Budgie - Forearm Smash (1980)

[@mannyruiz1954]

Budgie was so tight, and muscular on this album. They're last really good album.

[@heavyrocker58]

Well I've grown up in a ring of tangles Gonna make my move gonna use all the angles Somebody said you were a spitfire cat Burning love gonna put an end to that Wanna clean break, clean fight Shake my hand but you don't try anything rash Catch you with my long throw Take you by surprise Gonna get you with a forearm smash Baby, forearm smash Baby, forearm smash Seconds away gonna break your back If you don't wanna play then don't give me flak People spend money just to see you fall When you're out for the count They won't care no more, no more I wanna clean fight baby so you'd better move over I'm a heavy weight killer with a featherlight mover It's a long time holding my arms around you I'm gonna fight dirty `cause I'm gonna get you Oh, he hit me, he cut me Pulling my hair, aiming below the belt It's a prize fight and I was right It's a grudge fight over woman that gives me hell Baby, forearm smash Baby, forearm smash

[@thegabrielking9752]

John Thomas is a great guitarist of Budgie. He makes a good riffs and solo🤘🏻🔥. I love this song so much, I'm 19 years old, but this song is never getting old but gold🤘🏻🔥

[@deandavisusa]

I think that "Power Supply" by Budgie is a really good hard rocking album... it was 1980... the band had been doing it for over a decade... making the music more straight forward R&R was a smart move... keeping true to their selves... but also creating an album that had more mainstream appeal... at the end of the day, it is called after all, "The Music Business!"... P.S. Burke Shelley is a Christian... he never compromised his faith in the music... and that is tuff to do in R&R...

[@johnthonig8832]

RIP Burke Shelley ☮️

[@FeelingShred]

no need to make excuses... Tony Bourge was a monster creative force in the band, and without him it turned into Ac Dc cover 🤣okay it's a bit harsh way to say it, just poking fun... but yeah I find strange nobody ever mentions Tony Bourge

[@mannyruiz1954]

This is some duck walking ROCK!!

[@FeelingShred]

Tony Bourge (electric guitar until 1978) was such a creative force in the band, the music had lots of changes, it felt like 3-4 songs in 1... without him it turned into... what is this an Ac Dc cover band?? 🤣🤣🤣 Same happened with UFO when their main guitar also quit in same year, similar story

[@TheMichaelseymour]

what? This is a GREAT LP

[@FeelingShred]

did they ever reunite with classic formation?

[@craigj.davies1983]

I am the 10th person to like this.

[@jchendrix]

And I am the 117th

[@craigj.davies1983]

@@jchendrix I can't believe I commented on this 4 years ago, where has the time gone?

[@jchendrix]

@@craigj.davies1983 Budgie still rocks ;)

[@craigj.davies1983]

@@jchendrix It does, I am a massive fan of heavy metal music anyway, are you?

[@jchendrix]

@@craigj.davies1983 Yes I am a fan of all music

[@FeelingShred]

so why did Tony Bourge quit anyway? it's a pity things like these happen

[@MichaelBaker-iz7qd]

Okay, let me just preface this by saying that I’ve recently grown to really like Budgie’s ‘70s albums, but I’m not a fanatic or expert on them, like a lot of you seem to be, so I have a sincere question for that group of people. Also, I am not making fun of them in any way. I was just recently introduced to this album and on the one hand, I love it, but on the other hand, it sounds absolutely nothing like classic Budgie from the ‘70s. To me, the music sounds more like Motley Crue at their aggressive best, than Budgie and the vocals sound more like David Coverdale at his aggressive best, than Burke Shelley, who as we all know, had very distinctive vocals. I usually have a pretty good ear for stuff like that and to me, the lead vocalist on “Power Supply” sounds nothing like the lead vocalist on “Impeckable”, just 2 years earlier. At first I thought maybe it was the new guitarist, John Thomas, but I have found nothing crediting him or anyone else with vocals, besides Burke Shelley. Could someone out there who knows “All things Budgie”, please enlighten me?

[@paulstephens556]

Burke could sing higher but the harder songs on this album with J.Ts thumping solos ment the vocals had to be stronger, and motley crew you mentioned where still in nappies when Budgie first album was released

[@MichaelBaker-iz7qd]

​@@paulstephens556so who did the harder, stronger vocals on this album?

[@paulstephens556]

@MichaelBaker-iz7qd Burke was the vocals on all budgie albums

[@MichaelBaker-iz7qd]

​@@paulstephens556 WOW, that's pretty amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with a fairly new, unknowledgeable Budgie fan. Please forgive all of my ignorant questions.

[@paulstephens556]

@MichaelBaker-iz7qd although there are a few dud albums, live they were magnificent check out live at Reading audio on KZbin or video in Sweden

[@mannyruiz1954]

What a difference from Impeckable and If I Were Britannia. Rocks like a b***h

[@1956tojo]

Their name and "Parakeet" theme was their biggest downfall.... With a better name, I honestly think they'd have broken through the ceiling that their parakeet thing made for them... I heard MANY people question that... Like WTF....... I mean, really, they could have been Led Zeppelin, but if they were called "Budgie", people would've been like WTF? Who does that? Put it this way... After hearing them and seeing how tight and on the mark they were, people wanted to know who they were and it's like WHAT?

[@hoxton7946]

Couldn’t agree more. Hard to put people on good obscure music as is - even harder when the whole bird thing makes them hard to take seriously. These guys were pretty clean and tight for decades but the parakeet theme couldn’t survive the 70s let alone the following decades as music got more streamlined.

[@MichaelBaker-iz7qd]

I think there is some validity to your observation, in that in 1971, a picture of a parakeet riding on a horse on an album cover, didn’t exactly evoke visions of a typical 70s Heavy Metal band and to make things even more confusing, if you turned the album over to see if the song titles were more enlightening, you saw song titles like “Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman”. No wonder everyone said WTF. To make matters worse, the term “Budgie” itself, which has Australian origins, I believe, was not even part of the average American’s vocabulary in 1971 and really isn’t even now. Personally, I probably would have never known the word myself, if not for “Monty Python”…lol.

[@petehenry3421]

@@MichaelBaker-iz7qd Gentlemen, the bird on all the album covers is a close approximation of a budgerigar, a native Australian bird which has it's name shortened to budgie, hence the repetitive use on the cover designs. Still not sure about the link to a Welsh rock band, but I'm sure they had their reasons for the band name :)