Be-Bop Deluxe Axe Victim CD

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 Bill Nelson's glam rock at its finest! Worth the wait!
This is one of the best rock albums from the late 70's. This was probably glam rock's 1st album before anyone knew what it was. Bill Nelson is great on the guitar and his vocals blend in nicely with the music. You'll be rockin' when you listen to "No Trains to Heaven". It's awesome that this was finally re-mastered and released. Turn it up!!!!!
Submitted by brionnelsen (Murrieta, CA USA) 
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 Deluxe Deluxe
This first offering from guitar wizzard Bill Nelson is hauntingly good! As fresh now as it was twenty plus years ago, Nelson's bluesy rock guitar and bizarre turn of phrase makes this worth the expense. The real plus here tho' is the additional live takes of "Piece of Mine" and especially "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" (included as bonus tracks). The original album artwork is worth having as a collector too! Axe Victim hardly qualifies as the best Nelson had to offer (check out other Be Bop Deluxe titles, "Modern Music and "Starburst Finish"), it holds a special place in my musical memory! Deluxe indeed!
Submitted by longago (SoCal) 
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 not the Hoople
Like another reviewer, this album holds a special place in my heart too. I rushed straight out and got it once I heard Jet Silver and Jets at Dawn on the UK Alan Freeman show way back in '74. Yes, there was some glam and Bowie influence here in the first album...what with the nod to the Spiders from Mars in the title...Dolls of Venus, which sounded like the intro to 'All the Young Dudes'. Well, Dudes was written by Bowie, not the Hoople. I never considered Be Bop to be anything like Mott. But it was Bill's impossibly fluid guitar that was the big draw for me; the solo in Yorkshire Landscape blew me away...even though the weird (at the time) Darkness and Night Creatures were brilliant whilst featuring no electric guitar at all. Later albums might have spawned some great tracks, were better received and more commercially successful, but this quirky little number is where it all started for me and has no equal for that point alone.
Submitted by kammy (derby, uk)
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 forgotten glam
Definitely influenced by Bowie - the music, the lyrics and the vocals....and Mott the Hoople (check out the intro to "Jet Silver" - do I hear "All the Young Dudes"?!). But who cares? It's all the better for it. This is a fun album. Not nearly as slick as Be Bop Deluxe's later stuff, but just as catchy. If you're looking for a Mick Ronson copy, you're you'll be dissapointed. Bill Nelson is not a sloppy rocker - and even here, his leads tend to go on and on - but there's of little jazz/prog influences that (in my opinion) plague the other LPs. They are rarely mentioned in the same breath as glam rock and never seem to appear on glam compilations - but if glam's your thing, you could do worse than Axe Victim. Sometimes it's
Submitted by PJM (NY, NY)
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 Cool as Hell !
What a way to go too! An axe victim! The guitar licks are to die for! Glam-rock at it's bluesiest!
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