The Last Stage (album)

The Last Stage

Compilation album by Budgie

Released

25 October 2004

Recorded

Rockfield Studios and Woodside Studios, Monmouth, UK, 1979-1985

Genre

Heavy metal

Length

61:32

Label

Noteworthy

Producer

Budgie

Budgie chronology

Life in San Antonio
(2002)

The Last Stage
(2004)

You're All Living in Cuckooland
(2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(unfavorable)^[1]
Classic Rock	^[2]

The Last Stage is a compilation of unreleased Budgie tracks, mostly from the early-to-mid eighties. Many of these tracks were intended to be released on the follow-up to 1982's Deliver Us from Evil, a follow-up that never saw the light of day. The track "Beautiful Lies" was supposedly meant to be included on the album but never made it. It was previously made available on the Budgie compilation album An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology.

The sound quality varies from track to track, as each song was at a different level of completion before it was scrapped.

Track listing

"Love Is When You Love" - 3:25
"House of a Sinner" - 4:00
"Same Old Sad Affair" - 3:26
"Signed Your Own Fate" - 3:51
"Hard Luck" - 3:44
"Living with Another Man" - 3:25
"You Ain't Got Love" - 3:14
"Renegade" - 3:48
"Sweet Fast Talker" - 4:25
"Wait till Tomorrow" - 4:14
"Rock Your Blood" - 3:55
"Nutbush City Limits" - 3:17 (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
"Can't Get Up in the Morning" - 4:29
"Heaven in Your Eyes" - 3:14
"Picture on a Screen" - 5:19
"Victim" - 3:46

Personnel

Band members

Burke Shelley - vocals and bass
John Thomas - guitar
Steve Williams - drums

Additional musicians

Rob Kendrick - guitar and vocals on track 13

Production

Dave Charles, Simon Dawson, Pat Moran - engineers
Mike Brown, Robert M. Corich - remastering engineers

References

↑ Prato, Greg. "Budgie The Last Stage review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
↑ Ling, Dave (February 2005). "Budgie 'The Last Stage'". Classic Rock 76. London, UK: Future Publishing Ltd. p. 97. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Budgie

Burke Shelley Steve Williams Craig Goldy Tony Bourge Ray Phillips Pete Boot Rob Kendrick John "Big" Thomas Duncan Mackay Jim Simpson Robert "Congo" Jones Andy Hart Simon Lees

Studio albums	Budgie Squawk Never Turn Your Back on a Friend In for the Kill! Bandolier If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules Impeckable Power Supply Nightflight Deliver Us from Evil You're All Living in Cuckooland

Live albums	Heavier Than Air – Rarest Eggs We Came, We Saw... Life in San Antonio Radio Sessions 1974 & 1978 The BBC Recordings

Compilations	Best of Budgie (1975) Best of Budgie (1981) An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology Best of Budgie (1997) The Last Stage

Miscellaneous	The Extreem – From Out of the Sky 6 Ton Budgie Budgie and Beyond Ornithology v.1 Booty's B – Sides The Battle of My Mind

EPs & Singles	"Crash Course in Brain Surgery"/"Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" "Whiskey River"/"Guts" "Whiskey River"/"Stranded" "Zoom Club" (Edit)/"Wondering What Everyone Knows" "I Ain't No Mountain"/"Honey" "Smile Boy Smile"/"All at Sea" If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting "Crime Against the World"/"Hellbender" "Keeping a Rendezvous"/"Apparatus" "I Turned to Stone (Part 1)"/"I Turned to Stone (Part 2)" "Bored with Russia"/"Don't Cry"

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