Album Review:
Squawk
- Release Date: 1972
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Noteworthy
- Total Time: 33:25
- Artist: Budgie
- Rating:
- Styles: British Metal, Heavy Metal, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Track Picks: "Hot as a Docker's Armpit"
- Similar Albums: UFO 1, Medusa, The Best of Mountain,
Slow Motion , Back into the Future, Demons and Wizards, The Last Puff, Master of Reality, Paranoid, Black Sabbath
Review
Having acquired a small cult following with its first album, Budgie offered a second dose of abrasive, forceful heavy metal that, like its predecessor, drew on influences ranging from Cream to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Budgie was a band that loved contrasts -- the folk-ish qualities of "Make Me Happy" and the Beatlesque "Rolling Home Again" make hard-driving classics like "Hot as a Docker's Armpit," "Drugstore Woman," and "Rocking Man" seem all the more intense. For all its strengths, Squawk didn't turn Budgie into the well-known outfit it should have been. Budgie's followers were a devoted bunch, but unfortunately, there weren't nearly enough of them. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Whiskey River | Budgie | Budgie | (3:27) | |
| Rocking Man | Budgie, Tony Bourge, Burke Shelley | Budgie | (5:25) | |
| Rolling Home Again | Budgie | Budgie | (1:47) | |
| Make Me Happy | Budgie | Budgie | (2:37) | |
| Hot as a Docker's Armpit | Budgie, Tony Bourge, Burke Shelley | Budgie | (5:53) | |
| Drugstore Woman | Budgie | Budgie | (3:14) | |
| Bottled | Budgie | Budgie | (1:57) | |
| Young Is a World | Budgie, Tony Bourge, Burke Shelley | Budgie | (8:14) | |
| Stranded | Budgie | Budgie | (6:17) |
