Description
Offered for sale is a Japanese pressing of the double live album The Song Remains the Same by Led Zeppelin, including the original obi and record company survey postcard.
About this copy: This copy of The Song Remains the Same is a 1983 Japanese pressing on the Swan Song label of an album that was originally released in 1976.
The cover is M-. The obi is M-. The insert is M-. The record company postcard is M-.
Unlike earlier issues, this copy did not include a booklet.
The two discs are M- with a couple of spindle marks on the labels, but no marks on the vinyl. Clean discs!
A nice copy of a scarce Led Zeppelin LP.
Background: Released as a soundtrack to a concert film, The Song Remains the Same was Led Zeppelin’s first live album. The LP reached #1 in the UK and #2 on the U.S. album charts.
Allmusic.com gave The Song Remains the Same a 3 star review:
…It was the kind of excess that creates either myth or madness, and this 1976 live album — comprised of highlights from their three shows at Madison Square Garden during July 1973 — has its fair share of both, as Zeppelin sounds both magnificent and murky as they blow up songs from their first five albums to a ridiculously grand scale. …This, more than any of their studio albums, captures both the grandiosity and entitlement that earned the band scorn among certain quarters of rock critics and punk rockers in the mid-’70s, which makes it a valuable historical document in an odd way, as the studio records are such magnificent constructions and the archival live albums so powerful.
| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Swan Song |
| Catalog Number: |
P-4403~4N |
| Year of Release: | 1983 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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