UFO - No Heavy Petting
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Free Music Review: another masterpiece by the great UFO
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a little worried about something. A growing concern of mine is that, with time, people will slowly start forgetting about UFO. I don't like the idea of one of my favorite hard rock bands from the 70's gradually fading away, and huge UFO fans would throw up at even the thought of such a thing happening.
You see, UFO is one of those bands that had, and still has, quite a lot of fans, and they were pretty popular in the 70's, but I fear sooner rather than later this fantastic band will start slipping peoples minds, and won't be remembered anymore. I feel it's my job -as a 27 year old guy who wasn't around in the 70's- to do my best sharing this wonderful band with as many people as possible.
Let's be honest- the lead singer has such an incredible voice I feel like crying when I hear it, and the guitarist is just as wonderful at what he does on the guitar. He goes the extra mile to create some truly spectacular solos.
With all that said, No Heavy Petting is perhaps one of the best examples of what "solid" means, in terms of hard rock masterpieces. Along with Wishbone Ash, Humble Pie, and Hawkwind, these are hard rock bands that should be remembered for years to come.
No Heavy Petting happens to contain a PERFECT selection of hard rock songs, and I couldn't argue with anyone who thinks it's the bands best album. It might just be. I love Phenomenon a little bit more, but No Heavy Petting is really just as incredible too. Please, remember UFO and keep these guys in your CD collection. We can't let these good ol' rockers disappear. Time goes on, but great music should stick around forever.
Free Music Review: Natural Thing
Hit: 3 Stars
After a debut album that told us UFO had something and a second release that totally crystalized their sound full form UFO seemingly fell into a bit of a slump on the third record No Heavy Petting. Under the microscope the album comes across as the band being set in their ways, not wanting to stray from their formula. The gutsy opener Natural Thing is purely esential UFO here as is it's follow up tune I'm A Loser. Though following the idea on Force It's Out In The Street only it's done better here as Schenker serves up one of the most jaw droppling solos you'll ever hear on 70's rock. These two tracks are the key moments for NHP and the group seem to sort of run of ideas or, perhaps inspiration on the rest of the record. Can You Roll Her is a good song in it's own way as is Belladonna,which features a very memorable chorus. Reasons Love and A Fool In Love bring things up again as they deliver the proper grooves that will make you want to blast this record. Highway Lady however finds UFO going through the motions a bit and Martian Landscape has some cool progressive flavorings. All in all the guitar rock is there, UFO is here, but unlike Force It where they seem determined to never let go this time around they seem set on duplicating without many good ideas. However just thinking about a classic era UFO album and how overlooked the group it is this should no way be a reason for passing this release up. Vocalist Phil Moog would certainly carry the UFO monkier on in the 80's by himself, to make much worse records than this. In the end the album stands up pretty well however out of the 5 original UFO studio albums featuring the classic line up it's the weakest. The 2008 remastered/expanded edition features the same great packaging as the others and all previously unreleased studio songs which are vary from good to great songs. Making this a very worthy addition...as if anything Moog/Parker/Way/Schenker did aren't anyway.Free Music Review: Bonus tracks help a lot
Hit: 4 Stars
I have been a fan of UFO since Lights Out (I was 12 at the time). Some of my favorite songs are from this album (Natural Thing, Reasons Love, I'm A Loser and Can You Roll Her). The problem with this CD is right there. All the best tracks are up front making for a very disappointing 'side 2'. Sometimes I think Amazon should change their rating system to more easily give half-stars or a 10-star scale. This is easily a 3.5 CD. However, the bonus tracks easily bump this release up to 4, maybe even 4.5. All The Strings is a great track.
I also loved the booklet inside. There is not a lot of written word about UFO out there and it was refreshing to see some of the pictures and read some of the recent interviews.
To me, Force It is a much better album. Ironically, I bought Phenomenon in addition to this because of the bonus tracks. I didn't buy Force It due to a lack of unreleased studio material.
Free Music Review: total underdog rock
Hit: 4 Stars
UFO is pretty much forgotten by all except the most die hard classic rockers. They are the ultimate hard rock band. Their influence on Metallica and Iron Maiden is huge but most of that audience has no idea who they are. Maybe someday UFO will have a popularity resurgance like what's happened with Thin Lizzy. They certainly deserve to be heard by more people. This record and all the others with Schenker are great. Get em all! These CD's sound great and the booklets are very informative.
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Free Music Review: this is great!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
"no heavy petting" was the first ufo album i ever heard back in 1976 and i loved it right from the start! i was a big aerosmith, kiss, queen, deep purple, fan in those days. (i still am)
the reason this music really appealed to me is because it was straight ahead rock like the other stuff i liked but it was so different. phil mogg wasn't a classic screamer like ian gillan or steven tyler, but he had swagger and told offbeat stories with his lyrics and his voice was original and honest!
the first song that grabbed me was "can you roll her". it was fast and rocking but the guitar was incredible! michael schenker could play lightning fast but also played slower melodies that were very well thought out. for instance, "on with the action", a mid tempo song with great lyrics had a guitar line that built up slowly and worked up to a lead that ends so fast that thirty two years later i still can't figure it out!
then they had slow songs, i guess what today would be called ballads. "belladona" and "martian landscape" which showed how dynamic these guys were. i think the songs they used on this album fit together perfectly. i also love the extra songs, although i understand why they weren't on the original record.
"have you seen me lately joan" and "all the strings" are classic ufo and are definitely of the "no heavy petting" era.
the overall sound quality of this album is not great, but the remix is a big improvement. i think the producer knew he had a goldmine with these five guys and did a great job on what was probably a tight budget.
every ufo fan should have a copy of this!