Fallen Angel 8 Bonus Tracks

I have found myself wanting to listen to my Uriah Heep with John Lawton. He replaced the one and only David Byron (R.I.P) on vocals but it's still great. A lot of Ken Hensley songs (R.I.P) he's on keyboards and some guitar and pedal steel guitar and his style of singing background. Their style of rock lives on. This line up also has the great Trevor Bolder(R.I.P.) from David Bowies's Spiders From Mars. So he's a very good addition. I have these on album and this one on cassette tape from years ago and got me a new mp3 versions of their music lately. I love listening to it again and forgot how much I love Uriah Heep, Mick Box has been with them all these years and the great Lee Kerslake on drums who also passed away lately. Uriah Heep is one of a kind that blasts but has great songs. I'm an old guy still listening because it's great.

Great album! Loved it since I was a kid! Saw it on here and I had to have! In great condition!

Fallen Angel would be the last of 3 albums by the great John Lawton. Though they did recored a fourth with him, that never saw the light of day yet. He left the band (fired or quit) after that album was just finished up. Hopefully one of these days that album will be released.Fallen Angel is probably the most commercial album Heep did in the 70's. There are none of the familiar fantasy themed songs at all on this at all (only High and Mighty has that distinction for the 70's albums). All the songs are about love and relationships. That doesn't mean it's not good, it's a great album and I think it's better than it's predecessor "Innocent Victim" though it's not a must half like the bands first 5 albums and "Firefly".If you have the previous remastered version of Fallen Angel, this is not worth getting. There are no new bonus tracks. The follwing are just rehashes of songs on the original album. They don't sound any different.3. Gimme Love - single b-side Last Farewell - out-take, previously unreleased Street Lady - out-take, previously unreleased Struttin' - out-take, previously unreleasedOn to the song reviews.Woman of the Night - Great opener. One of the harder rocking songs on the album.Falling in Love. - Good AOR rock song, though short (under 3 minutes)One More Night - A rockabilly Elvis type song. Good one.Put Your Lovin on Me - Nice mid tempo rocker with a mix of electric and accoustic guitars.Come Back to Me. Beautiful and soulful country rock ballad about the breaking up of drummer Lee Kerslake's marriage. One of the best Heep ballads ever.What 'Ya Say - Heep does disco. If KISS and the Rolling Stones can do disco, I guess Heep can too. Not bad for a disco song, but thank goodness it's short.Save It - I think this is the weakest track on the album. Not sure what the band was accomplishing with this.I'm Alive - The best rocker on the album. This would have fit well on any Heep album. Energy is filled throughout the song.Fallen Angel - Along with I'm Alive and Women of the Night, this is my favorite of the tracks. This is the most progressive rock track on the album. Nice melodic accoustic guitar work and keyboards compliment the vocals.A Right to Live - The best of the bonus tracks. This should have been on the original album rather than Save It. Less commercial sound than most of the album.Cheater - Sounds like a Styx song of the time period. You swear that Heep had Dennis DeYoung do the vocals on this.Gimme Love - A generic late 70's AOR song that doesn't really do anything for me.

This one really grew on me. Liked it from the first listen, but it's gone from being an obscure--fill out my collection--piece to one of my favorite albums from the Heep cannon!

I rated this as okay, but it's an album I had years ago that reminded me of some great times. If you are a fan of guitar rock, you'll not be disappointed if you buy this. Really like the song Fallen Angel!

Great CD

I really liked Fallen Angel when I first heard it over 10 years ago, but now -after having experienced hundreds of other rock albums from the 70's alone- this particular Uriah Heep album feels like it suffers from inconsistent songwriting.The songs that are good are certainly clear winners, though. "Woman of the Night" has a terrific chorus, and as cheesy as it sounds, there's something distinctly magical about the chorus as well. Not sure what it is exactly that triggers such a positive/adventurous reaction out of me, but whatever. The speedy guitar work of "I'm Alive" immediately leading into a guitar solo is a pretty good way to begin ANY song. Hey, there's no law that says a guitar solo HAS to be in the middle and end of a song, right? I really like the chorus in this track as well. Sure, it feels WAY too simplistic like any ol' person could have written such a thing, but whatever.The sincere vocal melody of "Come Back to Me" makes *this* my favorite song on the entire album. A quality song if there ever was one- anybody who likes Uriah Heep for their more sadder moments will appreciate this one. The "la la la" chants in "Love or Nothing" are pretty melodic and beautiful so I like this track as well. The verse melody is pretty good -though severely dated- too. The title song contains a vocal melody that has actually stuck with me after all these years, not to mention a VERY creepy synth line during the introduction. That part seriously sends chills through my body.Some of these songs are duds though, such as "Save It". This sounds like some kind of Meat Loaf imitation with country rock influences, and the results are borderline unlistenable thanks in part to Lawton's high-pitched vocal delivery. "Put Your Lovin' On Me" is completely bland and uninspiring with *amazingly* corny lyrics and more of those questionable high-pitched vocals. I say "questionable" because not just anybody will be able to adjust to them.The band didn't exactly fall apart with this release because more than half of it is really good, but playing an album like this makes you wonder what would have happened had Uriah Heep slowed down a little bit and stopped releasing so many albums at such a fast rate. This is their 12th album in 9 years, right? Yeah, that's a LOT of albums in such a short period of time. Allowing enough time for the band members to relax from touring and working hard in the studio would have probably allowed the band members to figure out which songs to keep and which ones to forget. Still, it's a pretty decent album. No major complaints.

sehr gut vielen dank

El contenido es muy bueno. Compre un primero en un vendedor de Amazon y me llego la portada dañada.Me he decidido a comprar un segundo para tenerlo coleccionado por lo bueno que es, pero me ha llegado con una esquina un poco tocada. Una lastima.

Un excelente disco, todas las cancione me gustan, este sin duda es un disco para conocedores. Si lo compras no te arrepentirás.

非常に音が良いです。やっぱりレコードは良いしジャケットも大きい方が好みです。

Selected this album for the title track, excellent studio album for Uriah Heep. Art work on slip cover is like that straight out of a Heavy Metal magazine. Looking for further Uriah Heep albums now, knowing that Salsbury is likely next on the list.