Budgie - The Last Stage (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC: Image+Cue+Log | 446 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 167 Mb | Scans | 71 Mb | Time: 01:01:32
Noteworthy Productions | NP12
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
EAC Rip | FLAC: Image+Cue+Log | 446 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 167 Mb | Scans | 71 Mb | Time: 01:01:32
Noteworthy Productions | NP12
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
The Last Stage is a compilation of unreleased Budgie tracks, mostly from the early-to-mid eighties. Many of these tracks were intended to be released on the follow-up to 1982's Deliver Us from Evil, a follow-up that never saw the light of day. The track "Beautiful Lies" was supposedly meant to be included on the album but never made it. It was previously made available on the Budgie compilation album An Ecstasy of Fumbling - The Definitive Anthology.
The sound quality varies from track to track, as each song was at a different level of completion before it was scrapped. However, most (if not all) of the tracks would be considered very good bootleg quality or better.
By the dawn of the '80s, the veteran British metal trio Budgie had experienced a career boost, thanks to the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and subsequently, a sudden mass appreciation of all things metal. As a result, the group signed a deal with RCA, and issued such titles as 1981's Nightflight and 1982's Deliver Us From Evil, before splitting up shortly thereafter. But it's a little-known fact that the group intended on putting together a third album for RCA, going as far as recording over an album's worth of tunes that went unreleased until now. Titled Last Stage this 16-track set focuses solely on this latter day era (1983-1984, to be exact), right before the plug was pulled. And after hearing the tracks here, it's easy to understand why these songs were never released. Gone is the heavy, Sabbath-worthy style that made such albums as Budgie and In for the Kill cult classics among the heavy metal underground. Instead, the group is obviously trying to keep pace with the headband and hairspray crowd, as evidenced by such lackluster tracks as "Love Is When You Love" and "Same Old Sad Affair," which brings to mind such second-rate metal acts of the era as Helix, Raven, and Fastway. Last Stage will only be of interest to completists who need every release emblazoned with the Budgie logo. ~ Review by Greg Prato
Track Listing
01. Love Is When You Love (3:25)
02. House Of A Sinner (4:00)
03. Same Old Sad Affair (3:26)
04. Signed Your Own Fate (3:51)
05. Hard Luck (3:44)
06. Living With Another Man (3:25)
07. You Ain't Got Love (3:14)
08. Renegade (3:48)
09. Sweet Fast Talker (4:25)
10. Wait Till Tomorrow (4:14)
11. Rock Your Blood (3:55)
12. Nutbush City Limits (3:17)
13. Can't Get Up In The Morning (4:29)
14. Heaven In Your Eyes (3:14)
15. Picture On A Screen (5:19)
16. Victim (3:46)
Produced by Budgie
The Band
• Burke Shelley: bass, vocals
• John Thomas: guitars, vocals
• Steve Williams: drums
*****
• Rob Kendrick: guitars, vocals on track ’Can't Get Up In The Morning’
Notes
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, and Woodside Studios, Monmouth between 1979 & 1985
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Budgie / The Last Stage
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Many thanks to the original uploader: Ginger Devil
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