From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: Re: Any opinions on the CD singles...?
Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:43:39 GMT

In article <C0F4r5.Loy@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:
>alt.skate-board (heh) writes:
>|And if you haven't heard The Prince, it, along with Breadfan are their  
>|best cover songs EVER.
>
>There is sort of a re-release of Diamond Head's "Lightning to the Nations"
>piece called "Behold the Beginning." This was just (as I interpret from
>the CD) released on CD from Metal Blade last year; I saw it on LP years
>ago. It's got "Am I Evil?," "The Prince," and "Helpless" on it, which most
>Metallica fans probably would find rather interesting. The kind-of bummer
>part of this is that it does not even contain the track "Lightning to the
>Nations." (I have this on another CD.) It's is quite a deal anyhow; I
>recommend playing track four, "Sucking my Love," (heh, heh) in your car
>at appropriate volume in cruising terrain. (you piss off too many people
>elsewhere... weenies) Plus, it's not an import, so you don't get socked for
>price badly (see below)

To continue what he said above, BEHOLD THE BEGINNING is actually not LIGHTNING
TO THE NATIONS so much. Only "Am I Evil?" "Sucking My Love," "It's Electric,"
and "The Prince" and "Helpless" came from the album. "Shoot Out The Lights,"
"Streets Of Gold," "Sweet And Innocent," were singles, "Waited Too Long"
being on I think "Streets Of Gold." The LTTN version of "Sweet And Innocent"
is pretty different from the single version as the album version has no solo.
"The Prince" sounds a bit different in original form from the Brian Tatler
remix. If you can, get THE RIDAY ROCK SHOW SESSIONS which unfortunately costs
$25.00 for those of us in the States, but is "Lightning To The Nations" and
another version of "Sweet And Innocent" in studio for the Friday Rock Show 
and from Reading Festival 1982, "Am I Evil?" "Borrowed Time," "In The Heat Of
The Night," "Don't You Ever Leave Me Baby," "Sucking My Love" (a song about
oral sex, for those of you who thought it might be, it is. Harris says so when
he's introducing the song), and "Play It Loud." Great album, I think.

>
>Oh, while I'm on this "original bands" thing, I might add that I have the
>original version of "Breadfan" (Budgie) and "The Wait" (Killing Joke,) as
>well as some others. The Budgie CD, "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend," was
>imported, and ran quite a bit. (LPs were cheaper...) You can get "Squawk"
>on the RoadRacer label at a rather nice price, though.
>
I have the BUDGIE first album, reissued by Roadracer, and it has "Crash Course 
In Brain Surgery" which apparently is just a demo version with the original
Budgie lineup before the IN FOR THE KILL version with a different drummer.
I heard that the original LP BUDGIE didn't have "Crash Course In Brain Surgery"
so I was wondering if they were actually the same version after all.

philip

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