@stanleyapsokardu6209]

Your not a real Zeppelin fan if you dislike . One of the best bands ever. Almost 50 years later they still rule 😎

[@richardbaker4068]

This whole album is very, very good and not heard enough

[@800sushi]

This is one of my many favorite Zeppelin songs. Thanks for letting us join you on this journey. I get to rediscover music that is the soundtrack of my generation--took me 50 years to get to the party, but I made it! Hope you will consider reacting to their bootlegs--some of the performances make me REALLY regret not going to their concert when I had a chance.

[@randypheifer7080]

5:38 The thundering and lightening sound was created with a Fender Stratocaster that has the back cover removed to expose the tremolo springs and he's pulling them out and letting they snap back, similar to a spring door stop but much much tighter because the springs are hooked on both ends.

[@CyrusOG666]

Mature Zep is my favorite. STBs reaction of Achilles Last Stand is my favorite Zep reaction on the net. You rock ST!

[@CyrusOG666]

Goddamn, did you hear those drums?!

[@sheiladrucker6872]

Presence and In through the out door are both Masterpieces! Presence is sick!!!

[@golfingsam52]

This is one of my all time favorite songs by Zeppelin I love the way it keeps changing

[@Grimgrimmerson]

I'm a huge Zep fan... The issue is that it's different musically. When I was young, I had same negativity, but now that I'm in my 50's I appreciate it.

[@zappa1952]

All bands evolve and Zeppelin is no different. Once their albums (what I'd now call their next level) Physical Graffiti, Presence and In through the out door came out, I'd pretty much moved on. I didn't appreciate those albums until years later. I guess they were more willing to evolve musically than I was. 🤔

[@CherryBombBlonde]

I love this song too and it’s on my workout playlist always so I hear it often. I loved how you immediately made note of Jimmy’s guitar on that “thunder and lightning” riff!

[@cynthiayargus1695]

Thank you so much for liking this song! I love this song from the first time listening, and I have never changed my mind.💕💕💕💕💕

[@tomatoseed1443]

Wow, "I love the hell" out of this song, too! I like the part where it sounds like they're going underwater. 5:12

[@markhighbaugh4076]

This song has grown on me over the years

[@annakermode6646]

Same here!

[@brucerathbonerathbone1683]

Their performance doing " since I've been loving you " on Plant and Page unleded is just outstanding, since that is your favorite Zep song it's a must see, if you can get it with video it would enhance the performance.

[@thomastaylor9579]

SOUL TRAIN BRO,I WENT TO BOTH CONCERTS BACK IN MAY 16TH 1995 AT THE FABULOUS FORUM IN LOS ANGELES THAT WAS NO QUARTER,THEN I WENT TO THE WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE CONCERT IN 1998 BOTH WERE PHENOMENAL IM 51 NOW AND STILL A DIE HARD FAN

[@markfichera469]

I'm gonna crawl. Best song. Fantastic guitar solo.

[@timbrown2637]

My Wife and I were at the TacomaWa. Page/Plant show and it was great. Sure too bad that drummer Michael Lee passed from an epileptic seizure, he was awesome!

[@sandrasmith7501]

Thanks for finding a way to navigate! Great Zeppelin reaction.

[@stephenflowers8516]

I remember when this album came out. Yes different. But I loved it then. And I love it now.

[@terrybarton1604]

There's no such thing as a bad Zeppelin album!!☘

[@timbrown2637]

The ever evolving band until the end!

[@kk-jk3oo]

You need to hear Page & Plant's version of Kashmir. Egyptian band.

[@ToddLedbetterIRL]

WOW! That live version, never heard that before. Super good. Yes you are right, it is a great song.

[@gzucc]

I love them all, all of their albums but I really have to say In Through The Outdoor is one of their best.

[@charlesschaefer1974]

this was my favorite zep album

[@otalldon5582]

love in the evening. so many songs by Led are a separate level than anybody else to me... this is another one. the live version is so dam good. you gotta do the live version man

[@SuperSparrowcat]

I think You will enjoy "Fool in the Rain"...I like the lyrics as well as the music🎶

[@mervinward256]

the slide guitar on this track is awsome

[@monroegodette6440]

They sprinkled in Carouselambra in the live version

[@barriehull7076]

Hi Sir. This is my first ever hearing of this song not the best but as you say better than some one hit wonders you can hear. Never heard this before but have been aware of Led Zeppelin since 1970 when a lecturer at a day release class I attended showed us an LP cover that he had, it had to be "Led Zeppelin". Apart from singles heard on the radio I only bought their albums as CDs I guess over 40 yrs later! Never a bad song in their discography just 8 or 9's rather than 10's. Good job on review as always!

[@susannebass5503]

Yes they traveled with an Egyptian band so the Mediterranean feel! Great choice great reaction✌️

[@david_v2.1]

I think this is a great album. There are some fantastic tracks on it and it stands the test of time. Ok, not their best but it must be extremely difficult, even impossible, to match the stellar standards they set for themselves with each previous release.

[@jonicantrell7849]

Led Zepplin didn't make a bad album. All their music is a journey. You either take the ride or lose out.

[@jeffherbst7699]

I absolutely love this intro...one of the best... hard to understand Plant a problem at times.

[@gedwhittaker874]

It is not one of their best albums, but it's still bloody good!

[@davidfoucher9098]

This is my favorite song by them

[@raymondrobson4400]

This is one of my favorite songs by them. They've done so much great stuff! Stairway to Heaven is awesome, but I think this song, Cashmere, and Hot Dog are my 3 favorites. Thanks STB! As always, you're right on point. You do a great job! This album might not ( debatable ) have been their best album, but it was still extremely good. Please tell me what you think after you listen to the rest of this album. I'll bet you love it! Yes, 10CC.. I'm not in love

[@gedwhittaker874]

Cashmere? it's not a sweater it's a place - Kashmir!

[@Smittay-Sr.]

Actually do a whole album, just to shove it in their face! One of my first cassette tapes, besides the moody blues!

[@ericbrecht9473]

you said it right on the intro! EERIE! love it

[@antarcticorb9197]

Page's guitar sounds like a Tasmanian devil breaking out of his cage...

[@shaydsofgray262]

One of the reasons that fans may disparage this album is because it was a different sound than before. Why? John Paul Jones had a greater hand in writing these songs hence the prominent keyboard foundation of many of these songs. SOUTHBOUND SAUREZ is one of their greatest!

[@shaydsofgray262]

In addition, the lyrics in the middle bridge are from CAROUSELAMBRA which is also on the "In Through the Out Door" album.

[@kimberlywalker3970]

Please do a Knebworth review! August 11th, not the 4th. This is in the top ten of my favorite Zeppelin songs. I listen to this song over and over and never get tired of it. It's also a Zeppelin song I like just as much live. Same goes for Over The Hills And Far Away. Glad you did a review of this song!

[@vernonallen3370]

Plant borrowed lyrics from Carouselambra on the live version.

[@teresakoslosky3053]

Love it!!!FIRE!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@alfredofranco]

I think that this is album it's just a starting point for something new, or for better saying, it could have been. I'm sure they would have released something as classic as their fourth album in a couple of years...but things went tragically different. It's a very interesting record anyway, as I said, rich of new ideas and approaches that could have le(a)d to something epic.

[@antarcticorb9197]

You never disappoint...

[@antarcticorb9197]

Iclick thumbs up before I see your reaction...

[@anitapaulus937]

I’ve never heard a LED Zeppelin album that I didn’t like. I hesitate to claim favorites because I honestly don’t have one. I might lean toward one type of song for a few days, then it might change. I think there might be 2 or 3 of their songs I honestly don’t enjoy as much as the others, but I don’t think I really dislike any of them. I can’t say this is true of any other band, I don’t know why other than the level of talent.

[@RevDrKillJoy]

One of my favorite songs on this album! It's not the greatest album in total -- for them, but it has some bangers on it. And it should be noted that the next 3 albums are much the same as this one with a few really good songs and a few are 'meh.' Thanks for the reaction, catch you on the next one.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

This song was behind my skipping school one dày my senior year.

[@ronjm945]

Whoever said this is their worst doesn’t know good music! They were unable to create bad music..

[@herbiesnerd]

It’s still Zep. It is the sound they made at that time. It is what it is. This song floods my mind with memories of that time. 1980 or so. It’s still Zep.

[@sicotshit7068]

Critics were always hard on Led Zeppelin, especially Rolling Stone, they didn’t like that the band wouldn’t give them interviews.

[@SoulTrainBro]

They've sure changed their tune over the years.

[@lgs1095]

All Zeppelin is good I don't have a favorite song by them. It's impossible to choose love them all

[@raynorlynn810]

He makes that sound by just laying on the whammy, making his strings super loose and then as he solos he brings it up...it's really a difficult thing to make sound good, I've been at it for years lol

[@davidfoucher9098]

An I've been listening to LED Zeppelin since I was 12 im 53 now

[@lukeingram7655]

5:10 5:29, the thunder is a cranked up 100w fender amp being kicked down a flight of stairs, essential trivia for any Zeppelin freak!

[@musky666]

Hi, love your Zep content 💕 I was wondering when your reaction to "I'm Gonna Crawl" will happen? I know it will end up being a favorite. Whats the best Zeppelin song? The one you're listening to at the time. 🤘 Thanks for being you.

[@ginger4141]

I love this song, just a great jam. You asked if you should watch the Knebworth live version of this song the answer is yes. If you want to hear that Bonham thunder, and Jimmy's more prominent guitar sound. JPJ also brings a lot into this song live.

[@arthurdduda63]

AIN'T GOT NO POCKETS FULL OF MERCY BABY.. WHEN YOU'RE THE MASTER OF THE OFF CHANCE, WELL YOU DON'T EXPECT A LOT.... IT'S LONELY AT THE BOTTOM MAN IT'S DIZZY AT THE TOP,... BUT WHEN YOU'RE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE AIN'T NO WAY YOUR GONNA STOP... SOME OF THE COOLEST LYRICS EVER...

[@CyrusOG666]

80’s Zeppelin 😥 woulda changed everything

[@markburgess2388]

When Jimmy Goes Into His Riff .... He Always gets in Front of the Bass Drum....

[@bnd4ever48]

You should listen to Since I've Been Loving You with the orchestra on the Page /Plant tour as wel

[@oldedominion8782]

You got 10CC pegged, but Godley and Creme went on to make some incredible music on their own, 5 or 6 albums, and eventually reached popular acclaim in the '80s

[@Ed9870]

I can't under-emphasize what a big deal this was when it came out. Following their two year hiatus and complete silence (pre-internet) following Robert Plant's tragic loss of his son, they really weren't expected to come back. Let alone record new music. So it arrived in a brown paper bag with six different depictions of a drunk reading his Dear John letter at the Absinthe House bar in New Orleans in some kind of time warp, and In The Evening explodes on the record player. We were blown away. Yes, the entire record doesn't hold up like Physical Graffiti or Led Zep 4, but what the hell ever did?

[@stevep2430]

This album is great when your off ya face.

[@ToddLedbetterIRL]

Great album!

[@MJEvermore853]

Hi STB! Those lyrics that sounded familiar to you were from the midsection of Carouselambra from this very same LP.

[@mervinward256]

not a bad track on album i love the album

[@MJEvermore853]

I would love for you to do a video on the Knebworth version. Vote me in! So glad to see you back on KZbin. Great video as always!

[@SoulTrainBro]

Will do!

[@arthurdduda63]

CHECK OUT THE LIVE VERSION FROM KNEBWORTH, JIMMY'S STRAT ( ONE OF THE FEW SONGS HE USES ONE) IS BEGGING FOR MERCY... ALSO WATCH ACHILLES LAST STAND FROM IT AND... WATCH FOR YOUR LIFE FROM CELEBRATION DAY DVD... ROCK ON MAN.. HEY DO A LOUIE LOUIE LOUIE LOO IIII ... FORGET BAND NAME... HE WAS WHITE SHE WAS BLACK....

[@chris55068]

Great album

[@georgebarrett2132]

hello again my friend....have not forg💙tten you....forgive me but....iz just that sO many loved ones suddenly departing so fast and many so prematurely... ..and me...?...the lucky one with the family's strongest immune system, aye?...oh boy, wow, i get to live through all of their's... ...oh lucky me, aye?... .. God, couldn't you just as well have granted me eternity so as i may witness ALL of it? good words my bro.....relativity......"in the evening" is the strongest contender for my very fave zep arrangement. hope i can fully recover in chi and join you in all of the great fun you have provided

[@X1xone]

Whomever says this album is not good is just wrong. It is different for Zep and not as aggressive, but it is very good.

[@trendydelquendy]

I think at this stage they were on their way in an odder direction

[@musicbill]

Nobody today can come close to this

[@bnd4ever48]

Not one of my favorite albums by them and JP was in a bad place during the recording of this album but this song is pretty good....I guess our expectations are so high that this album would be great for most bands but for them it was mediocre and the main reason for that is that Pagey was not involved as much in the writing and came in with Bonzo to do their part after Plant and JPJ had done their parts

[@arthurdduda63]

ZEPPELIN DIDN'T HAVE A WORSE ALBUM THEY WERE ALL IN ON EVERY ALBUM TO GIVE THEIR FANS THE BEST, SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THIS BECAUSE OF THE SYNTH ON CAROUSELUMBRA, HOT DOG COUNTRY SWAGGER , ... ALL OF MY LOVE, FOOL IN THE RAIN, IN THE EVENING WERE ALL HITS AND IF JOHN HAD NOT DIED THIS TOUR WOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR BIGGEST EVER !!!

[@mervinward256]

listen fool in the rain

[@Kavala76]

I always liked this album. Perhaps not their best but still, I like it.

[@kduton1]

Have you listen to traveling riverside blues yet?? If not u should give it a listen

[@Ron-id1ze]

All a matter of taste

[@generoberts9151]

Nothing wrong with this album IMO. This tune. All of my Love, Fool in the Rain, Hot Dog...all good tunes

[@dorkoptimusrex907]

Just to add onto Soul Train bro and his comment of and reacting to Led Zeppelin and their bad songs are better than most bands great songs it's like in the eye of the beholder. I suppose it would have to be what songs really catch your ear and get your toe tapping. I really prefer the live version of this song to the studio period but being a worst song that they have ever done, that is far from the truth, great song.

[@kevykev38]

No it's not their worse... Actually it was a different time for musicit changed drastically. I really love the album. I wouldn't say it's their worse because I didn't write it and can't.

[@robertwatson39]

At this stage Led Zepp was going through a transition which stopped when Jihn Bonham passed away. If there was a weak album that would be Presence in my opinion, but I loved that album anyway.

[@davidvaness5081]

Tons of thunder on this record but i want to say hot dog