Presence vs. In Through The Out Door -- Head To Head Song Battle

[Dave78]

Each album had two stellar hit tracks ("Achilles Last Stand", "Nobody's Fault But Mine", "In The Evening" and "Carouselambra") so for the purpose of this poll, they are excluded from competition. The other reason being, the purpose of this poll is two compare and contrast the balance of the material on the two albums against each other. If you do it right, you will be voting for one song in each of the five matchups. Aaaand... go!

 

[Riff Raff]

All the In Through the Outdoor songs for me.

 

[joker1961]

@Dave78 great poll...

South Bound Suarez
Hot Dog
All My Love

Tea For One
Royal Orleans

if the stellar tracks where in the poll

In The Evening

Achilles Last Stand

 

[Dave78]

I voted for all Presence tracks.

If I were to vote on the four stellar tracks there would be a split vote between the two albums; "Achilles Last Stand" and "Carouselambra".

 

[Vader]

Presence in a landslide. If I were voting between the excluded songs it would still be all Presence songs for me. Presonally, Im not a fan of ITTOD at all. In fact, I refer to it as Zeppelins nu-wave album...not a complement.

 

[Porch Monkey]

I just like Presence much more. It seems sharper somehow. It's the only Zep album I always put all of into any playlist I make up that has Zep in it, every time. Get bored with ITTOD. Never with Presence.

 

[joe]

All 5 from Presence.

 

[joe]

Presence in a landslide. If I were voting between the excluded songs it would still be all Presence songs for me. Presonally, Im not a fan of ITTOD at all. In fact, I refer to it as Zeppelins nu-wave album...not a complement.

I think you like new wave as much as I do.

 

[Magic]

1. South Bound Suarez
2. Fool in the Rain
3. Candy Store Rock
4. Hots on for Nowhere
5. Tea for One

 

[Lynch]

1a - For Your Life
2b - Fool in the Rain
3b - Hot Dog
4b - All My Love
5b - I'm Gonna Crawl

1/5 for Presence, 4/5 for ITTOD. The only reason that Presence got any votes from me is that I'm not a fan of either opening track, but I'll take For Your Life over South Bound which does even less for me.

I've long said that I think Presence is one of the two worst albums they did (along with LZ3, yeah, I said it).