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Uriah Heep - High and Mighty Audio CD

A fair review of the Uriah Heep "High and Mighty" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Uriah Heep reviews here, or go back to the Uriah Heep tabs.

Uriah Heep Band: Uriah Heep
Title: High and Mighty
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Release Date: 2004-06-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: One Way or Another 2: Weep in Silence 3: Misty Eyes 4: Midnight 5: Can't Keep a Good Band Down 6: Woman of the World 7: Footprints in the Snow 8: Can't Stop Singing 9: Make a Little Love 10: Confession 11: Name of the Game 12: Sundown

Heep Implode!!!
Heep always were verging on the ridiculous with Byron coming on like a second rate Gillan, Hensley aping Lord etc. The album where classic Heep drop the ball, this is even worse than Wonderworld. At their best it's good stuff but this album is radio rock fodder for the mid 70's, prety uninspired, I mean, what band has the first track without the lead vocalist?

I'd recommend Demons and Wizards or Look At Yourself, but this is very poor, Byron's drinking and inter band rivalry had meant the end of the road. .


Ch....Ch....Ch....Changes


The 10 tracks clock in at 38 minutes, with keyboardist Ken Hensley writing eight numbers and co-writing a pair with Wetton. The June 1976 release set the stage for the departure of founding member and vocalist David Byron, whose personal demons was destroying the band, and the final album for bassist/vocalist John Wetton, who left to purse other projects. With the quickly evolving FM rock radio to more commercial formats, Hensley and Wetton mostly abandon progressive rock elements for the standard fare that could find a spot in most station formats.

One Word or Another is a sizzling hard rocker with Hensley and Wetton on vocals and Midnight is Byron's swan song, as he delivers a searing performance. But the low points are quite uninspired - Can't Stop Singing, Woman of the World, Make a Little Love - that finds the group trying to find a spot in the rock universe with top arena acts like Bad Company.

Changes were coming and the rocky road on this album shows the tug o' war that was going on before the studio microphones were turned on.


Uriah Heep & John Wetton
If John Wetton had been around a little longer with them they might have a bit more recognition today then just Lee Kerslake playing with Ozzy.


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