It received a 23 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA, the fifth-highest of all albums, and fourth-highest exclusive of greatest hits compilations. Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album, often called Led Zeppelin IV and released on 8 November 1971, is their most commercially successful album. It also peaked at number one in the UK and in the US. Led Zeppelin III (1970) was a softer, more folk-based effort compared to the hard rock of the band's previous releases. The album produced Led Zeppelin's highest-charting single, " Whole Lotta Love", which peaked at several music charts in the top 10. It reached number one in several countries, including the UK and the US, where it was certified 12 times multi-platinum. Led Zeppelin's second studio album, Led Zeppelin II, recorded when the band were on tour, was released a few months after the first. It received several sales certifications, including an eight-times multi-platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Diamond from the Music Canada. Their debut album, Led Zeppelin (1969), released by Atlantic Records, charted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and at number ten on the United States Billboard 200. The band pioneered the concept of album-oriented rock and often refused to release popular songs as singles. Formed in London in 1968, the group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The discography of the English rock band Led Zeppelin consists of eight studio albums, four live albums, nine compilation albums, sixteen singles and eight music downloads. It wasn't as consistent on-stage as it was on record, though - a half-hour "Dazed and Confused" may be the stuff of legend, but it's still a chore to get through - but the very fact that Led Zeppelin could take things so far is part of their mystique, and nowhere is that penchant for excess better heard than on The Song Remains the Same.Jimmy Page (right) with Robert Plant during a 1977 concert in Chicago At this stage, Zeppelin seemed concerned only with pleasing themselves, but they only did so because they could - others tried to mimic them, but nobody could get the sheer size of their sound, which was different yet equally as monstrous on-stage as it was on record. Plus, there is a certain sinister charm to the sheer spectacle chronicled on The Song Remains the Same, particularly in the greatly expanded 2007 reissue, which adds six previously unreleased tracks, helping pump up this already oversized album into something truly larger than life.
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. They no longer sound hungry they sound settled, satisfied at their status as rock overlords and, since a huge part of Zeppelin's appeal is their sheer scale, hearing them at their most oversized on The Song Remains the Same is not without its charm. Here, on a show documented just about 18 months after those on How the West., the group were starting to let their status as stars go to their head ever so slightly. This is not the vigorous, vicious band documented on the subsequently released live BBC Sessions or the majestic might of the 2003 live album How the West Was Won and its accompanying eponymous DVD, where the band still sounded tight even when they stretched out for 20 minutes. Theirs 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.
Of course, that time would be the mid-'70s, when Led Zep were golden gods, selling out stadiums across America and indulging their wildest desires both on and off stage.
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Commonly dismissed as a disappointment upon its initial release, the soundtrack to Led Zeppelin's concert movie The Song Remains the Same is one of those '70s records that has aged better than its reputation - it's the kind of thing that's more valuable as the band recedes into history than it was at the time, as it documents its time so thoroughly.
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