Different World

Uriah Heep

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Griffin Records
• ASIN: B000008O7Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #267,889 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blood on Stone

2. Which Way Will the Wind Blow

3. All God's Children

4. All for One

5. Different World

6. Step by Step

7. Seven Days

8. First Touch

9. One by One

10. Cross That Line

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not THAT bad, believe me..., April 20, 2002

By	Matthew Newland (Valentine, Nebraska) - See all my reviews

I really hate it when people make such a big deal about how awful they think this CD is... I mean, if you want to call a Uriah Heep CD bad (and if you're anything like me, you absolutely HATE to have to do that), think of 1985's "Equator" before you set your sights on "Different World". "Different World" has a few mediocre tracks, it's true... but it also has some highly enjoyable ones, like "Which Way Will the Wind Blow", "Cross that Line", and the title track. In fact, "Different World" makes very frequent visits to my CD player... It's an enjoyable CD, trust me! It's certainly no masterpiece... I mean, if you want to hear what this lineup of Uriah Heep can REALLY do, I'd suggest you give their 1995 masterpiece, "Sea of Light" a try... Trust me, you'll be impressed. But Don't think that "Different World" is a total waste of time... it's not.

For the record, I don't listen to Aerosmith... I was one of those kids who's mother banned MTV from the house while he was growing up, who was friends with kids who's parents were all the same way. I didn't discover Heep until I was 19, when a (post-childhood) friend let me borrow his copy of 1972's "Demons and Wizards"... I was in love with Heep from that point on, and as buying entire albums of a band is the main way I hear their music (I live in a part of the country that knows only country music stations to inhabit its airwaves. Feel free to extend to me your sympathies), getting exposure to other bands is a very slow process for me. So I can't say this CD sounds like Aerosmith because I don't know what Aerosmith sounds like (I only know "Living on the Edge" because of Weird Al Yankovic's take on it with "Living in the Fridge"). I just happen to think "Different World" is a very enjoyable, though hardly perfect, album.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Heep does Aerosmith!, December 25, 1998

By A Customer

This is Uriah Heep trying to keep up with the times. The music sounds like a dead ringer for Aerosmith's "Love in the Elevator" period. The problem here is, Heep was and is basically a 70's band. Wasting their talent on this sort of early 90's hair metal was not a good move. Heep was at their best when they did what they did best - 70's hard rock, heavy on the organ and bass, with mystical themes in the lyrics. The music here is not bad, for the genre - it's just not what we have come to expect from Uriah Heep over the years. You'll like this one only if you think Aerosmith (and Poison, and Warrant, et al) are the pinnacle of rock.

2.0 out of 5 stars Walking in Shadows, August 24, 2009

By	Mr. Richard D. Coreno "Mr. C" (Berea, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The second album with the lineup of Bernie Shaw (v), Phil Lanzon (k), Mick Box (g), Trevor Bolder (b) and Lee Kerslake (d) was truly a project from start to finish by the band - Bolder was the producer, with Bolder, Box and Lanzon handling all of the songwriting duties - but it failed to reignite consistency in the material.

The metal/progressive rock elements from past efforts are a very distant memory in this February 1991 release; the 10 tracks - clocking in at 43:48 - finds Uriah Heep again trying to wedge some elbow room between Bryan Adams, Journey and Def Leppard on the AOR playlist that continued to dominate FM radio. All God's Children is a solid standout, with Blood on Stone the best of the four Bolder compositions. Which Way Will the Wind Blow and Cross That Line are mildly interesting, but lack the unique punch that could solidly break them away from the remaining muddling entries.

Uriah Heep remained weighted down by commercial aspirations which made it sound more like a band at the corner bar on a late Saturday night that was uneasily attempting to create new material to mimic the chart toppers, instead of just turning up the amps and letting things fly. The five members were walking under their own musical shadows.