Ranking the Studio Albums: Uriah Heep

Besides their incredible discography, Uriah Heep is still nowadays such a great live band! Mick Box is a fantastic underrated guitar player and a friendly nice person.

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Fave five: 5. Salisbury 4. Demons and wizards 3. Magicians birthday 2. Sweet Freedom 1. Look at yourself Love the classic line up

Sure, "Demons and Wizards" is fantastic, but "The Magician's Birthday" is something truly special. Timeless and legendary.

1- Demons And Wizards 2- Magician's Birthday 3- Salisbury 4- Return To Fantasy 5- Look At Yourself 6- Very Heavy, Very Umble 7- Sweet Freedom 8- Wonderworld Looks like their latest album rules. Gotta buy it !

My Top 5 1. Demons and Wizards 2. Look At Yourself 3. Magicians Birthday 4. High And Mighty 5. Salisbury

Finally getting into Heep. Making my way through the 70’s at the moment. No clunkers so far. Fantastic band!

I love the ‘Innocent Victim’ cover!

How cool would it have been if Dio covered Rainbow Demon?

Killer!!! Ken Hensley is one of the best songwriters ever. But the band still going strong with good old Mick at the helm.

Hello Pete, greetings from England ! Just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for this review of your favourites in the Heep output. I was out shopping yesterday and I saw a bunch of Heep albums in a charity shop. I remembered this review and you saying how great the later Heep studio albums are, so I bought all six for £1 each ! I first saw the band live way back in the Demons and Wizards/Magicians Birthday era, and like a lot of people I guess I kind of lost touch with them after Return To Fantasy. Now, thanks to you, I have Different World, Sonic Origami, Raging Silence, Into The Wild and Wake The Sleeper, along with the live Spellbinder album. Loving the Heep again, all thanks to you mate. Cheers, and keep up the great work, you've made an old rocker feel young again !!

The young guy who was on the shift in my local record shop in the late afternoons was the only one who played rock LPs on their PA but only if no jazz fans protested against it. I came in when he played "Very 'eavy" but I only arrived for the second song. I bought the album and he told me to turn it up really loud. I followed his advice my little room exploded when Gypsy woke up the neighbourhood that evening. (That was in 1970.) I have followed the band all through their career - they were never among my top bands but always a band that counted for me. Even though I own all their studio albums, there are those that I never much listened to after the initial release, so I would not dare to rank them other than saying they are not among the top ones. However, they made a very strong return in the recent years, so it was right not to write them off. 1. Very 'eavy Very 'umble (Funny thing, Come Away Melinda was also on the debut of UFO that appeared at the same time) 2. Demons and Wizards 3. Look At Yourself 4. Salisbury (Again funny thing, I got Atom Heart Mother with another full LP side track at that time as well) 5. Sweet Freedom 6. Magician's Birthday 7. Wake the Sleeper (They "slept" for almost 20 years - what a return!!) 8. Firefly 9. Return to Fantasy 10. Fallen Angel 11. Living the Dream (Another great one that came late, 2018!) 12. Wonderworld 13. High & Mighty 14. Abominog 15. Everything not listed above (There are interesting tunes here and there but I cannot really distinguish them) PS - In my country we had the albums as Japanese imports which were equal releases to the original UK ones, just recognized that some of your early US albums differ.

Saw the Heep with Blue Oyster Cult in 1976. Priceless!

These rankings are so relaxing to watch. My ranking: 1. Look at Yourself 2. Demons and Wizards 3. Salisbury 4. The Magician’s Birthday 5. Very ’eavy... very ’umble 6. Sweet Freedom 7. Firefly Haven't much heard / don't much care about the rest.

I haven't heard most of their albums but what I have heard I love! I know there is a heep of good stuff I still need to check out but here are the ones I do know: 7.Sweet Freedom 6.Firefly 5.Very 'Eavy...Very 'Umble 4.The Magician's Birthday 3.Look At Yourself 2.Salisbury 1.Demons & Wizards Those top 3 especially are so hard to rank! Love the '73 live album as well of course

Innocent Victim will always be special for me because I saw them on that tour and John Lawton was magnificent. Deserves to be higher in your ranking and the same with Fallen Angel which has my favourite track of theirs: I'M ALIVE with Mick Box at his brilliant best.

I first saw Uriah Heep in 1969 in Ghent [Belgium]. They gave a version of Gipsy for about 40 minutes with a killer guitar solo.

For me, Demons and Wizards was their peak. The addition of Gary Thain sent them to another level.

I miss and love david Byron, really love the title track to salsbury, the first 3 minutes are breath taking and it just keeps puffing about for the whole side

Always my favorite band, since 1971 ( I was 14) and as a Bass player Gary Thain was the most influential to me. I learned all of side one of the Live album in the late seventies. Also was a fan of Wetton, and Boulder. (met Ken Hensley in '80, nice guy).