Having thus heard Bang's best shot (if you catch our meaning) and then watched "Questions" flounder on the charts, the bean-counting suits at Capitol Records apparently and perhaps prematurely deemed their new charges to be anything but the perfect marriage of Sabbath and Grand Funk they were hoping for.
The naïve musicians in Bang were barely given another chance to build upon this solid debut's abundant promise, and, as would be shown by pair of flawed and confused follow-up albums, their career was to be thrown into a tailspin before hardly getting off the ground. Was that tradition started by Deep Purple or does it go back further? Nice start with two iconic live albums recorded in Japan.
Hoo boy, I won't be able to do it for most of this first round cuz I'll be commuting home from work, but.Īs a result of Cheap Trick's burgeoning Asian popularity, the band's Japanese label recorded a pair of April 1978 Tokyo shows and released a live album, At Budokan, proof of the band's supreme stage power and an opportunity to introduce several previously unreleased tunes ("Need Your Love," recorded for the next studio disc, whose release was held up by the live album's unexpected success, is amazing). The live version of "I Want You to Want Me" was picked up by American radio programmers, who turned it into a Top 10 hit. A dynamic rendition of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" also got play, and the platinum-bound album was finally released in the US the following year. If you dig: Black Sabbath, Hard Rock, Classic Rock. Bang is a quintessential Heavy Rock album, very influenced by early Black Sabbath, but the band waivers off any over-adventurism or Psychedelic meanderings with only one song to break the five-minute barrier."Questions" was even a minor radio hit in the States. Loved it? Try: Jerusalem, Hard Stuff, Buffalo, Lucifer's Friend, Pentagram. PopoffĤ97 The Vibrators - Pure Mania 411 Points 3 Votes a sort of sickly anemic Sabbath trudge with excellent screechy, Ozzy Byron vocals and handicapped drums, more like traps.ĬhelledĪgain, we're talking holy grails of fledgling metal magic here (see Sir Lord Baltimore. Were the Vibrators real punks? Maybe not, but then again, were the Stranglers? Or Eddie and the Hot Rods? Even more to the point, was Steve Jones? Plenty of rock careerists jumped onto the punk/new wave bandwagon in the wake of the Sex Pistols' success (and more than a few folks, like Jones, stumbled into the new movement by accident), but unlike most of them, the Vibrators took to the fast/loud/stripped down thing like ducks to water, and both Knox (aka Ian Carnarchan) and Pat Collier had a genius for writing short, punchy songs with sneering melody lines and gutsy guitar breaks.
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