Don't Look Around/Taunta/Nantucket Sleighride/You Can't Get Away/Tired Angels/The Animal Trainer & The Toad/My Lady/Travellin' In The Dark/The Great Train Robbery
Nantucket Sleighride was the best selling follow up album from the heavy rock group Mountain. The title track will be familiar to British TV viewers as the dynamic introductory theme to the Sunday morning politics programme Weekend World. (US:16 UK:43)
“Nantucket Sleighride is one of Leslie West, and Mountain's greatest achievements. It is a stone classic of 1970s heavy metal and a guitarist’s dream. The proggy title track is easily the greatest individual song. They took their inspiration from Cream, but they turned it into some of the finest guitar driven hard rock ever put on record.”
“Leslie West has a touch, tone, and spirit to die for. His guitar playing is so raw and melodic at the same time. He really knows how to construct a guitar solo.”
“I had to buy this for the title track. As a kid, the Brian Walden hosted Sunday dinner time programme Weekend World used Nantucket Sleighride as the theme tune. What a stonking riff - that climbing keyboard line is ace, and the snare rolls that punctuate it is brilliant.”
“Mountain's second album was a superb follow up. Like it's predecessor, it opens with a heavy rock number and Never In My Life remains an underrated classic. West's vocal is brutal and Corky Laing's drumming incredible. The mood changes immediately with the awesome Nantucket Sleighride. Pappalardi's vocal delivery captures the mood of parting from a loved one for many months and the song remains essential to any Mountain concert to this day.”
“This is hands down the best album of Mountain's career, with everything falling properly into place and not a note or chorus wasted. The songwriting is at its brightest peak and Leslie West is one of the most amazing guitarists of the times.”
“It's hard work combining artistic rock with heavy, evil guitar riffs and deep, bluesy vocals. I don't what the accepted starting point of the heavy metal genre is, but if this is heavy metal, it's the best and most eclectic example of it I've ever heard.” “This is a classic album, and one of the best of its time. There's some great songwriting, excellent arrangements, and nice, clean production. Leslie West is probably the best "slow" guitar player in rock history”.
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