Budgie - Squawk (1972)
Artist: Budgie
Album: Squawk
Rating: 4 Stars
Release Date: 1972
Label: Roadrunner
Time: 33:25
Genre: Prog-Rock
AMG Album ID: R 2899
Review by Alex Henderson
Having acquired a small cult following with its first album, Budgie offered a second dose of abrasive, forceful heavy metal that, like its predecessor, drew on influences ranging from Cream to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Budgie was a band that loved contrasts -- the folk-ish qualities of "Make Me Happy" and the Beatlesque "Rolling Home Again" make hard-driving classics like "Hot as a Docker's Armpit," "Drugstore Woman," and "Rocking Man" seem all the more intense. For all its strengths, Squawk didn't turn Budgie into the well-known outfit it should have been. Budgie's followers were a devoted bunch, but unfortunately, there weren't nearly enough of them.
Tracks Title Time
1 Whiskey River 3:27
2 Rocking Man 5:25
3 Rolling Home Again 1:47
4 Make Me Happy 2:37
5 Hot as a Docker's Armpit 5:53
6 Drugstore Woman 3:14
7 Bottled 1:57
8 Young Is a World 8:14
9 Stranded 6:17
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