![]() And some sort of an excursion into early Heavy Metal territory, albeit at a weird scale. The track sports truly Progressive Hard Rock. But this is still on my lists of favorites and for sure needs to find a place on this Top 10.ĭavid Byron‘s falsetto interludes with the first track on Salisbury came as a real shock to many. However, Western Europe got hit like a friggin’ tsunami back in the late ’70s with this song endlessly roaring out of music boxes and loudspeakers. Admittedly, it was never a great hit in the UK or the US, for the simple reason that it never really released as a single. Ken Hensley got a lot of credit for writing this specific track. But once you get into the thick of things, it will reveal its qualities. A Year or A Day seems to be a somewhat eclectic choice at first. Coming from a renowned album, yet with relatively little acclaim, the band nonetheless managed to produce two pretty strong tracks that stuck to the audience like glue. The amazing progression on this track always gets on my good side. #10 – A Year or A Day – Return to Fantasy (1975) But boy, we had to dig deep into the entrails of our collection to get to the good stuff.įancy going larger and listening to some stellar Uriah Heep whilst you browse this list? Here’s our extended Spotify playlist. The list will – for once – go beyond the albums we already reviewed. And it is now time to have a look at the Top 10 tracks they produced over time. This is one of the reasons why the RMR deck crew already spilt a lot of ink on Heep. True pioneers of their trade with a load of courage and little regard for modern marketing. Only there you had bands like Uriah Heep taking the lead. Well, the same was the case some 40-50 years ago. Of music styles that aren’t available right now, of emerging ideas. Mainly because they’re outside of the proverbial box and exude that odor of new beginnings. They truly were a staple of the ’70s and ’80s and still going strong to this day.Īnd it’s funny, ain’t it? Today’s progressive bands – rock or metal – generate a ton of interest. Uriah Heep surely is one of these bands that shaped the future of rock and – to an extent – the emergence of metal. From time to time we like to reach backward, way into the past. In those days, rock was a hot item and metal slowly appeared on the scene.
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