Same as Uriah Heep but one choice only this time.

In For The Kill is my pick. Love that album.

In For The Kill is my fave too, the first Budgie I ever heard and still the one I blast the most. Never Turn Your Back is a close second though.

Never turn your back for me on the strength of two songs, Breadfan and Parents.

That main riff to In For The Kill is one of the heaviest riffs ever written, that is enough reason to give my vote for that album but any of the first five could also easily get it. Great albums.

For a while there, Budgie were easily the second heaviest band in the world behind Sabbath. I always think it sucked how they lightened their sound after In For the Kill though. I will admit this too, I met Burke Shelley once and what a ego maniacal, moron he was. I asked him about Sabbath and whether Budgie associated with them in the 70's and he bite my head off, yelling, "I don't even like Fookin Sabbath" in his welsh accent. I have met some cold musicians in my time but he was one of the worst.

I can't vote on this as I've only ever heard a handful of their songs. Plus the vocals are hilarious.

I must confess the only Budgie tune I ever heard was covered by Metallica

With the exception of Squawk, all of the first seven albums are classics. The S/T isn't my favourite - that honour goes to In For the Kill - but it comes close, a very underrated album in the Budgie catalogue. I saw Budgie live a couple of years back, and man have they still got it! Hope they get it back together post Burke's illness.

Love the Budgie, used to go and see them play all the time when I was still living in the UK in the early 80's. We used to have so much fun at those shows.

I went for the ...Friend... album too!
Catchiest songs!

I've overlooked these guys for too long. The funny thing is that I can remember their album art from when I was a little kid wandering around my uncle's record shop.

I was able to track down the self-titled and I'm loving it. I've heard some people say the first three albums are the classics and others claim the first five are solid. Is their whole discography any good or is their a definitive sharp decline where it's not worth bothering?

Thanks for the feedback. I had some spare time today so checked out the other releases on youtube. I really couldn't get into anything after Bandolier. The other albums weren't really bad, they just seemed to lack the crunch of the earlier albums.