UFO I - UFO***

Unidentified Flying Object/Boogie/C'mon Everybody/Shake It About/Melinda/Timothy/Follow You Home/Treacle People/Who Do You Love/Evil

Debut album from the British rock band UFO who, in their early days, were more popular on the continent than at home. They would have to wait a few years, together with a new guitarist, before they made their commercial breakthrough.

“There are some really energetic and dance-inducing guitar and drums moments, but the rest of the album is just average and forgettable. And I think I would like it more if the vocals were different”

“First album by UFO and sounding very different here to the straight up rock band they were eventually to become. This is more space rock than hard rock, but Phil Moggs' vocals are so unmistakable that you always know that you are listening to a UFO album. Definitely sounds like an album of it's time.”

“UFO's debut LP is light years removed from the legendary hard rock, with a metallic edge that the group would eventually drive home once the band settled-in with German guitarist Michael Schenker in the ranks. The band's early work is bogged down by loosely recorded, heavy-on-bottom-end, stoner blues numbers that overall fail to build any momentum.”

“The band’s debut album already shows the enormous potential of the band. It was a low budget production, where they try different things and have yet to find their unique style.”

“On their debut, there's little here in common with UFO's later, guitar driven uptempo speed rock, and instead it's very much a boogie rock release. None of it is overtly bad, it's just pretty boring and average, and not even that spacey.”

“The low-budget recording, simply titled UFO 1 is a loose jamming, space rock recording that goes heavy on fuzz, blues, boogie, distortion and psychedelic influences. The early era landing of UFO is far removed from the eventual stealth material to come from the group once guitarist Michael Schenker teamed with vocalist Phil Mogg.”

“It's the sound of a soon-to-be-great band struggling to find their footing, and they're at least sincere in trying to rock. There's nothing spacey about it other than the brief UFO sound effects on the opening Unidentified Flying Object.”