Editing Budgie (album)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Budgie
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Budgie (band)|Budgie]]
| cover      = Budgie - Budgie.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 30 July 1971
| recorded   = 1971
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
| length     = 40:40
| label      = [[Kapp Records|Kapp]]/[[MCA Records|MCA]]
| studio     = [[Rockfield Studios|Rockfield]] ([[Monmouth]], [[Wales]])
| producer   = [[Rodger Bain]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Squawk (album)|Squawk]]
| next_year  = 1972
}}

'''''Budgie''''' is the debut album by the [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Budgie (band)|Budgie]]. It was released on 30 July [[1971 in music|1971]], through [[MCA Records]]. The US version on [[Kapp Records]] includes "Crash Course in Brain Surgery", originally released as a single and covered by [[Metallica]] on their 1987 EP ''[[The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited]]''. "Homicidal Suicidal" has also been covered by the Seattle [[grunge]] band [[Soundgarden]]. Canadian band [[Thrush Hermit]] covered "Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" on the album ''All Technology Aside'', included on the 2010 ''The Complete Recordings'' box set.

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">Henderson, Alex. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2898|pure_url=yes}} "Budgie – Budgie"]. Allmusic. Retrieved 22 January 2006.</ref>
| noprose = yes
}} 
''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'' criticized the album as being somewhat undistinguished, but praised it for having "a lot of good natured foot-tapping music" and concluded "I certainly find it infinitely preferable to [[Black Sabbath (album)|Black Sabbath]], and I have the feeling that Budgie might develop into something a lot more interesting."<ref>{{cite news |title= Album Reviews |first=Steve |last=Peacock |newspaper=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |publisher= Spotlight Publications |date= 28 August 1971|page= 18}}</ref>

In a brief retrospective review, [[AllMusic]] declared that "For those seriously interested in metal's development, bombastic treasures like 'Homicidal Suicidal,' and 'Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman' are essential listening."<ref name="allmusic"/>

==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| all_writing = Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge and Ray Phillips.
| headline    = Side one
| title1      = Guts
| length1     = 4:20
| title2      = Everything in My Heart
| length2     = 1:00
| title3      = The Author
| length3     = 6:25
| title4      = Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
| length4     = 8:30
}}
{{tracklist
| headline    = Side two
| title5      = Rape of the Locks
| length5     = 6:10
| title6      = All Night Petrol
| length6     = 6:00
| title7      = You and I
| length7     = 1:45
| title8      = Homicidal Suicidal
| length8     = 6:30
}}
{{tracklist
| headline  = 2004 remaster bonus tracks
| title9    = Crash Course in Brain Surgery
| length9   = 2:36
| note9     = single, alternate mix
| title10   = Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
| length10  = 4:08
| note10    = single edit
| title11   = Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
| length11  = 3:45
| note11    = 2003 version
| title12   = Guts
| length12  = 3:53
| note12    = 2003 version
}}

== Personnel ==
'''Budgie'''
*Tony Bourge – guitar
*[[Burke Shelley]] – bass, vocals, [[mellotron]]
*[[Ray Phillips (musician)|Ray Phillips]] – drums, percussion
'''Additional personnel'''
*[[Rodger Bain]] – production
*Ray Dorsey – liner notes
*[[Shepard Sherbell]] – design, photography
*David Sparling – artwork, cover painting

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1971)
! Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row" |Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=135}}</ref>
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|}

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