Led Zeppelin : Houses of The Holy (Deluxe Edition )

Houses of the Holy

 is the fifth

 studio album

 by the English

 rock band

 Led Zeppelin

 released on

  March 28 1973

 by Atlantic Records.

 It is their first album 

composed of entirely

 original material 

and it represents

 a turning point 

in musical direction 

for the band, 

who had begun to

 record songs with

 more layering 

and 

production techniques.

Containing some 

of the band's 

most famous songs,

 including

 "The Song Remains the Same",

 "The Rain Song",

 and

 "No Quarter",

 Houses of the Holy 

became a commercial success, 

and was later certified

 11x platinum by

 the Recording Industry 

Association of America (RIAA)

 in 1999.

 In 2012,

 the album was ranked

 at #148 on

 Rolling Stone's

 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 

The title track

 was originally recorded

 for the album,

 but was delayed

 until the release

 of band's next album 

Physical Graffiti in 1975.

Like Led Zeppelin's

 fourth album, 

neither the band's name

 nor the album title 

was printed

 on the sleeve.

 However, 

manager 

Peter Grant 

did allow 

Atlantic Records

 to add a

 wrap-around 

paper title

 band to

 US and UK copies

 of the sleeve

 that had to be broken

 or slid off

 to access the record

This hid the

 children's buttocks

 from general display,

 but still the album

 was either banned

 or unavailable

 in some parts

 of the Southern

 United States

 for several years

This was

 Led Zeppelin's final 

studio release

 on Atlantic Records

 before forming

 their own label, 

Swan Song Records,

 in 1974.

A remastered version

 of

 Houses of the Holy

 was reissued on

  October 27 2014, 

along with

 Led Zeppelin IV. 

The reissue comes

 in six formats:

a standard CD edition,

 a deluxe two-CD edition, 

a standard LP version, 

a deluxe two-LP version, 

a super deluxe 

two-CD plus

 two-LP version 

with a hardback book,

 and as high resolution 

96k/24-bit digital downloads. 

The deluxe 

and

 super deluxe editions

 feature bonus material. 

The reissue was

 released with an

 inverted color version 

of the

 original album's

 artwork 

as its

 bonus disc's cover

TRACK LIST 

BONUS ALBUM 

The Song Remains The Same 

(Guitar Overdub Reference Mix)

The Rain Song 

(Mix Minus Piano)

Over The Hills And Far Away 

(Guitar Mix Backing Track)

The Crunge 

(Rough Mix - Keys Up)

Dancing Days 

(Rough Mix with Vocal)

No Quarter

 (Rough Mix With

 JPJ Keyboard Overdubs - No Vocal)

The Ocean (Working Mix)

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