Wolfmother vs Uriah Heep
Take a short energetic tune from the zeroes, and see if it can be blended with a 1972 song.
A mashup that makes immediate sense the moment you hear it: Wolfmother’s “Woman” and Uriah Heep’s “Easy Livin’” are separated by three decades but built from the same DNA.
The result is Easy Woman, a tune on which Wolfmother sounds a bit more vintage but it fits like a glove! In such a way that it gave green light to the other way round: Uriah Heep vs Wolfmother… Which one do you prefer?
Ingredients
This mashup / mix is a blend of these tunes:
Wolfmother
Woman
Year: 2004 (EP) -> 2006 (album)
Album: Wolfmother
Genre: Hardrock, heavy metal, neo-psychedelica
About Woman
“Woman” first appeared on Wolfmother’s 2004 EP before being included on their 2006 debut album Wolfmother, produced by Garth Richardson. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2007 — quite a debut. It became a fixture in rock radio playlists, TV adverts and video games (Guitar Hero II), introducing a new generation to the sound of analogue amplifiers pushed past their limits. The band has been through many lineup changes over the years, but “Woman” remains the song that defines them.
Uriah Heep
Easy Livin’
Year: 1972
Album: Demons and Wizards
Genre: Progressive rock
About Easy Livin’
Released in 1972 on Demons and Wizards, “Easy Livin’” is one of Uriah Heep’s most enduring tracks. Written by Ken Hensley, the song barrels along on a combination of Mick Box’s hard rock guitar and Hensley’s organ — an instrument that gave Uriah Heep a distinctly different texture from their contemporaries. David Byron’s soaring vocal delivery ties it together. The band took their name from the villainous Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, which tells you something about their sense of humour. “Easy Livin’” is regularly cited as one of the earliest examples of what would become heavy metal.
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