Big Dogz

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Big Dogz
Nazareth studio album

Publication
(s)

2011

Label (s) Edel SE

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

11

running time

55 min. 39 sec.

occupation

production

Jimmy Murrison , Yann Roullier

chronology

The Newz
(2008) 		Big Dogz -

Big Dogz is the 22nd studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth . It was released on April 15, 2011 on the German label Edel SE .

Track list

  1. Big Dog's Gonna Howl - 3:58
  2. Claimed - 3:55
  3. No Mean Monster - 5:01
  4. When Jesus Comes to Save the World Again - 6:24
  5. Radio - 4:17
  6. Time And Tide - 7:20 am
  7. Lifeboat - 4:58
  8. The Toast - 3:59
  9. Watch Your Back - 4:32
  10. Butterfly - 5:30
  11. Sleeptalker - 5:45

All the songs were written by Nazareth.

There is also a version of the album with a bonus CD that includes a live recording of an acoustic concert in 2000. The band was accompanied on the piano by Ronnie Leahy at this concert . The recording was produced by Bruce Watson . The tracks are:

  1. Big Boy - 4:22
  2. Simple Solution - 4:48
  3. My White Bicycle - 3:11
  4. Love Hurts - 4:15
  5. Open Up Woman - 3:33

Guest musician

Pavel Bohaty - piano with Butterfly

Yann Roullier - percussion on radio and lifeboat

Content and melody of the songs

The songs are heavily oriented towards 1970s rock such as B. AC / DC or Rose Tattoo . It's also very bluesy. Since some reviewers criticized their previous album The Newz for overproduction, the band drove more on the classic recording track without too many effects. The album wasn't as heavy and metal-heavy as its predecessor.

Watch Your Back should be highlighted as the heaviest song musically and lyrically , which embodies an attitude similar to Expect No Mercy with its youth gang lyrics , on the other hand the ballad Butterfly, accompanied by piano sounds, is a song that looks in the direction of Love Hurts . The quasi-title song Big Dogs Gonna Howl , which is also released as a single, presents itself as dry and bluesy. With When Jesus Comes to Save the World you deliver a dark, melancholy doom roll, which musically ties in with The Gathering by The Newz, even if the lyrical concept is different. In No Mean Monster , the band apparently pays tribute to their own mascot Fred from the artwork on the No Mean City LP. In Sleeptalker it comes that there are people who talk in their sleep and thereby reveal often embarrassing or even dangerous information about yourself. The text is cynical and darkly humorous, because here a sleeping serial killer talks, among other things, about skeletons that he collects in his house.

Success and review

The album reached number 73 in the album charts in Germany , number 55 in Austria , number 70 in Switzerland and number 25 in Russia .

The reviews look very different. The critics agreed that Dan McCafferty was vocally, not completely up to date, but the album was received both positively and negatively. HardrockHaven.net wrote, for example: " Nazareth continue to make good music " and rated the album with 7.2 / 10 points, while Musikreviews.de wrote: " Even as a die-hard fan you will have a hard time with" Big Dogz " the band has plenty of better material in the closet "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT
  2. ↑ Erik Tweedy: Nazareth: Big Dogz. In: HardrockHaven.net. May 2011, accessed September 5, 2016 .
  3. ^ Lars Schuckar: Nazareth: Big Dogz (Review). In: Musikreviews.de. April 12, 2011, accessed September 5, 2016 .