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Artist: Nazareth

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CD Title: The Fool Circle

 

Category: Hard Rock

Year: 1981

Label: A&M Records

Catalog Number: SP-4844

Personnel

Dan McCafferty vocals
Manny Charlton guitars
Pete Agnew bass guitar, vocals
Darrell Sweet drums
Zal Cleminson 12-String acoustic guitar on "Cocaine"
John Locke keyboards
Jeff Baxter synthesizer, Vocoder

Tracks

1.	Dressed to Kill	3:31
2.	Another Year	3:29
3.	Moonlight Eyes	3:34
4.	Pop the Silo	3:18
5.	Let Me Be Your Leader	3:51
6.	We Are the People	3:25
7.	Every Young Man's Dream	3:18
8.	Little Part of You	3:29
9.	Cocaine live	3:45
10.	Victoria	3:22
Total Running Time:		35:02

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Existing comments about this CD

From: Remastered Reason

Date: April 12, 2011 at 3:26

Nazareth began the decade of the 80's with a very different album. Their second, "The Fool Circle" exploited their ventures further. Mostly, it was an era in rock when the guitar solo's, especially on vinyl but also in concert, were trimmed of the overblown overtures many a guitarist indulged in. New Wave was the sophisticated jargon given to hard & pop rock with less emphasis on the axe & more on the keyboards. As a result of these trends, the songs themselves were truncated & more concise. For better or worse, most veteran rockers, Nazareth included, experimented to some extent. Noteably, they let go of second guitarist Zal Cleminson, who previously helped out on their last two records, but added full time keyboard member Jon Locke to accomplish their mission. But in defence of the band, from all read accounts, it was only to beef up the live shows. However, after listening to this record, one may come to their own conclusion what the reason.

From: Remastered Reason

Date: April 12, 2011 at 3:26

Regardless, McCafferty's rasp is still true to form despite this being their 12th studio album in a decade. Undoubtedly though, the power chords, hard riffing & whailing solos were missing, which helped create their larger than life sound in the 70's. Tunes like "Let Me Be Your Leader", "Pop the Silo", "Every Young Man's Dream", "We are the People", & Cocaine have an atypical rock flavor but still, are easy to digest because of the sleak, commercial direction of the record. In fact, most have an almost flamenco, latin or reggae vibe. However, the boyz did manage to rock out in Naz fashion on the boogie infused "Dressed to Kill" which was the opening single. Nazareth were never the typical band to follow trends, yet this album is only moderately typical Nazareth & remains one of their more interesting, diverse listens.

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