Next

Gotta listen to it again lol

I was expecting some cool, trailblazing glam rock, but honestly, this record is a total mess. I can see the bluesy, hard rock roots that probably influenced bands like AC/DC or Nick Cave, but the songs are just buried under all the exhausting, over-the-top theatrics. It feels way less like a solid rock album and more like a weird, deranged screen test for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The vocals are super grating and drift into this annoying pantomime that makes it hard to take the musicianship seriously. The whole vibe is ruined by the sleazy, immature writing. Tracks like "Gang Bang" are just repulsive and kill any momentum the album manages to build.

A música título é interessante, mas o álbum não me afeiçoou.

What an album. Quite fun.

Kinda reminded me of Paul McCartney at times. Not terrible, but not good really.

Müll

nicht mein Ding

Die Instrumente waren kacke, aber dafür war der Gesang besonders scheiße. Die Lyrics hingegen: Scheiße

Part musical theatre part deeply stupid hard rock (complimentary)

This was good. I imagine at the time is was released this was pretty different and new.

Fine, but nothing worth coming back to

What the absolute fuck. Cock Rock at its finest. Go away. 1/5.

Bailed after "Giggy up.." Can' tolerate one who doesn't know it is GIDDY UP. Move on

Awesome!

Never heard of this before today. And wow. This sucked. Bad British glam blues chock full of idiocy theatre and misogyny. Gross.

I can see how this band forecasted the rise of metal and punk. But it is hard to access its innovation. It kind of sounds like Sweeney Todd mixed with half-hearted metal, and the combo doesn’t work great.

Un disco raro

First listen. Never been exposed to this band before. Wow - this is my jam! Absolute belter of an album. Nothing too deep going on, but Swampsnake sets the tone - just flat out rock n roll. Foot stomping goodness mostly, although the dip into doo-wop spoils it a bit. Straight 4

Tons of fun. This is what im doing this for. However, I heard Scott walker sing Next just a few weeks ago on here. Kinda bizarre. That and one other songs wete weaker, bringing it down to a 4 from a 5

After the dogshit I have been listening to for the past week and so, a average glam rock album feels a little refreshing. However not even taking in the grotesque lyrics, this album feels like a guy just throwing darts at a glam rock wall and seeing what sticks. I like the first two songs in a musical sense, as they remind me of T Rex. The next songs are this spacey prog song (pretty good), rockability (okay), whatever the hell Nick Cave does (awful) and then just good enough glam rock. I will give this another listen, but I don't know if the stars would go higher or lower.- 3/5

I'm conflicted with my thoughts on this. On the one hand, there's some killer bluesy riffage, ominous basslines and even a proto-industrial energy contained within it at times, but on the other it's an uncomfortably sleazy experience, surely with theatrical intentions but I still found a lot of the lyricism to be crude nonetheless. Sonically it finds itself in this weird intersection between glam/hard rock and cabaret, and it struggles to settle into any discernible stylistic pattern or groove. I struggled to get through the complete package as a result, despite liking bits and pieces, but the worst offenders were "Giddy Up A Ding Dong" and particularly the second track "Gang Bang", which has aged like milk. I'm awarding a very tentative three stars for some of the musicianship.

it somehow keeps getting worse. meatloaf, queen, and a sprinkle of axl rose in the worst way imaginable

I'm just gonna suspect that some people are taking this album... Maybe a bit too seriously? It's clearly such a goof of a glam rock album, where I can clearly hear how it would inspire the likes of Bon Scott from AC/DC. It's not particularly intelligent, yeah, but I found it pretty fun, and I don't know why you'd ever expect anything else from a glam rock album.

I don't know, I just get bad vibes from listening to this. 2.5 bumped down to 2.

I’m at a 4. I don’t think there’s a bad track here. I just think there’s a very strange execution that never totally fulfills what it’s going for; it’s an album that doesn’t take itself that seriously, so it can get away with playing a bit cheesier, and it usually works to a point. When it gets as over the top as it does, it usually loops back around to being fun for me. This album just can’t decide how non-chalant it wants to be in relation to the actual music at hand. The tone works on tracks like “Gang Bang”, “Giddy Up a Ding Dong” & “Vambo Marble Eye” because you can tell they’re having fun with it. It doesn’t work quite as well on a track like “Swampsnake”; it’s an awkward tonesetter that tries to straddle the line between being taken more seriously & being a bit overdramatic, and I think it’s just an OK opener for it. “The Faith Healer” is interesting, if only because I perceived it as an almost orgasmic take on a cult leader describing God, and that made the uncomfortability of the track work for me, even if it’s a bit long. “Next” is… fascinating. It’s a Jacques Brel cover, translated to English, so I can literally feel the Broadway-ness of it all in the recording. I think it’s one that’s over the top enough to work, but it straddles the line via subject matter & not necessarily in how it plays out. At base level, the story of traumatically losing your virginity in the army isn’t something you’d really take in that direction, & that conflict between the delivery & the execution feels like the dichotomy that defines the whole album. “The Last of the Teenage Idols” does the same thing, but in a different way; I think it plays itself decently straight to begin with before looping back to a ‘50s style that just sort of awkwardly closes out the whole album. It just doesn’t really work in that order, and it really leaves me wondering what the overall throughline of the album is meant to be other than probably having a lot of sex in good & bad ways. That said, I still don’t think there’s a bad track here. Just really odd execution that’s fun to listen to in the moment, yet lacks a real sense of cohesion after it’s all said & done, creating an indecisive air about how seriously one should take this album. I think people have taken it a bit too seriously (hence the 2.7 on the site), but I understand why they’d do so, given “Swampsnake” as an opener & a general hesitation to buy into this album throughout. For me, it’s a 4; realistically, closer to a 3.5 bumped up to a 4 after laying all of this out, but still. I think there’s something here that just needed to be tightened up to decide how “Rocky Horror”-esque it wanted to be for the sake of a better flowing album. I don’t know if it HAD to be on the list, but given who this band inspired, I think it’s got a place here.

I don’t know I was really bored, just sounded like generic copyright YouTube rock music to me 😭

Queen meets Kurt Weill. This one got so stuck in my head I gave it an additional point.

nope

Very interesting album. The lyrics told a good story throughout, and were haunting in places, erotic in others, and downright weird some of the time. I also liked the instrumentation and the sounds developed quite a bit.

I little too sexual for my 7 AM run. Desperately need to read some of these things.

Pretty whacky album. Example A being a track called Gang Bang. My foot was consistently tapping throughout the whole thing though; a subconscious seal of approval if you will.

Don't really have a good or bad word to say about it. I'm pretty indifferent but I can't say my life would be lesser had I prowled about the Earth without ever hearing Next by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

While I was listening to it, I was pretty sure I didn't like it but over the course of the day I kept thinking about how actually bizarre it was. Stupid, swaggering machismo vamping for forty minutes, running out the rubber on the teen idol tires to become this glam vampire but not really having the exact image in mind just yet so you become this Scottish proto-punk instead. Hell, just points on the basis of keeping the accent for Next.

1.5

No takie srednie, 1 piosenka spoko i ciekawy wokal ale to tyle

Aint nothing like a gang bang indeed.

I kind of liked this album.

I thought this album was kind of weird and all over the place. You hear several rolicking blues tunes with crazy guitars and then shift to experimental tracks like "The Faith Healer" (that one was pretty okay), and just weird psychedelic-tinged stuff like "Next". "Gang Bang" was very high energy, but those lyrics were certainly something. There were some catchy moments, but the band just switched between so many different styles that I think it's too strange for me.

*This was almost a 2, but there was enough rock that kept it at a 3. This takes some odd turns with the vocals and melodies.

A goofy album to say the least. The very immature lyricism layers on top of a very mature sound. You could swap the lyrics out on this thing with anything else and it would probably have a global rating of 3.3

Sounds like an attempt of teens to be rock stars-- Aerosmith and Meatloaf without the humor or the drive. And sex limited to pornographic imaginations.

Starts as one of the 900 same sounding albums. I almost gave it a mediocre 2 stars after the first track with a tired sigh and then it made click and I realised that this has everything I want from an album: witty lyrics, nice melodies, interesting progressions and the most important part: fun while doing music. I stand corrected

I kinda don't care about it?

In my list of "albums that are nothing but the singer talking about his dick" somehow this is worse than The Chronic. Somehow Alex Harvey is both skeezier and has a worse voice than Dr. Dre. Maybe this music was new and groundbreaking in 1973, but in 2026 it has been done to death and is just boring. This is an aggressively bad album.

Album 295. Next — The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1973) I listened to this album a couple of hours ago and I don't fucking remember it except it had something to do with glam rock a little. It's not that bad, pretty fun actually, but I didn't find anything special, any reason why I should look at this closely 2/5 No liked songs

“Next!!!!” is what I wanted to yell the minute a song about gang bangs started playing. This album is just utter shit.

Mixed feelings about this one. Liked some of the proto-punk music but there was a bunch of humor and theatricality that was much too much for me. I added “Swamp Snake” to my playlist.

01) Swampsnake - 6,5 02) Gang Bang - 6,0 03) The Faith Healer - 6,5 04) Giddy Up a Ding Dong - 5,5 05) Next - 5,0 06) Vambo Marble Eye - 6,0 07) The Last of the Teenage Idols - 5,5 TOTAL: 5,86 (59/100) Current ranking: 818/1010

Bluesrock en hardrock met cabaret / theater, soms haast circusachtige, elementen. En ook wel een punk randje. Alice Cooper. Een aantal dingen doet het goed en dat maakt dat ik er goed naar kan luisteren. Het is lekkere gitaarmuziek, vroege hardrock. Het stukje wat ik theatraal en circusachtig noem leidt voor mij eerder af dan dat het iets positiefs toevoegt. Tegelijkertijd zal juist dat theatrale zijn wat ervoor zorgt dat het hier in de lijst staat, anders was het misschien te generieke jaren '70 hard rock geweest. Ik weet na afloop eigenlijk nog steeds niet zeker of dit album nou een beetje de spot drijft met de genres die het gebruikt of dat het meer een soort punk manier van schijt hebben, doen waar je zin in hebt, is. De teksten zijn over het algemeen in ieder geval schijtlollig. De 35 minuten voelden iets langer dan ze waren omdat heel af en toe m'n weerbaarheid toch aardig werd getest ('Next'). Al met al maak ik er toch 3 sterren van, heb me er op een gekke manier wel mee vermaakt.

Not a fan of performance rock but he and his band were very good at it. Still . . . not my interest.

Next was just a super fun album. I have never really known much about Alex Harvey or his band but i think this sounded more or less like i was expecting it to sound. Overall, every song was just an insanely fun ride that all sounded so swinging and upbeat. I can admit that The Faith Healer is probably one of the weirder songs on the album but for a weird track, its a really good one. The rest of the songs though had that exact vibe i love in this sort of glam rock. I did initially want to find a reason not to give it a 5 star due to the aforementioned weirdness of The Faith Healer but at the end of the day, this album is just far too fun for me to do so. Best Song: Gang Bang Worst Song: The Faith Healer

So awful. Wish I could give it a zero

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band is another 1970s group I’d completely forgotten about. Growing up in Detroit, I remember WABX spinning their tracks. A lot of their music reminds me of Mott the Hoople, Mountain, and Nazareth. I definitely plan to dig deeper into their catalog.

Like for naming.

Too cutesy and ironic for me, I bet this guy thought he was real clever making this

Apart from a few songs, this is a quite fun blues rock album. Liked it way more than I expected from the reviews.

3+

Cringe moments with the lyrics take away from the abundance of sonic goodness. First time with the band and I may have to go back and check out a few of their back records. Never thought Id hear so many Jacques Brel songs on the 1001.

Alex Harvey and his sensational Glaswegian band may not be household names, but their stamp on rock and roll history is not up for debate. Next made its mark in the UK, drawing praise from the likes of Robert Smith for their cabaret style punk rock personas and stage shows, and Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder famously covered their song The Faith Healer with his Recoil solo project. Their impact in Australia went much deeper and changed the course of music. Bon Scott's vocal style and the formation of AC/DC are directly credited to Alex Harvey as well as the inspiration for Nick Cave to form his first band. Next may not have burned up the charts and may seem like a generic 70s rock album to the uninitiated who hear it today, but the ripples it caused are still making waves to this day. That generic rock only became so because the sounds Alex Harvey and Co. developed later became the norm. Context matters.

A weird one, doesn’t really stand out by itself, tho I really enjoyed “the last of the teenage idols”

Huge AC/DC vibes, look em up, sure enough they were a huge inspiration to AC/DC. The track Gang Bang stands out, surprisingly on-the-nose. The album kind of peters out on the last couple songs imo, but overall solid.

I wonder what the hidden meaning behind "Gang Bang" is

1 keeper in 7 (14%). The whole thing felt like a low budget glam record, which is not nothing. I'd just rather spend my time with more something. 1 star.

Alex Harvey? Never heard of him, TBH. The band smokes and I'm guessing this was quite a trip live. The music is a delightful melange ranging from boogie woogie / early rock'n roll to something much more theatrical. Very interesting to find out he roomed with Bowie for a while. If I'm being honest I'm probably not ever revisiting this, but I'm certainly not poorer for having heard it.

My mother always says “A little is funny, a lot is not.” That’s how I feel about this album. It’s funny to maybe have one song that’s a strait laced anthem to your sexual prowess, but when every song is that it gets old quickly. If the point is to include music on the list that is “funny” why not commit to a real comedy music album? This list loves to skirt with genres like comedy and theater, but refuses to acknowledge them as important and instead we get crap like this.

Pretty good

What the hell is this shit doing on a list like this?

An okay album, I liked The Faith Healer the most.

I dont care how influential anyone tells me this is, it blows.

Next isn’t a polished masterpiece. It’s something arguably more interesting: a great band refusing to behave like a normal band. And Alex Harvey himself is the reason it works. He had absolutely no interest in looking cool. He wanted to entertain, provoke, disgust, seduce and make you laugh—sometimes within the same song. That makes Next messy. It also makes it unforgettable.

Fantastic

Eihän tätä kuuntele ees kukaan

irredeemable why the FUCK did you make me listen to this

The music comes across as theatrical; not made or intended to be moving in its own right, but to serve as a vehicle for the lyrics. He seems to believe his lyrics are clever and edgy. They strike me as pretentious and dopey. And his belt, on the cover; it's way too long.

Samme albumcover som Black Sabbath Vol. 4 jo

Sensationally sex obsessed. Thus album was not for me. Nor anyone.

Mostly generic musically, though not to say it's bad. There are a couple musical standouts that differentiate themselves from the rest of the album. And what a horny album it is.

wtf even are these lyrics

I get it, definitely. As it went on I got more into it but it's not really for me - but for the time it's extremely transgressive and I appreciate that a lot

For anyone who derides this but gets upset that people hate on that godawful SZA album where she just says “da pussy” over and over again: go touch grass.

A song about assaulting a woman is an automatic no from me, dawg.

5/10

This mf really wrote an album about his hog. Fave track: Faith Healer

Some seriously stupid bullshit. Not funny enough to justify it. 2/5

Mid

its to chearful and not our things beat is not good cant vibe ali finds it sus too long songs

Zero stars for containing the song "Gang Bang" alone.

Not "sensational" but not horrible either.

Bold, over the top, sometimes dumb. But it didn't take itself seriously and the songs were mostly fun. I liked Swampsnake with those sneering vocals, and Next with the Tango beat and story about losing innocence to the army. I had to stop and think "what is this?"

My thoughts exactly: Next!

The less said, the better.

Just terrible. Two songs in particular (which I won’t even bother to mention by name) relegated this to 1-star category.

I like glam rock and, at first, I thought this album sounded fun. Then we got onto track 2, Gang Bang, which is a massively cretinous song. The whole album has a crude misogynistic and, at times, homophobic tone, which is a shame as the music is quite fun. The vulgarity isn't as violently aggressive as on Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted or Smack My Bitch Up by the Prodigy, so I'm not giving it a one, but it was close.

Some of it sounded familiar but I forget where.

Not as awful as many of the reviews had me believe, but every but as puerile. It is what it is, and I can't claim to like RHCP and then pretend to be above a bit of lyrical discourse about penises and gang bangs. Will never listen to it again but I also don't feel robbed of 35 minutes

Meh

Also ok.

Wanted to like it as the tunes and the instrument playing were good. But the vocals ruined it for me.

I disliked the Blues Brothers of it all, but I can't help but respect the out of the box thinking on some of the songs.

Cmon guys it’s not that bad. Just a guy singing about gang bangs, somehow not at all ripping off a guy singing about hound dogs, which could also be somehow relevent to this…? Secret masterpiece? In all seriousness I actually thought some of the instrumentation was quite good and found the lyrics pretty funny. TLDR: It’s actually probably shit, but I also enjoy it for some reason. FT: Gang Bang Rating: 3/5

"Next" isn't one of glam rock's finest albums. Most of the songs are just plain bad. "The Faith Healer" is an exception; it's too good to be on "Next". All good things must come to an end, as the worst two songs on the album immediately follow "The Faith Healer". Who thought a rock n' roll track would be ok for a 70s glam rock album? 2 stars for "Next".

The vocals were a bit short of, “sensational.” But still a fun and interesting blend of styles for early 70s rock.

This one grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. Boogie, hard rock, and cabaret can play well together.

Is it bad? Is it good? Is it parody? I'm so confused; it's like that feeling of sliding down the rope in gym class 4/5 for making me question my own beliefs and probably morals.

It’s fine but nothing more. I hear some Rolling Stones (not the good kind) and some AC/DC (which AC/DC made better)

Blues rock and hard rock is a great combo. Hits my ideal music

I thought it had potential, then it just got a bit silly. Once again proving music from this era was incredibly weird and cringe

I'm just not a grunge rock intense shouty kind of music gal

Álbum bem energético de rock. Divertido e bem produzido. TRN Medusa.

Salvaría únicamente Next, Vambo Marble Eye y The Last Of The Teenage Idols, el resto sin más, muy repetitivo.

Vale Gang bang me gussssta, pero qué disco más raro, no??

No hay palabras para describir el bajón que me ha dado cuando cuando empiezan a cantar.

album #96 this is so weird and i kind of dig it. the punk scene(s) in the uk are just so unique. i can imagine seeing this live was really, really fun lol. this is what punk is about. ꩜ favourite track(s): vambo marble eye ꩜ least favourite track(s): the faith healer ꩜ album rating: ★★★☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 993 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 47 (+1 Next) ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 22 (+1 Next) ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 74

Musically brilliant. Lyrically gross.

This album has some truly awful songs and the singer is so annoying! With a different singer and different songwriter you might have something but this was pretty bad!

This is a pretty normal, average album. While listening I didn’t feel much — it’s fine for a casual listen, but nothing special really stands out. The music is competent and does what it’s supposed to do, but it lacks any real spark or memorable moments. Nothing particularly bad, but also nothing that makes you want to come back to it. It’s just… there. Not much else to say about it. It’s an okay record to put on in the background, but it won’t leave any lasting impression.

++: Swampsnake, Gang Bang, Giddy Up a Ding Dong, Next, Vambo Marble Eye, The Last of the Teenage Idols +-: The Faith Healer 9,1/10

Porn for brain dead sketchy guys in the glam scene.

This was fun, but the second half started to drag, and I started losing interest while listening.

Yessss!!!! This is the juice. A truly marvellous discovery. SENSATIONAL INDEED!

Unexpected five.

I was expecting something corny. I was not expecting Gang Bang. This is witty, theatrical and original. But it’s actually just musically GOOD. Totally see how this was a formative influence for Nick Cave. the blues, the classic rock n roll and cabaret intertwined in here which contextualise it for its time period; but still a very original sounding record.

I slowly realise that I can't do 50's and all. It's wayy too outdated. I'll listen to it once but can't do multiple listens. There are some whack songs on there and overall didn't really vibe with it much Review - 4/10

Come on.

Not my preferred type of rock, but it's solid overall, there's little to complain about here. I doubt I'll come back to it much, but it's always nice to learn something new. Favourite track: The Faith Healer

Pretty good album. Very expressive. Gang Bang, The Faith Healer, and Giddy Up A Ding Dong had my favorite moments, especially those guitar parts. 6.0/10

I don't know the band. Weird music and I don't like the vocal.

i appreciate the instruments but i really can’t like the songs they’re too long and repetitive for my liking and i get bored easily i also listened to it when i was fall asleep so i never really finished listening but if someone recommends a song from this album i'll definitely give it a try

03/07/2026 I only know this band for one song which wasn't on here, but this album was alright. Spotify listeners:

Day910 - you know what. there’s a place for the ridiculousness here. not enough songs about gonorrhea and gang bangs

Obscene garbage, but I said "hey babe, blow my blues away"

-interesting! not really my kind of music but i enjoy the energy and weird 70s edginess. apparently AC/DC were heavily inspired by these guys, i can definitely see it but i actually prefer Alex Harvey Band -sometimes it’s hard for me to take songs like this seriously but if anything it’s really funny. solid 3 stars -Favorites: Swampsnake, The Faith Healer

Trash

Boring, repetitive, simplistic and overly drawn out Rock'n'Roll songs with the most annoying singer I have ever heard in my life. Each and every one of his countless mannerisms makes me want to pour boiling lava into my ears.

- Not a band I am familiar with, but it is clear how this must have been an influence in glam rock. - Highs and lows. Almost every song comes off as sexually coded, but the sheer audacity of releasing a song called "Gang Bang" in 1973. Wow. - Did not care for "Next." Get the cabaret influence, but it is not my thing.

pretty good! all over the map here and constantly feels like they're having fun making it. surprisingly danceable too

Dreadful

This doesn't rise to clever. It's just gross. Musically, Next was okay. Feels like it was cut from Cabaret. Still made me want to vomit. No, really. The performance genuinely caused disgust, and I started heaving over a bite of my breakfast. So, I suppose that performance was effective at least. Would my edgier younger self liked this?

Not really my style, so

couldnt finish it

27 person gangbang????? God damn. 4.1/5

Has their ever been a front-man with the overwhelming belief in his abilities as Alex Harvey? Alas, while some tracks rocked and linked the worlds of Glam Rock and Heavy Metal, other tracks were dire and self-delusional.

Sensational it is not, fine is what it is

RIP my algorithm. 2/5

Hated this so much. Nothing redeeming about it lyrically or musically. Just absolute crap.

Sensationalist, but not sensational, overcooked glam with some fairly horrific lyrics and few redeeming features other than its relative brevity.

Like theater kids got into hard rock. Loved it.

Le chainon manquant entre le psyché et le glam. Forcément, ça oscille entre le fort sympathique et le révoltant.

Sooo that was a thing. He's like Meatloaf but instead of rock opera it's rock porn.

This one perplexed me. An excruciatingly horny album in many ways, but Alex's over the top theatrical singing actually elevated songs like Gang Bang a bit. Kinda felt like I was listening to an unused alternate soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Many other songs were just ok. "Giddy Up A Ding Dong" can giddyup a go fuck off. 2.6/5 - .2 out of principle and because this album is unessential= 2.4/5 -> 2/5

Just so, so bad

Awful

A hybrid of sleazy glam and equally sleazy prog with a sprinkling of sleazy cabaret. I quite enjoyed the glam bits, while also thinking I might need a shower afterwards.

Day 310 I definitely enjoyed this more than most people seem to have, felt kind of Monty Python in places. Highlights Swampsnake Gangbang Next

Only really liked 2 tracks of this album, other than them I didn't like the album

Good

Felt a bit different and fun. Not too long. I'd listen again.

Rör sig ganska ohämmat mellan glamrock och pubrock, ibland båda samtidigt. Ju mer pubrock desto bättre. Här finns också nån svårfångad punkig aproach som man förstår att både Robert Smith och Nick Cave fångats av. De tre första spåren är riktigt bra, i synnerhet "Gang bang" med tungt maffigt blås, boogie-piano och uppfriskande Eddie Meduza-text. Sen svajar det betydligt mer men blir aldrig dåligt och det hämningslösa fortsätter lysa igenom. En svag trea

Några okej boggie-låtar i början av skivan, men i övrigt för mycket cabaret-rock som frestar på tålamodet. Väldigt svag tvåa.

Känns vid första lite okoncentrerade lyssningen textmässigt som någon slags 70-tals Björn Rosenström. Men det är ju en feltolkning. Här finns en punkig kritik jag kan gilla. Inte minst i Next. Samtidigt blir det väl teatraliskt musikaliskt för min del. Har tydligen varit stor inspiration för många, inkl Cave. För min del var det helt okej, men det kommer nog inte att bli så många fler lyssningar i framtiden.

Ännu ett humorlöst skojband. Den här gången med ett Boogie woogie piano som är rätt ok. Men låtarna är alldeles för långa.

Loses a star for the five-minute song about a gang bang

It’s ok

Music was surprisingly good - though lyrics were awful and juvenile. Not sure what to make of this.

The wildest thing for me about Alex Harvey's sensational band is that it took off when he was almost forty, and the other members were fifteen years younger. The main thing, guys, is to stay young at heart! As for the album — well, it's glam rock, glam rock. With a few cabaret elements and the bright costumes and clown makeup used in concert, but overall, nothing fancy. Alex's voice isn't very pleasant, but this is compensated for by the overall upbeat nature of the songs. I especially liked the way the keyboards sound, as if a young Elton John had been placed at the piano. I suggest you ignore the lyrics; almost all of them are typical of the genre — "Going to a woman's for a gangbang" and all that. The groundwork for the hairy glam metal of the '80s was already being laid here. I also suspect that this band heavily inspired AC/DC and, specifically, Bon Scott.

Didn’t need to listen to this before I died

Has the air of a West End musical score being performed in a sweaty Glasgow glam-rock club. It's theatrical, rocky and entertaining and sounds like it belongs to the same cultural moment as Rocky Horror. 3½

Even as a fan of AC/DC, I found this album to be horribly dull. Is this the sledgehammer wielding Gallagher's music aspiring cousin? Also, having Nick Cave as one of your fans is not something to brag about. This does not a deserve a spot on the list, and not because of the eye raising lyrics, but because they were paired with boring instrumentals.

Thanks, I hate it.

Like a x rated honky tonk cabaret

If you don't listen to the lyrics it's pretty fun.

ts was ass

Pretty camp, like a parody of glam rock. If you don't take it seriously it's all fine, but it's lacking both the musicality of someone like Weird Al and the character of a band like Spinal Tap. Not criminal, not particularly interesting, which puts it in the weird "Why is this on the list?" category. I like the first song where he sounds like Pinky from Pinky and the Brain.

Swampsnake - 2.5/5 Gang Bang - 2/5 The Faith Healer - 1./5/5 Giddy Up A Ding Dong - 1/5 Next - 1/5 Vambo Marble Eye - 1/5 The Last Of The Teenage Idols - 1/5

Not for me

I listened to this one, but there was a lot going on so I didn't really LISTEN if you know what I mean. What I heard was interesting but didn't make me stop and take notice... so 2.

(26/100)

I enjoyed the music but not really the lyrics

Ok

That was like the B Sides to the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. And without copious amounts of drugs and alcohol and a 11:30pm showing in a 1940s era theater, with live actors - that’s not a compliment.

Sensational? Probably not. Some really sleazy shit on this, and some other dick-kept-in-pants cool tunes. The closer was fun.

Ok

*1973. Glam rock, shock jock *Super creepy. Sounds like Rock Horror with really sexual lyrics. *Some of the music was fine, but it's hard to get past lyrics like 'ain't nothing but a gang bang'... RATING - 5/10

I had to check the lyrics in disbelief frequently on this one. Kind of an AC/DC does a theatrical glam rock album. Won't be digging back into this one but it was freaky and fun for a listen.

The Faith Healer

Tough what to make of this album. Sonically, it is a great blues rock album with some great guitar and piano that feels like old J Geils Band. Lyrically it fits more in line with Spinal Tap. But was a fun listen. Hard to beat tracks that are titled "The Gang Bang" and "Giddy Up a Ding Dong" Highlights: "Swampsnake" and "Vambo Marble Eye"

This was an interesting one, very all over the place. Enjoyed "Giddy Up A Ding Dong" and "Next" the most, the rest was okay.

AC/DC did it better

Hm. Okay. Well I actually don't know if I needed to hear this one. I feel kind of slimy about it all to be honest. Next, PLEASE

Weird combo album its not totally bad generous 3.6/10

The lyrics are quite exquisite, like I actually can smell them. Unfortunately the smell was shit. And when it comes to the instrumentals, they were all nothing special, and the voice was not that good either.

Dross, basically. A very bad singer who seems to take great pleasure in singing bad and stupid songs. It starts vaguely acceptably, and then becomes extremely unacceptable.

ae namoral vtnc mais um álbum chato desse e tou prestes a dropar essa porra de lista maligna pqp.. o pior é que eu consigo entender esse álbum um pouco mas ME DÁ ALGO QUE EU GPOSTE POR FAVOR EU SEI QUE O INTUITO É OUVIR COISAS NOVAS MAS 6 ÁLBUMS CHATOS P CRL SEGUIDOS É INSANO

halb melodischer rock & kontroverse texte reichen nicht für ein krasses album imo, 3.3 sterne

its whatever

Who gave this guy a band

some rock n roll bangers that ive never ever heard, sounds like james gunn bait in a great way. gnarly guitar soloes aplenty, short and sweet, really just got me in a jolly mood from minute one. it's kind of fuckin gross sometimes, in a way that i don't like, but i don't not like it? i just chalk it up to glam rock set dressing. like wanting to sing along to "ain't nothin' like a gang bang" just because it's so catchy is weird. honestly though every single song did something cool and different that had me clapping my little hands in delight like a perfectly satisfied toddler. this shit hits

Rating: 7/10 I actually really liked this and thought it was good, dare I say underrated. It can be a bit silly and absurd and not always work but also a lot of fun. I didn't like Giddy Up and Vambo Marble Eye as much but the rest I actually enjoyed. I don't know if it's for the 4 bucket though

Loudly and obnoxiously annoying, the second loop made it worse. I do like vague small parts of it but overall bro thought he cooked but in fact did not 3.3/10

No

Did not like it.

The track gangbang was written about the Houmous & Chutney tour of 1961. 1.5 1/7 Swampsnake

This veers between a 1 and a 5 at times. I get there was a certain vaudeville element to their music but while I thought both Swampsnake and The Faith Healer were great, some of the other tracks were embarrassingly bad schock-rock. It probably deserves a 3, but there is nothing moderate about this album, if you unreservedly like it, I fear for your wellbeing.

Solid, new to me. 80s movie soundtrack sounding, odd and entertaining.

I was so hopeful for this album but the singer is just not good. 2/5

Some interesting lyrics on this one

Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 🦓␥📛 Production (Remastered 2002): 😐👍🆗 Music: 😳🤢🚿 Rating: 🐓(🐓)/5

Ok platta. Tycker inte det drar iväg uppåt rejält. Långa låtar utan att det riktigt håller. Blir iaf inte sugen på mer.

Spretigt, udda och lite ojämnt - det fungerar rätt bra ibland och ibland känns det lite för plojigt. Onekligen ett eget uttryck i alla fall, vilket alltid är kul. Inget jag kommer att lyssna mer på men ångrar inte heller lyssningen.

Potential to be a 5, need to properly listen to the rest

Giddy Up A Ding Dong really bothered me. I know all the bands around the time were probably putting the same schtick in their albums, and those didn't bother me, but this one pushed my buttons. It's like they put it in as a parody....not of the song itself, but of the instinct of bands to throw in a cover of a 50s song that sounds lewd.

Starts off strong but unfortunately I kinda lost it towards the end. 6/10

7 / 10

tipico rock alegre de los 70/80, un meh como una casa de grande

bleh

2.5 stars. In your face glam rock. Decent but not my cup of tea.

There are flashes of musical creativity that excite me here but overall it’s just too messy chaotic and ends up incoherent

Next... es un trabajo audaz que desafía las convenciones del rock de su época. El álbum se presenta como una genialidad divertida y descarada, donde la teatralidad del vodevil, el cabaret y el hard rock más pesado conviven en un mismo espacio. Precisamente por esa audacia de saltar entre géneros tan dispares, la escucha puede sentirse como un viaje un poco fragmentado, pero cada una de esas piezas ofrece una propuesta visual y sonora fascinante. El tema homónimo y la hipnótica "The Faith Healer" son muestras perfectas de cómo se entretejen muy bien la voz y los instrumentos: la guitarra de Zal Cleminson y la interpretación rasposa y llena de autoridad de Alex Harvey crean una atmósfera densa, por momentos tétrica y oscura, pero siempre magnética. Aunque carece de la sensación de paz y fluidez de otros clásicos, su valor radica en su honestidad irreverente; es un disco conmovedor, crudo y real que antepone el drama y la narrativa al orden convencional, consolidándose como una pieza de culto que ha envejecido bien.

How is this on this list?

Ne znam zašto sam ovo morala odslušati prije nego što umrem.

Has a song about Gang Bangs. Weird record. Musically not terrible.

Overall Rating - 2.79/5 (5.57/10). I don't know if I'd call them "spectacular," but the Alex Harvey Band is at least good.

This is Glam cock. Goes on about gang bangs and his cock. If he was alive today his hard drive would definitely be getting checked. Whoever decided I need to listen to this shite before I die needs to give their head a wobble

Тупые пиндосы ноют о том, как плохи текста, а я скажу так: Альбом звучит охриненно, бро просто врывается, нападает на вас, дает вам по щам и будто говорит: "готовьтесь, щас будет 30 минут моего музыкального балагана". И балаган этот весьма веселый, забавный и интересный. What a relief, это не очередной двойной альбом унылой и/или/ одинаковой музыки.

mental

🙄 gimme a break

This was the first album I got on this list. On my first go round, I didn’t have the confidence or context to make a definitive statement about this album. Now, with 274 album reviews behind me, I can say with some assurance: I don’t like this album. Original review: It had its highlights, but much of it felt resigned to shock rock. The missing link between Mott the Hoople and AC/DC. Rating remains unchanged.

I can think of at least a dozen other things that would be more effective against the blues. (RE: "Gang Bang")

čudno, ne znam kako da opišem. slušao sam u dva navrata, prvo prvu pa onda drugu stranu. prva strana bila mi je srednja žalost. no druga strana bila mi je iznenađujuće dobra? svježa, dinamična, zabavnija. naslovna numera istakla mi se kao možda najbolja, no čitava je ta druga strana bila dobra. dat ću stoga neku srednju trojku. možda preslušam još koji put

When I listen to this, I am reminded of the genius that went into pulling this all together. The sense of humor, the ability to write catchy songs around the lyrics and the ability to construct interesting songs with elements of just about every genre together. Zal Clemison was criminally underrated.

This was pretty wild. Ended up listening to it several times.

Got me toe tapping, head bobbing. Had a good time. I didn’t think too hard about this one, because I got the feeling that Alex Harvey didn’t either.

dont know how to feel

"Sensational" indeed. There were a few neat moments on this record, but not enough to outweigh the overall boredom I tend to find with albums that sound like this. 4/10.

Some of the worst stuff this list has to offer

Alex Harvey goes dumb stupid, but admittedly rocks pretty hard at certain points. I can't possibly conceive how this album belongs in the 1001 list, but if Robert Smith and Nick Cave somehow hold this guy in high regard I guess I can't argue with it. Standouts: Swampsnake • Gang Bang • The Last Of The Teenage Idols

Dumb, dumb album saved from collapsing under its own stupidity by fantastic riffs and crisp production.

That was very fun! Good energy! My favourite was The Last Of The Teenage Idols.

Better than I remembered.

I enjoyed the stomp of Vambo Marble Eye - but the rest was pretty basic. The drawling delivery on Next was very annoying and less said about Gang Bang the better.

Next I always thought these were a folk band, rather than a glam-blues-rock band with a strong Playground Bang Around vibe. Musically it has some decent moments, and it has a really nice polished 70s glam rock sound, particularly in the guitars and horns. However I didn’t really like many of the songs, either for the sub Alice Copper Rocky Horror cabaret in a pub vibes, his overwrought but oddly characterless voice, or the seedy, icky lyrics. I’m not sure whether it's somewhat tongue in cheek, it may very well be, but it all felt a bit tawdry and try hard to me, particularly Swampsnake, Gang Bang and The Last of the Teenage Idols. Also Now is truly a terrible song. I did like the intro and wah wah of Vambo Marble Eye, but the only song I really liked was The Faith Healer, a great, pulsing track where their creepy lyrical tendencies actually suit the subject matter of a con artist faith healer. It’s not a true one star basement dweller, it’s close but it's not as bad as some albums we’ve had and The Faith Healer does redeem it a little, so I’ll go 2. ⏭️⏭️ Playlist submission: The Faith Healer

Initially this felt a curious mix of Suzi Quattro and the Faces. The first two tracks have that pub rock approach: piano, blues, upbeat tempo, a bit of cheek. It is on the more enjoyable end of bar-room rock, especially with the great barrelhouse piano. Settling in for a decent romp, I almost spat my hot cocoa out at track three, 'The Faith Healer', starting off like a disorientating 'Can' loop into PiL energy, with a John Lydon warble. It's quite the bonkers album. It's pub rock (taking from rock n roll), mixed with theatre and cabaret, prog-rock, soft rock, doo wop, rock opera. Basically take rock and add other words to it. In truth the album's a three, although if I could give higher marks for effort I would.

2.2 Wow. Very disappointing. Pretty sure my dad loves this guy so I was expecting great things... now I'm wondering if I got the wrong person! So many terrible songs on here. The awful tonky gang bang. The unrequested and unwanted le-mis-esque Next. The unnecessary Jailhouse Rock rip off with an annoying title to boot. The other tepid tracks couldn't save it from being a crap album. Will never be listening again.

Listening to this album was an experience. I can honestly say I had no clue what was going to happen next and there seemed to be no limitations to what he would say. I can see how this could have influenced quite a few artists. It must have been a trip to see this live.

This was a very cool proto punk album! Never heard of them before but I liked it quite a bit!

What the actual fuck

This has many of the hallmarks that critics love about glam rock: it’s raunchy, it’s edgy, it’s heavy, and it’s (kind of) weird. Unfortunately, it fails to be good.

cute

Alex Harvey walked so CupcaKke could run Would be better if there was a music video or live version bc I think its missing a pretty essential visual aspect. Pretty average, not bad, not particularly good. 5/10

2.7 2x unremarkable

Oooh look at us we're a big rock n' roll band. A few times they showed they were capable of writing decent rock hits, but almost everything ended up sounding pretentious

This is not for me.

One of the few musicians that made me go "I want my music to sound like this", what a revelation!

Well that certainly was interesting

Not only is this album boring and generic, but it also feels that it was done in bad taste, as the lyrics can be very uncomfortable to listen/read to. While describing this as generic, I don't think it reaches the point of being monotone or one dimensional. The generic aspect comes from the stereotypical rock progressions, melodies, riffs and solos, but as I said, not every song is equal. For example, "Gang Bang" shows influence in the glam rock sound, "Giddy Up a Ding Dong" has the very cliche and more traditional rock chords and "The Faith Healer" is like a build-up that has an incredibly boring progression that never pays off. What I can say about the instrumentation is that it is decent at best, something I cannot say about the singing or lyrics, which are boring or even painful. The singing is a bit irritating, specially in the opening "Swampsnake", and has little to not emotional value, even though I'll have to give the singer some credit for being quite unique. Then comes the absurdly terrible lyrics, which can be totally meaningless or gross, like in "Gang Bang" or "Next". As much as I dislike this, I am surprised I don't hate it more than I do. Guess not being monotone and being short played a big role.

Medio country rock medio Elvis nose

Well this was surprising. A Glasgow band! Very raunchy. Very immature. Really interesting sound though. Quite a jumpy, energetic swing to it.

I really liked this... A lot more than I thought I would based on other people's reviews...

Est-ce que y'étais si sensationel que ça ? Pas tant. Mais, est-ce que l'album étais bon ? Correct. Si tu cherche des paroles profondes, met pas s'talbum la dans votre ghettoblaster. Si tu veut juste viber sur de la musique, pourquoi pas. L'album prend une direction weird surtout pendant la toune ''gang bang'' qui parle exactement de ce que vous penser. C'étais correct... Mot-clé : Correct.

these guys missed what made Led Zeppelin sexy but decided to try to emulate it anyway. it's like I know Spinal Tap was satire of a bunch of different bands but I could almost believe that this was a similar parody band bc of how indistinguishable it is.

This was a strange album. It’s got that zany 70s rock side. It was enjoyable, even if nothing really stood out as entirely memorable.

Nice Album, i also like the shortness of it 😊

This was really good with lots of catchy songs. It works really well.

Eh, it wasn't quite my jam. Not bad, just not the right fit.

Um… love the left fielders. Oh, this was a left fielder! Truly. Never heard it before. God it’s weird. Fantastically weird. I’m giving it 4 stars cause this is the kind of album that keeps me coming back. Will I ever listen to this just cause? Probably not! Boolean rating: yes! Very glad that I did hear it before I die.

Interesting for sure

Who?! Never heard of him and was shocked to find this was remastered in 2002. That voice jumps out at you don't it?! 1973 was a rockin' time and "Gang Bang" was something you could sing about. Every song title has sexual undertones, it must have rocked the boat in England way back then. The hit, "The Faith Healer" at 7 minutes long with 2.8M listens in 50 years, was dreadful and never went anywhere. The title song was worse, what was that?! So theatrical and irritating to listen to. Not a decent song in the bunch, he's questionable as a singer and the musicianship was very average and not mixed well. Not enjoyable. 2 stars.

Interesting album with ‘Big’ vocals

Maybe I wasn't in the right mood. The silly rock and roll gets a high 2 from me this time.

The novelty and theatrical elements really jarred

I put Alex Harvey in the same camp as Meatloaf. Theatrical performers with some okay music here and there. I'm being generous with a 2.

There’s some interesting and quite strange elements to Alex Harvey’s performance. I like it when singers see themselves as entertainers and want to do what they can to surprise. My favourite songs are the highly energetic and more reckless ones like Swampsnake. I’m less excited hearing him put surreal and subversive lyrics to more traditional and inoffensive music but it still adds to the admirable element of fun which is threaded throughout the album. Perhaps not sensational but pretty entertaining.

Today’s does less for me but i enjoyed the more theatrical moments and he has a hell of a voice, low 3 for me

I thought it was quite a boring album and not really something I would actively listen to again and the album was a bit weird to be honest it started alright but then just got weirder as the album continued

I don’t get this and don’t particularly like this one. Too many songs about his anatomy. Only upside is it’s mercifully short and let me hurry up and get to the new Noah Kahan that was released today.

Sure set expectations high calling the band “The Sensational” anything. Maybe “The Boring” would be more accurate. Glam rock/Cabaret just doesn’t work for me

Great album from SAHB

One of those albums you wonder why it's on the list. It's fine music, the band is alright. The lyrics are childish and dumb. Unlike AC/DC this isn't a big dumb fun album. It doesn't hit the same, at all. Maybe this is one of those albums that had it's time and place and faded away. Because no one I've asked today has heard of them.

Musically I quite enjoyed it. Lyrically, more than a little juvenile. But overall, a decent early-70s curio I'm glad I listened to.

A thousand monkeys banging at guitars accidentally invent hair metal.

New band for me - pretty solid!

Giddy up a ding dong is an instant classic that makes you think. I thank Mr. Harvey for saying what needed to be said

This had some cool tracks - it was very theatrical in some ways which was interesting.

this album is kind of awesome while also being kind of low quality

Raro, incómodo.

6 songs 32 min don’t known what the heading was : one song rock n roll next ballad next …British Band beginning of the 70’s. Read they had a eccentric stage presence w mime face paint, etc

This was awesome

I guess parts of it were sensational

Yeah, fine. Stand-outs - Swampsnake

Buen álbum, con buen ritmo, pero no my cup of tea. Giddy Up A Ding Dong es la más destacable, con un sonido pegajoso y memorable. Nunca había escuchado a Alex Harvey. Es un álbum cortito pero con una clara línea throughout.

This album caught me off guard. I really enjoyed the sound. Their style used elements of different styles it rock that became popular week after the release of this album showing horse far ahead of their time they were.

Solid early Rock & Roll

First impression: this is not a particularly good album. Songs like Next reminded me of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Giddy Up a Ding Dong was just kind of dumb. However, I also saw the influence it had on future artists like Meatloaf and later Ron Gallo. Considering this in context to the time period, too, I can’t think of anything from the time like it. Vambo Marble Eye wasn’t bad, but it also had more classic rock guitar solo work. I don’t regret listening to this one, but I’m not gonna be returning it anytime soon.

Random thoughts: * WTF was going on in Scotland in the early 70s? * this band sounds totally made up to begin with. * The lyrical content is something. Hang Bang and Next I’m looking at you. * I can hear the influence on AC/DC and I can also hear glam rock in here. * I don’t hate it but I’m not sure I’m allowed to like it either. Just a totally strange album overall. * thanks 1001 for expanding my horizons one again even if into more questionable territory

I had a hard time getting into this album, there was lots of screaming and weird lyrics. I'm glad it was only 35 minutes long.

kinda fun

one of the first albums I bought as a kid. still sounds great.

It’s like all the bad parts of Tom Waits and Frank Zappa combined into one record. “Gang Bang” started a pattern of unforgivable song topics, or songs that should’ve been therapy sessions instead. “Giddy Up A Ding Dong”. What was that chorus? What was that? Then came “Next”, and it almost had something. A very colorful, crazy instrumental that I actually liked, but another song topic that kinda just made me scratch my head. Everything else was sub-par rock of one subgenre or another. 2/5, a couple of grandiose instrumental passages save this thing from being a 1/5

Some pretty jaunty tunes, but man those lyrics. Just some really rough songwriting. They can't all be Jacques Brel.

Nice classic