Artist: Budgie
Genre: Heavy Metal
Budgie are a Welsh heavy metal band formed in Cardiff in 1967, consisting of Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, and Ray Phillips. Budgie were heavy metal pioneers, influencing the New Wave of British Heavy Metal development. Their music combined heavy riffs, complex song structures, and Shelley's distinctive high-pitched vocals and bass playing. Songs like 'Breadfan' and 'Crash Course in Brain Surgery' became underground classics and were later covered by Metallica. Despite never achieving major commercial success, Budgie influenced numerous metal bands and maintained a devoted cult following. They represented Welsh heavy music and demonstrated that heavy metal could be sophisticated and complex.
Budgie vinyl records (30)
BUDGIE Keeping A Rendezvous (1981 UK limited edition 7 Picture Disc single featuring Derek Riggs artwork which was originally offered to Hawkwind [who declined.] also including Apparatus clear PVC sleeve BUDGE3) Track Listing: 1. Keeping A Rendezvous 2. Apparatus
£12.00 used
BUDGIE If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting (1980 UK 4-track 12 single featuring Wild Life High School Girls Panzer Division Destroyed and Lies Of Jim [The E-Type Lover] picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light storage wear with a littlediscolouration/ringwear and the vinyl has a few minor surface scuffs - an excellent copy BUDGE1) Track Listing: 1
£14.00 used
BUDGIE Crime Against The World (1980 UK 7 vinyl single with intact four prong centre also including Hellbender housed in the original picture sleeve. The sleeve shows only light wear to the edges and the vinyl remains in excellent conditionBUDGE2) Track Listing: 1. Crime Against The World 2. Hellbender
£23.00 used
BUDGIE Bored With Russia (1982 UK limited edition 7 Picture Disc single also including Dont Cry within a clear PVC sleeve RCAP271) Track Listing: 1. Bored With Russia 2. Dont Cry
£9.00 used
BUDGIE Power Supply (1980 UK 8-track LP on the yellow Active Records label including the single Crime Against The World. Complete with the album credit insert the glossy picture sleeve shows light shelf wear & the vinyl carries light signs of previous play ACTLP1) Track Listing: A1. Forearm Smash A2
£23.00 used
BUDGIE Nightflight (1981 UK 9-track vinyl LP the ninth album by the Welsh hard rock / heavy metal band. The Derek Riggs-illustrated glossy picture sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear to the edges while the vinyl remains in Excellent with jus a few light signs of play RCALP6003) Track Listing: 1
£34.00 used
BUDGIE In For The Kill (1974 UK first press 7-track LP on the dark MCA rainbow label the fourth album from the Welsh rock group including Zoom Club & a re-recording of Crash Course In Brain Surgery [later covered by Metallica on their 1987 EP garage Days Re-Revisited] housed in a fully laminated picture sleeve
£139.00 used
BUDGIE Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (Mid 70s UK MCA black rainbow label issue of the 1973 7-track LP including Breadfan Baby Please Dont Go & In The Grip Of A Tyre Fitters Hand Roger Dean designed gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeveis graded as VG+ with some edge scuffing and ringwear the vinyl is also VG+ with some light surface marks/hairlines
£50.00 used
BUDGIE Squawk (1974 UK MCA rainbow label second issue of the 1971 9-track LP picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some minor shelfwear a little foxing to the labels and the vinyl is Excellent with a few faint scuffs to indicate play MCF2502) Track Listing: 1. Whisky River 2. Rocking Man 3. Rolling Home Again 4
£56.00 used
BUDGIE Bandolier (1975 UK 6-track vinyl LP with the rainbow design labels featuring the classic Breaking All The House Rules and Napoleon Bona in two parts great Patrick Woodruffe artwork picture sleeve. The sleeve has some edge scuffing andminor creasing the labels show very minor residue marks on both sides however the vinyl looks barely played
£84.00 used