Picked this up after seeing "I was wrong" on Headbangers Ball (UK Variety) when I briefly had Cable TV in my shitty flat in shithole town, love the wall of sound these guys create, better than Green Day by miles, you can tell these guys have been there, my personal soundtrack to living on the edge, I've since learned you can smarten up an area but the shit leaks back in.
Found this years ago at a car boot sale, when you could pick up unwanted discs for as little as 10p, it's ok better than expected to be honest.
Never really gave UH a chance until a free CD of ...Very 'eavy ...Very 'umble fell into my hands a few years ago, from playing that I realised what i was missing, here I am buying up all their albums and digesting them one by one, I'm not great at dissecting music and describing what i hear to be honest, just how music makes me feel, this and Magician's Birthday always feel like companion albums to each other, both are equally great to my ears.
2nd Magnum I bought after getting back into them after a decade away, a stirling effort and a great tour to back up the album.
A nostalgia trip for sure, but i love it, one of the first albums I owned...
Overcooked solo album from Axl, which is actually pretty good if you give it a chance.
Support band for Iron Maiden on the first leg of. The World Piece Tour, when Maiden still played theatres and audiences sat and watched Support bands, I was impressed enough to buy their album soon after the gig and still rate it as a pretty good release.
Edgy and completely live with no overdubs, the last recorded concert on British soil of one of the greatest groups ever, originally recorded by Tony Wilson and Dave Dade and played in edited form on the Friday Rock Show in the fall of 1983, long deleted and due for revaluation in a Thunder and Lighning box set.
Wish I had been there!
Bought this on cassette when it hit the bargain bins in 1988, can't say it was high on my playlist, I think it was common knowledge at the time it was a contractual obligation album with Virgin Records and just 2 bandmates having fun in the studio.
Obviously an acquired taste, I was kinda bored and was quite glad when it ended, but will persevere as it cost me 50p.
Remember this from satellite TV, which I never had until 2001 when I picked up a 2nd hand analogue reciever and dish for free, that sparked an interest into music of the era, (Viva Zwei and Rockpalast was my goto).
Must of been in my early 30s, so not exactly in the emo demographic but kinda liked these guys.
Picked up in a charity shop for 50p.
Bought this on the strength of the opening track after seeing the promo on Music Box, which was basically the European equivalent of MTV, played the album until I liked it (that's pretty much how we did it in the eighties) yeah the song writing isnt the best, but it's still a cracking album.
This is the sort of album I believe non Rockheads hear when listening to rock albums, I can't actually tell you why I don't like it, whether I have a sense they where making rock records to try and get rich and famous, to me it reeks of insincerity, thats all I can say. And it explains why I turned my back on rock in 1990 and cut my hair and explored a smorgasbord of other music via a deluge of unwanted second hand vinyl.
I've put off listening to Little Angels for so long, after seeing them support the mighty Queensryche at Hammersmith Odeon in 1989, I'd pretty much ignored them ever since, so if we fast track to today, I found this CD for the princely sum of 20p, thought id give it a listen, although it's tuneful and exuberant it just leaves me cold, sorry...
Criminally underrated band, still playing gigs in small venues, producing class albums of this calibre.
Class Hard Rock with a Melodic Rock underbelly.
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