"Love To Love" is sort of UFO's "Stairway To Heaven." It starts out with a huge crash of the gong followed by an ominous keyboard line similar to the theme from Rosemary's Baby. "Electric Phase" merges with the 7 minute mammoth "Love To Love" to close out the album on a real high note. All of this is just a warm up for one of Schenker's best soaring guitar solos. Phil's powerful vocals deliver his risqué verses of teenage lust. As Schenker plays wooshy slide parts Raymond plays a stuttering guitar riff that locks in with a tight pattern laid down by the bass and drums. It's exotic kinda like Zeppelin's "Kashmir" or Rainbow's "Stargazer" but with a much more "down on the street" feel. This song has such a unique quality to it (I refuse to use the term "vibe"). Phil Mogg's voice soars in, then the extremely underrated rhythm section of Pete Way on bass and Andy Parker on drums thump in with major authority. It starts off with some heavy riffing from the multi-talented Paul Raymond on guitar before Michael Schenker joins in on slide guitar, something he rarely plays on UFO albums. On the surface it's a great song with a heavy stomping beat but there's some brilliant layers going on underneath. I played it a few times in a row noticing things that I'd never heard. It had been a while since I listened to the entire album and "Electric Phase" jumped out of the speakers and made me take notice like never before. Right now that would be the song "Electric Phase," the second to last song on side B of Lights Out. UFO has always been a favorite of mine but, like Thin Lizzy, every few months I pick up on a song or album that I've overlooked the past 3 decades. Another big reason is that Racer is an even bigger UFO fanatic than me. One of the biggest things that got me involved with Ripple six years ago (!) is that Racer and Pope are old fucks like me who haven't given up the desire for new kicks. I need to work out this "obsession" before I can move on and start writing up some of the deserving new discs of this year. I've been listening to and enjoying a lot of the new music that comes my way via Ripple but the album that I have been cranking the most at home, in my car and on my iPod right now is UFO's 1977 album Lights Out.
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