Nightflight [IMPORT]

Budgie

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B000006X8K
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #116,190 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1993 reissue on Repertoire of their 1981 album for the Active Records label. Nine tracks, including 'I Turned To Stone', 'Keeping A Rendezvous' and 'Reaper Of The Glory'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'll fly Nightflight at any time of the day!, June 7, 2003

By	Aaron Bentley (Burlington, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The second to last album from these squawky Welsh birds, finds them in a different mood than on Power Supply. Fewer AC/DCish chords, and better song ideas overall makes it an improvement over it's predecessor (personally, Power Supply has always been my least favorite Budgie album) Lots of huge heavy drums courtesy of Steve williams even though most of the tracks are "lighter" and the heavy ones I find the most dissapointing. Superstar is mere filler, She Used Me up almost hits the mark. The ballad Apparatus gave them a minor hit in the U.K. (one of VERY VERY few!) and opener I Turned To Stone uses a great light-heavy-light-heavy mid paced song structure with a galloping guitar solo laden outro, and is one of my favorite tracks from the 80's era of Budgie. I tip my hat to these batty birds, I can't imagine ever getting really SICK of their music, and I don't blame them for giving up when they did. Things change, music changes, and Budgie just didn't fit the mold of pop music at the time, nor did they ever. Listen, learn, and buy all their damn albums if you don't have them already!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A New Guitarist, A Bland Sound, April 2, 2001

By	JOHN SPOKUS (BALTIMORE, MARYLAND United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Night Flight (Audio CD)

Gone were all the unique qualities that set Budgie apart from other heavy rock acts. Tony Bourge's guitar was the key to the greatness of their early material. Nightflight is just an attempt to get more commercial, with a guitarist that sounded just like everybody else circa 1980. This record is bland, yet still listenable; I understand that things got much worse.

4.0 out of 5 stars They Are Stars! - Superstars!, January 10, 2009

By	Reijo Piippula "Rekko" (Turku, Finland) - See all my reviews

The best Budgie album since "Bandolier", "Nightflight", starts promisingly with one of their best songs "I Turned to Stone". It's a great 6-minute rock track. "Keeping a Rendezvous" is their only chart hit. It's a good song but Budgie has had better songs which should have been hits. "Reaper of the Glory" and "She Used Me Up" are good songs too. In the end there's two songs I'd like to name: "Superstar" and "Change Your Ways" - great songs both musically and lyrically. Other tracks are too simple or boring.
Stars: I Turned to Stone, Keeping a Rendezvous, Superstar