UFO - UFO 2: Flying - One Hour Space Rock (1971) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 407 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 160 MB
Genre: Psychedelic/Space Rock, Hard Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Repertoire Records (REP 5108)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 407 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 160 MB
Genre: Psychedelic/Space Rock, Hard Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Repertoire Records (REP 5108)
The first two albums by UFO featured an odd mix of crisp, focussed songs alternating with meandering electric guitar-led soundscapes. Flying starts off with perhaps their best of the former category, "Silver Bird." This story of a primitive islander seeing an airplane for the first time begins with a pleasant little acoustic guitar melody and builds into a soaring full-band musical expression of the wonder of flight. The next cut, all 19 minutes of it, conjures up the vaster expanses of space. To complain that "Star Storm" rambles is to miss the point; sometimes Michael Bolton's guitar is used as a pure sound effect rather than to convey any kind of rhythm or melody, and if you're patient, then listening can be an enjoyable, even absorbing, experience…