Rampant - NAZARETH***

Silver Dollar Forger/Glad When You're Gone/Loved & Lost/Shanghai'd In Shanghai/Jet Lag/Light My Way/ Sunshine/Shapes Of Things-Space Safari

Rampant was the last of three high charting albums in the mid 1970s from the Scottish hard rock group Nazareth. They would continue to have limited commercial success for the rest of the decade. (US:157 UK:13)

“Rampant is a hard rocking album all the way. Not a weak piece here, but not a special one either, all are good but none excellent.” “Not a very good record, to be honest. It's a mixture of glam, country, southern rock and blues based hard rock. The best tracks are far from being classic or even something great compared to other Nazareth songs.”

“A somewhat more progressive effort for Nazareth, Rampant offers up the usual dose of hard rockin' tunes, with a bit more experimentation than the band has dished out before. It makes for a unique album that, while not their best, still manages to stand apart.”

“Nazareth are slipping a little here, some decent stuff with only Shanghai'd In Shanghai being a true Naz classic. Not a bad record, but nothing overwhelming.”

“All successful bands have their trademark and with Nazareth it's McCafferty's vocals, a wonder to the ears. Silver Dollar Forger is an excellent capsule of all that is good about Nazareth; a classic rockin' song, a guitar solo that bristles with Scottish pride, dynamic lead vocals, superb harmony vocals, a sense of humour, a heavy bass line and thunderous drumming.”

“On Rampant, Nazareth played around with their sound, adding southern rock influences and recording a number of softer songs as well. The hardest rockers here are Silver Dollar Forger and Shanghai'd In Shanghai, but many of the songs seem to experiment with new structures while betraying signs of road-weariness.”

“I don't know why people always put this record down. It has really good styles and is very varied - straight ahead rock, commercial tracks, spacey blues and acoustic elements.”