Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Number 766 - Twisted Sister




Number 766

Twisted Sister

"We're Not Gonna Take It"

(1984)
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Genre:Hard Rock

*Shock Gasp Batman!* Its Mummy (Mommy) in drag! AAAARRGGGHHHHHHHHHH ! Ok its a slight exaggeration, but frag me if they didn't shock the world in 1984 looking like extra's out of a Madmax film.

"A product of New Yorker City's early-'70s glam rock scene, Twisted Sister were eager students of the New York Dolls, with the theatrics of Kiss and the shock rock of Alice Cooper thrown in for good measure. While providing an excellent role model from an artistic standpoint, the Dolls' disappointing record sales and subsequent implosion would make it difficult for such faithful disciples as Twisted Sister to land a record deal, and the band wound up struggling for nearly a decade before finally getting their big break in the early '80s. Unfortunately, when this break finally came, the band would then embody one of the most gruesome examples of record company overexposure in the history of rock & roll (or at least since Kiss
' late-'70s decline), bringing an abrupt end to their brief moment of glory.
Of course the backlash, when it came, was equally sudden and incredibly vicious. Overexposed to the breaking point after converting every angry teenager in America and most of their parents, Twisted Sister had lost the edge of their dangerous image, not to mention the respect of their loyal but terribly possessive core metal fan base. To complicate matters, 1985's Come Out and Play album was very uneven; attempting to cater to both the band's hardcore elements and their newfound pop constituency and introducing an excessively glammed-up image makeover to boot, it quickly slid off the charts. Not even Atlantic Records' timely reissue of Under the Blade (with an added bonus track, "I'll Never Grow Up Now!") could staunch the bleeding, and a dumbfounded Twisted Sister found themselves quickly transformed from media darlings to favorite whipping boys. For his part, Snider remained in the camera eye, however, appearing before a Senate committee later that year (along with such rock & roll luminaries as Frank Zappa and Bob Denver) to testify against the Parents Music Resource Center's demands for music censorship legislation. Sadly, it would prove to be Twisted Sister's highest profile appearance all year, as their concerts were frequently marred either by low attendance or crowd animosity. Adding insult to injury, drummer Pero had rendered his resignation at tour's end, opening the door to a very troubled 1986 for Twisted Sister, as rumors ran rampant about an irreparable rift between Snider and French over the band's direction. They eventually re-emerged with 1987's Love Is for Suckers, featuring new drummer Joey "Seven" Franco, but not even the services of flavor-of-the-month pop-metal producer Beau Hill could save the album from disappointing sales, and despite still getting by on the basis of their reliably fierce concert performances, Twisted Sister wound up disintegrating shortly thereafter.
What does Rolling Stone Magazine think about Twisted Sister?.....

"A sinister pervert in clown make-up first reunited them in a storybook tale of murder, mayhem and rock & roll. Now, nearly a year after reforming for the soundtrack to frontman Dee Snider's horror film, Strangeland, Twister Sister are back with a vengeance. Though the glam-rock quintet has no plans to record together again, they are clearing their calendars this summer for the first national Twisted Sister tour in more than a decade. Concert booker Dave Kirby of the Agency Group says Twisted Sister hope to create or join a package tour with other nostalgic fist thumpers -- perhaps the recently reformed Iron Maiden, who also plan to do an arena tour in the near future. Though details of the road jaunt remain tentative, Snider told Rolling Stone Online in an interview last year that the band will insist on a "full KISS-style return, not like Motley Crue" if they ever decided to revisit the past. One way or another, Twisted Sister -- song/screenwriting frontman Snider, guitarists J.J. French and Eddie Ojeda, bassist Mark Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero -- will dig out their baby blue eyeshadow and feel the noise again on an undisclosed date this summer. Stay tuned and hungry for more details . . .

A sinister pervert in clown make-up?
Yanno something? I think that made me laff.
Chuckle
Yep .. a definite snigger!
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Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Did we miss that one?) and the Album ranked at Number (Endorse Perverted clowns in make up?)
Still deserves to be in "The Definitive 1000" Mr Rolling Stone
This song has a total crowbarred rating of 65.4 out of 108
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Number 767 - Rolling Stones



Number 767

Rolling Stones

"Paint It Black"

(1966)
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Genre:Rock
Its so hard to believe i was only 1 year old (aww so cute) when "Paint it black" came out!
It must have been the most "edgiest" song of its day/time. Only the Beatles "Helter Skelter" that i can remember being so diverse in sound being so raw and that wasn't even recorded till 1968!

"Paint It Black" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966. It reached number one in both the U.S. and the UK charts. It was released as a single and on the album Aftermath (U.S. version).
As usual, the song was credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, although all of the bandmembers contributed substantially to it, especially Bill Wyman, and leader/founder Brian Jones.
Jagger's and Richards' original conception of the song was that of a slow soul song from the viewpoint of a person who is depressed. He wants everything to turn black to match his mood.
The song began with Wyman playing organ at a recording session, in parody of the group's former co-manager Eric Easton, who had been an organist. Charlie Watts accompanied the organ by playing a vaguely Middle Eastern drum part; Watts' drum pattern became the basis for the final song. Brian Jones contributed the song's signature sitar riff (having taught himself to play), and Jagger contributed a lyric seemingly about a man mourning his dead girlfriend.
The song has become associated with the Vietnam War due to its use in the ending credits of Full Metal Jacket and the opening credits of Tour of Duty. It was also used in 2004 in an episode-ending montage in the NBC television show American Dreams, when a major character went missing in Vietnam. Its other film appearances include the closing credits of 1997's The Devil's Advocate. The song, as covered by Gob, was also featured in the film Stir of Echoes. A French version of the song, performed by Marie Laforet, appears in the 2006 film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
"Paint It Black" was also used in two PlayStation 2 titles. Conflict: Vietnam used the song during the opening sequence, while Twisted Metal: Black used the beginning of the song in the opening screen, then the whole song again in its end credits.
It has also been covered by many different bands and music artists, including (but not limited to); Inkubus Sukkubus, Judas Priest, Glenn Tipton, Gob, The Hypertonics, The Vines, Deadsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Kalan Porter, Firewater, W.A.S.P., Deep Purple, Ottmar Liebert, The Agony Scene, The Avengers, Anti-Nowhere League, The Unseen, Rush, Led Zeppelin, 3 Steps Ahead, The Tea Party, Karel Gott (in German as Schwarz und Rot), Eric Burdon and War, U2, London Symphony Orchestra with Marc Almond, Skrewdriver, Earth Crisis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Hikaru Utada, Half Japanese, Vanessa Carlton, Three Sixes, Face to Face, Spanish band M-Clan, Bullet Train to Moscow, No Friends Of Harry, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Statemachine, Hampton String Quartet and others. The song was also covered by country singer Tracy Lawrence, as part of the Stone Country album, featuring prominent country acts covering Stones classics.
In 2004 it was ranked #174 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Paint It Black" is also the name of an album from Virgin Records due to be released on October 3, 2006, which is to feature covers of well-known Rolling Stones songs by a variety of artists.

What does Rolling Stone Magazine think about The Rolling Stones?
"Aftermath was the first album of Jagger-Richards originals and the first album the Stones recorded as a coherent whole. It showcases the sauciest Mick, the broodiest Keith, the prettiest Brian, the funkiest Bill, and Charlie -- now and forever, Charlie. It's blues-rock flower power, but all the flowers are painted black, with Brian's marimba and dulcimer adding color to these tough, lean, desperately lonely songs. If the Velvet Underground had ever made an album with the Stax house band, it might have sounded like this: the outrageously funny country honk "High and Dry," the gentle acoustic longing of "I Am Waiting," the 11-minute "Going Home." The U.S. version improves on the original by losing "Mother's Little Helper," always a song worth losing, and adding the sitar-crazed death chant "Paint It Black." Mick trips through the Swinging London scene with tirelessly bitchy ditties like "Under My Thumb," "Think," and "Doncha Bother Me," coming up with sharp lines even when he's just shaking the maracas of his mind to the beat to give his lips something to do."

Best bit of arse licking since "Comical Ali" about his master Saddam Hussein. What more could you expect from a magazine that named itself after one of its "fave" groups. (Ever wondered what hapened to Comical Ali? He know is on the board of directers at Rolling Stone Magazine) It might be a joke but it just wouldn't surprise me.


Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number 174 and the Album ranked at Number 108
This song has a total crowbarred rating of 65.4 out of 108
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Number 765 - Cinderella


Number 765

Cinderella

"Hot & Bothered"

(1994)
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Genre:Glam Rock
Long hair, wrist bands and spandex! And today's Generation Y (Gen P, Crystal Meth,Playstation & obesity) says we should be embarrassed of our time period. Err, righto Paris Hilton freaks :p Any way back to the world of arena rock shows.

"Cinderella was founded in Philadelphia, PA, in 1983 by singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist Tom Keifer (born January 26, 1961) and bassist Eric Brittingham (born May 8, 1960), who quickly added lead guitarist Jeff LaBar (born March 18, 1963). Guitarist Michael Kelly Smith and drummer Tony Destra were also early members of the band, but they left in 1985 to form Britny Fox. Cinderella then added drummer Jody Cortez and continued as a four-piece. Insisting on playing original material, they performed in clubs and bars in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in 1985 Jon Bon Jovi caught one of their shows. He was sufficiently impressed to alert his record company, Mercury, which signed the band. Their debut album, Night Songs, was released in June 1986. Shortly after its completion, Cortez left the band and was replaced by Fred Coury (born October 20, 1964). The LP was not an immediate success, but it gained momentum gradually while the band toured extensively as an opening act to promote it. It broke into the Billboard chart in July, and the track "Shake Me," although it failed to chart as a single, got enough radio attention to turn up on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart in August. On October 1, the album was certified gold. That month, Mercury released a second single, "Nobody's Fool," accompanied by a music video that earned play on MTV; it broke into the charts in November and peaked at number 13 in February 1987. Its success further stimulated sales of the album, which was certified platinum in December 1986 and broke into the Top Ten by the end of the year; it peaked at number 3 in February 1987, and that same month was certified double platinum. In April, Mercury released a third single, "Somebody Save Me," which peaked at number 66 in May. (The album was certified triple platinum in May 1991.)

"Having broken through to popular success with Night Songs, Cinderella returned with their second album, Long Cold Winter, in July 1988. Radio initially focused on the track "Gypsy Road," giving it a Top 20 ranking in the Album Rock Tracks chart, but Mercury did not release it as a single at first (although in the U.K., where it was released as a single, it charted). Instead the power ballad "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" was released as a single in August, and it peaked at number 12 in November. The album reached number ten in September, the same month it was certified gold and platinum simultaneously, with a double-platinum certification following in November. (It was certified triple platinum in January 1997.) As the group continued to tour relentlessly through 1988 and 1989, Mercury broke more singles from the LP. "The Last Mile," released in December, peaked at number 36 in March 1989; "Coming Home," released in March, hit number 20 in June; and "Gypsy Road," finally put on 45 a year after the release of Long Cold Winter in July 1989, and backed by a live version of the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash," got to number 51 in September."

"In the meanwhile, fashions changed. Cinderella had been part of a "pop-metal" movement including Bon Jovi, Great White, and Ratt, who preceded them, as well as Poison, the enormously popular Guns N' Roses, and L.A. Guns, who followed them. But when "grunge" rockers Nirvana, boasting a neo-punk style, broke through to success in the fall of 1991 with their album Nevermind and single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the record labels suddenly became enamored of their stripped-down approach. Suddenly, instead of the teased and blown-dry coiffures and skin-tight stage costumes of the pop-metal bands, it was the dirty-hair-falling-in-the-face, flannel-shirt-and-jeans look of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain that was all the rage. Soon, the pop-metal groups were written off with a new epithet, dismissed as "hair metal" bands. By the time Keifer & Co. finally emerged with the fourth Cinderella album, Still Climbing, in November 1994, it could only manage to spend one week at number 178 before disappearing. Mercury promptly dropped the band"
~ William Ruhlmann

Didn't Nirvana knock out a whole Genre in one album or what !

For Rolling Stones see Number 689 & Number 767
For Great White see Number 772
For Guns 'n Roses see Number 795

What does Rolling Stone Magazine think about Cinderella?
"Cinderella is no longer packing arenas, but the band's tour bus hasn't turned into a pumpkin yet. "We were dropped from Mercury after 10 years of loyal service, but we weren't ready to quit at the time," says frontman Tom Keifer. Realizing what they had once it was gone, Cinderella has trudged on in the face of other such Spinal Tap-style setbacks, including the resignation of two drummers and potentially career-ending vocal chord problems for its singer.Keifer has been pursuing a solo career during the group's hiatus."

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Its a Fairy story?) and the Album ranked at Number (Like Alice in Chains innit?) (no...that was a porno)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 65.4 out of 108
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