Rock and Roll History: The 90's!!! (Part 2)

[ABlairican Pie]

On March 4, 1986, the rock world faced another tragedy when a veteran performer from the 60's and 70's, The Band's Richard Manuel, committed suicide by hanging. The Band had returned from a long hiatus since 1978 and began performing shows, and Manuel had been recovering from his bout from alcoholism, which had greatly aged him and nearly destroyed his health. He had gotten better by the time the band reunited, but the death of their manager Albert Grossman, who had helped keep him clean and sober, devastated him. Grossman's death in early 1986, loss of shows, and the perception that The Band was reduced to a mere nostalgia act, propelled Manuel over the edge. He had sunk deeper into depression. A few months later at home, when his wife stepped of the room, he hanged himself. A bottle of Grand Marnier and cocaine were found alongside his corpse. He was buried a week later in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. :(

Many musicians such as his bandmate Robbie Robertson, Eric Clapton, and Counting Crows' Adam Duritz all released songs dedicated to The Band's fallen keyboardist.

[ABlairican Pie]

Also in 1986, the movie 'Stand By Me', featuring the hit song performed by r & b artist Ben E. King in 1961, was a coming-of-age story based on a short novel by Stephen King called "The Body" about a group of misfit boys in 1959 who find a dead body in a remote rural location. The movie starred Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland,
and Richard Dreyfuss.

Stand By Me

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me-e, yeah

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Darlin', darlin', stand by me-e, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

[ABlairican Pie]

Steve Earle was one rock and roll musician a little more on the country side of things who recorded his debut album Guitar Town in 1986. Born in Virginia in 1955, a legend revolved around him that his grandfather sent in a box of Texas dirt to the delivery room where he was born so that the first dirt he ever set foot on was Texan. Whether or not this story was true, what remains a fact is that his life had taken on some rather Texan proportions. While grown up in Texas, he dropped out of school early to pursue a career in music. The turning point of his young life was when he was given advice backstage by singer Ronnie Van Zandt after a Lynrd Skynyrd concert: Ronnie took off the necklace from around his neck, placed it on young Steve's neck and told him, "Boy, if you work hard enough and believe in yourself, then you too can become a rock star someday." It took a number of years, but after songwriting for various country musicians in Nashville, he scored with Guitar Town in 1986. He originally had a rockabilly style early in his songs, but the album was a mature, critically acclaimed work which sold over 300, 000 units.

Unfortunately, his early success was hampered by his use of drugs which affect his career.

Guitar Town

Hey pretty baby are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee
I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on
There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town
But no local yokel gonna shut me down
'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound
And we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town
Nothin' ever happened 'round my hometown
And I ain't the kind to just hang around
But I heard someone callin' my name one day
And I followed that voice down the lost highway
Everybody told me you can't get far
On thirty-seven dollars and a jap guitar
Now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer down
And a rockin' little combo from the Guitar Town

Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault
I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
Stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop

Gotta keep rockin' why I still can
I gotta two pack habit and a motel tan
But when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man
With my back to the riser I make my stand
And hey pretty baby won't you hold me tight
We're loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight
One of these days I'm gonna settle down
And take you back with me to the Guitar Town

Goodbye's All We Got Left

I could tell it when I woke up this mornin'
'Cause I can smell it when a heartache's comin'
Not that I'm in such a hurry to lose you
I'd call you up but there's nothin' that I can do
Talkin' won't do any good anyway
'Cause goodbye's all we've got left to say
I don't think that it'll get any better
So maybe you could just write me a letter
And I could open it up when I'm stronger
Another ten or twelve years, maybe longer
Guess I just don't feel much like bad news today
Goodbye's all we've got left to say

Don't try to call me 'cause I'm takin' my phone out
'Cause if it rings, I'll know what it's about
And don't you worry 'bout me 'cause I'm alright
Maybe you'll run into me somewhere, some night
And if you do just keep goin' your way
Goodbye's all we've got left to say

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[ABlairican Pie]

In 1984, Motorhead released a compilation album, the two-record set No Remorse, which featured a few new songs such as one of their most popular numbers, "Killed By Death". The band followed up with Orgasmatron, in 1986, named after a device in a Woody Allen futuristic movie, 1973's 'Sleeper'. The album also featured Pete Gill on drums.

Killed By Death

If you squeeze my lizard
I'll put my snake on you
I'm a romantic adventure
And I'm a reptile too

[CHORUS:]
But it don't make no difference
'cos I ain't gonna be, easy, easy
the only time I'm easy's when I'm
Killed by death *4

I'm a lone wolf ligger
But I ain't no pretty boy
I'm a backbone shiver
and I'm a bundle of joy

[CHORUS]

But it don't make no difference
'cos I ain't gonna be, easy, easy
the only time I'm easy's when I'm
Killed by death
Killed by death
Killed by death
Killed by death

Dr. Rock

All right, all right
I hope you son of bitches see the light
You again, you again
I know you've got a mental age of ten
Listen up, listen up
I wouldn't swap you for a thousand bucks
Come on, you're the one
I think I'm going to switch your lazer on

[Chorus]
I've got the medicine you need
I've got the power, I've got the speed
I'll find out how to stop your clock
We sure ain't talking Doctor Spock
Hear me talking, Doctor Rock.

Lay down, turn around
Here come the sister gonna strip you down
Shut up, breathe in
Lets have the address of your next of kin
Chin up, shoulders back
You've got a body like a Marshall stack
Keep still, take your pill
Or I'm gonna make you really ill.

[Chorus]

Next please, next please
Try to separate those cowardly knees
X-ray, you've gotta pay
The only chance you've ever got of getting away
Here we are, what's the scar
I don't like anything I've seen so far
Pay me, pay me
I ain't no doctor of philosophy

[Chorus]

Deaf Forever

Stoneface dog, swirling fog, gates open on the dark dark night
Standing stone, skull and bone, dead witness to an unseen fight
Beat the drum, beat the drum, beat forever on the endless march
Stricken dumb, cut and run, someone is screaming and the sky is dark

[Chorus]
Sword and shield, bone and steel, rictus grin
Deaf forever to the battles din

March or croak, flame and smoke, burn forever in eternal pain
Charge and fall, bugle call, bone splinter in the driving rain
Horses scream, Viking dream, drowned heroes in a lake of blood
Armoured fist, severed wrist, broken spears in a sea of mud

[Repeat chorus]

Mother earth, mother earth enfold you in her cold embrace
Sinking down, killing ground, worm crawling on your cold white face
Win or lose, nought to choose, all men are equal when their memory fades
No one knows, friends or foes, if Valhalla lies beyond the grave

[Repeat chrous + last 2 lines twice]

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[ABlairican Pie]

In a year where post-prog rock projects would not die, guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford of Genesis formed Mike + the Mechanics in 1986.
At this point, it was all well and fine, since the theatrical prog era of Peter Gabriel was far behind them, and Genesis had evolved into a more pop rock band fronted by drummer Phil Collins. The band released their self-titled debut in 1986, which featured singer Paul Carrack on the lead vocals to their first hit, "Silent Running". Another big song from the album was "All I Need Is a Miracle".

Silent Running

Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I'm with the high command

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

There's a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you

All I Need Is a Miracle

I said "go if you wanna go,
Stay if you wanna stay"
I didn't care if you hung around me
I didn't care if you went away
And I know you were never right
I'll admit I was never wrong
I could never make up my mind
I made it up as I went along

And though I treated you like a child
I'm gonna miss you for the rest of my life

All I need is a miracle, all I need is you
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you

I never had any time
And I never had any call
But I went out of my way just to hurt you,
The one I shouldn't hurt at all
I thought I was being cool
Yeah, I thought I was being strong
But it's always the same old story
You never know what you've got 'til it's gone

If I ever catch up with you
I'm gonna love you for the rest of your life

All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (all I need is a miracle)
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (all I need is a miracle)
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you

And if I ever catch up with you
I'm gonna love you for the rest of your life

All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (all I need is a miracle)
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (all I need is a miracle)
All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (all I need is a miracle)
All I need is a, all I need is a,
All I need is you (all I need is a miracle)

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[Steve M.]

In a year where post-prog rock projects would not die, guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford of Genesis formed Mike + the Mechanics in 1986. . . .

The band released their self-titled debut in 1986, which featured singer Paul Carrack on the lead vocals to their first hit, "Silent Running". Another big song from the album was "All I Need Is a Miracle".



The video for "All I Need Is a Miracle" featured the late Roy Kinnear as the band's manager.

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1987, almost three and a half years since the tragic accident which severed drummer Rick Allen's left arm, Def Leppard finally released Hysteria, an album which had one of the longest completion times of any rock record. The band had started composing and rehearsing for the new album in late 1984, but Allen's accident had put everything on indefinite hold. There was no talk of replacing him, but for a drummer to play with only one arm was an insurmountable challenge, until a special electronic drum kit was designed for him. Over time Allen would concentrate on mastering his new drums, but other problems would interfere with the band's progress on the new album: Producer Mutt Lange was injured in a car accident, and vocalist Joe Elliot suffered from mumps, but soon the album came together. Def Leppard's official return to the limelight came at the Donington Monsters of Rock in 1986. Fans were moved by the strength and determination of Rick Allen as he returned to the drum kit.

However, fans who wanted a replay of 1983's Pyromania were about to be disappointed with the new album, released in the summer of 1987. The album's intent was to make a heavy metal version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the only thing keeping them from the top spot on the charts in 1983, in the sense of making every song a hit single, or at least having that potential. It may have been simply because of the new drum sound the band acquired, but the album was so commercial and "pop" that it was difficult to call it heavy metal. The album was so meticulously produced that it lost that edge. Was it necessarily a bad thing? It had enough elements of metal, but at its heart it was simply a very good hard-edged pop rock album. It became their biggest selling album. Fears that the band had lost their fan base over the past few years were laid to rest with the release of "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Animal", and "Armageddon It".

Animal

A wild ride, over stony ground
Such a lust for life, the circus comes to town
We are the hungry ones, on a lightning raid
Just like a river runs, like a fire needs flame
I burn for you

I gotta feel it in my blood
Whoa-oh
I need your touch don't need your love
Whoa-oh
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal

I cry wolf, given mouth to mouth
Like a movin' heartbeat in the witching hour
I'm runnin' with the wind, a shadow in the dust
And like the drivin' rain
Yeah, like the restless rust
I never sleep


I gotta feel it in my blood
Whoa-oh
I need your touch don't need your love
Whoa-oh
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal

Huh!
Oh!
Cry wolf baby
Cry tough
Gonna hunt you like an, uh, uh, animal
Gonna take your love n' run

I gotta feel it in my blood
Whoa-oh
I need your touch don't need your love
Whoa-oh
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal

And I want (And I want)
And I need (And I need)
And I lust (And I lust)
Animal (Animal)
And I want (Take me)
And I need (Tame me)
And I lust (Make me)
Animal (Your Animal)
And I want (Show me)
And I need (Stroke me)
And I lust
(Let me be your...)
Animal (Animal)
And I want (I want)
And I need (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
And I lust (Yeah Animal)
Animal
(Animal)
(Heh! heh!)

Armageddon It

Ya better come inside when you're ready to
But no chance if ya don't wanna dance
You like (a) four letter words when you're ready to
But then you won't 'cos you know that you can
You got it
But are you gettin' it?
You say that love is (a) won when you get some
But then your finger won't trigger the gun

You know you (ya) can't stop it, so don't rock it
You know you got it
Hey, but are you gettin' it?
Ooh, really gettin' it?
(Oh)
Come get it from me

(Gimme all of you lovin')
Ev'ry little bit
(Gimme all that you got)
Ev'ry bit of it
(Ev'ry bit of your lovin)
Oh, c'mon live a bit
(Never wanna stop)
Yeah, but are you gettin' it?
(Armageddon it!)
Ooh, really gettin' it?
(Yes, Armaggedon it!)

C'mon get it
Yeah
Do, do, do

Uh oh
You try comin' on when you need some
But then you don't 'cos you already did
Yeah, you jangle your jewels while your shakin' ya
And drive the pretty boys outta their heads
You got it
But are you gettin' it?
You flash your bedroom eyes like a jumpin' jack
Then play it pretty with a pat on the back

C'mon, Steve, get it
Huh!

Take it, take it, take it from me
I got an itchy finger following me
Pull it, pull it, c'mon trigger the gun
'Cos the best is (a) yet to come
I say
('Cos the best is yet to come)
Oh, are you gettin' it?
Oh, really gettin' it?
Yes, are you gettin' it?
Whooh, really gettin' it?
(Oh) Come get it from me
(Gimme all of you lovin')
Ev'ry little bit
(Gimme all that you got)
Ev'ry bit of it
(Ev'ry bit of your lovin')
Oh come on live a bit
(Never want it to stop)
Oh, are you getting it?
(Gimme all of your lovin')
Ooh really gettin' it?
(Gimme all that you got)
Oh are you getting it?
(Gimme all of your lovin')
Oh live a bit
(Gimme all that you got)
No
Live a bit
You've gotta live it
(Gimme all of your lovin')
Ooh baby live it
(Gimme all that you got)
C'mon and give it
(Ev'ry bit of your lovin')
Oh come on and give it
(Never want it to stop)
Oh are you gettin' it?
(Gimme all of your lovin')
Ooh really gettin' it?
(Gimme all that you got)
Oh are you gettin' it?
(Ev'ry bit of your lovin')
Oh live a bit
(Never want it to stop)
Whoah
(Gimme all of your lovin')
(Gimme all that you got)

Hysteria

Out of touch
Out of reach, yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I'm in love
I'm in deep, yeah
Hypnotized
I'm shakin' to my knees

I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight
Can't stop this feeling
Can't stop this fire

I get hysterical
Hysteria
Oh, can you feel it (Oh can you feel it)
Do you believe it (Do you believe it)
It's such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin' (When you get that feelin')
Better start believin (Better start believin')
Cause it's a miracle
Say you will, ooh babe
Hysteria when you're near

Out of me
Into you, yeah
You could hide
it's just a one way street
Oh, I believe I'm in you, yeah
Open wide, that's right
Take me off my feet
Oh, believe in me

I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight
Can't stop this feelin'
Can't stop this fire
Oh

I get hysterical
Hysteria
Oh, can you feel it (Oh can you feel it)
Do you believe it (Do you believe it)
It's such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin' (When you get that feelin')
Better start believin (Better start believin')
Cause it's a miracle
Say you will
Ooh babe
Hysteria when you're near

Come on

I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight
Can't stop this feelin'
Can't stop this fire

I get hysterical
Hysteria
Oh can you feel it (Oh can you feel it)
Do you believe it (Do you believe it)
It's such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin',(When you get that feelin')
Better start believin,(Better start believin')
Cause it's a miracle, oh say you will,
Oh babe (Oh can you feel it)
Oh babe (Do you believe it)
Oh (I get hysterical)
Hysterical (Hysteria)
Hysteria (When you get that feelin')
You better believe it (Better start believin')
'Cause it's a miracle
Say you will
Oh baby
Say you will

(Get closer to me)
Get closer, baby
Baby
Closer (closer)
Closer (get closer)
Closer to me

Love Bites

If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites

When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of?
Does he look like me?
Do you tell lies?
And say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch and see?
Ooh babe
Oh yeah
When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild and willin', or is it just for show?
Ooh C'mon

I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!

Chorus
(Love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(Love lives, love dies)
It's no surprise
(Love begs, love pleads)
It's what I need

When I'm with you, are you somewhere else?
Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself?
When you wake up, will you walk out?
It can't be love if you throw it about
Ooh babe

I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
Oh

Chorus
(Love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(Love lives, love dies)
It's no surprise
(Love begs, love pleads)
It's what I need

Oh yeah!

I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!

(Love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(Love lives, love dies)

(Love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(Love lives, love dies)
It's no surprise
(Love begs, love pleads)
It's what I need

If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
Yes it does
Bloody Hell

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Step inside, walk this way
You and me babe, hey hey

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man
Your man

Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss-a-innocent sugar me, yeah

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me, ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me, c'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me, oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet yeah

Listen
Red light, yellow light, green-a-light go
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up
I loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little
Tease a little more
Easy operator come-a-knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah
Give a little more

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me, ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me, c'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me, oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet yeah

You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste saccharine
'Cos I'm hot, so hot, sticky sweet
From my head, my head to my feet
To my feet
Do you take sugar, one lump or two?

Take a bottle, take a bottle
Shake it up, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up
Break it up

Pour some sugar on me, ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me, c'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me, oh, I can't get enough
Pour some sugar on me, oh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me, get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me, ooh
Pour some sugar on me, yeah
Sugar me

Rocket

White lights, strange city, mad music
(All around)
Midnight, street magic, (ah) crazy people
(Crazy sound)
Jack Flash, rocket man
Sergeant Pepper and the band
Ziggy, Benny and the Jets
Ah, take a rocket

We just gotta fly
(I can take you through the center of the dark)
We're gonna fly
(On a collision course to crash into my heart)
I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your
(Rocket yeah satellite of love)
(Rocket yeah satellite of love)
(Rocket yeah satellite of love)

Rocket baby!
C'mon, I'll be your satellite of love

Spotlight, magnetic, razor rhythm
(laser love)
Guitar, drums, load up, stun!
Jet Black Johnny B
Ah Gene Jenie, Killer Queen
Dizzy Lizzy Major Tom
So c'mon

Rocket baby!
C'mon, we're gonna fly

(Rocket yeah!)

Guitar, drums, load up!
We're gonna fly
(Rocket yeah)
Satellite of love
We're gonna fly
(Rocket yeah)
Yeah!
Satellite of love
Rocket yeah!

Women

In the beginning, God made the land
Then He made the water and creatures, then He made man
He was born with a passion, love and hate
A restless spirit with a need for a mate
But there was somethin' missin', somethin' lost
So he came with the answer, here's what it cost
One part love, one part wild
One part lady, one part child

I give you
(Women! women!)
Lots of pretty women
(Men! men!)
They can't live without them
(Women! women!)
Lots of pretty women
(Men! men!)
They can't live without them

And in the garden, lust began
The animal instinct, the wanton man
She fed him with a hunger, an appetite
And fillin' with emotion he took a bite
It was one part love, one part child
One part lover, one part wild

Skin on skin
Let the love begin
Women!

It was one part love, one part wild
One part lover, one part child
A whole lotta fire, a little bit of ice
A whole lotta somethin' you can't sacrifice
I give you
Hair, eyes, skin on skin
(Legs) Legs
(Thighs) Thighs
What's that spell?
(Spell? what's that spell?)
((What's that spell?))
What's that spell?
((What's that spell?))
(Women, women)
Oh! oh! oh!
Oh! oh! oh!
(Women) Women
(Women) Callin' every girl
(Women women) All around the world
(Women) Women!
(Women) Oh, we can't live without them
(Women women)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwugMuUYFuY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcbcbeenFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjPbeyHIO0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUZvw-Ps30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4J4dqYl__A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUd3LAFXt5g

[ABlairican Pie]

And of course, the big success story of 1987 was the rise of a band set out to set the hairspray on fire and bring back the rage and roar of the streets of Los Angeles. A band which had formed in 1985 by a group of drug-addled misfits who had planned to form a combination of both Aerosmith and The Sex Pistols. The band was living off the streets sustaining themselves on McDonald's coupons, but were enjoying themselves. They wrote songs speaking from their harsh experiences. They were:

GUNS 'N' F#$%@&IN' ROSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The band had formed from the combination of two local L.A. bands, Hollywood
Rose and L.A. Guns, featured Tracii Guns, which would go off and achieve a measure of success on their own. Tom Zutaut, a Geffen Records A&R executive, witnessed a Guns N' Roses show at the Troubadour, then falsely warned other scouts that "they suck" so he could have more time and leeway to sign them. Axl Rose demanded and received a $75,000 advance from Zutaut before revealing that he promised an A&R from Chrysalis that the band would sign with her if she walked naked down Sunset Boulevard. For three days, Zutaut nervously watched from his Sunset office window for a naked A&R executive before he could close the deal. Alan Niven was subsequently hired as the band's manager, and the team then set out to record the band's full-length debut album.

The band's first album, Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide from 1986, featured a few punk tracks as well as a cover of Aerosmith's "Mama Kin", but was overdubbed to appear as if it were a live record. The album went on to become a very highly collectable record, and was re-released on the 1989 album G N' R Lies.

In the summer of 1987, Appetite For Destruction, the band's first major label debut was released to tepid notice. That all was about to change when record magnate David Geffen asked MTV to play it in the late evening/early morning hours. Apparently, some insomniac metal fans were up that late and listening, and the song burst into wide demand. The abum began selling like crazy, though many religious and feminist groups, as well as PMRC types criticized the original album cover art of a mechanical mercenary devouring a rapist who had struck a female victim as being "sexist" itself. The cover art was changed to a simple cross with skulls representing the band's members. Regardless, vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler were not about to shy away from any controversy. They were about to bring danger back into rock and roll.

Though they ended up being more of a danger to themselves.

Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease


In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,\knees, knees
I'm wanna watch you bleed


Welcome to the jungle
We take it day by day
If you want you're gonna bleed
But it's the price you pay
And you're a very sexy girl
Very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights
But you won't get there for free
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my, my serpentine
I,I, wanna hear you scream


Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me


In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed


And when you're high you never
Ever want to cum down, suck down, suck down, suck down YEAH!!!!!


You know where you are
You're in the jungle baby
You gonna die
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my, my serpentine
Jungle,in the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,knees,knees
Down in the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It's gonna bring you down!

Sweet Child O' Mine

She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
she takes me away to that special place
And if I stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry

woah oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine


She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

woah oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine

woah oh oh oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh
Sweet love of mine

woah oh oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine

woah oh oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine

Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child
o Where do we go now
ah ah aiai ai ai
Where do we go now
Where do we go

Where do we go
Where do we go now
where do we
where do we go now
sweet child
sweet child of mine

Paradise City

CHORUS x2
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)

Just an urchin livin' under the street
I'm a hard case that's tough to beat
I'm your charity case
So by me somethin' to eat
I'll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches
Or so they say
You gotta
Keep pushin' for the fortune and fame
You know it's, it's all a gamble
When it's just a game
You treat it like a capitol crime
Everybody' doin' their time

CHORUS x2

Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber
Why I'm here, I can't quite remember
The surgoen general say's it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another cigarette
But I can't see
Tell me who you're gonna believe

CHORUS x2

So far away x4

Capitain America's been torn apart
Now he's a court jester
With a broken heart
He said turn me around
And take me back to the start
I must be losing my mind
"Are you blind?!"
I've seen it all a million times

CHORUS x4

I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
Oh yeah
Beat me down
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Boy, I'm gonna be mean
Oh, oh take me home

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won't you please take me hooooooome
Baby

Mr. Brownstone

I get up around seven
Get outta bed around nine
And I don't worry about nothin' no
'Cause worrin's a waste of my free time

The show usually starts around seven
We go on stage around nine
Get on the bus about eleven
Sippin' a drink and feelin' fine

Chorus:
We been dancin' with Mr. Brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before

Chorus

Now I get up around whenever
I used ta get up on time
But that old man he's a real muthaf:censored:er
Gonna kick him on down the line

I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before

Chorus
Shoved it in the bindle and I shot it in the middle
And it, it drove outta my mind
I should've known better, said I wish I never met her Said I,
I leave it all behind
Yowsa!

Nightrain

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

(look out)
Well I'm a west coast struttin'
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I'm a mean machine
Been drinkin' gasoline
An honey you can make my motor hum
Well, I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight

Wake up late honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card to the liquor store
That's one for you and two for me by tonight
I'll be
Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

I'm on the nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain
Ready to crash and burn
I never learn
I'm on the nightrain
I love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
and I can never get enough
I'm on the nightrain
Never to return - no

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

I'm on the nightrain
An I'm lookin' for some
I'm on the nightrain
So's I can leave this slum
I'm on the nightrain
And I'm ready to crash an' burn
nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa yeah
I'm on the nightrain
Love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
An I can never get enough
Ridin' the nightrain
I guess I
I guess, I guess, I guess I never learn

On the nightrain
Float me home
Ooh I'm on the nightrain
Ridin' the nightrain
Never to return
Nightrain

Rocket Queen

If I say I don't need anyone
I can say these things to you
'Cause
I can turn on any one
Just like I turned on you
I've got a tongue like a razor
A sweet switchblade knife
And I can do you favors
But then you'll do whatever I like

Chorus:

Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen
I might be a little young
But honey I ain't naive
Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen oh yeah
I might be too much
But honey you're a bit obscene

I've seen everything imaginable
Pass before these eyes
I've had everything that's tangible
Honey you'd be surprised
I'm a sexual innuendo
In this burned out paradise
If you turn me on to anything
You better turn me on tonight

Chorus

I see you standing
Standing on your own
It's such a lonely place for you
For you to be
If you need a shoulder
Or if you need a friend
I'll be here standing
Until the bitter end
No one needs the sorrow
No one needs the pain
I hate to see you
Walking out there
Out in the rain
So don't chastise me
Or think I, I mean you harm
Of those that take you
Leave you strung out
Much too far
Baby-yeah

Don't ever leave me
Say you'll always be there
All I ever wanted
Was for you
To know that I care

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4T7dfBeOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfgg27MfcQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2jbht92lUQ

[ABlairican Pie]

While 1984's Slide It In album sold well and was a rock radio staple, Whitesnake needed a successful album at this point. The band was huge in Europe, but American listeners were not so familiar with them, though they had been together for almost ten years and had several albums under their belt. Their record label needed an album or else they would be dropped. The band set out to record their make-or-break album, the self-titled Whitesnake in 1987, but while laying down tracks, lead singer David Coverdale decided to fire the band except for guitarist Adrian Vandenberg. Upon learning of his dismissal, guitarist John Sykes (formerly of Tygers of Pan Tang and Thin Lizzy) quickly went in and recorded his tracks for the album, which featured some of the best guitar parts of his career. Coverdale hired an entirely new lineup with guitaristVivian Campbell, formerly of Dio, bassist Rudy Sarzo of Ozzy's band and of Quiet Riot, and drummer Tommy Aldridge who played with both Pat Travers and Ozzy's band. The band had undergon a transition from more blues-based heavy rock to a more polished "hair band" pop metal.

The album went to the top of the charts and became a huge seller for David Geffen, in the amount of eight million copies. The band's success was helped also by videos on MTV which featured David Coverdale's sexy girlfriend, actress Tawny Kitaen (who was seeing better days in her career at this point than presently ;) ).

Due to the Robert Plant comparisons with Coverdale and similar song styles, this next song was called "the best song Led Zeppelin never made":

Still Of the Night

In the Still of the Night
I hear the wolf howl, honey
Sniffing around your door
In the Still of the Night
I feel my heart beating heavy
Telling me I gotta have more

In the shadow of night
I see the full moon rise
Telling me what's in store,
My heart starts aching
My body started shaking
And I can't take no more, no, no

Now I just wanna get close to you
And taste your love so sweet
And I just wanna make love to you
Feel your body heat...

In the Still of the Night...
In the Still of the Night...
Over here baby...

In the heat of the day
I hang my head down low
And hide my face from the sun
Through the light of the day
Until the evening time
I'm waiting for the night to come, ooh, baby

In the Still of the Night,
In the cool moonlight,
I feel my heart is aching
In the Still of the Night...

Oooh Baby, Oooh baby

Solo

In the Still of the Night
I hear the wolf howl, honey
Sniffing around your door...
In the Still of the Night
I feel my heart beating heavy
Telling me I gotta have more...
Oooh, mama

Now I just wanna get close to you
And taste your love so sweet
And I just wanna make love to you
Feel your body heat.

In the Still of the Night...
In the Still of the Night...
In the Still of the Night...
In the Still of the Night...

Still of the Night,
Still of the Night,
Still of the Night...

Still of the Night,
Still of the Night,
Still of the Night...

Still of the Night,
Still of the Night,
Still of the Night...

Still of the Night,
Still of the Night,
Still of the Night...

Here I Go Again

No, I don't know where I'm going
But, I sure know where I've been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
An' I've made up my mind,
I ain't wasting no more time

Tho' I keep searching for an answer,
I never seem to find what I'm looking for
Oh Lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on,
'Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

I'm just another heart in need of rescue,
Waiting on love's sweet charity
An' I'm gonna hold on
For the rest of my days,
'Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again
oooh baby
oooh yeah

'Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind,
I ain't wasting no more time

An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
'Cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known,

Is This Love

I should have known better
Than to let you go alone,
It's times like these
I can't make it on my own
Wasted days, and sleepless nights
And I can't wait to see you again

I find I spend my time
Waiting on your call,
How can I tell you, baby
My back's against the wall
I need you by my side
To tell me it's alright,
'Cos I don't think I can take anymore

Is this love that I'm feeling,
Is this the love, that I've been searching for
Is this love or am I dreaming,
This must be love,
'Cos it's really got a hold on me,
A hold on me...

I can't stop the feeling
I've been this way before
But, with you I've found the key
To open any door
I can feel my love for you
Growing stronger day by day,
An' I can't wait to see you again
So I can hold you in my arms

Is this love that I'm feeling,
Is this the love, that I've been searching for
Is this love or am I dreaming,
This must be love,
'Cos it's really got a hold on me,
A hold on me...

Is this love that I'm feeling,
Is this the love, that I've been searching for...
Is this love or am I dreaming,
Is this the love, that I've been searching for...

Give Me All Your Love

When I first saw you baby
You took my breath away,
I knew your name was Trouble
But, my heart got in the way
I couldn't stop myself from reaching out,
I could not turn away

I don't even know your name
An' I can't leave you alone,
I'm running round in circles
Like a dog without a bone
I know the game you're playing
But, baby I just can't let go

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want
Just give me all of your loving tonight

I'll work hard everyday
To love and treat you right.
I'll rock you in the morning
And roll you in the night.
Any way you want
I'm gonna prove my love for you.

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want,
Just give me all of your loving tonight, tonight, tonight...

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want,
Just give me all of your loving tonight

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want,
Just give me all of your loving tonight

I am blinded by your smile
And I'm crazy about your walk
I shiver and I shake
When I hear you baby talk
I'm a fool for your loving babe,
Give me all your loving tonight...

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want,
Just give me all of your loving tonight

Anything you want from me...

So give me all your love tonight,
Give me all your love tonight
I'll do anything you want,
Just give me all of your loving tonight, tonight, tonight...

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Still of the Night; Here I Go Again; and Is It Love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odOnc6twYI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPltl4Fezs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnH4yNqL8E

[ABlairican Pie]

Ratt's 1986 album, Dancing Undercover, was considered a commercial and musical disappointment at the time: there were no power ballads, the band was venturing into more experimental and edgier territory, and there was not even a hot chick on the cover. What were these guys thinking?? Even their producer complained they had recorded "a complete piece of s:censored:"--there was not one decent "commercial" song on the album. People's opinions changed, however, when the song "Dance" was featured on MTV and received tons of airplay on the network and on the radio. Another great song was "Slip Of the Lip" which became a great video as well. One song on the album, "Body Talk", was featured on the 1986 movie, 'The Golden Child', starring Eddie Murphy. The band brought a little more tougher side to them now that metal was heading in a heavier direction with bands such as Metallica and Megadeth. In the long run, the album would be considered one of their finest works next to Out Of the Cellar. In addition to the heavier sound, they played a more bluesier, groove-oriented sound as well. The fears of their lack of commerciality were unfounded. While Bon Jovi and Poison were bringing home the bucks, Ratt were not afraid to take a few chances.

Dance

Dance
Dance
Dance
Dance, dance, dance

Slip and slide, take a ride
You want the best of both worlds
Caviar, it's hard to find
You're not a big city girl

You have dreams to make it big
Right off the Greyhound bus
Roses come from everyone
You're gonna have yourself some fun

When it's all done
You bite your tongue
You're feelin' so young
No cover-ups
You're never alone
If you hear the call
It's all for one
And one for all

Baby we can dance, dance, dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the heat of my hand
Dance, dance, dance
I see the way that you're movin'
You need a little romance

You have pride, just try and fight
You'll take on anyone
Stupid pans and fans, no more laughs
It's only ten to one

It's gettin' late to worry 'bout a date
Still you have no one
Twist of fate, you know it's too late
You turn on everyone

When it's all done
You bite your tongue
You're feelin' so young
No cover-ups
You're never alone
If you hear the call
It's all for one
And one for all

Baby we can dance, dance, dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the heat of my hand
Dance, dance, dance
I see the way that you're movin'
I think we have a chance

When it's all done
You bite your tongue
You're feelin' so young
No cover-ups
You're never alone
If you hear the call
It's all for one
And one for all

Dance
Dance
Dance
D-d-d-dance

Dance, dance, dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the heat of my hand
Dance, dance, dance
I see the way that you're movin'
You need a little romance

Dance, dance, dance
Feel the heat of the rhythm
Feel the beat of the band
Dance, dance, dance
I see the way that you're movin'
I think we have a chance, chance


Dance, dance

We'll dance, dance, dance
We'll dance, dance, dance

Slip Of the Lip

At fifteen you wanted someone to call your own
Sweet sixteen, you couldn't see straight
You couldn't let go
Now you're eighteen and you barely make a sound
You're getting older, a little bolder
You're in the lost and found

All the way you say you'll take me
Any day you'll never break me

Slip slip
Slip of the lip
I like the way you move your hips
Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don't miss

I said I told ya, I'll get to know ya
We're goin' all the way
Move over, I'm gonna hold ya
To everything you say

And now I've showed you baby everything's okay
When I hold ya and when I show ya
You're gonna want to stay

All the way you say you'll take me
Any day you'll never break me

Slip slip
Slip of the lip
I like the way you move your hips
Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don't miss

Slip slip
Slip of the lip
I like the way you move your hips
Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don't miss

Slip

All the way you say you'll take me
Any day, well, nothing to say
You're so bad, your reputation
You know it's all the same
It's just a game

Slip slip
Slip of the lip
I like the way you move your hips

Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don't miss

Slip slip
Slip of the lip
I like the way you move your hips

Loose lips
Sink ships
The way you move, you don't miss

Slip slip
Slip of the lip

Body Talk

I don't like feelin'
Mixed up in the city
Showdown
Slow down
You're not foolin' me
You live your life, I'll live mine
Underground

Body talk
I see your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

Body talk
I know your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

I can't stop seein'
Streetlights on me
Hot nights, hold tight
You're not foolin' me
Let me get right to the point
Spend a little time with me

Body talk
I see your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

Body talk
I know your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

Let it out
You don't know what you're missing
Have no doubt
I'm takin' what you're givin'

Make no mistake
Let's make it clear
You're speaking a language that's easy to hear

I don't like feelin'
Mixed up in the city
Showdown
Slow down
You're not foolin' me
You live your life, I'll live mine
Underground

Body talk
I see your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

Body talk
I know your body talk
You make my body talk
When you're next to me

Body talk
Body talk
Body talk
(Body talk)
(Body talk)
(Body talk)
(Body talk)
Body talk

Drive Me Crazy

Hey, yeah

It's just another weekend
I'll never settle down
You always got the bacon
Whenever you're around the town

You say kick off your shoes it's gettin' late
I kiss and tell you everything
I'll give you love you just can't wait to take

Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
And I can hear you say
Drive me crazy Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah

Crazy, crazy

Drive me crazy
Drive me crazy

I always pass 'cause I'm so fast
You'll see me come and go
And when it's said it's done for fun
You know, you're still my number one

Kick off your shoes it's gettin' late
I kiss and tell you everything
I'll give you love you just can't wait to take

Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
And I can hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
And I can hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah

Crazy, crazy, crazy

To move me
Turn the key
And you move me to the right
Well drive me crazy tonight

Yeah
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
And I can hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
And I can hear you say
Drive me crazy
Oh yeah
That's all I hear you say
Drive me crazy
Drive me crazy
Drive me crazy


:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Ratt videos from various albums:

See "Round And Round" with Uncle Miltie!!! :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHyBa0uEr30

Back For More:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50XbMYkAyg4

Lay It Down and You're In Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYlL-pdplbw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbtDA8i6h4c

Dance and Slip Of the Lip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kz9b0arvy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_VTt00OXj4

[ABlairican Pie]

After Vince Neil's jail time for tragic drunken collision which took the life of his passenger, Hanoi Rocks' drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley (in a disturbing twist of irony, Neil lived in Malibu Beach, California, which was the name of one of Hanoi Rocks' most popular songs, "Malibu Beach Nightmare"), the band got together to record the appropriately named Theater Of Pain in 1985, which featured a cover of Brownsville Station's 1973 hit "Smokin' In the Boys' Room" and the ballad "Home Sweet Home". Strangely, the band adopted the glam looks of Hanoi Rocks, though the Finnish band had broken up at that point. The Crue went on to huge success in the hair metal scene while Hanoi Rocks, the band that popularized the look in Europe remained unknown in America. Many were appalled and outraged that a rock star like Vince Neil got off with so little jail time that it was more like a slap on the wrist than anything much more severe. While the band made pronouncements against drugs and drinking as a public service, the band could have used a little hard time behind bars to instill the message that they were pathetic role models for whom drugs and alcohol were a dead end.

In 1987, the band returned to its bad boy form: still drunk, still wasted, still unrepentant--for now. The band released their latest album about their other favorite vice, Girls, Girls, Girls, whose title song became the official anthem of strippers. The album would have been at the #1 spot on the Billboard charts had it not been for Whitney Houston's "Whitney" album, similar to Def Leppard's Pyromania being blocked from the top spot by Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1983, and U2's The Joshua Tree blocking five other spots occupied by heavy metal artists. That so many bands were so close to being number one was a testament to the power and popularity of metal in the 80's.

In the fall of that year, bassist Nikki Sixx came close to being a drug fatality himself when he overdosed on heroin and was pronounced dead for two minutes. He was revived when medics administered shots of adrenaline to his heart. This life-saving technique became the inspiration to their 1989 hit "Kickstart My Heart".

Girls, Girls, Girls

Friday night and I need a fight
My motorcycle and a switchblade knife
Handful of grease in my hair feels right
But what I need to make me tight are

Girls, Girls, Girls
Long legs and burgundy lips
Girls,
Dancin' down on Sunset Strip
Girls
Red lips, fingertips

Trick or treat-sweet to eat
On Halloween and New Year's Eve
Yankee girls ya just can't beat
But they're the best when they're off their feet

Girls, Girls, Girls
At the Dollhouse in Ft. Lauderdale
Girls, Girls. Girls
Rocking in Atlanta at Tattletails
Girls, Girls, Girls
Raising Hell at the 7th Veil Have you read the news
In the Soho Tribune
Ya know she did me
Well then she broke my heart

I'm such a good good boy
I just need e new toy
I tell ya what, girl
Dance for me, I'll keep you overemployed
Just tell me a story
You know the one I mean

Crazy Horse, Paris, France
Forget the names, remember romance
I got the photos, a menage a trois
Musta broke those Frenchies laws with those

Girls, Girls. Girls
Body Shop. Marble Arch
Girls, Girls, Girls
Tropicana's where I lost my heart

Girls, Girls, Girls

Wild Side

Kneel down ye sinners, to
Streetwise religion
Greed's been crowned the new King
Hollywood dream teens
Yesterday's trash queens
Save the blessings for the final ring-
AMEN

Wild side

I carry my crucifix
Under my deathlist
Forward my mail to me in hell
Liars and the martyrs
Lost faith in The Father
Long lost in the wishing well

Wild side

Fallen Angels
So fast to kill
Thy kingdom come on the wild side
Our father
Who ain't in heaven
Be thy name on the wild side Holy Mary
Mother may I
Pray for us on the wild side
Wild side. Wild side

Name dropping no-names
Glamorize cocaine
Puppets with strings of gold
East L.A. at midnight
Papa won't be home tonight
Found dead with his best friend's wife

Wild side

Fatal strikes
We lie on the wild side
No escape
Murder rape
Doing time on the wild side
A baby cries
A cop dies
A day's pay on the wild side
Wild side, wild side
Tragic life on the wild side
Wild side, wild side
Kickin' ass on the wild side

Bad Boy Boogie

Found a girl she's mama's pride
I tattooed her and now she's mine
I'll make the toast you raise the glass
Just a few words to kick the world in the ass

Round and round the town
The same ol' story is told
Better lock up your daughter when the Motleys hit the road

We do the bad boy boogie
Bad is bad

There's a method to the madness
We never kiss and tell
Have a drink on the boys
We'll entertain you in style

We're innocent in every way
Like apple pie and Chevrolet
Sweeter pies with different shapes
38-28-38

In and out of town alibis fit like a glove
Tell your daddy not to thank us
Honey, you're a labor of love We do the bad boy boogie
Bad is bad

I got my finger in the pie
My hand in the cookie jar
It's just a lick and a promise
In the back seat of my car

There's a method to the madness
We never kiss and tell
Have a drink on the boys
We'll entertain you in style

We do the bad boy boogie
Bad is bad

I got my finger in the pie
My hand in the cookie jar
It's just a lick and a promise
In the back seat of my car

Bad boy boogie

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Girls, Girls, Girls; and Wild Side:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNna4mNIcA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KGGNS3fGaE

Smokin' In the Boys' Room; and Home Sweet Home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXjg5KOWyfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0An9hl4HQk

http://eil.com/newgallery/Motley-Crue-Home-Sweet-Home-358319.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

The 1986 album by W.A.S.P., Inside the Electric Circus came out at a time when Blackie Lawless and Co. were one of the country's most vilified bands, thanks to the friendly moral brigades at the P.M.R.C. Being condemned as one of the worst purveyors of "shock rock" due to such activities as women used in similated torture devices onstage, throwing raw meat into the crowd, and the single cover to "Animal (F:censored: Like a Beast)" which featured a saw blade codpiece on one member's leather and spandex lap, outraged citizens made bomb threats at shows, wrote hundreds of death threats to the band, and even fired at (and missed) Lawless twice in concert. :eek2: It was a frightening price to pay for a band bent on offending and titillatiing crowds and causing a public outcry. This backlash fortunately increased album sales and ensured their noteriety with fans.


I Don't Need No Doctor

I don't need no doctor
'Cause I know what's ailing me
I don't need no doctor
'Cause I know what's ailing me (yes, I do)
All I need is my baby
You don't know I'm in misery
I don't need no doctor

I don't need no doctor
My prescription tells me that
I don't need no doctor
My prescription tells me that
I don't need no doctor
All I need is my baby
You don't know I'm in misery
I don't need no doctor

Well, the doctor said I need the rest - ooh, ooh
He put me on the critical list - ooh, ooh
Keeping me safe from harm - ooh, ooh
All I need is her sweet charm - ooh, ooh
He gave me a medical option, that wouldn't do
Ooh, yeah, my motion, oh, yeah, no doctor, no
I don't need no doctor

9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y.

One woman down my street is too hot for the average man
Hard to handle, a fire in her eyes
Wants the hot rocks right in her hand
I know she's burning, hot with love
A come-on look and she ain't fooling
And she knows just what it does
She gave me a number to make me feel fine
Said call me up baby
It's gonna 9.5. - N.A.S.T.Y.
You're everything I need
'Cause I want what you're giving
I'm yours to do with what you please
N.A.S.T.Y., you're everything I need
'Cause I want what you're giving
I'm yours to do with what you please

Ooh - no mama's baby, this child
She's a killer wrapped in high-heel shoes
Touch the skin - it burns like fire
I don't even care if I'm being used
Threw me down and then she tore off my jeans
She said, come on, babe, I mean business
I'm gonna show you what liberation means

Do it to me baby
I'm losing my mind
Said call me up honey
Tonight I'm 9.5. - N.A.S.T.Y.
You're everything I need
'Cause I want what you're giving
I'm yours to do with what you please
N.A.S.T.Y., you're everything I need
'Cause I want what you're giving
I'm yours to do with what you please

Some bad habits are hard to break
Like an earthquake coming
I got to shake, shake, shake

9.5. - N.A.S.T.Y.
You're everything I need
'Cause I want what you're giving
I'm yours to do with what you please

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000006H7K.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

L.O.V.E. Machine from 'I Wanna Be Somebody' album 1984:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1q00AVMriQ

Wild Child from 'The Last Command' 1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoDksVBbRrc

I Don't Need No Doctor from 'Inside the Electric Circus' (1986)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOcQYKC3Xgs

[ABlairican Pie]

One metal band that was sure to shock many people was Lizzy Borden, who was named after their flamboyant (male) lead singer who was no doubt named after the famous woman in the 19th century who was acquitted of the axe murder of her parents, but never lived down her tainted reputation. Not surprisingly, they looked like Twisted Sister's, uhh, sisters. :eek: :lol: Their 1987 album Visual Lies featured the hit song "Me Against the World" which spawned a popular video on MTV. Their 1985 album was Love You To Pieces.

Me Against the World

It's just me
Against the world
HA!

Leave me alone
I'm on the defense
I'm not made of stone
Why doesn't it ever make sense

I'm sick of all this indecision
You're messing with my mind
This ain't no false facade
And this ain't no freak disguise

Cuz I am for real
You don't know what I feel
My strength is in my will
I cannot wait
I won't be second rate
In for the kill

It's me against the world
(Me against the world)
-repeat 4x-

Inside looking outside
Through a goldfish bowl
And it's hand over masters
Make me lose control

If I'm an outcast I'm not the last
I'm gonna have my say
They'll never take me in alive
I'm gonna make them all pay

Cuz I am for real
You don't know what I feel
My strength is in my will
I cannot wait
I won't be second rate
In for the kill

It's me against the world
(Me against the world)
-repeat 8x-

[Lead Break]

You can't face my life
You just won't think twice
You'll see it my way and I won't be the martyr
I know you see it wrong
The color don't belong
I'm holding tight don't you push me too far

Yeah it's me against the world
It's me against the world
It's me against the world
Don't you push me too far
It's me against the world

Me against the world
(It's me against the world)
-repeat 8x-

Don't push me too far!

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


http://www.poplife.info/bilder/244796.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

On the less prettier side of metal, in 1987, Anthrax released Among the Living, one of their most popular recordings. The album featured such socially conscious tracks as "Indians", "Caught In a Mosh", "I Am the Law", based on comic book character Judge Dredd, and "Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)" (Nice F:censored: Life backwards), which was a reference to comedian John Belushi's death from drugs in 1982. Anthrax said that they were a band that never were into drugs, perhaps for that very reason. The band also found inspiration in Stephen King novels as well, such as on the song "A Skeleton In the Closet", based on his short story "Apt Pupil".

Later that year, Anthrax also released a novelty song/EP, I'm the Man, whose title song was a hilarious combining of what seemed to be two polar opposites, heavy metal and rap. Little did anyone know that this goofy tune would spawn the biggest musical trend by the end of the century.

Indians

We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve

FORCED OUT-Brave and Mighty
STOLEN LAND-They can't fight it
HOLD ON-To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much their lives are really missin'
WE'RE DISSIN THEM...

On reservations
A hopeless situation
Respect is something that you earn
Our Indian brothers' getting burned
Original American
Turned into second class citizen

Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians

Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and Prejudice

WARDANCE!!!

TERRITORY, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it make its configuration
PREJUDICE, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what this land is all about!!!!

Caught In a Mosh

Why don't you listen to me when I try to talk to you
Stop thinking of yourself, for just a second fool
Shut up, shut up, I don't wanna hear your mouth
Your mother made a monster, now get the hell out of my house

Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp the idiot convention

Which one of these words don't you understand
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like clapping with one hand

What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!

Don't tell me how to do my job
There's the door, your name's on the knob
You're always in the way, like a beast on my back
Were you dropped as a baby, cause brains you lack

Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh
Talking to you, is like clapping with one hand

What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!

Think-before you speak
Or suffer for your words
Learn, to give respect
That others, give to you
AAAAAAAAAAAh, The best you can do

Hey Man!
I'm trying to reason but you don't understand
Talking in circles, we'll never get it straight
Just you and me in our theatre of hate
Can't stand it for another day
I ain't gonna live my life this way
Cold sweat, my fists are clenching
Stomp, stomp, stomp, the idiot convention
Which one of these words don't you understand?
I'm Caught in a Mosh!
Talking to you is like clapping with one hand

What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!
What is it? -- Caught in a Mosh!

I Am the Law

Fifteen years in the academy
He was like no cadet they'd ever seen
A man so hard, his veins bleed ice
And when he speaks he never says it twice
They call him Judge, his last name is Dredd
So break the law, and you wind up dead
Truth and justice are what he's fighting for
Judge Dredd the man, he is the law
DROKK IT!

With gun and bike he rules the streets
Every perp he meets will taste defeat
Not even Death will overcome his might
Dredd and Anderson won the fight
When the Sov's started the Apocalypse war
Mega City was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
Crushed the Sov's with their counter-attack
DROKK IT!

Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...

I AM THE LAW!
You won't **** around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City... I AM THE LAW

In the cursed earth where mutants dwell
There is no law, just a living hell
Anarchy and chaos as the blood runs red
This would change if it were up to Dredd
The book of law is the bible to him
Any crime committed is a sin
He keeps peace with his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner

Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...

I AM THE LAW!
You won't f:censored: around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City... I AM THE LAW

CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's the only enemy he's going to war

CRIME - The ultimate sin
Your iso-cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW - It's what he stands for
Crime's the only enemy he's going to war

Respect the badge - he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun - your sentence may be death because...

I AM THE LAW!
You won't f:censored: around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City... I AM THE LAW

You won't f:censored: around no more - I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor - I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I'll lock the door - I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City...

I AM THE LAW

N.F.L. (Efilnikufesin)

It started back in high school
So cool, king of the scene
You found that making people laugh
Was more than just a dream
The public took right to you
Like flies to a pile of s:censored:
So funny and smart, so talented
But success just couldn't fit

Wasting your life no future bright
Dancing on your grave
Living like a slave, someone should've said...

NFL, Efilnikufesin NFL
NFL, Efilnikufesin NFL

Wake up dead in a plywood bed
Six feet from the rest of your life
And when you couldn't see your own dependency
NFL, NICE F:censored:IN' LIFE

The whole world is your playground
Yet you can't find your niche
Your only friends, it helps you through
Helps you dig your daily ditch
The bottom line can't touch you
Cause you're above the rest
But your little friend's the enemy
And the bottom line is death

You lived a life of excess
GODDAMN shame it's such a waste
Just one too many cookies
From the batch no one should taste
Yet his memory stills stays with us
Cause watching him was fun
Too bad things weren't different
Who knows what he'd have done

A Skeleton In the Closet

All American, an evil game of extortion
A sick old man, and who would guess
He was once S.S.
A deadly fascination, of a madman's solution
Six million dead, poison tales pollutes his head

Tell me a story--Will ya, Will ya
A real good story, I won't leave till ya
Spill your guts old man
Leave out any secrets, Hiding in the..

Any skeletons, and all your other sins
Any skeletons, in the closet
Any skeletons, any misfortunes
Any skeletons, hiding in the closet
Any skeletons, Any skeletons
In the Closet!

It's insanity, puppetmaster boy or Nazi
Apt pupil, he hears the screams
Nightmares turn into wet dreams
Hatred lives, boiling inside, dealing death it's bumicide
In too deep, their secret stands but it won't keep
Tell me a story --Will ya, Will ya
A real good story, I won't leave till ya
Spill your guts old man
Leave out any secrets, Hiding in the...

The truth comes out, conspiracy there is no doubt
His life is ruined, but no not yet
He's still got one card in the deck
A loaded gun, a happy smile, he'll scope the freeway for awhile
King of the world, four hundred rounds, it took five hours to bring him down
Tell me a story--Will ya, Will ya
A real good story, I won't leave till ya
Spill your guts old man
Leave out any secrets, Hiding in the...

:rock: :guitar: :rock: :guitar:

Indians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Z_hxBRbSU

I'm the Man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7llc185gdpE

[ABlairican Pie]

Overkill were another New York/New Jersey area metal band who got their start in the early 80's combining punk with their intense Maiden/Priest sound, becoming one of the big names of East Coast thrash. The band, featuring Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth on vocals, D.D. Verni on bass, and guitarist Bobby Gustafson , released the epic-themed Taking Overin 1987, which featured "Wrecking Crew" and "In Union We Stand", which became the band's first video. If there were any doubt left about the band's statement of purpose, they released an EP titled !!!F:censored: You!!! later that year, which has long been out of print.

Wrecking Crew

Ain't no job too big or small,
Just one sweep of the wreckin' ball.
Put 'em up, we'll knock 'em down,
Or knock 'em up, then leave town.
Demolition of the mind.
Desolation, left behind.
Light the fuse, dynamite.
Light the sky! in the night!!!

We will walk!
All over you!
'Cause we are!
The wreckin'! Wreckin' crew!!!
We are the wreckin' crew.

Wreckin' crew!!!
We are the wreckin' crew.

Destruction is a way life.
Destruction, mayhem, havoc, strife.
Crack a smile, here the sound.
Watch 'em crumble to the ground.
Innocence ain't no excuse,
Slip your neck inside the noose.
Pay in blood I demand,
The wreckin' crew is outta hand.

We'll wreck your neck!
Wreckin' crew!
Get wrecked!

Turn to ashes, turn to dust.
We're the ones that you can trust.
Evil smile, wicked grin,
Tear it down, begin to sin.
Think that you will end it all,
There's no one left to ball or call.
When there ain't nothin' left to do,
Call upon, the wreckin' crew!

We'll wreck your neck!
Wreckin' crew!
Yer wreck!
Ah! Wreckin' crew!
Wreck! Wreck!

In Union We Stand

From the islands to the cities, from the ports into the sea.
We are strong, we will always be...
Blazing through the wreckage, burning all we see...
The life we lead, committed to be free...
Our union is a fortress!
Together we are bound.
A common bound in freedom, and in sound!!!
So raise your voices high!
For miles around to hear.
Let them know, we are drawing near...

In union we stand,
As they! blaze across the land!!!
In union, we make a final stand...

A peaceful co-existence, is droping out of sight.
So band together, together we will fight.
Blasting the resistance, marching to the top.
They started this, we say when it stops.
Strike fear within their hearts!
Strike down those in your way.
Let them know, that we live, today!!!
They throw us into flames,
Did not hear our cries.
But now, from the ashes we arise...


:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

[ABlairican Pie]

Over the hills and far away in a land called Germany, one speed metal band was adding medieval and mystical themes to their music. Helloween, formed in 1984 by guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen, released a few albums and EPs, including Walls Of Jericho in 1985, which inspired wrestler Chris Jericho to borrow for his stage name, as well as for his own patented wrestling hold. When Hansen realized he could no longer sing while playing guitar, the band sought to find a vocalist to take his place at the microphone. They eventually found a young singer named Michael Kiske, formerly of the band Ill Prophecy, whose operatic vocals matched those of Maiden's Bruce Dickinson. In 1987, the band released Keeper Of the Seven Keys Part 1, which contained an intriguing mix of fast tempos, complex tempo changes, and intricate guitar melodies with fantasy oriented, epic lyrics, the founding of what would become known as power metal, which was heavily influenced by Iron Maiden and Dio as well as by Metallica. The classic album of the new genre made the band one of the biggest metal acts in Europe.

Ride the Sky
From Walls of Jericho

Much too long I've been a prisoner here
The hour has come to break out
Shackled and chained almost goin' insane
It's better to live on the run
Set me free, set me free

Send me a sign, wanna leave it all behind
I'll be leaving the hands of doom
Rearrange the master plan, take the future in my hands
To be free and not trapped anymore

[Chorus]
Ride the sky, Ride the sky
Give me wings to fly, Ride the sky

I have to think for myself and then act
In conformity of my own thoughts
No one should tell me what's wrong and what's right
Why don't you leave me alone
Set me free, set me free


From Keeper Of the Seven Keys Part 1:

Twilight of the Gods


We'we thrown away our former gods
Controlling our day
We have created better ones
So we control the way

We are the ones with the power
To hold down the enemy
Our gods are perfection
And they are protecting our lives
We still need some more of them
To be safe from the other side
As long as we're stronger
Nothing will happen to us

Fireflash in the night
Just an evil dream
Holy war in the sky... never

[Insania 20 16]

Error in store 103
We watch the sun at night
The pretty gods we're built ourselves
Now terminate our lives
Silicone brain powered voices
Are crying "attack" tonight
Our gods are now fighting
In anger, burning our world
Doomsday has come
And there is no place to hide away
The future is over
And there is no turning back
Fireflash in the night
Now reality
Holy war in the sky.....
[chorus]
Twilight of the gods
Insania's dead and gone
Another world was born
But the twilight soon will come
[Solo]
[Mike / Harmony both / Kai]
Fireflash in the night
Now reality
Holy war in the sky.....
[Chorus]

A Tale That Wasn't Right

Here I stand all alone
Have my mind turned to stone
Have my heart filled up with ice
To avoid it's breakin' twice

Thank to you, my dear old friend
But you can't help, this is the end
Of a tale that wasn't right
I won't have no sleep tonight

[Chorus]
In my heart, in my soul
I really hate to pay this toll
Should be strong, young and bold
But the only thing I feel is pain

It's alright, we'll stay friends
Trustin' in my confidence
And let's say it's just alright
You won't sleep alone tonight

[Chorus]

[Solo]
[Mike]

With my heart, with my soul
Some guys cry you bought and sold
They've been strong, young and bold
And they say, play this song again

[Chorus]

I'm Alive

You, you say, you have lost the way
Got no aim, just livin' for today
Look up to the sky above
And see the morning sun again
You got so much power inside
So cry it out my friend

[Chorus]
I'm alive, I'm alive
I'm alive, I'm alive

There's no use in hangin' all around
You're a king, can't you see your crown
Look into my eyes
So many things are waiting to be done
you just need a friend
Together we will sing along

[Chorus]

[Solo]
[Kai / harmony both / Melody Kai]

Look into my eyes
So many things are waiting to be done
You just need a friend
Together we will sing along

[Chorus]

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

[ABlairican Pie]

On the more alternative side of things, The Pixies formed in 1986 on the in Boston, Massachusetts, college music scene with Black Francis or Frank Black (real name Charles Thompson IV) , Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and Dave Lovering. They borrowed money to record their first EP, Come On Pilgrim, whose title was based on a quote that Christian music pioneer Larry Norman was known to have said onstage years before, encouraging audiences to believe in God: "Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you!" Black had seen Larry Norman in concert at a Christian summer camp some years before and even went on to record one of Norman's songs and shared a stage with him. Black had a born again experience at a Pentecostal church previously, and this helped shaped the Christian oriented lyrics on the EP's songs, as did his experiences in Puerto Rico where he saw poverty run rampant. The music on the album was an interesting grab bag of styles with lyrics that either touched on humorous topics or serious ones such as incest, treated in a dark humorous tone ("Nimrod's Son" and "The Holiday Song"), as well as some being sung in Spanish.

The Holiday Song

Well sit right down my wicked son
And let me tell you a story
About the boy who fell from glory
And how he was a wicked son

This ain't no holiday
But if our ways turn out this way
Here I am with my hand

He took his sister from his head
And then painted her on the sheets
And then rolled her up in grass and trees
And they kissed 'till they were dead

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

Well sit right down my evil son
And let me tell you a story
About the boy who fell from glory
And how he was a wicked son

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand

:guitar:

[ABlairican Pie]

After Midnight Oil released the Species Deceases EP in 1985, they began to work on an album which would become one of their most important albums, 1987's Diesel and Dust. As America and most other western countries were having a massive infatuation with all things Australian due to the success of the swashbuckling fish-out-of-water character Crocodile Dundee in the movies, it was an ample opportunity to bring the message home that their native land was not the wonderful paradise depicted in the media--many of its citizens, the indiginous Aborigines, had been suffering for generations from governmental discrimination, as discussed on the song "Beds Are Burning". The album focused on these issues as well as other such as environmental causes and destruction that western encroachment had caused. Many people worldwide woke up to their urgent message.

Beds Are Burning

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent, now
To pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent, now
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
we'r gonna give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning


This song talked about nuclear disarmament, a big topic in 1987:

Put Down That Weapon

Under the waterline
No place to retire
To another time
The eyes of the world now turn

And if we think about it
And if we talk about it
And if the skies go dark with rain
Can you tell me does our freedom remain

Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone
You can't hide nowhere with the torchlight on
And it happens to be an emergency
Some things aren't meant to be
Some things don't come for free

Above the waterline
Point the finger yeah point the bone
It's the harbour towns
That the grey metal ships call home

And if we think about it
And if we talk about it
And if the sea goes boiling black
Can you tell me what you'll do about that

Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone
I must know something to know it's so wrong
And it happens to be an emergency
Some things aren't meant to be
Some things don't come for free

They keep talking about it
They keep talking about it
They keep talking...They keep talking...and talkin' and talkin' and talkin' and...

(whisper:) You can't hide nowhere, nowhere, nowhere...

And it happens to be an emergency
Some things aren't meant to be
Some things don't come for free

Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone
I must know something to know it's so wrong
And it happens to be an emergency
Some things aren't meant to be
Some things don't come for free

Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone
You must be crazy if you think you're strong
'Cause it happens to be an emergency
Some things aren't meant to be
and some things don't come for free

Dreamworld

The Breakfast Creek Hotel is up for sale
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail
So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine

End - your dreamworld is just about to end
Fall - your dreamworld is just about to fall
Your dreamworld will fall

So shut that buckle and turn that key again
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends
Open wide drive that mystery road
Walk through eden's garden and then wonder as you go

Sign says honeymoon to rent
Cloudland into dreamland turns
The sun comes up and we all learn
Those wheels must turn

The Dead Heart

We don't serve your country
don't serve your king
Know your custom don't speak your tongue
White man came took everyone

We don't serve your country
We don't serve your king
White man listen to the songs we sing
White man came took everything

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

We don't serve your country
We don't serve your king
Know your custom don't speak your tongue
White man came took everyone

We don't need protection
don't need your hand
Keep your promise on where we stand
We will listen we'll understand

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken
We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

Mining companies, pastoral companies
Uranium companies
Collected companies
Got more right than people
Got more say than people

Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state of things
The dead heart lives here

Sometimes

I know that the sunset empire shudders and shakes
I know there's a floodgate and a raging river
I say the silence of the ribbons of iron and steel
I say hear the punch drunk huddle drive hammer and steel

Sometimes you're beaten to the call
Sometimes you're taken to the wall
But you don't give in

I know that the cannibals wear smart suits and ties
I know they arm wrestle on the altar
I say don't leave your heart in a hard place

Sometimes you're shaken to the core
Sometimes the face is gonna fall
But you don't give in

:guitar:

Beds Are Burning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq-0ucXXc90

Dreamworld:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaA079ZqjcY

Sometimes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLJ-me9Ik6k

Power and the Passion, from 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcfDlcLv4TE

[ABlairican Pie]

Of course, the big story of the year was U2's release of The Joshua Tree, which was their musical thank you note to America for receiving them so warmly on their previous tour. For the Irish rockers, America had been long a source of fascination and intrigue, a land across the ocean full of mystery and drama--with rock and roll, or perhaps more specifically, the blues, serving as its soundtrack and house music. To that end, U2 became the greatest band America never had, playing American style rock and roll with their own unique "abuse of technology" and minimal guitar technique, as The Edge put it. U2 were all over the place, even on the cover of Time that spring.

But some Christian listeners criticized the band at the height of what one would consider a Christian band's greatest achievement--not only were the songs not "religious" enough, but that some songs such as "Bullet the Blue Sky", were "anti-American"?? :confused: The band had seen not only the good, but the bad and the ugly, side of America. The band was not exactly too enamored of President Reagan, who at that time was embroiled in his own scandal of Iran-Contra--he seemed to want to promote everything that band was opposed to, such as nuclear proliferation. The country was still riding high a sense of national patriotism, of which U2 regardless felt honored to take part.

The album opened with "Where the Streets Have No Name", and the accompanying video shows the band playing an outdoor concert in the heart of Los Angeles, similar to the Beatles' Let It Be outdoor show, which drew thousands of viewers before being shut down by the LAPD.

The second song, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was considered the band's most spiritual song--some Christians complained that the song provided "no answers", but Bono was pondering all the heights and depths, highs and lows of his life and experiences, even religious ones, and yet being so empty without the one thing he was missing--which he never really elaborated on. But most anyone can empathize with that certain gnawing feeling of "something" missing.

Where the Streets Have No Name

I wanna run
I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I wanna reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name
Ha...ha...ha...
I want to feel
Sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name
Ho...ha...

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

The city's aflood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see our love
See our love turn to rust
Oh, we're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed hardened lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I'm still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

With Or Without You

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side.
I wait for you.
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you.

Through the storm, we reach the shore
You gave it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you.
I can't live with or without you.

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give, and you give
And you give yourself away.

My hands are tied, my body bruised
She´s got me with nothing to win
And nothing left to lose.

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give, and you give
And you give yourself away.

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you.

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you.

Bullet the Blue Sky

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly,
A red orange glow
See the face of fear
Running scared in the valley below
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue
...ah...ah...

In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses
See the flames higher and higher

Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
...ah...
Bullet the blue
...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah...

This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slappin' 'em down
One hundred, two hundred

And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
WE take the staircase to the first floor
WE turn the key and slowly unlock the door
a man breathes into a saxophone
through the walls you hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America

Across the field you see the sky ripped open
and the rain all through a gaping wound
Pounding on the women and children pounding the woman and children
Who run.......who run
Into the arms...
...of America

Red Hill Mining Town

From father to son
The blood runs thin
Oooh....see faces frozen still
Against the wind
The seam is split
The coal face cracked
The lines are long
There's no going back
Through hands of steel
And heart of stone
Our labour day
Has come and gone

Yeah, you leave me holding on
In Red Hill Town
See lights go down

I'm hangin' on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hangin' on
You're all that's left to hold on to

The glass is cut
The bottle run dry
Our love runs cold
In the caverns of the night
We're wounded by fear
Injured in doubt
I can lose myself
You I can't live without

Yeah, you keep me holding on
In Red Hill Town
See the lights go down on
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
Hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
On to...

We'll scorch the earth
Set fire to the sky
We stoop so low
To reach so high
A link is lost
The chain undone
We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes
Like a hunter child

I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to

Love
Slowly stripped away
Love
Has seen its better day

Hanging on
Let's go out on Red Hill
Let's go down on Red Hill
Let's go down on Red Hill Town

:guitar:


Where the Streets Have No Name:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSwNzBjHlA

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGDF8ZbwhM

With Or Without You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olei_boE9fE

[ABlairican Pie]

The other success story of 1987 in the world of alternative music was REM who released their album Document which featured the hits "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World As We Know It". The band decided on their previous album, 1986's Life's Rich Pageant that they would focus a little more on social issues in their songs rather than writing cryptic lyrics. The new album featured clearer lyrics on "Exhuming McCarthy" and "Welcome To the Occupation", about the conservative stranglehold on the country during the 80's, which vocalist Michael Stipe observed as the bizarre warm and fuzzy "Reagan and Garfield decade". While many thought that "The One I Love" was another love song, closer reading shows that the song was anything but. The music, like that of U2's latest record at the time, was full of American-style, "jangly" rock and roll.

The One I Love

(chorus 1)
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

(chorus 2)
Fire!!!
Fire!!!

(repeat chorus 1)

(repeat chorus 2)

This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love

(repeat chorus 2 2x)

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane-
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn-
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,down hight Wire in a fire, representing seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered, crop. Look at that low plane! Fine, then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do.Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs Listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture andthe revered and the right - right.You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,feeling pretty psyched

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.Light a candle, light a motive. step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crush. Uh-oh, this means no fear- cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

(chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
it's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine

It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it's time I had some time alone)

The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide.Mountains sit in a line. Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right

It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it's time I had some time alone)
(fade)

Finest Worksong

The time to rise has been engaged
You're better best to rearrange
I'm talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour
Your finest hour

Another chance has been engaged
To throw Thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Your finest hour

Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your song)
Your finest hour

Take your instinct by the reins
Better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your song)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your song)
Your finest hour

Exhuming McCarthy

You're beautiful more beautiful than me
You're honorable more honorable than me
Loyal to the Bank of America

(chorus 1)
It's a sign of the times
It's a sign of the times

(chorus 2)
You're sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen
Sharpening stones, walking on coals,
To improve your business acumen

Vested interest united ties, landed gentry rationalize
Look who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America

(repeat chorus 1)

(repeat chorus 2)

Enemy sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the realpolitik
Look who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America

"Let us not assassinate this man further Senator,
You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

We're sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen
Sharpening stones, walking on coals,
To improve your business acumen

Enemy sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the realpolitik
You've seen start and you've seen quit
(I'm addressing the table of content)
I always thought of you as quick
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)

Welcome To the Occupation

Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation

Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes
Held and dyed and skinned alive
Listen to the Congress fire
Offering the educated
Primitive and loyal
Welcome to the occupation

Hang your collar up inside
Hang your freedom higher
Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress
Where we propagate confusion
Primitive and wild
Fire on the hemisphere below

Sugar cane and coffee cup
Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history
The forest for the fire
Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme
Fire on the hemisphere below
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me

:guitar:

The One I Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcrYLwl9GwE

It's the End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyoA_2B_eg0

[ABlairican Pie]

Here is the picture (which magically disappeared from the original 80's thread) for Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing album from 1987, which featured the hit "Luka", which was unique for its subject matter of child abuse written from a child's point of view. The album was a more pop adult alternative style than its predecessor.

Luka

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

I think it's 'cause I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud


They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore


Yes I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
If you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am


My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore
You just don't argue anymore

[ABlairican Pie]

Due to their collaboration with rap group Run DMC for a cover of their hit "Walk This Way" the year before, Aerosmith finally returned big from a long
period of decline with Permanent Vacation in 1987. For the first time, the band relied on outside songwriters, such as hitmaker Desmond Child, to pen lyrics, rather than write the lyrics themselves. The use of Child proved very successful for the band with songs such as "Dude (Looks Like a Lady) and "Angel". But their re-emergence to fame faced another test: On the latest tour with Guns N' Roses opening, could they face remaining on the clean and sober while the new rising star support act indulged in every chemical vice on the road the road with them? Fortunately, the band refused to yield to the temptations that previously brought them down.

Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady

Cruised into a bar on the shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She a long lost love at first bite
Baby maybe you're wrong, but you know it's all right
That's right

(That, that)
(That, that)

Backstage we're having the time
Of our lives until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out her gun
And tried to blow me away

(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady

So never judge a book by it's cover
Or who you're going to love by your lover
Love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a venus
Lord imagine my surprise

(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady

Baby let me follow you down
Let me take a peek dear
Baby let me follow you down
Do me, do me, do me all night
Baby let me follow you down
Turn the other cheek dear
Baby let me follow you down
Do me, do me, do me, do me

(Guitar solo)

Ooh what a funky lady
She like it, like it, like it, like that,
Ooh he was a lady

(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady
(That, that) Dude looks like a lady

Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady

(That that) ya ya ya yya ya yya ya chit chit yaow

(That, that)
(That, that)
[Repeat and fade]

Angel

I'm alone, yeah, I don't know if I can face the night
I'm in tears, and the cryin' that I do is for you
I want your love, let's break the walls between us
Don't make it tough, I'll put away my pride
Enough's enough, I've suffered and I've seen the light

Baby, You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
You're my Angel, come and make it alright

Don't know what I'm gonna do about this feelin' inside
Yes, it's true, loneliness took me for a ride
Without your love, I'm nothing but a beggar

Without your love, a dog without a bone
What can I do? I'm sleepin' in this bed alone

Baby, You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
You're my Angel, come and make it alright
Come and save me tonight

(Guitar Solo)

You're the reason I live
You're the reason I die
You're the reason I give
When I break down and cry
Don't need no reason why

Baby, baby, baby

You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
You're my Angel, come and make it alright

You're my Angel, come and save me tonight
You're my Angel, come and take me alright
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight

Rag Doll

(Chorus)
Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

I'm feelin' like a bad boy
Mmm, just like a bad boy
I'm rippin' up a Rag Doll
Like throwing away an old toy
Some babe's talkin' real loud
Talkin' all about the new crowd
Try and sell me on an old dream
A new version of the old scene
Speak easy on the grape vine
Keep shufflin' the shoe shine
Old tin lizzy, do it till you're dizzy
Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery

(Chorus)
Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

Yes, I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
get ready for the big time
Tap dancing on a land mine
Yes I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
Old tin lizzy, do it till you're dizzy
Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery

(Chorus)
Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag Doll, baby won't you do me, baby won't you do me, baby won't you do me...
Like you done before (huh huh)

Yes, I'm movin', Yes I'm movin'
Get ready for the big time
I get crazy on the moonshine
Yes, I'm movin', I'm really movin'

Sloe gin fizzy
Do it till you're dizzy
Give it all you got until you're put out of your misery

(Repeat Chorus)
Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

Rag Doll, livin' in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag Doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

Hangman Jury

Me and my old lady sittin' in the shade
Talkin' 'bout the money that I ain't made
Singin' o boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

And if I could I surely would
Stand on the rock that Moses stood
Singin' O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

Drank so much hooch
It made my eyes be gettin' blurry
They say I nailed her to the wall
A stitch in time don't mean a thing
No Hangman Jury could make me crawl
'Cause I'm a poor boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhh ohhhhhhh

Whatcha do with a gun that's loaded (ooooh)
Shot her dead and her heart exploded (ooooh)
Tell me baby now d-dontcha worry (oooooh)
Like lyin' to a Hangman Jury (oooooh)

Oooh whoa I swear I didn't know that '45 was loaded
In fact my memory ain't too clear
That's not to say she didn't get what she deserved
Least that's the way it looked from here
Boy when you line the track a lack a
Hey boy when line the track a lack a
Hey boy when line the track

Ooh, when love came tumblin' down, yeah
Ooh, when love come tumblin' down
Ooh, Let's get outta here
When love come a-tumblin'

(ahahaha)
And every night she take her thang into the city
And in the morning make me beg
Cuz if I'd taken all her real titty gritty
I'd smack her right upside the head
Hey Boy dontcha line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track
Hey boy dontcha line the track

Ooh, when love came tumblin' down
Ooh, when love comes tumblin' down
Ooh, when love comes tumblin' down

Poor boy sweatin' in the hot summer night
Hangman waitin' for the early mornin' light singin'
Hey boy dontcha line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track
Hey boy dontcha line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track

If I could I surely would
Stand on the rock that Moses done stood singin'
Hey boy dontcha line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track
Hey boy dontcha line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track

:guitar: :guitar: :banana: :mango

Dude (Looks Like a Lady):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbsBJmx-m2s

Angel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXjb8jnm2Ws

Rag Doll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2j6qsEow4

[ABlairican Pie]

Former Wham! member George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) released his third solo album Faith in 1987, which featured a track which inspired much controversy, "I Want Your Sex". In a day when the PMRC and religious conservatives ran everything, the song and accompanying video were more offensive to Tipper Gore and others for their horny content rather than for what the actual message was opposing: the spread of AIDS and promiscuity which led to it. The song was banned from radio airplay from many stations while the video was shown only after regular hours due to its racy content. The singer and the song and video both urged monogamy, a message that was lost on the puritanical censors' hysteria. George Michael became a spokesperson for the "safe sex" movement during the conservative backlash, but he did later thank Tipper Gore for helping sell more copies of his album due to her holy tirade.

Casey ("Shaggy") Kasem refused to mention the mention the title of the song
on his American Top 40 program, but only the name of the performer. What would Scooby Do? :lol:

The video and lyrics were rather ironic considering the events nearly ten years later that revealed George Michael's social life and taste in women. ;)

I Want Your Sex (Part 1)

There's things that you guess
And things that you know
There's boys that you can trust
And girls that you don't
There's little things you hide
And little things that you show
Sometimes you think you're gonna get it
But you don't and that's just the way it goes

I swear I won't tease you
Won't tell you no lies
I don't need no bible
Just look in my eyes
I've waited so long baby
Now that we're friends
Every man's got his patience
And here's where mine ends

I want your sex
I want your love
I want your.....sex

It's playing on my mind
It's dancing on my soul
It's taken so much time
So why don't you just let me go
I'd really like to try
Oh, I'd really love to know
When you tell me you're gonna regret it
Then I tell you that I love you but you still say NO!

I swear I won't tease you
Won't tell you no lies
I don't need no bible
Just look in my eyes
I've waited so long baby
Out in the cold
I can't take much more girl
I'm losing control

I want your sex
I want your love
I want your.....sex

It's natural
It's chemical (let's do it)
It's logical
Habitual (can we do it?)
It's sensual
But most of all.....
Sex is something that we should do
Sex is something for me and you

Sex is natural - sex is good
Not everybody does it
But everybody should
Sex is natural - sex is fun
Sex is best when it's....one on one
One on one

I'm not your father
I'm not your brother
Talk to your sister
I am a lover

C-c-c-c-come on

What's your definition of dirty baby
What do you consider pornography
Don't you know I love it till it hurts me baby
Don't you think it's time you had sex with me

What's your definition of dirty baby
What do you call pornography
Don't you know I love it till it hurts me baby
Don't you think it's time you had sex with me

Sex with me
Sex with me
Have sex with me

C-c-c-c-come on.

I Want Your Sex (Part 2)

Oh so much love
That you've never seen
Let's make love
Put your trust in me

Don't you listen to what they told you
Because I love you
Let me hold you
Oh

I'm not your brother
I'm not your father
Oh will you ever change your mind
I'm a gentle lover with a heart of gold
But baby you've been so unkind...oh

Come on
I want your sex
Come on, I want your sex
That's right, all night
Oh, I want your sex
I want your...sex

Sexy baby's
(Sexy baby's)
Sexy body
(Sexy body)
Keeps me guessing
With a promise
I know we can come together
But the question is
Will we ever?

Together - you and me
(return to top)

A Last Request (I Want Your Sex Part III)

It's late
Time for bed
So I sit, and wait
For that gin and tonic
To go to your head

I know
It's a devious plan
But it's the only way that I know
To get those big bad car keys
Out of your hand

You know
That I remain a gentle man
But even so
There's only so much
A gentleman can stand
Sleep with me
Oh sleep with me tonight

My cards are on your table
My dreams are in your bed
If I was able
I'd be there instead

:banana: :mango


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq3Xc4hvU0U

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1986, Quiet Riot recorded a new album QR III, which, while having very decent tracks, was a commercial failure. Things had come to a head in Quiet Riot due to Kevin Dubrow's constant mouthing off in the press about the band's perceived superiority over newer bands following the Riot's lead to success. The dwindling popularity and playing nearly empty halls (i.e., backs of stages facing rear obstructed view seating :eek: ) prompted the band to make the decision to fire Kevin "The Mouth" Dubrow. While in Hawaii, as Metallica did with troublemaker Dave Mustaine, they slipped a plane ticket home in his hotel room while he was asleep while at a hotel. The band then left and began looking for a new lead vocalist. They found the lead vocalist of Rough Cutt, Paul Shortino to fill the vocal slot. In 1985, bassist Rudy Sarzo had already left, and joined Whitesnake in 1987. He was replaced by Chuck Wright of the band Giuffria. The name Quiet Riot had been negatively associated with Dubrow's egotistical rantings even though the band had replaced him with a capable lead singer. It would take a number of years before the band would regain its reputation with audiences.

The video for this song featured a Tipper Gore figure dressed as General MacArthur with a pipe acting like a commando on the band for "offensive lyrics" in a futuristic society devoid of rock:

The Wild and the Young

Times are changing
Nothing stays the same
For this jukebox generation

Adhere to fashion
Like computer games
Modern day communication

The news hard to take
Will fade tomorrow
They are the strong
They'll survive

The wild and the young
They all have their dreams
The wild and the young
They've got to be free
The sun never sets
For souls on the run
The wild and the young

Yeah
Hah!

Roaring passion
With no guilt or shame
It's accepting education, yeah!

Misbehaving
No regrets, no blame
With a bold kind of sophistication

So close to the edge
And high on the wire
They are not wrong
They're alive

The wild and the young
They all have their dreams
The wild and the young
They've got to be free
The sun never sets
For souls on the run
The wild and the young

Ha!

So close to the edge
And high on the wire
They are not wrong
They're alive

Look out!

Wild, wild
The wild and the
Young, y-y-y-young

The wild and the young
They all have their dreams
The wild and the young
They've got to be free
The sun never sets
For souls on the run

The wild and the young
They all have their dreams
The wild and the young
They've got to be free
The sun never sets
For souls on the run
The wild and the young

Oh yeah

The wild and the young
Oh

Right

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

The Wild And the Young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQzfaPcFdU

Cum On Feel the Noize (From Metal Health, 1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZvGuwj7xP8

Metal Health:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o70w53wXH-I

Party All Night (from Condition Critical, 1984)
This video is HILARIOUS!!! :rotflmao:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0K3-o0Bq5Q

[ABlairican Pie]

By 1987, Dio had undergone a number of lineup changes: guitarist Vivian Campbell had left in frustration due to "musical differences" with Ronnie (a common excuse), and had been replaced with former Rough Cutt members Craig Goldy on guitar and and Claude Schnell on keyboards. The band released 1987's Dream Evil which featured the popular title track and "I Could Have Been a Dreamer". The band also courted controversy when it was alleged that the band's logo was altered so that when it was read upside down, it spelled "Devil". :confused:
Ronnie James Dio denied this.

A power metal band named Dream Evil in the 2000's took their name from the album.

Dream Evil

All's well at the midnight hour
You're ready to fly
Don't think about the darkness
Or the rumbling in the sky

Somewhere on the morning road
Just waiting for you
Somethings that just could never be
Are calling up a spell so you can see, yeah!

Dream evil
The dark that you find in the back of your mind
Dream evil - Dream evil

Don't go to the edge of rainbows
Don't close your eyes
Like things that can't be real
The truth is really lies

Don't wish on a rising star you should
Open up the door
Where things that just should never be
Are calling up a spell so you can see, yeah!

Dream evil
The dark that you find
Can come out of your mind
Dream evil
Take you away

Oh no it's the midnight hour
Don't leave me alone

Those things that just should never be
Are calling up a spell so you can see

Dream evil
Dream evil
Dream evil
Dream evil
Dream evil

Oh no it's the midnight hour
Don't open the door
Don't go to the edge of rainbows
Don't sleep any more
You'll dream evil
You'll dream evil
You'll dream evil
Dream evil

I Could Have Been a Dreamer

Running with the wolf pack
Feel like I'm never coming back
And everytime there's sunshine
I'm blind, yeah

I am everybody
And everyone that I know is me
Everyone that I know won't see

I could have been a dreamer
I could have been a shooting star
I could have been a dreamer, yeah

I'm another number
And you know the numbers must agree
But everytime the wind blows
I can't fly - why?

We take away tomorrow
And never see the end of today
Lock it up and send it away - forever

I could have been a dreamer
I could have been a shooting star
I could have been a dreamer
Cause dreams are what we are
I could have been a dreamer

Running with the wolf pack
Feel like I'm never coming back
But maybe that was sunshine
That I saw

I've heard about a rainbow
I've heard it makes you crazy
I think I'm goin' crazy
Crazy cause I see

I could have been a dreamer
I could have been a shooting star
I could have been a dreamer
Cause dreams are what we are

I could have been a dreamer
I could have been the one to fly
I always could have been a dreamer
Cause dreamers never die, no!

I could have been a dreamer
Dreamer
I could have been a dreamer
Dreamer
I could have been a dreamer
Dreamer
I could have been a dreamer

All the Fools Sailed Away

There's perfect harmony
In the rising and the falling of the sea
And as we sail along
I never fail to be astounded by
The things we'll do for promises
And a song

We are the innocent
We are the damned
We were caught in the middle of the madness
Hunted by the lion and the lamb
Ooh - Ooh

We bring you fantasy
We bring you pain
It's your one great chance for a miracle
Or we will disappear
Never to be seen again

And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
Sailed away

We bring you beautiful
We teach you sin
We can give you a piece of the universe
Or we will disappear
Never to return again

And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
They sailed away
Sailed away

And as we drift along
I never fail to be astounded
By the things we'll do for promises
And a song

We are the innocent
We cut we bleed
We're your one great chance for a miracle
And a miracle is something you need

They'll take your diamonds
And then give you steel
You'll be caught in the middle of the madness
Just lost like them
And part of all the pain that they feel, yeah

And all the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
All the fools sailed away
Leaving nothing, nothing more to say
All the fools sailed away

They say you're beautiful
And they'll always let you in
But doors are never open
To the child without a trace of sin

Sail away

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

I Could Have Been a Dreamer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTN16iT_7m4

Rock and Roll Children (from Sacred Heart, 1985):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gv_IYTWKmY

Mystery (from The Last In Line, 1984):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQu05Tz5jbg

[ABlairican Pie]

Savatage were originally a band which started out as a Judas Priest-style metal band in the early 80's in Florida, but by the time their fourth album, Fight For the Rock came out in 1986, many metal fans were crying foul over the deliberate corporate pop rock direction the band was taking. Fans called the album "Fight For the Nightmare", but the band was forced by their record label to create more "commercial" music, as lead singer Jon Oliva was writing songs for pop artists as John Waite and others. :eek:

In 1987, the band returned to their proper musical direction with Hall Of the Mountain King, which showed the band in a true power metal direction with symphonic style music arrangements, such as the instrumental "Prelude To Madness" which borrowed from Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's classical masterpiece, "Hall Of the Mountain King", from the Pier Gynt suite. Jon's brother Chris Oliva delivered stunning guitar work on the song and on the album. The video to the title song was a huge hit on MTV's Headbanger's Ball.

Hall Of the Mountain King

Far away
In a land caught between
Time and space
Where the books of life lay
We fear
This castle of stone
The mountain king roams
All alone in here
But he's not the only one
Lost inside
Forever hidden from the sun

Madness reigns
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Oh yeah

His deep
Dark eyes
Keep watch on his kingdom
And the mysteries that sleeps safe inside
His hall
His towers of stone
Shall not be overthrown
For eternity
It is guarded by the king
Insanity and the power that it brings

Madness reigns
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Oh yeah
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Come with me
Stay close by my side
As the darkness of night closes in
Don't fear
In the thunder, it roars
When the Mountain King calls all his children home
To where I hid him we must run
Refuge(?) here but I was forever on the run

Madness reigns
(my friends)
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Oh yeah
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

24 Hrs. Ago

Behind the wheel just went along
I'm tired of hearing the same old song
Look
I rule the night
No end in sight
I think I'm going insane, oh yeah

Engines grind
I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast
Forget the past
I'm burning tread
In my head
I am gone
Twenty four hours ago
Yeah

Got to escape
Can't take any more
I grabbed my suitcase
And kicked down the door
Yeah

I've got blood shot eyes
Hypnotized
I feel no pain
Oh yeah

Engines grind
I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast
Forget the past
I'm burning tread
In my head
I am gone
Twenty four hours ago
Yeah

Engines grind
I hit the red line
I'm movin' fast
Forget the past
I'm burning tread
In my head
I am gone
Twenty four hours ago
Yeah

Twenty four hours ago
Yeah

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Hall Of the Mountain King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZokisuAtI

[ABlairican Pie]

Like many metal fans, Flotsam and Jetsam bassist Jason Newsted was devastated at reading the news of the tragic death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton from a bus crash on an icy highway in Sweden on September 26, 1986. Tears rolled from his eyes and onto the newspaper page as he pondered the fate of the rising mighty band. :crying: Little did he know that in a few weeks, he would play a huge part in that future.

He succeeded the audition handily, even beating out an excellent bassist such as Primus bassist Les Claypool, whom the band liked but found "too funky" and "way out there". With Jason in the band, his future was secure. His dream had come true. But first, there was a little a little "hazing" ritual that the band did to "Newkid". They trashed his belongings, including his cassettes, and poured shaving cream all over him, among other nasty tests. Newsted was puzzled but held back his indignation when he realized, this was a test to see if he was up to the challenge of being in Metallica. He took it all in stride, and passed the initiation. Over the years, however, it would get tougher.

The band recorded their first mini-album with Newsted, 1987's The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Revisited (which now costs over $100 on the collectors' market) which featured cover tunes of various metal and punk bands. Metallica were back, and prepared to record a new album in time for the upcoming Monsters of Rock tour with Van Halen, The Scorpions, Dokken, and Kingdom Come. The new album, ...And Justice For All, touched on topics not covered by many metal albums, such as environmental destruction ("Blackened"), freedom of expression ("Eye Of the Beholder"), blacklisting ("The Shortest Straw"), and the judicial system in America on the title track.
The most popular track on the album, "One", was made into their first video for MTV, with clips taken from the 1971 film "Johnny Got His Gun", featuring Timothy Bottoms, about a thoroughly incapacitated soldier in World War I who loses his limbs and sensory abilities. The song and video became the talk of the town on the music and entertainment scene, proving to many that metal could have social commentary and make people think (something true metal fans always knew)--it actually used its brain and did not think with its genitalia like so many of their poodle-headed peers.

Unfortunately for Newsted, during the recording process, his bass was inexplicably obscured by guitars. Instead of the patented Metallicrunch as on Master of Puppets and other albums, the guitars seemed to "buzz" rather than roar. The drums "clicked" rather than pounded, but regardless, the album was a masterpiece of metal with complex, epic song arrangements.

Blackened

Blackened is the End
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity

Death of Mother Earth
Never a rebirth
Evolution's end
Never will it mend

Never...!

FIRE
To begin whipping Dance of the Dead,
Blackened--is the--End!
To begin whipping Dance of the Dead,
Color our world Blackened!

Blistering of Earth
Terminate its worth
Deadly Nicotine
Kills what might have been

Callous frigid chill
Nothing left to kill
Never seen before
Breathing nevermore

Never...!

FIRE
To begin whipping Dance of the Dead,
Blackened--is the--End!
To begin whipping Dance of the Dead,
Color our world Blackened!

BLACKENED.

...And Justice For All

Halls of Justice Painted Green
Money Talking
Power Wolves Beset Your Door
Hear Them Stalking
Soon You'll Please Their Appetite
They Devour
Hammer of Justice Crushes You
Overpower

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price You Pay
Nothing Can Save You

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Apathy Their Stepping Stone
So Unfeeling
Hidden Deep Animosity
So Deceiving
Through Your Eyes Their Light Burns
Hoping to Find
Inquisition Sinking You
With Prying Minds

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price You Pay
Nothing Can Save You

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Lady Justice Has Been Raped
Truth Assassin
Rolls of Red Tape Seal Your Lips
Now You're Done in
Their Money Tips Her Scales Again
Make Your Deal
Just What Is Truth? I Cannot Tell
Cannot Feel

The Ultimate in Vanity
Exploiting Their Supremacy
I Can't Believe the Things You Say
I Can't Believe
I Can't Believe the Price We Pay
Nothing Can Save Us

Justice Is Lost
Justice Is Raped
Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real

Eye Of the Beholder

Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offense
Your silence for your confidence

Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must

Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?

Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech
Is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me

Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative

Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside to each his own

Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smokescreen I see through the selfish lie

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech
Is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
Your silence just to hear yourself

Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence lengthen freedom's ring

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech
Is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

One

(gunshot noises)
"Stop it no! get you ass outta there! move it! go go go
move move!"

(bombs going off)

(Helicoptor noises)

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel the scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this LIFE off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh god, help me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

The Shortest Straw

Suspicion Is Your Name
Your Honesty to Blame
Put Dignity to Shame
Dishonor
Witchhunt Modern Day
Determining Decay
The Blatant Disarray
Disfigure
The Public Eyes' Disgrace
Defying Common Place
Unending Paper Chase
Unending

Deafening
Painstaking
Reckoning
This Vertigo it Doth Bring

Shortest Straw
Challenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You

Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You

The Accusations Fly
Discrimination, Why?
Your Inner Self to Die
Intruding
Doubt Sunk Itself in You
It's Teeth and Talons Through
Your Living Catch 22
Deluding

A Mass Hysteria
A Megalomania
Reveal Dementia
Reveal

Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In Vertigo You Will Be

Shortest Straw
Challenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You

Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You

Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You

Behind You, Hands Are Tied
Your Being, Ostracized
Your Hell Is Multiplied
Upending
The Fallout Has Begun
Oppresive Damage Done
Your Many Turned to None
To Nothing
You're Reaching Your Nadir
Your Will Has Disappeared
The Lie Is Crystal Clear
Defending

Channels Red
One Word Said
Blaclisted
With Vertigo Make You Dead

Shortest Straw
Challenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You
Pulled for You

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwW9L_qzqp8

[ABlairican Pie]

Metallica faced a potentially formidable challenger with their old friend and foe Dave Mustaine when Megadeth released So Far, So Good...So What! However, if the band's substance abuse problems had not escalated to the point that they did, the band's musical focus would have been much stronger. Yet the band released a state of the art thrash album, featuring a cover of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In the UK" dubbed "Anarchy In the USA", as well as "Hook In Mouth" dedicated to the band's old nemesis the PMRC. The standout track was "In My Darkest Hour", which on the surface appeared to be about a girl who jilted him, but in fact were inspired by the devastating news of Cliff Burton's death. Mustaine took an acoustic guitar on hearing the sad details of his former partner's passing and wrote out the music. Not surprisingly, MTV refused to play the video out of fear it promoted "suicide", but it did appear on The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part 2: The Metal Years.

Anarchy In the USA

Right now
I am an anti-Christ
And I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how get it
I want to destroy, possibly ?

'Cause I want to be anarchy, no dog's body

Anarchy for the U.S.A.
It's coming sometime, it may be
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic light
Your future dream is a shopping spree

'Cause I want to be anarchy, in the city

Of many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy

'Cause I want to be anarchy, it's the only way to be

Is this the M.P.L.A. ?
Is this the U.D.A. ?
Is this the I.R.A. ?
I thought it was the U.S.A., or just another country
And other c:censored:-like tendencies
'Cause I want to be anarchy,'cause I want to be
Anarchy, you know what I mean ?

'Cause I want to be anarchist, again I'm pissed

Destroy !

In My Darkest Hour

In my hour of need
Ha you're not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldn't lend a hand

Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me

Did you ever think I get lonely
Did you ever think that I needed love
Did you ever think to stop thinking
You're the only one that I'm thinking of

You'll never know how hard I tried
To find my space and satisfy you too

Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
Don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong

But oh how I lived my life for you
Still you'd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise your head raise your face your eyes
Tell me who you think you are, who ?

I walk, I walk alone
Into the promised land
There's a better place for me
But it's far, far away
Everlasting life for me
In a perfect world
But I gotta die first
Please God send me on my way

Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt by fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, alone, so alone, I'm lost
Consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain, the pain

Won't you hold me again
You just laughed, ha, ha, bitch
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away

In my darkest hour

Hook In Mouth

A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes
A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you

Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools

You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway ?
Ever think may be it was meant to be this way ?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
I believe my kingdom will come

[CHORUS:]
F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, will cover your grave with manure
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C

F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, is for money, you know what that cures
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C

[CHORUS:]

Put your hand right up my shirt
Pull the strings that make me work
Jaws will part, words fall out
Like a fish with hook in mouth

Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools

I'm not a fish
I'm a man
Hook in mouth

Set the World Afire

Red flesh cloud's choking out the morning sky
They said it'd never come, we knew it was a lie
All forms of life die now the humans all succumb
Time to kiss your ass goodbye the end has just begun

Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1989
Weeds once underneath your feet have grown to vines
Bodies melted like a candies, a land without a face
No time to change your fate, no time left, it's too late
The arsenal of megadeth can't be rid they said
And if it comes, the living will envy the dead
Racing for power, and all come in last
No winning first stone cast
This falsehood worldly peace
It's treaties soon will cease
No one will be left to prove that humans existed
Maybe soon the children will be born open-fisted
We all live on one planet it will all go up in smoke

Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy
And now the final scene, a global darkening

Dig deep piles of rubble and ruins
Towering overhead both far and wide
There's unknown tools for World War III
Einstein said ' We'll use rocks on the other side '
No survivors set the world afire

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Anarchy In the USA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKmyRrvpnM

In My Darkest Hour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4guR6nNIb8

In My Darkest Hour (Decline of Western Civilization Part 2):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50b1gaXaci8

[ABlairican Pie]

Anthrax's 1988 release State Of Euphoria did not match the success of its predecessor, but did have a song and video which was a regular feature on MTV's Headbanger's Ball: the song "Anti-Social", which was a cover originally done by the early 80's band Trust, who were dubbed "the French AC/DC". The band also wrote a song, "Now It's Dark" about the twisted David Lynch movie 'Blue Velvet', starring Dennis Hopper as the villain.

In 1989, MTV held a contest to have the band come and trash the winner's home. The contest was won by a female fan, and the band subsquently came to her home and caused havoc. This was the inspiration for the band's 1992 appearance on Married... with Children, where the main characters of the show win a television contest to have Anthrax come to their home.

Anti-Social

You're a train ride to no importance
You're in love with hell existence
Money is all that you desire
Why don't you pack it in and retire
It's common nature you can't fool me
I'm just the money that you can't let free
Rainy day genius clouds your mind
Don't you realize the blind lead the blind

You're anti, you're antisocial

Oh mister time will you ever unwind
Or just rebuild a new design
Your claim to fame is law and order
The rich get rich, the poor get poor
You put a price tag on what you see
This one's for you, that's for me
If that's winning I'd rather lose
Why don't you listen to my senseless views

You're anti, you're antisocial
How do you feel?

You're a train ride to no importance
You're in love with hell existence
Money is all that you desire
Why don't you pack it in and retire
It's common nature you can't fool me
I'm just the money that you can't let free
Rainy day genius clouds your mind
Don't you realize the blind lead the blind

You're anti, you're antisocial

ANTISOCIAL......

Who Cares Wins

Close your eyes to the horror
Close your eyes to the pain
When you live in a box
No one knows your name
Living in the street
Moms and kids with nothing to eat
Welfare hotels
Who says there's no place called hell

I can't see you
I can't hear you
You don't see me
You couldn't be me
Who cares wins

There but for the grace of god
There but for the grace of god
Who cares, who cares, who cares, who cares
There but for the grace of god
There but for the grace of god...
Go you or I
Open your eyes
You don't see me
You couldn't be me

Invisible could be my name
Your excuses are so lame
Real pleas fall on deaf ears
Look away when I'm near
Freezing cold in winter's heat
Burning up can be a treat
Blisters breaking on my feet
At least I get a subway seat

I can't see you
I can't hear you
You don't see me
You couldn't be me
Who cares wins

There but for the grace of god
There but for the grace of god
Who cares, who cares, who cares, who cares
There but for the grace of god
There but for the grace of god...

Go you or I
Open your eyes
You don't see me
You couldn't be me
Who cares wins

Self help and preservation
Not now I'm on vacation
Priority is you
And screw all those around you

Now's the time for you to share
Indifference you have to care
Deep inside you know it's true
How do I get through to you
Open your eyes to the horror
Open your eyes to the pain
When you live in a box
No one knows your name

[CHORUS]

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Ant-Social:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD57mtQniD4

Who Cares Wins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rojD7fh99w

[ABlairican Pie]

Continuing on in their experimental, "prog" stage, Iron Maiden released a concept album of sorts with 1988's Seventh Son Of a Seventh Son, based upon a story of a youth with mystical, clairvoyant powers. The album featured some of their most popular songs such as "Can I Play With Madness?" and "The Evil That Men Do". The album explored fantasy themes of paranormal abilities, reincarnation, and the dark arts of the occult while constructing polished elaborate musical pieces and intricate storylines. The video to "Can I Play With Madness" was featured regularly on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, and the tour was widely attended, though primarily for having Guns N' Roses as the opening act.

Can I Play With Madness?

Can I play with madness?

Give me the sense to wonder
To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder
To know I can be me
Give me the strength to hold my head up
Spit back in their face
Don't need no key to unlock this door
Gonna break down the walls
Break out of this bad place

[Chorus]
Can I play with madness?
The prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness?
There's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness?
The prophet looked at me and laughed at me (ha ha) He said:
Can I play with madness?
He said you're blind, too blind to see

Said you're too blind to see

I screamed aloud to the old man
I said don't lie, don't say you don't know
I say you'll pay for this mischief
In this world or the next
Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance
And the hellfires raged in his eyes
He said you wanna know the truth son?
Lord, I'll tell you the truth
Your soul's gonna burn in a lake of fire

[Chorus]

Listen to me, said the prophet

[Chorus]

Can I play with madness?

The Evil That Men Do

Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with
The slaughter of innocence
But will pray for her.
I will call her name out loud.
I would bleed for her.
If only I could see her now.

Living on a razors edge.
Balancing on a ledge.
Living on a razors edge.

The evil that men do lives on and on....[4 times]

Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems
The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me.
But I will pray for you.
And some day I may return.
Don't you cry for me.
Beyond is where I learn.

Infinite Dreams

Infinite dreams I can't deny them
Infinity is hard to comprehend
I couldn't hear those screams
Even in my wildest dreams

Suffocation waking in a sweat
Scared to fall asleep again
In case the dream begins again
Someone chasing I cannot move
Standing rigid nightmare's statue
What a dream when will it end
And will it transcend?

Restless sleep the minds in turmoil
One nightmare ends another fertile
Getting to me so scared to sleep
But scared to wake now, in too deep.

Even thought its reached new heights
I rather like the restless nights
It makes me wonder it makes me think
There's more to this I'm on the brink
It's not the fear of what's beyond
It's just that I might not respond
I have an interest almost craving
But would I like to get too far in?

It can't all be coincidence
Too many things are evident
You tell me you're an unbeliever
Spirtualists? Well me I'm neither
But wouldn't you like to know
The truth
Oh what's out there to have the proof
And find out just which side
You're on
Where would you end in Heaven or
In Hell?

Help me. Help me to find my true
Self without seeing the future
Save me, save me from tortuning
Myself even within my dreams

There's got to be just more to it
That this
Or tell me why do we exist
I'd like to think that when I die
I'd get a chance another time
And to return and live again
Reincarnate, play the game
Again and again and again.

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Can I Play With Madness?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DnXPtnNGBo

The Evil That Men Do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaamVkvfZqc

[ABlairican Pie]

Poison's second album, Open Up And Say...Ahh! furthered the band's popularity with the band's biggest song, a power ballad called "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", was well as with its fun rockin' party-metal songs and videos.
The album even featured a cover of Loggins and Messina's 1972 hit "Your Mama Don't Dance". Guys who were initially revulsed by--or turned on by--the "chicks" on the debut album cover now found themselves rocking to the new album and flocking to their shows en masse. The band began selling out arenas which featured huge lighting rigs and flashpots, guaranteeing nothin' but a good time for all. Even Tipper Gore and Co. tried to shut down the party by forcing the band to change its cover art of the model named Bambi
who stuck out a huge long tongue on the front. Too phallic for ya, Tipper? ;)

Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was a response to a failed love affair with a Los Angeles stripper. Poison had been playing at a cowboy bar called The Ritz in Dallas, Texas. After the show, Michaels called the woman at her apartment and heard a man's voice in the background. Heartbroken, Michaels wrote the song with an acoustic guitar in a laundromat. As the suds spun round and round, Bret Michaels found his solace in his song. :crying:

Nothin' But a Good Time

Now Listen

Not a dime, I can't pay my rent
I can barely make it through the week
Saturday night I'd like to make my girl
But right now I can't make ends meet

I'm always workin' slavin' every day
Gotta get a break from the same old same old
I need a chance just to get away
If you could hear me think this is what I'd say

Chorus:
Don't need nothin' but a good time
How can I resist
Ain't lookin' for nothin' but a good time
And it don't get better than this

Say I spend my money on women and wine
But I couldn't tell you where I spent last night
I'm really sorry about the shape I'm in
I just like my fun every now and then

I'm always workin' slavin' every day
Gotta get a break from the same old same old
I need a chance just to get away
If you could hear me think this is what I'd say

Chorus

You see I raise a toast to all of us
Who are breakin' our backs every day
If wantin' the good life is such a crime
Lord, then put me away
Here's to ya

Solo

Chorus (2x's)

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

We both lie silently still
in the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
We feel miles apart inside

Was it something I said or something I did
Did my words not come out right
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that's why they say

Chorus:
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

Yeah it does

I listen to our favorite song
playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say loves a game of easy come and easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you'd be here right now
If I could let you know somehow
I guess

Chorus

Though it's been a while now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you the wound heals
but the scar, that scar will remain

Solo

I know I could saved a love that night
If I'd known what to say
Instead of makin' love
We both made our separate ways

But now I hear found somebody new
and that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
I guess

Chorus

Fallen Angel

She stepped off the bus out into the city streets
Just a small town girl with her whole life packed
In a suitcase by her feet

But somehow the lights didn't
shine as bright as they did
On her mama's TV screen

And the work seemed harder
The days seemed longer
Than she ever thought they'd be

But you know you got to stick to your guns
When it all comes down
Cause sometimes you can't choose
It's like heads they win
Tails you're gonna lose

Chorus:
Win big--Mama's fallen angel
Lose big--livin' out of lies
Wants it all--Mama's fallen angel
Lose it all, rollin' the dice of her life

Now she found herself in the fast lane livin' day to day
Turned her back on her best friends
And watched the family slip away

Just like a lost soul
caught up in the Hollywood scene
All the parties and the limousines

Such a good actress hiding all her pain
Trading her memories for fortune and fame

Just a step away from the edge of a fall
Caught between heaven and hell
Where's the girl I knew a year ago

Chorus

Too much too soon
Or just a little too late
Cause when the ship came in
She wasn't there and it just wouldn't wait

Solo, chorus out

Your Mama Don't Dance

Chorus:
Your Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and roll
Your Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and roll
But when evening rolls around and it's time to hit the town
Where do you go--You gotta rock it

The old folks say that you gotta end your date by ten
But if you're out on a date don't you bring her home late cause it's a sin
You know there's no excuse, you know you're gonna lose, you never win
I'll say it again

And it's all because

Chorus

Solo

You see I pulled into a drive-in and I found a place to park
We hopped into the backseat where it's always nice and dark
I'm just about to move thinkin' "Bret, this is a breeze"
There's a light in my eye and a guy says "Out of the car, long hair!"

Oowee--you're coming with me
Said the local police

And it's all because

Chorus

Play me a little C.C.

Solo

Your Mama don't dance, no
She just don't dance, no
Your Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and roll
Ah, yeah

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango

THIS IS THE GREATEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME (though chicks are not plentiful in this one)!!!!: Nothin' But a Good Time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4ZFGfbIA4

Every Rose Has Its Thorn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYFqH-W1yo

Fallen Angel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlEMmAFfIM

[Steve M.]

We mentioned Suzanne Vega's second album from 1987 before, how it was the antidoe to dnace pop and hip-hop, and hoow all of her fans said, "She's going to lead us into a revolution!" Yeah, sure and Gary Hart was elected President of the United States.

We discussed "Luka," the only big hit from that record, but did you know that there were other songs on the album? Here are some of them:

Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega

Solitude stands by the window,
She turns her head as I walk in the room.
I can see by her eyes she's been waiting,
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon.
And she turns to me with her hand extended,
Her palm is split with a flower, with a flame.

Solitude stands in the doorway,
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette.
By her long cool stare and her silence,
I suddenly remember each time we've met.
And she turns to me with her hand extended,
Her palm is split with a flower ,with a flame.

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight."
And she says "I've come to lighten this dark heart."
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear.
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here."


I turn to the crowd as they're watching,
They're sitting all together in the dark in the warm.
I wanted to be in there among them,
I see how their eyes are gathered into one.
And then she turns to me with her hand extended,
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame.

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight."
And she says"l've come to lighten this dark heart."
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear.
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here."

Solitude stands in the doorway,
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette.
By her long cool stare and her silence,
I suddenly remember each time we've met.
And she turns to me with her hand extended,
Her palm is split with a flower, with a flame.

Night Vision - Suzanne Vega

By day give thanks,
By night beware.
Half the world in sweetness,
The other in fear,
When the darkness takes you. . .

With her hand across your face,
Don't give in too quickly.
Find the thing she's erased,
Find the line, find the shape. . .
Through the grain.

Find the outline, things will
Tell you their name,
The table, the guitar,
The empty glass,
All will blend together when
Daylight has passed.

Find the line, find the shape
Through the grain,
Find the outline, things will
Tell you their name.

Now I watch you falling into sleep,
Watch your fist curl against the sheet.
Watch your lips fall open and your eyes dim
In blind faith,
I would shelter you,
Keep you in light.
But I can only teach you
Night vision
Night vision,
Night vision.

Language - Suzanne Vega

If language were liquid
It would be rushing in
Instead here we are
In a silence more eloquent
Than any word could ever be
These words are too solid
They don't move fast enough
To catch the blur in the brain
That flies by and is gone
Gone
Gone
Gone

I'd like to meet you
In a timeless, placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences

Let's go back to the building
(Words are too solid)
On Little West Twelfth
It is not far away
(They don't move fast enough)
And the river is there
And the sun and the spaces
Are all laying low
(To catch the blur in the brain)
And we'll sit in the silence
(That flies by and is)
That comes rushing in and is
Gone (Gone)

I won't use words again
They don't mean what I meant
They don't say what I said
They're just the crust of the meaning
With realms underneath
Never touched
Never stirred
Never even moved through

If language were liquid
It would be rushing in
Instead here we are
In a silence more eloquent
Than any word could ever be
And is gone
Gone
Gone
And is gone.

(All songs written by our heroine, Suzanne Vega. And the anti-hit-pop revolt that she was supposed to lead still quite hasn't happened. :mad: )

[Steve M.]

After spending the seventies putting out really dumb songs, America finally put out a good one. Unsurprisingly, they didn't write it. :lol:

America - down to Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley since Dan Peek left to be a gospel singer - released A View From the Ground in 1982. The trio-tunred-duo's album featured "You Can Do Magic," a song composed by former Argent frontman Russ Ballard. It was a big hit, America's first hit single in seven years.


You Can Do Magic -America

(Russ Ballard)

I never believed in things that I couldn't see,
I said, "If I can't feel it then how can it be?
No, no magic could happen to me."
And then I saw you. . .

I couldn't believe it, you took my heart,
I couldn't retrieve it, said to myself,
"What's it all about?"
Now I know there can be no doubt. . .

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay.
Doo, doo, doo ...

And when the rain is beatin' upon the window pane,
And when the night it gets so cold, when I can't sleep,
Again you come to me.
I hold you tight, the rain disappears.
Who would believe it?
With a word you dry my tears. . .

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay.
Doo, doo, doo ...

And If I wanted to,
I could never be free.
I never believed it was true,
But now it's so clear to me.

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay .
Doo, doo, doo ...

You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire ...

Oh yeah, A View From the Ground also included this oh-so-cute love song that dropped names of twenties movie stars.

Right Before Your Eyes - America

Every day I sit beside you
On the bus to Madison Avenue,
Work in the big gray store
With the revolving doors .

You don't even know my name,
I guess that I'm to blame.
Don't know the right things to say,
So I pretend away .

That I'm Rudolph Valentino,
Pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of.
Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.

Do, do, do ...

Today I'm done with games (Today I'm done with games),
Gonna ask you for your nam.e
Say I've been watching you,
I even know what you do.

Maybe today I'll tell you (Maybe today I'll tell you),
I've found the nerve to sell you
On a guy like me,
Who wishes that he could be. . .

Your Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of.
Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.

Do, do, do ...

Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.
Right before my eyes you'll say you love me too.

Rudolph Valentino,
I pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow,
And you'll know what I'm thinking of, oo

Do, do, do ...

[Steve M.]

Now Bunnell and Beckley were pushing their luck.

America released Your Move in 1983, and Russ Ballard gave them another song, "The Border," to record. It sounded dimilar to "You Can Do Magic," but Dewey Bunnell wasn't satisfied with Ballard's lyrics. We'll let Dewey tell the story: "Russ had written a song called 'The Border,' and the song itself is virtually what you hear today, except that I rewrote all the lyrics except for the title line. Because he was very British, he had used some cliche lyrics that, to us as Americans, sounded incongruous. He was trying to get a desperado-type feel but used words like Pasadena. The lyrics just didn't get the whole border thing and that Mexicali feel that he was envisioning. I asked to rewrite it, and he was receptive, so I wrote a story about running away and trying to escape something."

"The Border went up to number 33 on the U.S. pop charts. If the refrain was any indication, the song was about meeting a girlfriend in Point Roberts, Washington, Lubec, Maine, Imperial Beach, California, or Port Isabel, Texas - the four towns where the borders meet the coast. :lol:

The Border - America

(Ballard / Bunnell)

You must be lost in a faraway land,
I searched forever your footprints in the sand.
I feel you need me, I have to answer,
That desperate call that I do not understand.

A burning bridge, a lonely highway,
Another dark night thinking alone.
What could've happened, am I just dreaming,
It doesn't matter but there's one thing that I know.

If I could make it to the border,
If I could make it to the coast,
If I could make it to the border,
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
Make it to the border.

So on and on I keep on running
To make the border before the light,
Just one more river, then I can make it.
Again you'll be in my arms tonight.

If I could make it to the border,
If I could make it to the coast,
If I could make it to the border,
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
Make it to the border ...
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
Make it to the border.

If I could make it to the border,
If I could make it to the coast,
If I could make it to the border,
I'd be in the arms of the girl I love the most.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border,
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border,
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border,
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Make it to the border ...

[ABlairican Pie]

After spending the seventies putting out reaslly dumb songs, America finally put out a good one. Unsurprisingly, they didn't write it. :lol:

America - down to Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley since Dan Peek left to be a gospel singer - released A View From the Ground in 1982. The trio-tunred-duo's album featured "You Can Do Magic," a song composed by former Argent frontman Russ Ballard. It was a big hit, America's first hit single in seven years.


You Can Do Magic -America

(Russ Ballard)

I never believed in things that I couldn't see,
I said, "If I can't feel it then how can it be?
No, no magic could happen to me."
And then I saw you. . .

I couldn't believe it, you took my heart,
I couldn't retrieve it, said to myself,
"What's it all about?"
Now I know there can be no doubt. . .

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay.
Doo, doo, doo ...

And when the rain is beatin' upon the window pane,
And when the night it gets so cold, when I can't sleep,
Again you come to me.
I hold you tight, the rain disappears.
Who would believe it?
With a word you dry my tears. . .

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay.
Doo, doo, doo ...

And If I wanted to,
I could never be free.
I never believed it was true,
But now it's so clear to me.

You can do magic,
You can have anything that you desire.
Magic, and you know
You're the one who can put out the fire.

You know darn well
When you cast your spell you will get your way.
When you hypnotize with your eyes,
A heart of stone can turn to clay .
Doo, doo, doo ...

You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire
You're the one who can put out the fire ...

Oh yeah, A View From the Ground also included this oh-so-cute love song that dropped names of twenties movie stars.

Right Before Your Eyes - America

Every day I sit beside you
On the bus to Madison Avenue,
Work in the big gray store
With the revolving doors .

You don't even know my name,
I guess that I'm to blame.
Don't know the right things to say,
So I pretend away .

That I'm Rudolph Valentino,
Pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of.
Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.

Do, do, do ...

Today I'm done with games (Today I'm done with games),
Gonna ask you for your nam.e
Say I've been watching you,
I even know what you do.

Maybe today I'll tell you (Maybe today I'll tell you),
I've found the nerve to sell you
On a guy like me,
Who wishes that he could be. . .

Your Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of.
Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.

Do, do, do ...

Right before your eyes I fall in love with you.
Right before my eyes you'll say you love me too.

Rudolph Valentino,
I pull up in my limousine,
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain,
Things'll never be the same.

And then just like Greta Garbo,
You stare like there's no tomorrow,
And you'll know what I'm thinking of, oo

Do, do, do ...I actually saw Dan Peek in his contemporary Christian music days, I think it was around 1982, at Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center
(Oh yeah, I even saw [I]DEBBY BOONE there in 1986!!!! :rock:), and I wasn't really too big on his Christian stuff at the time. He'd come out with some corny pop fluff (wow, sounds just like a cereal!!) that you'd figure would come from a guy who used to be in America (the band, not the country, specifically), like this one song, "Doer Of the Word" where he had the DUMBEST chorus, "Do do do do do doo, Doer of the Word," repeated a few times. puke: I guess my friends at church thought it would be cool to see a former "secular" pop artist go Christian, but remember, "Horse With No Name" was the one song in 1971 that made me embrace Black Sabbath at the age of nine. :cool:

There was one song I liked from his Christian period, though, have to look it up...

You'll never guess what he did with one of their top hits, "Here's To All the Lonely People". ohno:

[ABlairican Pie]

Cinderella released Long Cold Winter in 1988, which at first seemed to be a commercial disappointment by not selling as well as their debut, but ended up with double-platinum status (2 million sold). The album had a little more of a commercial pop feel than the sleaze-glam approach on Night Songs, with songs such as "Gypsy Road", "Last Mile", "Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart At the Seams", and "Coming Home". The album also featured one of their biggest songs, the ballad "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone", a huge favorite on the tour behind the album where audiences were dazzled to see vocalist Tom Kiefer on a white piano being lowered onto the stage. The tour also featured copious amounts of (fake) snow to emphasize the "long cold winter theme". The 254-show tour to support the album lasted over 14 months and included dates on the Moscow Music Peace Festival along side other glam metal heavyweights such as Ozzy Osbourne, The Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, and Skid Row.

Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart At the Seams

Bad Seamstress Blues

Alright
Lookin' on back when I was young
I tried to sing it, but my song had been sung
And now I ain't got no worries
Ain't got no one to call my own
I said but when I got just a little bit older
All I got had come undone
Let's go boys

Fallin' Apart At The Seams

Ah yea
Old man looks much younger now
He lost his strength respect somehow
Look in the mirror at what I found
It's just the past and it's over now
Ooo it's all over now
Ooo it's all over now

My heart's like a wheel
And my head's just a stone
I got my memories
Ain't got no home

I'm fallin'
Ooo fallin' apart at the seams
Fallin'
Ooo yea fallin' apart at the seams

Old friends seem much closer now
They stand the test of time somehow
Look at the winner who hit the ground
It comes around and then it goes back down

Ooo it's all over now
Ooo it's all over now
My heart's like a wheel
And my head's just a stone
I got no memories
Ain't got no home

I'm fallin'
Ooo fallin' apart at the seams
Fallin'
Ooo yea fallin' apart at the seams

My heart's like a wheel
And my head's just a stone
I got my memories
Ain't got no home

I'm fallin'
Ooo fallin' apart at the seams
Fallin'
Ooo yea fallin' apart at the seams
Fallin'
I'm fallin' fallin'
Fallin' apart at the seams
Fallin'
Ooo yea ooo yea
Whoa yea

Coming Home

I took a walk down a road
It's the road I was meant to stay
I see the fire in your eyes
But a man's got to make his way
So are you tough enough for my love
Just close your eyes to the heaven above
I'm coming home
I'm coming home

I took a ride in a world
I'll be spinnin' for the rest of my life
I feel your heart beatin' baby
Ooo sometimes it cuts like a knife
So are you tough enough for my love
Just close your eyes to the heaven above
I'm coming home
I'm coming home

I'm coming home
Where your love tonight can shine on me
I'm coming home
Where your lovin' arms can set me free

I took a walk down a road
It's the road I was meant to stay
I see the fire in your eyes
But a man's got to make his way
So are you tough enough for my love
Just close your eyes to the heaven above
I'm coming home
I'm coming home

I'm coming home
Oh yea
I'm on my way oh yea
I'm coming home
I'm coming home

Here we go ooo yea, ooo
I'm on my way
Come on baby, come on now
Let your love, shine on me

Sing along, I'm on my way
Come on baby, ooo
Shine on, shine on, shine on me
Come on baby, I'm on my way
Come on baby, Let you love shine on me
Oh yea, shine on me
Oh yea, shine on, shine on me
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
I'm on my way

Don't Know What You Got Until It's Gone

I can't tell ya baby what went wrong
I can't make you feel what you felt so long ago
I'll let it show
I can't give you back what's been hurt
Heartaches come and go and all that's left are the words
I can't let go
If we take some time to think it over baby
Take some time, let me know
If you really want to go

Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long

I can't feel the things that cause you pain
I can't clear my heart of your love it falls like rain
Ain't the same
I hear you calling far away
Tearing through my soul I just can't take another day
Who's to blame
If we take some time to think it over baby
Take some time let me know
If you really wanna go

Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long

Do you wanna see me beggin' baby
Can't you give me just one more day
Can't you see my heart's been draggin' lately
I've been lookin' for the words to say

Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long

Don't know what you got till it's gone no
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long

Gypsy Road

I used to be now I'm not what you see, Lord I try
And now it seems all those dreams have come true, but they're passing me by
Some fast talkin' mama for a dollar put a smile on my face
I'm drivin' all night
I end up in the same old place

My gypsy road can't take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can't take me home
I keep on pushin' cause it feels alright

And who's to care if I grow my hair to the sky
I'll take a wish and a prayer cross my fingers cause I always get by
Some fast talkin' jerk for a dollar wiped the smile off my face
I'm drivin' all night
Just to keep the rat in the race

My gypsy road can't take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can't take me home
I keep on pushin' cause it feels alright

Sometimes I feel so old
Got my lights burnin' bright
But I'm lookin' pretty sold
Sometimes I feel so cold
So cold
Let's go

Got to get on home
My gypsy road can't take me home
My gypsy road can't take me home, t-t-take me

My gypsy road can't take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can't take me home
I keep on pushin' cause it feels alright

My gypsy road can't take me home
I drive all night just to see the light
My gypsy road can't take me home
I keep on p-p-pushin'
My gypsy road
My gypsy road
My gypsy road
My gypsy road
My gypsy road

The Last Mile

Me and Billy boy and old lady jane
We hitched a ride, took a fast movin' train
Got to the top with our heads spinnin' round
You never know just what you got until you're comin' back
Down on the farmland Mississippi shade
The folks down there they told me take it day by day

And walk the last mile
Before I sleep
It'll be a while
Before I get my peace
With the same style
I walked for years
On the last mile
I can rest my fears

I got a long way to go before I reach the light of day
Monkies on my back I gotta find a better way
Same old story never get just what you want
The more you got the more you want
Sometimes you do and then you don't
I guess I've always been a travelin' man
Cause when I'm movin' I can make a stand

And walk the last mile
Before I sleep
It'll be a while
Before I get my peace
With the same style
I walked for years
On the last mile
I can rest my fears

Don't know where I'm going
But I know where I've been
Look around me everybody's trying to win

I guess I've always been a travelin' man
Cause when I'm movin' I can make a stand yea yea

And walk the last mile
Before I sleep
It'll be a while
Before I get my peace
With the same style
I walked for years
On the last mile
I can rest my fears

The last mile
Before I sleep
It'll be a while
Before I get my peace
With the same style
I walked for years
On the last mile
I can rest my fears

The last mile
Before I sleep
It'll be a while
Before I get my peace
With the same style
I walked for years
On the last mile
I can rest my fears

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone): flick those Bics, people!! :rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CmdfuumsY

Coming Home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOcxVdjbos

Gyspy Road: The sleaze 'tude is back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R95kYxpR96M

The Last Mile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Dp9pt-tJc

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1987, a new band was formed by the bassist of Alice Cooper's band in the 80's, which featured another member of Alice Cooper, as well as a phenomenally talented session guitarist and a drummer of a veteran Southern fusion rock band. No one except for insiders of the music industry knew about them, but in a few short years, everyone would. To chicks, the lead singer's looks would be to die for, and for dudes, the guitarist's licks would be to kill for. Originally they were going to be called Sahara, but they chose the lead singer's last name. They became:

WINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kip Winger, a resident of Denver, Colorado had tried to make in music for years, playing in bands and listening to his favorite groups including Yes, Rush, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and especially The Beatles. From this wide musical pallate the sound of his self-named band would glean. He was a musical prodigy at the age of five when his parents enrolled him in various musical schools, including Julliard. His girlfriend convinced him to even take ballet at school while he listened to Tchaikovsky or Mozart. One of his early bands seemed to go nowhere, so he left for New York to study and perform music there. He met producer Beau Hill, who produced Kix's Midnight Dynamite album and albums by Ratt, when, while writing for 80's female rocker Fiona (Flanagan, not to be confused with Apple), he teamed up with Reb Beach, another session musician who worked with artists such as Chaka Khan, Howard Jones, the Bee Gees, and others. They attempted to form a trio called ViceVersa that went nowhere, when Hill recommended that Kip play bass for Alice Cooper on his Constrictor tour in 1986.

The union of Kip Winger with Alice Cooper threw open many musical doors for the young songwriter--he met guitarist/keyboardist Paul Taylor who was in the band, and after the tour, Kip, Reb, and Paul struck up a musical partnership. Before Kip and Paul returned in time for Alice Cooper's Raise Your Fist And Yell album and tour, they wrote and recorded their own songs which would eventually become the first Winger album. The band went through a period of trying to find a perfect name, Sahara was rejected after the band was threatened with a lawsuit by a band with a similar name. Alice Cooper suggested the name just Winger. Kip disliked the idea, but then chose it, seeing that he had little time to decide. They also took on Rod Morgenstein of The Dixie Dregs, which featured guitar virtuoso Steve Morse, on drums.

The self-titled album was released in the spring of 1988 to lukewarm response, until radio picked up on the first single "Madalaine", a song which showcased the band's ability to wail on soaring vocals and shredding guitar, exhibiting professionalism while not lacking in the least in the rocking department. But it was the song "Seventeen" which made Winger a household name. Due to its salacious subject matter, the band was ragged on as a "bubblegum" pop-metal band (which happened to have a great guitar solo), but listeners had to look a little deeper on tracks such as "State Of Emergency", "Poison Angel", and the album's closer, the power metal ballad "Headed For a Heartbreak", which featured stunning soloing by Beach. The album's videos became huge on MTV, and band won opening slots for bands such as The Scorpions, Bad Company, and Cinderella. In spite of the disappointing version of Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" (which featured Dweezil Zappa also on guitar), the album's songs sound very mature for the much-derided "hair-metal" genre, and the band would only get better from there.


So huge was the buzz over Winger then that Reb Beach says that during a concert opening for Bad Company, the barricade was broken down and audience members rushed onto the stage--"The girls were flocking to Kip, and the guys were flocking to me!" Reb Beach became the envy of many young aspiring shredders while Kip Winger was one of the hunkiest young dudes in rock next to Jon Bon Jovi that commanded a huge female audience.

Madelaine

YEEEAAAHHH!!!

Tell you about this lady

Such tender eyes,
Such a sweet believer
The story never lies
When I found you girl
You were so far down
A black cat in disguise

How in the world could it come to this
Couldn't you see that you've gone too far
Saving your soul for that one last kiss
Living your wish upon a star

Chorus:
Madalaine
This is love too tough to tame
Madalaine
Beware of the girl
Beware of the pain

Running scared
Through the dark of the day
The story never dies
But the names keep changin'
And the faces fade
Take you dead or alive

How in the world could it come to this
Couldn't you see that you've gone too far
Saving your soul for that one last kiss
Living your wish upon a star

Chorus:
Madalaine
This is love too tough to tame
Madalaine
Beware of the girl
Beware of the pain

Solo

All of your glory was left like an angry child
Waiting to take your luck away
But you can't see you're still running wild
Oh Madalaine!!!
Now don't run away from me

Chorus:
Madalaine
This is love too tough to tame
Madalaine
Beware of the girl
Beware of the pain

Chorus:
Madalaine
This is love too tough to tame
Madalaine
Beware of the girl
Beware of the pain

Hungry

I hear the ticking on the clock
Counting everyday I've been alone
How long before you're coming back
If I don't see your face I'll turn to stone

Can't keep holding on this way
Can't go on another day
Can't you hear me when I say

Chorus:
Girl I'm Hungry for your love
Girl I'm hungry
Baby let me in
Hungry for your love
Hungry I can't get enough

Your love's the color of my heart
When I look in you eyes everything's so clear
So still together when we're apart
I begin to die unless you're here

Can't keep holding on this way
Can't go on another day
Can't you hear me when I say

Chorus:
Girl I'm hungry for your love
Girl I'm hungry
Baby let me in
Hungry for your love
Hungry I can't get enough

I lie awake all night
Can't stop remembering
You've got to make it right
I can't hold it in

Solo

HUNGRY!!!!

I hear the ticking on the clock
Counting everyday I've been alone...
Hungry

Chorus:
I'm hungry for your love
Girl I'm hungry I can't get enough
Hungry for your skin
Hungry baby let me in
Hungry for your love
Hungry!!!
I'm hungry for your love
Hungry...Oh no!!!!
Hungry!!!!


Seventeen

Yeah, I saw sparks fly
From the corner of my eye
And when I turned (whoo)
It was love at first sight
I said please excuse me
I didn't catch your name (whoa)
It'd be a shame
Not to see you again

And just when I thought
She was coming to my door
She whispered sweet
And brought me to the floor
She said

Chorus:
I'm only seventeen (seventeen)
I'll show you love like you've never seen
She's only seventeen (seventeen)
Daddy says she's too young
But she's old enough for me

Come to my place
We can talk it over (oh)
Everything going down in your head
She said take it easy
I need some time
Time to work it out
To make you mine

And just when I thought
She was coming to my door
She whispered sweet
And brought me to the floor
She said,

Chorus:
I'm only seventeen (seventeen)
You ain't seen love
Ain't seen nothing like me
She's only seventeen
Seventeen........yeah!!!!

Solo

Such a bad girl
Loves to work me over time
Feels good (ha)
Dancin' close to the borderline
She's a magic mountain
She's a leather glove (oh)
She's my soul
It must be love

Chorus:
She's only seventeen (seventeen)
The girl she gives me love like I've never seen
She's only seventeen (seventeen)
Daddy says she's too young
But she's old enough for me
Seventeen!!
She's everything I need (seventeen)
Daddy says she's too young
But she's old enough
Old enough for me
Yeah! Yeah!!

State Of Emergency

Rough boy
Too touch to fall in love
I never break down
Always seem to hurt someone

I turn and try to run--too late
She's breaking me down
It's over when I see her face
You know I can't find my way out

Chorus:
Emergency!!
First time love's got a hold on me
Emergency!!
A state of emergency

Shut down
In the web of a modern girl
You take your chances
When the fear inside is real

I turn and try to run--too late
She's breaking me down
It's over when I see her face
You know I can't find my way out

Chorus:
Emergency!!
First time love's got a hold on me
Emergency!!
A state of emergency---Oh!!!!

Solo

(Repeat Chorus)

Poison Angel

I know, that you know that
I've seen your face before
A bad dream, so mean
Rockin' me down like a slot machine
So many years, I don't know when
My dear how have you been?
The way you looked the night we met
Gets me hot breathin', oooh cold sweat

You were so shy-y-y-y
And I was so high
That I can't remember the rest
But the one thing that I'll never forget

Chorus:
You're a poison angel
Tryin' to take my wings away
Poison angel
Get down on your knees and pray

I still remember what you said
The part about me dropping dead
You sent a letter, I've read it twice
I found out you weren't so nice
But there you were, looking so cool
To this country boy in the New York groove
And there you left me in the drink
Laughing while you watched me sink

You were so shy-y-y-y
And I was so high
That I can't remember the rest
But the one thing that I'll never forget

Chorus:
You're a poison angel
Tryin' to take my wings away
Poison angel
Get down on your knees and pray

Solo

Yeah, you were some fun
But you never looked at the damage done

Chorus:
Poison angel
Tryin' to take my wings away
Poison angel
Get down on your knees and pray
Poison angel.........

Headed For a Heartbreak

Morning came and I was on my way
When you reminded me
I had too soon forgotten
It was you that set me free
Yeah!!! You were here when I came
And you'll be here when I'm gone
So don't be waiting for love
Cause I'll be waitin' to ramble on

Chorus:
Headed for a heartbreak
Headed for a heartbreak

Darling, don't wait up for me
Tonight I won't be home
You've become a stranger
I just got to be alone
Don't need nobody on my side
To dull the blade I'm on
Don't be waitin' for love
Cause I'll be waitin' to ramble on

Chorus:
Headed for a heartbreak
Headed for a heartbreak
Headed for a heartbreak

It's no mistake
Don't you think I can feel the pain
I walk away
To live again

Solo

Chorus:
Headed for a heartbreak
Headed for a heartbreak
Don't make me hurt you
Headed for a heartbreak
Cause I love you
Headed for a heartbreak

Don't you think I feel the pain.....

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Madalaine: Now who can say THIS doesn't knock you on your ass??!! :rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJeEFTY3fh0

Hungry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRvMZMct_s

Headed For a Heartbreak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyek4LrI2c

Headed For (slightly longer, minus VH-1 logo):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzuAKBu366k


Top: Kip; Bottom: Reb

[ABlairican Pie]

Hot on the heels of their breakthrough album and tour, Bon Jovi released 1988's New Jersey, desperate to prove they were not a one hit wonder. The album turned out to be a stunning followup with many of their most popular songs, such as "Bad Medicine", "I'll Be There For You", "Born To Be My Baby", "Living In Sin", and "Lay Your Hands On Me". The tour behind the album was hugely successful, but nearly drove apart both Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Ritchie Sambora due to exhaustion, as they toured with hardly a break in between. During that time, the band was priviledged to take part in the Moscow Music Peace Festival a year later.

New Jersey holds the record for the rock album to spawn the most Top 10 singles, with five singles charting on the Top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. No other hard rock album has since equaled or broken this feat.

Lay Your Hands On Me

If you're ready, I'm willing and able
Help me lay my cards out on the table
You're mine and I'm yours for the taking
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking

What you get ain't always what you see
But satisfaction's guaranteed
They say what you give is always what you need
So if you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me,
Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me,

Lay your hands on me

I'm a fighter, I'm a poet, I'm a preacher
I've been to school and baby, I've been the teacher
If you show me how to get up off the ground
I can show you how to fly and never ever come back down

Everything you want is what I need
Satisfaction's guaranteed
But the ride don't never ever come for free
If you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me,
Lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me, lay your hands on me,

Lay your hands on me

Solo

Don't you know I only aim to please
If you want me to lay my hands on you

Lay your hands on me

Bad Medicine

I ain't got a fever got a permanent disease
It'll take more than a doctor to prescribe a remedy
I got lots of money but it isn't what I need
Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me
I got all the symptoms count 'em 1,2,3

First I need
That's what you get for falling in love
Then you bleed
You get a little but it's never enough
On your knees
That's what you get for falling in love
And now this boy's addicted cause your kiss is the drug

Your love is like bad medicine
Bad medicine is what I need
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
There ain't no doctor that can
Cure my disease

Bad, bad medicine
Bad, bad medicine

I don't need no needle
To be giving me a thrill
And I don't need no anesthesia
Or a nurse to bring a pill
I got a dirty down addiction
It doesn't leave a track
I got a jonse for your affection
Like a monkey on my back

There ain't no paramedic
Gonna save this heart attack

When you need
That's what you get for falling in love
Then you bleed
You get a little but it's never enough
On your knees
That's what you get for falling in love
Now I'm addicted and your kiss is the drug

Your love is like bad medicine
Bad medicine is what I need
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
So let's play doctor, baby
Cure my disease

Bad, bad medicine
Bad, bad medicine

Solo

I need a respirator cause I'm running out of breath
You're an all night generator wrapped is stockings and a dress
When you find your medicine you take what you can get
Cause if there's something better baby well thay haven't found it yet

Your love is like bad medicine
Bad medicine is what I need
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
There ain't no doctor that can
Cure my disease

Your love is like bad medicine
Bad medicine is what I need
Shake it up, just like bad medicine
Your love's the potion that
Can cure my disease

Bad, bad medicine
Bad, bad medicine

Born To Be My Baby

Rainy night and we worked all day
We both got jobs cause there's bills to pay
We got something they can't take away
Our love, our lives

Close the door, leave the cold outside
I don't need nothing when I'm by your side
We got something that'll never die
Our dreams, our pride

My heart beats like a drum (all night)
Flesh to flesh, one to one (and it's alright)
And I'll never let go cause
There's something I know deep inside

You were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan
Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

Light a candle, blow the world away
Table for two on a TV tray
It ain't fancy, baby that's OK
Our time, our way

So hold me close better hang on tight
Buckle up, baby, it'sgonna be a bumpy ride
We're two kids hitching down the road of life
Our world, our flight

If we stand side by side (all night)
There's a chance we'll get by (and it's alright)
And I'll know that you'll be alive
In my heart till the day I die

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan
Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

Solo

My heart beats like a drum (all night)
Flesh to flesh, one to one (and it's alright)
And I'll never let go cause
There's something I know deep inside

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

We got something to believe in
Even if we don't know where we stand
Only God would know the reasons
But I bet he must have had a plan

Cause you were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

You were born to be my baby
And baby, I was made to be your man

Living In Sin

I don't need no license
To sign on no line
And I don't need no preacher
To tell me you're mine
I don't need no diamonds
I don't need a new bride
I just need you, baby
To look me in the eye

I know they have a hard time
And your Daddy don't approve
But I don't need your Daddy
Telling us what we should do

Now there's a million questions
I could ask about our lives
But I only need one answer
To get me through the night

So I say baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we're livin' in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin

Is it right for both our parents
Who fight it out most nights
Then pray for God's forgiveness
When they both turn out the lights
Or wear that ring of diamonds
When your heart is made of stone
You can talk but still say nothing
You stay together but alone

Or is it right to hold you
And kiss your lips goodnight
They say the promise is forever
If you sign it on the dotted line

Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin

Solo

Baby, can you tell me just where we fit in
I call it love they call it living in sin
Is it you and me or just this world we live in
I say we're living on love they say we're living in sin

I call it love they call it living in sin

Living in sin

I don't know where to begin
I don't know where we fit in

Living in sin

I'll Be There For You

I guess this time you're really leaving
I heard your suitcase say goodbye
And as my broken heart lies bleeding
You say true love is suicide

You say you've cried a thousand rivers
And now you're swimming for the shore
You left me drowning in my tears
And you won't save me anymore

Now I'm praying to God you'll give me one more chance, girl

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what love can do
I'll be there for you

I know you know we've had some good times
Now they have their own hiding place
I can promise you tomorrow
But I can't buy back yesterday

And Baby you know my hands are dirty
But I wanted to be your valentine
I'll be the water when you get thirsty, baby
When you get drunk, I'll be the wine

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what love can do
I'll be there for you

*Solo*

And I wasn't there when you were happy
I wasn't there when you were down
I didn't mean to miss your birthday, baby
I wish I'd seen you blow those candles out

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for...

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Lay Your Hands On Me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86J83qGLqtc

[ABlairican Pie]

The Scorpions released Savage Amusement in 1988, just in time for the Monsters of Rock megatour. Like many bands in the 80's that began as strictly metal in the previous decade, the Scorps polished their sound for more commercial accessability, but actual sales were lackluster. The album did have a decent video for the hit "Rhythm of Love", which featured not only a nifty "Star Wars" motif, but also scores of scantily clad women undulating to the music.

Rhythm Of Love

Lets spend the night together
I know you want it too
The magic of the moment
Is what Ive got for you
The heartbeat of this night
Is made to lose control
And there is something in your eyes
Thats longing for some more
Let us find together
The beat were looking for

The rhythm of love
Keeps me dancing on the road
The rhythm of love
Got the groove that hits the bone
The rhythm of love
Is the game Im looking for
The rhythm of love
Is the heartbeat of my soul

Lets reach the top together
One night will never do
An exploding shot of pleasure
Is what Ive got for you
Why dont you close your eyes
And let your feeling grow
I make you feel the taste of life
Until your love will flow
Let us find together
The beat were longing for

The rhythm of love
Keeps me dancing on the road
The rhythm of love
Got the groove that hits the bone
The ryhthm of love
Is the game Im looking for
The rhythm of love
Is the heartbeat of my soul

Let us find together
The beat were looking for

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Rhythm Of Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Wq4ABwn8s

[ABlairican Pie]

Living Colour proved that rock and roll and metal was not only a "white boys' club" with the release of their 1988 album Vivid. The band was begun by lead guitarist Vernon Reid in New York in 1984 as part of the Black Rock Coalition, a group devoted to African-American musicians playing rock. Bassist Muzz Skillings, drummer Will Calhoun, who had graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music, and vocalist Corey Glover completed the band lineup and began to play a wide variety of musical styles. Mick Jagger produced their demo which was picked up by Epic/Sony Records, and caught on in a major way with audiences and viewers with the hugely successful video for "Cult of Personality". Viewers who were only familiar with black artists such as Michael Jackson and Run DMC were blown away by the band's blazing performance and the striking images on the video. The album became one of the biggest albums that year.

The band would find even greater exposure by opening for The Rolling Stones, with second openers Guns N' Roses, in a tour marked by much controversy.

Cult Of Personality

“And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk, right down to
earth, in a language that everybody here can easily understand.” (Malcolm X)

Look in my eyes, what do you see?
the Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you wanna be ohhh…
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality

Neon lights, Nobel Prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set me free

I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your T.V. ohh…
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you; still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three ohh…
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi ohh…
I'm the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality
the Cult of Personality

Neon lights, Nobel Prize
When a leader speaks, that leader dies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set you free

(Guitar solo)

You gave me fortune, you gave me fame
You gave me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be ohh…
I'm, the, Cult, of, Per, Son, Al, Ity

I am the Cult of (x8)
Personality

“Ask not what your country can do for you…” (John F. Kennedy)
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Funny Vibe

No, I'm not gonna rob you
No, I'm not gonna beat you
No, I'm not gonna rape you
So why you want to give me that
Funny Vibe!

No, I'm not gonna hurt you
No, I'm not gonna harm you
And I try not to hate you
So why you want to give me that
Funny Vibe!

Glamour Boys

The glamour boys swear they are a diva
The glamour boys have it all under control
Always dancing and always laughing
The glamour boys are playing the role

The glamour boys never have no money
The glamour boys wear the most expensive clothes
The glamour boys are always at the party
Where the money comes from heaven only knows

I ain't no glamour boy - I'M FIERCE
I ain't no glamour boy - (snap)
I ain't no glamour boy - I'M FIERCE
I ain't no glamour boy

The glamour boys live off their ambition
The glamour boys have it all figured out
A very, very dubious position
When you got no clout

The glamour boys whole life is a gamble
They might get over or fall flat on their face
But if one does, there's no need to worry
Another G-Boy will take this place

I ain't no glamour boy - I'M FIERCE

The glamour boys don't think tomorrow
The glamour boys just need tonight to play
But just like things you can't afford on credit
Time catches up and you have to pay

The glamour boys are always on the guest list
You'll always find them in the hottest spots in town
They'll be your friend if you have fame or fortune
If you don't they won't be hanging 'round

I ain't no glamour boy - I'm FIERCE

Middle Man

I don't have a need to be the best
Don't want to be just like the rest
Just stay who I am
Just an ordinary Middle Man
Give me the happy medium
Don't want to be the one whose leading them
I've got no master plan
Just a simple Middle Man

Standing on a fine line between this and that
Just biding my time waiting for a sign
To tell me that I'm something special

My ideas are mine alone
Not yours, not theirs, but I care
I hurt for you, but not with you
I love that thing that's inside you
But I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I'm your Middle Man

But I'm not your fan
I'm a stranger in a strange land
I am your Middle Man

Open Letter (To a Landlord)

Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see...

This is my neighborhood
This is where I come from
I call this place my home
You call this place a slum
You wanna run all the people out
This what you're all about
Treat poor people just like trash
Turn around and make big cash

CHORUS: Now you can tear a building down
But you can't erase a memory
These houses may look all run down
But they have a value you can't see

Last month there was a fire
I saw seven children die
You sent flowers to their family
But your sympathy's a lie
Cause every building that you burn
Is more blood money that you earn
We are forced to relocate
>From the pain that you create

CHORUS

We lived here for so many years
Now this house is full of fear
For a profit you will take control
Where will all the older people go?
There used to be when kids could play
Without the scourge of drug's decay
Now our kids are living dead
They crack and blow their lives away

CHORUS

You've got to fight
You've got a right
To fight for your neighborhood!

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :banana: :mango: :rock:

Cult Of Personality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxayo_Pxleo

The Glamour Boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5DVzk2i-E

Open Letter (To a Landlord)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9YpFbkPr1Y

[Steve M.]

I actually saw Dan Peek in his contemporary Christian music days, I think it was around 1982, at Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center
(Oh yeah, I even saw DEBBY BOONE there in 1986!!!! :rock:), and I wasn't really too big on his Christian stuff at the time. . . .

There was one song I liked from his Christian period, though, have to look it up...

You'll never guess what he did with one of their top hits, "Here's To All the Lonely People". ohno:


Hit it! :lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

Hit it! :lol:In his contemporary Christian album days about twenty years ago, he did a remake of "Here's To All the Lonely People", where at the lines where they say "don't give up, until you drink from the silver cup/ride that highway in the sky" and "you never know until you try", he changes it to, "don't give up until you drink from the silver cup
and give your heart to Jesus Christ". :confused:

Okay, so Christian albums have a lot of nice messages and the intention is good and they are meaningful and all, but when you have a popular hit when you were in a "secular" band and people expect a certain thing in a lyric, does it seem strange when a person later "Christianizes" it and makes a sort of religious propaganda piece? It suddenly lacks that universal message that all people can relate to, and becomes something specifically oriented toward Christians who already relate to it but the non-Christian won't, because they're outside the Christian scene.

[ABlairican Pie]

Ozzy Osbourne released No Rest For the Wicked in 1988, his first with guitarist Zakk Wylde, who replaced Jake E. Lee. Wylde, whose real name was Jeffery Phillip Wiedlandt, was born and raised in New Jersey in 1967, and was only twenty when he joined Ozzy's band. He was more involved in sports than guitar playing, so a guitar teacher gave up on him, but when Zakk finally picked it up and applied himself, he would spend up to twelve hours a day practicing. He joined a band and submitted a demo tape of his playing with a photo of himself to Ozzy's management. Ozzy found the tape and photo and dismissed the young hotshot, whom he had never listened to, as just another "Randy Rhoads" clone. Later, Ozzy was informed of a great new player looking to audition for his band, and gave him a listen--which turned out the be the exact same "Rhoads clone" in the photo, and played lightning fast, to boot. Ozzy had Zakk audition, and was so impressed he gave him the guitar gig. However, one thing that put Ozzy off was Zakk's love of country music, the Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, of which Ozzy was not at all a big fan.

Zakk Wylde also made a trademark design of his guitar, a cream-colored Gibson Les Paul: As Randy Rhoads had polka dots over his Jackson Rhoads V, Wylde decided to customize the look of his white Paul by putting a bulls-eye design on his; he felt very unworthy to be playing the same style guitar, a similar cream colored Les Paul, as his late idol Randy Rhoads (he was also a huge fan of Black Sabbath). The image was very striking, though he felt people would actually use it as an actual bulls-eye with objects thrown from the stage!

The album featured two songs about persons of more noteriety than that of Ozzy himself: "Miracle Man", about preacher Jimmy Swaggart's fall from grace when he was caught cavorting with a Baton Rouge prostitute; and
"Bloodbath In Paradise", about the Charles Manson Family murders. Other popular songs included "Devil's Daughter" and "Crazy Babies". One song, "Demon Alcohol" dealt with his addictions and even made a reference to his song "Suicide Solution".

Ozzy was about to pose with a crown of thorns on his head, but to to the intense controversy of Martin Scorcese's film "The Last Temptation Of Christ" which came out that summer, he reconsidered it.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler even joined to become Ozzy's bassist on the tour for the album.

Miracle Man

I'm looking for a Miracle Man
That tells me no lies
I'm looking for a Miracle Man
Who's not in disguise
I don't know where he'll come from
And I don't know where he's been
But it's not our Jimmy Sinner
Because he's so obscene

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted

Today I saw a Miracle Man
On TV cryin'
Such a hypocritical man
Born again, dying

He don't know where he's going
But we know just where he's been
'Twas our little Jimmy Sinner
That I saw on the screen

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man

A Devil with a crucifix
Brimstone and fire
He needs another carnal fix
To take him higher and higher
Now Jimmy, he got busted
With his pants down
Repent ye wretched sinner
Self righteous clown

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted

Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted
Miracle Man got busted

Devil's Daughter

Well, I know where you live
I know you live alone
I'll pay a visit in your darkest hour
I've got a treat in store
Won't be the same no more
And I will demonstrate my holy power (ha ha)

I see through
What it is inside you
I'll make you breakdown (breakdown)
Breakdown and cry
Devil's daughter
You don't want a holy war
Devil's daughter
You don't want a holy war

You know what I'm about
I'll cast the demons out
And I'll persist until the battle's won
I'll feel your creeping flesh
If you're to be possessed
Then I will desecrate what you've become

I see through
What it is inside you
I'll make you breakdown (breakdown)
Breakdown and cry
Devil's daughter
You don't want a holy war
Devil's daughter
You don't want a holy war
Devil's daughter
You don't want a holy war
Devil's daughter

The time has come at last
Your future days have past
No use in fighting battles you can't win
The final conflict's lost
You can't afford the cost
Don't try to expiate your father's sins

I see through
What it is inside you
I'll make you breakdown (breakdown)
Breakdown and cry
Breakdown (breakdown)
Breakdown and cry

Crazy Babies

Crazy...Babies

Crazy babies never say die
Born to live on a permanent high
Flying high above the world below
They'd better come down soon
Or everyone will know

Nobody's gonna change them (change them)
They've gone over the top
Nobody's gonna tame them (tame them)
They're never gonna stop

Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk

Crazy...Babies

When they were born, they were born to be wild
Some say I'm another devil's child
Crazy babies in a world of their own
I am a crazy babe
You'd better leave me alone tonight

Nobody's gonna change me (change me)
I'm gonna do it 'till I die
Nobody's gonna tame me (tame me)
So you better not try

Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk.

Crazy...Babies

No use talking 'bout if they'll last
Where they're goin' or about their past
They're just the result of our society
So frustrated just like you and me

Nobody's gonna change them (change them)
They've gone over the top
Nobody's gonna tame them (tame them)
They're never gonna stop

Walk that walk
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Talk that talk

Bloodbath In Paradise

You're comin' home
There's blood on the walls
When Charlie and the family make house calls

If you're alone
Then watch what you do
'Cause Charlie and the family might get you

Can you hear them in the darkness?
Helter skelter, spiral madness (yeah)
Bloodbath in paradise
But there's nowhere you can run to baby
Bloodbath in paradise
Forever sleep in paradise

California sun
But you're still in bed
And the California rain is turning red
No sign of life or the keepers of doom
In Charlie and the keeper's scarlet room

Can you hear them in the darkness?
Helter skelter, spiral madness (yeah)
Bloodbath in paradise
But there's nowhere you can run to baby
Bloodbath in paradise
Forever sleep in paradise

They'll summon you
To wake from the dead
As you lie beeding, murdered in your bed
The sweetest dreams
Are all in your mind
But no one wakes when Charlie creeps behind (yeah)

Execution halts your breath
Helter skelter, spiral death
Bloodbath in paradise
But there's no where you can wait now baby
Bloodbath in paradise
Forever sleep in paradise

Demon Alcohol

I'm sick and tired of your excuses
Can't deal with living anymore
I'll give you reasons to continue
While you lie writhing on the floor

I'll wash away your lies
And have you hyptotized
There'll be no compromise today
I'll share your life of shame
I think you know my name
I'll introduce myself today

I'm the demon alcohol (demon alcohol)
I'll get you

If you could deal with your reflection
I'm sure you'd see into my eyes
There'll be no need for resurrection
Let's drink to people of the lies

Although that one's too much
You know ten's not enough
There'll be no compromise today
I'll watch you lose control
Consume your very soul
I'll introduce myself today

I'm the demon alcohol (demon alcohol)
Ha ha, demon alcohol (demon alcohol)
Let's party

I'm sick and tired of resolutions
You've quit me time and time again
Don't speak of suicide solutions
You took my hand, I'm here to stay

This time it's you or me
I'll never set you free
There'll be no compromise today
So satisfy your lust
Too much can't be enough
I'll introduce myself today

I'm the demon alcohol (the demon alcohol)
Ha ha, demon alcohol, (the demon alcohol)
Let's party

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Miracle Man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNgjXD9u_kg

Crazy Babies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ZvgiQ-2XA

Crazy Train (From Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads Tribute, 1987):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INZxKaQW24

Ozzy with Zakk and Geezer live in Germany, 1989:

[ABlairican Pie]

In addition to bands being compared to Led Zeppelin that year, in addition to Whitesnake, German-based Kingdom Come, which featured former Stone Fury vocalist Lanny Wolf, released their self-titled debut in 1988. While the band were derided with the epithet "Kingdom Clone", guitarist Danny Stagg was in fact a huge devotee of Jimi Hendrix, and upon further listening, has the same tone and bluesy style as the late guitar giant. It was a matter of Wolf's high vocal style and Zeppelinesque song structures which drew many comparisons to Pagey and Co. One could hear both traces of "The Ocean" and "In the Light" in their big hit "Get It On", and another MTV hit, "What Love Can Be" was reminescent of
"Since I've Been Loving You" and others.

But before the members of the mighty Zeppelin could accuse the band of "ripping off" Plant and Page's music, it must be remembered that back in the day, Led Zeppelin was simply shameless in their ripping off of blues artists such as Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and even Ritchie Valens. Dixon nearly sued the band for allegedly ripping off "Whole Lotta Love", but declined. Blues artists borrowed from each other repeatedly and made something new from it every time, although it seemed like a different story in the late 80's.

Kingdom Come opened for fellow Germans the Scorpions on their Savage Amusement tour, but were kicked off when Lanny Wolf would not stay off the headliners' onstage ramps. The band even opened the tour of Monsters Of Rock in 1988 and played for huge audiences, and the album ended up selling quite well.

Get It On

Oh…

We’ve come a long, long way to be with you.
It’s not that easy doing what we do.
There’re all those lonely times and then there’s happiness.
Now it’s time - We’re gonna do what we do best.
Get it on!
Get it on!
Oh!

There’s an electric feeling in the air.
The night is young and there is love to share.
Don’t you - don’t you feel the storm?
I feel it raging on and on.
Get it on!
Get it on!
Get it on!
Oooooooooh! Shake it!

And now you know what we can do for you.
Something has come to life between us two.
The boys are pushing hard and playing all their best.
Now it’s time to let your body do the rest.
Get it on!
Get it on!
Oh!
Get it on!

Get it on!

What Love Can Be

Come to me know
I want to be your best friend for all of time
I want to be the tissue for your tears
I never want to be alone
I never really thought that I could feel
A feeling that awakened me so
I was astray of knowing where I belong
Living out of time, living out of time

(chorus)
Now that youve come and set me free
Now that I know what love can be
All that I want is you with me
Thats all I want

You allow me to be what I want to be
Thanks for helping me
I feel like a bright shining star
For only you to see, for only you to see

(chorus)

Now that youve come and set me free
Now that I know what love can be
All that I want is you with me
Thats all I want


Hold me tight, hold me tight
I wont let you go
Close to you, close to you
Touch me, dont let go
Give me all your love
Close to you, close to you
Give me all your love
All that I want
Is you to be with me


Break Down the Walls
from the band Stone Fury, 1984:

They don't look on my face
They tell me everytime
That I'm too young for life
But I need a taste
And I cannot wait
Until say it's right
I'm gonna leave tonight

And then I won't let go
The streets will show
I will run the lights
Let them try to tell me no no no

They gonna knock on you
You know it's true

[Chorus:]
You and me know
I say we can break down the wall
You and me
I say we can break down the wall

I will not play this game
I cannot sympathize with their dollar eyes
'Cause they're all the same
And I cannot wait
I'm gonna leave tonight
Tell me, it ain't right

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Get It On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvY9IaWy6I

What Love Can Be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjRBt6HABM

Break Down the Walls (From Stone Fury, Lanny Wolf's previous band, from the
album Burns Like a Star, 1984):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTktIQ9PIls

Their 1988 debut, and their latest album, Ain't Crying For the Moon:

[ABlairican Pie]

Queensryche, the best-known band from Bellevue, Washington, released what would become one of the biggest concept albums of all time, Operation: Mindcrime, an intriguing Orwellian saga of political intrigue revolving around a junkie who is drugged into performing assassinations for an underground movement; the junkie ("Nikki") is torn over his misplaced loyalty to the cause and his love of a reformed hooker-turned-nun ("Mary", vocals by Pamela Moore) who gets in the way. The critically acclaimed album catipulted the band into the limelight where they toured with Metallica and other bands. The album became a classic of progressive metal in which other bands would follow, such as Dream Theater and Nevermore. In 1990, the band played the album in its entirety on tour and would do so again in recent years.

Revolution Calling

For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bull****
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
(There's a) Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

Operation: Mindcrime

It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure

A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn

Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign

Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed

Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign

Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure

Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign

Speak

They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us

I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us

Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow

The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the Word
The word is all of us

SPEAK!!!

Breaking the Silence

They told me to run, but just how far?
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear?
The hate in my eyes always gives me away
The tension building slowly
Now I lost everything I had in you
Nothing we shared means a thing
Without you close to me
I can't live without you

Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer me

There's no direction to my stare
No more flame burning in my heart anymore
Quiet, I keep it to myself
Until the sun sets slowly
I hear your voice in the evening rain calling
Nothing will keep us apart
No more lies and fear
There's no end to our story

Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer
I could make all the wrong seem right
If you were by my side
I'd gather all the tears you cried
And hide them deep underground

Can't look back, it's just a waste of time
Can't erase this hate from my eyes

Breaking the silence of the night
Through the streets I'm screaming
Looking for you in the neon light
Why don't you answer me?
Breaking the silence with my cries
Can't you hear me screaming?
We could make all this wrong seem right
But you never answer me

I Don't Believe In Love

I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel

No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in lovev I need to forget her face, I see
it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel

No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me

I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel

Eyes Of a Stranger

[page:] Dr. David, telephone please. Dr. David
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton

All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Everytime I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you
Every night the dreams return to haunt me
Your rosary wrapped around your throat
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep
I see your face looking back at me

And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare

Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare [Lies behind my stare]

How many times must I live this tragedy
How many more lies will they tell me
All I want is the same as everyone
Why am I here, and for how long

And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:



Revolution Calling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIX6B2tcezA

Operation: Mindcrime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSD40nqnpH4

Speak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxfnKaVji0

Breaking the Silence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOrR1Mtdu0

I Don't Believe In Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPpwnbnc1AQ

Eyes of a Stranger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_DYUZISUw

Vocalist Geoff Tate and guitarist Chris DeGarmo:

[ABlairican Pie]

On the less cerebral side of rock, Kix released Blow My Fuse in 1988, which featured a power ballad which warned against suicide, "Don't Close Your Eyes". As the PMRC and other groups targeted rock and roll and heavy metal for allegedly promoting the destructive act, Kix wanted to prove that their music could have a positive message. Many young people were listening and the lyrics enabled them to turn their desparate lives around . The single threw open the doors for them to tour in big arenas, opening for many bands such as Ratt and others. Other songs in the fun-time metal mode were the hits "Cold Blood" and the title track.

Blow My Fuse

Shut up
Do it

Come on start a fire
In my electric chair
Baby cross my wires
Light up my hair
Overload my circuits
let me feel the juice
make me an offer
that I can't refuse

Blow my fuse
(Hey hey)You got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
I need a good shot
I can't give it to you
On electric cruise(?)
Blow my fuse
You light my light I'll light you

Baby shake my tower
Get it while it's hot
Baby feel my power
Fifty thousand watts
Come on feel the voltage
Light thick and through
From the whites of my eyeballs
To the souls of my shoes

Blow my fuse
(Hey hey)You got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
I need a good shot
I can't give it to you
On electric cruise(?)
Blow my fuse

Hot wired
Get fired
Ooo baby watch it glow
Give me action
Satisfaction
Babe I'm ready for an overload

Plug me in like electric light
It's a rock and roll show tonight

Blow my fuse
(Hey hey)You got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
I need a good shot
I can't give it to you
Blow my fuse
(Hey hey)You got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
I need a hot spark
I can't give it to you
Blow my fuse
Got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
Can't give it to you
Blow my fuse
Got nothing to lose
Blow my fuse
Can't give it to you
Blow my fuse

Don't Close Your Eyes

What's you're doing out in the night time?
Won't you call me on the phone?
Your mama can't solve your problem
When's daddy ever get home?

So you think you're a little bit wild
In the middle of the suicide

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't sing your last lullaby

No one there to hold you
No one is your friend
You live life up and down now
Nightmares on your brain

Another lonely way of hanging round
Don't you take it falling down no no

Hold on hold on tight
I'll make everything all right
Wake up don't go asleep
I'll pray the lord
Your soul to keep

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't sing your last lullaby

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't sing your last lullaby

Cold Blood

Cruisin' downtown
Shakin' her love
Is that babe talkin' to me
Felt my heart drop
Women can't stop
Girl has got me on my knees
Baby baby babe don't make me wonder
Won't you let me in
She said - see you later
Shot down
I'll be back again

Good love is all you need
But you don't want to know
Cold blood is all you bleed
When it cools off - you tease it
When it gets hot - you freeze it
Cold blood is all you bleed

Dresses so tight
Movin' to the beat
Set my fuse on fire
Dream come true I'm gonna give it to you
Let the flame get higher
Baby baby you're drivin' me crazy
Like a cat in a cage
You make me shiver - earthquake
Down down to the grave

Good love is all you need
But you don't want to know
Cold blood is all you bleed
When it cools off - you tease it
When it gets hot - you freeze it
Cold blood is all you bleed

You make me so hot
I feel my temperature rise
Don't shoot me down - No
When it cools off - you tease it
When it gets hot - you freeze it
Cold blood is all you bleed
Good love is all you need
Give me what I know
Cold blood is all you bleed

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Blow My Fuse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwL47-NXpUY

Cold Blood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgDFC01UYMA

Don't Close Your Eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mgeiLEGmw

Kix guitarist Brian Forsythe:

[ABlairican Pie]

Manowar followed their debut album in 1983 with 1984's Hail To England, a salute to the country that birthed heavy metal, as well as Sign Of the Hammer. Hail To England was a huge seller in Britain due to its title.

Manowar claims the title of "loudest band in the world", and the Guiness Book of World Records has documented them as the holders of the record for the loudest musical performance, at 129.5 decibels. Custom equipment was built for the band by John "Dawk" Stillwell, which helped achieve the massive sound. This would account for one of their songs being titled "All Men Play On Ten", from Sign Of the Hammer, which no doubt inspired the common Spinal Tap joke, "These go up to eleven!" referring to guitarist Nigel Tufnel's Marshall amps having settings up to "one louder" than ten to achieve maximum volume.

The band's 1987 album Fighting the World featured a cover which resembled the Destroyer cover by KISS, with band members standing on top of a mountain of smouldering rubble. No doubt Manowar dubbed themselves the new, true metal kings now that KISS became a wimpified pop version of themselves sans makeup in the 80's. At one time about ten years earlier, KISS may have thought themselves to be the hottest band in the land, the kings of the nighttime world, but the inclusion of "Beth" marred what would have been an otherwise perfect album. Manowar were there now to prove their metal mettle.

In 1988, Manowar released Kings Of Metal, considered to be their finest album, which featured songs such as "Wheels Of Fire", "Heart Of Steel", and the title track. Manowar represented a trend called true metal, which stood in opposition to the glam ("false") metal from Hollywood, but in recent years, the definitiion has largely up to debate, as the meaning has grown to include NU-metal, alternative metal, and metalcore, as Manowar has opposed all of these trends which have deviated from the traditional understanding of metal.

All Men Play On Ten
from Sign Of the Hammer

I made a rock-n-roll sin
When I tried giving in, to make money had to turn down loud
They said, "Why be proud, don't play so loud
Be like us and get a sound that's real thin
Wear a polyester suit, act happy, look cute, get a haircut
And buy small gear"
That's when I turned to them and said, hold it, right there

Well it's more to me than just a job, and while I'm playing
You won't get robbed
Nobody tells a man how to play, it just ain't that way
Hey, hey, hey, can you hear me say

All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again
All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again

I'm jet fuel honey, plug me in to 220, step back and let
My fingers fly
While I'm burning up my gear, there's a fire in your ear
That's won't stop until the day you die
I really put it to the floor when I hear the crowd roar
Oh, it's music to my ears when they scream
Then! Run back the power jack, and deck, all of my gear

Well it's more to me than just a job, and while I'm playing
You won't get robbed
Nobody tells a man how to play, it just ain't that way
Hey, hey, hey, can you hear me say

All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again
All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again

Well it's more to me than just a job, and while I'm playing
You won't get robbed
Nobody tells a man how to play, it just ain't that way
Hey, hey, hey, can you hear me say

All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again
All men play on ten, never gonna turn down again

Army Of Immortals
from Hail To England

Battle hymns did sound the call.
You came to our side.
You heard true metal - into glory
Ride.

You stood beside us the false ones
Cried. - Your love is judgement.
You gave us life.

You wait in the rain - you walk
Through the snow. We give you
Our blood. We want you to know.
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forever -
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forever.

We have read your letters -
We have heard your call.
We were brought together -
Cause we've got the balls -
To play the loudest metal.
So hard and so wild and mean. -
You'll live forever we were
Born from your belief.

Metal makes us strong
Together we belong - forever
Here's your song. We want you
To know.
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forever -
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forevermore.

Metal makes us strong
Together we belong - forever
Here's your song. We want you
To know.
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forever -
In our eyes your're immortal -
In our hearts you'll live forevermore.

Blow Your Speakers

Wrote a letter to the M.T.V.
What's goin' on now
Don't ya care about me ?
Send the same letter to the radio, Ha!
But my party went dead
Like a shot in the head

We all like it - Rock And Roll
We all want it - on your show
Play it loud don't play it low
Blow Your Speakers with Rock And Roll

We got lots of stations
Around the nation
And the stuff they're playin'
It just ain't worth sayin'
People want music to get'em movin'
We don't want labels
We want music on the cable

We all like it - Rock And Roll
We all want it - on your show
Play it loud don't play it low
Blow Your Speakers with Rock And Roll

We all like it - Rock And Roll
We want it
We all want it - on your show
Play it loud don't play it low
Blow Your Speakers with Rock And Roll

We got lotsa stations
Around the nation
And the stuff they're playin'
It just ain't worth sayin'

We all like it - Rock And Roll
We all want it - on your show
Play it loud don't play it low
Blow Your Speakers with Rock And Roll

Wheels Of Fire
from Kings Of Metal:

Since the dawn of time
I've rolled across the earth
Snipping in the dust
Long before your birth
Eatin'tar and gasoline
Every light I see is green
Open pipes, my machines's triple-plated chrome

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Motors running
Now you're gonna learn
Waiting on the line
Make your tires burn
Fast, faster, faster, faster
Speeding always kills
Nothing else takes us to get these thrills

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Blood and thunder on the road
My heart is pounding
My blood is nitroglycerin
I'm fire
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Ready to explode
Don't want nothing left of me to scrape off the road

Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

Clouds of smoke
Tires screaming
Fire in my hair
blown into a thousand pieces
Scattered everywhere
Fast, burn, burning, faster
Wanna take a ride
Spirit of the wheel
Wheels of fire ride
Spirit of the wheel

Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

[ABlairican Pie]

As opposed to the macho metal of Manowar, Lita Ford proved that women could rock as well with the release of her most popular solo album, simply titled Lita in 1988. However, this album was a step away from the arena metal of her previous album, Dancin' On the Edge with such kick-ass tunes such as "Gotta Let Go", for which she was nominated for a Grammy, from 1984. The album was mostly pop-oriented, but was still very successful. The album featured such hits as "Kiss Me Deadly" and a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, "Close My Eyes Forever". Lita was now managed by Sharon Osbourne, who took other artists under her wing as well as Ozzy--and this would perhaps explain the breaking off of her engagement a few years earlier with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, with whom Osbourne was engaged in a longstanding rivalry ever since his ouster from his previous band nearly ten years before.

In the meantime, Lita Ford became one of the sexiest women of rock and metal, with delectable videos of her in provocative poses.

Kiss Me Deadly

I went to a party last Saturday night
I didn't get laid, I got in a fight,
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing
Late for my job and the traffic was bad
Had to borrow ten bucks from my old man,
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing
I went to a party last Saturday night
I told you that story, I'd be alright
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing

But I know what I like
I know I like dancin' with you
And I know what you like
I know you like dancin' with me
Yeah, yeah

Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly

Had a few beers, gettin' high
Sittin', watchin' the time go by,
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing
Nothin' to eat and no TV
Lookin' in the mirror don't get it for me
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing

But I know what I like
I know I like dancin' with you
And I know what you like
I know you like dancin' with me
Oh, yeah

Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly

Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly

You know I like dancin' with you
Dancin' with you
C'mon

Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly

Kiss me once
Kiss me twice
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me
C'mon pretty baby, kiss me deadly

Close My Eyes Forever

Baby
I get so scared inside, and I don't really understand
Is it love that's on my mind, or is it fantasy?
Heaven
Is in the palm of my hand, and it's waiting here for you
What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy?

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same?

Sometimes
It's hard to hold on
So hard to hold on to my dreams
It isn't always what it seems
When you're face to face with me

You're like a dagger
And stick me in the heart
And taste the blood from my blade
And when we sleep, would you shelter me
In your warm and darkened grave?

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same?

Will you ever take me?
No, I just can't take the pain
But would you ever trust me?
No, I'll never feel the same, Oh

I know I've been so hard on you
I know I've told you lies
If I could have just one more wish
I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same?

Close your eyes
Close your eyes
You gotta close your eyes for me

Can't Catch Me

Don't try to push the strong arm on me
You'd better think twice, I ain't no Sandra Dee
Don't think I'm easy, I wasn't born blonde
I've been around, 'n' I'll be here 'n' gone
And I've seen things that you'll never believe
Fast mover, 'n' you can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

Catch me if you can

I been up, 'n' I been down
I been messed up 'n' turned around
I been a fool, 'n' I been wise
I've seen **** 'n' paradise
And I still got the aces up my sleeve
Fast mover, 'n' ya can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

So catch me if you can

Oh! What a pity, such a pretty boy
California's little pride 'n' joy
But that ain't all it takes
I need more than just a pretty face
I deserve an ace with a little taste
Don't come sniffin' 'round my tree
I'm off 'n' runnin', you can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

Ahh! No, you can't catch me
No, you can't catch me
No, you can't catch me

Can't catch me
Can't catch me
Can't catch me

Ahh! Catch me if ya can...

Gotta Let Go
from Dancin' On the Edge, 1984:

You feel the power, you feel it getting strong
We'll make it carry everyone along
You bought a ticket to our surprise attack
You came to rock and there's no turning back

Don't you want to be the main attraction
All you need's a little chain reaction
If you want to set the night on fire

Yeah, you gotta let go
Yeah, you gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

Yeah, you gotta let go
Uw, you gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

Don't try to fight it
Just give me all you got
You can't control it when it gets this hot

It's like this jungle, bye-bye to modern man
We're talkin' rock you'll never understand
It doesn't matter if the world's exploding
It doesn't matter where the night is going
If you wanna set the night on fire

But, you gotta let go
Yeah, you gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

Yeah, you gotta let go
You gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

I'm gettin' ready
Nobody's gonna stop me
Can't ya, feel the fire burnin'
Now's the time to start rockin'

So if you want to be the main attraction
All you need's a little chain reaction
You and I can set the night on fire...

Now, you gotta let go
Yeah, you gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

Yeah, you gotta let go
Uw, you gotta let go
Well, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

You gotta let go

Aw, you gotta let go if you really want to rock tonight

(Fade)

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Kiss Me Deadly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwe8qjTdguA

Close My Eyes Forever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFasYTbSWQ

Gotta Let Go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kkKLPP9GU

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Though they did not in the least consider themselves a metal band (a term they loathed), AC/DC released a series of consistently rocking albums through the 80's. Though they never really recaptured the success of their breakthough album, 1980's Back In Black, they were proud that they stayed true to their "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ethic. The band sold out arenas and never deviated into things such as power ballads or epic tracks, but remained true to their meat-and-spuds-based rock and roll at maximum volume and energy. Fans admired them for their sticking to the script.

In 1988, the band released Blow Up Your Video, whose title reflected their disenchantment with MTV and their trendy tastemaking. Unfortunately, though the album was one of their biggest sellers, the album did not feature some of their strongest material, though it did feature the Grammy-nominated "Heatseeker" and "That's the Way I Wanna Rock and Roll". It also featured their original producers, Angus and Malcolm's brother George Young (formerly of the 60's band the Easybeats) and Harry Vanda. Malcolm dropped out from the tour to recover from alcoholism, and drummer Simon Wright left the band to play with Dio. Malcolm was replaced by their nephew Stevie Young, who bore a resemblance to him, thus fooling audiences thinking Malcolm was onstage.

Heatseeker

(Oooh, we're gettin' ready
Ow
Here we go
hahaha
I'm ready
Oooh)
Getting ready to rock
Getting ready to roll
I'm gonna turn up the heat
I'm gonna fire up the coal
I gotta keep that motor turning
I gotta keep that engine clean
I gotta keep those tires burning
I've got the best you've ever seen
And I'm a heatseeker charging up the sky
And I'm a heatseeker, and I, I don't need no life preserver
I don't need no one to hose me down
To hose me down
Getting ready to break
Getting ready to go
Get your shoes off and shake
Get your head down and blow
You gotta keep that woman firing
You gotta keep that serpent clean
You gotta make her sound the siren
You gotta hear that lady scream
Cause I'm a heatseeker, burning up the town
And I'm a heatseeker, I don't, I don't need no life preserver
I don't need no one to hose me down
Don't hose me down
(Aw yeah, here ya go, yow! Ready? Heatseeker!)
I wanna see you get up
And see the whites of your eyes
And I'm a heatseeker, heatseeker, yeah!
I'm gonna measure you up
I'm gonna try you for size
And I'm a heatseeker
Gotta keep that motor turning
You gotta keep that engine clean
You gotta keep those tires burning
I've got the best you've ever seen
And I'm a heatseeker, and I don't need no life preserver
I don't need no one to hose me down, woah
I'm a heatseeker
And I'm a heatseeker
Heatseeker
Out on the street feel the heat

Heatseeker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSd7JVhcPJo

You Shook Me All Night Long (1980):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKuxxZ2JCI

Flick Of the Switch (1983):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVZ-OKBvUQ

Who Made Who (1986):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBChOeIaVU

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Fresh from the huge success of their previous album, Stryper returned with a rather poppier album, In God We Trust, in 1988. In addition to receiving warnings from the federal government about using the likeness of a dollar bill on the cover, the band weathered criticism for the not-so-heavy, glammy approach. Such songs as "Always There For You" were popular on MTV, but lacked the metal bite of their previous songs, instead having gooey, syrupy harmonies tailor-made for hair metal radio. The band was toning down on its yellow and black bumblebee barricade image as well. Many "hair" bands which originally had a definite metal edge early on in their careers altered their image and sound to a pop-friendly shell of themselves toward the end of the decade.

I thought the lyrics said, "He's" always there for you? :confused: What the lyrics were saying gave people the impression that Stryper was further
"selling out". The title of the album gave many the impression "they were in it for the money."

Always There For You

Verse 1
Love can be so cold
And loneliness gets old
More than words or broken promises
I want to show you what true love is

Chorus
I'm always there for you
I'll always stand by you
When the world has closed the door
And you can't go on anymore
I'm always there for you

Verse 2
You've been hurt before
And you don't want anymore
There's a better way for you
Believe in me, I'll see you through

Repeat Chorus

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Always There For You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCx-rjMIXk

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On the topic of bands accused of "selling out", KISS released a greatest-hits compilation, Smashes, Thrashes, & Hits in 1988. Only two new songs were added, including "Let's Put the X In Sex", and the vocals on "Beth" were re-recorded with drummer Eric Carr, who replaced original drummer Peter Criss. The band had simply become another one of the glam pop-metal bands they had once influenced, now that the band had removed the makeup for the past five years, and had become a mere eye-shadow of their former selves.

1985's Asylum, which featured "Tears Are Falling" was the first to feature guitarist Bruce Kulick, and the band followed with Crazy Nights, which included "Reason To Live" and the title track in 1987, both of which went platinum.

Let's Put the X In Sex

I got a letter just the other day
She sent a picture, but she didn't sign her name
She wore high heels and a little black lace
I knew her body, but I couldn't see her face
She didn't leave a number, not an address or a clue
But something in that photograph reminded me of you
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Keep it undercover, baby let me be your private eye

I got a call in the middle of the night
Heavy breathin' never sounded quite so nice
She said "Oh yeah, I wish that I was there"
I asked who was calling, but she wasn't playing fair
Sometimes you gotta suffer for the pleasure that you seek
You're beggin' for an eyeful but you only get a peek

Baby, let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Keep it undercover, baby let me be your private eye

I heard somebody knockin' so I opened up the door
She wore a hat, shades, and a trench coat
Wasn't wearin' that much more
She said she knew my secrets but I didn't have a clue
Then I saw those black lace panties and I knew that it was you

Baby, let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Keep it undercover, baby let me be your private eye
Let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Keep it undercover, baby let me be your private eye
Let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex
Keep it undercover, baby let me be your private eye
Let's put the X in sex
Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex
Baby, let's put the X in sex

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Let's Put the X In Sex:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6oWzhaCM_0

Tears Are Falling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HhGAZLPAT4

I Love It Loud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdsdZWEDgkc

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While Dokken had sort of a credibility problem with sounding original while having musical expertise at the hands of guitarist George Lynch and the rest of the band, their 1988 live album Beast From the East captured the intensity of their live performance while on tour in Japan. Their inner squabbles would lead to the breakup of the band, especially after having to follow the powerhouse performance of Metallica on the Monsters of Rock tour.

Breaking the Chains:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQb1t_Yw0S8

Alone Again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BD0gMuLYbw

In My Dreams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcYffc-AR4

Into the Fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x44eDMUJAIw

Heaven Sent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsMu6ckPyY

Just Got Lucky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK7NHn50qHA

Dream Warriors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9s_Q-jZ7Ww

Burning Like a Flame:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRefpLLUNQs

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Killer Dwarfs, one of the greatest, most underrated bands in all of rock and roll, released Big Deal which featured decent tunes such as "We Stand Alone" and "Startin' To Shine". Their previous album, Stand Tall from 1986, featured the hits "Keep the Spirit Alive", whose video featured their lead singer Rob Dwarf contained in a box, as well as "Stand Tall (Stick To Your Guns)".

Startin' To Shine

Take a look, what do you see?
A million faces, a million dreams
We've seen the things you won't believe
A touch of life is my release

Energized, no time to waste
A spark of life is always chased
Tried and true a twist of fate
No matter what, I always wait

I've got something to say
I can't wait another day
I've got something to say
I swear that it's true
There's nothing else I wanna do

I know which way I'm goin'
I'll just take my time
I can't help it showin'
But it's startin' it's startin' to shine
It's on my mind

I've got things runnin' round my brain
I'm livin' life lovin' everyday
Expectations started yesterday
An avalanche is on its way

I've got something to say
I can't wait another day
I've got something to say
I swear that it's true
There's nothing else I wanna do

I know which way I'm goin'
I'll just take my time
I can't help it showin'
But it's startin' it's startin' to shine
It's on my mind

Stand Tall (Stick To Your Guns)

The fear is paralyzing
Second gear for flight
The atmosphere is tantalizing
Savor every bite

Stand tall, stick to your guns
Might make you scared but they can't make you run
Stand tall, stick to your guns
Show them what you're made of

Take my hand, we will command
Fear nothing, no one
Speak to me, I'm hearing you
A message from the front lines

Stand tall, stick to your guns
Might make you scared but they can't make you run
Stand tall, stick to your guns
Show them what you're made of

Out of the past, our hope will last
No second best for this one
Take my hand, we will command
Fear nothing, no one

Stand tall, stick to your guns
Might make you scared but they can't make you run
Stand tall, stick to your guns
Show them what you're made of

Stand tall, stick to your guns
Might make you scared but they can't make you run
Stand tall, stick to your guns
Show them what you're made of

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Keep the Spirit Alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQpkDutPn5I

Stand Tall (Stick To Your Guns):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbFmu3563k

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1988 again proved that women could rock with the release of the debut album
by Vixen, a band with four gorgeous women with fine talents
to boot. Their hit "Edge Of a Broken Heart" was a huge hit on MTV, which was followed by "Cryin'" and a few more moderately successful tunes. The band, which featured Jan Kuehnemund guitar, Janet Gardner vocals and rhythm guitar, Share Pedersen on bass, and Roxy Petrucci on drums, opened for such major acts as Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Scorpions in the coming year. They were even featured on by Penelope Spheeris for her film 'The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years'. Vixen gave ample evidence that with the right talent, women didn't have to be just sexy, subservient eye candy for a macho metal video. Playing instruments and singing could be sexy as well.

The band originally moved from Minnesota in 1985 to join the ranks of the L.A. metal scene. Unfortunately, the classic lineup would splinter and regroup with various new members over the years.

Edge Of a Broken Heart

I can't believe I could've been so blind, but love is strange
I thought about it for a long long time, but the truth remains
I don't need another lonely night to dry my tears
The answer's plain as black and white, and I can see the picture very clear

Chorus:
I been living on the edge of a broken heart
I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna crawl
I been living on the edge of a broken heart
Don't you wonder why I gotta say goodbye

It isn't like you never had the chance to change your tune
Did you think that I'm a dime a dance, well the dance is through
I been doing things your way too long, but baby that's over (baby that's over)
It won't be easy, but I gotta be strong
And if I wanna cry I don't need your shoulder

chorus

I'll find someone else who's nothing like you
And who can play the game as well
And you're gonna be sorry baby - when it's over

(Solo)

I been doing things your way too long, baby that's over (baby that's over)
It won't be easy, but I've got to be strong
And if I wanna cry I don't need your shoulder

chorus

I been living on the edge of a broken heart
I been living on the edge of a broken heart
Don't you wonder why I gotta say goodbye
I been living on the edge of a broken heart

I Want You To Rock Me

It was Saturday night and I was feeling alright, I had nothing to lose
I threw the top down, then pulled into town, I had no time for the blues
When I pulled up and they were plugging it in, I was looking to find a seat
I met this guy, had a look in his eye, I swear he was saying to me

I want you to rock me, roll me, you won't get lonely
Come on and rock me, roll me, you oughta get to know me

When he grabbed his coat, he slipped me a note
It said, what are we waiting for?
Well guy, I'm sorry that we fooled around, I was looking for something more
Oh and he was shy, saying goodbye, he said "I really will give you a call"
Do I have to explain you're driving me insane
I'll tell you what I want you to do

I want you to rock me, roll me, learn to control me
Rock me, roll me, you really oughta get to know me
Come on rock me, roll me, I'm feeling kinda lonely
I want you to rock me, roll me, quit talking and show me

(rock me) (repeats 4x)

(Solo)

Now it's your turn

I'm gonna rock you, roll you, do all the things I told you
I'm gonna rock you, roll you, sit down and I'll show you

(Rock me, roll me, rock me, roll me) - I want you to rock me
(Rock me, roll me) - I wanna roll you - (rock me, roll me)

Cryin'

One look and I saw what I wanted to see, you know that you
Wrapped my heart around your finger so easily, yeah

With your centerfold body going through the moves
Why did I keep wasting the truth for you, tonight

Chorus:

I won't be cryin', cryin', when I think about you, 'cos I opened my eyes
And I won't be cryin', cryin', 'cos those days are gone, gone

Someone twisted you, so you gave it to me, yeah you gave it to me good
You're a nightmare everywhere, disguised as a dream

Well I got lost, wandering through the darkness in your maze of lies
Your trapdoor-way right into my insides, but tonight

I won't be cryin', cryin', when I think about you, 'cos I opened my eyes
And I won't be cryin', cryin'

The tears are falling to the floor, but you won't catch me cryin' anymore

(Solo)

chorus repeats out

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Edge Of a Broken Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ba3FnXt92M

Cryin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UvbImHBVc

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More Vixen pics!! :eyes: :drool: :grineyes:

The girl in the black hair on the floor is Maxine Petrucci, Roxy Petrucci's sister, who replaced bassist Share Pederson briefly:

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Still more Vixen!!! :eyes:

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Tons more Vixen pix!!!

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STILL TONS MORE VIXEN!!!

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YET MORE VIXEN PIX!!!

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And the Vix-pix keep on comin'!!!! :eyes:

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The vixens of Vixen never stop!!!!

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Still some more Vixen pix!!!

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It was a huge surprise when it was learned that David Lee Roth, the renegade showman vocalist Van Halen, the band which pretty much invented the 80's, was fired from--or quit, depending on whom you believe--the group which brought him to stardom. Reports diferred as to why the shaky partnership of Roth and Eddie Van Halen splintered, Eddie claimed it was because Roth acted like a tyrant, while Roth countered that actions such as Eddie's guesting on Michael Jackson's hit "Beat It" was done without consulting the band--Eddie seemed to act a little too secretively--he figured he would contribute a small guitar part, do it for free, and go home. No one would know. The whole world then knew when it became one of the biggest hits of the decade--and Eddie earned nothing on royalties from the song! :eek: This made Roth respond, "Eddie and I do not think alike!!" ohno:

But regardless of whether it was Roth's controlling nature or Eddie's aloofness,
Roth was out on his own. While with Van Halen, he recorded an EP in 1985, Crazy From the Heat, which featured such covers as the Beach Boys' "California Girls", and the pop standard "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" which became wildly successful videos. Roth's campy showmanship opened doors in the entertainment field--he was about to appear in a movie of the same name, 'Crazy From the Heat', but sadly the movie deal fell through. Roth then concentrated his efforts on forming a new shredding band with talented musicians to rival Eddie: his new band featuring former Frank Zappa student Steve Vai (who also performed in Alcatrazz) as well as Billy Sheehan, who played with Yngwie Malmsteen in Talas. The sizzling supergroup brimmed with talent, as was heard on their Dave's first solo LP, Crazy From the Heat, in 1986, which featured such songs as "Yankee Rose", "Elephant Gun", and "Shy Boy". The tour was a phenomenal success, and the band was anticipated to replace Van Halen as the biggest in rock--Vai and Sheehan were that good as players, and Roth as usual was an amazing frontman. Unfortunately, Roth dismissed Sheehan during the recording of Skyscraper in 1988, while Vai left to join Whitesnake.

Just Like Paradise

Rockin' steady in her daddy's car
She got the stereo
With the big guitars
And that's all right
(all right)

I got the itch
And a restless soul
She gone with the wind
Gonna go for broke tonight
And that's all night

Girl, we've been meant for this
Since we were born
No problems now (the coast is clear)
It's just the calm before the storm

This must be just like livin' in paradise
And I don't want to go home

Suzy, Suzy, Girl, for cryin' out loud
You got all the right moves
You make me eat my heart out
Nightly
And that's all right with me!

No special favors
Make it out to cash
We'll spend it later
Got to make this romance last
That's it, that's it

Some folks say 'easy come is easy go'
(And some folks say)
But one night ain't enough for me
Girl, hang on tight and don't let go

This must be just like livin' in paradise
And I don't want to go home

Yankee Rose

Are you ready for the new sensation?
Well, here's the shot heard 'round the world.
All you backroom boys salute when her flag unfurls.
Well, guess who's back in circulation?
Now, I don't know what you may have heard
but what I need right now's the original goodtime girl.

She's a vision from coast to coast,
sea to shining sea.
Hey, sister, you're the perfect host.

Show me your bright lights and your city lights, all right.
I'm talkin' 'bout the Yankee Rose.
Bright lights in your city lights, all right.
I'm talkin' 'bout it.

When she walks, watch, the sparks will fly,
firecrackin' on the fourth of July.
No sad songs tonight, something's in the air.
She's a real state of independents.
So pretty when her rockets glare,
still provin' any night that her flag is still there.

She's a vision from coast to coast,
sea to shining sea.
Hey, sister, you're the perfect host.

Show me your bright lights and your city lights, all right.
I'm talkin' 'bout the Yankee Rose.
Bright lights in your city lights, all right.
I'm in love with the Yankee Rose.

Ah, she's beautiful, alright,
mm, nothin' like her in the whole world.
Yeah, she's right on time, I'm on the case.
Pick up the phone, no time to waste.
She got the beat and here's a little bit comin' your way.

Bright lights, city lights...

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Just Like Paradise (from Skyscraper):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-EJYSkovU

Yankee Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MRO-jnQ8g

Goin' Crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9atUMf39nmU

California Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1t-G0i7XEg

Just a Gigolo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwKhpaVqr0

[ABlairican Pie]

Meanwhile, Van Halen were carrying on with their new lead singer, veteran rocker Sammy Hagar. Fans were still disappointed that David Lee Roth was out of the band, and derided the new lineup as Van Hagar. This was marked by a more commercial pop rock approach, not much of the old shred-happy style but more of the new synth-driven sound. The lineup was solid, and Hagar and the band got along very nicely. It was a match made in heaven....
for now.

Van Halen's first two albums with Sammy Hagar were ones with numbers in the titles: 5150 from 1986, after the L.A. Police Department Code for dangerously crazy, and OU812 in 1988, resembling a personalized license plate. Both albums did very well enough for Van Halen to headline the Monsters of Rock tour with The Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica, and Kingdom Come. Ironically, in a year dominated by metal, the touring rock fest was a disappointment as fans only came to see their favorite bands and paying little attention to the others: A thrashy Metallica fan would care little for pop metal Dokken, but might enjoy the classic metal-esque Scorpions, most likely he would leave after Metallica's set. Likewise, a Dokken fan would be put off by the edgy Metallica, but really get into the more pop-oriented Van Halen. But above all, Metallica were the clear winners of the tour, as many walked away convinced of their power and 'tude, deciding to let their Dokken disks gather a bit of dust before playing again.

When It's Love (OU812):
Hey!

Everybody's lookin' for somethin'
Somethin' to fill in the holes
We think a lot but don't talk much about it
'Till things get out of control, oh!

How do I know when it's love?
I can't tell you but it lasts forever
Oh! How does it feel when it's love?
It's just somethin' you feel together
When it's love

You look at every face in a crowd
Some shine and some keep you guessin'
Waiting for someone to come into focus
Teach you your final love lesson
Ooh!

How do I know when it's love?
I can't tell you but it lasts forever
Oh! How does it feel when it's love?
It's just something you feel together

(Oh oh oh oh) Oh, when it's love
(Oh oh oh oh) You can feel it, yeah!
(Oh oh oh oh) Nothin's missin', yeah!

(Guitar Solo)

(Oh oh oh oh) Yeah, you can feel it
(Oh oh oh oh) Oh, when it's love
(Oh oh oh oh) When nothin's missing, ow!

How do I know when it's love?
I can't tell you but it lasts forever
Ooh, how does it feel when it' love?
It's just something you feel together, hey!

How do I know when it's love?
I can't tell you but it lasts forever
When it's love
Ooh, when it's love
Hey! It'll last forever

(Na na na-ah na na)
When it's love
(Na na na-ah na na)
(Na na na-ah na na)
(Na na na-ah na na)
You and I, we're gonna feel this thing together
(Na na na-ah na na) (repeat to end)
When it's love, ooh
When it's love, baby
You can feel it, yeah!
We'll make it last forever
Ooh-ooh, when it's love

Feels So Good

Oh, here we go! Yeah yeah

Yesterday, I saw my love light shine
Straight ahead in front of me
You never really know
When love'll come or go
But yesterday I was alone
Suddenly I walked you home
I never really knew
What love could make me do

I'll send the message in a bottle (I'll send the message)
N' trust in the mercy of the sea (Oooh ooh ooh)
Stormy weather (Oooh ooh ooh) Oh yeah (Oooh ooh ooh)
Waitin' for love to set me free

Everyday I watch the tide roll in
Stay until it rolls away
Though nothin's on the shore
I'm runnin' back for more

I'll send the message in a bottle (I'll send the message)
N' pray for the mercy of the sea (Oooh ooh ooh)
Stromy weather (Oooh ooh ooh) Oh yeah (Oooh ooh ooh)
Waitin' for love to rescue me

Hey, Feels so good (So good) Woo!
And it feels so nice (So nice)
When love comes around
I feel good (So good) So good, so good
An' it feels so nice (So nice) Woo!
Ow! Feels so good

(Guitar Solo)

Yeah, feels so good, woo! (So good)
And it feels so nice (So nice)
When love comes around
I feel good (So good)
Hey, Gonna make her feel nice (So nice)
When love comes around
I feel good, woo! (So good)
So good, so good, so good (So nice)
Now come on baby, make me feel good

(So good)
Get up, get up, get up, get up (So nice)
Uh! Hey baby, I feel good (So good)
Woo! Now come on, now come on (So nice)
Yeah, make it nice. Ow!
So good, so good


Best Of Both Worlds (5150):

I don't know what I've been livin' on, but
It's not enough to fill me up
I need more than just words can say
I need everything this life can give me. Hey-hey yeah
'Cause sometimes it's not enough. Ow!

Come on baby, close your eyes, let go
This can be everything we dreamed
It's not work that makes it work, oh
No, let the magic do the work for you

'Cause honey, something reached out and touched me
Now I know all I want

I want the best of both worlds
An' honey I know what it's worth
If we could have the best of both worlds
We'd have heaven right here on earth. Woo!

Well, there's a picture in a gallery of
A fallen angel looked a lot like you
We forget where we come from sometimes
I had a dream it was really you

Something reached out and touched me
Now I know all I want

I want the best of both worlds
An' honey I know what it's worth
If we could have the best of both worlds
A little bit o' heaven right here on earth, oh


Whoa, you don't have to die an' go to heaven
Or hang around to be born again
Just tune in to what this place has got to offer
'Cause we may never be here again. Ow!

I want the best of both worlds
An' honey I know what it's worth
If we could have the best of both worlds
A little heaven right here on earth. Come on!

I want the best of both worlds
An' honey I know what it's worth
We can have the best of both worlds
A little heaven right here on earth, yeah

Tell me, is it enough? Wow!
Now will it ever be enough? Wow-oh-oh-oh-ooh-ooh


Love Walks In

Contact is all that it takes
To change your life, to lose your place in time
Contact. Asleep or awake
Coming around you may wake up to find

(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Questions deep within your eyes
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Now more than ever, you realize
(Ooo-ooo)

And then you sense a change
Nothin' feels the same
All your dreams are strange
Love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Simply pulls a string

Another world, some other time
You lay your sanity on the line
Familiar faces, familiar sights
Reach back, remember with all your might

(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Ooh, and there she stands in a silken gown
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Silver lights shinin' down
(Ooo-ooo)

And then you sense a change
Nothin' feels the same
All your dreams are strange
Love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Simply pulls a string
Love comes walkin' in

(Guitar Solo)

Oh, sleep and dream; that's all I crave
I travel far across the milky way
To my master I become a slave
'Til we meet again some other day

(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Where silence speaks as loud as war
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Earth returns to what it was before
(Ooo-ooo)

And then you sense a change
Nothin' feels the same
All your dreams are strange
Love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Simply pulls a string
Love comes walkin' in

(Guitar Solo)

Love comes walkin' in
Baby, pull the string
Love comes walkin' in
Love comes walkin' in, yeah!
Huh-uh! Ye-ah, oh-oh oh

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

When It's Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAlbH5v7OA

Hot For Teacher (1984):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HFaLdU6JA

Jump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA

Panama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2CyIH_ebE

[ABlairican Pie]

While Ratt's previous album turned out to be an unexpected classic, their followup, 1988's Reach For the Sky found the band mired in drugs, alcohol, totally burned out on creative inspiration. The album did, however, feature such hits as "Way Cool Jr.", a song and popular video which featured one of the first metal forays into rap and urban rhythms, and "I Want a Woman". Producer Beau Hill left the band after this album, frustrated with the band's chemically enhanced lethargy and zero spark. Would the band recover?

And what did that surrealistic cover mean, exactly?? :confused:

Way Cool Jr.

Oh
Oh

New kid in town
Got fancy clothes
Old T-Bird car, baby
And you can tell your nose
He said, "Where is all the action in this town?"

Stop working on the women
It's on real slick
Heard enough about sin, girl
Gonna make it stick
Hey! What makes him so special anyhow?

She said, "So good lookin', that's a fact
Steel guitars run across his back"
The girls all know he's Way Cool Jr.

Check him out on his good side

Heard he came from Memphis
Somewhere down south
Started hangin' with the blues crowd
That's how he got that crazy sound
What is all this talkin' goin' round?

She said, "So good lookin', turns me on"
Out all night, keeps me up 'til dawn"
The girls all know he's Way Cool Jr.

You know you can't have fire without the flame
Can't keep the fortune without the pain
That's how he makes it when he's on his own

Way Cool Jr.
You don't live it up or never live it down
Way Cool Jr.
He's the hottest thing to ever hit this town

Go man go

She said, "So good lookin' and that's a fact
Steel guitar scratched off the back"
Everybody knows it's Way Cool Jr.

You know you can't have fire without the flame
Can't keep the fortune without the pain
That's how he makes it when he's on his own

Way Cool Jr.
Always comin' 'round the bend
Way Cool Jr.
He's gonna live it up or never live it down
Way Cool Jr.

Way Cool Jr.

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :banana: :mango

Way Cool Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUSZaQcong

[ABlairican Pie]

The Sea Hags were one sleaze-rock band who released a moderate hit, "Half the Way Valley", in 1988. The band were admittedly recreationally toxic, claiming they were "three junkies and an alcoholic". The band lived and burned out as their album stayed on the shelf. Their bassist Chris Schlosshardt died of a heroin overdose in 1991, while their lead singer/guitarist Ron Yocom would come back several years later in the band Power of 3.

Half the Way Valley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fMvsJRga_8

[ABlairican Pie]

On the more alternative side of things, Minnesota's own Soul Asylum released
Hang Time, which featured the song "Cartoon", a big hit on MTV. The band later nearly ruined their own chances at remaining on the A & M record label due to their parody of label co-owner Herb Alpert's cover for Whipped Cream And Other Delights. The band released Clam Dip And Other Delights, with bassist Karl Mueller completely covered in the congealed condiment, which allegedly displeased the Tijuana Brass founder.

A disturbing bit of trivia: on the CD version of the Hangtime album, a "bone-us" track was released, "Put the Bone In", written by none other than Terry Jacks--yes, the guy who gave us the sucky ballad "Seasons In the Sun" in the 70's!! :eek2:

:lol:

Cartoon

Now everybody's looking after me,
if I'm dragging by some coat tail,
I can't see it's too dark,
but I've got to know what's got the best of me.
When the circus that you left goes on parade,
and those things you see seem so far in your charade,
too far,
but I'm feeling like I don't dare look away,
Don't look away.
Did it almost make you feel,
that something's got to happen soon,
when you wake up feeling lost in your own room.
If you're crying in your beer you're gonna drown,
if you think we'll rise above,
you'd better look around,
you'll see.
It's a mountain made of sand crumbling under me.
Maybe I'm chasing shadows on your wall,
they loom so large,
but make me feel so small so hard,
when you're chasing your own tail in your own wheels
And a time to leave (time's tickin' away, time's tickin' away)
and a time to stay,
I guess the things I look away.
Did it almost make you feel that somethings gotta happen soon.
You're in the movies now and I'm in your cartoon.
There's a ringing in my ears that's heaven sent.
There's a beast out on the ruins,
some broken down lover's lament.
It goes on and on but it won't go away.

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Cartoon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSxGvwM3og

[ABlairican Pie]

Here is the cover of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, released in 1965. Whipped Cream sold over 6 million copies in the United States and the album cover alone is considered a classic pop culture icon. It featured model Dolores Erickson wearing chiffon and shaving cream. The picture was taken at a time when Erickson was three months pregnant. The cover was so popular with Alpert fans that, during in concerts, when about to play the song "Whipped Cream", Alpert would tell the audience, "Sorry, we can't play the cover for you!" :lol:

In addition to Soul Asylum's 1989 Clam Dip & Other Delights album (which featured a few cover songs), the art was also parodied by several groups including comedian Pat Cooper on his album Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights, the Frivilous Five on a Herb Alpert tribute album, "Sour Cream and Other Delights" and by Peter Nero on his album, Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

The opening clip of the title song "Whipped Cream" was also used in the show The Dating Game back in the late 60's and early 70's as the bacchelorette was being introduced.

[ABlairican Pie]

Steve Taylor returned after the release of his 1985 On the Fritz album with a new record on a new label. Apparently Billy Ray Hearn, head of Sparrow Records, was appalled at one of the new songs on the album, 1987's I Predict 1990, titled "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good", perhaps the most controversial song ever recorded in Christian music. Hearn refused to release it, which sent Taylor hunting for a new label, the major Christian label Word/Myrrh. As opposed to what the title may imply, Taylor, an outspoken opponent of such practices as abortion and infanticide, targeted violence at abortion clinics as just as bad, if not worse, than the procedures taking place within them. In his song and video, he played a sort of vigilante ice cream truck driver who feared the declining birth rate as imperiling his business--less kids in the world meant less kids to buy ice cream and pay for his livelihood! So Mr. Ice Cream Man bombs a clinic, ensuring future generations of ice cream customers. Elsewhere in the lyric, a preacher confronts the man and denounces his violent act.

Not surprisingly, the Christian record buying public felt that Taylor had gone too far as well, and the outcry was such that many Christian stores yanked the album off the shelves. Taylor called up to explain the song's meaning to them which helped rectify the problem. Other songs on the album included "Since I Gave Up Hope, I Feel A Lot Better", featuring fiddle work from Papa John Creech of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna), a track about universities making angst-ridden nihilistic philosophies sound trendy, "What Is the Measure of Your Success?", "Jim Morrison's Grave", "Jung And the Restless", and "Harder To Believe Than Not To", a moving song inspired by the writings of author Flannery O'Connor.

Steve Taylor's "Clone Club" fan club letter for the winter of 1988 came out with his statement about "Clinic":

"As a strong believer in the sanctity of human life and an outspoken opponent of abortion, I felt like this was a song that needed to be written. I've been dismayed to watch the Pro-Life Movement in the U.S. lose some of its credibility because a few people don't believe God when he says, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay,' (Deut. 32:35, Rom. 12:19)."

One collection of his essays about his songs, 'Now the Truth Can Be Told', said thusly about the "Clinic" song:

"A very incendiary song indeed. Reasonable people on both sides of the abortion debate could argue that this was not a song that needed to be written, but it was the unreasonable ones who made the most noise: The director of an abortion clinic in San Diego threatened a lawsuit against a video show that aired the 'Clinic' clip, and when I called her at the show's request to explain that it was satire, she was so whining and obnoxious that I ended up giving her an earful of what I thought of her profession, then begged her to sue me. Australian TV's version of Geraldo Rivera did a story on me prior to a national tour there, claiming I was advocating blowing up abortion clinics--the story got picked up by all the major newspapers and eventually forced cancellation of most of the tour (forever dispelling the show biz dictum 'all press is good press'). I even spent an hour on the phone with an elderly bookstore owner in Arizona--he'd pulled the album because he thought it was wrong to blow up abortion clinics, and I congratulated him on his integrity in choosing principle over commerce before gently explaining to him the song's satirical intent.

"So what happened? It all seemed obvious to me--the flashing neon lyric in the middle of the song that says, 'the end don't justify the means anytime.' What better example to use than a clinic bomber (except perhaps the nutcases that are now shooting abortionists?) 'Christian' relativism's finest hour! (Okay, maybe Oliver 'proud to be a God-fearing liar' North matched it for sheer shamelessness. 'Does this mean it's OK to tell lies, daddy?' Do I still sound angry? Does a duck have lips? Do we get the heroes we deserve, or what?)

"I'll take flak anytime for the right reasons, but this song was controversial for all the wrong ones."

I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good

I have the road in my blood
I drive a custom van
I play the tunes
I'm the neighborhood ice cream man
so don't you mess this boy around

The other day, when the clinic had its local debut
some chicks were trying to picket
the doctor threatened to sue

Now I don't care if it's a baby or a tissue blob
but if we run out of youngsters
I'll be out of a job, and so I
I did my duty cleaning up the neighborhood
I blew up the clinic real good

Try and catch me, coppers
you stinking badges better think again
before you mess this boy around

I've hung in Saigon just to see the special effects
I've hung from gravity boots for my Napoleon complex

It's time to close
ooh...there she blows
history in the making
you picked the fight
I picked dynamite
I blew up the clinic real good

Preacher on a corner
calling it a crime
says, "The end don't justify the means anytime"
I stood up on my van
I yelled, "Excuse me, sir.
Ain't nothing wrong with this country
that a few plastic explosives won't cure."

Jim Morrison's Grave

Am I a pilgrim
or another souvenir hound
in the city of lights
I set my sights
on a king's domain

It was a manhole
dug over at the edge of town
and a spray can scrawl
on the cemetary wall
said, "You'd better behave"

Jim Morrison's grave

It's getting cold here
and there ain't a lizard in sight
did the end begin
when you shed your skin
in the home of the brave

Somebody shake him
from the land of larger than life
where the remnants warn
of a legend born
in a dead man's cave

Jim Morrison's grave

I stay driven 'cause there's nowhere to park
I can't shut my eyes--I'm afraid of the dark
I lie awake
that stone left me chilled to the bone
sound the alarm before it's done
find Jim Morrison

Come away to Paris
let him see another day
let him fade out slowly
only fools burn away
let a true love show him what a heart can become
somebody find Jim Morrison
find Jim Morrison's grave

I get weary
Lord, I don't understand
how does a seed get strangled in the heart of a man
then the music covers like an evening mist
like a watch still ticking on a dead man's wrist
tick away

Harder To Believe Than Not To

Nothing is colder than the winds of change
where the chill numbs the dreamer till a shadow remains
among the ruins lies your tortured soul
was it lost there
or did your will surrender control?

Shivering with doubts that were left unattended
so you toss away the cloak that you should have mended
don't you know by now why the chosen are few?
it's harder to believe than not to
harder to believe than not to

It was a confidence that got you by
when you know you believed it, but you didn't know why
no one imagines it will come to this
but it gets so hard when people don't want to listen

Shivering with doubts that you left unattended
so you toss away the cloak that you should have mended
don't you know by now why the chosen are few?
it's harder to believe than not to

Some stay paralyzed until they succomb
others do what they feel, but their senses are numb
some get trampled by the pious throng
still they limp along

Are you sturdy enough to move to the front?
is it nods of approval or the truth that you want?
and if they call it a crutch, then you walk with pride
your accusers have always been afraid to go outside

They shiver with doubts that were left unattended
then they toss away the cloak that they should have mended
you know by now why the chosen are few
it's harder to believe than not to...

I believe



I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76E7MJsYx1g

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1985, Shriekback released their album Oil And Gold, which featured
their most popular song, the creepy dance rocker "Nemesis". 1986 saw the release of Big Night Music which contained tracks as "Black Light Trap", "Gunning For Buddha", and "The Reptiles and I".

Shriekback's 1988 album Go Bang! included a cover of KC and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight".

Nemesis

In the jungle of the senses
Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper
Love has no meaning not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple
Very little fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble sometimes we're strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully correctly wrong

[chorus]
Priests and cannibals prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

We feel like Greeks we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
>From the juices of the dying
We are not monsters we're moral people
And yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendor of our achievment
Call in the airstrike with a poison kiss

[chorus X2]

How bad it gets you can't imagine
The burning wax the breath of reptiles
God is not mocked he knows his business
Karma could take us at any moment
Cover him up I think we're finished
You know it's never been so exotic
But I don't know my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes!

[chorus X3 to fade]

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Nemesis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcF0NTkni-8

Nemesis Shriekback US intro version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaTsdLcE8Zk&mode=related&search=

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FW0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent, who replaced Ace Frehley, started his own band, the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, which featured future Slaughter members, Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum, who would leave in disgust after finding Vincent very difficult to work with. The band was completely over the top in their videos, such as on this one for their song "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" from their 1986 self-titled debut album. Their 1988 album All Systems Go featured such songs as "Love Kills" and "Naughty Naughty".

Boyz Are Gonna Rock

Well, I'm a sex-shooter
Hot teaser
Love pleaser
Got a lust that kills

Got a reputation
From town to town
We fight to win
We'll take you to a higher ground

We stand united, nobody falls
No more backs against the wall

[Chorus]
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

Well, we burn our cages
We're outragous
Runnin' rabid
We're the hounds of hell
Been raped and branded
Left stranded
In the back alleys
Where the street dogs dwell

Like an animal
We break the jungle rules
Fight fire with fire
And die before we lose

We stand united, nobody falls
No more backs against the wall

[Chorus]
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

[Solo]

[Bridge]
We take our stand
We raise our fist
We hail to the rock brigade
The street boys on a rampage
Got a fire burnin' in my veins
The wilds howlin' out my name

[Chorus]
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We're never gonna stop
The boyz are gonna rock "Gonna rock"
We'll take it to the top "Gonna rock"
Until the day we drop
The boyz are gonna rock

[Solo]

Love Kills

So long since I've waited
To live again
You've brought my world to an end
Love takes it's victim and leaves its remains
My broken heart has died in vain
Tell me why have we forsaken the dreams we had
The pain makes it so hard to understand
You're a lifetime ago but a memory away
And I'll love you 'til my resurrection day

Love kills the fire's gone
Dying embers still remain
Love kills and now you're gone
Girl, I'll never be the same again

Without your love, seems so dead and unreal
And now there's nothing left to feel
Someday we'll meet again - girl that much I know
At heaven's gate we'll say hello
Now I hear the wind is calling my lonely
Lonely lonely soul
For sorrows trembling hands please let me go

Love's dying sin is just dust in the wind
I face the other side of no tomorrow

Love kills the fire's gone
Dying embers still remain
Love kills and now you're gone -
Girl I'll never be the same
Love kills and love is just a dying ember in the rain
Love kills a heart betrayed - Lord, please, please -
Ease my pain - love kills - girl I need your love
Love kills with all its heart

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Boys Are Gonna Rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc9kwIoBhpQ

[ABlairican Pie]

In the late 80's, who could be badder than Michael Jackson? "Weird Al" Yankovic, of course! With his 1988 album Even Worse, his hilarious parody of the Gloved One's "Bad", re-named "Fat" featured a video that Jacko would not have had the guts to do--but Weird Al did! Boy, did he EVER have the gut! :lol:

Fat

Your butt is wide, well mine is too
Just watch your mouth or I'll sit on you
The word is out, better treat me right
'Cause I'm the king of cellulite
Ham on, ham on, ham on whole wheat, all right

My zippers bust, my buckles break
I'm too much man for you to take
The pavement cracks when I fall down
I've got more chins than Chinatown

Well, I've never used a phone booth
And I've never seen my toes
When I'm goin' to the movies
I take up seven rows

Because I'm fat, I'm fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, come on you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
Don'tcha call me pudgy, portly or stout
Just now tell me once again who's fat

When I walk out to get my mail
It measures on the Richter scale
Down at the beach I'm a lucky man
I'm the only one who gets a tan
If I have one more pie a la mode
I'm gonna need my own zip code

When you're only having seconds
I'm having twenty-thirds
When I go to get my shoes shined
I gotta take their word

Because I'm fat, I'm fat, sha mone
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And my shadow weighs forty-two pounds
Lemme tell you once again who's fat

If you see me comin' your way
Better give me plenty space
If I tell you that I'm hungry
Then won't you feed my face

Because I'm fat, I'm fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it, you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
Woo woo woo, when I sit around the house
I really sit around the house

You know I'm fat, I'm fat, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know, you know, you know, come on
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And you know all by myself I'm a crowd
Lemme tell you once again

You know I'm huge, I'm fat, you know it
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, you know, hoo
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
You know I'm fat, I'm fat, you know it, you know
(Fat, fat, really really fat)
And the whole world knows I'm fat and I'm proud
Just tell me once again who's fat

Stuck In a Closet With Vanna White

Doctor, every night I have the strangest dreams
Doctor, listen to me, tell me what this means
First I'm goin' shoppin' in my underwear
Then all of sudden I'm floating in mid air
My lips fall off and everybody starts to stare
Donuts and hot dogs are flying everywhere

Now Doctor, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet
Next comes the part that I won't ever forget
Now I'm bein' followed by these Russian spies
They give me some velcro, and an order of fries
Suddenly I'm bowling on the Starship Enterprise
I fall down a hole and that's when I realize

I am stuck in a closet with Vanna White
I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Night after night after night after night

All right!

Doctor, won't you tell me, am I going insane
Was it something I ate or something wrong with my brain
See, I'm naked in church when I meet a dinosaur
Try to run, but my feet have been nailed to the floor
Then a midget pushes me through a revolving door
And I'm back in the very same place I was before

Now I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White
I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Night after night after night after night

And I can't bust out and I can't break free
And it's gettin' just a little too stuffy here for me
And I can't go home and I can't get loose
And I try to escape but it's just no use

And I can't ever leave and I can't ever win
And we're runnin' outta air and the walls are closin' in
And I can't go back and I can't get through
But Vanna since you're here, why don't you let me buy a vowel from you

Come on Vanna, come on!

Ow, buhhh

Doctor, all those crazy dreams have started again
That's right, I even wake up screaming now and then
See, I'm coming home from work but I forgot my address
I'm half an hour late for my algebra test
Then some slimy alien jumps out of my chest
And I'm falling and falling and I guess you know the rest

I am stuck in a closet with Vanna White
I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Night after night after night after night

I am stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Stuck in a closet with Vanna White
N-n-n-night after night after night night night

Then I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White (ya-ya ya-ya, ya-ya, ya, ya-ya)
I'm stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Night after night after night after night

I am stuck in a closet with Vanna White (ya-ya ya-ya ya-ya ya-ya)
I am stuck in a closet with Vanna White


:banana: :mango

Fat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFMvBH1edtU

Eat It (His other famous Michael Jackson parody, 1984):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPimiYS4qXM

Like a Surgeon (Madonna parody, 1985):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnaxTG-YFiQ

[ABlairican Pie]

Speaking of all things "white", L.A. bluesy-metal band Great White released Once Bitten..., which featured hits such as "Rock Me" and "Save Your Love". The band was never about needless shredding, but about going back to the roots of rock, the blues, while putting the Tinseltown polish on it. They were one of the most popular bands from Los Angeles at that time, with their combination of good time rock and power ballads.

Rock Me

Sweet little baby,
you don't have to go
Little baby,
tell me you won't go
We'd be so good together
if we had the time
Bein' alone's
a nowhere state of mind
Lovin' ain't no crime, oh no
I see your man ain't here.
He don't care
The way of the night has gone.
We'll move on
Got to find a way
to face another day

I search the world
for someone I'll never find
Someone who ain't the hurtin' kind
If you stay the night.
We'll make the wrong seem right
So come on now...

Rock me
Rock me
Roll me through the night

We'll burn in love tonight

Sweet little baby,
oh don't you go
You ain't so innocent, I know
I know your heart's like mine, oh yeah
And I will find the time
to make you mine
And if your love goes bad,
if it makes you sad
I'll be back for more
at your door

Before the mornin' light,
we'll burn with love tonight

And when your man don't care,
I will be there
Still be lovin' real good love...

There's nothing left to do,
but make sweet love to you

Save Your Love

I wake in the night
to find you on my mind
Deep in a dream,
you'll always be
until the end of time
I look in your eyes
They touch my soul
My love is hard to hide
I'm never alone when we're apart.
I feel you by my side

And here in my heart,
where no one else will ever be
I know who you are,
so lock the door
and throw away the key
Save all your love
Save your love for me
When I'm alone at night,
you're all I see

I wake from a dream
and see you by my side
How could I belong to someone else,
when holdin' you feels so right?
And here in my heart
where no one else will ever be
We've made it so far,
so lock the door and throw away the key (YEAH)

Save all your love
Save all your love for me
When I'm alone at night,
you're all I see
Save all your love
Save your love for me
Don't turn your back on me
You're all I need
(guitar solo)
I know who you are
we've come so far
so baby stay with me yeah
save all your love
save your love for me
dont turn your back on me
you're all i need
save your love save
your love save all your love
save save all your love
save your love baby
save all your love save all your love

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Rock Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UL88X4m0_s

Save Your Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DZFmTrGKk

[ABlairican Pie]

Aerosmith made the biggest album of their comeback phase in the late 80's with Pump, their album from 1989 which saw the band go in a more pop direction now that another band which was heavily influenced by them, Guns N' Roses, captured their former sleazy 70's swagger. The album featured such hits as "Love In an Elevator", "Janie's Got a Gun", "What It Takes", and "The Other Side".

Love In an Elevator

Workin' like a dog for the boss man
Workin' for the company
I'm bettin' on the dice I'm tossin'
I'm gonna have a fantasy

But where am I gonna look?
They tell me that love is blind
I really need a girl like an open book
To read between the lines

(Chorus)
Love In An Elevator
Livin' it up when I'm goin' down
Love In An Elevator
Lovin' it up till I hit the ground

Jackeys in the elevator
Lingerie second floor
She said 'can I see you later
And love you just a little more?'

I kinda hope we get stuck
Nobody gets out alive
She said 'I'll show you how to fax
In the mailroom, honey
And have you home by five'

(Chorus)

In the air, in the air, honey one more time
Now it ain't fair
Love in an elevator
Lovin' it up when I'm goin' down

Love in an elevator
Goin' down

(Chorus)

Gonna be a penthouse pauper
Gonna be a millionare
I'm gonna be a real fast talker
And have me a love affair

Gotta get my timin' right
It's a test that I gotta pass
I'll chase you all the way to stairway, honey
Kiss your sassafrass

Janie's Got a Gun

Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her whole world's come undone
From looking straight at the sun
What did her daddy do?
What did he put you through?

They say when Janie was arrested
They found him underneath a train
But man, he had it comin'
Now that Janie's got a gun
She ain't never gonna be the same

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Tell her now it's untrue
What did her daddy do?

He jacked the little bitty baby
The man has got to be insane
They say the spell that he was under
The lightnin' and the thunder
Knew that someone had to stop the rain

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
What did her daddy do
It's Janie's last I.O.U.

She had to take him down easy
And put a bullet in his brain
She said 'cause nobody believes me
The man was such a sleeze
He ain't never gonna be the same

Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away from the pain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Everybody is on the run

Janie's got a gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody's on the run (Honey, honey what's your problem)
'Cause Janie's got a gun (Tell me it ain't right)
Janie's got a gun (Was it daddy's cradle robbin')
Her dog day's just begun (That made you scream at night)
Now everybody's on the run
Janie's got a gun

The Other Side

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm mmm
ya!

(Chorus)
Lovin' you has got to be
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Like the devil in the deep blue sea
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Forget about your foolish pride
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Oh take me to the other side
(Take Me To The Other Side)

My mama told me there'd be days like this
And man she wasn't foolin'
'Cause I just can't believe the way you kiss
You opened up your moth with bated breath
You said you'd never leave me
You love me, you hate me, I tried to take the loss
You're cryin' me a river but I got to get across

(Chorus)

I'm lookin' for another kind of love
Oh Lordy, how I need it
The kind that likes to leap without a shove
Oh honey, best believe it
To save a lot of time and foolish pride
I'll say what's on my mind, girl
You love me, you hate me, You cut me down to size
You blinded me with love and, yeah, it opened up my eyes

Lovin' you has got to be
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Like the devil and the deep blue sea
(Take Me To The Other Side)
My conscience got to be my guide
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Oh honey, take me, take me, take, take, take, take

Take me to The Other Side
I'm lookin' for another kind of love
Oh, Lordy, how I need it
The kind that likes to leap without a shove
Honey, you best believe it
Now I ain't one for saying long goodbyes
I hope all is forgiven
You loved me, you hate me, I used to be your lover
You know you had it coming, girl
So take me to The Other Side
Take me to The Other Side, take me to The Other Side

Lovin' you has got to be
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Like the devil and the deep blue sea
(Take Me To The Other Side)
My conscience got to be my guide
(Take Me To The Other Side)
Oh honey, take me to the other side

(Chorus)

What It Takes

There goes my old girlfriend
There's another diamond ring
And a all those late night promises
I guess they don't mean a thing
So baby, what's the story
Did you find another man
Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made
When you don't look back I guess
The feelings start to fade away
I used to feel your fire
But now it's cold inside
And you're back on the street
Like you didn't miss a beat, yeah

Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
In the night, without thinkin' you lost
Everything that was good in your life
To the toss of the dice
Tell me what it takes to let you go

Yeah,

Girl, before I met you, I was F.I.N.E - fine
But your love made me a prisoner
Yeah, my heart's been doing time
You spent me up like money
Then you hung me out to dry
It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
'Cause you had me in deep
With the devil in your eyes

(Chorus)

Guitar!

Tell me that you're happy that you're on your own
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Tell me that it's better when you're all alone
Tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch
Tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much
Tell me you ain't dying
When you're cryin' for me

(Repeat Chorus)

Tell me who's to blame for thinkin' twice
'Cause i don't wanna burn in Paradise
Oh, let it go, let it go...

I don't wanna burn....

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango


Love In an Elevator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSA2fVtI1I

Janie's Got a Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSA2fVtI1I

The Other Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK3bgOZdg7E

What It Takes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQ2-YJDq0M

[ABlairican Pie]

Nikki Sixx's near-fatal heroin overdose in 1987 was Motley Crue's wakeup call to get clean and sober, or face coming back from a proposed concert tour in Europe in bodybags, as their manager warned them. The whole rehabilitation process worked in spades for Aerosmith, whose career had rebounded because of it. Dr. Feelgood from the fall of 1989 showed the effects of the band cleaning up, with strong music and a clear focus. The band had never sounded better, and at that point were the biggest band in America.

If it only were to last.

T. N T. (Terror 'n Tinseltown)

[Instrumental]

Dr. Feelgood

Rat-tailed Jimmy is a second hand hood
He deals out in Hollywood
Got a '65 Chevy, primered flames
Traded for some powdered goods
Jigsaw Jimmy He's runnin' a gang
But I hear he's doin' o.k.
Got a cozy little job, sells the Mexican mob
Packages of candycaine

He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood

Cops on the corner always ignore
Somebody's getting paid
Jimmy's got it wired, law's for hire
Got it made in the shade
Got a little hideaway, does business all day
But at night he'll always be found
Selling sugar to the sweet
People on the street
Call this Jimmy's town

He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein I've got one thing you'll understand
He's not what you'd call a glamorous man
Got one thing that's easily understood
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood

He'll tell you he's the king
Of thes barrio streets
Moving up to shangri-la
Came by his wealth as a matter of luck
Says he never broke no law
Two time loser running out of juice
Time to move out quick
Heard a rumour going round
Jimmy's going down
This time it's gonna stick

He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein

Let him soothe your soul, just take his hand
Some people call him an evil man
Let him introduce himself real good
He's the only one they call "Feelgood"

This next song was inspired by Sixx's OD:

Kickstart My Heart

When I get high
I get high on speed
Top fuel funny car's
A drug for me
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Always got the cops
Coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart

Ooh, are you ready girls?
Ooh, are you ready now?
Ooh, yeah
Kickstart my heart
Give it a start
Ooh, yeah, baby
Ooh, yeah
Kickstart my heart
Hope it never stops
Ooh, yeah, baby

Skydive naked
From an aeroplane
Or a lady with a
Body from outerspace
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart
Say I got trouble
Trouble in my eyes
I'm just looking for Another good time
My heart, my heart
Kickstart my heart

Ooh, are you ready girls?
Ooh, are you ready now?
Ooh, yeah
Kickstart my heart
Give it a start
Ooh, yeah, baby
Ooh, yeah
Kickstart my heart
Hope it never stops
Ooh, yeah, baby

When we started this band
All we needed, needed was a laugh
Years gone by...
I'd say we've kicked some ass
When I'm enraged
Or hittin' the stage
Adrenaline rushing
Through my veins
And I'd say we're still kickin' ass

Ooo, ahh, kickstart my heart
Hope it never stops
And to think, we did all of this...
To rock

Kickstart my heart

Without You

Without you, there's no change
My nights and days are grey
If I reached out and touched the rain
It just wouldn't feel the same

Without you, I'd be lost
I'd slip down from the top
I'd slide down so low
Girl you'd never, never know...

Without you, without you
A sailor lost at sea
Without you, woman The world comes down on me

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...

Without you, my hope is small
Let me be me all along
You let the fires rage inside
Knowing someday I'd grow strong Without you, without you
A sailor lost at sea
Without you, woman
The world comes down on me

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...

I could face a mountain
But I could never climb alone
I could start another day
But how many, just don't know
You're the reason the sun shines down
And the nights, they don't grow cold
Only you that I'll hold when I'm young
Only you...as we grow old

Without you in my life
I'd slowly wilt and die
But with you by my side
You're the reason I'm alive
But with you in my life
You're the reason I'm alive
But without you, without you...

Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)

She's got an alligator bag
Top hat to match
Dressed in black on black
She's got a Philipino girlie
She claims is her friend
I tell you boys, you just gotta laugh
Now I used to call her Cindy
She changed her name to "Sin"
I guess that's the name of her game
I really used to love her
Then, the kitty she discovered
It's got to be a sexual thing

All, all around the world
Girls will be girls
It's the same ol', same ol' situation
It's the same ol', same ol' ball and chain
I say no no no
No no no Introduced me to her lover
In a cellophane dress
Then they bid me a sweet fairwell
Last time I saw them
They were kissing so softly
To the sound of wedding bells

All, all around the world
Girls will be girls
It's the same ol', same ol' situation
It's the same ol', same ol' ball and chain
Just like a punch in the teeth
Or a swan dive to the street

No, no, no
No, no, no
If it wasn't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all

Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)

We could sail away
Or catch a freight train
Or a rocketship into outer space
Nothin' left to do
Too many things were said
To ever make it feel
Like yesterday did

Seasons must change
Separate paths, separate ways
If we blame it on anything
Let's blame it on the rain

I knew it all along
I'd have to write this song
Too young to fall in love
Guess we knew it all along

That's alright, that's okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, that's okay
Let's turn the page My friends called today
Down from L.A.
They were shooting pool all night
Sleeping half the day
They said I could crash
If I could find my own way
I told them you were leaving
On a bus to go away

That's alright, that's okay
We were two kids in love
Trying to find our way
Thats's alright, that's okay
Held our dreams in our hands
Let our minds run away
That's alright, that's okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, let's turn the page
And remember what I say girl
And it goes this way

Girl, don't go away mad...
Girl, just go away

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Dr. Feelgood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F11V9HcvEDg

Kickstart My Heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1HXxU3HH5c

Without You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVa0X4YRus

SOS Same Old Situation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVa0X4YRus

Don't Go Away Mad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sEBBCIZ54

http://www.irocknroll.com/images/Motley_Crue_Program.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

One up-and-coming Sunset Strip metal band, Warrant, burst onto the scene with Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, released in 1988 and charted in the coming year. The boys had good looks, a sense of humor, and a gift of killer pop songwriting, especially on power ballads such as "Heaven" and "Sometimes She Cries", which became some of the biggest songs of the year. They were having more fun than anyone should legally have a right to, especially with all the pretty women that came their way.

Down Boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmzs3WUom8Y

Heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrsMsJCpgSY

Sometimes She Cries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9oSw7Zprk

[ABlairican Pie]

Slaughter, named after frontman Mark Slaughter, were formed after both he and bassist Dana Strum left their tumultuous gig with the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. The band also featured late guitarist Tim Kelly on guitar. Dana Strum's pre-VVI claim to fame was that he introduced Randy Rhoads to Ozzy for that fateful audition ten years before. Slaughter not only had great pop metal hooks but killer good looks which attracted a bevy of eager women as did Warrant. Metal was definitely getting prettier in those days. Their first album was Stick It To Ya in 1989, which featured "Up All Night" and the ballad "Fly To the Angels".

Up All Night

(and when morning comes).....
up all night, sleep all day
up all night, sleep all day

(musical interlude)

when evenin comes
I am alive
I love to prowl around in the streets

Its the moonlight
that controls my mind
NOW I've got the power to speak, yeah

(awake from dusk to dawn)
under the city lights
(stars are shinin down)
theyll be shinin down on you and I
(and when morning comes)
I'll hold you till the mornin light
everybody sing it now

up all night
sleep all day
up all night
sleep all day
thats right
ah ahhh ahhhhh

drivin down the boulevard
all alone
the neon signs are callin my name
find me in the corner
havin the time of my life
I think youd wanna do the same

(awake from dusk to dawn)
under the city lights
(stars are shinin down)
theyll be shinin down on you and I
(and when morning comes)
I'll hold you till the mornin light
everybody sing it now

up all night
sleep all day
up all night
sleep all day
thats right
up all night
sleep all day
c'mon c'mon
up all night
aww baby if we could stay up
24 hours a day
uuh
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...

(guitar solo)

(awake from dusk to dawn)
under the city lights
(stars are shinin down)
theyll be shinin down on you and I
(and when morning comes)
I'll hold you till the mornin light
everybody sing it now

up all night
sleep all day
up all night
sleep all day
c'mon c'mon
up all night
sleep all day
that's right
up all night
sleep all day
up all night.............(fade out)
(fade in)
land where our fathers died
land of the pilgrims pride
from every mountainside
let freedom ring

Fly To the Angels

Pictures of you
They're still on my mind
You had the smile
That could light up the world
Now it rains
It seems the sun never shines
And I'll drive down
This lonely lonely road
Ooh I got this feelin'
Girl, I gotta let you go
'Cause now you've got to fly
Fly to the angels
Heavens awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
oh oh oh oh oh!
You've got to fly
Fly to the angels
All the stars in the night
Shine in your name
You know it hurts me
Way deep inside
When I turn and look
And find that you're not there
I try to convince myself
That the pain, the pain
It's still not gone.
And still I drive down
This lonely lonely road
Ooh I got this feelin'
Girl, I gotta let you go
'but now you've got to fly
Fly to the angels
Heavens awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
oh oh oh oh oh
You've got to fly
Fly to the angels
All the stars in the night
Shine in your name
ooh oh you know
you gotta fly!
ooh yeah!
and still I drive down
this lonely lonely road
ooh I got this feelin
oh, I cant let you go
but I know that you
got to fly
Fly to the angels
Heavens awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
oh oh oh oh oh!
You've got to fly
Fly to the angels
All the stars in the sky
Shine in your name yeah
oh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, baby
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh yeah
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, I'm
gonna miss you, I'll miss you girl.

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Up All Night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWA7ZMFGs8

Fly To the Angels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec2k5rw5V2I

Stick It To Ya CD longbox. Remember the longbox? They got rid of those when it they decided it was not environmentally sound to waste trees to create such a disposable product. Of course many would argue that the CDs themselves created by these artists were a waste of resources, but that's another story. ;) :joke: :lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

After bassist Billy Sheehan left David Lee Roth's band, he teamed up with former Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert to form Mr. Big, which featured lead vocalist Eric Martin and drummer Pat Torpey. Metal fans were impressed by the fast shredding abilities of both Gilbert and Sheehan on the song and video for their hit "Addicted To That Rush" from their 1989 debut album. The band even opened for Rush on their Presto tour that following year where Martin asked the crowd, "Are you addicted to--RUSH??!!" The crowd response was thunderous!! :rock: One good thing about that tour was that Rush bassist Geddy Lee noticed that having Mr. Big on the bill brought in women to their shows!!

Addicted To That Rush

When I was a young boy
My momma said to me
Once a woman gets your soul
You'll never shake her free
These are words of wisdom
It turns out she was right
Gotta find a lover-
'Cause I need a fix tonight

Whoooooo (etc.) ooooo
Watch it touch me deep inside
Whoooooo
Somethin' snaps inside my mind
When I feel it comin' ain't no sense in runnin'
I'm addicted to that rush
Every time we touch
Never get enough
'Cause I'm addicted to that rush - Yeow!

Look around I stop and stare
Got to get a taste
Pretty women everywhere
We ain't got time to waste
Lookin' for a little thang
To fit into my plans
On the town I'll hurt you down
I'm walkin' like a man

Once I thought her lovin'
Was a habit I could break
But when I go without it
My body starts to ache
I'm addicted to that rush
every time we touch
I'm addicted to that rush
never never never never
never get enough

Wind Me Up

There ought to be a law against it
To lead a man on and then let him go
What's the world comin' to
When you can't slide into home

Tell it like it is woman
Tell the boy maybe or never mind
We could go all the way
The big boys don't like to waste time

Chorus:
Wind me up-
I need enuff to keep me satisfied
Wind me up-
I wanna hold you but my hands are tied
Wind me up-
You kiss me quick and then
You turn me off
Wind me up-

The only way she winds you up
Is when you ask for too much trouble
Ain't no room for a 2nd chance
When the first one ain't even over

Packed with a powerful love
That I just can't get enough of
Lay your cards on the table
Baby make no mistake about it

Chorus:
Lead Solo-
Breakdown-sexual jargon
Chorus out-
It's time to let the cat out of the bag

Merciless

Shake the waist, you got to love that taste and
Smell the rain, what a shame to let her get away
Tie me down to the race-car tracks
Smack dab in the middle of lover's lane
Zip the lipstick on like BBQ sauce
Painted lady, got to slip into something that's comfortable
Hey.. you can look but you better not touch
Shut down the motors, pull back in the clutch

Chorus:
That strut is merciless
Oh, oh only one word to define it
Merciless oh, oh I can't deny
That strut is merciless
Worth the weight in double trouble
Merciless oh, oh strut your stuff

What's your pick-up line, I bet ya tell her she's fine
If that don't work, don't you pack your suitcase up tonight
Don't give up, here comes a big surprise
It's more than enough to keep me satisfied

Crack the whip, baby, twist your hips
I do as I see fit, love to lick your lips a little bit
You can run, but you better not hide
There goes the dream into the lights

Chorus-
Bridge:
The last thing I remember
After that hard slap in the face
I was lying there thinkin'
As she turned and walked away...Merciless

Chorus: Out

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Addicted To That Rush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFxKrBA8j3k

[ABlairican Pie]

White Lion was another band of both excellent musicians with keen pop hooks in their songs. Their 1987 album Pride featured hits such as "Wait", "Tell Me", and the ballad "When the Children Cry". Vocalist Mike Tramp had smoldering good looks and a strong Bon Jovi-esque voice while Vito Bratta shined on guitar. The solo on "Wait" is one of the most memorable in all of pop metal. :rock:

In 1989, the band returned with Big Game, which was one of the first environmental issues with one of their best songs, "Little Fighter", written in response to the illegal bombing of the Greenpeace boat the Rainbow Warrior by French commandos in 1985 in a New Zealand harbor. The album also featured a cover of Golden Earring's "Radar Love".

Sadly, certain upheavals in the music world caused the band to break up in the next few years. Bratta dropped out of music completely, while Tramp brought back a new version of the band in recent years.

Wait

wait just a moment before our love will die
cause I must know the reason why we say goodbye
wait just a moment and tell me why
cause I can show you lovin that you won't deny

wait and show your lovin like it was before
cause I won't let that feelin walk ou through the door
yeah wait just a moment and try once more
cause babe I need to hold you like I did before

so if you go away I know that I will follow
cause there's a place inside my heart that tells me
hold out, hold out, hold out

wait - wait
I never had a chance to love you
wait - wait
if only our love could show you
wait - wait
I never wanna be without you
wait - wait
no I never had a chance to love you
now I only wanna say I love you
one more time

<solo>

wait - wait
I never had a chance to love you
wait - wait
if only our love could show you
wait - wait
I never wanna be without you
wait - wait
no I never had a chance to love you
now I only wanna say I love you
wait...

Tell Me

we held each other tight
and ran away into the night
oh baby you were so afraid
we knew we couldn't stay
our parents didn't understand
the love we had together

we were teenagers
far away from home
we were cold and all alone

tell me baby all through the night
that you'll never let me go
tell me baby cause I want the world to know

together we were one
we found the place where dreams are made
and hearts never broken
we said we'd never leave
you know we couldn't turn around
and face that we had left behind

we were young in love
out on the run
we were cold and all alone

tell me baby all through the night
that you'll never let me go
tell me baby cause I want the world to know
tell me baby I'm the only one
and all you ever need
tell me baby that you'll never let me go

<solo>

tell me baby all through the night
that you'll never let me go
tell me baby cause I want the world to know
tell me baby I'm the only one
and you ever need
tell me baby that you'll never let me go

oh baby, you know we couldn't turn around
cause we were young up against the world
so tell me, tell that you'll never let me go
cause I need your love, and I need it all the time

When the Children Cry

little child
dry your crying eyes
how can I explain
the fear you feel inside
cause you were born
into this evil world
where man is killing man
but no one knows just why
what have we become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

little child
you must show the way
to a better day
for all the young
cause you were born
for all the world to see
that we all can live
with love and peace
no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under god

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

what "have we" become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again
no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under God

when the children cry
let them know we tried
when the children fight
let them know it ain't right
when the children pray
let them know the way
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins


Little Fighter

ARE YOU CRYIN' TONIGHT, ARE YOU
FEELIN' ALRIGHT
I'LL TELL THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE,
DOWN ON YOUR LUCK, YOU WERE
ONE OF THE KIND
ONE WHO'D NEVER GIVE IN
EVEN WHEN THEY PUT A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD

HAS ANYONE HEARD THE TALES YOU TELL
OR SEEN THE SCARS YOU WEAR
DID ANYONE SPEAK UP WHEN YOU FELL
DOES ANYBODY CARE

RISE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND LET THE WORLD KNOW THE REASON WHY
SHINE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND DON'T LET 'EM END THE THINGS YOU DO

AND YOU WERE ONE WITH A CAUSE,
AND A REASON TO BE
YOU WERE A FIGHTER FOR PEACE
ON THIS EARTH
AND YOU WERE NEVER AFRAID
YOU PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE
AND YOU WERE ALWAYS ALONE
OUT ON THE SEA

WITHOUT A WEAPON IN YOUR HAND
YOU CAME TO FIGHT A WAR
THEY TOOK YOUR LIFE, BUT DIDN'T KNOW
THAT YOU WOULD NEVER DIE

RISE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND LET THE WORLD KNOW THE REASON WHY
SHINE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND DON'T LET 'EM END THE THINGS YOU DO

ARE YOU FEELIN' ALRIGHT
CAUSE I CARE

SOLO

RISE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND LET THE WORLD KNOW THE REASON WHY
SHINE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND DON'T LET 'EM END THE THINGS YOU DO

RISE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND LET THE WORLD KNOW THE REASON WHY
SHINE AGAIN LITTLE FIGHTER
AND DON'T LET 'EM END THE THINGS YOU DO

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Wait:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhhGVFKXoM

Tell Me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq3K3tj0B60

When the Children Cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93yMQkPF6E

Little Fighter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GurX2cPIM

[ABlairican Pie]

Shotgun Messiah was another rising star featuring Swedish guitarist Harry Cody who was also briefly on his way to becoming a big name in metal shredding. The band left their native Sweden to find fame, fortune, and filth in L.A. Their debut album from 1989 featured the hit "Shout It Out" and "Bop City". Bassist Tim Tim Skold later joined the industrial band KMDFM.

Shout It Out

when your beds too sweaty and your head feels funny
you're tossin and turning cause your rooms too sunny
the upstair neighbour got some 15 kids
and if somethings goin down its shure your lids
and the sound of t-t-tims big pumping bass makes you dye your hair makes you change your ways
i gotta get up i gotta get out i just found out what its all about

i was born to rock (born to rock
sworn to rock (sworn to rock)

alright
na na na na na
yeah
na na na na na
alright
na na na na na

that's when you shout it out
shout it out shout it louder
shout it out(shout!), shout it louder

and well up and about cruisin down the street
fellin good fellin neat as one with the beat
the dissiness is gone but your still a punk
just out to have fun and about to get drunk
thats when the sound of Harry K's screaming guitar
makes you wanna race in your old mans car
the pedal to the metal and your pulse to the bop
the kind of bad habit that you just cand drop

i was born to rock(born to rock)
sworn to rock (sworn to rock)

come on
na na na na na
rock on
na na na na na
uh
na na na na na

that's when you shout it out
shout it out shout it louder
shout shout shout
shout it out shout it louder


take this sucker!

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Shout It Out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PbRQjLV8c

Original lead vocalist Zinny Zan:

[ABlairican Pie]

One East Coast band, Skid Row, was helped tremendously by fellow mates Bon Jovi in their push for success. In contrast to Bon Jovi's nice guy attitude, Skid Row was a different story, they appeared to have the bad boy 'tude--while it was their lead singer that the band adopted, Sebastian Bach, who had more than a little appearance of 'tude--he was bent on living the rock and roll lifestyle to the hilt. His motto, "If you think, you stink", was acted out to the max: his raucous, incorrigible antics which were done with hardly rubbing two brain cells together, such as his attacking fans with a broken bottle during a show in Springfield, Massachussetts, in the fall of 1989 cemented the band as a dangerous presence. However it was solely Bach's fault, but as he became the "face" behind the band, the other members guitarists Snake Szabo and Scotti Hill, bassist Rachel Bolan, and drummer Rob Affuso, had to suffer from the indignities he caused, such as the t-shirt their vocalist caused, such as wearing the infamous "AIDS Kills F:censored:gs Dead" t-shirt. He later apologized, but the damage was done.

Their 1988 self-titled debut album, which charted in 1989, featured hits such as "Youth Gone Wild", "18 And Life", and "I Remember You".

Youth Gone Wild

Since I was born they couldn't hold me down
Another misfit kid, another burned-out town

Never played by the rules I never really cared
My nasty reputation takes me everywhere

I look and see it's not only me
So many others have stood where I stand
We are the young so raise your hands

They call us problem child
We spend our lives on trial
We walk an endless mile
We are the youth gone wild
We stand and we won't fall
We're the one and one for all
The writing's on the wall
We are the youth gone wild

Boss screamin' in my ear about who I'm supposed to be
Getcha a 3-piece Wall Street smile and son you'll look just like me

I said "Hey man, there's something that you oughta know.
I tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row."

I look and see it's not only me
We're standin' tall ain't never a doubt
We are the young, so shout it out

They call us problem child
We spend our lives on trial
We walk an endless mile
We are the youth gone wild
We stand and we won't fall
We're the one and one for all
The writing's on the wall
We are the youth gone wild

They call us problem child
We spend our lives on trial
We walk an endless mile
We are the youth gone wild
We stand and we won't fall
We're the one and one for all
The writing's on the wall
We are the youth gone wild
We are the youth gone wild

18 And Life

Ricky was a young boy, He had a heart of stone.
Lived 9 to 5 and worked his fingers to the bone.
Just barely got out of school, came from the edge of town.
Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down.
He had no money, oooh no good at home.
He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone
And now it's

18 and life You got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
18 and life to go
[repeat above]

Tequila in his heartbeat, His veins burned gasoline.
It kept his motor running but it never kept him clean.
They say he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one."
He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun.
Bang Bang Shoot 'em up, The party never ends.
You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend
And now it's

[chorus]

"Accidents will happen" they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind - that child blew a child away.

[chorus]

I Remember You

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
The wind would whisper and I'd think of you
And all the tears you cried, that called my name
And when you needed me I came through

I paint a picture of the days gone by
When love went blind and you would make me see
I'd stare a lifetime into your eyes
So that I knew you were there for me
Time after time you were there for me

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

We spend the summer with the top rolled down
Wished ever after would be like this
You said I love you babe, without a sound
I said I'd give my life for just one kiss
I'd live for your smile and die for your kiss

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

We've had our share of hard times
But that's the price we paid
And through it all we kept the promise that we made
I swear you'll never be lonely

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
Washed away a dream of you
But nothing else could ever take you away
'Cause you'll always be my dream come true
Oh my darling, I love you

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Youth Gone Wild:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULmG7xxx68

18 and Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMP7q-aPfGg

I Remember You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UL03pia_4

[Steve M.]

We covered Elton John's 1988 album Reg Strikes Back, and we focused on his first single from the album, "I Don't Want To Go On With You Like That," but did you know there was a second single from that LP? "A Word In Spanish," it was called.

A Word in Spanish - Elton John

(Elton John [music], Bernie Taupin [lyrics])

I don’t know why,
I just know I do.
I just can’t explain
In this language that I use.
Something leaves me speechless
Each time that you approach,
Each time you glide right through me
As if I was a ghost.

If I only could tell you,
If you only would listen,
I’ve got a line or two to use on you
I’ve got a romance we could christen.

And there’s a word in Spanish I don’t understand,
But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man.
He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere,
And the words he spoke in spanish brought the female lead to tears.
A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish.

If you can’t comprehend,
Read it in my eyes.
If you don’t understand it’s love,
In a thin disguise.
And what it takes to move you
Each time that you resist,
Is more than just a pretty face
To prove that I exist.

When manners make no difference
And my gifts all lay undone,
I trade my accent in on chance
And fall back on a foreign tongue.

And there’s a word in Spanish I don’t understand,
But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man.
He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere,
And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears.
A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish.

http://www.songwords.net/waiguo/eltonjohn/reg_strikes_back.jpg

[Steve M.]

You may have noticed the Donald Duck costume on the cover of Elton John's Reg Strikes Back LP. He wore that costume during his now-legendary 1980 Central Park concert in New York. . . and it was legendary for that reason! He leader told Arsenio Hall that a someone suggested it to him, and even though LEton would have preferred Minnie Mouse - :lol: - Donald Duck would do just fine.

Below, Elton as Walt's wily waterfowl. . . the Donald! :rotflmao:

[Steve M.]

Elton John released his twenty-second studio album, [I[Sleeping With the Past,[/I] in 1989. It went on to become his first number one album in Britain since 1977, and it did respectably well in America too, thanks top its singles "Healing Hands" and "Sacrifice," the latter being covered instantly by Sinead O'Connor.

Healing Hands - Elton John

(Elton John [music], Bernie Taupin [lyrics])

I never dreamed I could cry so hard,
That ain't like a man.
I could fly like a bird some days,
Had a place where I could land.

I could have sworn we were all locked in,
Ain't that what you said?
I never knew it could hurt so bad,
When the power of love is dead.

But giving into the nighttime
Ain't no cure for the pain,
You gotta wade into the water,
You gotta learn to live again,

And reach out for her healing hands,
Reach out for her healing hands.
There's a light, where the darkness ends.
Touch me now and let me see again.
Rock me now in your gentle healing hands.

I never knew love like poison,
That burned like a fire.
All I ever wanted was a reason
To drown in your eyes.

I never knew sleep so restless,
Empty arms so cold.
That's not the way it's supposed to be,
It ain't the spell that I was sold.

But giving into the nighttime
Ain't no cure for the pain,
You gotta wade into the water,
You gotta learn to live again,

And reach out for her healing hands,
Reach out for her healing hands.
There's a light, where the darkness ends.
Touch me now and let me see again.
Rock me now in your gentle healing hands.

Sacrifice - Elton John

(Elton John [music] - Bernie Taupin [lyrics])

It's a human sign
When things go wrong,
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong.

Into the boundary
Of each married man,
Sweet deceit comes calling
And negativity lands.

Cold, cold heart,
Hard done by you.
Some things look better baby,
Just passing through.

And it's no sacrifice,
Just a simple word.
It's two hearts living
In two separate worlds.
But it's no sacrifice,
No sacrifice,
It's no sacrifice at all.

Mutual misunderstanding
After the fact,
Sensitivity builds a prison
In the final act.

We lose direction,
No stone unturned.
No tears to damn you
When jealousy burns.

Cold, cold heart,
Hard done by you.
Some things look better baby,
Just passing through.

And it's no sacrifice,
Just a simple word.
It's two hearts living
In two separate worlds.
But it's no sacrifice,
No sacrifice,
It's no sacrifice at all.

[ABlairican Pie]

Pretty Boy Floyd were the quintessential sleaze-hair metal band, a sort of "junior Motley Crue" but with a bit more PG-rated fun. The band, whose original line-up included Steve "Sex" Summers on vocals, Kristy "Krash" Majors on guitars, Vinnie Chas on bass, and Kari Kane on drums, were a huge hit on the Sunset Strip scene when they released 1989's Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz. The album featured such anthemic fun-metal songs as "Rock And Roll Is Gonna Set the Night On Fire", "Wild Angels", "Forty-Eight Hours", Toast Of the Town", and the title track. The band would undergo a series of lineup changes, as well as take a lashing from critics, but the band has continued on.

It remains one of my personal favorites in my CD collection. :cool: :rock:

Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz

We're black on black
We're a sex attack
We're the bullet boys, We're rocking with the
sonic blast
Here we come a rocking like a wall of
sound
Line 'em up Stack 'em up and knock
'em down

Little girls all in a row
Screaming c:censored:k rock shock pop
They're dressed like some kind of
horror show
Screaming **** rock Shock pop
Hey let's go

We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight

A little louder now

With every night screaming
It's out of control
It's like a rock house, Whore house, Hey let's go!
We'll strut our stuff every night and day
Like a high speed, stampede, get away

Little girls all in a row
Screaming c:censored:k rock shock pop
They're dressed like some kind of
horror show
Screaming **** rock Shock pop
Hey let's go

We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight

We're leather boyz with electric toyz.
Don't you know we're leather?
Black leather. We're leather boyz. And we'll
scream together. AHHH!

We're leather boyz, Whoa, Oh
Oh We're leather boyz And we'll rock
We'll rock forever. and we're rockin'
Shockin, rockin', Shockin' Leather boyz.

We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz
with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're leather boyz with electric toyz
We're making noise tonight
We're making noise, Making noise,
Make some noise,Tonite! Tonite! Tonite! Well all f:censored:ing right!!
Yeah!

Rock And Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night On Fire)

You say you wanna set the night on fire
but there´s just one thing
that you need to take you higher1-2-3 let´s go!
Rock 'n' Roll....
It´s Friday night we´re gonna hit the lights
It´s you and me, we´re gonna Rock
'n' Roll, All night!
It´s Saturday, and there´s
just no way we´re gonna sit home alone, well oh no
let me take you one step higher!

Rock 'n' Roll is gonna set the night on fire x2
Yeah
We´re the burning flames, too wild to tame,
yeah, yeah, yeah, we´re gonna shock the world
All right
In Hollywood, wake up the neighborhood
all the
boys and girls, they´re gonna scream and shout,
hey!Let me take you one step higher!

Rock 'n' Roll is gonna set the night on fire
Let me take you one step higher!
Rock 'n' Roll is gonna set the night on fire
We´re the baddest boys,
making noise, break the chains, what do you say,
Rock 'n' Roll....

Wild Angels

Hey girl Let's run away, We'll set the skies on fire
tonight It's you and me.
We'll run away to Hollywood, We'll Rock n' Roll all night long
like we never could. 'Cause now we're free.

We're gonna come out screaming like a siren in the
starlit night.
We'll dance on the razors edge.
And we'll be there, be there under the spotlight.

You and me, We're wild angels
We'll set the skies on fire
You and me, We're wild angels
We're gonna set the skies on fire tonight.

Well, hey girl, We can run, Far away
Where the night's so young, The city lights is where we'll be
We'll hit the streets and we'll take the town
Rocking down to the solid sounds, It's you and me.
You know we're wild and we're free, Oh.

Together we're a thunderstorm, We're raining everywhere we
go, Oh.
We won't stop until we see the top of the
rainbow, Rainbow, You know, Oh.

You and me, We're wild angels, We'll set the skies on fire
You and me, We're wild angels and we're gonna set
the skies on fire tonight,

Oh yeah. Well, don't ya know that we're wild?
Yeah, we're wild angels, Ah yeah, wild
Yeah, we're wild angels Well, we're wild Yeah
We're wild angels and we're gonna set the skies on fire tonight
Wild angels The sky's on fire tonight
Wild angels The skies are on fire tonight
Wild angel. The skies are on fire
You and me will set this night on fire tonight.
Wild angels The skies are on fire tonight
Wild angels The skies are on fire tonight
Wild angels. The skies are on fire
You and me will set this night on fire tonight.

Toast Of the Town

Hey hey hey. Hey kids. your whole life is changing. We got the night. It's right in sight. Hey hey hey.
Hey kids. The world is going crazy but you know it
won't last too long. You know it won't last too
long. You know it won't last too long. You know it
won't last too long.

Hey kids. You're the
toast to the town. Well, hey kids. Well, you're
the toast of the town.Hey hey hey. Well, hey
kids.

Well, what's it gonna get ya. The scene is
screaming. It's out in the night. Hey hey hey. Well, hey kids. The world is gone crazy but you know it
won't last too long. You know it won't last too
long. You know it won't last too long. You know it
won't last too long.

Hey kids. Well you're
the toast of the town, Well, hey kids. Well, you're
the toast of the town.

You heard me saying babe I
don't need to pull through. I got news for you. I
keep on dancing babe. I don't think i'll pull
through. Now crashing down on you. Down on you. Down
on you. Down on you. Come on

Well, hey kids. Well,
hey kids. Well, hey kids. Well you're the toast of
the town. Well, hey kids. Well, you're the toast of
the town. Well, hey kids. Well, you're the toast of
the town.Well, hey kids. Well, you're the toast of
the town. Yeah. Hey hey hey. Well, hey kids. Yeah.

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz (though they appear a little more recent, not as glam):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x013NpQm1o

Rock And Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night On Fire):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dAlp-1CHU

I'm In Love With a Junkie Girl (I think from a 90's album, Porn Stars):
(This is a good song, I've never heard it before, there's not much information about it, but it sounds great!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSxMTzr4QI&mode=related&search=

I Wanna Be With You (Ballad from Leather Boys):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKKg4CqyCMk&mode=related&search=

[ABlairican Pie]

Tesla was one band from Sacramento often lumped in with the "hair metal" scene, but had more of a middle-class meat-and-potatoes rock and roll approach, often with acoustic guitars and a tasteful ballad. Their 1987 album Mechanical Resonance featured songs such as the popular MTV hit "Modern Day Cowboy", "Little Suzi", and "Gettin' Better". Their 1989 album The Great Radio Controversy provided information about the Serbian inventor of the radio who became the band's namesake, as well as featuring hits such as "Love Song", "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)", and "Hang Tough".

Modern Day Cowboy

Stormy night under jet black skies, Billy pulls into town
the thunder rolled and the lightning bolts come crashin' to the ground
Cold as ice, hard as stone, as he walks into the room
With another man who was feeling the same way, all hell's breakin' loose

Bang bang, shoot 'em up, bang bang, blow you away

[Chorus:]
It's a showdown in the no man's land, for the cowboy of the modern day
Come sundown, don't be hangin' round, 'cos the cowboy'll blow you away

Al Capone and the Bad Boy Jones, on the wrong side of the law
Johnny D and his company, always first to the draw,
Gangster lean, feelin' so mean, try to take more than their share
'Cos all they saw was ruling it all, the scent of blood was in the air

[Chorus]

[Solo]

So here we are and we've come this far, but it's only getting worse
Foreign lands with their terrorist demands, only cause the good to hurt
The U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., with their six-guns to their side
I see the message, written on the wall, too much anger deep inside

Bang bang, shoot 'em up, bang bang, blow you away

[Chorus]

It's a showdown!

Little Suzi

Little Suzi's on the up, looking for a get-away
Ruby tries to bring her down, she's lookin' for another way
Little Suzi's on the up, headin' for the spotlights
Ruby finally gets up, lookin' for some quiet night

[[Chorus:]]
And the music makes her feel so hot
Ooh and she'll smile for the camera with all she's got
Don't bring her down, she's a lot like you
She'll be richer by far if her dreams come true

Little Suzi's on the up

Little Suzi's on the up, now suddenly it's not a game
Ruby's got to give up, 'cos Suzi's plainly set on pain
Little Suzi's on the up, cost in cost, your point is made
Ruby's gonna hang around, to make sure Suzi's okay

[Chorus]

Don't bring her down, she's a lot like you
She'll be richer by far if her dreams come true

Little Suzi's on the up

[Solo]

[Chorus]

Don't you bring her down, she's a lot like you
She'll be richer by far when her dreams come true

Little Suzi's on the up, oh yes she is, ow!
Now she's on the up, little Suzi's on the up
Heading for the spotlight, oh little Suzi
Oh and the music makes her feel so hot, go little Suzi, yeah
Ohh, yeah yeah, oh yeah

Gettin' Better

All that rain outside my window, it goes on and on, I know
It's gettin' better every day
Soon the sun will shine outside my window, when it's gonna come
No I really, I couldn't say
No no no no no no, it's gettin' better every day - thank you

Can you hear it? Oh, it's gettin' better now, every day, yeah yeah yeah yeah

I'm a hard workin' man, doin' all that I can, tryin' to make ends meet
Just a-makin' my way through the jungle today, it's gettin' the best of me

But it's only gettin' better, and a change is gonna come my way
Yes it's only gettin' better, better every day, aha yeah

I've been changin' the scene, if you know what I mean
Good things are comin' my way
And now I'm livin' my life, and I try doin' it right
Sun shinin' every day

Well it's only gettin' better, and a change is gonna come my way
Yes it's only gettin' better, better every day

[Solo]

Now it's only gettin' better, and a change is gonna come my way
Yes it's only so much better, oh, gettin' better every day, yeah
I can feel it, feel it gettin' better, whoa, day and night
I feel it, feel it gettin' better every day
Gettin' better, it's gettin' better, it's gettin' better

Hang Tough

Took a shot to the chin.
Looks like you just can't win
In this do or die situation.
And it's harder than it seems
To survive, keep alive and make your dreams,
Make your dreams all come true.

You gotta, you gotta give it your best shot.
Give it ev'rything you got.
Oh, you gotta hang tough.
Hang tough. Hang tough.

Sometimes love can make you blue.
A heartache made just for you.
But you can't let it bring ya down.
If you should stumble, if you should fall,
Pick yourself up off the floor.
Fight for what's right and stand your ground.

You gotta give it your best shot.
Give it ev'rything you got.
Oh, you gotta hang tough.
Hang tough. Hang tough.
When the goin' gets rough.
Hang tough. You got to give it all you've got.
Hang tough. Keep your head above the ground.
Don't you let it get you down.
Oh, you gotta hang tough.
Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh!

You stay locked away inside your room
'Cause you don't know what this world is comin' to.
Hummingbird hums 'cause he don't know the words
And the piper will play 'cause he don't know what to say.
He's alot like you, yeah. Oh, he's alot like you, yeah.
He tries hard ev'ry day to be free and fly away. Yeah!

Hang tough, oh, when the goin' gets rough.
Hang tough. You've got to give it all you got.
Hang tough. Keep your head above the ground.
Don't you let it get you down.
Oh, you gotta hang tough.

Hang tough. Oh, you got to give it all you got. You gotta
Hang tough. Don't you let it get you down.
Hang tough. No! Oh, you gotta hang tough.
Hang tough.
Hang tough!

Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)

You know I'm on a slick trip, I'm always ready to kick ass
Up on the stage I'm in a rage, I'm havin' the time of my life
Yes, indeed, what a sweet, sweet life it is

Until some loco two-bit floosie with a Louie Le-Strange
Ain't good for nothin' but trouble
They're just two fools livin' up to their names
And now it's startin' to rain on my parade

You know there's nothin' like the real world to get me down
There's nothin' like the world outside that turns me upside down
It makes me feel like I'm headin' down a one-way, dead-end street

[Chorus:]
There's no way out, no way out of this living hell
No way out, no way out, unless you walk heaven's trail
No way out, no way out of this living hell, livin' hell

You know I had it made in the shade, thinkin' that it's not so bad after all
That's when I woke up, smelled the coffee, I'm back where I started again, yes
And now it's pourin' rain on my parade

No there's nothin' like the real world to get me down, no
One is there to lift you up, one to drag you down
Now, don't you see that we're heading down a one-way, dead-end street

[Chorus]

[Solo]

There's no way out, no way out of this living hell
No way out, no way out, unless you walk heaven's trail
No way out, no way out of this living hell - I guess I'll live in hell

[Chorus]

Yes, it's a beautiful thing

You know, I'm on a slick trip, I'm always ready to kick ass

Love Song

So you think that it's over, say your love has finally reached the end
Any time you call, night or day, I'll be right there for you
If you need a friend

It's gonna take a little time, I know, time is sure to mend your broken heart
But don't you even worry, pretty darlin, 'cos I know you'll find love again

Love is all around you, love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know

Love is all around you, yeah yeah, love is knockin' outside your door
Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know

[Solo]

It's all around
It's all around

Love will find a way - darlin', love is gonna find a way
Find its way back to you
Love will find a way - so look around, open your eyes
Love is gonna find a way - love is gonna, love is gonna
Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way, yeah
Love will find a way - love is gonna find a way back to you, yeah yeah yeah

[Solo]

Love will find a way - darlin', love is gonna find a way
Find its way back to you
Love will find a way - oh just look around, look around
Open up your eyes now, honey
Love is gonna find a way - love is gonna, love is gonna
Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way, yeah
Love will find a way - love is gonna find a way back to you, yeah, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Love Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztnQg4T3i0

Modern Day Cowboy (Freddy Kruger's in this!!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SzTVnSMlF0

Little Suzi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2pYCz6hI-I

[ABlairican Pie]

Cats In Boots was another sleaze-metal band from Hollyweird with both Japanese and American members who gained popularity in Japan similar to the way Quiet Riot did ten years before. Their debut album, Kicked And Clawed in 1989, featured the greatest anthem dedicated to female PMS, "Shotgun Sally". The video was also pretty big on MTV as well.

Shotgun Sally

Shot Gun Sally's gonna shoot 'em up in my town
S.O.S. she's makin' my life a mess
Oh, yeah
West side, genocide, I'm movin' to the east side
Come on Sally, you're makin' my life a wreck
Oh, such a wreck

You're runnin' down the alley with your shoes untied
Shootin' out on your way to a homicide
Word's hit the street and it's givin' me the blues
I won't be your front page news

Oh, no, she's out of control
Lead balls swingin' she's makin' my life a wreck
Oh, such a wreck
She's cyanide silly, if I die, will she dig it
Oh, Sally you're makin' my life a wreck
Oh, oh, such a wreck

Well I ain't been the same since they let you go
God only knows how you made parole
How'd you get so bad, baby, let me guess
I bet it all started with your P.M.S.!
Oh yeah!

Shoot 'em up, Sally
Shot Gun Sally
Oh, shoot 'em up Sally
Ahh, Shot Gun Sally!
Hell hath no fury
Oh, no!
Shoot 'em up, Sally
Oh, Shot Gun Sally
She's out for blood

Woo!
Shot!

Whoa Sally!
Oh, you're such a wreck

I'm callin' 9-1-1 for emergency
Sally's on the loose, it's a DEFCON 3
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines
Somebody stop this curse of Eve

Shoot 'em up, Sally
Shot Gun Sally
Oh, shoot 'em up Sally
Shot Gun Sally
Oh! Oh!
Shoot 'em up, Sally
Oh, Shot Gun Sally
Yeah, shoot 'em up Sally
Ah, Shot Gun Sally!
Oh, woo!

Somebody get 'er a Midol!

Her Monkey

Ooh!
It's not whatchya call it is
It's how it makes you feel
Mon-mon-mon-mon-monkey

Ah
Ahh-ow!

Lay down your guns
You got a fire in your eyes
And your web is spun
Mmm I feel your stare
Burnin' out of control
You'll get your kicks out there
They won't crucify a dying soul

Oh I'm not the one
You should be lookin' for
Yeah and I'm not the one
Who's gonna give you more, yeah

She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back
Ow!

Desire my city child
We know the world can wait
There's no sympathy in your fate
Mmm and I know it don't mean a
God damn thing to you don't
Understand what lit your fire
Too late to break the chains
I'm not your savior
Just a hellbound angel
Ow!

Get what you want
And then you get out
Just get out, get, go on
You get what you need
You're comin' back for more, more, more, more, more

She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back
Oh no no
She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back

Oh
Sweet seventeen
Your home is on the street
She got to feel the beat
The night's her only cover

Sprawled across the floor
Screamin' out in horror
Wakin' up to find
Your high's your only lover

Ow, huh!

Oh!

She got the monkey
Oh so much, much monkey
She got a monkey
Oh so so much monkey
She got the monkey
Oh so much, much monkey
She got the monkey
Oh, oh, oh, whoa-yeah!
Huh!

I'm not the one
You should be lookin' for
And I'm not the one
Who's gonna give you more, more, more, more, more

She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back
Oh no no
She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back

Oh yeah
She got a whole lotta monkey baby
Whole lotta monkey on her back
Oh yeah
She got a whole lotta monkey
Whole lotta monkey on her back

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Shotgun Sally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3oBk6UWms

[ABlairican Pie]

L.A. Guns featured guitarist Tracii Guns who formed the band with singer Axl Rose, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner. Axl later quit to form Hollywood Rose and was replaced by Michael Jagosz. The band demoed in 1984, but Tracii and Rob left to reform with Axl as Guns N' Roses (named after L.A Guns and Hollywood Rose, not Tracii Guns and Axl Rose) and L.A. Guns broke up. However, Tracii soon left Guns N' Roses and reformed his own band. Guns N' Roses replaced him with guitarist Slash and went on to sell millions of records.

The band released their self-titled debut in 1987, which featured "One More Reason" and "Sex Action", and while their second album Cocked & Loaded, released in 1989, attempted to capture their hard-driving sleaze-metal 'tude, the band's standout track was "Ballad Of Jayne", dedicated to Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash in the 60's. :( Other songs included "Rip And Tear" and "It's Never Enough". The band would undergo a massive series of lineup changes over the years.

One More Reason

Angel mercy, tears like rain
Hurt so good, can't feel no pain
Paint it black, drives me insane
So far gone I'm not the same

You give me one more reason
One more reason to die

Yo'be blood with no regrets
English words, they won't forget
Crimes of passion, cigarettes
Move by night he won't suspect
That you give me one more reason
One more reason to die

And I ask myself the same question
Every night
What makes me restless
What makes me fight

Car ahead eliminate
Smoking gun
That sealed their fate
Flesh and blood to instigate
85 dollars
Ain't she great

You give me one more reason
One more reason to die

Sex Action

Talk about love
Talk about love

I've been around this great big world, yeah
Had my share of shady deals and girls, hey
Now, I've been thinking of the coming attraction
The wink of an eye and the gleam of satisfaction

Talk about love
Talk about love

Here she comes, never get enough
of that sex action
Baby knows wherever she goes
She got sex action

Howze baby, I got the potion
You're a cool operator got the machine in motion
Now, we're all alone
doing all the talking
She's got me on my back
Let her fingers do the walking

Talk about love
Talk about love

Here she comes, I never get enough
of her sex action
Baby knows wherever she goes
She got sex action

Talk about love
Talk about love

Here she comes, I never get enough
of that sex action
S-E-X, who's next, yeah
sex action

And it always feels so good

Girl she got style
Boy she got sleaze
Ah, she's knocking them dead
She's got me down on my knees

Now listen, I'm a sex gun lover in the heat of the night
Don't run for cover I got you in my sights

Talk about love
Talk about love

Here she comes, I never get enough
of that sex action
Baby knows wherever she goes
there'll be sex action
S-E-X, I know who's next for sex action
Baby knows wherever she goes
she's gonna get it (sex action)
she's gonna get it (sex action)
I'm gonna give to her (sex action), yeah
she's gonna get it (sex action)
sex (sex action)
sex (sex action)

Rip And Tear

Midnight and I'm ready 2 move
Don't need a reason I got the groove
My fire is burning it burns hot
When I start I'm working can't stop
Don't need permission don't need a cue
My motor's running and I'm coming after u
Hold me baby hold me tight
You feel so good in the middle of the night

Chorus
Rip and Tear
Rockin' the house down
Taking the dare
Rip and Tear
Mulholland woman
She don't care

I need some action I need the chase
I'm riding hard and I'm thinking 'bout your face
Nice n'sleazy got the stuff
What you're giving me I never get enough
Load up momma load my gun
I shout 4 thrills and I'm second 2 none
Hold me baby hold me tight
U look so good in the middle of the night

Chorus

She don't care she don't care
She's takin' me high tonight
In the sky tonight

The Ballad Of Jayne

She was always something special
Diamond shining bright in the rain
Everybody dreams of angels
No one would ever know
How much I love you so

Now it all seems funny, kinda like a dream
Things aint always what they seem
What a shame, what happened today

You were always on my mind
Shine like a summer day in the sun
Slowly wishes turn to sadness
Time dont heal a broken gun
I wish I never let you go
Even now I just want you to know

That it all seems funny, kinda like a dream
Things aint always what they seem
What a shame, what happened today

Now shes breakin hearts in heaven
Shinin bright in the sky
I still hear of us in the wind
I still think of you in the night, oh yeah
Well I guess youll never know
How much I need her so

Now it all seems funny, kinda like a dream
Things aint always what they seem
What a shame, what a shame
What happened today

Now it all seems funny, kinda like a dream
Things aint always what they seem
What a shame, what happened today
What happened today

Never Enough

Hey little girl
Why u fooling around
Why u always gotta be puttin' me down
U don't know what I'm talking about
So hey little girl better stop putting out

I've been walking in my sleep
Can you give me what I need

Chorus
It's never enough just to hold you
It's never enough just to please you
Ooh baby it's never enough
You take and you take all you can
Now I need to understand
It's never enough
Baby bye bye

Hey little girl you're a heartbreaker
Why u gotta be such a dictator
U don't care about how I feel
Why u always gotta be spinning your wheels

I've been walking in my sleep
Can you give me what I need

Chorus

:rock :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

One More Reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58hDwFFKtM

Sex Action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnoS4s7gIWc

Rip And Tear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC040eb2Kqg

The Ballad of Jayne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0YvXcEYzYE

Never Enough:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Cf5Msd9_s

[ABlairican Pie]

Enuff Z'Nuff was one band from Chicago which was not really so much of a metal band but fell closer to the power pop of bands such as Cheap Trick, as well as The Beatles, Badfinger, the Raspberries, and Queen. They used the trappings of hair metal (gender-bending glam look, squealing guitars, day-glo colors, chicks n' cars) to excellent effect on their videos, though they never considered themselves as being part of the "hair metal" scene. Their album New Thing from 1989 included hits such as "Fly High Michelle" and the title track, and was later claimed the Hot New Band for 1991 by Rolling Stone. Their videos have a strong psychedelic 60's motif combined with the 80's style. The band was founded by Donnie Vie on guitar, keyboards and vocals and Chip Z'nuff on bass and vocals. Guitarist Derek Frigo left the band several years later, but died of a drug overdose in 2004, but the band continued on. The band even appeared on David Letterman in the 90's.

New Thing

Information came about her
suddenly I live without her
Turn my stereo up louder
I don't wanna hear about her
Took myself a small vacation
Kind of an investigation
Checking out a new sensation
Finding much invigoration
Hand is on the buzzer and I'm walking through the door

Get high on a new thing
Get high on a new thing
Get high, high, on a new thing

Everybody wants to find it
Just they're all so narrowminded
See a hill they've got to climb it
May be pots of gold behind it
Worry worry is your answer
If you like your wrinkles faster
Nursing old things make em last
The way we did it in the past
Everybody telling you
You ain't got no respect

Get High on a new thing
Get high on a new thing
Get high, high, on a new thing
Suicide don't make it
Cause you're lonely in the end
Get high on a new thing
Get high on a new thing
Get high, high, high, high, on a new thing
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah
On a new thing
On a new thing
Get high
Get high
So high
So high
So high

Fly High Michelle

Six o'clock in the morning
Still sitting here pouring
The drinks 'til they're gone
We did everything together
Would have done it forever
How did we go wrong?

I know that what goes up
Comes down
I didn't know you'd hit the ground

Why d'you have to give it up?
(Fly high Michelle)
Well you was just a little girl
(Fly high Michelle)
I'll never look into your blue eyes
(Fly high Michelle)
Fly high Michelle

We did it just for a good time
A misunderstood time
We lived with the fear
I wish we still could of done things
And not overhung things
I wish you were here

I know I live a life
Of good things
Until a new life begins

Why d'you have to give it up?
(Fly high Michelle)
Well you was just a little girl
(Fly high Michelle)
I'll never look into your blue eyes
(Fly high Michelle)
Fly high Michelle

I say another prayer
Tonight
That i'll see you in the light

You had to give it up
(Fly high Michelle)
Well you was just a little girl
(Fly high Michelle)
I'll never look into your blue eyes
(Fly high Michelle)
Fly high Michelle

You had to give it up
(Fly high Michelle)
Well you was just a little girl
(Fly high Michelle)
I'll never look into your blue eyes
(Fly high Michelle)
Fly high Michelle

Fly high Michelle

Fly high Michelle

Fly high Michelle

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango peace:

The band has a sense of humor about what they do:

New Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHkxV_wxIw

Fly High Michelle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_6O_ddZHyM

[ABlairican Pie]

Female rocker Fiona performed a duet with Kip Winger, "Everything You Do (You're Sexing Me)" from the album Heart Like a Gun in 1989.

Everything You Do (You're Sexing Me)

You take it slow I keep hanging on
You tease me
You`ve got me begging and out of control
You make love look so easy

I can`t sleep at night I can`t breathe
And I`m burning bright
Got the fever must be dreaming
I`m on fire and I`m burning bright

Light a candle `cause it`s time to
Feel the heat
Come on closer be my lover
Feel the heat

Ooh you`re sexing me
Everything you do just turns me on
Ooh you`re sexing me
I can feel it coming on

Where can I run where can I hide
You follow me from the inside
Rock of ages a heart built for one
All going down in a landslide

To the river of love let`s come together
Ooh you`re in my blood
Bring me water `til I`m drowning even closer
Ooh you`re in my blood

It`s a rhythm my love so feel the beat
Cinderella it`s now or never so feel the beat

Ooh you`re sexing me
Oh you know I`m gonna get you
Ooh you`re sexing me
Baby `cause I want to let you

The sun won`t shine until you put
Your heart with mine
Darkness darkness all around me
Look out your window put
Your heart with mine

You should know by now
There`s no way out no way out
I`ll be waiting don`t keep me waiting
There`s no way out no way out

Ooh you`re sexing me
Everything you do just turns me on
Ooh you`re sexing me
Baby bay baby come on

Ooh you`re sexing me

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

For Everything You Do (You're Sexing Me)":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIV2HQ1BZQA

[ABlairican Pie]

The BulletBoys released their 1988 album which featured the horny hit "Smooth Up In Ya" in 1989, as well as a cover of the O'Jays' "For the Love Of Money".

Smooth Up In Ya

Smooth up in ya

Mom
Whoa

I know you really want to move me
You know I like to see you try
I've said it before and I'll say it again
You're not not trapped if you don't let me in

Looks like you're the hard kind
I ain't got that kind of time

Oh I send shivers

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(In ya)

You say I'm never gonna break ya
But we won't know until we try
So now's the time to make up your mind
I'll never ever be the one woman kind

Don't let your lovin' go to waste
All it takes is just one date

Oh I send shivers

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(Smooth up in ya)

Smooth up in ya
(I wanna go, I wanna go)
Smooth up in ya
(Right now, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)

Oh oh oh
I wanna go
I wanna
I wanna go

Oh yeah yeah yeah, don't let your lovin' go to waste
Oh honey child, I'm gonna give you a taste

Whoa I send shivers

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(Smooth up in ya)

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(Said it before and I'll say it again)

Smooth up in ya
(Whoa)
Smooth up in ya
(Whoa I really wanna go)

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(I really wanna go)

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya
(Yeah, yeah)

Smooth up in ya
Smooth up in ya

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

"Mom"?? :confused: What does that mean in the lyrics?? :eek:





:lol:

Probably misspelled as "mm", but let's check out the video to make sure.

Smooth Up In Ya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5LBTJwpl8

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LFH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

Nuclear Assault, formed by former Anthrax bassist Dan Lilker, was a popular thrash band who sang about themes about environmental destruction, in light of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska, on the 1989 album Handle With Care. Former PTL hottie/Jim Bakker lust socket Jessica Hahn makes an appearance in the video for "Critical Mass".

Critical Mass

The bio-sphere, the place we live
It seems like we don't give a damn
Other species flushed down the tubes
We need another race to rape
The way we live we will destroy
Every other living thing
'Til none are left except our race
And then we will destroy ourselves

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies
Bring on the acid rain

Slightly insane, the type of greed
That makes a world unfir for life
Toxic wastes destroy the seas
While poison gas pollutes the air
A waste of life, while no one cares
The earth becomes a giant tomb
Critical mass will be achieved
And ruins will be all that's left

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

A Hell on Earth, what we create
Dragging life to death with us
All living things destroyed or used
By shortsighted human beeings
We do these things, let them be done
Apathy creates despair
The damage done will be too great
The world wounded beyond repair

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Critical Mass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NJD9kpL3s

With Headbangers' Ball intro featuring Riki Rachtman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVs8Ylsd1zU&mode=related&search=

[ABlairican Pie]

Here are some pics of the gorgeous gal who blew the whistle on PTL in 1987:

JESSICA HAHN!!!!! :eyes: :grineyes: :drool:

[ABlairican Pie]

Testament were one thrash band who were often derided as Metallica clones, though their guitarist Alex Skolnick was praised as a guitar virtuoso. Their 1989 album Practice What You Preach was one of their most popular records.

Practice What You Preach

You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!

I never was the one, the one to say the things you say
Never seem to wonder what you say
You think you've got your life completely in control
You've got a lot to learn, the bridge you burn
Is gonna take its toll!!! Pay the appropriate toll!!!

So practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!

You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!

Pay the burnt bridge toll, then you lose control
Pay the burnt bridge toll, so practice what you preach

So practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!

The Ballad

I'm not one to say
Where my feelings are going when they wither away
I pray to see another day
My heart's feeling like a needle lost in the hay
Restrained to meet again
My friend do you think that we ever will
I know we are free...

The games are played with your life on the line
Some lose, you win if you keep on trying
I don't mind doing the time, I'm happier being alive
Now I know the means to my opression were all lies
The only truth is your own most sacred lesson I've ever learned
I know we are free...

Yeah,
Don't go,
No,
Don't look back,
Just realize

I've been robbed, I've been fooled
I intent now to make my own rules
Dagger's edge cut the life, I've been down that road too many times

What's to fear, fear no more,
Show my conscience what fear's for
Now I know this is so real
What's done is done so do as you will!

I'm keeping alive! Go on, no don't look back
Just realise where you've gone.
Where are you going to, no life's not done wit you
You're only just begun, to live your life, for you...

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Practice What You Preach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDqlzoHxlkY

The Ballad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zphn2E8rTRQ

[ABlairican Pie]

Bay Area thrashers Exodus released Fabulous Disaster in 1989, which featured their biggest song, the mosh pit anthem "Toxic Waltz". The popularity of the song prompted many venues to force a ban on moshing pits and stage diving, which were known to be violent and resulted in many injuries among participants. The album also featured a cover of "Low Rider" by the band War.

Toxic Waltz

Here's a new dance craze that's sweeping the nation
It's called the toxic waltz and it's causing devastation
You're jumping up and down like a psycho circus clown
Slamming with waltzers all the way around
You get caught up in the whip
You're thrown into a flip
You aim for someone's head
To stain the floor red
Give someone a kick
To prove you're truly sick
Bounce back from some blows
And blood runs out your nose

Flailing round and round
And you're injury bound
Waltz it up!
The pit is it!
You can take your chance
On this rough new dance
If you dare!
To dive in!
There are some that try
But they won't survive
They don't hit!
'Cause they're wimps!
And this exercise
Helps you brutalize
With us!
Exodus!

Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Kick your friend in the head and have a ball
Come on and do the toxic waltz
And slam your partner against the wall
Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Good friendly violent fun in store for all
Get up off your ass and toxic waltz
If you hit the floor you can always crawl!

Used to do the monkey, but now it's not cool
The twist and mash potato are no exception to the rule
So don't be a dunce and dance like a runt
Just throw your elbows with good friendly violent fun
Don't start to cry
If you get a black eye
Just dive back in
And give another try
But too much action
May leave you in traction
So you better get insurance
No matter your endurance!

Flailing round and round
And you're injury bound
Waltz it up!
The pit is it!
You can take your chance
On this rough new dance
If you dare!
To dive in!
There are some that try
But they won't survive
They don't hit!
'Cause they're wimps!
And this exercise
Helps you brutalize
With us!
Exodus!

Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Kick your friend in the head and have a ball
Come on and do the toxic waltz
And slam your partner against the wall
Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Good friendly violent fun in store for all
Get up off your ass and toxic waltz
If you hit the floor you can always crawl!

Get up on your feet
Don't look so obsolete
And thrash like an athlete!
Don't sit there on your ass
Don't look like you've got too much class
You'll be harassed!
You know we guarantee
This is the key
So rage or get the third degree!
You begin frontal assaults
And start your somersaults
And do the toxic waltz!
Do the toxic waltz!

Cajun Hell

Down in the bayou where the alligators roam
Live some people, you leave them alone
Getting lost may be your last mistake
Unfriendly strangers, unkindly they take
Living off the fat of the land
They hold their justice in the palm of their hand
Lay down your gun and surrender quiet
Or there's gonna be a Cajun riot

Danger in the swamp, that waits for you
There's nothing left that you can do
Better watch your back, for the vicious attack
'Cause they'll be looking for you
Playing with your life, for your life is too short
Pain is too good for you
Your last breath, is all you have left
Take it before you're doomed
Cajun hell
Before you're doomed

Raising hell, and they're ready for fighting
Huntin' gators and drinking white lightning
Brewin' moonshine at a still in the swamp
Playing Creole from dusk until dawn
Protect their own is the law of the land
Mess with their law it will get out of hand
Keep it in mind if you're ever down there
It might be fatal, you better beware

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Toxic Waltz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vn05bTHuc

[ABlairican Pie]

One region of the country which was beginning to make some noise was the Pacific Northwest, and the hub of musical activity in a little town called Seattle. In addition to famous names as Queensryche, Metal Church, and Heart, one band that was re-defining metal was Soundgarden with the slow, droney churning guitar work of Kim Thayil and the soaring vocals of Chris Cornell. The band had a number of independent releases before their major label debut on A & M Records, 1989's Louder Than Love, which featured
"Hands All Over", "Loud Love", "Get On the Snake", and "Big Dumb Sex", a profanity-filled song poking fun at the hormonal machismo of rock stars.

Hands All Over

Don't touch me
Hands all over the eastern border
You know what?
I think we're falling
From composure
Hands all over the western culture
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles
Into vultures

Got my arms around my baby brother
Put your hands away
You're gonna kill your mother
I love her

Hands all over the coastal waters
The crew men thank her
Then lay down their oily blanket
Hands all over the inland forest
In a striking motion trees fall down
Like dying soldiers

Got my arms around my baby brother
Put your hands away
You're gonna kill your mother
I love her

Hands all over the peasant's daughter
She's our bride
She'll never make it out alive
Hands all over words I utter
Change them into things you want to
Likes balls of clay

Put your hands away
Gonna kill your mother
And I love her

(and she loves me)

Loud Love

There’s no time to keep it low
I’ve been deaf now I want noise
You stay down
But I wont be quiet
I’ll hammer on until you fight

Loud Love
Loud Love
Loud Love
Loud Love

If you’ve got some time to kill
Slow resistance wins the war
Well I know
But that’s no way to go
You can’t resist the louder pulse

Well that’s right
I want something to explode
I’ve been deaf
Now I want noise

Get On the Snake

Get on the snake
With a swarm of motor flys
Get on the snake
Under the cola colored sky

Don’t worry, everything’s clean
Road worthy, hungry and mean

Get on the snake
Where the metal river bleeds
Get on the snake
Where you never will believe
Hey baby, what’s your disease
My hearts bleeding
I’m dying to leave

Get on the snake
Where the water turns to steam
Get on the snake
With a suicide machine

Don’t worry, everything’s clean
Road worthy, hungry and mean
Hungry and mean...
Hungry and mean...

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Loud Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ivn4UGnJE

Hands All Over:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHVGVmzgu4o

[ABlairican Pie]

Here is the cover for the debut album by another band from the Seattle area not at all expected to achieve great things, Nirvana. Their 1989 Sub Pop album Bleach was recorded for a mere pittance. The band was simply content to record a few records for a few fans and go home.
The band was tied into that "grunge" thing popularized by Green River and Mudhoney in the late 80's. The band showed its punk roots, as well as metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Black Flag, even Swiss metal band Celtic Frost, as well as local favorites Mudhoney.


The Bleach cover in our 80's thread pulled a disappearing act, so here it is again. The title refers to using bleach on drug needles to avoid infection.

About a Girl

I need an easy friend
I do, With an ear to lend
I do, Think you fit this shoe
I do, Won't you have a clue

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free
...I do

I'm standing in your line
I do Hope you have the time
I do Pick a number too
I do Keep on dating you

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free
... I do

I need an easy friend
I do With an ear to lend
I do Think you fit this shoe
I do Won't you have a clue

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night,
no I can't see you every night...
free

I do...

I do...

I do...

I do...

Love Buzz

Would you believe me when I tell you
You're the queen of my heart
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you
Just say it the way it seems

Can you feel my love buzz?
Can you feel my love buzz?
Can you feel my love buzz?
can you feel my love buzz?

Would you believe me when I do you
You're the queen of my heart
Please don't deceive me when I hurt you
Just say it the way it seems

Can you feel my love buzz?
Can you feel my love buzz?
Can you feel my love buzz?
can you feel my love buzz?

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1989, REM achieved major league rock status with the album Green,
a slickly produced effort which featured socially conscious hits such as "Orange Crush"and "Stand", as well as "World Leader Pretend" and "Pop Song '89". Longtime REM fans decried the idea that their favorite band had gone "corporate", but newer fans had warmly embraced the band as the ones to watch in the upcoming decade.

This song is about the Vietnam War and Agent Orange:

Orange Crush

Follow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me

(repeat verse)

High on the booze
in a tent
paved with blood,
nine-inch howl,
brave the night,
chopper comin' in, you hope.

We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and
centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and
our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county
hell any county it's just like heaven here and I was remembering and I
was just in a different county and all then this whirlybird that I
headed for I had my goggles pulled off I knew it all I knew every back
road and every truck stop

(repeat verse and chorus)

This song touches on environmental issues, one of their most popular tunes which was even used for the theme song of the sitcom 'Get a Life!':

Stand

(chorus)
Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't
Now stand in the place where you work
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before

If you are confused, check with the sun
Carry a compass to help you along
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around, so

(repeat chorus)

Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
Season is calling

(repeat chorus)

If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
Reason is calling
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around

So stand (stand)
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't
Now stand (stand)
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't

(repeat chorus)

Stand in the place where you are (now face North)
Stand in the place where you are (now face West)
Your feet are going to be on the ground (stand in the place where you are)
Your head is there to move you around, so stand

Pop Song '89

Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name, name
Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else

(chorus)
Should we talk about the weather? (hi, hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government? (hi, hi, hi, hi)

Hello, how are you? I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name, name
Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else

(repeat chorus)

Hello, my friend, are you visible today?
You know I never knew that it could be so strange, strange
Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else

(repeat chorus)

Hi, hi, hi
Hi, hi, hi, hi
Hi, hi, hi
Hi, hi, hi, hi
Hi, hi, hi
Hi, hi, hi, hi


Does this song remind you of anyone? :idea: ;)

World Leader Pretend

I sit at my table and wage war on myself
It seems like it's all, it's all for nothing
I know the barricades, and
I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognize the weapons, I used them well

This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down

I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated,
I demand a rematch
I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the weapons
I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself

(chorus)
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize, empathize
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down

Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me, let my machine talk to me

This is my world
And I am world leader pretend
This is my life
And this is my time
I have been given the freedom
To do as I see fit
It's high time I've razed the walls
That I've constructed

(repeat chorus)

You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony
You fill in the mortar. I raised the wall
And I'm the only one
I will be the one to knock it down

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Orange Crush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOkQeQ2LUY

Stand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOBwQEL7VU

Pop Song '89 ("barred" safe-for-MTV version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0VOXcFxbG8

Pop Song '89 ("bar-less" uncensored unsafe-for-MTV version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PlhXLu-ebc

[ABlairican Pie]

Oh yes, speaking of artists going corporate, we have Edie Brickell with her 1989 album Shooting Rubber Bands At the Stars and the hit "What I Am" who joined the ranks of a number of promising singer/songwriters in the late 80's like Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman and others with a little something more cutting edge than everything else--but she just was one more adult "alternative" piece of eye candy who smacked more of trendiness, that corporate coffeehouse business that was tailor-made for Starbucks. Nothing quite so cutting edge or groundshaking, we couldn't have that in the post-Reagan era now, could we? :snob: I had friends back then who swore by this stuff, they thought my being a metal fan was being rather "barbarian". I just thought dreck like this (as opposed to Vega and Chapman, btw) was just a little too MOR and fluffy. Music for trendoids and hippie wannabes. Where is she now? Still married to Paul Simon? They actually met on SNL when he made her mess up while doing her hit. Rock and roll should be about shaking things up, and you don't have to be metal or punk to do so. Swill like this was just too comfy-cozy.

I like what Beavis and Butthead said, "What I Am, isn't that what Popeye said,
I am what I am?" :lol: This song, which placated all the intellectual hipsters, was about her being a brainy as a box of Cocoa Puffs.

And why does it look like she REALLY needs to use the bathroom early on in the video?

What I Am

I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow waters
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or

Oh, I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks
Religion is a light in the fog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what you are and

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?

Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

What I Am:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zN4VgHPqsg

[Steve M.]

Geting back to Chappo. . . .

Roger Chapman released his punningly titled Techno Prisoners in 1987. In addition to the semi-title song (the song title is not pluralized), this record featured the concert favorite "Slap Bang In the Middle."

Techno Prisoner - Roger Chapman

(Roger Chapman/Geoff Whirehorn/Tim Hinkley)

Got me a mynah, but it can't talk
I got a wolfhound, it don't walk
Turn me a corner, I can't see round
Climb me a mountain, I can't see down

(CHORUS)
Wearing shackles - ball & chain
Working suit - faded grey
Soulless boots - very plain
Gathering darkness - day by day
Want a number - please refer
Prisoner - prisoner
Want a number - call return
Prisoner

I got a window, I can't see through
Where is it? In my bathroom
Got me a firkin, ain't got no cup
I got a crater, I can't fill up
Got me a mirror, that don't reflect
A rabbit’s foot, that don't protect

(CHORUS)

Got me a halo that's prone to slip
Leans to the left on equality
Out there's an ocean of leaky junks
& bible belts & defrocked monks
I got a record & that's a crime
An enemy, by god he's doing time

(CHORUS)

Slap Bang In The Middle - Roger Chapman

(Chapman)

Visualise a sister of swing
Sweet as a nut, pretty as sin
Pretty as sin, pretty as sin
Who tears me to pieces when the loving begins
The last time, she was so strong
Stung me so deep I'm stinging right to the bone
Right to the bone, right to the bone
But it cut me up evil to leave her alone

Slap bang in the middle
Stand up, fussing and fight
Slap bang in the middle
She's whispering 'Nice'

She's away, this house ain't no home
I stand at my window a figure of stome
Figure of stone, figure of stone
A victim of pleasure when the pleasure has gone
We're touching magic you and I know
We're lightening conductors, gypsies in soul
Gypsies in soul, gypsies in soul
Be so damn foolish to let it get hold

Slap bang in the middle
Stand up, fussing and fight
Slap bang in the middle
She's whispering 'Nice'
And I'm ready to fly

She taught me to rhumba - ballin'the jack
She put the thunder into my eyes, back in my act
She got me running ah, staying alive
She got me jumping, fussin' and fighting
And ready to fly

[Steve M.]

After issuing a concert album recorded in Berlin, Roger Chapman closed out the decade ofthe 1980's with [I]Walking The Cat. The record featured charming Chappo cuts like "Kick It Back," "Son of Red Moon," and the title song. :)

Kick it Back - Roger Chapman

(Chapman)

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
When you come to visit wear your party hat
We goin' ball it up, and kick it back
And leave your inhibitions at the laundromat
Yeh shake 'em up, and kick it back
'Cos now we're gonna jump the dog and walk the cat
And rock it up, kick it back
We gonna,

(CHORUS)

Rip out all the windows, kick down all the doors,
Really raise the roof over the house of uniform
Knock down all the chimneys, mess up all the floors
Really raise the roof over the house of uniform

Now when you come to visit don't wear nothing black babe
Gonna tear it up, and kick it back
Drape yourselves in rubies or potato sacks
Who give a toss, goin' kick it back
Well wear some high-heel-sneakers with that pork-pie-hat
Let's rock it up, let's kick it back

We gonna,

(CHORUS)

(BRIDGE)
When you come to visit leave your filofax
Leaving all your business with the other trash
You won't need much more than some petty cash
Oh kick it back, yes kick it back, oh kick it back

When you come to visit bring your favourite tracks
We'll pick it up, we goin' kick it back
We'll crank it up and up until the building cracks
Oh that's a fact, that's a fact
Yeh to put it back together gonna need sealing wax
Oh we'll rip it up, yeh kick it back

(CHORUS)

Goin' tear it up- goin' kick it back
Goin' rock it up and that's a fact
We goin' jump the dog -walk the cat
Goin' **** em up boys and that's a fact


Son of Red Moon - Roger Chapman

(Chapman)

Put your shoes on Lucy
You're a big girl now
Well, let's go jump the broomstick
Put the good ship out
l'll wear a red bandana
Put on my cotton suit
And we'll dance the neon shuffle
Down in Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge

(CHORUS)
Now there's a red moon taking me over
This old hound dogs shouting the news
There's a night owl trying to woo me
Hey girl-I want to amuse
Yes it's you girl, I want to amuse
Shine on - Shine on

Now wear the blue dress babe
The one you slip inside
There's some big fish waiting
Let's go watch 'em bite
Now I like it like that Lucy
Your hair all bleach and spike
Yeh get some high performance
Out of life tonight -life tonight - life tonight

(CHORUS)

Now there's a night owl wailing
To a bull-frog tune
And this old hound dogs saying,
"Honey, guess it's me and you," ah yeh
Well we can roll and tumble,
We gonna tango all night long,
Then we'll just crack another 'bud' and then that
Jungle juice and carry on - carryon - carry on

(CHORUS)

Take me down, red moon. ;)


Walking The Cat - Roger Chapman

(Chapman)

The guy picking guitar, Dandy's the name
Some call him Jim, some call him James
But whatever it is, he got the fire in his hands -
There sit the fat-man huggin' the keys,
laughin' and rocking then he's down on his knees
He was hot on the charts somewhere back in his teens
When he was walking the cat- walking the cat
Git Along little doggie

Now hard-hearted Anna climbs on the stand
Leans on the piano with a torch in her hand
Then she'll squeeze out the news how she never could
handle her man,
(Then she'd wink at the band)-
Then the kid blowin' horn in the blue dungarees
Looks outta place with his hair painted green
But he'll find you a BB he knock the caps off your teeth
When he's walking the cat - walking the cat
Git Along little doggie

(MIDDLE EIGHT)
Ah they don't try to beat out the latest thing
They just pick out a groove and they let it swing
They don't care where they're going,
They already know just where they been
Walking the cat- walking the cat
Git Along littie doggie.

Well down, down, down, down
Down in the basement holding the flood
Walkin' the boogie he's a powerful blood
Well he knows all the gals they call him "the Pillar of love"
Now "Fifi le Fevre" and "Wrap Around Flo",
Shimmy and shakin' wearing nothing but "day glo"
And they scream & they holler, pick up a dollar a go-go-go
"Go girls go now" -
Now "Bang Bang the Drummer", a singular son,
He be long in the tooth but as smooth as they come
Now whatever he does, Lord, he does with his hat on
Walking the cat - even Walking the cat
Git Along little doggie

They got - big cats, small cats, medium cats,
Ginger cats, white cats, black cats and good old spotty cats Walking the Cat
I'll tell you a little story now -
Gig it was loaded up to the gills
So was old Anna singing, "On Blueberry Hill"
And this land it was her land, Lord
And so were those tills,
From walking the cat.

[ABlairican Pie]

One promising artist whose picture disappeared magically in our 80's thread was Shawn Colvin, a person of more musical substance than Edie Brickell. Her 1989 debut album was Steady On which featured tracks such as "Diamond In the Rough", "Shotgun Down the Avalanche", and the title track.

Steady On

China gets broken
And it will never be the same
Boats on the ocean
Find their way back again
I am weaving
Like a drunkard
Like a balloon up in the air
I am needing a puncture and someone
To point me somewhere
I'm gonna keep my head on straight
I just hope it's not too late
Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on

Steady on!

I was feeling imploded
A wooden smile, a wooden heart
The things exploded
Like rockets in the dark
Now I'm pulling out splinters
And I'm off to hibernate somewhere
For the nuclear winter
Of another love affair

"Cause he seemed like a miracle
I ate it up like cereal
But it was something like shrapnel

Steady On!

It's like ten miles of a two-lane
On a South Dakota wheat plain
In the middle of a hard rain
A slow boat or a fast train
I am gonna keep my head on straight
I'm gonna keep my head on straight

Steady on!

Diamond In the Rough

As a little girl I came down to the water
With a little stone in my hand
It would shimmer and sing
And we knew everything
As a little girl I came down

But in a little while I got steeped in authority
Heaven only knows what went wrong
There is nothing so cruel than
to bury that jewel
When it was mine all along
I'm gonna find it

You're shining I can see you
You're smiling that's enough
I'm holding on to you
Like a diamond in the rough

Every now and then
I can see that I'm getting somewhere
Where I have to go is so deep
I was angry back then and you
know I still am
I have lost too much sleep
But I'm gonna find it

You're shining I can see you
You're smiling that's enough
I'm holding on to you
Like a diamond in the rough
Like a diamond in the rough

In my dreams I go down by the water
With a little girl in my arms
And we shimmer and sing
And we know everything
In my dreams I go down

You're shining I can see you
You're smiling that's enough
I'm holding on to you
Like a diamond in the rough
Like a diamond in the rough


Gee, ain't she a cutie!! :eyes:

[ABlairican Pie]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers released Mother's Milk in 1989, which featured the hit cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground". Flea plays a killer bass line in this one. One song, "Knock Me Down", was an anti-drug tune dedicated to their fallen bass player Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose nearly two years before. He was replaced by guitarist John Frusciante, who had serious drug problems of his own.

Higher Ground

People
Keep on learnin'
Soldiers
Keep on warrin'
World,
Keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long.
Powers
Keep on lyin',
While your people
Keep on dyin'
World,
Keep on turnin',
Cause it won't be too long.

Chorus:

I'm so darn glad He let me try it again,
'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin.
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then.
Gonna keep on tryin' till I reach the highest ground.

Teachers,
Keep on teachin'
Preachers,
Keep on preachin',
World, keep on turnin',
'Cause it won't be too long.
Oh, no
Lovers,
Keep on lovin'
While believers
Keep on believin'.
Sleepers,
Just stop sleepin'
'Cause it won't be too long.
Oh, no!

Chorus

(Spoken) An' Stevie knows that, uh, no-body's gonna bring me down.
Till I reach the highest ground.
(Spoken) 'cause me 'n' Stevie, see, we're gonna be a sailin' on the funky sound
Till I reach the highest ground.
(Spoken) Bustin' out, an I'll break you out, 'cause I'm sailin' on.
Till I reach the highest ground
(Spoken)Just, uh, sailin' on sailin' on the higher ground
Till I reach the highest ground

Knock Me Down

Verse 1-
Never too soon to be through.
Being cool, too much too soon.
Too much for me and too much for you.
You're gonna lose in time.
Don't be afraid to show your friends.
That you hurt inside (inside).
Pain's part of life don't hide behind your false pride...
It's a lie.. your lie.

Chorus- 2x
If you see me getting by,
If you see me getting high,
Knock me down.
I'm not bigger than life

Verse 2-
I'm tired of being untouchable.
I'm not above the love.
I'm part of you and you're part of me.
Why did you go away?
Finding what you're looking for
Can end up being, being such a bore.
I pray for you most every day.
My love's with you, now fly away.

Chorus 2x

Instrumental Break

Chorus 6x

-Woman singing-

It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely. 4x

-Fades-

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Higher Ground:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3hEuAbuLE

Knock Me Down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9vToZ8ti4

[ABlairican Pie]

Tom Petty went solo from the Heartbreakers to release 1989's Full Moon Fever, which featured such hits as "I Won't Back Down", "Free Falling", and "Running Down a Dream". Interestingly, this album featured members of the Travelling Wilburys: Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan, though it was strictly a Tom Petty album. While Tom Petty was more of a traditional rock and roll performer, "Running Down a Dream" was, in his words, the closest to heavy metal he would ever get.

I Won't Back Down

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down.

Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
No, I won't back down

Runnin' Down a Dream

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, i was drivin'
The trees went by, me and del were singin'
Little runaway, i was flyin'

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream

I felt so good, like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
The last three days the rain was unstoppabl e
It was always cold, no sun shine

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream

I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There's something good waitin' down this road
I'm pickin' up whatever is mine

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
I'm runnin' down a dream

Free Fallin'

She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day living in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy cause i don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

And i'm free, free fallin'
Yeah i'm free, free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
A ll the good girls are home with broken hearts

And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'
Free fallin', now I'm free fallin', now I'm
Free fallin', now I'm free fallin', now I'm

I wanna glide down over mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
Gonna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for a while

And I'm free, free fallin'
Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

:guitar:

Running Down a Dream:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7MXv5F70po

Free Falling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qn8DH03KaE

[ABlairican Pie]

Tears For Fears released The Seeds Of Love which featured the Beatlesque "Sowing the Seeds Of Love" in 1989. The video for the song contained interesting, colorful imagination.

Another bit of trivia: Tears For Features were scheduled to appear at Live Aid, but pulled out, citing two backing members had quit the band. In truth, several weeks later it was revealed that the band pulled out due to their questioning "Sir" Bob Geldof's fundraising practices. Geldof tried to guilt trip them into performing, saying, they would be 'responsible for the deaths of 'half a million Africans' by not performing. Curt Smith said, "We both resented the way we were made to feel guilty. Who is Bob Geldof to have the power to instill guilt? I mean telling us that we personally would be held responsible for half a million lives if we didn't play... He also hinted that we would get bad press. In my book that's blackmail." In spite of this, 1985, the year of Live Aid, was the biggest year for Tears For Fears, with their huge hit album Music From the Big Chair and the hits "Shout", "Everybody Wants To Rule the World", "Head Over Heels" and "When the Mothers Talk".

Sowing the Seeds Of Love

High time we made a stand & shook up the views of the common man
And the love train rides from coast to coast
DJ's the man we love the most
Could you be, could you be squeaky clean
And smash any hope of democracy
As the headline says you're free to choose
There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes
One of these days they're gonna call it the blues, yeah yeah

(Sowing the seeds of love) anything is possible
(Seeds of love) when you're sowing the seeds of love
(Sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) anything is possible
(Seeds of love) sowing the seeds of love (Sowing the seeds)

I spy tears in their eyes
They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention
Food goes to waste, so nice to eat, so nice to taste
Politician Granny with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the majority feels
So without love and a promised land
We're fools to the rules of a government plan
Kick out the style, bring back the jam

(Sowing the seeds of love) anything (seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) (Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds, the birds and the bees, my girlfriend and me in love

Feel the pain, talk about it, if you're a worried man then shout about it
Open hearts, feel about it, open minds, think about it
Everyone read about it, everyone scream about it
Everyone (everyone, yeah yeah)
Everyone (everyone) read about it, read about it
Read it in the books in the crannies
And the nooks there are books to read...Chorus!!!

(Sowing the seeds of love) Oh, the seeds of love
We're sowing the seeds, sowing the seeds

We're sowing the seeds of love. we're sowing the seeds
Sowing the seeds of love, we're sowing the seeds of love
(Mr. England sowing the seeds of love)

(Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes)
Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes
High time we made a stand (time to eat all your words)
And shook up the views of the common man (swallow your pride)
And the love train rides from coast to coast (open your eyes)
Every minute of every hour "I Love a Sunflower" (open your eyes)
And I believe in love power (open your eyes)
Love power, love (open your eyes) power

(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love…Sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
We're sowing the seeds (sowing the seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds of love, we're sowing the seeds (seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds, an end to need, and the politics of greed with love
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) anything (seeds of love) anything
(Sowing the seeds of love, Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds, an end to need, and the politics of greed with love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)

:banana: :mango peace:


Sowing the Seeds Of Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYpTFmlS4w

Head Over Heels (1985):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDpylIu0zds

[ABlairican Pie]

The B-52's released their biggest hit since the passing of guitarist Ricky Wilson of AIDS in 1985, Cosmic Thing in 1989, with the breakthrough songs "Love Shack" and "Roam". Drummer Keith Strickland switched to guitar for the album. The album also featured one song about their Athens, Georgia, early days, called "Deadbeat Club".

Love Shack

If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says
15 miles to the... Love Shack! Love Shack yeah yeah
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway
Heading for the love getaway, love getaway,
I got me a car, it's as big as a whale and we're headin' on down
To the Love Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money
The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together
Love Shack baby, {a Love Shack bay-bee}.
Love shack, baby love shack, love shack, baby love shack, love shack. {love baby, that's where it's at) love shack {love baby, that's where it's at)

Sign says.. Woo... stay away fools, 'cause love rules at the Love Shack!
Well it's set way back in the middle of a field,
Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back

Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the highway

The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together, love shack baby...
{Love Shack baby!} Love Shack, that's where it's at! Love Shack, that's where it's at!

Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin', wearin' next to nothing
Cause it's hot as an oven
The whole shack shimmies
YEA! the whole shack shimmies!
The whole shack shimmies when everybody's
Movin' around and around and around!
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby!
Folks linin' up outside just to get down
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby!
Funky little shack! Funky little shack!

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!
I got me a car, it seats about 20
So come on and bring your jukebox money.

Oh the Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together
love shack, baby! {a love shack baby}
love shack! baby love shack
love shack! baby love shack
love shack! baby love shack {love baby that's where its at, yea, love baby that's where it's at}

Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {Knock a little louder sugar!}
Bang bang bang,on the door baby! {I can't hear you!}
Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {Knock a little louder sugar!}
Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {I can't hear you!}


Bang bang {on the door baby}
Bang bang {on the door}
Bang bang {on the door baby}
Bang bang
Your what?.... Tin roof, rusted!

Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack! love baby that's where its at, yea, love baby that's where it's at}
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love baby, love shack
Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin' at the love shack.

Roam

I hear a wind
Whistling air
Whispering in my ear

Boy mercury shooting through every degree
Oh girl dancing down those dirty and dusty trails
Take it hip to hip rocking through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without wings without wheels
Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without anything but the love we feel

Skip the air-strip to the sunset
Yeah ride the arrow to the target
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without wings without wheels
Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without anything but the love we feel

Fly the great big sky see the great big sea
Kick through continents bustin bountaries
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without wings without wheels
Roam if you want to roam around the world
Roam if you want to without anything but the love we feel

Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness
Take it hip to hip rock it through the wilderness

Deadbeat Club

Huh, Get a job, what for, I'm trying to think

I was good, I could talk
A mile a minute,
On this caffeine buzz I was on
We were really hummin'
We would talk every day for hours
We belong to the deadbeat club
Anyway we can,
We're gonna find something
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
In the rain

Chorus
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club

Going down to Allen's for
A twenty-five cent beer
And the jukebox playing real loud,
"Ninety-six tears"
We're wild girls walkin' down the street
Wild girls and boys going out for a big time

Chorus
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club

[instrumental break]

Let's go crash that party down
In Normaltown tonight
Then we'll go skinny-dippin'
In the moonlight
We were wild girls walkin' down the street
Wild girls and boys going out for a big time

Anyway we can
We're gonna find something
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
In the rain

Chorus
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}
We're the deadbeat club

Oh no! Here they come
The members of the deadbeat club
{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club}

Oh no! Here they come
The members of the deadbeat club
{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club }

Oh no! Here they come
The members of the deadbeat club
{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club }

:banana: :mango

Love Shack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCHj1xcX94

[ABlairican Pie]

The Fine Young Cannibals, featuring former members of the English Beat, was fronted by one of the classiest vocalists in the music scene in the late 80's, Roland Gift. The suave lead singer was also featured in such films as 'Sammy And Rosie Get Laid' and 'Tin Men' from 1987, which featured the song "Good Thing" over a year before it came out. Another hit was the dance tune "She Drives Me Crazy".

Good Thing

The one good thing in my life
Has gone away I don't know why
She's gone away I don't know where
Somewhere I can't follow her

The one good thing didn't stay too long
My back was turned and she was gone

Good thing where have you gone
Good thing you've been gone too long
Hey hey hey woo hoo hoo

People say I should forget
There's plenty more don't get upset
People say she's doin' fine
Mutual friends I see sometime

That's not what I want to hear
I want to hear she wants me near

Good thing where have you gone
Good thing you've been gone too long
Hey hey hey woo hoo hoo

Then one day she came back
I was so happy that I didn't ask
Morning came into my room
Caught me dreaming like a fool

Good thing where have you gone
Good thing you've been gone too long
Hey hey hey woo hoo hoo

She Drives Me Crazy

I can't stop the way I feel
Things you do don't seem real

Tell me what you've got in mind
'Cause we're runnin' out of time
Won't you ever set me free
This waiting round is killing me

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can't give her myself

I can't get any rest
People say I'm obsessed
Everything you say is lies
But to me there's no surprise
What I had for you was true
Things go wrong, they always do

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can't give her myself

I won't make it on my own
No one likes to be alone

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can't give her myself

Uh huh huh

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can't give her myself

Uh huh huh

She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can't give her myself

:guitar: :banana: :mango


Good Thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhf3UshHBs

She Drives Me Crazy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPrPNQYBFgU

[ABlairican Pie]

The Beastie Boys expanded their rap repertoire to include 70's dance rhythms on 1989's Paul's Boutique, which included the hit "Hey Ladies". The tune contains a spoken line from Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz".

Hey Ladies

Hey ladies in the place I'm callin' out to ya
There never was a city kid truer and bluer
There's more to me than you'll ever know
And I've got more hits than Sadaharu Oh
Ton Thumb Tom Cushman or Tom Foolery
Date women on T.V. with the help of Chuck Woolery
Words are flowing out just like the Grand Canyon
And I'm always out looking for a female companion
I threw the lasso around the tallest one and dragged her to the crib
I took off her moccasins and put on my bib
I'm wheelin' and dealin' I make a little bit of stealing
I'll bring you back to the place and your dress I'm feeling
Your body's on time and your mind is appealing
Staring at the cracks up there upon the ceiling
Some such nonsense is the bass that I'm throwing
Talking to a girl telling her I'm all knowing
She's talking to the kid to the who
I'm telling here every lie that you know that I never did

Me in the corner with a good looking daughter
I dropped my drawers and it was welcome back Kotter
We were cutting up the rug she started cutting up the carpet
In my apartment I begged her please stop it
The gift of gab is the gift that I have
And that girl ain't nothing but a crab
Special at Woodman's in Essex Mass
Educated no stupid yes
And when I say stupid I mean stupid fresh
I'm not James at 15 or Chachi in charge
I'm Adam and I'm adamant about living large
With the white sassoons and the looks that kill
Makin' love in the back of my Coupe De Ville
I met a little cutie she was all hopped up on zootie
I liked the little cutie but I kicked her in the bootie
Cause I don't kinda go for that messin' around
You be listening to my records' a number one sound
Step to the rhythm step step to the ride
I've got an open mind so why don't you all get inside
Tune in tune on to my tune that's live
Ladies flock like bees to a hive

She's got a gold tooth you know she's hardcore
She'll show you a good time then she'll show you the door
Break up with your girl it ended in tears
Vincent Van Gogh and mail that ear
I call her in the middle of the night when I'm drinking
The phone booth on the corner is damp and it's stinking
She said come on over it was me that she missed
I threw that trash can through her window cause you know I got dissed
Your old lady left you and you went girls (x3) insane
You blew yourself up in the back of the 6 train
Take my advice at any price a gorilla like your mother is mighty weak
Sucking down pints 'til I didn't know
Woke up in the morning at the Won Ton Ho
Cause I announce I like girls that bounce
With the weight that pays about a pound per ounce
Girls with curls and big long locks
And beatnik chicks just wearing their smocks
Walking high and mighty like she's #1 and
*She thinks she's the passionate one*

:banana; :mango

Hey Ladies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixz0IYTC1X8

Fight For Your Right (To Party) (1986):
Quiet Riot's "Party All Night" returns in a new form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uawRwiqfppk

[ABlairican Pie]

Nine Inch Nails was a one-man music project led by lead vocalist Trent Reznor. In the studio he performed his dark-themed industrial dance rock tunes, while on the road, he used a complete band. His 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine contained the hits "Head Like a Hole" and "Down In It". He gave the sound of the 90's on this debut album.

Head Like a Hole

god money i'll do anything for you.
god money just tell me what you want me to.
god money nail me up against the wall.
god money don't want everything he wants it all.

[Bridge:]
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
[Chorus:]
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.


bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.

god money's not looking for the cure.
god money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure.
god money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
god money's not one to choose

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

:guitar: :banana: :mango


Head Like a Hole:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5MS7abmIfw

[ABlairican Pie]

The alternative metal scene, the future sound of the 90's, was also enhanced by Bay Area band Faith No More, who released The Real Thing in 1989. The band combined metal riffs with rap and funk rhythms on songs such as "Epic", "Falling To Pieces", as well as a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs". Metallica called them "the heaviest band in the world". However, controversy ensued in the video for "Epic" when animal rights activist decried the scene of the fish flopping in the open air struggling to breathe in the water. The band responded that the fish did in fact live when they put it back in the water.

Epic

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it cuz it happens too fast
And it feels so good, it's like walking on glass
It's so cool, it's so hip, it's so right
It's so groovy, it's outta sight
You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet
But it makes no difference cuz it knocks you off your feet
You want it all but you can't have it
It's cryin', bleedin', lying on the floor
So you lay down on it and you do it some more
You've got to share it, so you dare it
Then you bare it and you tear it

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win
It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain
It's sad it happened and it's a shame

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

What is it?
It's it
What is it?
It's it
What is it?....

Falling To Pieces

Back and forth, I sway with the wind
Resolution slips away again
Right through my fingers, back into my heart
Where it's out of reach and it's in the dark
Sometimes I think I'm blind
Or I may be just paralyzed
Because the plot thickens every day
And the pieces of my puzzle keep crumblin' away
But I know, there's a picture beneath

Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens...
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together

Layin' face down on the ground
My fingers in my ears to block the sound
My eyes shut tight to avoid the sight
Anticipating the end, losing the will to fight
Droplets of "yes" and "no"
In an ocean of "maybe"
From the bottom, it looks like a steep incline
From the top, another downhill slope of mine
But I know, the equilibrium's there

Indecision clouds my vision
No one listens
Because I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony
You see, I'm somewhere in between
My life is falling to pieces
Somebody put me together

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango


Epic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIYWj4TsNg

Falling To Pieces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzUteSzLXY0

[ABlairican Pie]

The British band The Cult moved away from their alternative retro metal roots into more commercial rock territory with 1989's Sonic Temple, produced by Bob Rock, who did albums for Bon Jovi and Motley Crue. The top-selling album featured songs such as "Fire Woman", "Sun King", "Edie (Ciao Baby)", and "Sweet Soul Sister". Their visibility was helped by touring with Metallica that year.

Fire Woman

Fire woman, yeah

Shake, shake, shake, shake it, yeah

Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey
Oh, since I set my eyes on you
I tell you the truth
T-t-t-t-twistin' like a flame in a slow dance, baby
You're driving me crazy
Come on, little honey
Come on now

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire, yeah
Smoke on the horizon, well
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smokestack lightning
Smokestack lightning

Well, shake it up, you're to blame, got me swayin' little honey
My heart's a ball of burnin' flame
Oh, yes it is
Trancing like a cat on a hot tin shack
Lord, have mercy
Come on little sister
Come on and shake it

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smoke on the horizon, yeah
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smokestack lightning, baby

I was thinking what I've been missing
I'll tell you truthfully, well
She's coming close now
Oh, I can feel her
She's getting close to me
And I never, yeah

Fire
Smoke, she is a rising fire
Oh, smoke on the horizon
Fire
Smoke, she is a rising, rising, rising fire
Smokestack lightning
A-j-j-j...

Burnin' out
and shake it, baby.
Come on and burn it.

I say send down fire to me
say send down fire to me
say send down fire to me, yeah!

Fire woman, you're to blame...

Sweet Soul Sister

All the hip young things
Trying to make a scene
Living out forbidden dreams
Star spangled banner
Flutters in the sky
Time hustles those
Who wait to die

Come on little honey
Come on now, please
Come on little honey and dance with me

Sweet soul sister
Keep on pushing till the dawn, well
Sweet soul sister
Forever dancing on and on

Ooh, she's a Dior girl
Twisting round the world
Midnight crush boogie scene
Firm fixed expression
Sensual, tender, smooth
Sexual panther, beautifully cool

Come on little honey
Come on now, please
Come on little honey and dance with me

Sweet soul sister
Keep on pushing till the dawn, well, well, well, well
Sweet soul sister
Forever dancing on and on, yeah

Hustle and strut through Paris at night
Hustle and strut
Hustle and strut through Paris at night
Hustle and strut
Say na na na
Say na na na, yeah

City of sin
Come and let me in
City of sin
Come and let me in, ow

Sweet soul sister
Keep on pushing till the dawn
Sweet soul sister
Forever dancing on and on

Sweet soul sister
Keep on pushing till the dawn
Sweet soul sister
Forever dancing on and on, yeah

:rock: :guitar: peace:

Fire Woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc95z2jYEEc

[ABlairican Pie]

With total disregard for chronological order, we have to touch on one of the biggest bands of the early 80's, 38 Special, a very decent Southern rock band fronted by Donnie Van Zant, the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant. The Jacksonville, Florida, band had a string of hits all through the late 70's and into the late 80's, such as "Rocking Into the Night", "Hold On Loosely", "So Caught Up In You", "If I'd Been the One", and "Back Where You Belong". The band had the typical Southern boogie-rock sound, but with a more commercial mainstream polish. They opened for Rush in 1980. Their albums included 1982's Special Forces, 1983's Tour de Force, and 1989's Rock And Roll Strategy.


Back Where You Belong Lyrics

I heard you're askin' how I'm feeling
I guess I'll play it day by day
I'm still around now, my heart is healing
But some things never gonna change
'Cause now I know love ain't easy to find
I let you go, now I'm changing my mind

Chorus:

I know that love, it don't come easy
It took so long, it's been hard to find
So love, you must believe me
Ain't gonna let it slip away
I know I was wrong
I want you back where you belong
Want you back where you belong
Back where you belong

I played around now, I've done some dealin'
I found that love should be with you
And so you're gone now, my head is reelin'
Don't wanna be with someone new
And so I go, with a feeling inside me
'Cause I know what I'm leaving behind

(Chorus)

I guess in time I stop and think it over
Everything that we've been through
This heart of mine may never find another
Who loves me just the way you do
Hey girl!

I heard you're askin' how I'm feelin'
I guess I'll play it day by day
I'm still around now, my heart is healin'
But some things never gonna change
'Cause now I know love ain't easy to find
I let you go, now I'm changing my mind

(Chorus)

Back where you belong, hey, hey
I know that love, it don't come easy
It took so long, it's been hard to find
And so love, you must believe me
Ain't gonna let it slip away, baby

Caught Up In You

I never knew there'd come a day
When I'd be sayin to you
Don't let this good love slip away
Now that we know that its true
Don't, Don't you know the kind of man I am
No, said I'd never fall in love again
But its real
And the feeling comes shinin thru


(Chorus)
I'm so caught up in you
Little girl
And I never did suspect a thing
So caught up in you
Little girl
That I never wanna get myself free
And baby its true
You're the one
Who caught me, baby you taught me
How good it could be


It took so long to change my mind
I thought that love was a game
I played around enough to find
No two are ever the same
You made me realize the love I'd missed
So hot, love I couldn't quite resist
When its right, the light just comes shinin thru

(Chorus)
I'm so caught up in you
Little girl
You're the one that's got me down on my knees
So caught up in you
Little girl
That I never wanna get myself free
And baby its true
You're the one
Who caught me, baby you taught me
How good it could be

Fill your days and your nights
No need to ever ask me twice
oh no
Whenever you want me
And if ever, comes a day
When you should turn and walk away
Oh no
I can't live without you

I'm so caught up in you

And if ever comes a day
When you should turn and walk away
Oh no
I can't live with out you

(Chorus)
I'm so caught up in you
Little girl
You're the one that's got me down on my knees
So caught up in you
Little girl
That I never wanna get myself free
And baby its true
You're the one
Who caught me, baby you taught me
How good it could be

Chain Lightning

On a rainy night, you showed up at my door
Child of the night, down and forlorn
Still I took you in, it's in the stars above
All girls are made the same, they all need a little love

And the magic of the moment
Exploded with desire
When the time is right, the sparks ignite
And set the night on fire

It's chain lightnin', too hot to fight
Hot on the heels of a saturday night
Chain lightnin', out of control
Straight to the heart and down to your soul
Chain lightnin', heavens above
Another day older, still searching for love
Chain lightnin, too hot to fight
And it's hotter than hell, in the heavens tonight

I was livin' hard, I was feelin' down and lonely
When toward the boulevard, a limousine moved slowly
And I noticed in the back seat, a lady wrapped in fur
Her eyes burned through me, and mine stared back at her

And I recognized the moment
As I opened up her door
I knew I would regret it
"I'd" been burned before.

(Chorus)

And lord it's so hot when the chain reaction
Is set off with a kiss
And it's so tough when the satisfaction
Is greater than the risk
When you look in her eyes and you realize
This time you can't resist
It's chain lightnin'

And the magic of the moment
Exploded with desire
When the time is right the sparks ignite
And set the night on fire

(Chorus)
Chain lightnin'

If I'd Been the One

I've been lost inside, empty space in my heart
And some things never change, oh
How it hurts me and how it's tearin' me apart
And it just goes on and on

Can you read my mind
Take a good look at my face
Could you take the time
Just to stand here in my place

What if I'd been the one to say goodbye, goodbye
Could you smile when inside you just wanna cry, look inside
Can you read my mind? Oh oh

When I hear your name
Feel so cold deep inside
Still it's hard to explain, oh
What your love meant to me
They say time will heal the pain
But it just goes on forever

Can you read my mind
Have you closed the door on love
Can you be so blind
Did you think I'd just give up

Chorus:

What if I didn't want to say goodbye, goodbye
Could you smile when inside you just wanna cry, wanna cry
What if I didn't want to say goodbye, goodbye
Could you smile when it hurts so deep inside
And it never fades away, Fade away

Time can't erase the reasons why
Count my mistakes and the heartaches
Since you said goodbye

(chorus)

Never fades away, no it don't fade away

Hold On Loosely

You see it all around you
Good lovin' gone bad
And usually it's too late when you, realize what you had
And my mind goes back to a girl I left some years ago,
Who told me,
Just hold on loosely, but don't let go
If you cling too tightly,
you're gonna lose control
Your baby needs someone to believe in
And a whole lot of space to breathe in

It's so damn easy, when your feelings are such
To overprotect her, to love her too much
And my mind goes back to a girl I left some years ago
Who told me,
Just hold on loosely, but don't let go
If you cling too tight babe,
you're gonna lose control
Your baby needs someone to believe in
And a whole lot of space to breathe in

Don't let her slip away
Sentimental fool
Don't let your heart get in her way
yeah, yeah, yeah

You see it all around you
Good lovin' gone bad
And usually it's too late when you, realize what you had
So hold on loosely, but don't let go
If you cling too tightly,
you're gonna lose control
Your baby needs someone to believe in
And a whole lot of space to breathe in

So hold on loosely, but don't let go
If you cling too tight babe,
you're gonna lose it
You're gonna -- lose control
yeah, yeah, yeah just hold on loosely but don't let go
If you cling too tight babe,
you're gonna lose control

Hold on loosely, but don't let go
If you cling too tight babe to her,
you're gonna lose control
yeah, yeah, yeah

Rockin' Into the Night

Cruisin' down the motorway,
Got my girl by my side.
We're both a little anxious,
Ooo we got love on our mind.
Waitin', anticipatin'
For the fireworks in the night.
Well I swear we were doin' eighty
When we saw those motel lights. A

And we were rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Oo hoo rockin,
Rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Yeah... Out on the back street,
Taking love where I can,
I found a sweet madonna
Ooo with a bible in her hand.
She's waiting,
Anticipating well,
For someone to save her soul;
Well I ain't no new messiah,
But I'm close enough for rock and roll.

And we were rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Oo hoo rockin,
Rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night.
And I'm slowin' down
And she's pullin' in

Waitin' anticipatin'
For the fireworks in the night.
Well I swear we were doin' eighty
When we saw those motel lights.
We were rockin',
Rockin,
Into the night,
Ooo yeah
Rockin into the night,
Rockin into the night,
Hoo rockin'!

:guitar:

[Steve M.]

One promising artist whose picture disappeared magically in our 80's thread. . . .


Good thing I finally learned how to download and attach images! :D

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1990, as the 80's turned into the 90's, the Seattle music scene lost one of its own, the first of many with the tragic passing of vocalist Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone on March 1990 of a heroin overdose. The band was formed with former members of Green River, while Wood came from the flamboyant band Malfunkshun. The band was on the verge of a major record release, and though his death brought about the end of the band, it brought huge media attention on the Seattle scene and transformed the band into one of the biggest bands of the decade, changing rock and roll forever.

Stardog Champion

San Francisco, where the flowers bloom in spring
I said, fade to winter - and see what disease brings
Augustino, with his eyes once a shining sea
I said he's half a shadow - God don't let that be me
I'm a Stardog Champion

West Virginia, that's where my father lies
He was a wartime hero, the kind that money buys
It's a diamond bracelet, for my mommy's memory
That's all she wrote boy - that's all she wrote for me

I'm a Stardog Champion
I'm a Stardog
That's right

And the children
They used to sing of love
With Grace
From the Lord above
I said the children they used to sing out loud
Sing it loud

Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns

Ooo, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Chloe don't know better
Chloe's just like me, only beautiful
A couple of years difference (Her trouble lovin' is different?)
But those lasses never learn and you know
Chloe danced the tables in the French Quarter
She's always been given so I can't always make her laugh
But I'm proud to say and I won't forget
The time spent laying by her side, oh yeah, yeah
The time spent laying by her side, oh yeah, yeah
Dreams like this must die
And a dream like this must die
Dream like this must...


You ever heard the story of Mr. Faded Glory?
Say he who rides a pony must someday fall
Talkin' to my alter, life is what you make it
And if you make it death well rest your soul away
Away, away, yeah child

It's a broken kind of feeling shed have to tie me to the ceiling
A bad moon's a comin' better say your prayers, child
I wanna tell you that I love you but does it really matter?
I just can't stand to see you dragging down, again
Again, my friend again, oh yeah

So I'm singing
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone, yes it does
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone

I used to treat you like a lady now you're a substitute teacher
This bottle's not a pretty, not a pretty sight, yeah
I owe the man some money so I'm turnin over honey
See Mr. Faded Glory is once again doin' time, oh yeah

And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone, yes it does
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's unkind and it's unkind and
It'll leave me alone, yeah

Like a crown of thorns
It's all who you know, yeah
So don't burn your bridges woman
Cause someday, yeah

Kick it!
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone, yeah
And this is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's unkind and it's the kind that
Baby i said com' on, com' on, com' on,
com' on yeah I said baby don't burn your
bridges woman

This Is Shangri-La

i've been all around the world and i wrote a million songs
it's all a bore to me
i've slept in the gutter and i've lied to the dogs
it never bothered me
the sheriff he came to me with his little boys in blue
they been lookin' for me
but with my CRYSTAL SHEEN GUITAR i'm another ego star
so give it to me...
get me to the stage- it brings me home again
this is shangrila
i'm trippin' on it now- it brings me home again
this is shangrila
i look bad in shorts but most of us do
don't let that bother me
i'm the FOOTBALL who is who, i don't believe in smack
so don't you die on me
cause LOVE is all good people need
MUSIC sets the sick ones free
without LOVE no one ever grows nothing ever sings...
this is shangrila
you have gathered for the feast
THE BREAD IS MY BODY... the wine is blood
get me to the stage- it brings me home again
this is shangrila
i'm trippin' on it now- it brings me home again

:guitar: peace:

Stardog Champion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G63MrbCYvU

[ABlairican Pie]

Another big noise erupting out of Seattle was Alice In Chains, who, while not associated with the "grunge" scene, showed the dark side of Seattle's rock scene with churning, detuned guitar from Jerry Cantrell and throaty shriek of Layne Staley on the 1990 album Facelift. The album was a sort of ugly flip side to "hair" metal, the polar opposite of L.A.'s land of eternal sunshine from the rain capitol of the Northwest. The album featured hits like "We Die Young", "Man In the Box", and "Sea Of Sorrow".

Man In the Box

I'm the man in the box
Buried in my ****
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in ****
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

We Die Young

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on his way

Watch where you spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

And we die young
Faster we run

Down, down, down you're rollin'
Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer
Take another hit
And bury your brother

And we die young
Faster we run

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on his way

Another alley trip
Bullet seek the place to bend you over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better
Faster we run
And we die young

Sea Of Sorrow

Mind, of destructive taste
I choose...to stroll amongst the waste
That was your heart
Lost in the dark
Call off the chase

Walls of thought, strong and high
As my castle crumbles with time...
I think of you
Oh, yes I do
Such a crime

You opened fire...and your mark was true
You opened fire...aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...
I live tomorrow, you I'll not follow
As you wallow in a sea of sorrow

Lines cut across my face
Why you laugh at my disgrace
I'll never know
How far to go
To reach that place

You opened fire...and your mark was true
You opened fire...aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...
I live tomorrow, you I'll not follow
As you wallow in a sea of sorrow

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Man In the Box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fal1I0heH4s

We Die Young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1JR5Df2CEE

[ABlairican Pie]

L.A.'s Jane's Addiction was another band spearheading the growing alternative scene, fronted by lead vocalist Perry Ferrell. If their off-the-wall music wasn't enough to raise eyebrows, then their provocative album covers were. Their 1990 album Ritual de lo Habitual, which was released with two seperate covers, one with Farrell's papier-mache artwork and the other with a copy of the First Amendment, featured the hit "Been Caught Stealing".

Been Caught Stealing

I've been caught stealing;
once when I was 5...
I enjoy stealing.
It's just as simple as that.
Well, it's just a simple fact.
When I want something, and
I don't want to pay for it.

I walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!

My girl, she's one too.
She'll go and get her a skirt.
Stick it under her shirt.
She grabbed a razor for me.
And she did it just like that.
When she wants something, and
She don't want to pay for it.

She'll walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!

We sat around the pile.
We sat and laughed.
We sat and laughed and
Waved it into the air!
And we did it just like that.
When we want something, and
We don't want to pay for it.

We walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine,
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
It's mine

Stop

Save the complaints
For a party conversation.
The world is loaded,
It's lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop...

No one...
No one!
No way!
Gonna stop,
Now; go!

Farm people,
Book wavers, soul savers,
Love preachers!
Lit to pop and nobody is gonna stop.

No one...

One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
One come a day, the water will run,
No man will stand for things that he had done...
Hurrah!
And the water will run...
Will Run!
Will Run!

Gimmie that!
Gimmie that - your automobile,
Turn off that smokestack
And that goddamn radio
Hum... along with me...
Hum along with the t.v.

No one's
Gonna
Stop!

:guitar: :banana: :mango


Been Caught Stealing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afPGFQVjL3Q

Stop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkzsaqc7fo

[ABlairican Pie]

Sonic Youth were an East Coast band who had been around for several years on the underground scene playing their tortured, hard-edged noise-rock guitar sound courtesy of Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and bassist Kim Gordon. In 1990 the band released Goo which featured the song "Kool Thing" and the title track. Their video for "Cool Thing", which featured Chuck D of Public Enemy, was popular on MTV.

Kool Thing

[Kim]
Kool Thing sittin' with a kitty
now you know you're sure lookin' pretty
like a lover not a dancer
superboy take a little chance here
I don't wanna, I don't think so
I don't wanna, I don't think so

Kool Thing let me play it with your radio
move me, turn me on, baby-o
I'll be your slave
give you a shave
I don't wanna, I don't think so
I don't wanna, I don't think so

[Chuck D]
yeah, tell'em about it,
hit'em where it hurts
hey, Kool Thing, come here, sit down beside me
there's something I gotta ask you.
I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me?
I mean, are you gonna liberate us girls
from male white corporate oppression?
tell it like it is!
huh?
yeah!
don't be shy
word up!
fear of a female planet?
fear of a female planet?
fear, baby!
I just want to know that we can still be friends
come on, come on, come on, come on let everybody know
kool thing, kool thing

when you're a star, I know that you'll fix everything
kool Thing sittin’ by the kitty
now you know you're sure lookin' pretty
rock the beat just a little faster
now I know you are a master
I don't wanna, I don't think so
I don't wanna, I don't think so

kool thing walkin' like a panther
come on and give me an answer
kool thing walkin' like a panther
what'd he say?
I don't wanna, I don't think so
I don't wanna, I don't think so

My Friend Goo

my friend Goo has a real tattoo
she always knows just what to do
she looks through her hair like she doesn't care (?)
what she does best is stand and stare

she can play the drums set too
and the boys say: "hey Goo what's new?"' hey Goo what's new?
my friend Goo just says: "P.U."
my friend Goo just says: "P.U."

I know a secret or two about Goo
she won't mind if I tell you
she likes to wear green underwear
and lays down almost anywhere

she doesn't have nothing to do
and the boys say: "hey Goo what's new?"' hey Goo what's new?
my friend Goo just says: "P.U."
my friend Goo just says: "P.U."

I know a secret or two about Goo
she won't mind if i tell you
I know a secret or two about Goo
I know a secret about Goo and you

and she sticks just like glue
and the boys say: "hey Goo what's new?"' hey Goo what's new?
my friend Goo just goes: "P.U."
my friend Goo just goes: "P.U."

Goo Goo Goo

Goo Goo Goo

Goo Goo Goo
my friend Goo
Goo Goo Goo
talkin' 'bout Goo
Goo Goo Goo
my friend Goo
Goo Goo Goo
you would too
Goo

:guitar: :guitar:

Kool Thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stndwhyQf6A

[ABlairican Pie]

Meanwhile, in England, a new form of musical revolution was storming the dance floors of Manchester, in what was called the "Madchester" sound. The new style of music combined dance beats with psychedelic rhythms and instrumentation. Happy Mondays were one such band with the song "Kinky Afro".

Kinky Afro

Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty
And I don't have a decent bone in me
What you get is just what you see yeah
I see it so I take it freely
And all the bad piss ugly things i feed me
I never help or give to the needy
Come on and see me

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey
I had to crucify some brother today
And I don't dig what you gotta say
So come on and say it
Come on and tell me twice

I said dad you're shabby
You run around and groove like a baggy
You're only here just out of habit
All that's mine you might as well have it
You take ten feet back and then stab it
Spray it on and 'tag it
So sack on me
I can't stand the needy
Get around here if you're asking you're feeling

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey
I had to crucify somebody today
And I don't dig what you gotta say
So come on and say it
Come on and tell me twice

So sack all the needy
I can't stand to leave it
You come around here and you put both your feet in

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey
I had to crucify somebody today
And I don't dig what you gotta say
So go on and say it

Yippee-ippee-ey-ey-ay-yey-yey
I had to crucify some brother today
And I don't hear what you gotta say
So come on and say it
Come on and tell me twice

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Kinky Afro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9O_lwDt7M

Step On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKaq-SNeEc&mode=related&search=

Hallelujah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2yK-NUyAIY&mode=related&search=

[ABlairican Pie]

Another Madchester band was the Charlatans UK, who hit the British charts with dance tunes such as "Weirdo".

Weirdo

most of the time you are happy you're
a weirdo and before the introduction
ends there is someone feeling sorry
for themselves

look at your ugly shame what are you
talking for look at your ugly shame

most of the time you are demanding
what am I doing here and I don't want to
be and the hurt in which you bare you
could say goodbye to this earth

look at your ugly shame what are you
talking for look at your ugly shame
there's too much for me to know about

most of the time you are happy you're a
weirdo and your nerve is my device and
makes me sad

look at your ugly shame what are you
talking for look at your ugly shame
there's too much for me to know about

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Weirdo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1kAHISewaU&mode=related&search=

Blackened Blue Eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-S6kiHtSMo&mode=related&search=

[ABlairican Pie]

Some artists of the late 70's and early 80's were finding new life in the 90's, such as former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy with his 1990 album Deep which featured the hit "Cuts You Up". The one-time "Godfather of Goth" incorporated many different styles of music in his post-Bauhaus years, including Middle Eastern influences, as Murphy converted to Islam in the 90's and was inspired by the mystical sect of Sufism. He currently lives in Ankara, Turkey. He never completely abandoned his "dark" sound of Bauhaus, but made it more ethereal and eclectic.

Cuts You Up

I find you in the morning
After dreams of distant signs
You pour yourself over me
Like the sun through the blinds
You lift me up
And get me out
Keep me walking
But never shout
Hold the secret close
I hear you say

You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
It spits you out
When you desire
To conquer it
To feel you're higher
To follow it
You must be clean
With mistakes
That you do mean
Move the heart
Switch the pace
Look for what seems out of place

On and on it goes
Calling like a distant wind
Through the zero hour we'll walk
Cut the thick and break the thin
No sound to break no moment clear
When all the doubts are crystal clear
Crashing hard into the secret wind

You know the way
It twists and turns
Changing colour
Spinning yarns
You know the way
It leaves you dry
It cuts you up
It takes you high
You know the way
It's painted gold
Is it honey
Is it gold
You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
It spits you out
When you desire
To conquer it
To feel you're higher
To follow it
You must be clean
With mistakes
That you do mean
Move the heart
Switch the pace
Look for what
Seems out of place

It's o.k.
It goes this way
The line is thin
It twists away
Cuts you up
It throws about
Keep me walking
But never shout.

:banana: :mango

Cuts You Up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8K-7bscb3c

[ABlairican Pie]

Midnight Oil returned with another collection of politically charged songs on 1990's Blue Sky Mining, whose title song spoke of companies and corporations placing money over workers' health concerns, such as with the asbestos poisoning at Blue Sky Mine in Wittenoom, Australia. Other songs on the album were "Forgotten Years" and "King Of the Mountain". Some fans felt that the band had lost its musical edge, but the album was widely praised by critics.

Blue Sky Mine

Hey, hey-hey hey
There'll be food on the table tonight
Hey, hey, hey hey
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
A life that is led is no more than a token
Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why
If I yell out at night there's a reply of bruised silence
The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence
They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why

But if I work all day at the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

The candy store paupers lie to the share holders
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me
Who's gonna save me?

But if I work all day...

And some have sailed from a distant shore
And the company takes what the company wants
And nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground

Who's gonna save me?
I pray that sense and reason brings us in
Who's gonna save me?
We've got nothing to fear

In the end the rain comes down
Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town

King Of the Mountain

Walking through the high dry grass, pushing my way through slow
Yellow belly black snake, sleeping on a red rock
Waiting for the stranger to go
Sugar train stops at the crossing, cane cockies cursing below
Bad storm coming, better run to the top of the mountain

Mountain in the shadow of life, rain in the valley below
Well you can say you're Peter, say you're Paul
Don't put me up on your bedroom wall, call me the king of the mountain

Blacksmith fires up the bellows, cane cutters burning the load
Workers of the world, run to the top of the mountain

Mountain in the...

I can't take my hands from my face, there are some things we can't replace

Mountain in the...

Over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat
Down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets
Up ghost prairie mountains of sunset and space
Down the road at a familiar place, across the wilderness
Out further than the bush I will follow you

Forgotten Years

Few of the sins of the father,
Are visited upon the son
Hearts have been hard,
Our hands have been clenched in a fist too long
Our sons will never be soldiers,
Our daughters will never need guns
These are the years between
These are the years that were hard fought and won

Contracts torn at the edges,
Old signatures stained with tears
Seasons of war and peace,
These should not be forgotten years
Still it aches like tetanus,
It reeks of politics
How many dreams remain?
This is a feeling too strong to contain

The hardest years,
The darkest years,
The roarin' years,
The fallen years
These should not be forgotten years
The hardest years,
The wildest years,
The desperate and divided years
We will remember,
These should not be forgotten years

Our shoreline was never invaded,
Our country was never in flames
This is the calm we breathe,
His is a feeling too strong to contain
Still it aches like tetanus,
It reeks of politics
Signatures stained with tears,
Who can remember?
We've got to remember

The hardest...
Forsaking aching breaking years,
The time and tested heartbreak years
These should not be forgotten years
The blinded years,
The binded years,
The desperate and divided years
These should not be forgotten years,
remember

:guitar:


Blue Sky Mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDfpziUewE

Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil:

[ABlairican Pie]

After the departure of his longtime musical partner guitarist Steve Stevens, Billy Idol continued to have hits with his 1990 album Charmed Life, whose song and video "Cradle Of Love" were featured on the Andrew Dice Clay film 'The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". The video won Best Video From a Film award at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards. A motorcycle accident prevented him from appearing in Oliver Stone's movie 'The Doors', about the life of Jim Morrison. Idol's life would take a downturn in the following years after his 1993 album Cyberpunk failed to chart, sending him into a near-fatal drug addiction.

Idol contributed a cover of "L.A. Woman" to 'The Doors' soundtrack.

Cradle Of Love

Well rock the cradle of love
Rock the cradle of love
Yes the cradle of love don't rock easily it's true
Well rock the cradle of love
I rocked the cradle of love
Yes the cradle of love don't rock easily it's true
Well now
It burned like a ball of fire
When the rebel took a little child bride
To tease yeah so go easy yeah
Cause love cuts a million ways
Shakes the devil when he misbehaves
I aint nobody's fool
Come on shake it up
Whatever I do

Rock the cradle of love
Rock the cradle of love
Yes the cradle of love don't rock easily it's true
Sent from Heaven above that's right
To rob the cradle of love
Yes the pages of love don't talk decently it's true
Yeah flesh for your romeo
Ah yeah baby
I hear you moan
It's easy y' know how to please me yeah
This love starts my rollin train
You can't stop it
It aint in vain
I aint nobody's fool
Come on shake it up
Whatever you do

These are the wages of love
Rock the cradle of love
These are the wages of love
Ooh yeah
Rock the cradle
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Well it burned like a ball on fire
When the rebel took a little child bride
To tease yeah I know how to please you yeah
Well my love starts a rollin train
You can't stop it
It aint in vain
I aint nobody's fool
Come on shake it up
Whatever I do

Rock the cradle of love
Rock the cradle of love
Sent from Heaven above
That's right
To rock the cradle of love
Rock the cradle of love
Yeah cradle of love
That's me mama
I robbed the devil of love
All right
Cradle of love
If you teaze me tonight
If you sleaze me all right
If you appeaze me tonight
And let me ease you
Cradle of love

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Cradle of Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO-Lfc9wk_Q

Dancing With Myself (one of the most popular videos from the early years of MTV, 1982):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNx78SAq8M

Rebel Yell (1983):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us9ks6P5UeE

To Be a Lover (from Whiplash Smile, 1986):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUzWG3j0Dvc

[ABlairican Pie]

Fresh from acquittal from a hugely publicized trial over accusations over the use of "subliminal messages" which allegedly prompted to Nevada teens to attempt suicide, one successfully, in 1985, Judas Priest returned triumphant with a new album, 1990's Painkiller, which featured some of the band's heaviest music, including "Touch Of Evil", "Metal Meltdown", "Hell Patrol", and "Night Crawler". The new album was proclaimed as a victorious celebration of free expression. At the trial the two young men were found to have had serious problems and tragedies in their personal lives which pushed them over the edge. Guitarist Glen Tipton says he believes the real reason that the band was targeted was that the religious conservative forces in the country thought the band had a lot of money and wanted a cut of that by trying to legally bring the band down, which fortunately did not work. Heavy metal was, to the forces of Falwell and Robertson and their ilk, one of the most serious "threats" to morality, and at the time, was a rather lucrative industry.

Unfortunately, in the coming year, one thing that brought the band to its knees was the departure of Rob Halford after the tour, which could not have come at a worse time for metal in general.

Painkiller

Faster than a bullet
Terrifying scream
Enraged and full of anger
He's half man and half machine

Rides the Metal Monster
Breathing smoke and fire
Closing in with vengeance soaring high

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Planets devastated
Mankind's on its knees
A saviour comes from out the skies
In answer to their pleas

Through boiling clouds of thunder
Blasting bolts fo steel
Evils going under deadly wheels

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller

Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb
Chromium plated boiling metal
Brighter than a thousand suns

Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave
Nevermore encaptured
They've been brought back from the grave

With mankind resurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from Armageddon to the skies

He is the Painkiller
This is the Painkiller
Wings of steel Painkiller
Deadly wheels Painkiller

Hell Patrol

Like wild fire
Comes roaring
Mad whirlwind
Burning the road

Black thunder
White lightning
Speed demons cry
The Hell Patrol

Night riders
Death dealers
Storm bringers
Tear up the ground

Fist flying
Eyes blazing
They're glory bound
The Hell Patrol

Brutalize you
Neutralize you
Gonna go for your throat as you choke
Then they'll vaporapeize you

Terrorize you
Pulverize you
Gonna cut to the bone as you groan
And they'll paratamize you

Crome Masters
Steel Warriors
Soul Stealers
Ripping out hearts
They're Devil Dogs
The Hell Patrol

Night Crawler

Howling winds keep screaming round
And the rain comes pouring down
Doors are locked and bolted now
As the thing crawls into town

Straight out of hell
One of a kind
Stalking his victim
Don't look behind you

Nightcrawler
Beware the beast in black
Nightcrawler
You know he's coming back
Night Crawler

Sanctuary is being sought
Whispered prayers a last resort
Homing in its' cry distorts
Terror struck they know they're caught

Straight out of hell
One of a kind
Stalking his victim
Don't look behind you

Nightcrawler
Beware the beast in black
Nightcrawler
You know he's coming back
Night Crawler

As night is falling
The end is drawing near
They'll hear
Their last rites echo on the wind

Huddled in the cellar
Fear caught in their eyes
Daring not to move or breathe
As the creature cries
Fingernails start scratching
On the outside wall
Clawing at the windows
"Come to me" it calls
Atmosphere's electric
As it now descend the stairs

Hiding in the darkness
Is so futile from its glare
Death comes in an instant
As they hoped it would
Souls ascend to heaven
While it feasts on flesh and blood

A Touch Of Evil

You mesmerise slowly
Till I can't believe my eyes
Ecstasy controls me
What you give just serves me right

Without warning you're here
Like magic you appear
I taste the fear

I'm so afraid
But I still feed the flame

In the night
Come to me
You know I want your Touch of Evil
In the night
Please set me free
I can't resist a Touch of Evil

Aroused with desire
You put me in a trance
A vision of fire
I never had a chance

A dark angel of sin
Preying deep from within
Come take me in

I'm so afraid
But I still feed the flame

In the night
Come to me
You know I want your Touch of Evil
In the night
Please set me free
I can't resist a Touch of Evil

Arousing me now with a sense of desire
Possessing my soul till my body's on fire

A dark angel of sin
Preying deep from within
Come take me in

I'm so afraid
But I still feed the flame

You're possessing me

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Painkiller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58y9LZnsNI8

A Touch Of Evil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_aHoAlwXtQ

news clipping of the Judas Priest trial:

http://www.subliminalworld.org/judasprl.jpg

Shots of Judas Priest in court:

[ABlairican Pie]

Iron Maiden's 1990 album No Prayer For the Dying was the first to feature guitarist Janick Gers, who replaced guitarist Adrian Smith. Adrian wished to pursue a solo career, and Gers ably filled his spot. He in fact tried to convince Smith to stay with the band, but to no avail. Unfortunately, it would not be the only defection in the band.

The album's opening track, "Tailgunner", was one thought of by bassist Steve Harris, thinking it was a cool sounding name--until he found out what the real meaning was: a slang term for a person who performs *backdoor* sex! :eek: :doh: He couldn't use that!! He decided to make the theme revolve around a common topic of the band, aerial combat, as was the case in "Aces High". Another song, "Holy Smoke", poked fun at the follies and foibles of greedy t.v. preachers.

In fact, 1990 was the year that Bruce Dickinson branched out and became an author. His first book, a hilariously comical novel titled The Adventures Of Lord Iffy Boatrace, told the sordid tale of an English cross-dressing nobleman. Fans and readers loved it so much that they demanded a sequel.
Bruce's second book in the saga, The Further Adventures Of Lord Iffy Boatrace: The Missionary Position, told about Lord Iffy's decision to go to Los Angeles and become a t.v. evangelist. The reason why? He was a little short on cash!! :lol: :rofl:

Tailgunner

Trace your way back 50 years
To the Glow of Dresden - blood and tears
In the black above by the cruel searchlight
Men will die and men will fight - yeah!
Who shot who and who fired first?
Dripping death to whet the bloodthirst
No radar lock on - skin and bone
The bomber boys are going home

[Chorus]
Climb into the sky never wonder why - Tailgunner
You're a Tailgunner
[repeat]

Nail that Fokker kill that son,
Gonna blow your guts out with my gun,
The weather forecasts good for War
Cologne and Frankfurt? have some more!
Tail end Charlie in the boiling sky
The Enola Gay was my last try
Now that this Tailgunner's gone
No more Bombers (just one big bomb)

[Chorus]

Holy Smoke

Believe in me - send no money
Died on the cross and that ain't funny
But my so called friends are making me a joke
They missed out what I said like I never spoke
They choose what they wanna hear - they don't tell a lie
They just leave out the truth as they're watching you die
Saving your souls by taking your money
Flies round ****, bees around honey.

[Chorus]
Holy Smoke, Holy Smoke, plenty bad preachers for
The Devil to stoke
Feed'em in feet first this is no joke
This is thirsty work making Holy Smoke

Jimmy Reptile and all his friends
Say they gonna be with you at the end
Burning record burning books
Holy soldiers Nazi looks
Crocodile smiles just wait a while
Till the TV Queen gets her make up clean
I've lived in filth I've lived in sin
And I still smell cleaner than the **** you're in

[Chorus]

They ain't religious but they ain't no fools
When Noah built his Cadillac it was cool
Two by two they're still going down
And the satellite circus just left town
I think they're strange and when they're dead
They can have a Lincoln for their bed
Friend of the President - trick of the tail
Now they ain't got a prayer - 100 years in jail

[Chorus]

Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter

Honey it's getting close to midnight
And all the myths are still in town
True love and lipstick on your linen
Bite the pillow make no sound
If there's some living to be done
Before your life becomes your tomb
You'd better know that I'm the one
So unchain your back door invite me around

[Chorus]
Bring your daughter, bring your daughter to the slaughter
Let her go, let her go, let her go

Honey it's getting close to daybreak
The sun is creeping in the sky
No patent remedies for heartache
Just empty words and humble pie
So get down on your knees honey
Assume an attitude
You just pray that I'll be waiting
Cos you know I'm coming soon

So pick up your foolish pride, no going back
No where, no way, no place to hide

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Tailgunner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUjJU8kk1Og

Holy Smoke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNiWnJ88nl8

[ABlairican Pie]

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine cleaned up his drug act in order to record and release one of the finest thrash albums of all time, Rust In Peace in 1990. The album was the first to feature guitarist Marty Friedman, a shredder formerly of the band Cacaphony. Topics on the album included religious violence, in particular, in regards to comments by Mustaine which were misconstrued in Ireland ("Holy Wars...The Punishment Due") and the mysterious thing which the government was keeping secret in "Hangar 18". Both songs featured some of both Mustaine's and Friedman's guitar licks.

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?

A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be in your homelands

Holy wars

Upon my podium, as the
Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of God

Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die.

They killed my wife, and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake...last mistake!
Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants
Next mistake...no more mistakes!

Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
Thinkin'it
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings.

Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away.

Hangar 18

Welcome to our fortress tall
Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.

Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended State of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18 I know too much.

Tornado Of Souls

This morning I made the call
The one that ends it all
Hanging up, I wanted to cry
Bu dammit, this well's gone dry
Not for the money, not for the fame
Not for the power, just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies, that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado, blow me away

You'll grow to loathe my name
You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath
And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years, not from the use
Not from the tears, just self abuse

Who's to say what's for me to say...be...do
Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light

Can't say what's on my mind
Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep, I really feel
I warn you of the fate
Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse
Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain
I spin you round again
My poison fills your head
As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips
You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath
It's the kiss of death


Rust In Peace...Polaris

Tremble you weakings, cower in fear
I am your ruler, land, sea and air
Immense in my girth, erect I stand tall
I am nuclear murderer I am Polaris
Ready to pounce at the touch of a button
My systems locked in on military gluttons
I rule on land, air and sea
Pass judgement on humanity
Winds blow from the bowels of hell
Will we give warnings, only time will tell
Satan rears his ugly head, to spit into the wind
I spread disease like a dog
Discharge my payload a mile high
Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
Launch the Polaris, the end doesn't scare us
When will this cease
The warheads will all rust in peace
Bomb shelters filled to the brim
Survival such a silly whim
World leaders sell missiles cheap
Your stomach turns, your flesh creeps

High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea
Nuclear winter spreading disease
The day of final conflict
All pay the price
The third world war
Rapes peace, takes life
Back to the start, talk of the part
When the Earth was cold as ice
Total dismay as the sun passed away
And the days where black as night

Eradication of Earth's
Population loves Polaris

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YczYC2yHTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLqdFnbHAlw

[ABlairican Pie]

Slayer released another prime slab of thrash metal, Seasons In the Abyss, which featured their first video of the title track, filmed in Egypt. Other tracks included "War Ensemble", "Dead Skin Mask", about notorious child murderer Ed Gein, and "Expendable Youth". The band was about to embark on the Clash Of the Titans Tour with Megadeth and Anthrax, as well as openers Alice In Chains in the coming year. The band's playing had become much more focused and melodic at this point.

War Ensemble

Propaganda death ensemble
Burial to be
Corpses rotting through the night
In blood laced misery
Scorched earth the policy
The reason for the seige
The pendulum it shaves the blade
The strafing air blood raid

Infiltration push reserves
Encircle the front lines
Supreme art of strategy
Playing on the minds
Bombard till submission
Take all to their graves
Indication of triumph
The number that are dead

[CHORUS]
Sport the war, war support
The sport is war, total war
When victory's a massacre
The final swing is not a drill
It's how many people I can kill

[CHORUS]

Be dead friend from above
When darkness falls
Descend into my sights
Your fallen walls
Spearhead break through the lines
Flanked all around
Soldiers of attriction
Forward their ground
Regime prophetic age
Old in its time
Flowing veins run on through
Deep in the Rhine
Center of the web
All battles scored
What is our war crimes
(Era forever more...) WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Propaganda war ensemble
Burial to be
Bones shining in the night
In blood laced misery
Campaign of elimination
Twisted psychology
When victory is to survive
And death is defeat

[CHORUS]
Sport the war, war support
The sport is war, total war
When victory's a massacre
When victory is survival
When this end is a slaughter
The final swing is not a drill
It's how many people I can kill

Expendable Youth

Gun down cold on a raw deal
Home turf my battlefield
In no one's way caught in a crossfire
Stray bullets can kill

[CHORUS]
Expendable youths
Fighting for possession
Having control the principle obsession
Rivalry and retribution
Death the only solution

Inured soul lies on the ground
Head blown off face down
Lying in a pool of blood
An accidental death homicide

[CHORUS]

Struggling to survive
The drug induced warfare
To have control and principle obsession
Expendable youth fighting for possession
Violence is only a friend

[CHORUS]

Dead Skin Mask

Graze the skin with my finger tips
The brush of dead cold flesh pacifies the means
Provocative images delicate features so smooth
A pleasant fragrance in the light of the moon

[CHORUS]
Dance with the dead in my dreams
Listen to their hallowed screams
The dead have taken my soul
Temptation's lost all control

Simple smiles elude psychotic eyes
Lose all mind control rationale declines
Empty eyes enslave the creations
Of placid faces and lifeless pageants

In the depths of a mind insane
Fantasy and reality are the same

Graze the skin with my finger tips
The brush of dead warm flesh pacifies the means
Incised members ornaments on my being
Adulating the skin before me

Simple smiles elude psychotic eyes
Lose all mind control rationale declines
Empty eyes enslave the creations
Of placid faces and lifeless pageants

[CHORUS]

Seasons In the Abyss
Razors edge
Outlines the dead
Incisions in my head
Anticipation the stimulation
To kill the exhilaration

[CHORUS]
Close your eyes
Look deep in your soul
Step outside yourself
And let your mind go
Frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die

[CHORUS 2]
Close your eyes
And forget your name
Step outside yourself
And let your throughts drain
As you go insane... go insane

Innate seed
To watch you bleed
A demanding physical need
Desecrated eviscerated
Time perpetuated

[CHORUS]

[CHORUS 2]

Inert flesh
A bloody tomb
A decorated splatter brightens the room
An execution a sadist ritual
Mad intervals of mind residuals

[CHORUS]

[CHORUS 2]

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Seasons In the Abyss:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgUl2KA95vY

[ABlairican Pie]

One band that held up the thrash banner was a group of newcomers from the Texas metal scene, Pantera, whose 1990 album Cowboys From Hell featured blistering guitarwork from a young hotshot shredder, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, who aced every guitar contest in his hometown until he was no longer invited to come back--he was that good! During the 80's, the band had a spandex "hair" metal style, as did everyone, but at the turn of the new decade, they hired new hardcore vocalist Phil Anselmo and became a totally intense outfit which fried away the spandex. Darrell's brother Vinnie Paul and bassist Rex Brown completed the four-piece group.

Cowboys From Hell

Under the lights where we stand tall
Nobody touches us at all
Showdown, shootout, spread fear within, without
We're gonna take what's ours to have
Spread the word throughout the land
They say the bad guys wear black
We're tagged and can't turn back

You see us comin'
And you all together run for cover
We're takin over this town

Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen well my friend, you see
It's been slow down below,
Aimed at you we're the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, we've won
Ain't talking no tall tales friend
'Cause high noon, your doom
Comin' for you we're the cowboys from hell

Pillage the village, trash the scene
But better not take it out on me
'Cause a ghost town is found
Where your city used to be
So out of the darkness and into the light
Sparks fly everywhere in sight
From my double barrel, 12 gauge,
Can't lock me in your cage

You see us comin'
And you all together run for cover
We're takin over this town

Here we come reach for your gun
And you better listen well my friend, you see
It's been slow down below,
Aimed at you we're the cowboys from hell
Deed is done again, we've won
Ain't talking no tall tales friend
'Cause high noon, your doom
Comin' for you we're the cowboys from hell

Primal Concrete Sledge

There's a double standard for the way we live
If there's nothing to have, well then there's nothing to save
I'll break a sweat and I don't regret
What you'd kill to see brings out the god in me.

Come and be with me
Live my twisted dream
Pro devoted pledge
Time for primal concrete sledge

The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I won't take stock in a withered man
I'm reaching into you, I'll make you understand

Come and be with me
Live my twisted dream
Pro devoted pledge
Time for primal concrete sledge

Psycho Holiday

Empty and sweating
Head lying in your hands
Shaking in the corner
Done too much alcohol
Gotta get away from it all
'Cause it feels my blood is freezing
My self insanity has taken its toll
Frustration has taken its control

Now I'm far from home
Spending time alone
It's time to set my demons free
Been put to the test
My mind laid to rest
I'm on a psycho holiday

Shot down on sight
You are the target of attention
One woman here another there
You can't please all the people all the time
Can't tell the strangers
From the friends you know
Frustration has taken it's control

Now you're far from home
Spending time alone
It's time to set your demons free
Been put through the test
Your mind laid to rest
You're on a psycho holiday

I'm strapped in for life
Is this where I lived
Or where I died
You want my money
You take my space
My mind is telling me
To leave this place
My self insanity has taken its toll
Frustration has taken its control

Now you're far from home
Spending time alone
It's time to set your demons free
Been put through the test
Your mind laid to rest
You're on a psycho holiday

Cemetary Gates

Reverend reverend is this some conspiracy?
Crucified for no sins
An image beneath me
Whats within our plans for life
It all seems so unreal
I'm a man cut in half in this world
Left in my misery...

The reverend he turned to me
Without a tear in his eyes
It's nothing new for him to see
I didn't ask him why
I will remember
The love our souls had
Sworn to make
Now I watch the falling rain
All my mind can see
Now is your (face)

Well I guess
You took my youth
I gave it all away
Like the birth of a
New-found joy
This love would end in rage
And when she died
I couldn't cry
The pride within my soul
You left me incomplete
Memories now unfold.

Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the
Cemetery gates

Sometimes when I'm alone
I wonder aloud
If you're watching over me
Some place far abound
I must reverse my life
I can't live in the past
Then set my soul free
Belong to me at last

Through all those
Complex years
I thought I was alone
I didn't care to look around
And make this world my own
And when she died
I should've cried and spared myself some pain...
Left me incomplete
All alone as the memories still remain

The way we were
The chance to save my soul
And my concern is now in vain
Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the cemetery gates

Domination

Agony is the price
That you'll pay in the end
Domination consumes you
Then calls you a friend
It's a twisted fall
Binds are like steel
And manipulates the will to be
And it's hard to see
How soon we forget
When there's nothing else
Left to destroy
It's a useless ploy

Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall

It's domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails it's a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend

Your eyes will see
The dawn of the day
And the writing
On the wall
Those words that stare
Into your soul
And to yourself
You will befall

It's domination pushed into living hell
Domination a now blacked heart
Is reaching out divinity
Body suspended by chains over razors
And nails it's a penalty
Each razor a vice and each nail
Marks the demise of you life.
Grim construction grows
Has life played a trick
Sealed you in brick by brick
Till your end forcing you to bend

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Cowboys From Hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC46DEZUkJo

Cemetary Gates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUbvfjaYFVs

Psycho Holiday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OUpqkm33E

[ABlairican Pie]

Of course, the real deal keeping thrash from the top of the charts was the supremacy of L.A. Big Hair rock of bands such as Poison, who released 1990's album Flesh & Blood. The album indicated a return to more rootsier rock and roll, such as with C.C. DeVille's bluesy instrumental "Swamp Juice Soul-O", and "Unskinny Bop", which lifted a riff from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "I Know a Little". The band flicked many Bic lighters in arenas with the touching ballad "Something To Believe In"--even though the band would themselves be light years away from the desperate characters they depicted in the song. The band was earlobe deep in babes, partying, pizza, and bankrolls of cash at this point.

Unskinny Bop

What's got you so jumpy?
Why can't you sit still, yeah?
Like gasoline you wanna pump me
And leave me when you get your fill, yeah

Every time I touch ya you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you pull me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours

Chorus:
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away, yeah
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say

You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
Am I just another word in your page, yeah, yeah

Every time I touch ya you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you pull me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours

Chorus

You're sayin' my love won't do ya
But that ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right through ya
Yeah who ridin' who at the end of the race

Solo

What's right
What's wrong
What's left
What the hell is going on

Chorus

Ride the Wind

Hearts of fire
Oooh, Streets of stone
Modern warriors
Saddle iron horses of chrome

Taste the wild
Lick the wind
Like something they never saw before
Their jaws dropping to the floor
Steel made of soul and sin

Rebels born without a care
And the day he listens
Only to fly where eagles dare
And the night she whispers

Chorus:
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun
Ride the wind
Never coming back again
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun

Painted flesh
Loyalty
Humble pride
Just as far as the eye can see

Stories told
Two old friends
Of battle scars and lonely bars
And nights the rain wouldn't end

Here's to withered eyes wearing gypsy smiles
And the day he listens
Here's to lovely ladies and a million miles
And the night she whispers

Chorus

Ride the wind
I'm still the bravest soul in sin,
Burning till the night is done.

Solo

Of all the truths and lies
And stories of riders in the sky
Only the bravest try
Where eagles and angels dare to fly

Chorus

Something To Believe In

Well I see him on the TV
Preachin' 'bout the promise lands
He tells me believe in Jesus
Steals the money from my hands

Some say he was a good man
Lord I think he sinned, yeah

Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn't want him back

Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife and kids, no regrets
In a time I don't remember
In a war he can't forget

He cried "Forgive me for what I've done there
Cause I never meant the things I did"

Chorus:
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
And give me something to believe in
Oh, Lord arise

My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
And they told me the news

I tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
Like a lost soul out of place

And the mirror, mirror on the wall
Sees my smile it fades again

Chorus

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
Road you gotta take me home

Solo

I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read JESUS SAVES

A mile away live the rich folks
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich drinkin' from a golden cup

And it just makes me wonder
Why so many lose, and so few win

Chorus

You take the high road
And I'll take the low road

Yes Sometimes I wish I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then

And give me something to believe in, yeah

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Unskinny Bop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSuyeFzAmTQ

Something To Believe In:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoftM90f8Cw

[ABlairican Pie]

In 1990, Warrant released an album whose title became the anthem of all that was hair metal, Cherry Pie. Metal purists, and just about everyone else, condemned the song and video as "insipid", but Warrant was actually poking fun at the sexism running rampant in music videos. Did people have no sense of humor anymore??

And doesn't the chick look hot on the cover and in the video? :eyes: :drool: :grineyes:

The album even featured an "Ode To Tipper Gore", a vocal montage of Jani Lane saying the "f-word" repeatedly onstage at various concerts.

Cherry Pie

She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet Cherry Pie
Yeah
Wow
Heh Heh
Well swinging on the front porch
Swinging on the lawn
Swinging where we want
Cause there ain't nobody home
Swingin' to the left and
Swingin' to the right
I think about baseball
I'll swing all night, yeah
Yeah, yeah - huh!

Swingin in the living room
Swingin' in the kitchen
Most folks don't
Cause they're too busy bitchin'
Swingin' in there
Cause she wanted me to feed her
So I mixed up the batter
And she licked the beater

I scream, you scream,
We all scream for her
Don't even try
Cause you can't ignore her

CHORUS
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Oh yeah

She's my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face
Ten miles wide
Looks so good
Bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
Yeah sweet cherry pie
Yeah

Swingin to the drums
Swingin to guitar
Swingin to the bass in the back of my car
Ain't got money, ain't got no gas
Get where were goin if we swing real fast

I scream, you scream,
We all scream for her
Don't even try
Cause you can't ignore her

She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Oh yeah

She's my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face
Ten miles wide
Looks so good
Bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
Yeah sweet cherry pie
Yeah

Swing it
All night long
Swing it
Hey, hey, Ow!

I'm a trained professional
Swingin' in the bathroom
Swingin' on the floor
Swingin' so hard
Forgot to lock the door
In walks her daddy
Standin' six foot four
Said, "You ain't gonna swing
with my daughter no more."

CHORUS
Sweet Cherry Pie
Yeah! Huh!
Swing it!

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Just for the record
Lets get the story straight
Me and Uncle Tom were fishing
It was getting pretty late
Out on a cypress limb
Above the wishin' well
where they say it got no bottom
Say it take you down to hell
Over in the bushes
And off to the right
Come two men talkin
In the pale moon light
Sheriff John Brady and Deputy Hedge
Haulin' two limp bodies
Down to the water's edge

I know a secret down at
Uncle Tom's Cabin, oh yeah
I know a secret that
I just can't tell

They didn't see me and Tom
In the trees
Neither one believing
What the other could see
Tossed in the bodies
let 'em sink on down
To the bottom of the well
Where they'd never be found

CHORUS
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's Cabin
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's Cabin
Know who put the bodies in the wishing well

Soon as they were gone
Me and Tom got down
Pray' real hard
That we wouldn't make a sound
Runing throught he woods
Back to Uncle Tom's shack
Where the full moon shines
Through the roof tile cracks

Oh my God, Tom, who are we gonna tell
The sheriff he belongs in a prison cell
Keep your mouth shut
That's what we're gonna do
Unless you wanna wind up
In the wishin' well too

CHORUS

Oh yeah, ha ch ch ch cha

I Saw Red

Oo it must be magic
How inside your eyes
I see my destiny
Every time we kiss
I feel you breathe your love to deep inside of me
And if the moon and stars should fall
They'd be east to replace
I would lift you up to heaven
And you would take their place

Then I saw red
When I opened up the door
I saw red
Heart just spilled on to the floor
And I didn't need to see his face
I saw yours
I saw red then I closed the door

I don't think I'm gonna love you anymore

Everyday I wake up
I thank God that you are still a part of me
Opened up the door to which
So many people never find the way
And if the sun should ever fail to send its light
We will burn a thousand candles
And make everything alright

Then I saw red
When I opened up the door
I saw red
Heart just spilled onto the floor
And I didn't need to see his face
I saw yours
I saw red then I closed the door
I don't think I'm gonna love you anymore

I've been hurt
And I've been blind
I'm not sure that I'll be fine
I never thought it would end this way
Oo it must be magic

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


This song was originally written for the first album when lead vocalist Jani Lane spotted his girlfriend in bed with his best friend and suffered a nervous breakdown. He was so traumatized that he had to wait to release it on this album:

Cherry Pie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ__P8SrQCA

Uncle Tom's Cabin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyvl6rdaJeo

I Saw Red:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqTUcCE81U

Model Bobby Brown on the cover:

[ABlairican Pie]

Like Poison, even Cinderella got into playing more roots-rock with a bluesy base on the 1990 album Heartbreak Station; perhaps this was due to the arrival of more basic rock and roll bands such as the Black Crowes. The band had moved almost completely away from its slamming glam roots at this point.

Shelter Me

Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don't let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some it's the doctor
For me it's rock and roll
For some it's a bottle
For some it's a pill
Some people wave the bible, cause it's giving them a thrill
Others point their finger if they don't like what they see
If you live in a glass house, don't be throwing rocks at me

We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it'll be alright

Check out Mr. Politician in his suit and tie
But when the doors are closed there ain't nothin' he won't try
Meanwhile Mr. Medicine's treating his best friend's wife
Tipper led the war against the record industry
She said she saw the devil on her MTV
To look into the cabinet, it takes more than a key
Just like Jimmy's skeletons and his ministry

We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it'll be alright
Hit it now

For some it's the needle
For some it's the kill
Some people wave the bible, cause it's giving them a thrill
You can spend your money before you get your pay
With a toss of the dice, you can piss it all away

We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper to get us by
We all need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it'll be alright

Alright
We all need
A little shelter
We all need
A little shelter
Just a little helper
Oh Lord, it's gonna be alright
Come on now
Come on now and shelter me now
Just a little helper
Shelter, shelter, shelter, shelter, shelter, shelter, shelter, shelter
We all need
We need a little shelter
Just a little helper ooo, and it'll be alright

Heartbreak Station

Waiting at the station
Tears filling up my eyes
Sometimes the pain you hide
Burns like a fire inside
Look out my window
Sometimes it's hard to see
The things you want in life
Come and go so easily

She took the last train out of my heart ooo, ooo
She took the last train
And now I think I'll make a brand new start
She took the last train out of my heart

Watching the days go by
Thinking 'bout the plans we made
The days turn into years
Funny how they fade away
Sometimes I think of those days
Sometimes I just hide away
Waiting on that 9:20 train
Waiting on a memory

She took the last train out of my heart ooo, ooo
She took the last train
And now I think I'll make a brand new start
She took the last train out of my heart

My lady's on the fly and she's never coming back
My love is like a steam train rolling down the tracks yea, yea

She took the last train out of my heart ooo, ooo
She took the last train
And now I think I'll make a brand new start
She took the last train out of my heart

She took the last train ooo, out of my heart
She took the last train
And now I think I'll make a new start
Last train out of my heart

The More Things Change

Woke up this morning on the wrong side of bed
I got this feeling like a train's running through my head
Turned on my radio to the same old song
Some big mouth talking trying to tell us where the world went wrong

But all this talk of peace and love
It's only for the news
Cause everytime you trust someone
You end up getting screwed

The more things change
The more they stay the same
Everyone's your brother till you turn the other way
The more things change
The more they stay the same
All we need's a miracle to take us all away from the pain

Came to this morning I was feeling mighty used
Picked up the telephone but all I got's a major attitude
Turned on the TV to the same old news
Everybody thinks they got the answer to the same old blues

Like a hot smokin' pistol on a saturday night
You gotta go for the throat
You gotta fight for your life

The more things change
The more they stay the same
Everyone's your brother till you turn the other way
The more things change
The more they stay the same
All we need's a miracle to take us all away from the pain
Take me away

Like a hot smokin' pistol on a saturday night
You gotta go for the throat
You gotta fight for your life

The more things change
The more they stay the same
Everyone's your brother till you turn the other way
The more things change
The more they stay the same
All we need's a miracle to take us all away

The more things change
The more they stay the same
Everyone's your brother till you turn the other way
The more things change
The more they stay the same
All we need's a miracle

The more things change
The more things change
The more things change
The more things change
The more things change
The more things change
The more things change

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango

Shelter Me (Little Richard even appears in the video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIynavU6LXM

The More Things Change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-Q03HixLA

[ABlairican Pie]

Winger followed up with 1990's In the Heart Of the Young, which featured not only such hot and heavy sexy sizzling hits like "Can't Get Enuff", but even a more progressive rock side on such tracks as "Rainbow In the Rose", "The Day We'll Never See", and the title track. The album proved that the band was more than bubblegum fodder as on the previous hit "Seventeen", but as usual, the album delivered with such pop-oriented tunes as "Easy Come, Easy Go", "Under One Condition", the ballad "Miles Away", "Baptized By Fire", and "You Are the Saint, I Am the Sinner". Kip Winger and Co. had a very broad musical pallate for a band in their genre.

Can't Get Enuff

You don't make it easy, you never keep it straight
But you're so damn sexy, I can't keep away
I need your love, I need your skin
I need you baby to let me in

I can't get enough of you baby
I can't get enough, it's never enough
I can't get enough, I'm still hungry
Baby, give it up, cause I can't get enough (huh)

It's alright, it feels good
When I'm in your chains, it's understood
That you're my owner, my only will
Come and get me while I'm quiet and still

I can't get enough of you baby
I can't get enough, it's never enough
I can't get enough, I'm still hungry
Baby, give it up, don't you know

I can't get enough of you baby

Can't get enough of you baby
Never enough, do you want to give me some?
Can't get enough, don't keep me waiting
Never enough (hey, hey)

(Put it right here)

I can't get enough of you baby

Can't get enough of you baby
Never enough, do you want to give me some?
Can't get enough, don't keep me waiting
Never enough

It's alright, it feels good
When I'm in your chains, it's understood
My soul confession, devil's due
Come and get me girl, it's up to you

(repeat chorus)

Miles Away

So this is love or so you tell me
As you're walking out the door
The months go by and I know for certain
it's not the love that I'm looking for

But sometimes,
Just for a moment
I reach out,
And hope you're still there

Miles away
No you're never turning back
and I just can't wait anymore
Miles away
Nothing left of what we had
and just when I needed you the most
You were miles away

It's hard to tell what you're going through
You kept your feelings locked inside of you
Open your heart and chances are
What you're feeling I'm feeling too

If only just for a moment
We hold on to the dreams that we had

Miles away
No you're never turning back
and I just can't wait anymore
Miles away
Nothing left of what we had
and just when I needed you the most
You were miles away

When times were tough
and you were down and out
Who was there by your side
But now you're gone and I'm
so tired of being alone
with only your promises

(Guitar Solo)

The loneliness just fades away
thoughts of you just memories
no cryin now for what we're missin
time won't forget what you meant to me

If only just for a moment
We hold on to the dreams that we had

Miles away
No you're never turning back
and I just can't wait anymore
Miles away
Nothing left of what we had
and just when I needed you the most
You were miles away

Easy Come, Easy Go

If you start to feel like there's no time to waste
Baby, try to let go - there's
Nothing that strong - can't break your heart
Easy Come Easy Go

And the only only only way you find it...

Is if you're not digging too deep
Though it's easier said than done
You've got to feel it in your blood
Play the game like you've already won

And you only only only own it when you say...

Easy Come Easy Go
This won't break my heart don't you know
Sometimes high, sometimes low
Easy Come Easy Go

You fell in a trap that won't let you win
You try again and again
You let the heat burn your feet
Baby try to understand that you

Only only only own it when you say...

(repeat chorus)

So if you start to feel like there's no time to waste
Baby try to let go - there's
Nothing that strong - can't break your heart
Sometimes high, sometimes low

And you only only only own it when you say...

(repeat chorus)

Baptized By Fire

Girl, I know you're out for the money
Flesh for gold, diamond and fur
We've seen you workin' on every guy in this town
Trading your voodoo for the bible of who's who

All of your dreams you're searching for gold
I'm not too blind to see your kind

You were baptized by fire, painted by rain
You're under the spell, feeling no shame
Baptized by fire - to you it's a game
You were baptized by fire

From out of the trash to burning desire
Still this pouring rain in your heart
Will keep you spinning in the same direction
Can't you feel it ripping your world apart

All of your dreams you're searching for gold
I'm not to blind to see

(repeat chorus)

It's a sign of the times how people
Mess with your mind
One day they say they love you
Then they leave you behind
It ain't you they want
It's you they haunt
And the weaker they make you
The deeper they take you
Down til you don't know what you feel
What do you feel?
Well, I know your game, it's nothing new, so
You can say good-bye to me cause I have
Said good-bye to you

Voodoo Child Voodoo Child
Voodoo Voodoo Voodoo Voodoo Child
Time to take my freedom, time to take control
Baby, cause I'm on a roll, hit it!

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango


Can't Get Enuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqwcYK3A4c

Easy Come, Easy Go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiHTQoyuBkQ

Miles Away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUtDXzKYVbI

Winger on Arsenio:

[ABlairican Pie]

Faster Pussycat was yet another band that wore its roots-rock influences on its sleeve for Wake Me When It's Over, its 1990 followup to their debut. The band was originally a strictly sleaze-metal outfit early on, but showed its bluesier roots on the sophomore album's tracks such as "Poison Ivy" and the ballad, "House Of Pain", a heartbreaking tune about lead singer Taime Downe's estranged father who left the family when he was younger.

For all the ragging every sleaze/glam/hair metal band got, these bands were influenced by early 70's bands as the proto-punks the New York Dolls and the other glam bands of that era.

Poison Ivy

Baby, baby why won't you let me be
You're a major pain in the ass, I do need the hassle can't ya see
Please I need some piece of mind
That I was hoping I could find
But you just kept a buggin
Till I was crawlin under the rug and baby
Stressin, jump back baby back away
Get off my back you monkey
Ya got my nerves jumping like a junkie today

Poison ivy ya come creepin up right behind me
You make me itch baby you're so unkind
Poison ivy you're like poison ivy
You make me itch and I'm out of calamine

So this is how you get your kicks
Lickin up everything after me
Baby don't pet my dog and certainly don't mess with my birds or my
bees
Jesus I got a peeping Tom
And I was hoping she was gone
But she just kept a knockin
Till I was crawlin under a rock and baby
Stressin, jump back baby back away
Get off my back you monkey
Ya got my nerves jumping like a junkie today

Poison ivy ya come creepin up right behind me
You make me itch baby you're so unkind
Poison ivy you're like poison ivy
You make me itch and I'm out of calamine

Poison ivy ya come creepin up right behind me
You make me itch baby you're so unkind
Poison ivy you're like poison ivy
You make me itch and I'm out of calamine


House Of Pain

It's a little past supper time
I'm still out on the porch steps sittin' on my behind,
Waiting for you.
Wondrin' if everything's alright,
Moma said,"Come in boy, don't waste your time,"
I said,"I've got time. Well he'll be here soon."
Five years old and talkin' to myself.
Where were you? Where'd ya go? Daddy can't you tell?

Chorus.

I'm not tryin' to fake it, and I ain't the one to blame.
No, there's no one home in my house of pain.
I didn't write these pages and my script's been re-arranged.
No, there's no one home in my house of pain.

Wasn't I worth the time?
A boy needs a daddy like a dance to mime and all the time,
Ilooked up to you.
I paced my room a million times.
And all I ever got was one big line, the same old lie.
How could you?
Well I was eighteen years and still talkin' to myself.
Where were you? Where'd ya go? Daddy can't ya tell?

**end**
Well if i've learned anything from this, shh, it's how to grow up
on my own.

Bathroom Wall

Saw your number written on the wall
Said for a good time call Call 281-7668
Hey baby I can't wait I got your number off the bathroom wall

Pick up the phone and I start to think
I get excited when it starts to ring
I want you to go or stay If it's good I'll call her everyday
I got your number off the bathroom wall

CHORUS:
Got your number off the bathroom wall
And I decided it was about time I made the call

You answered the phone in a sexy voice
I got excited and I had no choice
To put another dime in the telephone Cuz my number's alone at home
I got your number off the bathroom wall

CHORUS:

Saw your number written on the wall
Said for a good time call Call 281-7668
Hey baby I can't wait I got your number off the bathroom wall

Got your number off the bathroom wall
And I decided it was about time I made the call
Got your number off the bathroom wall
Boy Am I lucky that I didn't use the other stall

Cathouse

Let's go across the tracks where ***** ain't no feline
Rev up my Chevy I'm gonna pay to play
Baby Lickity-split I like that taste I push ahead and I fall behind
I'm just a good Good Tom I just wanna stay

CHORUS:
Just got back from the Best cathouse in town
I had the best piece of Mona Lisa I ever found
And I'm going back to the Best cathouse in town
To get some more of that cheap little tramp right about now

Let's go to the house Where business is a pleasure
And as long as there's a virgin I won't go away
Now I'm a hard Hard act to swallow And she's my buried treasure
It'll be a long Long time before I'm on my way

CHORUS:

SOLO

Ooh I'm gonna get to move in Gas in my Chevy Headin' down the way
Said Just God Get me back Get me back I say

CHORUS:

And I'm going back to the Best cathouse in town
I had the best piece of Mona Lisa I ever found
And I'm going back to the Best cathouse in town
To get some more of that cheap little tramp Right about now

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango



Poison Ivy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U67QOVDbAgo

Poison Ivy (alternate version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0bQOH_PpU

House Of Pain: Grab yer Bics and yer Kleenex boxes for this one: :rock: :crying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LKSRCGVp4

Cathouse (from Decline Of Western Civilization Part 2: the Metal Years):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zic0hOww7YI

Cathouse (another live version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUGD203FgVk

[ABlairican Pie]

Love/Hate, so named because they were "the band you loved to hate", had a huge club draw in L.A., though they called themselves "the stoopidest band in the world". The band, which featured Jizzy Pearl on lead vocals, clearly did not take themselves too seriously...as much as they did with copious amounts of chemical substances and tons of recreational time. Their 1990 album Blackout In the Red Room featured such tracks as "Rock Queen", "Tumbleweed", "She's an Angel", "Slutsy Tipsy", "Mary Jane", "Slave Girl", and the hit "Why Do You Think They Call It Dope", which included a killer funky bass line.

Blackout In the Red Room

so you're going drinking tonight
it's party time
gonna turn bad to maybe

so you're gonna paint the town red
it's party time
gonna turn bad to maybe

blackout in the red room
blackout in the red room

so you say you can't remember
it's party time
so you say you can't remember

so you woke up blind
it's party time
so you say you can't remember

blackout in the red room
blackout in the red room
blackout in the red room

Tumbleweed

I'm tumblin', tumblin' round
I'm tumblin', my feet don't touch the ground
'cause I got no, got no place to go
maybe if I did I'd settle down my roots would grow

I'm a tumbleweed

I'm tumblin', tumblin' round
I'm tumblin' like a wind blowin' through your town
got a sharp thorn sticking in my side
on this dusty road I'm goin' for a ride
I'm a tumbleweed

tumbleweed bad seed
no one I need
tumbleweed bad seed
got a home on a ghost town highway
ooh I'm a tumbleweed

I'm tumblin', tumblin' round
I'm tumblin' someday I will be gone
when I grow old, grow old and pass away
just spread my ashes on a windy day
I'm a tumbleweed

tumbleweed bad seed
no one I need
tumbleweed bad seed
got a home on a ghost town highway
'cause I'm a tumbleweed

She's an Angel

she's tryin' to have a good time
even though these are the bad times
she's tryin' to get in - she wants out
doin' some time for small crimes to herself
sitting by a window - breathin' on the glass
time will tell, time will pass
'cause when you're young sometimes little things seem larger than life

she is a wild wind blowin' - she's my thunder and rain
she is a hurricane
they think she's insane
but she's an angel
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah
they'll lock you away
they'll lock you away

mommy takes the strings off your bass
so you won't hang yourself
could things be so bad
when you're lovin' life with everything you have

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah

she is a sunbeam shinin' - think it's gonna rain
sure she's feelin' pain
they think she's insane
but she's an angel
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah
they'll lock you away
they'll lock you away
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah
they'll lock you away

she's on drugs yeah she's on fire
they all say that she's a liar
sure she's lookin' for trouble
and now she's seein' double

she is a sunbeam shinin' - think it's gonna rain
sure she's feelin' pain
they think she's insane
but she's an angel
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
they'll lock you away
they'll lock you away
they'll lock you away
they'll lock you away

she's tryin' to have a good time
even though these are the bad times

Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?

nighttime, shooting star, the sun started to rain
trees lost branches, gurus' trances, black-brassiered dancers
little dears
showdown's coming, it's no joke, mouth is runnings, it's a stroke
that's what I think when I'm so ****ed up I can't even find the door

why do you think they call it dope?
why do you think they call it dope?

when your heart beats fast, you're so broke, in your car with the red
lights flashing
look sincere, smell like beer, roach in the ashtray
going to the pokey
thirty days later, ten bucks left, hands are shaking
looking for a dime bag

why do you think they call it dope?
why do you think they call it dope?

dirty little dopers on dope so bad
dirty little dopers on dope so bad

when two and two turn into five you'll probably see it my way
when bad is good, like it should, things turn upside down
some people say it's hip to say no, my town it's green light go
for party rockin' angels now it's trigger happy
slang-bang-pow

why do you think they call it dope?
why do you think they call it dope?
why do you think they call it dope?
why do you think they call it dope?

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango


Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zliKsxN4g

[ABlairican Pie]

Dokken giutarist George Lynch returned Lynch Mob, a new band whose 1990 album Wicked Sensation featured such excellent tracks as "River Of Love", "Sweet Sister Mercy", "She's Evil But She's Mine", and the phenomenal title track which featured Lynch's fiery playing.

Wicked Sensation

Well I'm searchin' for this feelin'
That's crawlin' in my veins
I'm on the inside, i wanna get out
Oh I need that cure, there ain't no doubt

Oh, well it feels so good
Up and down and in and out, let's make this understood
Oh, 'cause I'm comin' on for you now

I got that wicked sensation
That's crawlin' all over me
I got that wicked sensation
You know that's all I ever need
When I get down on my knees
Gotta give in, gotta put it out

Well there's no reason
For the way you make me feel
It must be pure desire
But my soul, you know it's burnin' like a flame
My heart just fills with fire

Oh, well it feels so good, up and down and in and out
Let's make this understood
Oh, 'cause I'm comin' on for you now

I got that wicked sensation
That's crawlin' in my veins
I got that wicked sensation
You know that's all i ever need
When I get down on my knees

Gotta give in, gotta put it out, oh shake my soul

Oh, well it feels so good
Up and down and in and out
Let's make this understood
'Cause I'm comin' on for you now

I got that wicked sensation
That's crawlin' all over me
I got that wicked sensation
You know that's all I ever need
When I get down on my knees
I got that wicked sensation
Wicked, wicked, wicked

How you shake this poor boy's soul, oh, how you shake it girl
How you do me in, how you do me in, oh, it's my soul, oh, it's my soul
It burns, it burns it yearns, it's gotta come out, it's gotta come out
Come out, come out, come out, come out, come out
Oh you know that devil's in my soul.........

River Of Love

I was lonely and I was searchin' for the sun
Your one and only, took a trip to get undone
Well my high low mam, don't you give me the blues
Take me to the river where I can let it loose
All the lovin', ah like you never knew

Out back to where the dust grows old
Where the spirits fly so high
It was a cold dark night, and I swear we was feelin' right
As our bones took us down, straight to the light

I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love
I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love

All emotions, slip through my hands
Like an ocean movin', rollin' in on the sand
A sea of love, honey, where you been
My love's been knockin' buy you ain't in
Where's my lover

Out back to where the dust grows old
Where the spirits never die
That cold dark night, but I know we was feelin' right
As we roll through the hours, down into the light

I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love
I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love

Days are long and the nights run deeper
Out back where the spirits never die

I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love
I'm goin' down, down, down to the river of love

Sweet Sister Mercy

Well my sweet sister mercy
What have you done?
You made a mess of me
And now I'm so undone
Don't you like, don't you care
Don't you leave me in deep despair
Oh, it feels like I'm driftin'...

Just a fool in the pourin' rain
Locked out behind closed doors
Will you be waiting to catch my fall?
You know I'll search for a light
That will lead me to heaven

Sweet sister mercy
Where are you now
Sweet sister mercy

High road to nowhere
And I'm leavin' very soon
Tomorrow, you say
But it's just like yesterday
My sense of direction's confused
You know I'll plead to the morning light
That wherever's wrong
She would make it right

Please soul sister, hear my plea
I'll keep searchin' for a light
That will lead me to heaven

Sweet sister mercy
Where are you now
Sweet sister mercy

Sweet sister mercy
Where are you now
Sweet sister mercy
Where are you now
Sweet sister mercy
Will you be there to catch my fall?
Sweet sister mercy
'Cause I'll keep searchin' for a lifetime
That will lead me, that will lead me
Lead me to heaven
Sweet sister mercy
Sweet sister, sweet sister mercy
Sweet sister mercy

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Wicked Sensation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMeB2N8dic

[ABlairican Pie]

Another hair-a-licious band from the East Coast, Britny Fox,
released their self-titled debut album in 1990 which featured the hit "Girl School" and one of their most popular songs, "Long Way To Love". The band had huge hair while requiring only a few brains to enjoy. In other words, it didn't need to be Tales From Topographic Oceans to be good.

Girl School

Come on girls!

A school bell rings off the day,
brings in a stray a few girls at play.
Cut school pink slips are fine
for a good time there's boys on their mind.

A bad girl smoking in school,
breaking the rules acting real cool.
Talkin' 'bout all the rock boys,
back seat joys with some boy's toy.

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

Saddle shoes uniforms blue,
love all the girls in the girlschool.
Traffic jam in the hallway
ooh I'm gonna stay this makes my day.

Well here they come girls from the school,
breakin the rules hot on the loose.
My girl left right from school,
came over to my house, ooh...

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

You're stayin' after school

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
Girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

Loose Hips
Slips of mine,
For a good time,
Boys on their mind

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.
At the girlschool, cause my baby broke all the rules.

Long Way To Love

I see the love deep in your eyes.
You let the love, grow in my mind.

In the morning sun, I see your face.
I can feel your love and your embrace.

You fell in love right from the start
It has to last from falling apart.

repeat bridge

Long way, long way to love.
Long way, long way to love.

Your fires kept warm in my heart.
You fed the flame from going out.

Bridge

chorus

lead

chorus out

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Girl School:

Keep on rockin', Blair!! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eHbvOhLxsA

Long Way To Love:

Very cool song: :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zxHB2q49kU&mode=related&search=

[ABlairican Pie]

Extreme's second album featured funk-fused metal and a few ballads on Pornograffitti in 1990, an album which discussed issues of sexuality in contemporary culture while shredding with an r & b rhythm. While Nuno Bettencourt remained one of the decade's best shredders, the band was more known for the ballad "More Than Words", playing at a supermarket near you.

And this was before Gary Cherone would become linked with a certain band whose initials were V H. ;)


Get the Funk Out

If you don't like what you see here
Nobody wants to take you prisoner
So let me make it nice and clear dear
The exit is right there
I don't mean to be rude dude
But you'd better change your attitude

I don't like what I see here

You're all invited to the party
You know you didn't have to come
No rotten apple gonna spoil my fun

If you don't like what you see here
Get the funk out
We won't try to force feed you
Get the funk out

You can't please everbody
But everybody cannot please me
That's why I do what I want to
So why don't you do, do it to, do it to me, hey
So if you don't like what you see here
You can always leave the country

I don't like what I see here

You're all invited to the party
You know you didn't have to come
No rotten apple gonna spoil my fun

If you don't like what you see here
Get the funk out
We won't try to force feed you
Get the funk out

All I see is pronograffiti
All I hear pornograffiti
It's a monster we all have within us
The American dream
I need more money
I need more money
Just a little more money
Just a little more money
Everybody's got a need
Everybody's got to feed
He man woman hater
He man woman hater
He man woman hater
Dancing to the decadence dance

Hole Hearted

Life's ambition occupies my time
Priorities confuse the mind
Happiness one step behind
This inner peace I've yet to find

Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be

There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do

Hole hearted
Hole hearted

This heart of stone is where I hide
These feet of clay kept warm inside
Day by day less satisfied
Not fade away before I die

Rivers flow into the sea
Yet even the sea is not so full of me
If I'm not blind why can't I see
That a circle can't fit
Where a square should be

There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things I do
There's a hole in my heart
That can only be filled by you
Should've know from the start
I'd fall short with the things I do

Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted
Hole hearted

More Than Words

Saying "I love you"
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew how easy
It would be to show me how you feel

More than words
Is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away?
Then you couldn't make things new
Just by saying "I love you"

More than words

Now that I've tried to talk to you
And make you understand
All you have to do is close your eyes
And just reach out your hands
And touch me
Hold me close, don't ever let me go
More than words
Is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
'Cause I'd already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?
More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real
What would you say if I took those words away?
Then you couldn't make things new
just by saying "I love you"

More than words
More than words

:rock: :guitar: :banana: :mango

Hole Hearted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE21qCjXgWk

[ABlairican Pie]

One of the biggest promising new talents of the 90's, King's X, released Faith Hope Love, whose title was based on 1st Corinthians 13 ("The Love Chapter") in the New Testatment. Some of their biggest songs on the album included "It's Love", "We Are Finding Who We Are", and "Moanjam".

It's Love

I sit in a chair
reflecting back upon my life
and I have so much yet to learn
and so much yet to see and do

it's love that holds it all together
i just glad to let you know that
it's love thats holding back the weather
and the same will let it go

i sit on the beach feeling the wind
feeling your hand
in all there's a ship on the ocean
and i can't decide if i like it

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


It's Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfyJC5Mt-s

[ABlairican Pie]

Queensryche returned with 1990's Empire, an album which featured more standard, polished songs without quite a grandiose concept behind it. The album featured such major hits as "Best I Can", "Jet City Woman",
"Another Rainy Night (Without You)", "Anybody Listening?" and the title track. The lyrics were intelligent and the playing top-knotch. But the one song that brought the band to everyone's attention was "Silent Lucidity", a tune which sounded suspiciously close to Pink Floyd's "Mother", but yet uniquely all their own. The band became one of the biggest groups in the country at that point.

Best I Can

A child alone in daddy's room
The gun was hidden here
No one home to catch me when I fall
A young man now in a private chair
I've seen the world through a bitter stare
But my dream is still alive
I'm going to be the best I can

I want to be a busy man
I want to see a change in the future
I'm gonna make the best of what I have
I want to write for a magazine
I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen
I know I'll win if I give it all I can

I won't let go, gotta make the grade
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can

Back street hoop star you've got it good
You were the wonder of the crumbling neighborhood
Now taking bids on the next six digit plan
Showed me that my will survived
The tragedy that came into my life
giving me hope and the new start
that I have

I won't let go, gotta make the grade
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can

Step by step I dream the plan
From my chair to walking man
This constant dream is on my mind
Chase the light I see ahead
Luminate the path I tread
I live to be the best I can

Now I'm moving forward
And I'm never looking back
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack
On a roll and I'm never slowing down
I won't be torn between
The man in the chair
And the man that's in my dream
I'm going to melt the two men into one

I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man,
the best man that I can

Empire

Last night the word came down, ten dead in Chinatown.
Innocent, their only crime was being in the wrong place, at the wrong time
Too bad, people say what's wrong with the kids today
Tell you right now they've got nothing to lose

They're building EMPIRE!

Johnny used to work after school
at the cinema show.
Gotta hustle if he wants an education
he's got a long way to go.
Now he's out on the street all day
selling Crack to the people who pay.
Got an AK-47 for his best friend
business the American way.

Eastside meets Westside downtown.
No time, the walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE! Can't you hear it calling?
Black man, trapped again. hold his chain in his hand.
Brother killing brother for the profit of another,
Game point, nobody wins. Decline, right on time.
What happened to the dream sublime?
Tear it all down, we'll put it up again. Another EMPIRE?

Eastside meets Westside downtown.
No time, no line, the walls fall down.

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it coming EMPIRE!
Can't someone here stop it...??!!

Silent Lucidity

Hush now, don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over... or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize it and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly you hear and see
This magic new dimension

I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help you see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you, in Silent Lucidity

[spoken during solo]
(Visualize your dream)
(Record it in the present tense)
(Put it into a permanent form)
(If you persist in your efforts)
(You can achieve dream control)
(Dream control)
(How's that then, better?)
(Hug me)

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from the pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...

I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help to see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you....

Anybody Listening

You and I
long to live like the wind upon the water.
If we close our eyes, we'll maybe realize
there's more to life than what we have known.
And I can't believe I've spent so long
living lies I know were wrong inside,
I've just begun to see the light.

Long ago there was a dream,
had to make a choice or two.
Leaving all I loved behind,
for what nobody knew.
Stepped out on the stage, a life
under lights and judging eyes.
Now the applause has died and I
can dream again...

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines,
criticize the words they're selling.
Think for yourself and feel the walls
become sand beneath your feet

Feel the breeze?
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom.
There's a warm wind from the south.
Hoist the sail and we'll be gone,
by morning this will all seem like a dream.
And if you don't return to sing the song,
maybe just as well.
I've seen the news and there's
not much I can do...alone

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words--images
they know will please us?
I'll take what's real. Bring up the lights.

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines,
criticize the words they're selling.
Think for yourself and feel the walls...
become sand beneath your feet.

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Silent Lucidity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-MtovNYVLA

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At the risk of becoming redundant in this segment of our rock and roll history thread, we have covered quite a few artists after 1990 which shaped the musical and cultural course of the decade: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Metallica, U2, and so on. We've been rather extensive in our coverage, and while there is the advantage of seeing many on videos here, most of us have probably seen these artists of the past fifteen years on MTV already.

So if there is anything we haven't seen yet not covered, we'll post it here! :rock:

In the meantime, before we head back to 1999 for a few more items, we have to play one more from the 90's....

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We have to see the video from the British band Cathedral, 1993's song "Ride",
from their 1993 album The Ethereal Mirror. The song is very Sabbath-y.

Ride

Lack-lustre vacuum magnetises the land,
scopeless material in ruthless demand,
concrete spectacle superficially grand,
divine animation buried in sight.

[Chorus:]
We'll rise from the ashes of stagnation,
crystal warriors of damnation.

Nullified grafters manufactured from the womb,
out of the repro-clinic into household tomb.
Drag the nothing tiring through coal-dark underground,
drive the wheels of iron round and round.

[Repeat Chorus]

Scouring eyes sear through that book of lies,
and to the truth, well our search is dignified.
Whilst the yawny drone of physical machinery
march in robot mode to terminal destiny.

Microscopic observance, forsaken innerland,
spiritual inertia, absorbed in bland,
well our significance shan't sink in their charade,
'cos through their drab pantomime I say we're gonna ride!

[Repeat Chorus.]

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Ride:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcHUrCZP8s


The entire Ethereal Mirror album cover art:

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So now that we have taken a rather lengthy trip through the past to look at the developments of rock and roll up to the end of the 90's, let us look back at where we left off in 1999:

Seattle had weathered a tumultuous citywide riot and waves of vandalism which lasted nearly a week due to protests at the convention of the World Trade Organization. While the protests began peacefully and rather colorfully, radical and anarchist groups from Eugene, Oregon, and elsewhere soon disrupted the proceedings which lead to an escalation of violence and destruction at the start of the city's pre-Christmas shopping season. Innocent citizens were hurt and lives were disrupted from police officers ill-equipped to handle the situation, which brought wide criticism of the city's local government. By the next weekend, the rampage had dissipated, and calm, and shopping, had been restored.



But fate was not through with Seattle in the final days of that year....

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Seattle's own Queensryche released a new album in time for the end of the year 1999, Q2K. The album was the first, and only, to feature new guitarist/producer Kelly Gray. He was not very popular with many 'Ryche fans due to his bluesier guitar style which did not quite fit with the band's style. By that point, the band had taken a detour from their trademark sound to explore more alternative sounding music which most likely
was the reason why their popularity declined during the decade and they were reduced to playing clubs and small theaters. Though many rock bands from Seattle and elsewhere embraced the corporate grunge sound popularized by Seattle (Seattle band Nevermore refused to kneel to this), the trend did not fit Queensryche.

The album featured one popular song, "Breakdown".

Breakdown

When the whirlwind of noise surrounds and get intense,
and when words can't hide their anger or intent.

I feel it in my bones and in my head, can't make sense of
what is said.

Ready for the take down, headed for a breakdown.

Fear has me backed against these walls that I follow and
pace.

Time moves in and out of phase of everything that I face.

I feel it in my bones they rattle and shake, can't find a
trace of what it takes to stop this take down.

Can't stop this breakdown!

Welcome to my scene. A place that's in-between where
squares fit the round.
Some affectionately call it ... my breakdown....

When I feel the pressure mounting and my hands begin to
clutch,
I reach my limit of pain and I've had enough.

It feels good to pound on tables and chairs and feel the
frenzy start to wear.

Breakdown this take down, gotta stop this breakdown.

Welcome to my scene. A place that's in-between where
squares fit the round.

It'll never be, never be more than this. Never.


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While the rest of the world spent the final days of the year preparing for end-of-the-century celebrations, George Harrison faced one of his worst fears when an intruder broke into his home in Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames in England and stabbed him several times in the chest. Harrison and his wife Olivia fought the man and held him for police. The 35-year old assailant, named Michael Abram, who was convinced that Harrison was "the devil", believed the former Beatle was "possessing" him, and was on a "mission from God" to kill him was arrested but later acquitted by reason of insanity. Harrison, thoroughly traumatized by the attack which left him with a punctured lung, decided to reduce his public appearances for security purposes. He went to his doctor for examination and learned that the jabbed lung was the least of his worries.


The stress from the attack enhanced and metastasized his cancer, making it terminal.


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As the world prepared to say goodbye to the century which brought us both good and bad, many looked back with fond memories of rock and roll over the years. What would be the best way to define the decades of the world's greatest music?

The 1950's

Rock and roll entered the decade at mid-point of the 50's as a product of the blues, starting with Elvis Presley's cover of "It's Allright Mama". The implications of rock and roll to a generation of older citizens relaxing in their suburbs with "Old Blue Eyes" Sinatra was one of horror, as the younger generation found a generational prison break, where sex and race became accessible to the average white middle class teen. The older generation's fears were realized, as sex, through those 45 records became available to youngsters not old enough to purchase the new Playboy magazine, and placed Jr. and Sis square in the middle of social functions where other youngsters of color would be present. The older generation, fearing the cultural and sexual corruption of their children by members of a different race and ethnicity, fought to ban rock and roll, or "race music". But kids got it, and one of the biggest contributions of rock and roll was the bringing together of racial groups in the love for the music and dancing. This was completely unacceptable in a day and age of Eisenhower, t.v., and a Cold War's A-Bomb hanging over their heads. But nothing could stop young people from dancing the night away.

Beginning of the 50's (in regards to rock and roll culture):

Ike Turner
Elvis Presley (his "suggestive" hip-swivelling caused him to be seen from the hip up on television):
"It's Allright Mama" 1954
Bill Haley and the Comets: "Rock Around the Clock" 1955
Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" 1955
Little Richard: "Tutti Fruitti"; "Long Tall Sally"

End of the 50's:

The plane crash which took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Other 50's artists were MIA (Elvis in the Army, Little Richard in Bible school, etc.) or had fallen into disrepute, such as Jerry Lee Lewis for marrying his 13-year old cousin. Holly was counted on as the brightest new star on the rock and roll horizon when he died in 1959. :(

50's images:

The jukebox. Seen everywhere burgers and malteds were sold.

Elvis. The hip-swivelling that shook the world.

The late, great Buddy Holly.

Chuck Berry--considered a guitar god of his time, with his trademark Duckwalk.

Little Richard, whose wild piano playing and singing horrified white parents, as well as that he attracted a lot of women both black and white--though his own sexuality was in question. He went to Bible college when he could no longer deal with "immoral" rock and roll he helped create.

The bobby-soxer--a look at 50's female fashion.

Playboy magazine, whose first issue featured Marilyn Monroe. The magazine, along with rock and roll, helped create a "generational prison break" among frustrated American males who cringed at the stale puritanical mentality of the Eisenhower Era and simply wanted a taste of the good life in Dowtown Suburbia. The publication not only featured quality literature, but bravely discussed sex--while giving a peek at pinup girls as it was discussing it.

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While the term rock and roll had been around for decades before the 50's, it was a slang term for either sex, religious ecstasy, or just having a good time (not surprising how it applied to all three ;) ). This much parents and preachers knew. So when dj Alan Freed used it to describe this wild brand of music (things like r & b didn't quite cut it, R & b was specifically black, while rockabilly was of a white country influence, and Chuck Berry wanted to be a country singer before doing rock and roll, btw), he knew that just the name of the new sound was sure to raise eyebrows just as did the music. Freed organized rock and roll shows--before it was even called such--in the early 50's which caused teen riots when tickets oversold theater capacity. The wild behavior of teens prompted authority and political figures to condemn rock and roll as causing teen rebellion and lawlessness. Religious figures also saw it as corrupting morals--yet isn't it interesting that preacher Jimmy Swaggart
was cousin to both Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley?

Because of his playing rock and roll records on the radio back east, amid accusations of "payola", Freed was forced out from the industry, and died alcoholic and broke in 1965. :(


Jerry Mathers as The Beaver on Leave It To Beaver, the quintessential 50's family sitcom of everyone's favorite Little Goof.

James Dean, the late, lamented movie idol and icon of movies such as Rebel Without a Cause who symbolized 50's youth disenfranchisement and alienation.

Senator Joe McCarthy, who perpetrated the Red Scare where he accused many in the U.S. government of having communist ties. He frightened many into submission until he was discredited.

Lucy and Ricky Ricardo of I Love Lucy, another sitcom featuring everyone's favorite wacky redhead and her stick-in-the-mud husband, a Cuban bandleader who wouldn't let her do anything but stay at home and be barefoot and pregnant (only you couldn't say that on t.v. then, the term was "expecting").

Pat Boone, the clean-cut pop singer who made rock and roll safe enough for whites by singing sanitized, soulless covers of black performers--and made the original artists rich in the process.

The Twilight Zone, one bold t.v. drama featuring Rod Serling. The show featured various tales with surprising plot twists that captivated viewers for decades. Anyone remember "Time Enough At Last"
with Burgess Meredith as the frustrated book fanatic? Or "Eye Of the Beholder", about the girl with the facelift?

The poodle skirt, another sample of 50's fashion.

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After the deaths of Buddy Holly and his musical passengers on a snowy night in February 1959, rock and roll huddled in hibernation for the first three years of the 60's. The music scene was filled with plenty of girl groups who sang all nice and pretty, but did not have that nifty edge that the Big Bang of Rock And Roll had a few years before. The big names were no longer in the scene. In 1963, however, an island nation across the Atlantic, Great Britain, thrilled to the sounds of American rock and roll. And from that mighty wave of rock and roll hysteria came The Beatles, who sprung from barroom isolation to become a huge phenomenon in their own country. Beatlemania was born!
However, America had its own idols and needed no upstarts from foreign lands to impress us. Surf music and pop vocalists were going strong, as it was gonna be an endless summer.

The fall of that year brought the greatest tragedy the country had ever faced in recent times when President John F. Kennedy, the young president whose good looks and charm reflected the can-do American spirit, was senselessly gunned down in the streets of Dallas. The horrific event brought the country into morning, and the world shared in America's deep grief. By the early winter of 1964, the period of national mourning in America was lifted when The Beatles were pumped relentlessly on radio in a massive campaign move to perk up the country's sagging spirits. The band, initially shunned by Americans, caught on like wildfire, and their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show changed everything overnight. Beatlemania had hit America's shores, and the British Invasion had begun! The Beatles revived the original spirit of rock and roll of the 50's but they brought so much more, a freshness, a rawness, and an incredible gift of songwriting and musical vocabulary. The Beatles dominated the charts in the mid-60's, and were followed by other groundbreaking British bands as the bluesy bad boys of the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, and The Yardbirds.

By mid-decade, America's most important artist, Bob Dylan, the country's leading folk and protest singer met with The Beatles in a move which would change both performers mutually: Dylan convinced The Beatles to go political and use their position as musical celebrities to speak out against such social evils as the Vietnam war. What The Beatles did for Dylan was convince him to go electric. Rock and roll became the ideal way to convey the social conscience of folk music. Rock and roll was no longer just a fun bunch of tunes, but could make serious artistic statements. The Beatles' 1967 album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a testament to that. A new generation was rising up in America and elsewhere, one which questioned the older generation's values of work 9 to 5, salute the flag, go to church and be a good kid, settle down and raise a family. How could the older generation be trusted? They pushed their own into a pointless war which was devouring the nation's youth. The counterculture movement, the Hippies, arose to urge everyone to turn on, tune in, drop acid, not bombs, make love, not war. Eastern religions were embraced as young people sought to achieve a new consciousness with sex, drugs, and rock and roll (at this time was not a pitch for mindless hedonism). Music and hallucinogens convinced many that by meditation and celebration in one huge cosmic ritual that the problems and the evils of the world could be solved. But toward the end of the decade, in spite of the peace, love, and music gathering that was Woodstock, the musical revolution ground to a bloody halt at Altamont Speedway in California where Hell's Angels, hired as "security", pummelled and murdered fans at a free concert by The Rolling Stones. This convinced the older generation that in spite of the well-meaning aspirations of youth, rock and roll could not even be counted on to care for its own. Rock and roll had become ugly, and even its biggest name at that point, The Beatles, were mired in a controversy where a mass murderer named Charles Manson cryptically used the band's song titles in connection with a series of high profile killings in Los Angeles. Rock and roll had become incorrigible, and the wars it intended to stop kept storming on. The peaceful hippie dream was over.

The peace sign: The ultimate symbol of the 60's.

The Beatles: The band that started it all. In seven short years, they changed the face of rock and roll from bubblegum pop to elaborate epic social statements.

The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl": What was the 60's if not sexy. Before rock and roll got serious, nothing mattered more than a pretty girl on sunny beach. In fact, it still matters.

The Rolling Stones: The polar opposite of The Beatles, a rude and crude counterpoint to the "clean"
Fab Four (though The Beatles weren't the most sanitary types either back in Hamburg).

Bob Dylan: The young folk poet injected messages of protest and personal observations of life into his songs--one of the most important artists of all time.

The Who: One of the most important bands of the British Invasion, expressing their frustation with "My Generation" and smashing guitars and drums.

Psychedelic art: This poster was found in a Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits album. Illustrators were keen on bright vivid colors and patterns.

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Beginning of the 60's (in relation to rock and roll):

Bob Dylan: Blowin' In the Wind (1963)

The Beatles: Love Me Do; Please Please Me (1963)

The Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away; It's All Over Now (1964)

The Beach Boys: Surfin' Safari; 409 (1962)



End of the 60's:

Altamont Stones concert, where Hell's Angels beat many and murdered one concertgoer (1969)

Death of Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones (1969)

Death of Jimi Hendrix (1970)

Death of Janis Joplin (1970)

Death of Duane Allman (1971)

Death of Jim Morrison of The Doors (1971)

Breakup of the Beatles (1970)


The Supremes: With lead singer Diana Ross, the group was one of the most successful Motown acts in the 60's.

Grateful Dead poster: Flyers advertising bands such as the Grateful Dead, one of the most important bands of the psychedelic era, were as interesting as the music they were promoting. Flyers became artworks in themselves.

Vietnam War soldier: an unfortunate pawn in a battle in which winners were few and took thousands of lives on both sides.

Jimi Hendrix: The young black Seattle axeman who revolutionized the playing of guitar for decades after his brief stardom and untimely death.

Flower power: Young protesters send a message.

Haight-Ashbury: The streets in San Francisco that was the Mecca of the hippie revolution.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The young fallen civil rights leader shown at the historic march in Washington, D.C. in 1963.

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At the dark gray beginning of the 70's, music fans wondered what would be the Next Big Thing. One big thing that was certainly a LOUD thing was the arrival of a British band in the first two months of the new year: Black Sabbath, a group which clearly announced that the 60's were over. Their guitarist Tony Iommi's industrial accident to his fingers compelled him to create the sound of heavy metal by necessity, by tuning strings down low and playing at groundshaking levels. Sabbath brought a new kind of social commentary that was clearly apocalyptic: their songs about generals gathering just like witches at black masses horrified many and mystified others. They were not only the first to introduce "satanic", occultic themes in rock, but also to introduce moral, Christian themes as well.

If the theme of rock and roll in the 50's indicated disruption in cleancut society, and in the 60's represented revolution and social change, then in the 70's the message was one of excess. In addition to Black Sabbath's far-to-the-right volume knob, one band which popularized heaviness was Led Zeppelin, who not only played with a huge sound but also threw huge parties steeped in debauchery that were the stuff of rock and roll legend. They became one of the biggest bands of all time with widely attended rock concerts. But few bands could top the grandiose musical aspirations of Yes, Pink Floyd, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Such progressive rock bands took entire album sides to express lofty musical thoughts with such top-knotch playing that it began to resemble classical pieces more than rock and roll. It was greatly appreciated more by longhair potheads armed with bongs and headphones wrapped around their ears who savored every slice of possible meaning. "Woah. That is, like, so deeeep..."

Excess also showed itself in terms of fashion. Such talented British performers as Elton John and David Bowie did a little gender-bending with what was known as glitter-rock, with ornate, zany costumes and a decidedly sexually ambiguous look. Other cross-dressing bands such as The New York Dolls and Lou Reed focused on the trashy underbelly of society for their inspiration. The Dolls were a thousand miles in the opposite direction of Yes: their playing was so simple and style so vulgar, yet they helped bring about a new musical movement in England in the late 70's known as punk--a movement committed to sounding the death knell to all things pop. What was playing on the radio made members of rock royalty rich and famous, but where was the rebellion, the edge? Did young people really think that stars like Rod Stewart, Peter Frampton, and the Bee Gees were all that important? Punk rock bands such as the vile and vitriolic Sex Pistols shocked polite British society with their spiked hair, snotty attitude, and cursing on live television--a total aversion to being cute and beautiful.

Meanwhile, America paid little attention to these slimy creatures in the U.K. American youth flocked to discos to get down, get funky, have a good time. The 70's were a time of escape from the problems of the world and at home; as the band Lynyrd Skynyrd said it, "Now Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?" The country had dealt with the aftermath of soldiers returning from Vietnam only to be treated like filth, sprawling gas lines, and the shame that Nixon brought onto the presidency with his involvement with the Watergate scandal. Rockers fed up with the hype of disco could always flee to the nearest arena for a KISS concert and revel in the onstage antics of the masked members in black and silver costumes, and platform boots, who set off flashpots, smoking guitars, and spewed blood. Afterwards you could spend a small fortune on authorized KISS merchandise and fill bassist Gene Simmons' pockets.

In the late 70's, America got caught up in the "punk" revolution--but only as the over-synthed, quirky pop of The Cars--a "New Wave" of music, requiring fans to adopt such necessary tools as the skinny ties, horizontally shaped colored specs, and the dayglow mullet, in a kitschy sense of fashion that would well carry over into the next decade. In the meantime, such movements as punk imploded with the death of the Sex Pistols' drug-addicted bassist Sid Vicious, while disco faced the ultimate execution by angry rock fans at the Death To Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park in 1979, which reflected more of rockers' attitudes about blacks and gays who first introduced the music than about the music itself. It irritated them no end that the Village People, which featured some blacks and gay members, outsold white and militantly heterosexual guitarslinger Ted Nugent a zillion to one. These hostile attitudes toward society's increasing sexual openness would find their comeuppance in the following decade.


Symbol of the 70's: The glittering disco ball. The ultimate sign of Friday night fun and an escape from the real word.

Black Sabbath: The band which invented heavy metal, the house band of the Apocalypse. Many bands have tried and failed to come up with anything as close to the power of their initial recordings.

Led Zeppelin: The band which made their sound so huge in both the studio and in concert. Everything from "Stairway To Heaven" to "Kashmir" never fails to captivate listeners.

Yes' 'Fragile' album: an engaging piece of progressive rock with an equally arresting album cover done by illustrator Roger Dean. In the days of vinyl records, cover art was some of the best things about albums. Though Yes would venture rather pompous, bloated musical pieces, this, their fourth album, put Yes on the musical map in both America and in their home in Britain.

Elton John: Not only was he one of the most important musicians in all of rock and roll, he was also flamboyant even in his eyewear.

KISS: While their first three albums went unnoticed, their 1975 Alive! album captured the band's fiery sound in concert and inspired a slew of live albums from various artists for the rest of the decade. A KISS concert was an event.

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson: Progressive rock's consumate showman, known not only for playing the flute, but his customary standing flamingo-like with one leg cocked. They were a prog-rock band which did not wallow in artsy verbiage, but satirized many topics such as religion and politics.

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Of course, not everything about the 70's was all about excess and indulgence. Some of the best performers in rock and roll were rather down to earth individuals, such as Bruce Springsteen and the band Steely Dan.

A few over-the-top characters:

Alice Cooper: The king of theatrical shock-rock in the 70's, American parents' most single biggest headache. Sordid stories arose from what people thought he did onstage, when it was really just all Hollywood horror show biz, such as similated executions and such. He became a Tinseltown celebrity with such figures as Groucho Marx back then. :groucho Alice, whose real name was Vincent Furnier, insisted on keeping his theatrical character and his personal self seperate.

Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of the Moon: Produced by George Martin who did records for The Beatles, the record was on the charts for an astonishing 741 weeks, and remains the biggest progressive rock classic. The album was intended to be listened in its entirety for a purely sonic experience, rather than having a few hit singles. Album-oriented rock radio was developed for such albums.

Archie Bunker: One of the most notable characters in television, the middle class conservative bigot who found contemporary times hard to swallow. His show 'All In the Family' broke new ground by using colorful language and ethnic epithets as well as issues and topics never before discussed on television. In real life actor Caroll O'Connor was nothing like his character.

David Bowie: Popularized the whole glam image, but in fact was a very talented musician with a broad range of styles in the 70's. He also was an actor as well. His "Berlin trilogy" of albums in the latter part of the decade helped create new wave.

The Sex Pistols: The famed punk band who sought to bring an end to pop records released only one album, but it was enough. It influenced countless British bands with their totally noisy stripped down sound and vile image. The band broke up after an ill-fated tour of America, while their bassist Sid Vicious was later accused of murder and eventually dying from a drug overdose.

The Cars: The band became one of the first big names of new wave in America and introduced listeners to synth-oriented rock. The band's music and album covers were inspired by 70's British band Roxy Music, who featured
gorgeous women on their covers.

The Ramones: The primier punk band from New York were frustrated at not being able to play complicated guitar like Jeff Beck, so they invented fast, simple chord chord riffs that they called "crazy bubblegum" rock. While the band inspired many other successful punk bands over their career, they remained commercially underrated.

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ABBA: Though never huge in America, the Swedish foursome (now THERE'S a great way to phrase it!!
:grineyes: :lol: ) had taken over the rest of the world and had become the biggest album sellers since The Beatles. The group wrote many infectious pop songs which peaked at the height of disco.

President Richard Nixon: Seen here leaving the White House on Air Force One
after his disgrace from the Watergate scandal. His presidency was marked by his paranoia and suspicion over perceived enemies that he even had ex-Beatle John Lennon marked for deportation due to radical political activities.

Ted Nugent: The Wild Man of Rock in the 70's was in fact a person who despised drugs, instead finding his highs in hunting and stalking available cheerleaders. His loud guitar contributed to his partial hearing loss.

The Clash: "The Only Band That Matters" infused ska and reggae into their politically charged brand of punk. Their 1979 double-album 'London Calling' remains one of the most popular in rock. The album cover is inspired by an Elvis Presley record.

Farrah Fawcett: The actress was one of the most popular of the 'Charlie's Angels' trio before she left. Not many teens' bedrooms didn't have a poster of her on their wall.

Bootsy Collins: The colorful bassist played with Parliament-Funkadelic, a funk band which rivalled KISS in the outfit and stage act department. He also had a successful solo career.

Styx: The Chicago-based band epitomised radio-friendly corporate pop-rock in the 70's with songs such as "Come Sail Away" and "Crystal Ball"--and were oddly considered "metal".

Saturday Night Fever: The movie and soundtrack were among the biggest sellers in the 70's, and established John Travolta as a major star. The album was released at disco's peak and ensured the popularity of the genre for a few years--what seemed like forever.


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Beginning of the 70's (music-wise):

Black Sabbath's first album debuts on Friday, February 13, 1970; followed by
'Paranoid' on September 18, 1970 (the day Jimi Hendrix died)

Yes' 'The Yes Album', featuring "Yours Is No Disgrace" and "Starship Trooper"
is released in 1970

Elton John debuts 1970

Led Zeppelin's fourth album (NOT titled "Zoso" or even "IV"), with "Stairway To Heaven" and "Black Dog" is released in 1971

James Taylor releases "Fire And Rain" in 1970

Diana Ross goes solo from the Supremes in 1970

The Carpenters debut in 1970


End of the 70's:

Sid Vicious dies from a heroin overdose in 1979

Disco records are destroyed at a baseball Comiskey Park in a public display of outrage by disgruntled rock fans, in 1979

The Who faces a period of decline after the death of drummer Keith Moon in 1978, as well as the tragic concert stampede in Cincinnatti which left about fifteen attendees dead from trampling while trying to enter the venue, in 1979

Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham dies from an alcohol overdose in September 1980


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Peter Frampton: The former guitarist for Humble Pie went solo with albums that were unrecognized by most listeners until his crowning achievement, Frampton Comes Alive!, complete with talkbox guitar, became the biggest live album of all time and made his a superstar. His sappy followup, "I'm In You" and his subsequent appearance on the movie flop "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with the Bee Gees derailed his career.

Elton John's platform shoes

The Bee Gees: the Australian brother trio who had been successful popsters for years, but were forever tied to the disco craze with music from Saturday Night Fever in spite of their desire to leave the musical typecasting.

Cheap Trick: one Midwest band who managed to make rock simpler and more accessible in the late 70's with their brand of power-pop. Their 1979 concert album Live At Budokan, recorded in Japan, remains one of the finest live records of all time.

Donna Summer: The Queen of Disco was more than a hot bod with a sexy voice, she was very talented and ventured into Europop and gospel.

Aerosmith: America's version of the Stones lived so fast and partied so hearty that none other than the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia called them "the druggiest band" he'd ever met. Drugs nearly curtailed their career by the end of the decade. But they rocked.

Queen: The British band fronted by master showman Freddie Mercury made every concert an experience to behold while composing anthems which sounded huge. Brian May could make his guitar sing like a symphony orchestra on every track. For a long while in the 70's, they literally lived like rock royalty.

Jesus Christ Superstar: While the 70's were the decade where many disenfranchised hippies were re-discovering Jesus as the ultimate counter-culture figure and creating what was called "Jesus music", American pop culture began to re-interpret the Gospel story and put rock music to an operatic score. In the early 70's, Jesus had a new sort of revival of interest.


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Roger Chapman of Family, 1970. :rock:

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The definition of the 80's in music was one of image, which not only meant visually, but unfortunately one of appearances of substance and good reputation. The beginning defining moment of the 80's was the debut of MTV in the summer of 1981, which began to air all the nifty videos of all the new wave artists coming straight out of Britain. Soon the look of an artist determined the success more than the music, and if a video didn't rub viewers the right way, then the music single was sure to bomb. And subsequently, the looks of an artist adjusted to suit the tastes of MTV's bigwigs. Everything from the suave looks of Duran Duran to the mopey mullets of The Cure to the pretty boys of Poison dominated the decade.

The 80's began with America in a state of low morale as the nation watched its own helplessly dragged from the embassy in Tehran by Iranian militants, and was further compounded by inflation and a lackluster leader, Jimmy Carter. But music was looking up, as Canadian prog band Rush made their commercial breakthrough with Permanent Waves, which was followed by their powerful Moving Pictures album a year later. Rock was back, having decimated disco the year before. A New Wave of British Heavy Metal brought huge bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Saxon, to the forefront of music. The NWOBH gave a major makeover to what was once considered a dying scene, infusing punk attitude with metal riffs while remaining completely heavy. Black Sabbath entered the decade appearing to be on the decline until they released their first album with new vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who replaced former vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who was let go due to drugs and alcohol affecting his behavior. Ozzy returned with a new solo album and band which eclipsed his former Sabbath mates when he featured a young blazing guitar talent, the late Randy Rhoads. Australian band AC/DC bounced back from the devastating loss of singer Bon Scott to release Back In Black with new singer Brian Johnson, and became the biggest band around. Van Halen jumpstarted the 80's with guitarist Eddie Van Halen's sizzling guitar leads and singer David Lee Roth's wild showboating performances.

Sadly, the decade opened with the greatest tragedy of rock and roll: the assassination of John Lennon in the late fall of 1980, as the former Beatle was about to make a career comeback. His assailant was a deluded young man who was frustrated with Lennon's success and decided to compensate for his own failures by opening fire on him. Fans all over were devastated and were thrust into mourning for weeks. The decade also began with the election of Ronald Reagan, a seemingly fresh change from Carter, but was criticized for not only enacting policies not friendly to the middle class worker, but for his friendliness to the growing Religious Right, championed by such politically-minded televangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Civil libertarians were appalled at the unconstitutional mixing of church and state with Reagan's administration, as well as with the threats to personal freedoms by the Moral Majority and viewers of The 700 Club. For the next several years, rock and roll would endure a backlash from religious right types who accused bands of inserting "backwards masking messages" into recordings and playing violent music videos. The major moment of this new move of censorship occurred with the formation of the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Center), formed by Senator Gore's wife Tipper and other D.C. wives, which targeted potentially offending albums with a Parental Advisory Warning sticker, which both increased sales for bands like Motley Crue while preventing others from being sold at your friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart.

The non-visual side of "image" occured with such bloated events as Live Aid, a televised event which featured scores of artists at two simultaneously aired shows in both London and Philadelphia in 1985, where viewers were urged to pledge money toward famine relief efforts in Africa. While the idea seemed reasonable that a total rock and roll telethon would bring in funds to feed the hungry, it made the whole endeavor a little too simplistic that all one needed to do was pick up the phone and call. The armchair activists did not consider that much of the money was caught up in red tape, while many critics even accused the Ethiopian military government of squandering the funds. Some artists such as Bob Dylan considered creating a Live-Aid style event to help struggling farmers at home, and thus Farm Aid was born.

One band that triumphed with a little more substance than mere image was U2, an Irish guitar-based band which set out to create some of the most passionate music of the decade. At the time, British synth-pop bands dominated the UK charts, providing eye candy with freaky hairdos (courtesy of bands like A Flock Of Seagulls) and wimpy synthesizers. U2 were serious about their subject matter, such as the Irish Troubles in the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day", about the lifting of martial law in Poland. The band became the biggest band of the decade, filling arenas wherever they went and creating an exhilerating buzz. The band recorded their biggest album, 1987's The Joshua Tree, with music which was completely roots-rock American in style. Most of the members were also Bible-believing Christians, an anomaly in the world of rock and roll.

Religion was also a huge deal in the 80's, as conservative Christians began to reshape America, there was a concerted effort to make its music and pop culture hip as well. Pop singer Amy Grant proved that not only could a Christian be talented, but sexy as well--many Christians balked at her "selling out" to the mainstream market with a not-so-religious album, 1985's Unguarded, which featured the hit "Find a Way". 'The Facts Of Life"'s Lisa Whelchel, who played the rich and beautiful Blair Warner, also proved that Christians could be good celebrities, while taking great pains to show that she was not like her character on TV. Contemporary Christian music finally found an audience--it was not the old-time hymns and Gospel tunes, it could have a freshly-manicured mullet in day-glo colors, have a hip new wave sound and cool vids. L.A. metal band Stryper even proved that you could wear tight fitting spandex and still love the Lord. Yet, some listeners wondered if it was still an exaggerated attempt to sound sophisticated, only the already converted were listening to it, and prospects of converting everyone to their faith with a performer who sounded like Sheena Easton or Dokken were unlikely. Christianity had a shaky reputation of trying to fit in with pop culture while at the same time condemning it.

By 1983, L.A. became the center of the musical universe, with its first #1 metal album Quiet Riot's Metal Health. From there, the floodgates were opened as sleazy bad boys Motley Crue, sexy strutters Ratt, and the shockingly slimy W.A.S.P. dominated the charts. Their videos were hits and glutted the airwaves until MTV decided to pull the plug on metal videos. Bands decided to revamp their image to suit MTV airplay and toned down on the "bad boys" image. They put on a more glam image which was enhanced by the success of East Coast rockers Bon Jovi, whose lead singer had boyish looks and the prettiest hair. In the second wave of glam metal came Poison, Cinderella, and veteran band Whitesnake, whose videos featured a very hot Tawnee Kitaen slithering on car hoods. The new crop of "hair" metal was rivaled by a direct descendent of NWOBHM: thrash or speed metal, featuring bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, and Exodus. These bands were inspired by punk to play faster and louder than anyone else. While many metal fans were put off by these bands, others reveled in the bands' extreme music and streetwise 'tude. Other religious types accused the bands of "worshipping Satan", as evidenced by their gory album covers, which increased the mystique and popularity of the bands.

While many metal bands were content to insert blasphemous images on their covers, one figure which caused the most controversy was Madonna, who came out in mid-decade with an obvious "trash-slut" image, but before long she became one of the biggest movers and shakers in pop music as she danced her way into our hearts. No one knew which was worse, the fact that she combined crucifixes with her tawdry image, or the fact that she was so omnipresent that her touch was on just about everything in the 90's. She fashioned herself as a modern day Marilyn Monroe (without the acting talent), and became everyone's Material Girl, who was driven by greed and a relentless business savvy which epitomised everything about the decade--money, in addition to image. She made dance-pop fluff acceptable, and pushed her image past the brink of overexposure. She was trying to make her view of sexuality more acceptable, but after that was played out, fans burned out and got up to fetch a can of New Coke.

The other image of the decade was that of Bruce Springsteen, but not quite the image that he wanted to express. In 1984, his 'Born In the U.S.A.' album was released to wide acclaim, and fans fell in love with the working class rocker who represented the hopes and dreams of the common man. Even his
appeal was not lost on Ronald Reagan, who made a speech about the positive impact of Springsteen on listeners. But when Reagan made this comment, it made it appear that Reagan's goals and Springsteen's were the same--as if Reagan and Springsteen endorsed each other, which was not the case at all.
Springsteen saw Reagan as the enemy of the middle class by creating policies which cut jobs. Others, like U2, saw Reagan as a man hellbent on nuclear tyranny. But these criticisms were lost on a country wallowing in a new revival of patriotism after the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984.

Reagan even seemed to have a friend in even Michael Jackson, who was one of the biggest entertainers of the decade, and certainly one of the wealthiest. The former Jackson 5 tyke had grown up and had become very rich early on, and even richer with the massive success of 1982's 'Thriller', which introduced the world to the phenomenon of moonwalking and single gloves. Many persons of color criticized Jackson for losing touch with other blacks by being in league with another rich entertainer, Reagan, whose policies were hurting minorities. While Jackson was busy entertaining white kiddies, older adults were flocking to see another black artist, Prince, appear in 'Purple Rain', a movie a little too steamy for Tipper Gore's kids.

The "image" factor in the 80's also reflected poorly on not only the Reagan administration in light of the Iran-Contra scandal, but on the self-proclaimed guardians of morality, televangelists such as Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart. Roberts was ridiculed for pleading for millions of dollars "or else God was going to take him home", while it was revealed that Bakker had taken thousands of dollars from PTL to pay for the silence of a young secretary, Jessica Hahn, who threatened to go public with allegations that he forced sex on her. But the most dramatic moment came when Swaggart, caught in a motel tryst with a Baton Rouge prostitute by a rival preacher, cried and pleaded for forgiveness on television in 1988. Swaggart, an harsh opponent of "satanic" rock for promoting immoral behavior, was at a loss for why he himself was indulging in the same antics--and was known to repeat them again later on. The dealings of t.v. preachers was discussed on Metallica's song "Leper Messiah", words of truth coming from a band later widely praised as proof that metal had intelligence rather than just partying with the babes. Metallica's 1988 album '...And Justice For All" touched on subjects such as the American legal system, the abuses of censorship, and war, with their first video for the song "One".

By the end of the decade, rock and roll had achieved its greatest victory by helping bring down the Berlin Wall and ending the Cold War, by creating a desire in people in Eastern Europe to hear more of the forbidden music on foreign airwaves--and in the process, finding out the reality of the devastation caused by the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the Soviet Union.
Black market albums gave people a voice, a sense of urgency--hell, they just wanted to rock!!--and demanded the Iron Curtain be dismantled. In the fall of 1989, the Berlin Wall toppled, and joyous citizens rushed out to buy
AC/DC albums at record stores.


The ever-necessary can of hairspray, the symbol of the 80's!

AC/DC with new vocalist Brian Johnson giving guitarist Angus Young a lift. The band refused to be called metal, just great rock and roll, and never deviated from their formula.

Duran Duran: Britain's biggest band of the New Romantics scene, where fashion and prettiness were more important than talent and substance.

Rush: Canada's biggest power trio, which had abandoned their lengthy prog rock epics of the 70's in favor of more streamlined, synth-y rock while yet sounding heavy and progressive at the same time. The band's lyrics were intelligent as was their music. They never sought to be popular and follow someone else's dictates, and for that reason, became one of the biggest bands of the 80's and a huge concert draw with songs like "Tom Sawyer," "The Spirit Of Radio", "Subdivisions", "New World Man" and "The Big Money".

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Madonna: the biggest female figure in 80's music with the biggest....songs. She influenced a generation of teens and preteens to become Madonna-wannabees were crucifixes became major fashion statements (because "They have a naked guy on them" :rolleyes: ) along with lingerie available at every fine Junior Miss department at Macy's.

Van Halen: In spite of the band as having a notorious reputation for partying, Eddie Van Halen was more content to sit at home and create his unique brand of guitar noodling which made it onto the band's albums. Live the band came into full action. Eddie's conflicts with David Lee Roth led to the original frontman's departure in 1985.

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Madonna: the biggest female figure in 80's music with the biggest....songs. She influenced a generation of teens and preteens to become Madonna-wannabees were crucifixes became major fashion statements (because "They have a naked guy on them" :rolleyes: ) along with lingerie available at every fine Junior Miss department at Macy's.

She dumbed down popular music, and continues her onsalught to this day! If only we'd bought seven million Tracy Chapman records instead! :mad:

[Shine]

Thanks for the Van Halen and Rush pictures. :D

[ABlairican Pie]

She dumbed down popular music, and continues her onsalught to this day! If only we'd bought seven million Tracy Chapman records instead! :mad:And she gave us CANDLEBOX!!!!! :mad:

Back about 13 years ago, I worked pretty close with people who were in the the Seattle music scene, guys in bands who knew everyone else, saw some shows and all. It is really weird that I never heard Candlebox as say like, a local band on an indie label, who had been buzzing for a few years, it was only AFTER they signed with Madonna's Maverick label that they became these huge stars. The thing about them that I didn't get was, if you were familiar with the local bands like I was back then, you DID NOT sound like a half-baked, polished version of Pearl Jam with that wimpy radio appeal. It was like they were this band that came along AFTER the fact of grunge, and they could hardly be considered part of the scene. Grunge-LITE, maybe? puke:

[ABlairican Pie]

Thanks for the Van Halen and Rush pictures. :D :welcome: Rush rules!!! You couldn't have the 80's without Rush!!! Nor the 70's or 90's, either!!! Looking forward to a new Rush album next year, from what I've read!! :rock:

[ABlairican Pie]

Beginning of the 80's (music-wise: in each of the decades, we point to a time either musically or culturally where a decade began to take on its identifying characteristics):


Rush releases 'Permanent Waves' in 1980; followed by 'Moving Pictures' in 1981: marked the point at which a rising 70's prog band adopted synthesizers and a more commercial streamlined sound--while remaining cutting edge

Iron Maiden releases their debut album in 1980: a classic and a milestone in the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

Judas Priest releases 'British Steel' in 1980: another defining moment of metal

Ozzy Osbourne releases Blizzard of Ozz in 1980: an introduction to one of the
greatest and most influential guitarists of the 80's, Randy Rhoads, a very fluent and competent player

AC/DC released Back In Black in 1980: an amazing return from a band whose lead singer had just died. They proved that rock was back after the long drought that was disco.

Van Halen debuts in 1978: the start of the 80's could be traced to this album which both combined jaw-dropping shred on the instrumental "Eruption" with Top 40 style rock tunes, both important developments in the 80's

U2 debuts with 'Boy' in 1980

Prince debuts in 1980

MTV begins to air in 1981

Reagan elected in 1980, with a conservative revolution which lasts throughout the decade

Duran Duran debuts in 1980 as part of the "New Romantics" scene in Britain


End of the 80's:

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 signals the end of the Cold War

The death of Stevie Ray Vaughn in September 1990 signals the end of the blues revival in the 80's, as well as a sign of the end of virtuosic guitar playing

The death of Steve Clark of Def Leppard in January 1991 marks the decline of one of the biggest metal bands of the 80's, who spend the next decade as a struggling pop act

The release of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album in October 1991 halts hair metal literally overnight


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80's female fashion: stone washed jeans and everything--and check out the fringe and the big hair!! :eyes:

Judas Priest: Though they got their start in the early 70's, the band made their mark in the 80's with their intent to be the definition of metal. They succeeded in spades. One unique the band did during their 1984 Defenders Of the Faith tour was line the stage with empty "dummy" amp cabinets with no components inside, to give the impression the concert was louder than it really was. It worked like a charm! Also, lead singer Rob Halford's stage attire was taken directly from the leather gay biker look--and many fans misinterpreted it the most macho heterosexual statement in the world.

President Ronald Reagan: The former actor turned politician used his charm and patrician looks to inspire a country. He is credited with ending the Cold War by confronting Gorbachev, while at the same time was mired in the Iran Contra scandal. Many accused him of being out of touch with the rest of the country, of making America too militaristic, and of being controlled by those by others--but he sure had that warm smile.

Bob Geldof: The lead singer of the Boomtown Rats was the mastermind behind Live Aid and the charity single by British artists called Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" For his famine relief efforts, many fans insisted that he be dubbed "St. Bob".

Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads: The former Black Sabbath singer hooked up with the massively talented guitarist in 1979 at the rock bottom of Ozzy's life after the dismissal from his previous band. Rhoads helped Ozzy regain stardom in the early 80's before his tragic death in a plane crash in 1982. In addition to Rhoads' brilliant guitar work, Ozzy had gained a reputation of being a crazy man in rock and roll due to bizarre pranks.

U2: The Irish band charged out in the early 80's with their positive version of punk-inspired music. The band was forced to make a decision between participating in a Christian fellowship at home or straying from the faith by playing "sinful" rock and roll. They kept their faith and their commitment to rock. Their passionate lyrics addressed issues of social conscience such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride (In the Name of Love), which made them the biggest band of the 80's.

Michael Jackson: The youngest member of The Jackson 5 became "the Prince
of Pop" due to his huge-selling Thriller album, which featured guest guitar work by Eddie Van Halen on his hit "Beat It". His amazing showmanship and moonwalk helped open the doors to more videos by black artists on previously "whites-only" MTV.

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Iron Maiden: The major British metal band's 1982 album 'Number Of the Beast', which featured their ghoulish mascot Eddy on the cover, was the subject of attacks by fundamentalist Christians who did not understand their title song was a warning against receiving the devil's mark as described in the Book of Revelation. Bassist Steve Harris had a nightmare of this occurance which prompted him to write the song, thus doing the church's job.

Lisa Whelchel: The born again actress' character on 'The Facts Of Life' character Blair Warner exemplified both beauty and wealth, two very 80's traits. She even recorded an album of upbeat rock and pop songs, 'All Because Of You' in 1984, which demonstrated that evangelical Christianity could be hip and sophisticated. For nine seasons, she remained everyone's favorite Christian hottie.

Bruce Springsteen: First making his mark in the 70's, "Bruuuuuce" achieved megastardom in 1984 when his "Born In the U.S.A." was misconstrued as a collection of patriotic pop rock tunes. The title track was in fact about the plight of the Vietnam vet, but regardless, people understood Springsteen's championing of the common man in middle America.

Cinderella: Discovered by Bon Jovi, the band led by guitarist/vocalist Tom Kiefer was one glam metal band that definitely rocked. They were a prettier version of Aerosmith with an amazing vocal shriek and tons of over-the-top hair. First hitting with "Night Songs" in 1986, the band later ventured into bluesy ballads and rootsier rock on following albums.

A Flock Of Seagulls: Hailing from Liverpool, the same town which birthed The Beatles, the band hit the scene with the 1982 MTV favorite, "I Ran", but the only real improvement they had over The Fab Four was that they sported bigger and pointier hair-don'ts.

Prince: In addition to being a sex symbol in music who specialized in provocative lyrics, the Purple One was a master composer who did his own songs. While his guitar playing was not quite on the level of Hendrix, he was still a capable string-slinger and a total showman clearly inspired by Jimi. He also acted in his own movies. One of his songs was also the inspiration behind the formation of the PMRC in 1985.

Ronnie James Dio: Originally the vocalist for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow in the 70's, he later achieved fame for briefly replacing Ozzy in Black Sabbath in the early 80's before embarking on his own with his self-named band. His mystical, mysteriously worded songs include "Holy Diver", "Rainbow In the Dark", "The Last In Line", I Could Have Been a Dreamer", and a few big tunes with Black Sabbath, "Heaven and Hell", "Children Of the Sea", and "The Mob Rules". He also popularized the use of the "horns" finger-salute among metal fans.

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And she gave us CANDLEBOX!!!!! :mad:

Back about 13 years ago, I worked pretty close with people who were in the the Seattle music scene, guys in bands who knew everyone else, saw some shows and all. It is really weird that I never heard Candlebox as say like, a local band on an indie label, who had been buzzing for a few years, it was only AFTER they signed with Madonna's Maverick label that they became these huge stars. The thing about them that I didn't get was, if you were familiar with the local bands like I was back then, you DID NOT sound like a half-baked, polished version of Pearl Jam with that wimpy radio appeal. It was like they were this band that came along AFTER the fact of grunge, and they could hardly be considered part of the scene. Grunge-LITE, maybe? puke:


Candlebox was part of Madge's plot to emasculate grunge - and all guitar rock - to make the world safe for kindred spirits like Britney. And the worst part of it is. . .

IT WORKED!!!

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[ABlairican Pie]

the guitarist of one of the biggest bands of the 80's.

Slash of Guns N' Roses.

G N' R were the ultimate rock and roll band of the 80's. They were too sleazy
and too hard-edged to be lumped in with their hair-band peers. The band, which featured misanthrope vocalist Axl Rose, guitarist Izzy Stradlin, Seattle-bred bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler, began in L.A. in the mid-80's as a cross between the Sex Pistols and Aerosmith, and that sort of hybrid worked in spades. The band in their early days lived on the streets of Hollyweird and sustained themselves with trading McDonald's coupons, feeling so near and yet so far from that success just around the corner. They went through hard times which was felt in their music, but it was all part of paying dues in rock and roll. The band ran afoul of the law, had their fair share of substance abuse issues, but carried on in spite of it all. Their first indie album was 1986's Live Like a Suicide, which featured a rawness that was suprisingly fresh for a band from Tinseltown. They were the real deal, and their major label debut, 1987's Appetite for Destruction, confirmed that. Their video for the song "Welcome To the Jungle" slowly but surely took off on MTV, and soon they were the band to watch for. In the early 90's the band hit their peak, while at the same time facing controversy, concert violence, and the prima donna attitude of Axl. The rest of the band left in frustration and Axl's erstwhile band has undergone a revolving door policy in recent years. Axl seems to have a harder time dealing with fame than when the band was struggling. Any day now, we should hear the new Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy, which has spent over thirteen years in the making and will not see the light of day.

Slash (real name Saul Hudson) is a blues-based guitarist who is known for his laidback manner, as well as his constantly being scene with smokes and booze, preferably Black Death vodka. Currently he is a member of Velvet Revolver with his bandmates of G N' R as well as former Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland. Slash is shown here in a very dignified pose--here's to wishing him a safe and happy lungs and liver!! :nod: :yeahthat: :rock:

[Shine]

:welcome: Rush rules!!! You couldn't have the 80's without Rush!!! Nor the 70's or 90's, either!!! Looking forward to a new Rush album next year, from what I've read!! :rock:

I can't wait for a new Rush album. :rock: It has been almost five years since Vapor Trails came out. I hope that they tour too. :D

[ABlairican Pie]

Metallica: Their 1986 album 'Master Of Puppets' remains one of the heaviest albums of all time and established them as a no-nonsense band to watch for.
The album featured songs tied in to the theme of manipulation of power, whether it be through drugs, war, corrupt preachers, or just shear brutality itself. Sadly, their bassist Cliff Burton died in a bus crash while on tour that year.

Culture Club: Lead singer Boy George became perhaps one of the first openly gay pop stars in music, and had an extravangantly campy dress style. He became a huge hit on MTV and one of the biggest stars in 1983 until drugs sidelined his career a few years later.

Huey Lewis and The News: Also in 1983, Bay Area rocker Huey Lewis and his band The News released 'Sports', whose title was based on an in-joke: "Here is Huey Lewis with the news, and coming up: sports!" :lol: The album featured a feel-good kind of rock and roll that fit in with the yuppie generation
with songs such as "I Want a New Drug", which apparently appealed to r & B artist Ray Parker Jr. who plagiarized it for use in the movie "Ghostbusters".

New Coke: This nasty sweet beverage which came out in 1985 proved that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. puke:

Poison: These chicks were really hot. Stock in Max Factor doubled during their heyday.

Samantha Fox: Now THIS chick was SMOKIN' hot. The buxom British blonde bird was a huge hit in her home country and was featured nude in magazines everywhere during the 80's. In 1986 she released an album and single,
"Touch Me (I Want Your Body)". Not as much as we wanted yours, love. :eyes:

Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap: In 1982, the world's loudest band released Smell the Glove which featured such hits as "Big Bottom", "Rock And Roll Creation", and the ever popular "Stonehenge". The 1984 movie 'This Is Spinal Tap' showed the introduction of one of their props, a miniature version of the ancient stone relic, which reflected a tour mishap with Black Sabbath during their tour that year when their outsized version of Stonehenge could not be fit through venue doors! Lead Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel popularized the expression, "These go up to 11!!" in rreference to the volume knob on his Marshall amplifier.

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Robert Smith of The Cure with Siouxsie (Siouxsie and the Banshees): These two British perfomers in the early 80's helped bring about "Goth" fashion and music ; a dark-toned version of punk and new wave which was very popular with sensitive teens who felt social and emotional oppression. The Cure wrote songs of lost love and alienation which moved away from its punk roots to more pop styles.

Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Texas bluesman's playing so amazed Mick Jagger at a club show in the early '80's that the Stones frontman wet his pants!
:eek: :lol: Vaughan's first exposure to the mainstream was on David Bowie's
'Let's Dance' album in 1983, then spent the rest of the decade releasing some of the finest guitar music ever recorded, ushering a blues revival. Alcohol addiction nearly destroyed his health and career, but he bounced back strong. Sadly he died in a helicopter crash after a show in September 1990. :(

Tracy Chapman: After nearly a decade of cookie-cutter bands and performers glutting the charts, the young African-American female folk singer sprang onto the scene in 1988 with honest tunes about real life and social change, such as "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution", "For My Lover", and "Why?" It was expected that she would lead mainstream audiences out of the darkness of fake pop, but it was not to be. She did, however, set the pace for 90's female singer-songwriters.

Penthouse and Jimmy Swaggart: In the spring of 1988, Penthouse magazine featured a pictorial of Debra Murphree, the woman who was involved in the scandal which brought down televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. During the mid-80's, the Religious Right sought to ban adult magazines such as Penthouse, yet were horrified that one of their own was participating in hypocrisy. His tear-filled confession on television was one of the most memorable moments of that year, though he never changed his racy routine. Penthouse also exposed the first African-American Miss America Vanessa Williams in explicit poses which cost her the crown in 1984. Swaggart, in addition to be a "foe" of porn, also condemned rock, even Christian rock.

Winger: While the band was derided in the late 80's and early 90's as poodle-headed popsters, the band was supremely talented and envied for Kip Winger's babe-snagging looks as well as Reb Beach's guitar-shredding abilities.
The band known for 1988's hit "Seventeen" surprised many with their musical versatility, though in the early 90's a certain cartoon on MTV created a reversal of fortune for the band.

Anthrax: One of the Big Four of thrash metal bands of the 80's along with Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer, the New York band released an EP with a novelty song called "I'm the Man" in 1987, a tune which mixed metal with rap lyrics and rhythms. In doing so they started one of the biggest musical trends of the coming decade. However, the band would remain underrated in spite of an appearance on "Married...With Children".

The Berlin Wall falls: In November 1989, history was made when the Berlin Wall, the hated structure of communist tyranny, finally came crashing down and the enslaved people of the divided city, and all of Eastern Europe tasted freedom. The newly liberated citizens flocked to record stores to buy rock records and celebrated for days. The desire to hear rock and roll on forbidden airwaves enabled people in the Soviet bloc to hear of the appalling conditions of their countries as opposed to what the state-owned party line was telling them. In the photo below, young people dance and rejoice on the Wall.

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The underlying theme of rock and roll in the 90's could be best described as disenfranchisement. Young people sensed their own isolation and boredom in that decade, and pushed aside the escapism of the 80's to embrace harsh realism.

The decade began with a sense of optimism over the collapse of the Cold War, and continued with the big names of the 80's still going strong, along with a new crop of rising stars. Hair metal was still big, bad boy bands like Motley Crue were making beaucoup bucks, thrash metal had reached its peak, and dance pop artists were the current hit of the year 1990. The German pop duo Milli Vanilli were touted as the next Elvis, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Mick Jagger all rolled into one. Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer were the biggest rappers, and for now, all looked sweet.

Sadly, the death of the talented and flamboyant lead singer of Seattle band Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, from a heroin overdose in early 1990, spelled the end to a promising group which had just signed to a major label. However, the tragedy turned out to be a blessing in disguise: the music press and media began to focus on this new kind of music in tucked-away Seattle that had been brewing for years away from the rest of the mainstream. This low-fi, garage-y brand of rock, completely raw and coarse on guitars and vocals, was called "grunge", whose pioneers were late 80's bands such as Mudhoney, The Melvins, and Screaming Trees. But one band that record labels took notice of was a trio named Nirvana, who cared little for a major contract and felt content playing to only a few hundred fans at small sweaty clubs. Reluctantly, the band signed with Geffen Records, thinking the album would sell as modestly as a Motorhead record. The album, 1991's 'Nevermind',
set off a revolution. Overnight, as the song and video for the band's first hit anthem, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", hit radio and MTV, young people snapped up the album in droves, relating to the cryptic, disjointed lyrics hinting of apathy and frustration. It was fresh, it was new, it was not the typical polished rock tunes regurgitated out of Hollywood, it was something so simple anyone could play it. Young fans could relate to Kurt Cobain and the band because he looked like them and did not have a huge pile of hair stacked up like a seven-layer sundae. Overnight, all things hair metal, with all of the pretentious "bad boy" posturings while Motley Crue's Vince Neil lit cigars with dollar bills on music biz magazines, came to a screeching halt. Why did all these poseurs act like they were from the "wrong side of the tracks" while they stayed in Beverly Hills mansions? The whole hair scene had become predictable. Nirvana and all the other bands from the Seattle scene offered a sense of reality, with lyrics about missing parents and troubled teens like themselves.

From the ashes of Mother Love Bone came Pearl Jam, with new lead singer Eddie Vedder, a band that did not fit quite into the "grunge" categorization, but played more of a trippy classic rock sound. Their hits "Even Flow", "Alive", "Jeremy", and "Black" became the signature songs by which Seattle would be associated. Their groovy rhythm would later be repeated endlessly by other bands during the decade. Soundgarden, who sounded every bit as primal as early Black Sabbath, would be dubbed as a new band of alternative metal with their trademark slow, sludgy guitar sound. Alice In Chains was yet another band who became a sort of darker, twisted version of hair metal. The alternative revolution was born, displacing everything that had come before it. Guitarists were no longer slaves to soulless perfection like that of 80's guitar god Yngwie Malmsteen, fast shredding was no longer required. Since grunge was linked entirely to the Seattle scene, you could not be a grunge rocker apart from Seattle. For this reason, many bands flocked to Seattle with the hopes of being signed.

The whole problem with alternative, however, was that it was music performed for a limited audience who shared in the band's musical vision, not something just done for the sake of the industry's whims. Instantly, people began to associate alternative with just its biggest names, rather than follow its own muse: For grunge, sound exactly like Nirvana, for punk-funk, play like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Some early 90's bands which did not fit into any of the above categories, but pioneered the whole alternative scene for the 90s were zany bands like Jane's Addiction, Primus, Faith No More, and others. Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell started a music festival called Lollapalooza which gave audiences a look at the new acts about to take the country by storm. In addition to music, fans took alternative, "grunge" fashion to mean plaid flannel shirts, a simple style of dress for young bands too broke to pay for leather trousers (which were un-PC anyway). Suddenly flannel became an "anti-fashion" form of fashion. Other popular attire were Doc Martin boots, stocking caps, and torn jeans. In other words, simple stuff off thrift store racks. It would be an outrage that "grunge fashion" would soon sell for hundreds of dollars at upscale boutiques in the coming years.

Seattle would become the new Mecca of culture. It was the home of Boeing jets, Microsoft computer software, Starbuck's coffee, and Sub Pop Records, home to independent bands whose singles and indie albums were first featured on the label. The town was a world-class city in the corner of the country right in the center of the Pacific Rim where international commerce and culture would converge. America soon flocked to the city, hearing about its beautiful views of Mt. Rainier, low crime, thriving 90's business, and above all, it was a politically liberal town, perfect for the 90's. But as many people exited I-5 and I-90 in search of the nearest lattes, they found that it had a slew of problems, such as growing use of heroin. Homeless kids wandered the streets of University district. And it rained constantly. Many of the young people there were depressed and suicidal.

Many artists of the 80's successfully made the transition into the 90's with many surprises: alternative rock act REM turned acoustic on their 'Out Of Time' album in 1991, which became one of their biggest releases. U2 also released the electronic dance rock album 'Achtung Baby' that year, re-inventing themselves as a theatrical troupe with a stunning display of visuals and costumes. But the biggest surprise came with the release of Metallica's self-titled "black album" in 1991, where they jettisoned their thrash roots and took on Bon Jovi producer Bob Rock for their most commercial effort yet with the hit "Enter Sandman". This more radio-friendly version of the band had former fans howl in outrage, they had "sold out" by sounding corporate, including recording a ballad ??!! What was Metallica about to do next, cut their hair and go alternative? In spite of the criticisms, the album was their heaviest sound-wise, and drew many compliments. In fact, Metallica would be practically the only metal band to command big bucks that decade.

Other metal bands sank from the realization they could not compete with the Seattle scene. Hair band Warrant was basically laughed off the block with the cheesy, "sexist" video for their hit "Cherry Pie" ("too un-PC!!"). Winger's third album, the musically superior "Pull", was ignored by many rock fans after viewing the MTV cartoon Beavis and Butthead, which featured two braindead metalheads who commented endlessly on what videos "sucked" and which were "cool"--certainly not Winger, whose band t-shirts were worn by the fat nerdy neighborhood kid Stewart, whom the two boys taunted. Everything "hair", spandex, anything with blonde bimbos, having nuthin' but a good time, all things metal, all things shred, all things basically heavy, were pushed aside by PC teens who believed anything that rawked was an inappropriate anachronism of the 80's no longer relevant. Metal was vulgar and crude, and in the eyes and ears of many, downright corny. Hair metal, once seen by many bands as an expression of rebellion--looking like a chick was a bold statement--was silly and frivolous. Metal bands were condemned as being racist, sexist, and homophobic. Political correctness had arrived.

But as "grunge" and alternative became the standard music of the 90's, many bands began to play a tapered-down version of the music that made them popular to begin with. Soundgarden's 1994 album 'Superunknown', which featured their biggest hit "Black Hole Sun" (which was covered by pop vocalists Steve and Edie Gorme! :eek: ), saw the band move in a more melodic direction away from their churning sludge-guitar roots. Another Seattle band, Candlebox, came to the forefront only after the grunge scene cooled off in 1993. The band had signed to Madonna's Maverick Records (ever the opportunist, she was) when Miss Material Girl wanted to carve a piece of the plaid flannel pie and gain "cred". Candlebox played a toned-down clone version of what Pearl Jam had been doing for the past couple albums, in what could be best described as Grunge-Lite. Stone Temple Pilots were yet another band accused of being Pearl Jam clones, due to their lead singer sounding exactly like Eddie Vedder. Alternative rock had a tendency to eat itself into redundancy. But at the peak of the grunge/alternative era, Seattle bands began to hate the hype over their music. They initially wanted just to make music for their fans who understood their music, not just follow the record industry's dictates in order to be big stars. This concept was lost on the bigwigs in the industry. Many bands, like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, could not stand the thought that the very sosh and jock types who beat them up and humiliated them in high school were now probably getting into their music. Seattle bands could not handle the compromise, they felt as if it were all just trendy now that the "beautiful people" were embracing them just like they had embraced pop rock just a year or so before. For Kurt Cobain, he withered under the music industry's grueling demands to make another Nevermind. Instead he released 'In Utero', what was considered to be the album he always wanted to make. The album featured many confessional songs which hinted at self-destruction and the frustration at being an unwilling rock star. Soon reports on Seattle news emerged that there were there were threats and acts of violence at the Seattle home of Cobain and his wife, "the Queen of Grunge" Courtney Love of the band Hole. The reports became a near-nightly occurrence, as did revelations that both Cobain and Love were using heroin in the presence of their baby daughter Frances. Soon the pressure became too much. On April 8, 1994, athorities discovered the body of Cobain at his home on Lake Washington in Seattle, the victim of a suicide by shotgun after injecting himself with a large dose of heroin. The rock world was devastated at the news. In his suicide note, he explained that he was tired of making music when he felt no joy in it anymore. His use of heroin was primarily meant to soothe his painful stomach pangs. Some journalists even started a conspiracy theory that he was murdered, but that has been merely speculation. Regardless, Kurt Cobain was dead, and with it, many rock fans began to question whether playing rock and roll was really worth it. Who wants get rich and sell out? To achieve popularity with many people meant compromise somehow, that you had done something to be a little too accessible to too many rather than to be true to your own musical vision.

This may explain the reason why many rock fans embraced one of the other big things of the 90's, rap and hip-hop, which at one point eclipsed the popularity of rock and roll on the charts. These two r & b-based forms of music, if you will, consisted of little more than persons chanting in rhythm to a pre-recorded beat or musical sample. The trend took off in a big way with many kids who felt like they were in the middle of a cop show episode in "da 'hood", with lyrics describing violence, drug use, shoot-outs with the police and everyday life for many blacks so far removed from the reality of suburban teens. One of the reasons also for the decline of rock and roll's popularity was that it was "white guys'" music, though the PC brigades ignored the fact that rock and roll was in fact created by persons of color. Tragically, a few big name rappers such as Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls died in a hail of bullets under mysterious circumstances, though many believe it to be gang-related.

Metal did happen to go on in the 90's, though it was completely de-emphasized. One band which stood out from the rest was Texas thrash metal band Pantera, whose 1992 album 'Vulgar Display Of Power' became one of the biggest metal albums of the 90's. The album, featuring the searing guitar work of Dimebag Darrell Abbott, focused on themes of rage and intensity with vocals delivered by hardcore vocalist Phil Anselmo. Megadeth had come of age with 1990's speed-metal classic 'Rust In Peace' and 1992's 'Countdown To Extinction'. Megadeth also co-headlined 1991's Clash Of the Titans tour with Slayer and Anthrax. After the grunge revolution hit, many newer metal bands sprang up in the underground, such as death metal bands Napalm Death, Carcass, Obituary, and Cannibal Corpse, whose titles read often like a medical textbook (i.e., "Descanting the Insalubrious"). While death metal vocals sounded like Cookie Monster tossing Oreos, the other rising sub-genre black metal featured vocals shrieking lyrics about Satanism and blasphemy, for a dark and intense musical experience. In 1993, the world was horrified to learn that many black metal bands in Norway were going on murderous rampages and even burning down historic stave churches in an attempt to revert their country back to pagan Viking ways, believing Christianity was a foreign religion forced on them a thousand years before.

In early 1991, President George H.W. Bush received a boost to his popularity ratings for successfully winning the brief war in the Persian Gulf, fought over Iraq's refusal to give up Kuwait from invasion, but the next year, he was unable to contain the flow of violence which stemmed from the acquittal of Los Angeles police officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King, so as his popularity sagged, he found himself defeated by Arkansas governer Bill Clinton for the presidency. Clinton was a young affable sort who connected with young people and brought a fresh new face and voice to American politics. The economy improved and the country felt secure. But not all were enamoured by the Wonder-Boy from Little Rock, many conservatives still smarting from the loss of the Republican stronghold in the White House tuned in to hear the smarmy screeds of Rush Limbaugh, a portly figure who offered a daily dose of something to rant about the misdeeds of liberals, convincing many that he was the "voice of truth, reason, and equal time". A simmering state of distrust, a "culture war" in the words of presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan, was brewing across America. People soon found comfort in outrageous half-truths and falsehoods of Rush (where I come from, Rush is a band.) The conservatives and Republicans felt vindicated when Clinton faced impeachment for an illicit sexual affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, for which he was later acquitted. It was ironic that a sexual fling was treated as more important and more horrific than other problems facing the world, such as terrorist activity in Africa and elsewhere.

Music had become wimpy, safe, and hippie-esque by mid-decade. Metal band Anthrax responded to the trendy obsession with alternative fashion in their song "Packaged Rebellion" in 1992 with the lyric, "revolution on my sleeve", where young people thought that being a renegade and iconoclast was something to simply bought from store racks. But in 1994, as one phase of the alternative revolution had fizzled out, a new one was about to take its place. A band formed in country stronghold Bakersfield, California, which combined rap rhythms and heavy seven-string guitars, an instrument developed by shred virtuoso Steve Vai. The band was Korn, and the painful, angst-filled lyrics sung by tortured vocalist Jonathan Davis struck a chord with many despondent youth. Another band, Rage Against the Machine, also combined rap and hard rock as the left-of-center political band shouted lyrics of social upheaval and condemnation of corporate America's racist and exploitative policies. Brazilian band Soulfly, formed by Max Cavalera of Sepultura, was a founding band of what was called NU-metal (New Urban metal). By the end of the decade, the new style of metal, which radically departed from traditional blues-based metal of the past, would be the leading type of hard rock by the end of the decade.

The biggest shock of metal occurred in 1996 when Metallica not only departed from their thrash roots on their new 'Load' album, but had cut their hair short! Metallica were completely selling out! And on top of that, Metallica were even chosen to headline Lollapalooza that year, unheard of for a metal act--if that was in fact what they still were. In response, Sharon Osbourne, wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne, announced that she would begin a heavy metal/hard rock festival called Ozzfest, featuring her husband as headliner. Amazingly, the festival succeeded while Lollapalooza foundered. Metal was back, though in a different variation than in Ozzy's heyday. Bands of the past were making a huge comeback in the latter half of the 90's, such as KISS, the Eagles, Steely Dan, and even the Sex Pistols. The 90's were known for embracing the 70's while ignoring the 80's. To everyone's surprise, Black Sabbath announced that it would be re-uniting with Ozzy for tours in 1997. The tour was a phenomenal success for the veteran band, who remained an inspiration for metal and grunge bands.

During that time hard rock was making a resurgence, a disturbing new trend was taking place: the rise of teen-pop, which started with the vocal British hotties the Spice Girls, followed by such vocal acts as the Backstreet Boys, 'Nsync, and ultimately such Lolita-esque thigh candy as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson. The success of Spears forced the disbanding of guitar-driven alternative band Smashing Pumpkins when lead vocalist Billy Corgan felt he could no longer compete with her. Corgan was one performer who many felt represented one of the worst aspects of alternative, too many seemed "whiny" and did little to deal with their issues. Other alternative bands which focused on their personal issues were industrial band Nine Inch Nails, punk revival band Green Day, and Christian-sounding Creed. Other artists exploring personal issues were female singer-songwriters such as Alanis Morrissette, Sheryl Crow, Lillith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, and Tori Amos. Rock had succeeded in becoming politically correct, but with so many PC bands embracing social causes, it didn't feel like rock and roll anymore, it was just too well-behaved.

Enter Marilyn Manson, a theatrical shock-rocker band who became an Alice Cooper for the 90's. His 1997 album Antichrist Superstar convinced many he was a full-on satanist, a repugnant personality who allegedly "inspired" two teens to shoot up their school in Columbine, Colorado, in 1999. Manson denied the claim, stating that the teens were into industrial music and not his. In spite of his macabre stage act, he was a rather articulate individual who urged people to ask, where were the parents when their teens were hording up weapons for a school killing? Why did "normal" people enjoy sensationalizing the deeds of rock stars and not deal with their own children's problems on their own?

In spite of the problems connected with alternative music and the lives of their performers, the Seattle scene changed music from being a mere hit-making machine of the 80's and giving disenchanted youth a voice to their problems. Suicide, heroin use, and general despondency were prevalent concerns which affected both bands, some famous, some not so famous, as well as their fans. Often times the cry for help could be touching, other times it appeared to the older generation that kids just liked to whine and complain, blame others for their problems and never be proactive. This was Generation X, the slacker generation that, according to Limbaugh legions, couldn't find a job and played lousy music while getting stoned. The fact that the wave of new corporate hippie retro trend, with revival of tie-dye fashions, Birkenstocks, and goatees, was popular with the twenty-nothings by mid-decade did not impress the conservative cynics. Yet Limbaugh shared one thing in common with Clinton, neither of them served during Vietnam.

Strangely, the 90's appeared to be the last important decade for rock and roll. Would we ever hear
again the anguished shriek of a new Kurt Cobain, the raw crunch of a second Metallica? Would rock and roll find again its powerful poetry, its vitriolic voice, the gut level guitar? Or would it wallow in redundancy and have its supremacy usurped by lip-sync-ing teen tart thigh candy? The answers would be found.... in the next decade, the next year.

The new millenium.


Pics:

The flannel shirt: In the 90's, flannel was the new spandex. Gene Simmons of KISS could not understand why Seattle bands dressed like lumberjacks and whined about being successful.

Nirvana: In Buddhism, the term means "blissful nothingness". Maybe that's what Kurt Cobain was searching for when he pulled the trigger in 1994. :(

Pearl Jam: Their lead vocalist Eddie Vedder graced the cover of Time in 1993.
He wasn't happy to do so. But wasn't that what the 90's were all about, being unhappy about something??


Soundgarden: Seattle's own version of Black Sabbath said that they weren't even influenced by the legendary British band. So then how does vocalist Chris Cornell explain their 1992 "Sealth" cover version of Sabbath's "Into the Void"? :confused:

Alice In Chains: The band spent five years, between 1990 and 1995 releasing three albums plus two acoustic mini-albums. They would have toured more had lead vocalist Layne Staley not develop a crippling heroin problem. Interesting story: One time the band almost didn't play a show on December 1st of one year. because guitarist Jerry Cantrell was out hunting and didn't have to get back for the concert until November 31st. The only problem was, November only has 30 days! helicopter flew him back in time.

The Smashing Pumpkins: The Chicago band had so many problems with infighting between members that guitarist Billy Corgan performed all the instruments for their 1993 album Siamese Dream. He was one of the few players who could have been considered a guitar hero, and who was inspired by Eddy Van Halen.

Stone Temple Pilots' 'Purple' album: In January 1994 the San Diego band was simultaneously voted Best New Band by Rolling Stone's readers and Worst New Band by the magazine's music critics. Copying Seattle bands brings out the best, or worst, of everyone. Speaking of which, vocalist Scott Weiland developed a serious heroin addiction, like all the Seattle bands.

[ABlairican Pie]

Beginning of 90's (music-wise):

C/Z Records releases "Deep Six', the first Seattle indie compilation which features songs The Melvins, Green River, Malfunkshun, Soundgarden, and Skin Yard, in 1986, with music considered to be the pre-cursor to grunge

Green River releases the song "This Town" in 1986, perhaps the first official grunge single

Soundgarden releases 'Screaming Life' EP in 1987

The Melvins release 'Gluey Porch Treatments' album in 1987

Mudhoney releases "Touch Me, I'm Sick" single in 1988

Nirvana releases "Love Buzz" single in 1988

Jane's Addiction releases their first major label debut, 'Nothing's Shocking' in 1988

Nine Inch Nails releases 'Pretty Hate Machine' album in 1989

Mother Love Bone releases 'Shine' EP in 1989

Nirvana releases 'Bleach' album in 1989

Soundgarden makes their first major label debut, 'Loud Love' album in 1989

Faith No More releases their first major label debut, 'The Real Thing' album in 1989

Red Hot Chili Peppers releases 'Mother's Milk' album in 1989

Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood dies of a heroin overdose in March 1990, bringing attention to the growing Seattle scene

Sonic Youth releases 'Goo' in 1990


End of 90's in terms of music:

Soundgarden breaks up in 1997

Smashing Pumpkins breaks up in 2000, Billy Corgan citing the band could no longer compete with Britney Spears on the charts.

Pics:

Starbucks coffee: It wouldn't be the 90's without Seattle's other greatest export (besides grunge). In the early days of the famous coffee coffee company the mermaid logo was drawn as an antiquated, full-breasted figure, a quaint old-fashioned design, but as the company became omnipresent, the logo underwent an alteration via CGI. Obviously the PC minions must have complained about the nudie "sexually objectifed" sea nymph.

Faith No More: America's funkiest metal band in the early 90's was known for outrageous madcap humor: During a 1991 concert in Denmark, Patton told the audience that tour-mates, Lenny Kravitz and Sinéad O'Connor were copulating in the hospitality tent. Kravitz looked on in horror! :eek: :lol: Keyboardist Roddy Bottum frequently made references to his homosexuality in an effort to alienate the crowd. At a show in Australia, he taunted the crowd: "I heard that homosexuality is illegal here. Too bad, because we were going to have some fun backstage!" :rotflmao: And how about all their scatalogical and sexual antics--why this band wasn't bigger is anyone's guess.

Perry Farrell of Jayne's Addiction: The colorful lead vocalist for Jane's Addiction not only founded the Lollapalooza tours, but also formed Porno For Pyros in 1993, which released the songs "Cursed Female" and "Pets".

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth: The female bassist for the famed New York avant garde experimental rock band married the band's guitarist Thurston Moore, who performed with untuned guitars played at maximum volume, often jamming drumsticks and other objects under the strings for a bizarre, jarring effect. She is also the only close friend of Cobain's who has publicly claimed that he was murdered.

Primus: The virtuoso bassist of the band Les Claypool is known for his wacky sense of humor. While opening for Rush in 1992 in Seattle, he proclaimed to the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen! This show is dedicated to Barney Fife!!" :rofl: Primus was unique in that bass took more of a central presence than guitar.

Short-haired Metallica: The decision by Metallica to adopt a more "Alternapaloozika" stance by cutting their hair and headlining Lollapalooza in 1996 horrified many longtime fans. The band was so desperate to distance itself from the previous decade that drummer Lars Ulrich reduced his double-bass drum kit to a single bass configuration because "he didn't want to sound 80's". By then the band had gotten so rich and trendy, true metal fans accused them of selling out.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails: In the studio, the techno industrial band has consists of one member, dark tortured figure Trent Reznor, while live he assembles a full band with touring members. His 1994 song "Hurt" was even covered by none other then veteran legendary performer Johnny Cash.
Interesting, bizarre note: the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine was recorded at the Beverly Hills home
of Sharon Tate where the Charles Manson murders occurred. :eek: It was converted into a recording studio called Le Pig Studios.

[Steve M.]

Sheryl Crow, Lillith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, and Tori Amos. Rock had succeeded in becoming politically correct, but with so many PC bands embracing social causes, it didn't feel like rock and roll anymore, it was just too well-behaved.


Plus, several books by music critics and some rock documentaries (including rock and roll on PBS) offering an irreverent revsionist version of rock's past offered a new credo only the PC crowd could love. It went like this: "Women are wonderful, people of color rule, white guys are pond scum." Only women and people of color were true artists, but white guys ruined everything. Blacks invented everything excpet country, and rap was their greatest invention; women were great visionaries. White men? Elvis ripped off black people. The Beatles ripped off black people. The Eagles made it safe and slick. Seventies classic rockers dumbed it down. Elton John took all the rhythm out for that icky musical component, melody! Crosby, Stills, and Nash sentimentalized it and made seventies LA pop possible. Even worse, they infused rock with - HORRORS! - bourgeois liberalism. Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead made it impossible to appreciate the music without being stoned to the point of senslessness. Pink Floyd invented prog, and prog was too pretnetious to matter. Only the punks escaped the attack on white males. But all the other honkies? They ruined everything.

[ABlairican Pie]

Kate Moss: The young model promoted in the mid-90's a disturbing trend in fashion known as "heroin chic" which glamorized the sallow, red-eyed and thin looks of heroin addicts as sexy and alluring in ads for Calvin Klein and others. President Clinton and anti-drug groups condemn the "anti-fashion" fashion. Moss has been known to have a severe drug problem.

Oasis: Speaking of substance abuse issues, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher used plenty of drugs in their major Britpop band that combined The Beatles with The Sex Pistols during the mid-90's. Controversy raged when the Noel facetiously said that he hoped the members of rival British band Blur got AIDS.

No Doubt: The Orange County ska revival band was often eclipsed by the beauty of lead vocalist Gwen Stefani, who wished people would focus on them as a full band. She married vocalist Gavin Rossdale of the British band Bush.

Green Day: The Southern California trio introduced pop-punk with 1994's 'Dookie' album. Punk purists howled with rage, but the band had a long successful career after that. Not many punk bands could come up with their generation's version of Kansas' "Dust In the Wind", the acoustic tune "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" in 1997.

Ozzfest: The success of Ozzy Osbourne's summer metal and extreme rock festivals beginning in 1996 proved that heavy music's popularity had not diminished in the least. It may not have been the style of metal done during Ozzy's heyday, but young fans gobbled it up regardless.

Body Count featuring Ice-T: "Original Gangster" rapper Ice-T proved that people of color could rock with a heavy band called Body Count. The band sparked outrage over the song "Cop Killer", a song that was part of a musical story that, taken out of its original context, was misinterpreted as endorsing the killing of police officers.

Pantera: The metal band more powerful than a Texas tornado flew the flag for intense tune-age in a metal-deprived 90's now that Metallica disappointed fans. Brothers Dimebag Darrell Abbott and Vinnie Paul, both notorious, bud-and-beer fiends, were so good that even Dave Mustaine even asked the searing guitarist to join Megadeth, but Dime politely declined when his brother wasn't part of the package. Dime and bassist Rex Brown are shown here tearing it up in concert.

[ABlairican Pie]

Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky: It was the worst presidential crisis in the nation's history, far surpassing the Kennedy assassination and Watergate: President Clinton had a brief sexual tryst with intern Monica Lewinsky, and lied about it under oath. A scandal so shocking and horrible that good moral Republicans had no qualms about publishing prosector Ken Starr's explicit details of the affair in family newspapers across the country in 1998. ohno:

Korn: Guitarists Munky and Korn in the pioneering rap-influenced NU metal band played two seven-string guitars but did not do proper leads or solos. A bottom "A" string made it possible to play low sounding riffs. Which made Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell, ask, "what's the point of having a seven-string guitar if you don't play all the strings?" In the 90's, guitar leads or solos
were an outdated 80's relic. In other words, the newer bands didn't know how to play them. :lol:

Beavis and Butthead: The popularity of the dim-bulb duo was so huge that they were even featured in their own movie in 1996. AC/DC was so fond of them, they opened their shows with a Beavis and Butthead animated segment during their tour that same year.

Marilyn Manson: Would you believe that the nation's most hated shock-rocker was an awkward student at a Christian school as a child? He felt so left out of other kids' activities there that it's not hard to see why he changed. Marilyn Manson was the name of the band as well as its lead frontman, like Alice Cooper, and his bandmates all had stage names of famous female icons as well as mass murderers.

Spice Girls: Though the five member British group only lasted a few years on the charts during 1997 on, their main contribution to music is starting tabloid-ready teen pop. Their popularity began to decline after the departure of their
redhead member Ginger Spice.

Alanis Morrissette: The former teen star from Canada was part of the wave of confessional female singer-songwriters in the latter half of the 90's. She teamed up with fellow Canadians Barenaked Ladies a few years ago for a tour whose ad promoting the concert featured her in a strategically covered nude pose with the band.

Blind Melon: Though lead singer Shannon Hoon went to the same Indiana high school as G N' R's Axl Rose, the band despised heavy metal and created happy, funky hippie alternative, including the delightful video for 1992's "No Rain" with the famous "Bee Girl". Unfortunately, Hoon became another fatality from drug use in 1995. :(

[ABlairican Pie]

As the planet braced for the coming of the new century, many remembered how the decade began, with the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989. In commemoration of the blissful event, one British band, Jesus Jones wrote and recorded a song, "Right Here" in 1990 which was released on their 1991 album Doubt. The tune became their biggest hit:

Right Here, Right Now

A woman on the radio talked about revolution
When it's already passed her by
Bob dylan didn't have this to sing about you
You know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed
The world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there's your sign... of the times

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now

I was alive and i waited, waited
I was alive and i waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place i want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up...

:guitar: :banana: :mango


Right Here, Right Now:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GofQWCKP1Zo



Though the world had waken up from history, would anyone ever consider whether it could fall back to sleep in 1999?

[ABlairican Pie]

At last the year and decade wound down, and even to the last minute, Seattle was at the center of attention. On December 14, 1999, customs officials got a little wakeup call when a young man from Algeria, attempted to cross in the Washington state's penninsula city of Port Angeles after taking a ferry from Canada. While inspecting the car, they noticed the man, named Ahmed Ressam, appeared very nervous and was sweating profusely, though the weather was very cold. They caught him as he panicked and attempted to flee. They searched through the spare tire wheel well and found what was making him so uptight.


The wheel well was filled with materials for making explosives.


:eek2:


As the authorities detained and questioned him, he told them of his elaborate plot to go to Los Angeles and bomb LAX on New Year's Eve. Upon further questioning, authorities and FBI learned that this was only the tip of the iceberg...

Millenium festivities were cancelled at the Seattle Center because of this. The city, still skittish over the mayhem of the WTO riots, feared another bigger problem on their hands. Before his arrest, Ressam and another conspirator were planning on staying at a hotel a few blocks from the Space Needle on the 31st, where the grounds where expected to be crowded with thousands. This spelled trouble for Mayor Paul Schell, who said, "the FBI can't assure us there is no risk".


Ahmed Ressam:

[ABlairican Pie]

And so Seattle, the most talked-about city of the 1990's which went in with a bang at the start of the decade, went out with a whimper at the end of it.

Many New Year's Eve relelers who planned a Millenium celebration party at the top of the Space Needle with a fully advantageous view of the fireworks were deeply disappointed that the festivities were cancelled. It was ironic, Seattle, the most happening town of the past ten years, would be the only city in the world skipping the celebration at the turn of the new year and century, while the rest of the planet rejoiced and party elsewhere at clocks struck twelve.

So Seattle sipped its Starbuck's cups, swigged its bottles of Redhook (or Rainier, depending on whether you could afford pricey micro-brews or middle-class corporate brewski), watched the brief fireworks display at the Space Needle on their t.v. screens, as the Seattle Center was blocked off. After the spectacle was over, they switched off their sets and went to bed.



A new day, a new year, a new century, a new millenium had begun.


New Year's Day

by U2

All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspapers says, says
Say it's true it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

I...I will begin again
I...I will begin again

Oh...
Maybe the time is right
Oh...maybe tonight...

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

And so we're told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day.

[Steve M.]

Actually, the new century and new millennium had not begun. Because the Christian calendar does not have a year zero - the end of 1 B.C. was the beginning of A.D. 1 - 2000 was in fact the last year of the second millenium and the twentith century, not the first year of the third millenium and the first year of the twenty-first century. In fact, 1901 had been recognized as the beginning of a new century by people who knew how to count, which explained why the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo (where President McKinley was shot), which celebrated the turn of the century, was held then and not a year eariler.

So what happened? Popular culture, finding magic in the numeral zero, got the count wrong. Also, watching the year go from 1999 to 2000 was exciting because it was like watching your car odometer hit 50,000 or 60,000 miles. :rolleyes:

Anyway, the Y2K scare was just that. Nuclear missles did not accidentally fire, bank records were not lost, and the IRS computers did not crash. Alas, many hoped that IRS computers were not Y2K compliant. :lol: America believed it was invulnerable.

And for the next 620 days, it seemed that way. . . .

[ABlairican Pie]

With apologies to Perry Como, one may have been tempted to think that with all the huge talent and coolness going in Seattle, that it was a place full of fun, mirth, and merriment for the young slacker set. Actually, it was a very dismal place entertainment-wise. Not one year after the explosion of grunge into the mainstream, nervous-Nelly legislators in Olympia, alarmed over the proliferation of rap and other musical offenders' albums being purchased by teens, introduced the "Erotic Music Bill", a local version of what the PMRC had already been doing in the rest of the country for the past several years--making it harder for underage teens to purchase any albums with lyrics of "sexual violence and mysogyny". HUH??!! :confused: One generally understood "erotic" to mean seductive, alluring, and sexually enticing, something a little more soothing and sensual than lyrics of "b:censored:-slapping" and rape and other despicable themes of brutality and humiliation. Was the bill going after music because it was sexual, or because it was violent? Or did it really not matter either way to them? Former Nirvana bassist Krist Noviselic, after the breakup of Nirvana and his inability to form lasting bands, concentrated all his efforts as a political activist to fight censorship and the promotion of local music as a viable growth industry in the state. Were the bigwigs in Olympia afraid of the impact of music?

Other issues facing teens in the music community were the dreaded Teen Dance Ordinance, which prevented minors from seeing happening new bands in Seattle clubs where alcohol was being served. Seattle's music scene was widely consumed by teens, but they had no place to regularly see them. Some shows and venues were designated as All Ages Shows, but no alcohol could be served at these venues by responsible adults. In recent years, the city has attempted to shut down more venues for Seattle night life, due to complaints by neighbors that the loud music was keeping them from sleeping.
:crybaby: Dot.com business types were buying up artists' lofts in Seattle's Pioneer District, the popular Pike Place Market, with its colorful street musicians, performers, and artists, faced eviction when the farmers' market was bought by yuppie businesses, and the whole creative community faced a siege by the new internet gazillionaires who had the money and influence to buy them all out of their holdings.

And let's not forget the awful "Four Foot Rule" at strip clubs (which are on the decline in Seattle, though there has been much controversy over the ones still open), where dancers and paying customers are required to maintain
a proper distance from each other. :wallbang

It's surprising that Seattle ever had a thriving music and entertainment scene at all in the '90's. ohno: No wonder Seattle has had a reputation of being miserable. :( Move north to Vancouver! ;) :lol:

Seattle corporate logos: Starbuck's Coffee, Sub Pop Records--the label which popularized Seattle grunge; Microsoft; Boeing; and the Lusty Lady, a fun landmark in downtown Seattle right across from the Seattle Art Museum, with one of their suggestive jokes on the marquee: ;)

And of course, the old Rainier Brewery, known for its famous beer, corny t.v. commercials, and the giant red "R" which could be seen for miles on I-5 leading into town and on Airport Way for decades. The brewery shut down several years ago and moved to Tumwater, Washington. The brewery was replaced by the Tully's coffee roasting plant, known now for the giant green "T" replacing the "R" on top of the factory. The times, they were a-changing. ohno:

[ABlairican Pie]

One of the most popular and original bands of the 90's, Live, released The Distance To Here, in October of 1999, which featured the hit "The Dolphin's Cry". Much speculation has been made about the cryptic nature of the nature of the lyrics, which appear to be about themes of human love and of universal love, but in concert lead singer Ed Kowalczyk has stated that the song is simply about sex on the beach. :lol:

Other songs include "Run To the Water" and "Where Fishes Go".

Like all Live albums, there was a strong spiritual undertone to the lyrical themes, such as with the lyrics in the song, "love will lead us", a deep sense of a supreme force guiding us through our lives. One which we would need to take us through the coming uncertain era ahead.

The Dolphin's Cry

The way you're bathed in light
Reminds me of that night
God layed me down into your rose
Garden of trust
And I was swept away
With nothing left to say
Some helpless fool yet I was lost
In a swoon of peace
You're all I need to find.
So when the time is right.
Come to me sweetly, come to me.
Come to me.


Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphin's cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
It's in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

Oh yeah we'll meet again,
It's like we never left
Time in between was just a dream
Did we leave this place?
This crazy fog surrounds me
You wrap your legs around me
All i can do is try and breathe
Let me breath
So that I
So we can go together

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphin's cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
It's in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us


Life is like a shooting star
It don't matter who you are
If you only run for cover, it's just a waste of time
We are lost 'til we are found
This phoenix rises up from the ground
And all these wars are over


Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphin's cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
In the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

Life is like a shooting star
It don't matter who you are
If you only run for cover, it's just a waste of time
We are lost 'til we are found
This phoenix rises up from the ground
And all these wars are over, over, over, over

Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphin's cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
In the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us

:guitar:

[Steve M.]

With apologies to Perry Como, one may have been tempted to think that with all the huge talent and coolness going in Seattle, that it was a place full of fun, mirth, and merriment for the young slacker set. Actually, it was a very dismal place entertainment-wise. Not one year after the explosion of grunge into the mainstream, nervous-Nelly legislators in Olympia, alarmed over the proliferation of rap and other musical offenders' albums being purchased by teens, introduced the "Erotic Music Bill", a local version of what the PMRC had already been doing in the rest of the country for the past several years--making it harder for underage teens to purchase any albums with lyrics of "sexual violence and mysogyny". HUH??!! :confused: One generally understood "erotic" to mean seductive, alluring, and sexually enticing, something a little more soothing and sensual than lyrics of "b:censored:-slapping" and rape and other despicable themes of brutality and humiliation. Was the bill going after music because it was sexual, or because it was violent? Or did it really not matter either way to them? Former Nirvana bassist Krist Noviselic, after the breakup of Nirvana and his inability to form lasting bands, concentrated all his efforts as a political activist to fight censorship and the promotion of local music as a viable growth industry in the state. Were the bigwigs in Olympia afraid of the impact of music?

Other issues facing teens in the music community were the dreaded Teen Dance Ordinance, which prevented minors from seeing happening new bands in Seattle clubs where alcohol was being served. Seattle's music scene was widely consumed by teens, but they had no place to regularly see them. Some shows and venues were designated as All Ages Shows, but no alcohol could be served at these venues by responsible adults. In recent years, the city has attempted to shut down more venues for Seattle night life, due to complaints by neighbors that the loud music was keeping them from sleeping.
:crybaby: Dot.com business types were buying up artists' lofts in Seattle's Pioneer District, the popular Pike Place Market, with its colorful street musicians, performers, and artists, faced eviction when the farmers' market was bought by yuppie businesses, and the whole creative community faced a siege by the new internet gazillionaires who had the money and influence to buy them all out of their holdings.

And let's not forget the awful "Four Foot Rule" at strip clubs (which are on the decline in Seattle, though there has been much controversy over the ones still open), where dancers and paying customers are required to maintain
a proper distance from each other. :wallbang

It's surprising that Seattle ever had a thriving music and entertainment scene at all in the '90's. ohno: No wonder Seattle has had a reputation of being miserable. :( Move north to Vancouver! ;) :lol:

Seattle corporate logos: Starbuck's Coffee, Sub Pop Records--the label which popularized Seattle grunge; Microsoft; Boeing; and the Lusty Lady, a fun landmark in downtown Seattle right across from the Seattle Art Museum, with one of their suggestive jokes on the marquee: ;)

And of course, the old Rainier Brewery, known for its famous beer, corny t.v. commercials, and the giant red "R" which could be seen for miles on I-5 leading into town and on Airport Way for decades. The brewery shut down several years ago and moved to Tumwater, Washington. The brewery was replaced by the Tully's coffee roasting plant, known now for the giant green "T" replacing the "R" on top of the factory. The times, they were a-changing. ohno:

Ironically, on the other end of the country, New Jersey's largest city - Newark - remained the hip-hop center of the East it had been back at the beginning of the decade - even more so. Why? Beacuse rap is about protesting the probelms and horrors of inner-city black America, and Newark was still the same hellhole in 1999 that it was in 1990. . . and still is now! :eek:

[Steve M.]

Meanwhile, New York City had achieved an amazing transformation in the nineties. When the decade began, New York was sufferning from the same problems most American cities were facing - crime, drugs, blight, middle-class flight to the suburbs for a backyard you could put a swimming pool in. David Dinkins, NYC's first black mayor, had proven ineffective, and naysayers complained about New York's growing gap betwen the rich and everyone else, calling it Dickensian - or, punningly, Dinkinsian. When the decade ended, homicides in New York dropped, Times Square was revitalized, those annoying squeegee dudes were gone, and people who had once contemplated moving to Seatle or Portalnd (or truly ridiculous places like Atlanta or Houston!) were staying.

This was mostly in part because of New York's tough Republican mayor, Rudolph Giuliani (below) who vowed to clean up New York, and did. Granted, he wasn't perfect - he tried to crack down on street performers and restrict them to corporate trendy places like South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan, and he let the NYPD get a bit too trigger-happy (Amadou Diallo, anyone?) - but the overall vibe was positive. He even receved a rave review from Harlem preacher Calvin Butts for setting everything in New York right again like an Old Testament king would have done.

http://www.hamilton.edu/images/storyimages/original_images/rgiuliani.jpg

If you were a rock and roll fan, though, New York was not the place to be. In the nineties, WNEW-FM dropped its rock format, WXRK-FM struggled to keep itself relevant (giving up in 2005), and all the hot new performers from the Big Apple were disco, pop, and rap performers. But when the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, 1999, Giuliani was there to bask in his triumph, having made Times Square palatable (albeit perhaps a bit too Disneyfied) again.

New York, a Democratic city, was expected to replace Giuliani, barred from seeking a third term by a change to the city charter enacted in 1989, with a Democrat. Prostate cancer kept him for runnning for the U.S. Seante, and he was soon seen as irrelevant as his term reached lame-duck status. The primary date for choosing the candidates to run to succeed him would be the second Tuesday in September 2001. . .

September 11, 2001.

[Cactus Jack]

Gerry Rafferty's previous band, Stealers Wheel, was a Scottish version of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the early 70's, which Rafferty formed with his friend and musical partner Joe Egan. Their Dylan-esque hit "Stuck In the Middle With You" became a huge
song in 1972, though Rafferty and Egan had differences of opinion as to whether to continue as a band or as a duo under the Stealers Wheel name. This debate, along with their disagreements over musical direction, caused the band to go on hiatus until 1975 when they broke up.

The song "Stuck In the Middle With You" brought renewed interest in the band
when it was featured in the 1992 Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs in the norotoriously over-the-top torture scene, which was then parodied in an Itchy and Scratchy episode of The Simpsons.

Stuck In the Middle

Well, I don’t know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain’t right.
I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Yes, I’m stuck in the middle with you,
And I’m wondering what it is I should do.
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well, you started off with nothing,
And you’re proud that you’re a self-made man.
And your friends they all come crawlin’,
Slap you on the back and say, “Please, please.”

Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see it makes no sense at all.
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor?
Well, I don't think I can take anymore.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well, you started out with nothing,
And you’re proud that you’re a self-made man.
And your friends they all come crawlin’,
Slap you on the back and say, “Please, please.”

Yeah, I don’t know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain’t right,
I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I’m, stuck in the middle with you,
Stuck in the middle with you,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

:guitar: :banana: :mango
A few months late,but I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!

[Steve M.]

And so, Hawaii, several hours behind the West Coast,rang in the year 2000, and the new millenium began (unless you remeber there was no year zero to start the Christian calendar, which most people did not!).

Anyway, what better way to celebrate New Year's Eve in Hawaii with a glass of champagne and. . .

DON HO!

:rofl: :brent

http://www.tikifarm.com/html/images/Don-Ho.gif

"Tiny bubbles. . . in the wine. . ."

"Hey! The champagne's not Korbel!"

"Great, big bubbles. . . huge, disgusting. . . artificially inseminated. . . bubbles!" :rotflmao:















Happy new year. ;)

THE END

[ABlairican Pie]

The Beatles:

The Compleat Beatles (narrated by Malcolm McDowell):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IE7TTJxFBuU

I Saw Her Standing There:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aoKZEBhqHKw

The Beatles on Ready Steady Go!:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-bWhVxr-oRQ

The Beatles' 1963 commercial:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fwdhicr3tp4

Money:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0UmD7JLRnM

From Me To You:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZ3OPFSkCg8

She Loves You: (live t.v.show from Norway, or Sweden or Denmark):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CGL4Wjg_0k

The Beatles 1964:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3I97e_F1_MM

Help!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8UOHpMGG0Y

It Won't Be Long:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tb1K4k87Vnw

I Should Have Known Better:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CrKx3e3r4EU

I'll Get You:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GnIDnqwxKnY

I Feel Fine:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AaEjr9fJ6Do

The Beatles medley:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQDQoLu_Hfo

The Beatles in colour 1963:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7jKlwCzdD8c

I'm a Loser and Boys:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A43-kaDluJ8

Please Please Me:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qfzQyzZBd84

Kansas City and I'm a Loser:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wCHuy2dIzko

Love Me Do:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WvIZ5kauc10

It Won't Be Long:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EESVCHrPhZQ

Please Mr. Postman:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EESVCHrPhZQ

This Boy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=to33jCATC2s

All My Loving:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qLOpFdxZazw

The Beatles on their third appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f2_ZG2ytbXo

[ABlairican Pie]

The Rolling Stones:

Satisfaction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTuGbfF6HBI

On the Dean Martin Show 1964:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2a_5bBHkHA

Play With Fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ly6PllnIsE

Get Off My Cloud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0sIJA8qY0E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oKbCUCvaIc

The Last Time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR4JhXa7Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU_b1Msmo8U

Oh Carol (from French t.v.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QCjvYoDx8

Under My Thumb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJpO2NL3dpc

Little Red Rooster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70X5kdxQeL4

Walking the Dog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ameK5V4aNcs

Reelin' And Rockin' Live Tour footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-1IkquHMFQ

With Howlin' Wolf on Shindig!, 1965:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwZLwvIqlMY

On the TAMI Show, 1964:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6wPPGDvs8o

Mercy Mercy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL2rWibysRY

It's All Over Now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJa8f9tyr8E

[ABlairican Pie]

The Who

The Who perform "My Generation" on The Smothers Brothers Show (from 'The Kids Are Alright' documentary):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZOrWK6d4g

I Can't Explain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFcPjILC7k

I Can't Explain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWxqKYvy-c&mode=related&search=

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMB88gxCTE&mode=related&search=

The Kids Are Alright (the song):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmowtt9vhLY&mode=related&search=

Substitute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0i7c8tjlIs&mode=related&search=

Recording Pictures Of Lilly in the studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpPEEIYW0V0

Pictures Of Lilly vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fxSworuxI&mode=related&search=

Happy Jack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQwm2ZWzb7o

I Can See For Miles (from The Smothers Brothers):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYgdYc0Ie4

I Can See For Miles (from Twice a Fortnight):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgfU6Tn0Dog

[ABlairican Pie]

The Animals

House Of the Rising Sun (live):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31POnZYRPMA

House Of the Rising Sun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v24l8FddMQ&mode=related&search=

It's My Life (from Hullabaloo):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMXnYyjWVE

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jzhQTHBKgQ&mode=related&search=

We've Got To Get Out Of This Place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NZd7NlHbQ&mode=related&search=

Don't Bring Me Down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVxl7R_Gss

[diana313]

What, no Spill the Wine, with War?

[ABlairican Pie]

What, no Spill the Wine, with War?Right now we're in the British Invasion, early/mid-60's.

[ABlairican Pie]

^^^ :spam: :spam: :spam: This was in response to post by a spammer, which, thankfully, was removed.

[ABlairican Pie]

...If you incorrectly count it at 2000. :doh:

So it was a big major affair all around the world (except in Seattle, as we've mentioned), the arrival of a new day, month, year, century, and millenium.


What would happen in this long-awaited era? Who knew? Who cared? Time to party, celebrate. The cares of the future were for another time.

As U2 noted only seventeen years before:


All is quiet on New Years Day
A world in white gets underway
Though I want to be with you, be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaFue_KvoQ

[perpetua]

..:happyface ..yeah -- I thought I'd pipe in and say that people are getting :crazy:
sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t..... and there is just
this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe
-- it's pretty easy to find, just put 'euro club hits' into itunes or
check this link: :wave:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol+

[ABlairican Pie]

New Year's Eve countdown all over the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEGaBmvw6O8

U2 Live At Red Rocks 1983, performing "October" and "New Year's Day":

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/october-new-years-day-live-83/3877323253

[OSWorker]

....yeah -- i agree, people are basically getting sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t:o ..... and there is just this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe :lol: -- best place i've found it so far is a compilation series called 'euro club hits' on itunes -- or check this link: :wave:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol+

[ABlairican Pie]

:spam:, :spam:, wonderful :spam:.....

[Steve M.]

....yeah -- i agree, people are basically getting sick of the same old rock/hip-hop/r&b bullsh*t:o ..... and there is just this big upsurge from a new style coming out of Europe :lol: -- best place i've found it so far is a compilation series called 'euro club hits' on itunes -- or check this link: :wave:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol+

:racist:

Acutally, you is a rockist. :lol: