Review - Big Heavy Stuff
“Maximum Sincere”
single on Hypnotised thru
Shock
Part of a two-single release from Big Heavy Stuff: buy both get
another free! Buy the singles and get two album (“Maximum Sincere”) tracks plus 6 live tracks (including 4 non-album
songs). Send away, and get an authorised live recording of 6 more tracks: What
A Bargain!!!
But to this release, and Maximum Sincere is what we have come to expect from BHS: solid rock - AMPLIFIED to
the maximum but clean and slick in the productions stakes, with the obligatory
quiet middle-eight or 16 reminiscent of Angels original Be With You or Lou
Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
Fuggsy/Angry Youngish Man, Not Complaining, and Birthday serve to remind us that there was
plenty from these guys before the album: “I remember this one from the radio”
was a common comment when listening to the disc.
Get Maximum
Sincere the single from BHS,
then get Cheating on a
Dead Wife, both on Hypnotised thru Shock!,
send away for the live EP and have the best
collection of Big Heavy stuff without having to search for back-catalog
issues ««««