My Top 750 Albums: 19. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss (2003)

Описание: My Top 750 Albums: 19. Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss (2003)

Now this is the Biffy Clyro I loved. 115 places higher than their next best effort and still their debut to come. This was their second album and at the time I was a full ‘Mon Tha Biffy-er, seeing them as often as I could. It was quirkier and more obscure than their debut, with more range, sometimes a little messy but when it hit the spot it smashed it. “The Vertigo Of Bliss” and its naughty front cover opens with “Bodies In Flight” which is an odd affair and one of the weaker tracks, good live but not on disc. “Ideal Height” was the first release for the album and was classic Biffy, with odd little guitar squeaks and slides thrown in. “With Aplomb” showed what was a different side to them with a string filled haunting mini epic of a song. Things speed up with the next couple of tracks and includes the gloriously titled “Liberate The Illiterate ...”. Then the album chills for the frankly beautiful “Diary Of Always” with its looped “I just wish we all could betray” sample in the background. “Questions And Answers” was their first top 40 charting song with its catchy chorus and its awesome “Still I feel them passing me by” backing vocal. The 2nd half of the album is great guns with true riffer UBer “Eradicate The Doubt” which goes all kinds of places in its 4.5 mins. “Toys Toys Toys Choke, Toys Toys Toys” is my favourite Biffy song and definitely in my top 10 songs by anyone. The glory of this song was highlighted when I saw them at Godiva Festival in June 2002 a year before this album came out and this song live is incredible, esp the drum clicking on the drum rim and the endless riff changes. Love it. At that same gig I also got the drummers drum stick when he launched it into the “crowd” (prob 3 lines of people and then open space, then me) and it fell at my feet as if to emphasie how off the radar they were back then. (elitist early fan remark… check). “All The Way Down ...” is another beauty of a song.