After Nazareth's 12-year association with A&M records ended in 1982, the group signed with MCA records, and shortly thereafter, they released what would be their last...
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After spending much of 1981 involved in a successful tour, Nazareth returned to the studio with a newfound sense of vigor the next year. The album they produced was 2XS, an...
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Classics, Vol. 16 collects all of Nazareth's hard rock radio hits, making it a preferrable alternative to their frequently spotty albums. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All...
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After cornering the hard rock market in 1975 with the international success of Hair of the Dog, Nazareth surprised fans and listeners alike the next year when they traded...
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On this 1977 album, Nazareth makes a full-blooded return to the hard rock sound they had neglected since their success with Hair of the Dog. The result is a potent, driving...
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After slowly but surely building a fanbase around the world with albums like Razamanaz and Loud & Proud, Nazareth finally hit the big time in 1975 with Hair of the Dog. The...
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Released during a flurry of activity that defined their late-'70s heyday, Nazareth's Hot Tracks kept the band's career on a decent commercial roll. After the monster success...
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As the 1980s began, Nazareth decided to return to the AOR experimentation they had toyed with during the 1970s on albums like Close Enough for Rock & Roll and Play 'N the...
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This 1971 self-titled debut may stun fans who are accustomed to the hard-driving rock and gritty power ballads that characterize Nazareth's more popular work. Nazareth is a...
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This 1978 album found Nazareth continuing to mine the combination of stripped-down hard rock and roots rock sounds explored on 1977's Expect No Mercy. No Mean City is also...
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The Scottish band Nazareth, which took its name from a line in the Band's "The Weight," occupies an unusual place in hard rock because it alternates between unlikely cover...
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Nazareth's second album of 1974 finds the group tempering the four-on-the-floor hard rock attack they developed on Loud and Proud by working a surprising and effective...
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In 1998, Essential released Three Classic Albums: Razamanaz/Loud 'n' Proud/Hair of the Dog, which contained three complete albums -- Razamanaz (1973, originally released on...
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Every rock fan over 30 knows Nazareth, a band formed in 1968 in Scotland, reached their creative peak a-way back in 1975 with Hair Of The Dog, a hard rock album featuring...
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Originally released on A&M records in 1981, Snaz is one of the better, and least recognized, live '70s (as a style, not necessarily a period in time) hard rock recordings....
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After pursuing a Rolling Stones-styled blend of rock and country elements on their first two albums, Nazareth segued into a harder rocking style with 1973's Razamanaz. The...
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After putting themselves on the hard rock map with Razamanaz, Nazareth took their new, forceful style even further the next year on Loud & Proud. With Roger Glover once...
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Listening to Exercises by '70s Scottish hard rockers Nazareth just one time will make you wonder how this could possibly be the same band that went on to record such hard...
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After cornering the hard rock market in 1975 with the international success of Hair of the Dog, Nazareth surprised fans and listeners alike the next year when they traded...
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