On January 10, Burke Shelley — bassist, songwriter, and pathfinder of NWOBHM-prog hybrid outlier Budgie — passed away in his hometown of Cardiff, Wales. A hybrid that sounded like Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes in an infernal three-way, Budgie possessed its own style and vision of the world, leading to an enormous influence on much of metal and rock to follow.
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Those bluesy solos and licks are like sloshy retard drool in my ear canals. Budgie doesn’t hold up.
kill yourself retard, budgie is awesome
You don’t hold up
I guess years of post-Van Halen shred must’ve got to you
Nazareth’s cover of Dylan’s The Ballad of Hollis Brown is one of the most demonic-sounding things ever. I think it’s proto-extreme metal but exactly which kind, I cannot say.
Budgie. Like our best kept secret, a few friends of mine would rave about them during many drunken nights and take out the tape, the compilation, the LP containing the music that laid a solid foundation for our life-long search of unique rock and metal composition. One of them friends recited the title of one of their tunes ceremoniously to me at a young age; “Never Turn Your Back On A Friend”