Krev wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:27 am UFO with Schenker were also masters of the power ballad:

This is the song that got me into UFO.

I've never been big on Uriah Heep, but this is a proto-doom classic:

Ranxerox wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:36 am

tallchris wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:21 pm They're more obscure, but I would have included Captain Beyond, Sir Lord Baltimore, and Budgie (and that's just scratching the surface) on this list.

Yup

also

Toad
Jerusalem
May Blitz
Lucifer's Friend
Bull Angus

I'm a huge fan of that Captain Beyond record, but it doesn't need to be here. I can see Sir Lord Baltimore and Budgie, but not the others. Agree about Cactus as well.

BUT - where the fuck is Mountain?!

Of the list in the poll, I like Blue Cheer the most, but just for fun I'm going to relisten to the highest rated record from each of these before I vote.

Deep Purple gets my vote from this list. With UFO second.

but the above 3 are unfuckwithable

Lots of love for UFO. What are their top albums?

losthighway wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:31 pm Lots of love for UFO. What are their top albums?

This run of four is excellent:

Phenomenon (1974)
Force It (1975)
No Heavy Petting (1976)
Lights Out (1977)

losthighway wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:31 pm Lots of love for UFO. What are their top albums?

To add to enframed's list, I'll add UFO II (very different band) and Obsession (not their best but has its moments).

Blue Cheer on the strength of the first 2 and side B on the third. Captain Beyonds debut is the best though; my favourite 70s heavy rock album NOT made by Black Sabbath. I also agree with Sir Lord Baltimore, Mountain and would like to add Bang, Dust and Granicus as three other rocking bands. Highway Robbery had some total scorchers on their sole album and if we are talking mega-obscure stuff, Leafhound's "grower of mushroom" is a corker as well. For stuff in other languages, I can recommend the albums by swedish bands November (second in particular) and Asoka.

As for the bigger bands, I like Deep Purples best moments a lot but I find all their albums except "In Rock" and for some reason "Burn", very flakey. I actually find Dio-era Rainbow more consistent but to me, that's a different era/vibe. Uriah Heep were total crap to me, I can not get into that band at all,. UFO were cool both as a space-rock band and with Michael Schenker but the classic live album is the only one I return to with any regularity. Scorpions deserves a mention as well; I dig both the trippy debut with Michael Schenker and the Uli Jon Roth stuff but again, the albums are kind of flakey; had the live "Tokyo Tapes" included "Sails of charon", it would pretty much render the rest obsolete the way Kiss "Alive" do the first 3 Kiss albums...

Slight digression, but how do people feel about Dio fronted Sabbath?

losthighway wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:31 am Slight digression, but how do people feel about Dio fronted Sabbath?

fuggin' rules.

*gives you a star so you know just where you are*