Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The 1980 Listening Post - Buccaneer - Buccaneer

 Buccaneer - Buccaneer



1980 Housekeeping

Buccaneer

Buccaneer

Genre: Progressive Concept Album

3.25 out of 5


Highlights:

Ride the Tide




Lowlights:

Fantasies (How did they not call this “Fantaseas”????)


Man, does that sound like Jeff Bridges at the beginning, eh?


A concept album about pirates and the like. A LOT of effort went into this. But not a lot of competent songwriting.



For some horrible and hateful reason there is a version of this which is more than an hour long. But I am listening to the Discogs version. Which is, mercifully, shorter. 


That said, there are tracks that I enjoy in a very very VERY early Queen way. Like “Desolation”, which sounds like a cast-off from Sheer Heart Attack. 


https://music.apple.com/us/album/buccaneer/268655491

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