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When the day is done,
I'm looking for a woman,
Oh, but the girl don't come
So don't let her
Play you for a fool
She don't show no pity baby,
No, no, she don't make no rules.
Oh, oh, I need your love
I need your love
Oh, I need your love
I just gotta have.
So don't you let her,
Oh, get under your skin
It's only bad luck and trouble,
Oh, from the day that you begin
I hear you crying in the darkness,
No, don't ask nobody's help
Oh, 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
Ooh, yeah, I need your love
I've gotta have.
Ooh, 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
Hey, it's lonely at the bottom
Man, it's dizzy at the top
But if you're standing in the middle, oh,
Ain't no way you're gonna stop.
Oh, baby
Oh, oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
I've got to have.
Ooh, whatever
That your days may bring
No use hiding in a corner, oh, no
'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,
Well, you don't expect a lot, oh.
Oh, I need your love
Oh, oh, I need your love
Ooh, yeah, I need your love,
I've got to have, I've got to have.
Baby, I've got to have your love
I've got to have
Oh, baby, I've got to have your love, whoa
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I've got to have your love
Just got, I've just got
I've just got to have your love
Oh, oh, oh...
I don't know why, but this song conjures up the image of an island full of walruses all bopping in time.
It's because it's so heavy, man!
As a design student in the mid 80s, album cover design was a dream job. It was a common assignment. Think I still have one of them around. A number of my professors had spent time in the 70s and 80s doing covers for CBS records and Atlantic. Then the CD came along just as I was finishing school. sigh
I did a dissertation on album cover design, in the 1970s. Presented it as a boxed set, with each chapter in a plain LP inner sleeve. Hand wrote the text on each page in a spiral, going inward to my own design record label “Moonrock Records”. We decorated our firsts house inside with album sleeve images.
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The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag, and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side; see images at right), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design.
i can't get over this. how frickin cool. i'd love to see it - untouched and colored.
Wasn't this the album where the actual album sleeve was one of those "wet the dots" type thing, where you'd brush on water and color would appear? Sheesh, I miss the 12" format so much....so much creativity........album cover design was indeed AN ART.
As a design student in the mid 80s, album cover design was a dream job. It was a common assignment. Think I still have one of them around. A number of my professors had spent time in the 70s and 80s doing covers for CBS records and Atlantic. Then the CD came along just as I was finishing school. sigh
The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag, and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side; see images at right), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design.
Yes, I love this cool surprise inside and the different versions of this album jacket! I have two versions. Once I met another collector in a record shop who told me, if you can find one where the inner sleeve has never been touched by water and retains the black and white line artwork, it's valuable. I'm not sure if this is true BUT I did come across one untouched by water, and snagged it! So I have one colored by water, one black and white. Such a cool fan surprise and of course I love In Through The Out Door as an album.
I only gave this an '8' ?
wtf was I THINKING?
I never knew that... mine is still fully intact, complete with paper cover.
wtf was I THINKING?
The main condition of being allowed to visit that island was that you were never to speak of it.
Well, everyone has their prime time and moves on.
Even though it's a loss when you loved the early work
Have to agree there. This one was never on the list of Zep tunes that I like, and I was a Zep freak until Presence. I give it a "3".
Apart from the beginning minutes, THIS part is indeed where I smile big!
Yes! This was one of them. Also, I believe there were six different versions of the album photo.
Not a stellar album by any stretch of the imagination. Most music was getting pretty generic. They may have been running out of steam and the death of Bonzo just stopped the downward trend.
So disagree. Love this album.
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Great song indeed!
ZEP still rules Hardrock!
miss you so much, Cynaera..
everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all over the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Are you sure you're not really in Gethsemane?
Hugs to all bowlegged gypsy muleskinners everywhere.
YESSSSS! I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...
And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.
miss you so much, Cynaera..
everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all over the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
basically grown tired of them anyway as they were way overplayed here in beantown
Heh. I think he played everything he knew all at the same time.
I agree with myself...
I knew about the multiple covers but did not know about the coloring (yes, I'm a yank). Now if I can only find them LPs. I remember this being kind of a sepia-toned photo.
I've stopped doing that lately. Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different. If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.
This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You"
Way to go!
Don't buy the line from those, "their creative energies peaked as such-and-such time" fools. They miss out on the beauty that is the continuum of a band's sound as it's members grow and develop as musicians and writers. They also whine a lot.
Thanks for the info...very cool.
I think this is the first time I stopped and actually listened to it in 30 years. Its pretty damn good after all and all these years.
YESSSSS! I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...
And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.
It is so cool that this song brings back that vivid memory for you! It is a vivid song... I remember when one of my friends got the first copy of the vinyl album In Through The Out Door... we sat around smoking pot and talking excitedly about the whole album... that was a great moment in history...
I love this song...
I remember In Through the Out Door getting lukewarm critical reception—it was a long time coming after the previous studio album. Most of my friends who were into Zep tried hard to like it but a fair amount of the album sounded like filler...We all liked this song, though.
There was this rumor floating around that if you wiped the picture on the album sleeve with damp cloth (dewd!), you'd uncover another picture. Didn't work. We were bummed, but intense pot-free discussion followed about the meaning of the artwork and possible Hidden Meanings. Maybe we needed the THC to figure it all out.
Everyone needs zoo love, Cynaera...
YESSSSS! I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...
And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.
I've stopped doing that lately. Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different. If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.
This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You"
Absolutely, I love this album as much as the others!
I've stopped doing that lately. Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different. If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.
This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You"
I cranked mine to balance the universe.
Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.
That's remedied.
That's remedied.
Well, I'm sentimental about Zep, so it's a ten from me.
Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.
That's remedied.
That's remedied.
Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.
That's remedied.
One of the several... Check this out
An album does not get any better my friends! Come on give it up!
That's one of the four. When the LP was released first on vinyl, the records where coverd,not knowing what cover you where getting. I don't know what's up with The Complete Led Zeppelin album name.
Led Zeppelin is like sex or pot; even when it's bad it's still pretty good.
Yup, that's it!
Led Zeppelin is like sex or pot; even when it's bad it's still pretty good.