I know that there will be those amongst you who will have a different starting point and I’m sure that there will be valid arguments that I’m not right but for the premise that I’m going to propose, we need a starting point, so here it is.
There are threads for a variety of different genre, jazz, prog, country to name just three but, apart from the very successful Rank ‘Em Ozzy Osbourne, there are very few if any (that I’ve seen) relating to the heavy side of rock.
So, what I’m proposing is that we take each year, starting with 1968 and talk about the great heavy rock and metal albums that came out in that year and then move onto the next year and so on.
This could fall on its face and if so, fair enough, but if you are up for the discussion, so am I.
I'm not sure that this can actually be called heavy rock in it's purest sense and ultimately it's a disappointing album for me however, it's the title track, which is a Bonafede heavy rock classic, this album would have disappeared into the foothills of rock history.
It does have some other decent tracks, Most Anything You Want and My Mirage are decent tracks and Are You Happy? Is great but the rest of the album is rather ho-hum
It's impossible to ignore the title track. Without it, the album would have been just OK however, this track is just amazing.
It has its flaws of course. I’m not a fan of drum solo’s, maybe a 20 second one is OK but here we have 2 and a half minutes. Yawn! So, any track that’s over 17 minutes long will have but overall, it’s a phenomenal track.
Is it heavy metal? Possibly not quite but there are elements of metal in here. Is it Psych? Most definitely. There’s also a big chunk of the blues in here.
A great jam of a track. To me it feels like the band are improvising the track as they go along each taking turns to impress. I’m sure that it’s not that way at all and that it was totally planned out but you get that feeling and that’s a good thing.
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