The Song Remains the Same (1976)
Genre: Documentary / Music
Duration: 137 minuten
Alternative title: Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Peter Clifton and Joe Massot
Stars: John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page
IMDb score:
7,6 (9.401)
Releasedate: 20 October 1976
The Song Remains the Same plot
"In Concert And Beyond"
The pioneers of hard rock, Led Zeppelin, whose combination of blues and rock has earned them a place in the pantheon of the music world, will take you on a journey of music and imagination. Featuring footage from the group's legendary 1973 Madison Square Garden concert, this film also features a random mix of scenes showing the group members at home and against detailed, fanciful backdrops. Robert Plant's raw voice, Jimmy Page's explosive riffs and the sonic-rhythmic sound of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham swirl, reverberate and collide - to classic melodies such as Stairway to Heaven, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love and many more. Others. No one puts it harder than Zep.
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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- 5833 messages
- 2337 votes
Superb and often razor-sharp image quality on my Blu-ray from 2007, not only of the concert (Jimmy Page as the young god) but also of the fantasy pieces, no matter how stupid they may sometimes be. As far as I'm concerned, there's little to criticize about the music, apart from the length of the improvisations on Dazed and confused and Moby Dick, but hey, that's the spirit of the times. (Audio on the BR: Dolby TrueHD: English 5.1, Dolby Digital: English 5.1, and English 2.0.)
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De filosoof
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- 2264 messages
- 1534 votes
The film is above all a concert recording of the legendary band that shows what the band delivered on stage at the height of their fame; to be honest, I have always experienced the magic of their music more through their studio albums than through their live music. The short films, consisting of various fantasies of the band members and acted incidents around the concert and which are inserted between and sometimes through the concert recording, make no sense - perhaps a Beatles-like effect was intended, but they lack the early comical-charming or the later hallucinatory-psychedelic of The Beatles' films - and they do not support the music in an MTV-like way either. That's a missed opportunity because Led Zeppelin was not only a noisy blues rock band with four great musicians who played and sang their hearts out, but the band also developed a unique sound by incorporating folk influences that - just like Tolkien did with his Lord of the Rings - evoke a mythical atmosphere that harks back to pre-Christian times when the Vikings brought the runes to England or even earlier when the Celts inhabited the British Isles with a world full of spirits, wizards, giants and mythical creatures. But that world is not touched upon in the films, so that the magic of the band's sound is not visually expressed either.
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