After putting themselves on the hard rock map with Razamanaz, Nazareth took their new, forceful style even further the next year on Loud & Proud.
With Roger Glover once again at the controls, the group added even higher levels of distortion and energy to create one of the hardest rocking items in their catalog: "Go Down Fighting" starts the album with a sonic boom thanks to its blend of furious riffing with a breathless tempo, and the group's cover of "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" transforms this Little Feat into a runaway locomotive of hard rock riffing.
Loud & Proud also produced another hit single for the group with a cover of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," which transforms the wistful original into a throbbing rock song. The album has a few stylistic curve balls to keep listeners on their toes: "Turn on Your Receiver" is a mid-tempo slice of country rock (complete with an exaggerated Southern accent in the vocal) and "Child in the Sun," a stately ballad dominated by acoustic guitars.
But the most amazing song here, is a cover of Bob Dylan's acoustic folkish tune "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown". The song, which tackles the early sixties crisis in the US farmer's community, has undergone such a fantastic transformation that it simply became a totally different piece of music... The pace is set way slower (as Bawb seemed rather in a hurry at the time), with a crunching, distorted bass, enormous feedback and some extravagant synthesizers, with a Dan McCafferty at the top of his form...
Included in this remastered edition, are three alternate versions as bonus...
01. Go Down Fighting - 3:07
02. Not Faking It - 4:01
03. Turn on Your Receiver - 3:19
04. Teenage Nervous Breakdown - 3:43
05. Free Wheeler - 5:31
06. This Flight Tonight - 3:24
07. Child in the Sun - 4:51
08. The Ballad of Hollis Brown - 9:11
09. This Flight Tonight (Bonus - US Version) - 3:24
10. Go Down Fighting (Bonus - US Version) - 3:05
11. The Ballad of Hollis Brown (Bonus - Edited) - 5:10
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