First Underground Nuclear Kitchen
By Glenn Hughes
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Track listing
- 1 Crave 4:22
- 2 First Underground Nuclear Kitchen 3:47
- 3 Satellite 4:35
- 4 Love Communion 4:46
- 5 We Shall Be Free 5:43
- 6 Imperfection 4:50
- 7 Never Say Never 5:08
- 8 We Go to War 3:50
- 9 Oil and Water 4:04
- 10 Too Late to Save the World 6:22
- 11 Where There's a Will 4:29
- Total length: 51:56
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Glenn is up to his usual good standard with this one. Some avarage tracks, but also some brilliant ones. An artist of immense charisma.
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I can cut and paste most of this review from my review of Glenn's previous studio album!
This album got huge praise in most of the reviews in the music press. So I hoped for a great album. Sadly it is not, the album really struggles for an identityAdditionally the production is one of the worst I've heard on any of Glenn's albums, with a very thin sound. There are some very poor lead guitar at times. Glenn mostly sings within himself. It just doesn't quite rock enough to be a superb rock album, does not funk enough to be a funk rock album, it doesn't have enough weight to be a great singer songwriter album, it lacks a soaring slow number. Everything goes down the middle.
So having slammed it more out of disappointment than it being a very average album for a talent such as Glenn , as I've already indicated there are some very moving lyrics some nice melody, plenty of variety. A niceish occasional listen but from Glenn I expect more than nice.
This album got huge praise in most of the reviews in the music press. So I hoped for a great album. Sadly it is not, the album really struggles for an identityAdditionally the production is one of the worst I've heard on any of Glenn's albums, with a very thin sound. There are some very poor lead guitar at times. Glenn mostly sings within himself. It just doesn't quite rock enough to be a superb rock album, does not funk enough to be a funk rock album, it doesn't have enough weight to be a great singer songwriter album, it lacks a soaring slow number. Everything goes down the middle.
So having slammed it more out of disappointment than it being a very average album for a talent such as Glenn , as I've already indicated there are some very moving lyrics some nice melody, plenty of variety. A niceish occasional listen but from Glenn I expect more than nice.
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Glenn Hughes didn't make it onto the boydblake shelf until this century. We had the Purple stuff, but that era was more about Coverdale. Then, in the perpetual quest for quality melodic hard rock, we ran across Hughes/Thrall in Canuckistan at the late, great A & B Records. S'aright. Next we found Songs in the Key of Rock in an indie store cut-out bin and thought that it might be some type of parody record - Hughes as the generic, aging Brit decked out in velvet and ready to ROCK. That record didn't stick in the collection but we were intrigued enough by the schtick that we started to steal glances in the "H" section for other work from the "Voice of Rock." Cuz there's plenty of it - the deeper Hughes got into his fifties, the more records he put out. He's recorded with Iommi, Joe Lynn Turner, The Muppets, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Richard Carpenter in addition to putting out at least five solo discs - just in the 'aughties! This funky hard rock bass player is an inspiration to all of us wanting to get more work done.
With First Underground Nuclear Kitchen (F.U.N.K.) Hughes creates a bookend with R.O.C.K (Return Of the Crystal Karma), his first solo work of his busy decade. F.U.N.K. finds Hughes reaching into his satchel of rock and pulling out not only the expected hard funk and soul, but also some pathos and horns. The voice behind the shades will never lie to us, as it has become increasingly clear that it shouts from the mountaintop of The One True Rock.
With First Underground Nuclear Kitchen (F.U.N.K.) Hughes creates a bookend with R.O.C.K (Return Of the Crystal Karma), his first solo work of his busy decade. F.U.N.K. finds Hughes reaching into his satchel of rock and pulling out not only the expected hard funk and soul, but also some pathos and horns. The voice behind the shades will never lie to us, as it has become increasingly clear that it shouts from the mountaintop of The One True Rock.
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