Bloodrock 2

Product Description
1995 reissue on One Way of their second album, originally released on Capitol in 1970. Contains all eight original tracks by these hard rockin' Texans, including 'D.O.A.'!

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Bloodrock 2

Average customer rating:

nearly perfect
70's
WHAT D.O.A. IS ABOUT
DOA- Great song from a Great album
"DOA" MAKES THE EFFORT A+!

Bloodrock 2
Bloodrock
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000024TG7
Release Date: 1995-05-20

Tracks:

Lucky in the Morning
Cheater
Sable and Pearl
Fallin'
Children's Heritage
Dier Not a Lover
D.O.A.
Fancy Space Odyssey

Album Description

1995 reissue on One Way of their second album, originally released on Capitol in 1970. Contains all eight original tracks by these hard rockin' Texans, including 'D.O.A.'!

Album Details

The Second Album from the Hard Rockers Slowed Things Down a Bit, but Kicked their Career Into High Gear. Out of Left Field, the Album Track of "d.o.a." Was Picked Up by Freeform FM Radio Stations and Became an Instant Classic with It's Brooding, Macabre Subject Matter and Dark Instrumentation. The Song was Quickly Released as a Single and the Band Found Themselves on American Top 40 with the Biggest Hit of their Career.

Customer Reviews:

nearly perfect.......2007-06-19

Alright, let me say something right off the bat- Bloodrock is NOT evil heavy metal music! In fact, it's so old that it would be totally laughable to even consider it evil in ANY way (or even heavy metal, for that matter). *Maybe* back in the day people were going around frightened that the lyrics on Bloodrock's first few albums would come out of the speakers and convince people to do evil things, but come on, let's be serious- it's just hard rock music.

Bloodrock's second album immediately caught me by surprise with elements of progressive rock combined with the style of hard rock found on the previous album. It's like Bloodrock was listening to the way Black Sabbath were throwing in all sorts of wild tempo changes and time signatures into their music at the time, and the band members wanted to do the same thing. Did it work? Yes! I'm convinced there's not a decrease in quality from the debut.

The production on Bloodrock 2 is definitely leaning towards a brighter, poppier and friendlier sound. Well, back in the day it may have sounded like that. By todays standards, it's a dirty hard rock sound quite similar to the James Gang or Humble Pie.

I think it's funny that the album cover was supposed to be scary with blood dripping on the band members. Ha! Well, the band needed a gimmick to take off and be successful, and for a small amount of fans, it worked. I wasn't around back in the early 70's but believe me, if I WAS around, I'd be a fan too.

Anyway, the vocal melodies are clearly a step up from the previous effort. This time, Bloodrock made sure to write melodies that were not only catchy, but ones that weren't repetitive either. Just about every song on their second album repeats two or three times. You know, about as much as a tune should. Remember on the debut when they were repeating melodies over and over, and didn't know when to stop? That problem has been fixed here.

"Lucky in the Morning" is a very good upbeat "feel good" song. I love it. It speeds up and rocks out during the second half of the song, indicating that the band was paying attention to the progressive rock movement at the time. "Cheater" continues the theme of being an extremely melodic song on an extremely melodic album (well, melodic by hard rock standards).

"Sables and Pearls" rules. A very beautiful vocal melody, and fantastic guitar playing. It reminds me of the Doors song "Tell All the People". It's kind of funny to think that the song constantly goes back and forth between a peaceful and instantly likeable vocal melody to a really awkward Kiss-sounding rocker. Somehow, it works. I can't explain it.

"Fallin", "Children's Heritage" and "Dier Not a Lover" all seem to blend together in that they are short and snappy little tunes. All three of them rock quite hard, though. "Dier Not a Lover" has some tricky bass work and a nifty organ solo that doesn't sound out of place after all. It's quite good.

"D.O.A." was the song that supposedly was a hit back in the day, but you know, that song hasn't been played on the radio in years. I guess people can't handle lengthy songs anymore. I can. I love the spooky build-up in the verse melody, and the loud screaming chorus. It's memorable. It should have been the last song on the album because "Fancy Space Odyssey" is just a Free-sounding mid-tempo rocker. Good song, though.

Overall, great album for hard rock lovers.

70's.......2007-02-16

D.O.A. was a great song in the 70's and still is good old hard rock without the insulting thumping of the new music.

WHAT D.O.A. IS ABOUT.......2006-09-18

First off, If you can buy this album do it! Do it for the first track. The musicianship is amazing, and well worth the cost of the lp, or cd. As for D.O.A. IT IS ABOUT A PLANE CRASH. THE "ATTENDANT" IS THE HOSPITAL ATTENDANT WHO DRAPPED THE SHEET ACROSS HIS CHEST! AND HOW CAN ANYONE THINK IT WAS A CAR CRASH? "WE WERE FLYING ALONE, AND HIT SOMETHING IN THE AIR!" The simple fact that he's explaining being in a hospital makes this whole misconscieption about the "attendant" so much easier!

DOA- Great song from a Great album.......2006-08-01

For some reason DOA and Bloodrock came to mind and decided to do a search. There is probabaly not much to add to what has been written by others here. As with many, I remember DOA the most and was kind of a dark song for back in the early 70's (At least for radio airplay). I was able to see Bloodrock and GrandFunk Railroad play back then. I'm not sure if the song DOA has been redone by anyone but always thought that perhaps Type O Negative could have done something cool with the song or even M. Manson could have put a different twist to the song. Last year some of the members of Bloodrock got together to do a show in Texas but I was unable to make it. I guess I better dust off the old LP's and have a listen.........

"DOA" MAKES THE EFFORT A+!.......2006-07-02

"DOA" POSSIBLY ONE OF THE GREATEST ACID ROCK SONGS EVER RECORDED AND IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST UNDER RATED RECORDINGS WAY WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME IN ROCK HISTORY.PRODUCED BY TERRY KNIGHT WHO ALSO PRODUCED GRAND FUNK AND LATER RUSH ALBUMS,THIS CD BRINGS BACK THE GREAT VOICE OF JIM RUTLEDGE AND THE DEEP CHILLING KEYBOARD WORK OF STEVIE HILL AND THE REST OF THE GUYS THAT I HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME BACK IN 1971 WHEN I FOUND"BLOODROCK2"ON A FOUR TRACK CARTRIDGE(REMEMBER THOSE)AT A FLEA MARKET WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD.ITS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD NOW JUST LIKE IT WAS BACK THEN...HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.