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What can I say
about The Almighty, they're a band that I grew up with and loved from the
off with their powerhouse rock that just blew you away. The bands
debut album ‘Blood, Fire and Love’ is still one of my favourite albums of
all time and still gets the dust blown off the vinyl now and again for old
times sake.
This new
anthology is the ultimate singles collection from the band and not only
features all the bands singles over the years, but also some specially
selected tracks from the band themselves. The full package will be a
two disc pack that will have the singles on the first disc and on the
second disc will be a DVD, which will have the 13 promo videos for the
bands singles. Accompanying this two disc set will also be a booklet
featuring photos of the band through the years, the bands complete
discography, plus sleeve notes by Dave Ling and Iron Maiden's Steve
Harris.
This is a must
for all fans of the band both young and old, with classic cuts like
‘Destroyed’, ‘Power’ and the one that got me into the band the excellent
‘Wild And Wonderful’. All taken from ‘Blood, Fire And Love’.
The second album ‘Soul Destruction’ showed the band weren’t a one trick
pony and included some real stompin’ rock tracks on it with ‘Free And
Easy’, 'Devils Toy’ and a personal favourite off that album ‘Little Lost
Sometimes’, all of which feature on this collection.
The band delved
into a heavier sound with the next album ‘Powertrippin’ but still came up
with some anthemic metal with the bass ridden ‘Addiction’ and the splendid
‘Over The Edge’ and ‘Out Of Season’.
The heavier
stuff just kept on coming with the next album ‘Crank’ as the single
‘Wrench’ showed and one of my very favourite Almighty songs ‘Jonestown
Mind’.
The final two
singles were taken off the ‘Just Add Life’ album and showed the band still
had what it took to blow the roof of any venue, with the hard rockers ‘All
Sussed Out’ and ‘Do You Understand’.
Some of my
favourites from the specially selected tracks are the soul wrenching
‘Jesus Loves You…But I Don’t’ from 'Powertrippin', ‘Ongoing And Total'
from 'Just Add Life', the hard hitting ‘Broken Machine’ from 'The
Almighty', and finally ‘Ruse’ from 'Psycho Narcho’.
With the band
returning to the road with a serious of dates in the UK straight after
Christmas, (well Boxing Day actually!), this is an excellent opportunity
to see the original line-up of Ricky Warwick, Floyd London, Stumpy Monroe
and Pete Friesen doing what they do best in a live environment, rocking
hard. This reunion may not be a full time venture so get yourself
down to these shows and checkout one of the most overlooked UK rock
phenomena’s of the late eighties and early nineties. |
