I've recently heard some samples and am really intrigued by the heavy organ-driven sound. Can anyone tell me about their albums?
Uriah Heep
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TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER
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Well get all the Ken Hensley era stuff. I recommend:
Sweet Freedom
Innocent Victim
Look At Yourself
Wonderworld
Demons & Wizards
Magician's Birthday
Firefly
Fallen Angel
Return to Fantasy
Sweet Freedom
Innocent Victim
Look At Yourself
Wonderworld
Demons & Wizards
Magician's Birthday
Firefly
Fallen Angel
Return to Fantasy
J-Dubya 777
It NEVER ends
TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER said:Well get all the Ken Hensley era stuff. I recommend:
Sweet Freedom
Innocent Victim
Look At Yourself
Wonderworld
Demons & Wizards
Magician's Birthday
Firefly
Fallen Angel
Return to Fantasy
I'll throw a vote in for Abominog!
J-Dubya
Trans-Siberian Outcast
Savaholic
I used to have a few Uriah Heep albums on vinyl and cassette, but the only one that made it to the digital age is Demons and Wizards. I bought that a few years back. I also recall Magician's Birthday as being very good as well. I should get that one too.
Taste the waters, Soundmaster. I can't say I ever went totally bananas over them, but UH is definitely a staple of 70s prog rock. With you being an afficionado of the genre, you should definitely add some UH to your collection. Someday you might invite some old hippie over to dinner, and you don't want to be making excuses why you don't have any Uriah Heep.
NP: Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep
Taste the waters, Soundmaster. I can't say I ever went totally bananas over them, but UH is definitely a staple of 70s prog rock. With you being an afficionado of the genre, you should definitely add some UH to your collection. Someday you might invite some old hippie over to dinner, and you don't want to be making excuses why you don't have any Uriah Heep.
NP: Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep
SickBoy
Croatian Panzer division
My personal favs would be Look At Yourself, Salisbury and Demons And Wizards... Their Live 1973 is great as well, some songs (July Morning in particular) sound much better than in studio.
p.s. didn't we have a UH topic before?
p.s. didn't we have a UH topic before?
Soul of Ice
Rusted Angel
I throw in my vote for Very Heavy, Very Humble, Salisbury and Demons and wizards as well. Their mid-later stuff is very female oriented. Sing to me about wizards with cloaks of gold, who drink wine and tell stories.
Trans-Siberian Outcast said:
I'm literally laughing my ass off reading this! LOL
Thanks - I shall look into "Demons" soon.
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Try "Magician's Birthday" and "Demons & Wizards" as their best stuff. If you like those then also try "Salisbury", "Look At Yourself" and the debut.
Songs like 'July Morning', 'Gypsy', 'Easy Livin', 'Bird Of Prey' will surely satisfy your hunger for the organ.
Songs like 'July Morning', 'Gypsy', 'Easy Livin', 'Bird Of Prey' will surely satisfy your hunger for the organ.
TheWhisper
Cobra Kai Never Dies
tsorl
Borne on Wings of Steel
Sorry about digging up this ancient thread, but lately I've been listening to a few UH albums from the 90s (Sea of Light and Sonic Origami) and they're really good! A lot better than I expected to be honest and definitely up to par with the 70s stuff. So if you like Heep (or classic rock in general) and come across these babies, by all means pick them up.
They're still a great liveband too, by the way.
np: Uriah Heep - Fear Of Falling
They're still a great liveband too, by the way.
np: Uriah Heep - Fear Of Falling
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Curiously I'm now in the process of taping the first five albums (four acquired at PPVII and one as a birthday gift ).
The reissues with bonus tracks are great, and yes some songs of Lawton's era are very good but I limited myself to "Blood On Stone" a compilation of those.
Still wonder if I have to get "Sweet Freedom", "Wonderworld" and "Retun To Fantasy", in other words get all the albums with Box/Hensley/Byron.
).The reissues with bonus tracks are great, and yes some songs of Lawton's era are very good but I limited myself to "Blood On Stone" a compilation of those.
Still wonder if I have to get "Sweet Freedom", "Wonderworld" and "Retun To Fantasy", in other words get all the albums with Box/Hensley/Byron.
Fangface
Child of the Damned
Wyv' speaks the truth!Wyvern said:
"Wonderworld" and "Return to Fantasy" also had their share of good songs.
ProgMetalFan
In the attic
Trans-Siberian Outcast
Savaholic
Like I said in the Discovered this Year thread, I'm sure Soundmaster can help you. He isn't a daily visitor but he'll show up to answer you at some point in the near future. Keep checking back!ProgMetalFan said:
Who here actually saw the Heep live? I saw them at the Peoria Civic Center in 1983 opening up for Def Leppard(touring on their last good album), and had seen Hensley about 2 months earlier playing with Blackfoot, who was opening up for Molly Hatchet.
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