Uriah Heap - C/D / S&D

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classic...but i don't own a single record by them. i feel like i should. which one should i buy?

― roger adultrey, Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

*cough* heep *cough cough*. "Salisbury" probably holds up the best for me.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i caught that too late. sorry. "Heep."

What's the album with "Easy Livin'" on it (or whatever that single was called)?

― roger adultery, Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Demons and Wizards" - that one's okay, too; it's got "The Wizard" on it, which is another pretty well-known song, I think.

― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the debut, "Very 'eavy...Very 'umble". it rocks. i like Look At Yourself as well. And Salisbury is keen. The first is best for me. The guitars are great on it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Demons & Wizards, and I would say that is their best album. I mean, their high point was the one-two punch of Demons and Wizards followed by The Magician's Birthday. They are sort of companion pieces. Like Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed were. The songwriting and musicianship was at it's peak. I like the line-up there the best. Gary Thain and Lee Kerslake were really locked in, one of my absolute favorite rock rhythm sections for those two albums alone. But anything with the classic Byron-Hensley-Box core of the group is worth a listen.

But you might not like them Roger. Actually you might, your taste always surprises me. David Byron's vocals are probably the hardest thing for most people to get past, but I like them. He was just a fun-loving guy who really liked to sing. The whole band was quite humble, like their namesake. They took all the criticism in good stride. Their liner notes are hilarious; Ken Hensley always writes something really gee-whiz like, "well, here is our new album. we spent a lot of time on it. In the meantime, we changed drummers again. We really hope you all like it! We're very excited about it!"

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 22 January 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i only own the debut, but i dig it. if you're a beat digger, there's a break on it

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, are you talking about the drum intro to "Walking in Your Shadow"? Yeah, I can see that!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I would go with "Look At Yourself or "demons & wizards." Or there's a few "Best Of..."s out there somewhere.

― Scott Bloomfield, Thursday, 22 January 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Lorraine" has the best two-note synth line ever. Actually it's the same note played in two octaves.

― dave q, Thursday, 22 January 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Heep were one of the first heavy bands all women officially hate.
(1) For that they must always be highly regarded. I introduced
my brother to heavy rock concerts with a triple bill of Heep, BOC
and Manfred Mann's Earth Band (ca. "Solar Fire") and there
couldn't have been a single girl in the audience. Any woman who professes to a genuine fondness for Uriah Heep must be suspected
of dissembling.

Notes:

(1) Mills review of "worm" album.

― George Smith, Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

'Look at Yourself' & 'Demons & Wizards' hold up very well, but everything up through 'Return to Fantasy' is worth a spin if you dig guitar & organ based melodic metal. Ken Hensley's solo album 'Proud Words On a Dusty Shelf' is as good as most of the Heep records mentioned too.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Salisbury. "High Priestess" is magic, innit. "Bird Of Prey" is one of the funniest songs I've ever heard - those "ooh ahh" bits are priceless - but I do seriously love it. Heep is lovably goofy.

D: anything after David Byron left - what's the point without his histrionic vocals?

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

Demons & Wizards = CLASSIC... particularly 'Circle of Hands'

Really, the only cut on that record that I think isn't as great as the others is 'All My Life', because I can't stand the vocal on it.

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 8 September 2016 00:41 (nine years ago)

I actually listened to 'Look at Yourself' and 'Demons & Wizards' today. Uriah Heep has some great tracks and that early 70s heavy organ sound is great. While Heep are both a bit more over the top and yet at times more syrup sweet than some of the other class 70s hard rock groups.

Their records have that sound of the period down and while there is retro style hard rock out there, it don't quite sound like stuff from '71. And if you know all the Zep, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Tull etc...it's definitely good to check out other bands of the era. I know I have gotten enjoyment out of it over the past few years.

One thing I do dig about groups of that period, Uriah Heep included is that they had quite a bit of range. They would do long proggy numbers, some blues, some funky stuff, folk number here, love ballads then rage on. Bands now kind of go down the navel of their one type of sound and that's it, then after they get kinda bored and try different stuff, they often get slagged for changing.

― earlnash, Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:34 (nine years ago)

Yeah, there is a bit of a "syrup sweetness" to this bands work that I don't really detect in many other bands from the period!

One thing I do dig about groups of that period, Uriah Heep included is that they had quite a bit of range. They would do long proggy numbers, some blues, some funky stuff, folk number here, love ballads then rage on. Bands now kind of go down the navel of their one type of sound and that's it, then after they get kinda bored and try different stuff, they often get slagged for changing.

Yes, absolutely - I couldn't agree with this more! One thing that I love about '70s hard rock is the musicality of a lot of it, where you can tell they've put quite a great deal of thought into what they're playing and how it all fits together. The hard rockers were just as musical as the prog rockers, really, just without going to that extra level of virtuosity in the compositions. Having said that, there's more than a few hard rock musicians from that period who would have fit snugly into a prog band.

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:57 (nine years ago)

Nazareth also and a penchant for the sweet song too.

This video is one of my favorites I have found in the past couple years, even if it is just lip synched. I dig the go go goths sashaying in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuaxvkXv4

― earlnash, Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:05 (nine years ago)

Nazareth also had a penchant for the sweet song...

― earlnash, Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:09 (nine years ago)

I love that ascending echo on the vocal. In fact, Demons & Wizards has such great production on the whole!

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:48 (nine years ago)

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