Worn Out, Loud and Heavy

Introduction

This is another Seven Days In post that has been getting a lot of traction. It is just about listening to an album on what was a new phone (I have stuck with Google Pixels since then) and issues with my headphones and how I overcame it and the album I was listening to, and a few of my favourite songs from it.

Worn Out, Loud and Heavy

I just got a new Google Pixel phone, but my Bluetooth headphones were having problems connecting. I read there were issues with the Pixel and Bluetooth but it just seemed to get worse. Yesterday the connection packed up totally so I thought I would try a cheap pair of Bluetooth headphones from HMV, and the connection was perfect, so basically my old headphones had just died on me, nothing more, and the phone is absolutely fine.

I had visions of going back to a wired connection but I'm glad that I don't have to.

The album I was listening to was Blue Öyster Cult's "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees", I loved the original cover with the limousine outside the church and the vaguely Ku Klux Klan hooded audience (meant as a sinister / threat image rather than a right-wing Christian statement), and remember getting this as a teenager and being disappointed as it was meant to be HEAVY. It wasn't. Then I thought heavy metal is meant to be LOUD and turned the player up to full volume. This was what it was meant to be like!

My parents were not too enamoured and I then had to resort to headphones to fully appreciate the album, and listening to the album via Bluetooth walking across Leazes the volume was turned up to FULL again. As yet I've not got any noise limiters like on the Sony, but the album does sound good.

It opens with "Subhuman" which sets the mood before the lyrically ridiculous but musically brilliant "Harvester of Eyes" before finishing off with the freight train rush of "Hot Rails To Hell", and that is just side one.

The album continues in the same culminating in two excellent covers "Maserati GT" (Yardbirds I think) and "Born To Be Wild" which have some great dynamics and I love the separation of vocals and instrumentation.

Anyway, it's almost Sunday so I will hit my pit and see you tomorrow.

Conclusion

I have expanded my original post to include a few more songs and I have had it on the player this morning (on CD) and have just ordered a vinyl copy from Discogs. I have three hundred CDs for sale on there if you are interested.

I was a teenager when I got this album, and I believe it has stood the test of time, although it is best played loud. I remember Ted Nugent saying "If it's too loud, you're too old" and then wearing earplugs, a truly pathetic individual.

The songs I have included are my favourites from the album. "Hot Rails To Hell" and "Born To Be Wild" are my two choices for number one, but the album is a great slice of heavy metal and I do like the threat of the album cover, even the CD is well represented, it is part of a very large box that I bought in 2013:

Thank you so much for reading, and I know heavy metal is not everyone's taste, and the band became more sophisticated with their later albums culminating in "Imaginos" which you can read about here: