Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same 2008 U.S 4 LP Vinyl Box Set FLAC
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The Song Remains the Same
Live album soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same by Led Zeppelin
Released Vinyl (July 22, 2008)
Recorded 27–29 July 1973 at Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, United States
Genre Hard rock
Length
Language English
Label Swan Song
Producer Jimmy Page
The Song Remains the Same is the soundtrack live album of the concert film of the same name by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The album was originally released in 1976, before being remastered and re-issued in 2007.
Contents
2007 reissue
The Song Remains The Same soundtrack album was reissued on CD on November 20, 2007, with the surviving band members having overseen the remixing and remastering of the original release. This coincided with the re-issue of the film, available on DVD. The new version of the soundtrack included six songs that were not on the original album release: "Black Dog", "Over the Hills and Far Away", "Misty Mountain Hop", "Since I've Been Loving You", "The Ocean" and "Heartbreaker", plus new liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
With the 2007 re-release of both the album and film, the songs were synchronized so that the full set-list from the concerts was available on both, with each song mixed the same way (the only exceptions being "Bron-Yr-Aur" and "Autumn Lake", both of which continued to be absent from the album).
Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page explained:
We have revisited The Song Remains The Same and can now offer the complete set as played at Madison Square Garden. This differs substantially from the original soundtrack released in 1976, and highlights the technical prowess of Kevin Shirley, who worked with us on How The West Was Won.[1]
Due to legal complications, the band decided not to change the video portion of the original movie for the re-release.[2] Instead, Shirley created an entirely new mix of the three 1973 Madison Square Garden concerts so that the audio portion of the film would better match the on-screen visuals. The audio on the new CD release was nearly identical to the soundtrack of the new DVD release. One difference was that the songs included on the CDs that were not featured in the original movie were included as bonus tracks on the DVD.[3]
The audio mixes also differed from those found on the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD. The most obvious example is that "Black Dog" was two minutes longer on the 2003 DVD than on the 2007 releases.
On 29 July 2008, a four-LP edition of the 2007 re-issue, on 180 gram audiophile vinyl, was released. It was presented in a deluxe archival two-piece box with foil-stamping. It includes a 12-page oversized full-color booklet with dozens of previously unpublished stills from the film, as well as four individual jackets with new and unique artwork. A special white vinyl edition was also printed in very limited numbers. Just 200 were produced, with only 100 being made available to the public (only from Led Zeppelin.com).
Upon its initial release in 1976, the album received some poor reviews, with some critics considering it to be over-produced and lumbering.[10] Indeed, the band's members themselves have since expressed a lack of fondness for the recording. Page has admitted that the end product was hardly the best representation of Led Zeppelin as a live band:
Obviously we were committed to putting this album out, although it wasn't necessarily the best live stuff we have. I don't look upon it as a live album...it's essentially a soundtrack.[11]
In an interview he gave to rock journalist Cameron Crowe, Page elaborated:
As far as Led Zeppelin's studio recordings went, every single one of them has a certain ambiance, certain atmospherics that made them special. When it came to the live shows, we were always trying to move things forward and we certainly weren't happy leaving them as they were. The songs were always in a state of change. On [The] Song Remains the Same you can hear the urgency and not much else. The live shows were an extension of the albums.[12]
In contrast, the 2007 reissued version received noticably more positive reviews. In a review published in Mojo magazine in December 2007 James McNair gave the album four out of five stars,[13] as did David Cavanagh in Uncut magazine, who wrote:
... The sound is vastly improved, as is the playing of the musicians (due to digital re-editing of the three MSG concerts, presumably). Not so much remastered as reconstructed, the 15 tracks (six previously unreleased) showboat, strut and snarl.[14]
However, disappointment with the 2007 reissue has been expressed by some fans due to the deletion of some sequences from the original release. Notable among these was a drum and organ sequence by John Bonham and John Paul Jones in "No Quarter", which was completely cut from the reissue.
Track listing
Reissue
All tracks written by Jones, Page, Plant, except as noted.
LP 1
1. Rock And Roll
2. Celebration Day
3. Black Dog (including Bring It On Home)*
4. Over The Hills And Far Away*
5. Misty Mountain Hop*
6. Since I’ve Been Loving You*
7. The Ocean*
LP 2
1. The Song Remains The Same
2. The Rain Song
3. No Quarter
LP 3
1. Dazed And Confused (Part 1)
2. Dazed And Confused (Part 2)
3. Moby Dick
LP 4
1. Stairway To Heaven
2. Heartbreaker*
3. Whole Lotta Love
* Not on original soundtrack release
Sales chart performance
Reissue
Chart (2007) ? Peak Position ?
Japanese Albums Chart[24] 5
UK Albums Chart[25] 73
Belgian Albums Chart (Walloon)[26] 86
US Billboard Top Soundtracks Chart[27] 9
US Billboard Tastemakers Chart[28] 11
US Billboard Top Hard Rock Chart[29] 11
US Billboard Top Pop Albums Chart[30] 23
US Billboard Comprehensive Albums Chart[31] 92
German Albums Chart[32] 65
Digital download
Chart (2007) ? Peak Position ?
US Billboard Top Digital Albums Chart[33] 24
US Billboard Top Internet Albums Chart[34] 18
Personnel
Led Zeppelin
* John Bonham – drums, percussion
* John Paul Jones – bass guitar, keyboards, Mellotron
* Jimmy Page – electric guitars, backing vocals, Theremin, production
* Robert Plant – vocals
Additional personnel
* Cameron Crowe – liner notes
* Peter Grant – executive producer
* George Hardie – record sleeve
* Hipgnosis – record sleeve
* Eddie Kramer – engineering, mixing
* Bob Ludwig – remastering on 2007 re-release
* Kevin Shirley – remixing on 2007 re-release
"Everything was reassembled from the ground up. The original soundtrack lives only in the old version, which is almost an excuse for having both because there are two different versions now. The new version is newly assembled audio. That's why when Warner Bros. says it's 'remastered,' that's not really descriptive, it's re-done. As Jimmy says, 'it's been revisited,' which is about as accurate as you can get." -- Kevin Shirley
Read more: http://led-zeppelin.org/reference/discography/index.php?m=disc-tsrts2007cd#ixzz0j8PiFWSK
2008 U.S 4 LP Vinyl Box
Live album soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same by Led Zeppelin
Released Vinyl (July 22, 2008)
Recorded 27–29 July 1973 at Madison Square Garden, New York City
Producer Jimmy Page
LP 1
1. Rock And Roll
2. Celebration Day
3. Black Dog (including Bring It On Home)*
4. Over The Hills And Far Away*
5. Misty Mountain Hop*
6. Since I’ve Been Loving You*
7. The Ocean*
LP 2
1. The Song Remains The Same
2. The Rain Song
3. No Quarter
LP 3
1. Dazed And Confused (Part 1)
2. Dazed And Confused (Part 2)
3. Moby Dick
LP 4
1. Stairway To Heaven
2. Heartbreaker*
3. Whole Lotta Love