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The Song Remains the Same (album)

The Song Remains the Same
A drawing of a dilapidated theatre with a thick black border around it
Live album / Soundtrack by Led Zeppelin
Released 22 October 1976 (1976-10-22)
Recorded 27–29 July 1973 at Madison Square Garden, New York City
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length 99:45
Label Swan Song
Producer Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin chronology
Presence
(1976)Presence1976
The Song Remains the Same
(1976)
In Through the Out Door
(1979)In Through the Out Door1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
Blender 3/5 stars
Robert Christgau C+
The Daily Telegraph 3/5 stars
Mojo (2007 reissue) 4/5 stars
MusicHound 2/5
Q 2/5 stars
Record Collector (2007 reissue) 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2/5 stars
Uncut (2007 reissue) 4/5 stars

The Song Remains the Same is the live soundtrack album of the concert film of the same name by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The album was originally released in October 1976, before being remastered and reissued in 2007.

The recording of the album and the film took place during three nights of concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden, during the band's 1973 North American tour. All songs were recorded by Eddie Kramer using the Wally Heider Mobile Studio truck, and later mixed at Electric Lady Studios in New York and Trident Studios in London.

The album was released on 22 October 1976, by Swan Song Records. The sleeve design depicted a dilapidated movie house located on Old Street film studios in London, which was used by the group for rehearsals prior to their 1973 tour.

Until both the album and the film were remastered and re-released in 2007, there were significant differences between the two in terms of the songs included on each. These differences were as follows:

In addition, of the songs that both the album and the film had in common, some of the recordings featured on the album were of different performances from those in the film. Other tracks which were recorded at Madison Square Garden, but omitted from both the film and the soundtrack album, included "Over The Hills and Far Away", "The Ocean" and "Misty Mountain Hop". A comprehensive analysis of the sources of the original album and the edits is available at The Garden Tapes.

The Song Remains The Same soundtrack album was reissued on CD on 20 November 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, released on HD-DVD, Blu-ray and 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.


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