Any other Agon Love for UFO?


Was listening to UFO- (Phenomenon) today. Got me thinkin’

Obviously, musical taste is very personal but I am surprised this band is not more well know and appreciated. I’ve had a pretty extensive listening and music network for many decades and I’ve NEVER met anyone else that knows this band more than casually...let alone owns their music.

Yes, I know they have sold millions of albums and mine is an admittedly limited sample... I get that...but they are strangely missing from many’s list.


They have all of the elements of what make their genre successful ...starting with Phil Moog, an incredible lead/ voice...good songwriting (Spirited at times, but, not many lurid references just for the sake of it ; ), the occasional presence of Michael Schenker, they were a great live show, etc. etc.

Look, I don’t start a lot of threads like this..... But, it is shocking to me that this band is not more well known/popular. I feel that they are some of the very very best at what they did/do.

What are your thoughts/experience?

P.S. I truly feel that Strangers in the Night is one of the  best live rock albums ever created. OMG Rock Bottom will burn the house down if you are not careful ; )


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"UFO, along with Budgie...."

If you were a British R&R band coming up after Cream, Zeppelin etc..., what on earth could you do? ROCK HARDER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYr_dVnb48
Quite heavy for 1973. 3 guys-guitar, bass and drums=WOW!

This is RUSH and everyone else in the later half of the 70's and beyond.



Thanks for the reminder...Will have to revisit the UFO albums I bought during some rather ‘hazy” times that are mostly lost to my memory.  I know I’ve got copies of “Force It” and “Obsession” somewhere as well as the live album which were all car-cassette-player staples during the trailing end of the 70s (??).  Seems like there was an instrumental on one of them called “Between the Walls” that I really connected with....Wished it went on for an entire album side.  A friend who played guitar turned me on to UFO.  Similar story w/Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush about the same time.

UFO
only one of the most influential rock bands in history.

   Each album is amazing in its own right, either, guitar, vocals, lyrics, groove, rock, jamming. Essentially, they did no wrong.
  The vinnie Moore stuff is amazing.
own every album! 
 Every album is good!