Patrick Hamilton

wow..., 9 Aug 2006

I was amazed to find this was released when it was (as a young listener). In terms of hard rock this completely blows away Zeppelin (although i still prefer zeppelin overall), and in my opinion is by far deep purple's best studio album. The intro is one of my favourites of all time on any album - if you like lead guitar, speed king will blow you away (as will much of the album). It seriously embodies the work 'rock' - this is hard rock at its best and you will be headbanging, air guitaring etc very frequently.

Basically, this is an album which doesnt get as much recognition as machine head seems to, yet it is in my opinion their best studio effort. Buy it and made in japan now!

great album at a time of awful music., 31 July 2006

Basically, i dont like much modern music. Most i find is commercialised bland rubbish, with loads of studio tweaking and poor musicianship. This album, in my opninion, is one of the best of recent times. Lets go through the standout tracks in my opinion:

1: Seaside. Quite frankly i cant imagine a much better opener. this is emotive and enjoyable, and quite sad if youve already got the blues im sure!

3: Sofa song: This is great to dance to at parties and the lyrics and first guitar solo are very happy (theres no other way to describe it).

5: Ooh la: Just catchy

6: You dont love me: Slightly too indie but the first part of the song especially is… Read more

A great album, 1 Jun 2006

Although these guys could never maintain a high level throughout each of their albums like skynyrd did, and as such never made a huge comercial impact, they are truly a great band to listen to - their style of music seems to be both fun in places and dark in others. In terms of southern rock, molly hatchet are certainly heavier than people like alman brothers or skynyrd, and actually i think this makes them really interesting.

as for the cd, i have no quibbles with the casing, leaftlet thing etc, all is of good quality, and the music itself is great.

Highlights for me include Gator Country, Flirtin' with disaster, Bloody Reunion, Boogie no more and the creeper, with… Read more