Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roooster (1970)

Year: February 1970 (CD 1991)
Label: Repertoire Records (Germany), RR 4135-WZ
Style: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 45:23
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 279 Mb

This, Atomic Rooster's debut album, is a totally classic adventure into the 'progressive hard- rock' realm of music's development. Loaded with sinister lyrics (read between the lines...), but with some fantastic music to go with it all ; I've got to say that Carl Palmer is sounding great here, and no wonder why Emerson and Lake poached him from this band ; Greg (Lake) approached Carl and, quote, "It was Lake's unabashed enthusiasm and intensity that won Palmer over - "If you don't join this band, you're not only damaging yourself, but damaging me as well " says Lake, end quote. Vincent Crane is incredible as usual on the Hammond Organ, and their bassist/vocalist at this stage, Nick Graham, who eventually ended up in the great band, 'SKIN ALLEY", provides some appropriate Bass guitar, and a little lead guitar and vocals to the proceedings. I do not wish to ramble on for ages about each track on this record - all songs are strong, and I've not heard such a focused release produced with as much passion as this one, so I can only say that any prog-head MUST OWN this release. 5 star without question, even if a bit 'underground'.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6318) Review by Tom Ozric. December 2, 2006
Atomic Rooster?s debut album is a hard rock album in the vein of Deep Purple, which means hard rock with lots of hammond organ and an accomplished lead singer.
The music is well played and Carl Palmer ( Later of ELP) gets to show of his incredible drum skills in the two instrumentals Before Tomorrrow and Decline and Fall. The other two musicians also shine in these songs. Overall there is no flaws in the playing. The flaws show when you look at the composition though. This is pretty imature hard rock. The lyrics are really silly and simplistic ( try also to listen to the lyrics in the song S.L.Y). Allthough the album is mostly blues based hard rock, there are an almost Joe Cocker like soulful song in Broken Wings ( This song is not to my taste) the aforementioned instrumentals which show prog tendencies and the most prog song on the album the exciting Winter.
This is only for the fans. I wouldn?t recommend this to anyone else really. A few good songs and lots of boasting crap. I should give one more star for the laugh I got when I heard And so to Bed but a 2 star rating will do.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6318) Review by UMUR. December 23, 2007

01. Friday the Thirteenth (03:31)
02. And So to Bed (04:11)
03. Broken Wings (05:46)
04. Before Tomorrow (05:50)
05. Banstead (03:33)
06. S.L.Y. (04:56)
07. Winter (06:59)
08. Decline and Fall (05:48)
09. Play the Game (B-side to Tomorrow Night 1971 bonus track) (04:45)

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