Nazareth

Boogaloo

FLASH - ONE OF THE BEST HARD ROCK ALBUMS EVER!!

Review Score:

(10/10)
I own all of Nazareth's albums, at least 20 or so, and I wanted to let the album age a bit before forming my opinion - but I have to say this is the best album they have ever made! Fast songs, slow songs, funky songs, boogie songs - and all are excellent. It seems to combine all the different genres of music the band has experimented with into one incredible sound. Usually a bands best effort comes early in their career, so this album is a truly amazing feat - even a triumph. Even their best albums have 1 or 2 bad songs, but I just cannot criticize any of the tracks on this album. Light Comes Down, Talk Talk, Robber and the Roadie, Loverman, Light Comes Down, and Waiting are the top tier of songs, and the rest of the songs are very respectable and clever. It is an extremely fastpaced album, and the final ballad doesn't really match their finer ones, but the Southern boogie/blues track "God Saved The South" is excellent lyrically and has a great feel, and is the the only song on the album that lets you catch your breath. Some of Nazareth's albums are all over the place, and seem to sound like 3 different albums mixed together - but on Boogaloo the variety is wonderful, yet all the songs still mesh together well. This album is wonderful, I've given it incredible replay over the past 1 to 2 years, 5 STARS with no hesitation on my part - and I'm being objective. I own almost every classic hard rock album ever made, and this one is a treasure.

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