Label: Castle Classics (UK), CLACD220
Style: Hard Rock, Folk-Hard Rock
Country: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Time: 35:01
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 229 Mb
Exercises
indeed. This album is the weirdest anomaly in the entire Nazareth
catalog (at least, the entire Seventies Nazareth catalog), as there's
nary a heavy rocker to be found anywhere. Even hardcore Naz fans
sometimes raise an eyebrow here, but I say swell. If anybody were going
to accuse me of "always expecting something from a band and then
condemning them when they try and make something different", here's a
good chance to disprove this accusation. This is the most untypical,
anomalous, chronologically displaced, genre-irrelevant Nazareth record
ever; and yet, it is one of their best, even if it's nowhere near as
perfect as the debut album.
What happened here is that Nazareth tried
going in a far softer, laid-back direction. This stuff is not exactly
"soft rock", because it doesn't have that safe, homey feel most soft
rock creations have, but it completely lacks the band's traditional
mountaineer grittiness. Orchestrated ballads, country-western tunes,
Scottish ballads, conventional folksey ditties... not a heavy metal tune
in sight. Well, only one, maybe, which is the band's hilarious bluesy
rocker 'Woke Up This Morning'; but it's essentially a novelty tune,
continuing the line of 'Fat Man' from the last album. It kicks some ass,
to be sure, but its biggest attraction by far are the lyrics ('woke up
this morning, my dog was dead/Someone disliked him and shot him through
the head/Woke up this morning, my cat had died/I know I'll miss her, sat
down and cried' and so on). The melody is kinda trite, awesome guitar
solos though.
(full version: starlingdb.org/music/nazareth.htm)
01. I Will Not Be Led (03:08)
02. Cat's Eye, Apple Pie (03:07)
03. In My Time (03:28)
04. Woke Up This Morning (03:10)
05. Called Her Name (04:33)
06. Fool About You (02:50)
07. Love Now You're Gone (02:29)
08. Madelaine (05:59)
09. Sad Song (02:17)
10. 1962 (Glencoe Massacre) (03:55)
thanks!
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