As guitarist Jimmy Page explains, We were never really part of the pop scene. Despite being viewed as a boilerplate rock album in 2019, it's impossible to ignore the lasting influence and success of IV. Clocking in at nearly five and a half hours, LED ZEPPELIN DVD has been culled from just a handful of performances which were ever filmed during the bands extraordinary lifetime. What's interesting is that IV became such a stereotype of rock music success that both critics and fans have developed a biased hatred for it, as Steven Hyden explained in his 2018 book, Twilight of the Gods. But that one song is somehow not enough to overshadow the rest of the record, which in just eight tracks manages to hit the entire scope of Led Zeppelin music, from blues to ballads to hard rock. Entire works just about Jimmy Page's guitar solo alone, one that has literally never been recreated since. There are entire books written about this song. "Stairway to Heaven" is a cliche in this genre for a reason. In fact, upon writing that sentence I didn't plan on listing every track on the record, but couldn't decide which songs to leave out. Just one glance at the track list-"Black Dog," "Rock and Roll," "The Battle of Evermore," "Stairway to Heaven," "When the Levee Breaks," "Misty Mountain Hop," "Four Sticks," "Going to California"-is a collection of the most essential rock tracks in music history. It feels almost impossible to rank any album other than IV at the top of this list. While "All My Love" remains a touching tribute to Plant's son, and "Fool in the Rain" became a radio hit, the album is-as a whole-representative of Led Zeppelin's tragic ending. The band was uncertain about its future, and that can be heard on an album that has difficulty navigating a new decade where Zeppelin's style of rock was rapidly being exchanged for new emerging trends.
Zeppelin started recording the record in late 1978, when the band was at a musical crossroads, burnt out on the traditional label structure, and Robert Plant was grieving the loss of his son Karac a year before. So that leaves In Through the Out Door, which-even though it was recorded before Bonham died in 1980-was still an album created during much personal strife within the band. 1982's Coda was released after the death of John Bonham in 1980, and consists of unused material from the band's career. For our interests here, we're considering In Through the Out Door the last proper Led Zeppelin album.
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