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Rob The Good 
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 20:11 |
Hi everyone! Uriah Heep is my favourite band! I don't know if this poll has been done before, but what is your favourite Uriah Heep studio album from the 1970s? I have a sneaky suspicion that everyone's going to put "Demons & Wizards"...I love pretty much all of them, but at the moment "Salisbury" is my favourite. 
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And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..."
Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster.
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 20:59 |
Shamefully, I must admit, I have never heard anything Uriah Heep has ever done...and I'm 38 years old!! 
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 21:22 |
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i voted return to fantasy:that's the only one i have!!
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 21:46 |
Even though they didn't have reached the definitive formation with Gary Thain and Lee Kerslake, I have a clear predilection for Look at Yourself.
For the first time they had three obviously progressive tracks, the epic July Morning, the incredible Look at Yourself (With the Osibisa Rhythm section) and of course Tears in my Eyes, a track that has everything, killer keyboards, complex vocal work and a fantastic wah - wah guitar by Mick Box.
A perfect album.
Iván
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 21:55 |
 I'm with Ivan: track for track, Look at Yourself always did it best for me! A terrific disc!
BTW, who will be first to tell me where the band got their strange name, and where the title of their first album comes from as well? 
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 22:03 |
Uriah Heep is a character of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, an obscure hypocrite clerk.
Uriah Heep describes himself as very umble (humble) in the novel, and playing witrh the lack of "H" they added Heavy without "H" also.
Iván
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 22:49 |
^ Right you are Ivan! You win my undying esteem, and one "air" drum solo from the deceased drummer of your choice!
(Of course, you were probably here a year ago when I first asked those questions....)
Dickens' Heep (Copperfield's nemesis) was also very evil. Though he described himself as "very 'umble," he was anything but!
 Terrific book, BTW, perhaps Dickens' best! (It was his personal favourite.) I HIGHLY recommend it, to those with a taste for 800+ page Victorian novels....
But back to the band....
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 23:50 |
 (Of course, you were probably here a year ago when I first asked those questions....) |
Nope Peter I'm here since May (Last 3 days of April to be exact), but I'm a Uriah Heep fan and forced to read David Copperfield at school for my English class. 
Iván
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 23:59 |
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hmm.... uriah heep looks really interesting... if i were to get an album to start with what should i get?
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 00:04 |
Sweetnighter asks:
| hmm.... uriah heep looks really interesting... if i were to get an album to start with what should i get? |
LOOK AT YOURSELF
Iván
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 02:35 |
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Demons and Wizards, Look at Yourself, and The Magician's Birthday are all excellent albums.
The only thing I dont like about uriah heep is their guitar player mick box, he sucks, and his name makes me mad for some reason.
But they are as a whole excluding the GEAR BOX, they are quite good.
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ShrinkingViolet
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 03:56 |
mick box sucks.........er dumb ass comment...
I find it hard to choose between the first five albums...Eek i love them all..hmm i'll have to sit thru and listen to my collection and choose....hmm and get coffee...oh and no ones voted for the first one yet 
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 04:14 |
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Add another one fo Look at yourself. July morning is a relatively unknown masterpiece.
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ShrinkingViolet
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 04:52 |
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uriah Heep are greatly underrated...which is sad. God rest our beloved David Byron
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Rob The Good
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 05:11 |
David Byron is quite possibly the most overlooked and yet amazingly talented rock vocalist in history! I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised that Look at Yourself is leading. I was listening to it earlier today, and the song Shadow of Grief is wonderful. My favourite as I said before is (at the moment anyway, I have "phases") Salisbury because it has the song Lady in Black on it! But it also has Bird of Prey, High Priestess, Salisbury, The Park...arrgh they're all great.
The best place to start I think, would be Demons & Wizards as it's considered the band's classic, but Salisbury is just as good an intro as any as it gives a good overview of what the band was capable of: there's a couple of ballads, a couple of hard rockers and an extended Prog piece. Brilliant! Buy them all! My introduction was a double cd "best of" compilation called Travellers in Time which I picked up for about $50NZ (that's about $25US).
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And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..."
Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster.
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 05:42 |
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I voted for 'LOOK AT YOURSELF' too. Some great songs : the title track, July Morning, I Wanna Be Free, Tears In My Eyes and Shadows Of Grief. Good Album.
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Rob The Good
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 05:53 |
Oooh no one's voted for the first album Or Magician's Birthday! The band's debut is a great hard rock album because it defines who the band was but also gave them room to expand and progress to greater things: SALISBURY!
The band themselves considered Magician's Birthday to be rushed and they would've appreciated more time to expand on it a bit further...personally I think it's fantastic! The title track especially. In fact, I think Magician's Birthday is more prog than Demons & Wizards.
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And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..."
Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster.
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Easy Livin
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 06:52 |
Rob,
Good to have another Heep fan around here! As you'll see from my "name", they are my favourite band too.
As member Hibou once said when asked to chose her favourite Genesis album (I think), it's like asking a mother to chose between her children!
Like yourself, my actual favourite varies with the album I'm listening to, but over the years, Demons and Wizards has been the one I always come back to.
I saw the band in Edinburgh a couple of months ago, they were superb.
PS, Interesting to see you included the unfinished "Five miles" sessions in the list!
Edited by Easy Livin
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 07:45 |
Look at yourself.
Their best work up to date (IMO).
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 09:53 |
Magician's Birthday is not a prog album at all, IMO - I only hear rock music (very good, but rock)
Demons and Wizards likewise contains not one single iota of prog.
I'm going to track down Look At Yourself, but at the moment, I think that Queen have produced far more prog than Uriah Heep - the only thing that is prog about the albums I own is the Roger Dean covers (except on Abominog, which is a 1980s metal album and not prog).
I sincerely do not understand why anyone thinks that Uriah Heep are prog - but I'm open to enlightenment.
They're a great rock band though 
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