Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
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Free Music Review: This Album is perhaps Uriah Heep's best work!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is as good as Rock'n Roll ever get's. Uriah Heep is one of the greatest bands ever! This album really proves that! Look, two of their hits "Easy Livin" and "The Wizzard" are on hear! Plus, you got Traveller in Time, and Circle of Hands! This album is a true Heep classic. Free Music Review: Arguably One Of Heep's Best Studio Efforts
Hit: 5 Stars
"Demons & Wizards" is arguably one of Uriah Heep's best studio albums ("Look At Yourself" tops this one due to Mick Box's guitar being more prominent) and one that should be in the collection of any hard rock fan. There is not one weak track on the album; topped of by the classic "Easy Livin' ". The keys to the album's success are the rhythm section of drummer Lee Kerslake (future Ozzy drummer) & bassist Gary Thain and the lead vocals of David Byron. Byron's effort here almost propels him to near Ian Gillan status (although not quite). Mick Box will never be compared to Ritchie Blackmore, but personally I have always loved his guitar tone, riffs & solos as much as any of his British contemporaries (Blackmore, Iommi etc). What I can not figure out is why there are no real guitar solos on the entire album? Even Box's tank like riffs are almost nonexistent. All I can figure is Hensley ran the controls and always put his keyboard playing and his own solos ahead of every other musician in the band. So, if you're a hard rocker, like me, and like your guitars set on 10, right up front in the mix with plenty of lead fills & solos, this album will disappoint you. Choose "Look At Yourself" as your first Uriah Heep purchase. What "Demons And Wizards" does offer is Heep's most consistent songwriting & overall musicianship. So.....for anyone interested in hearing what the first incarnation (ie David Bryon era) of Uriah Heep had to offer, this album and the more rocking "Look At Yourself" are the best places to start.
Free Music Review: Fantastic Wizards
Hit: 5 Stars
This Album is one of my favorite hard rock albums ever. It is a masterpieace, and it's yust as good as any ather 70's rock album. It is very beautiful and there is no bad songs and it's fantasy lyrics works perfect with the music.Songs like the wizard and Easy living are classic rock tunes but the rest of the songs are yust as good like Traveler in time and Poets justice fantastic songs if you ask me yust as good as anything made of Sabbath or Zeppelin. And the 2 closing tracks are among the beautifulest songs I have ever heard by a hard rock band. This is is music that not only rock fans shuld like but every one who hears this album must love it, i cant se why they shuldent.
Free Music Review: DAMN GOOD ROCK AND ROLL!!, LIKE NOTHING TODAY-
Hit: 5 Stars
WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS CD THAT PROBABLY HASN'T BEEN SAID ALREADY- IT ROCKS, IT ROLLS, HITS YOU WITH GREAT GUITAR,BASS(BUT NOT TOO MUCH LIKE TODAY),DRUMS AND WONDERFULL ORGAN. OH AND ALSO GREAT VOCALS. HEY, TO EACH THERE OWN, I PERSONALLY LIKE THIS CD AS MUCH OR MORE THAN ANY 70'S BAND THAT I OWN. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS WAS ON A RECORD PLAYER, A GE WILDCAT. DIDN'T DO THE ALBUM ANY JUSTICE. IT SOUNDS ABOUT 100% BETTER ON MY PIONEER SUPERTUNER. IT CAN BRING OUT SOUNDS OF THE CD THAT WERE MISSED ON THE CHEAP OL WILDCAT.GET A COPY FOR YOURSELF AND LISTEN!, AWESOME!Free Music Review: Uriah Heep's Magnum Opus
Hit: 5 Stars
Described by one critic as a "Poor man's Deep Purple", Uriah Heep has, undeservedly so, taken a back seat to many of the more "popular" bands of its era including Deep Purple. One could argue that Heep seems to sound like a hybrid version of Deep Purple and Three Dog Night with a twist of Grand Funk Railroad thrown in for good measure; yet the band achieves its own identity by way of combining (whether intentionally or not)a myriad of different styles far beyond the three bands aforementioned. True, David Byron's vocals on parts of songs like "All My Life" and "Sunrise"(See The Magician's Birthday)are reminiscent of Ian Gillan of Purple but Byron can also sound like David Bowie in "Paradise" and "The Spell" has all the theatrics of Meatloaf and Jim Steinman. True, the heavy organ sound on songs like "Rainbow Demon" is similar to that of Deep Purple also, but the resonance of the instument was in vogue long before John Lord--one only has to listen to Iron Butterfly. Uriah Heep, in the Byron era, are a rather unique band in their contribution to rock and roll--the stylistic weaving of different styles combined created a sound that has yet to be duplicated. They are truly the masters of pastiche. Demons and Wizards is by far their best album--their masterpiece; I also recommend buying The Magicians Birthday and Sweet Freedom, the latter recording showing Heep at the Climax of their carreer. Their next three recordings, Wonderworld, Return to Fantasy and High and Mighty are decent but do not compare to the "middle" part of the Byron era. In my opinion, the band should of called it quits after Byron's death or perhaps hired David Coverdale in October of 79 (Why they did not hire him after his audition still baffles me! They could of been huge!)Everything after High and Mighty is not Uriah Heep at all (eventually Mick Box is the only original member!); With the exception of "That's the Way That it Is" on the Abominog recording, their so called "come back album" (The album sounds like Foreigner!!!), everything else they have done since the Byron era is vapid and lacks passion and resonance. Uriah Heep, after High and Mighty should have changed their name to Spinal Tap.