Attila (band)
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| Attila | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by Attila | |
| Released | 1970 |
| Genre | Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock |
| Length | 39:57 |
| Label | CBS/Columbia |
| Producer | Billy Joel, Jon Small, Irwin Mazur |
| Professional reviews | |
Attila was the name of a band featuring a young Billy Joel. Billy was a member of a band called The Hassles; he and the drummer, Jon Small, broke away from the Hassles and formed Attila in 1969. The instrumentation was mostly organ and drums, with Billy Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, like the Doors' Ray Manzarek. Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel allegedly ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth,[1] although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's концерт video as well as the "live at Shea stadium" performance
They released only one album, Attila, in 1970, later reissued by CBS Inc in 1985. Attila is often selected by critics and other music journalists as one of the worst rock albums of all time, but also receives a significant amount of praise from people who normally would not listen to Billy Joel. Joel himself has gone on record as describing the album as "psychedelic bullshit".[1]
End of the sixties, I was in a two-man group. We were heavy metal, we were going to destroy the world with amplification, we had title like 'Godzilla', 'March of the Huns', 'Brain Invasion'. A lot of people think [I] just came out of the piano bar... I did a lot of heavy metal for a while. We had about a dozen gigs and nobody could stay in the room when we were playing. It was too loud. We drove people literally out of clubs. 'It was great, but we can't stay in the club'—Billy Joel, Interview with Billy Joel by Dan Neer in 1985
One track from the album, "Amplifier Fire, Part 1 (Godzilla)," appears on Joel's 2005 boxed set My Lives.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic says it's as if "a drill has punctured the center of your skull — it's that piercing, painful, and monotonous.", and gave it one star out of five.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- All Songs Written By Billy Joel & Jon Small.
- Wonder Woman 3:38
- California Flash 3:32
- Revenge is Sweet 4:00
- Amplifier Fire 7:39 (Part I - Godzilla; Part II - March of the Huns)
- Rollin' Home 4:52
- Tear This Castle Down 5:49
- Holy Moses 4:30
- Brain Invasion 5:41
[edit] Production
- Produced By Irwin Mazur, Billy Joel & Jon Small.
[edit] Personnel
- Billy Joel: vocals, keyboard player, arranger-composer, Taurus
- Jon Small: composer-arranger, drums, Capricorn
- Glenn Evans: road manager and creator of the direct input of a Hammond organ to Marshall Amps.
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