tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464228780732396384.post8001500087060913941..comments2023-12-21T16:59:15.517-08:00Comments on The Ripple Effect: Lost Classic - Nazareth - RazamanazThe Ripple Effecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15562244432603113694noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464228780732396384.post-65526648362669036542010-07-06T22:15:13.908-07:002010-07-06T22:15:13.908-07:00Nazareth was a mean album. Not the greatest in te...Nazareth was a mean album. Not the greatest in terms of songwriting but the animal bite was certainly there. Alcatraz is easily my favorite track because it has the smart song structure from the artist they covered it from (Leon Russell) and the dipped-in-metallic treatment from Nazareth. 'Too Bad Too Sad' is another good one, although many would consider it 'filler'. Not only does it have the pioneering heavy metal guitar crunch - it tells a tongue in cheek story about a guy down on his luck 'once I hadda friend, we hadda lotta laughs, he was all a friend could be, knowin him was just a gas, one night I came home, he gave one supraz, he was standin wit a womans dress, lashes on his eyes..' <br />I like the other tracks just fine. I really wish they could have developed 'Sold My Soul' a bit more - it would have been fantastic as an 8 minute epic. I thought the song was way too short with a couple of introductory verses, a seemingly 15 second reflective guitar solo - then back to Dan's devil-possessed barking fading into oblivion. <br />I also thought the production values were a little low. The sound quality is way too muddy with Roger Glover at the controls - even for 1973. Nazareth's first two albums were recorded with pristine clarity; Razamanaz and Loud N Proud not so much.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16675648123552424902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464228780732396384.post-58719268881328613982010-06-12T07:23:21.057-07:002010-06-12T07:23:21.057-07:00Yeah baby!Yeah baby!raysrealmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359663726586125655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464228780732396384.post-26385161316917727972010-06-12T07:23:21.058-07:002010-06-12T07:23:21.058-07:00Yeah baby!Yeah baby!raysrealmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359663726586125655noreply@blogger.com