No Heavy Petting [Import, Original recording remastered]

UFO | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00004SAIS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Natural Thing

2. I'm A Loser

3. Can You Roll Her

4. Belladonna

5. Reasons Love

6. Highway Lady

7. On With The Action

8. A Fool In Love

9. Martian Landscape

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare yourself for a good rocking time, October 31, 2003

By 

L. B. Ivarsson (Rock City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Heavy Petting (Audio CD)

Most UFO fans consider the years between 1974 and 1978 to be the very best, a time UFO released five timeless classics each year by the name of "Phenomenon", "Force it", "No heavy petting", "Lights out", and "Obsession". The album "No heavy petting" from 1976 might just be the best of them all. UFO deliver hard rocking numbers like "Natural thing" (with a groove that send chills down my spine); fast tunes with a lot of melody like "Can you roll her" as well as catchy and lighter songs like "A fool in love" and "Highway lady". UFO also give proof of their feeling in writing slow semi ballads and the over all acoustic "Martian landscape" and "Belladonna" are both excellent. And don't forget the heavy blues inspired "On with the action", the almost Zeppelin sounding "Reasons love", and the more well known "I'm a loser". In my opinion, "No heavy petting" is one of the best hard rock albums ever released and UFO's ability to create variation in their material would indeed make you want to listen to these songs over and over again, year after year. As you put this album into your stereo you'll realize that there actually were a time when the albums contained a strong set of unique songs instead of one hit attempt and a lot of fillers. I'll chose an album of 9 or 10 good songs over an album that includes up to 15 tracks where half of them are at best mediocre any day. How about you?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DON'T PANIC! IT'S THE SAME REMASTER!, February 2, 2006

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BOB (LOS ANGELES, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Heavy Petting (Audio CD)

So, you bought the 2000 EMI remaster & now you think you have to do it all over again?

Relax.

This is the same master used for the 2000 version. So, unless you're just dying to have the LP mini-sleeve for five times the price, don't knock yourself out.

WHAT IS A JAPAN "MINI-LP-SLEEVE" CD?

Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you.

Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics.

Then, there's the sonic quality: Often (but not always), mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often (but not always) be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere.

Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded.

All mini-sleeve releases are limited edition, but re-pressings/re-issues are becoming more common (again, not always). The enthusiasm of mini-sleeve collecting must be tempered, however, with avoiding fake mini-sleeves manufactured in Russia and distributed throughout the world, primarily on eBay. They are inferior in quality, worthless in collectable value, a total waste of money, and should be avoided at all costs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy Petting for Heavy Rockers!, July 21, 2005

By 

Thin Timmy "Bela Drake" (New Orleans, La.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Heavy Petting (Audio CD)

I bought this after strangers in the night and it rocked
more than the live album. The production is so raw and
clean that it's a live album without the crowd noise.
Natural Thing starts off with those great opening chords
and it rips from there. The singing, playing and writing
were awesome. Even the slower songs are classics. If you
like the early UFO albums this is a must for any fan.
It's too bad more people didn't hear of UFO in there day.
I'm proud to say I was there from the start and still am!