Budgie - Nightflight
#504
October 1981
Budgie
Nightflight
Genre: Heavy Metal
3 out of 5
Highlights:
Don’t Lay Down and Die
I always got this band confused with the drummer for Siouxie. His name was Budgie, right? I also wondered, aloud, (to myself, often): why would either of them name themselves after a teeny little bird? Hardly seems as intimidating as the sounds they were proffering.
Ah well.
You know what this record reminds me of? Queen’s debut. It’s a decade past so, it’s sort of out of date but, it’s 2021 as I write this and nothing from 2011 sounds ancient to me. Is that the tyranny of time? Did music just get to a point where it’s impossible for anything less than a decade old to sound out of date? I mean, Imagine Dragons first album still pops up on modern playlists and that album is as old as Queen I was when Budgie’s record came out.
Sigh.
Time. You’re a bitch.
All of this sounds like AC/DC meets RATT and they both just sort of half ass writing songs. In the end this feels like an update of psychedelic rock from the 60s than metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5Kc-2uJSw
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