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Magician's Birthday

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for me, the weak songs of the record as far as i'm concerned. Both sound really dated. "Blind Eye" has some excellent

If anyone ever wanted to know what a typical classic Uriah Heep album sounded like, this would be a finestudio and it sounds like that. MAGICIAN'S BIRTHDAY has never been a favorite of mine, i rarely listen to it despite some very Without doubt, Uriah Heep´s finest hour in the studio. Together with Demons and Wizzards, it represents Offiziellecharts.de – Uriah Heep – The Magician's Birthday" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22April 2018. For the most part the production of The Magician's Birthday can be described as overblown... with several notable exceptions, and these provide the only real bright spots on the album. "Rain," a thoughtful and unassuming piece, gets a sensitive presentation which goes a long way toward camouflaging the inadequacies of its lyrical ingredients. And "Sweet Lorraine" has an amusingly eerie sound to it, thanks mainly to Hensley's neat Moog sythesizer work. But two songs don't make an album, and Uriah Heep's fifth effort is a decidedly limited excursion into areas better left unexplored -- at least for the ill-equipped.

When I was younger, I was a bit dismissive of Uriah Heep, but now I own a few of their albums (Look organ that are penetrated with the scream-like yell of David Byron. It settles as the vocals are almost spoken. It builds.Themes are repeated. I like the organ play in Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1973. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022.

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The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front designed again by Roger Dean. The inner fold had pictures of the band, with the album itself housed in a liner on which were printed the lyrics. bizarre effects heard on top. The song also shows the fun side of Heep: the chorus in the first part To the band's credit, it wasn't really their fault that their fifth album, 'The Magician's Birthday' then you have a ...drum solo. We don't want to forget the wonderful sound of this great prog musical instrument.....the Kazoo!!! Saunders, Mike (March 1973). "Uriah Heep: The Magician's Birthday (Mercury)". Creem . Retrieved 20 November 2018.

Worth it if you were bowled over by Demons and Wizards and don't mind that the artwork manages to be closer to the spirit of that album than the music a lot of the time, but The Magician's Birthday marks the waning of Heep's classic period in my view. Norwegiancharts.com – Uriah Heep – The Magician's Birthday". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 8, 2023. It is really hard to be evaluated such a variety and professionalism incorporeted into one band. Such a band is Uriah Heep and they proove it over and over again. This time with their 5th studio album - The Magician's Birthday. This album continues the psychedelic foundations of the previous masterpiece... and contains a candidate of my all time favourite composition - the homonymous The Magician's Birthday.Album [ edit ] Weekly charts [ edit ] Weekly chart performance for The Magician's Birthday Chart (1972–1973) a b Geesin, Joe (December 2015). "Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday". Record Collector. No.448 . Retrieved 18 November 2018.



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