[Heeplist] Conquest

[Pete Wharton]

Ha ha, Bob & Igor, I think we are just gonna have to agree to disagree over
Conquest :-)

Bob there is a difference though between a rough voice like Springsteen and
Rod Stewart and one that sings bad though. I quite like both of the previous
two. Always amazes me when Americans think "Born In The USA" is a patriotic
song though :-)

And Bob, I think Feelings is a great song, ruined by Sloman. John Lawton's
take on it is infinitely better IMO :-)

Bob, how can you not love Equator, All Heep is Good Heep :-)

I think if you listen to the DW tracks on Acoustically Driven, you will get
a better idea of how much better the CD could have sounded with more time. I
love the title track and Cross That Line. In fact I think this week's long
drives will be accompanied by DW, Equator and the Goalby albums :-)

Cheers,

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf Of
Bob Winward
Sent: 19 September 2014 12:58
To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Conquest


Pete, I do not think Igor was joking.  You know some people do like music
with crap voices.  How do you explain the popularity still of Bruce
Springsteen?  He still sells out Stadiums in the USA and has his own channel
on satellite radio.

Putting aside the lead vocals, the music is great, punchy and rocks.
Nothing Heep has done beats the opening riffs of Feelings  I know you don't
like the song "..and you don't even care to pretend"  lol!  Some of the
bonus tracks are really growing on me.  Anyone notice how powerful, loud and
pronounced Trevor's bass is on Love Stealer?

Equator is a different record, the vocals are good, but the lyrics are
juvinile and it sounds less like Heep with back ground vocals and choir.
Different World, well it sounded like Heep was trying to get hit singles
again, and they recorded 10 straight.

On 9/18/14 6:33 PM, "Pete Wharton" <heeplistpete at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> You know on my 4 hour drive to work on Monday, I forced myself to 
> listen to this album again and then the mailing list rarities vol 2 with
John Lawton.
> I'm sorry Igor, but I really do not understand how you can say " 
> However, quality wise, mood wise that was still on the level of better
Heep works"
> about Conquest. I'm sorry but the CD is below the level of Different 
> World quality wise. Trevor never got time to do decent production on 
> that and Conquest just plain sucks with crap vocals and I can't find 
> any redeeming features on that CD at all. It's like Sloman can't hold 
> a note so he fakes it by going to a different one. Any decent songs 
> have been lost in the morass of Sloman's abysmal vocals! Even Equator 
> stands head and shoulders above this waste of effort.

Pete

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