Budgie - Budgie [4 bonus tracks] (1971)

Year: 30 July 1971 (CD 2004)
Label: Noteworthy Productions (UK), NP2
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Country: Cardiff, Wales
Time: 55:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb

Throughout the 70s, the unfashionable Budgie were as oddball as their name. Although specialising in heads-down, no-nonsense riffage, their albums all included acoustic interludes and softer songs which, by accident or design, made everything else sound even heavier. Additionally, they wrote the most ridiculous song titles ever. (Don’t waste your time looking for a better trio than You’re The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, In The Grip Of A Tyrefitter’s Hand, and their debut’s Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman).
Frontman Burke Shelley (hair and bass, a template for Maiden’s Steve Harris, aviator spectacles rarely copied) sang in a higher-than-average register but better than Geddy Lee, with whom he is often unfairly compared. Alongside him the band’s other unique selling point was Tony Bourge, an exceptional guitarist of many stripes but seemingly happiest inventing riffs that have inspired everyone from nascent NWOBHM heroes to Josh Homme.
Lovingly covered by Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth and Soundgarden, these three Cardiff scruffbags riffed as hard as any band in metal’s early years. Perhaps their cerebral eccentricity, silly name and stylistic versatility mitigated against worldwide megastardom, but for generations Budgie have remained Cymru’s most universally respected rock band.
The debut album, released in June 1971 has become something of a classic. As AllMusic say, “For those seriously interested in metal’s development, bombastic treasures like Homicidal Suicidal, and Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman are essential listening.”
(classicrockreview.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/budgie-budgie-1971-album-of-the-week-club-review-2018/)

01. Guts (04:21)
02. Everything In My Heart (00:52)
03. The Author (06:27)
04. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman (08:39)
05. Rape Of The Locks (06:12)
06. All Night Petrol (05:57)
07. You And I (01:41)
08. Homicidal Suicidal (06:41)
09. Crash Course In Brain Surgery (Alternate mix) (Bonus track) (02:36)
10. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman (Single edit) (Bonus track) (04:08)
11. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman (2003 version) (Bonus track) (03:44)
12. Guts (2003 version) (Bonus track) (03:53)

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