Attila - Self-Titled

On this week’s episode, it feels like Steve and Remfry have very little to say about the album Atilla by Atilla, so they go off on all manner of tangents instead. You’ll enjoy that, we’re sure. Anyway, the Attila we’re talking about this week are not the rap-metalcore band that you probably know and begrudgingly tolerate, no, rather they are the proto-metal duo of Jon Small and Billy Joel. Yes, THAT Billy Joel. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1970 with Epic records signing the band and giving them fifty grand to record the scrappy compositions that they had pieced together. The result is an album that sounds a little bit like The Doors falling down the stairs, with a sleeve that might make you laugh, cry, vomit and bleed from the eyes all at once. And, frankly, the cover of the record is definitely the worst thing about this pretty ho-hum collection of songs, but it’s here because of one particularly harsh review it received and because Billy Joel hates it, and he went on to become… well… Billy Joel. Could be worse eh.

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