Band: Titanic
Album: Eagle Rock
Release: 1973 (2000)
Genre: Heavy prog rock
Country: Norway
Quality: FLAC | lossless

Tracklist:

1. One Night In Eagle Rock (Arica Siggs, Janne Loseth, Roy Robinson) - 7:46
2. All Around You - 3:56
3. One Of Your Kind - 5:28
4. Heia Valenga (Arica Siggs, Helge Groslie, Janne Loseth, John Lorck, Kjell Asperud, Roy Robinson) - 1:37
5. Dying Sun - 6:17
6. And It's Music - 3:16
7. Richmond Express (Janne Loseth, Roy Robinson) - 3:36
8. Maureen - 6:12
9. The Skeleton (Arica Siggs, Helge Groslie, Janne Loseth, John Lorck, Kjell Asperud, Roy Robinson) - 2:31
Bonus:
10.Rain 2000 (Kenny Aas, Roy Robinson) - 3:47
11.Blond (Kenny Aas, Roy Robinson) - 5:36
12.Macumba (John Williamson, Roy Robinson) - 3:52
13.Midinght Sadness (Janne Loseth, Roy Robinson) - 3:44

Founded in Oslo in 1969, Titanic were the first Norwegian band to gain international acceptance, hitting the charts continent-wide with Sultana in 1971; it even reached no. 5 in the UK, but they were fronted by British singer Roy Robinson, which can't have hurt their overseas profile, comprised of guitarist Janne Løseth, organist and bassist Kenny Aas, drummer John Lorck, and percussionist Kjell Asperud. But then, in a trend soon to be followed by a number of German heavy rock combos such as Lucifer's Friend, Blackwater Park, and Epitaph, Titanic hired a British-born singer and lyricist -- one Roy Robinson -- in an effort to raise their international prospects.

The ploy worked well enough for Titanic to be offered a deal by the French office of Columbia Records, which duly released the band's eponymous debut later that same year, and later booked them to perform at the Cannes Film Festival's gala screening of the Woodstock motion picture.

1973's "Eagle Rock" was critically acclaimed, once again quite eclectic Eagle Rock (featuring new keyboardist Helge Groslie and bassist Arica Siggs). There's a slight African tribal percussion theme running through the album, reminding me of, er, Uriah Heep on Look at Yourself, but overall, this is just an ordinary mid-'70s hard rock album. It does have a couple of highlights, though, in the epic One Night In Eagle Rock and the excellent Dying Sun, where the band stumble across a great rif. "Eagle Rock" is one for aficionados of the era.