Advantages: Queen's first really great album of their career Disadvantages: Not long enough!
Not many bands release 2 albums in 1 year in their entire career, but Queen did it in 1974. The year saw them build on their eponymous debut release in '73 with Queen II in which their rock-opera genes started to show. Later in the year, this album Sheer HeartAttack developed further on that theme, and what a great album.
The album opens with the sounds of a funfair and then launches into Brighton Rock - a 5 minute rock epic which tells of a holiday romance. The track features an instrumental solo from Brian May which was later to be featured in every live show for the rest of the band's career.
Next we have Killer Queen. Probably the best known track from the album and featured on Greatest Hits I. A song about a stylish French prostitute complete with finger clicking and swanky guitar.
Tenement Funster is a Roger Taylor penned ...
Advantages: A warning shot Disadvantages: You can die.
I hope in this review, to help people understand a heartattack. Mine was unusual because there were no stabbing chest pains and very nearly was mistaken for a stomach bug!
Saturday April 8th 2006. 3 a.m.
It's funny how some dates and times stick clearly in your mind.
I had been asleep but was awakened by this intense pain in my solar plexus. I thought I needed to be sick, so I got up to go to the bathroom, but my head spun and the next thing I knew I was on the floor. Stomach bug, immediately came to mind. This was reinforced by the fact that I had been to a house of some old friends earlier and a little boy in the wife's care (she was a registered child-minder) had picked a severe stomach bug and had been constantly rubbing his diaphragm area.
My temperature was way up and my wife was all for calling an ambulance ...
Advantages: Every single thing that is right with music on a CD Disadvantages: Doesn't have every Massive Attack song on it ever made
Corr blimey! Imagining quite who wouldn't want to listen to the sonic perfection of Massive Attack is possibly beyond me.
Massive Attack have always been a part of my life, although an indirect one, as my mother was a very big fan of all their releases, but it was not until litrally a couple of weeks ago it truly dawned on me the beauty of their work.
I was sat in a hot sweaty exam room with 13 other students taking my AS level Music Technology exam, when I turned the page and the next track on the prompt CD began playing Teardrop to my humble ears.
For a few minutes, I actually had to stop answeting questions, to simply sit and take this track in properly. I was blown away with a feeling of self worth and accomplishment, when all I had done was listen to my exam piece?
Surely no band (especially one frm Bristol, home ...
Product Information for "Cheatin' Heart Attack - Dale Watson" »
Product details
Title
Cheatin' Heart Attack
Performer
Dale Watson
Genre
Country
Sub Genre
Bakersfield
Release Date
07/1995
Original Release Year
1995
Label / Distributor
Hightone / Proper
Engineer
James Tuttle
Producer
Bruce Bromberg
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
12928806121
Catalogue Number
HCD 8061
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Dale Watson, Dave Biller (acoustic & electric guitars); Robert Lily (acoustic guitar); Jerry Donahue (electric guitar); Jimmy Day, Scott Walls, Marty Rifkin (steel guitar); Gene Elders (fiddle); Ted Roddy (harmonica); Floyd Domino (piano, Wurlitzer piano); Craig Pettigrew (acoustic bass); Merel Bregante, Dave Sanger (drums); John Ludwick (background vocals). Recorded at Congress House Studio, Austin, Texas. Dale Watson may have drawn his first breath and wailed his first note in Alabama, but the singer/guitarist grew up near Houston. Along with a spiritual hotline to Bakersfield, he's powered by the soul of a true-blue Lone Star-stater. Watson's self-penned tunes are so steeped in County & Western's "Golden Age" of the '50s and '60s that virtually the only hints that he's even listened to any more recent music are found in the disparaging references to the decay of the genre dropped throughout his authentic honky-tonk weepers and 'kickers. On CHEATIN' HEART ATTACK, his long-play recording debut, Watson decries the rampant "rockification"/urbanization of Music City with the sardonic "Nashville Rash" ("I'm too country now fer country, just like Johnny Cash"), the first in what would prove to be a continuing series of passionate attacks. All of the cuts are honestly in-the-tradition (there ain't no tongue-in-cheek send-ups here), and this sturdy set is a terrific introduction to a heavy duty standard-bearer for real, "hard" country music.
Album Reviews
NME (7/15/95, p.49) - 5 (out of 10) - "...excellent honky tonk stylings that recall the swing and the heartache of Merle Haggard at his best. There's cheating and drinking akimbo, and Dale writes a smart tune..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
List Of Reasons
2.
Caught
3.
She Needs Her Mama
4.
That's The Day
5.
Cheatin' Heart Attack
6.
South Of Round Rock Texas
7.
Tonite All Day Long
8.
Nashville Rash
9.
Wine Wine Wine
10.
You Lie
11.
Tell 'Em I Ain't Here
12.
Holes In The Wall
13.
Texas Boogie
14.
Don't Be Angry
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