Genre: rock
Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The Fool Circle
Company: A&M
Catalog: SP-4844
Year: 1981
Country/State: UK
Grade (cover/record): VG/VG
Comments: original lyric inner sleeve
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4796
Price: $8.00
Cost: $1.00
Nazareth has always been a guilty pleasure for me (okay, I was a little more blatant with my affections as a teenager). That said, 1980's "The Fool Circle" is far from your typical Nazareth release. The album was recorded in the wake of a personnel shake up that saw the departure of longtime guitarist Zal Cleminson (he actually appears on the album's live cover of J.J. Cale's 'Cocaine'. Recorded at George Martin's Air Studios in Montserrat, West Indies, the album was co-produced by Geoff Emerick and Jeff Baxter. Those production credits may have something to do with the fact the fact that musical the album's far lighter, more diverse and more politicized than earlier releases. C'mon, ever think you'd hear that in the description of a Nazareth LP? Ever think you'd hear Nazareth doing a reggae number ('Let Me Be Your Leader' and 'We Are the People')? Hard to believe, but tracks such as ''Dressed To Kill, 'Another Year' and 'Pop the Silo' found the band taking shots at international politics, societal shortcomings an even nuclear war. Even McCafferty's patented tear-out-my-vocal-chords performances are strangely laidback .... Strange, strange, strange ...
'The Fool
Circle" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Dressed To Kill (Dan McCafferty - Pete Agnew) -
2.) Another Year (Manny Charlton) -
3.) Moonlight Eyes (Dan McCafferty) -
4.) Pop the Silo (Dan McCafferty - Pete Agnew) -
5.) Let Me Be Your Leader (Manny Charlton) -
(side
2)
1.) We Are the People (Dan McCafferty - Pete Agnew)
-
2.) Every Young Man's Dream (Darrell Sweet) -
3.) Little Part of You (Manny Charlton) -
4.) Cocaine (Live Version) (J.J. Cale) -
5.) Victoria (Darrell Sweet) -