Bandolier (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Bandolier
Type = Album
Artist = Budgie


Released = September 1975
Recorded =
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 34:19
Label = MCA
Producer = Budgie
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:b1u36j3h7180 link]
* George Starostin Rating|4.5|5 (record rating: 9/10) [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/budgie.htm#Bandolier link]
Last album = "In For The Kill" (1974)
This album = "Bandolier" (1975)
Next album = "If I Were Britannia I'd Waive the Rules" (1976)

"Bandolier" is Budgie's fifth album, released in September 1975 through MCA Records. This album raised up at UK #36 and was certified Gold in 1976. The high spot is probably the cascading guitar solos of "Napoleon Bona", harking back to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" and presaging Motörhead's "Overkill". Includes gentle guitar pieces ("Slipaway") and harder, bluesier excursions "Breaking All The House Rules", "I Can't See My Feelings" and "Who Do You Want For Your Love?". "Bandolier" was released in the U.S.A. on A&M Records in late 1976.

Track listing

#"Breaking All The House Rules" (7:23)
#"Slipaway" (4:02)
#"Who Do You Want For Your Love?" (6:09)
#"I Can't See My Feelings" (5:54)
#"I Ain't No Mountain" (3:36)
#"Napoleon Bona-Parts 1 & 2" (7:15)

Remastered Version

The remastered version of "Bandolier" contains these extra tracks:
#"Honey ("B" Side)"
#"Breaking All The House Rules (Live 1980)"
#"Napoleon Bona-Parts 1 & 2 (Live 1980)"
#"Who Do You Want For Your Love (Live 1975)"

Credits

*Burke Shelley - bass, Vocals
*Tony Bourge - guitar, Vocals
*Steve Williams - drums
*Budgie - Producer
*Andy Fairweather-Low - Songwriting (Track 5)
*Richard Manwaring - Engineer
*Pat Marran - Engineer
*Ray Martinez - Engineer
*John Pasche - Art Direction
*Pete Vernon - Photography
*Patrick Woodroffe - Cover Illustration