Budgie - Napoleon Bona Parts 1 & 2
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2010
- One of the greatest progressive hard rock songs ever... The lyrics are as followed.
There's a light, covers up my doorway
Flickering light, never run away
And I might, I might be going your way
Say who might, might help me on my way
Mmm, what a sight, sight to burn the ego
Keep you warm and never let go
And the light coming my way,
Compared to what others have seen
Napoleon the strong he once had it
As a sound that was loud in his dream
And I stand, locked before the four ways
Wind and snow, heaven and I
I belong wherever men like that stay
I can feel it burning in my eyes
And the light coming my way
Compared to what others have seen
Napoleon the strong he once had it
As a sound that was loud in his dream
Heavens child, it's driving me wild,
Honey I know that it's right
Well, I got this message that makes me feel good
Carries me out through the night
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me!
Well, I move through life like a hurricane lamp
Lighting the road as I go
Spreading this music, injecting the light
Please let it stay, never go
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me!
And I think of napoleon and others before
Parallels seem to exist
I follow it, follow it, keep it in sight
Napoleon would never have missed
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me! 
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RIP Burke Shelley ❤️ My boyfriend, who died in 2020, played this to me 5yrs ago and it's still my favourite. Hope you are both having pain free fun now, wherever you are!!! xxx
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The Best bar none love them
R.i.p great axe man
❤️☮️🎶
Only by the washing of the Blood. Hope he had Jesus.
Budgie will forever be known as the hidden gem in classic rock. What a beautiful song.
Most underrated band of all time loved them
Youre right , greetings from Poland
874000 people have listened to this song. It is rated.
Not underrated, not unknown, just not particularly popular. The band's name didn't help.
@@markcynic808 thanks for you input but your wrong
@@blueswasthecatalyst7758 On;ly 8.7k likes is a crime against music for something this good. I am at least 1000 of those listens.
What a great song! Bandolier was one of the best albums of the 1970’s
@Eric
I agree.
I listen to the daily
They played in San Antonio often in the 70s
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Sure is!!! Incredible
Totally agree
Possibly the best rock song ever by the best and most underrated rock band of all time! The soundtrack of my youth, I saved all of my weekend job money to buy all of their albums (kids today, yes we had to take weekend jobs rather than relying on handouts from our parents)... A band with some of the most imaginative and creative song titles of all time - who could forget 'Crash Course in Brain Surgery', 'Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman', 'Hot as a Docker's Armpit', 'In The Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand', 'You're the Biggest Thing since Powdered Milk', and possibly the cleverest 'If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules'...
Genius!
Why don't we hear Budgie on the radio? Fair play to Johnnie Walker that he played 'Crash Course in Brain Surgery' on his Friday Night Rock Show a couple of years ago I I nearly crashed my car when I heard it!
I'm sick of mainstream radio like Radio 2 when they have their 'rock' section constantly playing Led Zeppelin; IMHO they were just playing second-fiddle to the mighty Budgie...
'Nuff said, RIP Burke - you'll be the superstar you deserve to be in Heaven!!!
You said it all my friend everything you said and more this band will forever be in my life and my memories
True, we had to take sh*t jobs to save every dollar and make it count. If you still have these albums then you have a real treasure
I'm 22 years old and I'll never stop listening to Budgie 🤘🏻
I am almost 70 years old and I have been listening to Budgie since I was 20 years old.
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@@leonysusdinos7539 lol
You are the future
almost 30 and still listen to budgie since day one, learning their guitar riffs, solos and bass lines ever since. RIP Burke
Along with Gentle Giant ,Budgie were the most underrated band in the history of music.
I totally agree with you 1000%.
BUDGIE .. I HAVE LOVED THEM FROM THE BEGINNING IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES… AMAZING ROCK BAND .. THEY DESERVE TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR TALNET IN THE HALL OF FAME 🔝 RATED ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm 54 years old and just started listening to Budgie......
I'm 57 and started in 2020, thanks to my 17 yo son whom I had introduced into British punk and rock.
me too,59 years old,awsome band!
Just stumbled on Budgie today. Can't believe I've gone this long without them in my life. Easily new favorite band
Budgies best song in my opinion
I am not just saying this... Budgie is the best band I've ever seen live. Such enthusiasm is to be admired.
Top 3 forme, out of 150 bands
As a proud Welshman they are one of the greatest bands to ever come out of Wales
Agreed.
You have the best name fattwat! 🤣
Totally !!!
I saw them in Chicago in the ‘80’s with Winter Hawk, absolutely great band.
@steady eddie I'm gonna steal your name
I can see where that galloping rhythm of Maiden came from! Love this!!
Yep
Totally.
I’m 61 and will never stop listening to Budgie
Me to❤
Budgie should have been huge stars. I'll never understand why they weren't. Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Megadeth and Iron Maiden have all listed them as a major influence.
The world highly-acclaimed in their own country just not America it took America years to catch up with the rest of the world when it came to hardcore Solid Rock back in the 70s early 70s I remember buying the budgie LP called in for the kill that's what turn me on to this group when I was about 16 text straight fucking rocked and still do this stuff sounds a whole hell of a lot better than that soft pansy ass excuse for music today
Horrible, horrible management. Still the first band to tour Poland after martial law was lifted.
Rush! Some tracks sounds tottaly like Rush!
Thanks to ...Metalllica, THEN. LOL only but...Should be more. Should.
Megadeth!!! You said it all my brother.
"Budgie" has been well known in Poland since 70's - thanks to one of the most popular radio journalists who "discovered" them and played their records in his broadcasts. This is one of my favorite music bands. "Napoleon" was issued in 1975, when I was 18.
Greetings from Warsaw :)
Me too Adam. Born same year as you. I thought Black Sabbath epitomised heavy metal and no band would equal them in that genre. Then I heard Budgie. I was blown away...literally!
Pięknie. . Budgie "ciągle mam w głowie". Pozdr. Robert_1962
Thanks to these 80s radio guys and my dad I could listen to Budgie in 2000s on his cassetes on an walkman. Nothing can beat it. Too bad their concert we were going to was cancelled and me and my dad could not hear our idols live. At least their music is on RUclips cause both the cassetes and walkman are broken!
Tak samo dla mnie Budgie było czymś tajemniczym i jedynym w swoim rodzaju.. Mogliśmy tylko posłuchać na "Muzycznej Poczcie UKF" czy podobnych programach. W tym miejscu chwała Piotrowi Kaczkowskiemu i Markowi Gaszyńskiemu - dzięki nim mieliśmy muzyczny "kontakt" z Zachodem. Jeszcze raz z DZIĘKI !!!
@@larylary5709 , byłem na koncercie Budgie w Katowickim Spodku, na początku lat 80tych. Ten kawałek daje ciary do dzisiaj, ale wtedy, na żywo, w wielotysięcznym tłumie to był niewyobrażalny odlot!!!
Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best rock trio's EVER!!!!!
You are fuckin right. One of the best from Wales.
Hard to believe they were 3 piece band,just like Nirvana!
@@fredmad4988 Rivals even the mighty RUSH
I’ll add Taste to the list
They were, and this song was always one of my favorites by them.
When Tony Bourge comes in with his Axe blazin, the hair on my neck stands up! And the fadeout/faze-in at the end of the song completes it's FUCKING EPIC!! RIP Burke. Thanks for the music. ✌️🤟🤟
This is the perfect example of what a MASTER PIECE is! There's no way to describe, but if I had to, I would say this is could be the blue print for what a Heavy Metal song is supposed to be! LOVE this band so much!!!!
One of the most under rated bands ever. This track still sounds fresh even though it's almost 40 years old.
Zed Tee Amen and one of the Legends of classic hard rock
awesome band just 3 guys very good music
I feel so lucky to have had this as a teen anthem!
@@lisalindemann9534 I envy you! :P
Can I say this band is definitely one of the most unique of my time...wrote an English Paper in High School..used the lyrics of Parents got an A+
I feel sorry for the hard rockkers that have not heard this!
Thank you. I'm one of them but as they say better late than never.
They are incredible.......listener since 1979!
Yeah, and Argent as well. they're even better :)
@@legolasgreenleaf-deceased2109 Argent......pfffff, they have one good song!
Spread the word dude, I've introduced a lot of people to this great little known stuff. Came here as many through Metallica doing 2 of their songs of course.
Grali w amfiteatrze opolskim. Z początku było grzecznie jednak z każdym kolejnym utworem robilo się goręcej. W pewnym momencie cała publiczność stała na ławkach śpiewając razem z zespołem. Niezapomniane chwile.
One of the Best song of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So many people out there unaware of this band's existence
They just don`t know what there missing. Pity them.
All we can do is turn them on to them. I've turned on a few via Facebook and they got hooked. You can only do so much Zeppelin, Springsteen, Skynyrd etc before you get sick of them.
Damn right.
Scott McKay I see them Oxford Apollo Theatre 1980 and have considered them one of the most underestimated bands of all time
Joe LaPorte I cant believe you mentioned Springsteen and Zeppelin in the same context. Zeppelin are absolutely out there..... as for Springsteen he's barely able to talk never mind sing
Have all their records and t-shirts still blast my eaŕs most nights,bit sad for a 71 year old
don`t worry-Budgie is the best anti-aging treatment I know ....
david keith rance aint sad dave.i think your cool.makes this 59 yo feel better about cranking up the music loud! Rock on mate
Not sad at all friend. Its actually great
I’m 22 and do the same most nights, although probably more the way you did it when you were my age
Not sad at all. Music comes from the soul, sir. A most honest means of communicating.
I can't believe how underrated these guys were.Absolutely awesome live!
They knew how good they were, I’m sure they loved performing, recording and touring just as it was. They left quite a mark on music forever! Rock Om!😊
Yep and unknown. Sick
A long long time ago, this was the first song I ever heard of Budgie. My oh my, it blew me away big time. Instant addiction, never healed, and for that I can only be very thankful. RIP Mr. Shelley. 💕🙏
My feelings exactly , couldn't say it any better,
Budgie was HUGE in Texas thanks to KISS radio who brought so many talented artists to San Antonio in the 70s - We had just moved from LA Calif - never listened to rock for pleasure before Budgie. I was converted for life! They were, and will remain brilliant. Also, Pat Traverse, J Geils Band, UFO, and of course, Robin Trower were also mind-blowing performers. God, we had the greatest rock n roll in those days! ❤️ Not to forget Frank Moreno and Mahogany Rush
Budgie One of the best balls out hard rock bands ever
Great that Budgie made it all the way to Oz!
One of Budgie's best tunes and one of the all-time greatest songs to listen to on headphones!
I love the stereo phasing.
Very true
RIP Burke, you will live on in your 🎶 music.
I just listened to this Song, closed my eyes and tripped into another dimension without any drugs involved. Holy crap this music is bananas
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🌼🌻🌼🌻🌼🌻.
Best Unknown Rockers of ALL time!
One of the most underrated metal bands of the 70s. Budgie sounds a lot like Sabbath :) 🎸🎸
Briliant band but sabbath were another level
Yes n I I innnnnxn pk💝😀👎. 9!9'
They were beyond Metal. They were soul, funk, rock, and heavy.
Randy Rhoads. Over the mountain
Maybe Sabbath sounds like Budgie,lol
I get goosebumps when i listen to this music music. They were very popular in Poland when i was a teenager.
Katowice 1982, super koncert! Jak zagrali ten utwór, ciary na plecach pamiętam do dziś.
RIP Burke, have loved your music for a good few years now. I wish I got to see you live. Your music will live on forever. Utter legend.
Budgie your MUSIC is very much part of my LIFE 🎵🔝🖤✌🏿💜💜💜
Always sounds great, and always will. I’m glad to own all their records.
Tony Bourge......what an amazing axeman!
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One of the greatest metal bands of all time.
pozdrawiam wszystkich,,,jest to moja ulubiona grupa,kapitalna muzyka,świetne słowa,brzmienie wszystko perfekcyjne,zmiana tonacji ,kapitalna aranżacja,,,,super,,niech się młodzi uczą.....Konrad
Wspaniała kapela, nie przeczę... Radziłbym jednak posłuchać takich zespołów, jak "Gentle Giant " (płyta "Octopus"), czy "Family " (album "Family Entertaiment "). Serdecznie pozdrawiam.
@@mariuszgronczewski4654 super.
RIP Burke Shelley. Fantastic music and a must for rock fans. Although respected by their piers overlooked by so many.
Waaaayy. Overlooked. Like. U fo
Maybe the most under rated hard rock band. Proto metal that still holds up well.
Wooww, brilliant music, after 45 years sound so fresh
Am 62 yrs old and did have this album. Classic 🎸
This band was broke out of San Antonio, at the once great "MIGHTY 99.5 F.M./ 630 A.M" KISS/KMAC. Got a lot of air play here!!!!!🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊✌🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I saw Budgie play a gig as a support band. They were that bloody good, I can't remember who the headline act was!
Lena Zavaroni with Lil Jimmy Osmond.
That says it all.🤘🤘🤘
Gillan?
I saw them with Thin Lizzy. Lynott rocked BUT these guys shone above them even though they were the support.
Ja byłem w 2003 w Stodole w Warszawie i później w Progresji w 2008 albo 2009. Uwielbiam chodzić na koncerty klasyków. Polot, wirtuozeria i niesamowity kontakt z publiką. Nie to co nowe bandy: przyjechać, odpierdolić i do domu.
Tez tam bylem. Ale Parents spierdolili wtedy
RIP Burke, thanks for all the brilliant music. Every time I listen to this I'm fifteen and the people I loved when I was young are still with me. One of my favourite tracks ever, simply epic.
Beautifully put. I feel the same.
TOTALLY FUCKIN EPIC!!
@Vedder Hunter I like four of the first five albums. I personally think Squawk is the lesser of the five. perhaps I should give it another try!
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@Vedder Hunter I knew Tony Bourge briefly, I met him a few times in 1986 he's a really nice, quiet guy. I bought a guitar from him in the music store he worked at for a while.
Seen budgie in cardiff castle mid 70s. The quo were top of the bill. Hawkwind and curved air were on the bill as well. But when budgie play'd black velvet stallion the crowd were memorised!! They certainly stole the show. Great very underated band.
Live down the road from Cardiff. Would love to see Budgie play there now!!
I remember seeing them play Black Velvet Stallion at the Victoria Hall in Hanley a million years ago, hanging off the front of the stage with the dry ice swirling around, one of the peak experiences of my teenage years!
l was there that night great time had ,Budgie played many times great gigs in the 1970s.
@@robinkernow rock on brother your so damn lucky but I saw em in my town in San Antonio no dry ice but it was awesome esp song gunslinger
Bandolier was my introduction to Budgie. I have been a die-hard fan ever since. Welsh Rock has no equal, and these guys do it RIGHT!!!.
A mate and I use to smoke alot and listen to Budgie in the 70's...miss those days and sessions
Amen to that.
I never forget to do that 'Mmm' ending. A fine song and album
these guys were so underated I rank them up with the all time greats...
Mark Pytlewski They didn’t want mega stardom. They just wanted to tour and play their music. Seeing them live, it was obvious that they just loved what they were doing. Their integrity is enormous, and their egos are non existent.
IMO, they weren't all that.Anyway, they're hard rock, not "metal"
I always did.
i cound'nt agree with you more 🤘
Saw themei 1977 in Austin, Texas. They were great.
If James Bond films had metal tracks, this would have been one of em.
right after he had sex with 4 woman and killed 12 people! right on!
Hell yes... 😮😶😎
I was just on a spree of listening to Budgie tracks and there were 5 or 6 of them that I got that exact feeling from!
Budgie at their best...don't think they surpassed this epic..pure rock..
I just like to point out that this Album Cover is amazing
Sheldon Cooper81 "Bandolier is the fifth album by Welsh rock band Budgie, released in September 1975." Patrick Woodroffe designed the cover.
@@frankgross135 thats exactly what it was based on.
Every one of budgies is
I have it as a t-shirt
@@jeffmuir9417I could have sworn thats a Roger Dean cover :D
The Best Band That Nobody Ever Heard Of!
So brilliant. I love the contrast between the soft and the hard rock. These guys never got the acclaim that they deserved.
The contrast is fantastic--I particularly enjoy that aspect of their albums, both the louder and quieter songs are top notch and play off one another really well.
They never sold their sold their souls otherwise they would be a household name
@Nessun Dorma My Way Um.... Survivor, Bon Jovi, Europe? Come on man, those are pop-rock bands. No comparison. Any comparison to Budgie that doesn't include Rush is incomplete. Also, you cant put the Beatles and Guns and Roses in the same group. GNR came later than all of these bands you mentioned.
John Walker kings mate I know plenty of old rockers who worship them, legends !!
I think the same. Reagrds.
Burke Shelley R.I.P.
Dont let the beginning fool you...this song CRANKS! Budgie has always been a mainstay.
We wouldn't have had the bay area thrash bands without Budgie! I'm 44 and love them too!
Saw them in London in 1979 ........... wow
I remember buying a Budgie album when i was stationed in Germany without even hearing them just for the the album cover, and WOW!! what a discovery!!!. I took my wife to see them live while we were on honymoon in Plymouth (uk) in 82 and when we came out of the venue our balance wasall over the place as they were that loud. I will never understand why they didnt make it bigger as they were unique and had a huge fan base... RIP Shelly
Seriously, the best track this band ever did. And they did a lot of great songs!
Górna półka w mojej dyskografii :))
My heart beats to the rythm of the song every time I hear it ... since 1975 !
This is simply superb. I don't know how I missed this band back in the day, but it's time to catch up.
never too late.
Plenty of catching up to do great albums out there listen
Love the art work on t the budgie albums
I'll always be grateful of my father for giving me this cd when I was just 6, no doubts they are one of the best 🤘🏻
When great bands didn’t get the recognition they so deserved , just goes to show how lucky we all were to grow up in the 70s and 80s some amazing rock bands .
A banda de hard mais brilhante dos anos 70...
this music still rocks me out like it did back then...!!! great memories
Whatever you say, I never forget that evening in May 1975. I experienced Budgie on stage. 16 years old I was, paid for my first hard rock gig it never left my mind since. They staid with us for almost 2 hours played at a sound level that only was heard when Motorhead became famous. Play this one, Napoleon part one and two as loud as possible and remember one of the best live heavy rock bands of the day. Can’t be played loud enuff!
Always been my fave of all and every song ever made , lucky to see them lots of times , absolutely the most underrated band in rock ever , ❤️
They have been the bridge between prog and heavy metal...As often happens, people forget genius
I heard this song first time in 1975 at about age 15, I've bought the tape in an elephant market without cover (At the time. Led Zeppelin's Rock 'n' Roll were not yet released). Since then I never heard again because the tape had decayed. I've spent almost 40 years in searching to know the artist, to let me find the new tape/CD in a musicshop. Now finally I found it here, thanks God. Now I'm 56 y.o. And my listening Enjoyment never faded any.
One of the first albums I could afford to buy as a boy.
Budge along with the groundhogs. Just great music at the time still love the music to day. Old guy.
Don't forget MAN another great Welsh band from that era. Budgie had some really great song titles like " hot as a dockers armpit' and "You're the biggest thing since powdered milk' priceless.
from another old guy,cheers.
Budgie and the Groundhogs were probably the 2 most exceptional and underrated "power trio" bands of the era...
Killed my 8-Track decades ago... God bless RUclips, and Budgie still kicks all sorts of ass..Good memories.
Budgie and Led Zeppelin were my constant companions during my university years in the 1970s. Still have their LPs and listeing to them every day. RIP Burke Shelley and Jon Bonham.
Yes Yes, takes me back to seeing them in the 80's Gravesend, Kent. Cannot exaggerate how good they were live. Fucking loudest band I have ever seen. Something very special indeed!
Burke shelley what a voice
Clive Allison Burke Shelley is Walsh Geddy Lee
Awesome bass player too
Fuckin aye mate! Talented bloke!
And if his voice is the very reason this band didn’t make it then all off humanity should be blown to smithereens. It’s no worse than Plant or Geedy was belting out . The latter had much higher register stuff than Shelley. Yet Rush make it big Budgie in the curio dustbin for friggin life. If there’s ever a top 10 list for worlds greatest rock and roll injustices this band not hitting at least Rush levels of success is high on that list.
Hats off to you Budgie...Masters of Rock and Roll!!! 😎👍😍🎵🎸🎤💋
Budgie was so good to change the tone from slow to pure rocking class
i'm 30 and budgie is one of my all time faves incredible music covered by all he big name bands
Budgie use to rock the Alamo City (San Antonio Texas) back in they day!! They had a huge influence in rock music here in south Texas. Such an amazing and underrated band. I'm so glad Metallica acknowledged that with their awesome covers of Budgie.
Yes! And we can thank Joe Anthony, The Godfather, for introducing them to us.
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Do not forget Lou Roney
KMAC KISS
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Budgie, the great hard rock, progressive rock and metal act of the 70s is still alive!!
@Underground Metal Productions thanks, I will.
Awesome band and great album.....✌👽🍻 Good to see more budgie fans out there..
Killer track and an all time heavy rock classic. They sure could riff it up but never get the credit they deserve. Outstanding band.
Back in the late 80s I was thumbing through stacks in a used record store and saw Bandolier for 1$. The cover was so trippy an interesting I bought it, not even having a clue who they were. Was blown away, and surprised I had never heard of them, considering my music taste (Zep, Floyd, Rush, Sabbath, etc). Been a huge fan ever since.
Dude, i cant believe ive never heard this til today. Rocks! Definitely hear their influence in rush and maiden
I my honest opinion...one of ..if not the best metal song ever made...leaves you exhausted...absolutely stunning
Saw them at Liverpool Stadium with Sassafras for about 75p around 74/75, fantastic band.
Cmon how is this so unbelievably good and why has noone introduced me to this band ever? It feels like I'm listening to every single band I love - at the same time.
Noone! I wish I'd have known him.
Brilliant 'Planet of the Avians' album cover. Just my most favourite band since the 1970s!
Budgie as a group certainly did have quite the sense of humour, what with all the bird-brained individuals on the album covers and the strange song names.
This feels so 90s it's like my heart is getting a massage.
Great band first seen them in 75 then in 81 supporting Gillan
I had the opportunity to watch live, on August 12, 1982 Budgie played in Poznań Arena.
...lucky you ! My brother was there at this time. When hi was back at home, his eyes was wide opened and could't describe what he had witnasses to.
Learning all the house rules and breaking all the house rules..is another good one on this album.
they should have been huge! I saw them loads of times...and they laid waste to all the gigs they played....they were fantastic!
greatest album by the most underrated band ever
I got a feeling the 6 dislikes were impatient people who didnt get to the 2:40 point when it explodes.
I was liking it up till then, and then KERPOW! I love discovering new old music.
Yes, but the BOOM part would not be the same without the first part.
Great song! This, PARENTS and TURNED TO STONE are amazing.
Fuck that there retarded the beginning was beautiful.One of the coolest undiscovered songs of all time.
Shane Thornton They are not retarded. They just like it in another way.
Shane Thornton Undiscovered? Where have you been?