Sunday, March 30, 2025

Budgie - Squawk [4 bonus tracks] (1972)

Year: 1 September 1972 (CD 2004)
Label: Noteworthy Productions (UK), NP3
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Cardiff, Wales
Time: 52:29
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 305 Mb

This band really stand out in the 70s crowd. They move like no other, they rock like no other, and they feel the music like no other. There is some really great soul put into their music by each and every one of the three members. The music screams at me, or better put, SQUAWKS at me. Though I haven't listened to all of their albums, I can't imagine them going bad, if they keep their style. Pain medicine is weak compared to the abilities of this band. They rock like the wind, and roll like the sea. They jam like the earth , and prog like the inner flame inside all of us.
Burke Shelley is one of the highlights of the album. It roars like the throat of a monstrous whale. It rams the music forward into stardom. And it fills in perfectly where it is needed in the music. Everything epic or moving in this album would be disintegrated if the bass was taken out. His voice is as eerie as the wind whistling upon the nooks and crannies of a mountain. His voice is as a flute. Strong and tremendous, but very pleasant to hear indeed. He keeps attacking the song with his voice as if every breathe he speaks he were actually eating the song up, grokking the music. His voice is soft cheese to my ears, and his bass is a fine donut.
Tony Bourge adds a drop of whiskey to the music with his drowning guitar. His passion show fruitfully, and he truly is a beast. Let alone the solos- in which would take any other rock band of the era at least a week to figure out. It takes you places in the mind's eye. It jams with the infernal light of ingenuity. The guitar and bass truly act as brothers throughout the entire album, so well that you would think it was one guitar on one really fat neck.
Ray Philips is a true drummer. He knows where to put the beats. And his drums are a true backbone to this music. THe drums are bloodbrothers with the bass completely. They work so well together.
GO listen to this album right now it rules queef.
(sputnikmusic.com/review/44385/Budgie-Squawk/)

01. Whiskey River (03:22)
02. Rocking Man (05:24)
03. Rolling Home Again (01:43)
04. Make Me Happy (02:37)
05. Hot As A Docker's Armpit (05:52)
06. Drug Store Woman (03:14)
07. Bottled (01:50)
08. Young Is A World (08:07)
09. Stranded (06:21)
10. Whiskey River (A-side single version) (Bonus track) (02:39)
11. Stranded (Alternate mix) (Bonus track) (06:18)
12. Whiskey River (2003 version) (Bonus track) (03:19)
13. Rolling Home Again (2004 version) (Bonus track) (01:38)

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