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Firefly | 
| Artist: Uriah Heep
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 68963
Format: Extra Tracks, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 505074921072
EAN: 0505074921072
ASIN: B0002ADY24
Release Date: August 9, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Hanging Tree | | • | Been Away Too Long | | • | Who Needs Me | | • | Wise Man | | • | Do You Know | | • | Rollin On | | • | Sympathy | | • | Firefly | | • | Crime of Passion (Single B-Side) [*] | | • | Do You Know [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][#][*] | | • | Far Better Way [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][#][*] | | • | Wise Man [TV Backing Track][#][*] |
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Album Description
UK reissue of the British prog-metal act's 1977 album includes eight bonus tracks, 'Crime Of Passion' (B-Side), 'Do You Know' (Demo Version), 'Far Better Way' (Out-Take), 'Hanging Tree' (Demo Version), 'Who Needs Me' (Live), 'Dance Dance Dance', 'Put Your Music Where Your Mouth Is', & 'Been Away Too Long' (Alternate Version). Sanctuary. 2004.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Edition of the 1977 Re-debut Album of the Veteran Hard Rock Band with Founding Member and Original Lead Singer David Byron Replaced with Lucifer's Friend Vocalist John Lawton. The Result is One of the Band's Best Albums that Sports a Solid, Yet Stripped Down Sound that Has More in Common with their Early Recordings. This Edition Includes Eight Bonus Tracks that Didn't Appear on the Original LP Issue Witn B-sides, Live Tracks and Rarities.
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| Customer Reviews:
 The most underrated album of the bands career. September 21, 2004
A reader from NY (Roseboom, NY USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Firefly is the first album of the short lived (unforunately) John Lawton era. This album is right up there with their classics of the early 70's. John Lawton is just below David Bryon as far as vocal talent and much better than any of his successors. He's more blusier than Byron,but doesn't have the range.
If you are looking for the heavy side of the band, this album is not it. The material on this album is closer to the laid back tracks that dominate "The Magician Birthday". This album features more keyvboard dominated songs than guitar oriented songs.
Breakdown review of the tracks.
1. The Hanging Tree - UH returns to the fantasy theme on their earlier albums with this one. Nice guitar echo effects at the songs introduction.
2. Been Gone Too Long - Start out slow and then speeds up, though not too loud. Fits Lawton perfectly.
3. Who Needs Me. - A Southern rock boogie style song. Songwritter Ken Hensley would leave Heep for Southern rockers a few year later. His interest in Southern fried rock seems to show early here.
4. Wise Man - The Wizard, part II. Nice piano ballad that continues the theme of the Wizard on Demon and Wizards.
5. Do You Know - The weakest track on the album. A throw away.
6. Rollin On - Could easily be mistaken for a Paul Rogers' Bad Company ballad. Good song though.
7. Sympathy - Nice mid temple rocker.
8. Firefly - One of the best epic UH has ever done. Song by organist/guitarist Ken Hensley. Nice soft keyboards and accoustic guitars. Has a Crosby, Still, & Nash feel to it.
9. Crimes of Passion - Another song with a Bad Company feel to it.
10 A Far Better Way - This is a bonus track that should have made it on the original album. A soft ballad that sounds like it's was song by Ken Hensley (Doesn't sound like Lawton's gritty voice). Could have been an Elton John song. This song is a little different than the 1997 remaster version. There are a little more guitars featured in the 2004 deluxe remaster.
Also featured in the 2004 remaster are two previously unleased songs. Unlike any of the above songs, these are not album ready and are rough around the edges. You can still here scratches on these.
They are.
I Always Knew - Heep tries to do a Stevie Wonder type song on this. Very soulful. Wouldn't have sounded bad once it was cleaned up.
Dance Dance Dance - Heep attempting to do Disco Disco Disco. Could have fit on the Fallen Angel album along side What you say.
There is also a live version of Who Needs Me that is much different than the album version.
 Their best after their early days April 6, 2008
Matthew Schwarz (Bridgewater, nj United States)
Firefly introduces John Lawton, Heep's second singer, who has a great voice. Overall this album (and the others with Lawton) has more of a bluesy/soul kind of feel - it reminds me of the early Whitesnake and David Coverdale stuff of the same period. I'd like to point out here that, after the first 3 albums, Uriah Heep never really put out a constantly "heavy" album, (in fact, almost all the remasters I have have Mick Box saying "not one of our heavier efforts . . .!"), but this one is a little more hard-rocking than the others with Lawton. Overall, it's a great late-70's hard rock disc.
Firefly flys but not much fire February 28, 2007
Thin Timmy (New Orleans, La.)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Firefly is a good album but I'm not blown away.
I love Uriah Heep and think the albums Innocent
Victim and Fallen Angel were all brillant. Firefly
just seems too laid back but has some great songs.
Who Needs Me, Wise Man, Do You Know are all classic
Heep songs and the bonus track Crime of Passion is a
killer and should've been included on the album. After
listening to Firefly I go back to High n' Mighty and
Innocent Victim albums which are much stronger than this.
But if your a Heep fan like me you won't be disappointed
is you get it and it's worth a listen. OH the live version
of Who Needs Me is a killer!
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