Earth Is Not Room Enough/Wages Of Peace/Body In Mind/Music Is The Food Of Thought/Bog Roll Blues/Death Of The Sun/Amazing Grace/The Grey Maze
Who Will Save The World maintained the commercial appeal of the blues-rock band Groundhogs, although with a dip in quality. Features the use of mellotron on a few tracks. (UK:8)
“Excellent progressive bluesy hard rock with mellotron and dark lyrics. I really love most of this. Sadly, the last two songs are not at all as good as what precedes them. Amazing Grace done Hendrix-style is not that fun, and Grey Maze lingers on for a while too long with headache inducing guitar solos.”
“On this, they seem to be clearly running out of steam. Still featuring primarily blues-rock, this one suffers from not enough of Tony McPhee's guitar pyrotechnics. It's still decent, just way off the outstanding performance they established on the last two outings.” “The Hogs are just not that great a band, they seem lost in an endless change of styles, which leads to a varied quality from song to song. One must realize that there are no musical milestones here.”
“If you forget about Amazing Grace which is pure filler, the rest is stylistically close to Hogwash, although this one leans closer to prog than hard rock.”
“A truly awesome album. Progressive licks blend perfectly with some excellent guitar kicks. It's like they've been practicing for years to achieve this. The result is amazingly smooth and it flows like the water on Nile and the Amazon, sometimes fast, sometimes slower, but with no gaps.”
“Who Will Save The World is nothing short of an amazing bluesy heavy progressive rock album. Here McPhee included Mellotron along with guitar and I really dig the use of Mellotron, even though he only used it on three songs.”
“Tony McPhee is an awesome guitarist and an even better song writer. His version of Amazing Grace still gives me chills. Lots of guitar effects and I think this is the best line up of the band members.”
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