The Last Stage (Budgie)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Last Stage
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Budgie


Released = 25 October 2004
Recorded = 1979-1985
Genre = Heavy metal
Length =
Label = Noteworthy
Producer = Budgie
Reviews = Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:14220r4aq48c link]

Last album = "Life In San Antonio"
(2002)
This album = "The Last Stage"
(2004)
Next album = "You're All Living in Cuckooland"
(2006)

"The Last Stage" is a compilation of unreleased Budgie tracks, mostly from the early-to-mid eighties. Many of these tracks were intended to be released on the followup to 1982's "Deliver Us From Evil", a followup that never saw the light of day. There was another track that was supposedly meant to be on the album, it was called "Beautiful Lies", unfortunately it never made it to "The Last Stage". But you can still get the song on the Budgie compilation album "An Ecstasy Of Fumbling - The Definitive Anthology".

The sound quality varies from track to track, as each song was at a different level of completion before it was scrapped. However, most (if not all) of the tracks would be considered very good bootleg quality or better.

Track listing

# Love Is When You Love
# House of a Sinner
# Same Old Sad Affair
# Signed Your Own Fate
# Hard Luck
# Living With Another Man
# You Ain't Got Love
# Renegade
# Sweet Fast Talker
# Wait Till Tomorrow
# Rock Your Blood
# Nutbush City Limits
# Can't Get Up In The Morning
# Heaven In Your Eyes
# Picture On A Screen
# Victim

Personnel

*Burke Shelley - Vocals, bass
*John Thomas - Guitar
*Steve Williams - Drums
*Rob Kendrick - Guitar, vocals (on track 13 "Can't Get Up In The Morning")