Nai Noswad
Senior Member
With John Lawton..
Free Me.
Firefly and Innocent Victim were brilliant albums. Fallen Angel was okay. Then the wheels fell off - the next album would have been awful if the bootleg Ten Miles High is anything to go by.The John Lawton era between 1976-79 was pretty good. Songs like Free Me, Cheat 'n' Lie, Free 'n' Easy & Falling In Love along with several several others were good songs. John had a powerful voice.
Firefly.. Was a grower.. but after a while-- superb.Firefly and Innocent Victim were brilliant albums. Fallen Angel was okay. Then the wheels fell off - the next album would have been awful if the bootleg Ten Miles High is anything to go by.
I agree that John Lawton had a wonderful voice. It's just that material got weaker and more poppy.
Firefly and Innocent Victim were brilliant albums. Fallen Angel was okay. Then the wheels fell off - the next album would have been awful if the bootleg Ten Miles High is anything to go by.
I agree that John Lawton had a wonderful voice. It's just that material got weaker and more poppy.
Firefly.. Was a grower.. but after a while-- superb.
For me, Fallen Angel was the best of the three released Lawton albums.
I have a copy of the Ten Miles bootleg. Some of the tracks are unfinished (maybe all of them), I think if they had been finished/mastered/what have you, it would have sounded a lot better. Ken was talking about finishing the album around 1999, it's only a shame it never came to pass. A few of the tracks have appeared on compilations albums, plus the 2 tracks that ended up on Conquest (sounding much different than they would have with John).