Budgie - Budgie

Budgie's debut album with the same name as the band is a 1971 album. Like the 2nd album by the band, it features a superbly named track, in this case it is "Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman". The final track on the album is a slow track with a whiney voice which I really don't like - Homicidal Suicide, not a single catcy riff in there at all. The same goes for Everything in My Heart, which is frankly just terrible. The rest of the album though is solo heavy and despite the occasional squawk from the vocalist, it's largely instrumental and therefore has a tendency for tracks to blend in with one another - particularly considering that the riffs ...  Read the complete review

Budgie are a significant but overlooked band in the history of heavy metal, having participated in its development alongside bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest throughout the seventies, before becoming justly forgotten in the eighties. Their self-titled debut doesn't have the classic appeal of Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid,' but it does share a noticeably similar sound that will cause it to be of interest to rock historians and headbangers alike. It's really very good, even though it's named after a particularly rubbish bird. The most immediately striking thing about this album is how dingy and heavy it sounds, comparable to Sabbath's definitive 'Master of ...  Read the complete review