Backstreet Girls

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Backstreet Girls
General information
Genre (s) Boogie rock, hard rock
founding 1984
Website backstreetgirls.net
Current occupation
Bjørn Müller
Petter Baarli
Gaute Vaag
Frank Albin
former members
bass
 Pål Kristensen (1984–1998, 1999)
Guitar, vocals
 Tom Kristensen (1984-85)
guitar
 Stein Ramberg (1984)
guitar
 Jon Berg (1985)
singing
 Anders Kronberg (1985)
singing
 Arne Årnes (1985-86)
singing
 Ole Hilborg (1991-93)
singing
 Pat Diamond (1994-95)
bass
 Tommy Lug (1998)
bass
 Morten Lunde (1998-2002)
Drums
 Bjørn Terje Baarli (1984-2006)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Boogie Till You Puke
  NO 12 12/1988 (6 weeks)
Party on Elm Street
  NO 15th 40/1989 (2 weeks)
Coming down hard
  NO 18th 18/1990 (2 weeks)
Shake your stimulator
  NO 35 40/2007 (1 week)
Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Any Worse ... Here's the Backstreet Girls
  NO 21st 12/2009 (1 week)
Don't Mess with My Rock 'n' Roll
  NO 10 36/2017 (1 week)
Normal is dangerous
  NO 6th 38/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Gimme just a second
  NO 10 29/1989 (1 week)

Backstreet Girls are a Norwegian rock band from Oslo .

Band history

The band was founded in 1984 by the brothers Tom and Pål Kristensen as well as Bjørn Terje and Hans Petter Baarli together with Stein Ramberg from the Saturday Cowboys , who left after a short time. Singer Tom Kristensen also left the Backstreet Girls before the first self-produced release Mental Shakedown , for which Arne Aarnes took over the vocals. Then they signed with Polygram and with the new singer Bjørn Müller in 1988 the most successful period of the band began. The quartet had their breakthrough this year with the album Boogie Till You Puke and was able to place themselves in the Norwegian charts for the first time. Over 15,000 copies were sold. Two more top 20 albums and the top 10 single Gimme Just a Second followed in the next two years. They were the first band to play in the newly built Oslo Spektrum in 1991 .

Then Müller left the band to start his own project with Speed ​​of Sound , and success went with him. In the following years the singers changed and the other members played again and again in other productions. The new label Warner did not advance them either and after an unsuccessful album the collaboration was ended. After Müller's return in 1995, it took another four years until the small Norwegian label FaceFront released the studio album Hellway to High , the title of which refers to their role models AC / DC . In addition, there were mainly tours and live albums, with Rose Tattoo , who, along with the Ramones and Status Quo, are also among their musical influences, they went on a European tour. Recordings of performances in Germany can be found on the 2002 album Black Boogie Death Rock n 'Roll .

Pål Kristensen and Bjørn Terje Baarli left the band after 15 and 22 years respectively until 2006, so that only guitarist Petter Baarli remained of the founders. In addition to singer Müller, Dan André Raaden Hoque, known as Dan Thunderbird, completed the line-up as bassist and the Swede Martin H-Son as drummer. Nevertheless, they managed a comeback in the Norwegian charts in 2007 with the album Shake Your Stimulator , which they continued two years later with Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Any Worse… Here's the Backstreet Girls .

Discography

  • Mental Shakedown (1986)
  • Boogie Till You Puke (1988)
  • Party on Elmstreet (1989)
  • Coming Down Hard (1990)
  • Let's Have It (1992)
  • Live (1993)
  • Hellway to High (1999)
  • Boogie Till 'You Bleed! (2000, sampler)
  • Tuff Tuff Tuff (2001)
  • Christmas Crusher (2001, EP)
  • Black Boogie Death Rock n 'Roll (2002)
  • Sick My Duck (2003)
  • Shake Your Stimulator (2007)
  • Don't Fake It Too Long (2008)
  • Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Any Worse… Here's the Backstreet Girls (2009)
  • Don't Mess with My Rock 'n' Roll (2017)
  • Normal Is Dangerous (2019)

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  1. ↑ a b Chart discography Norway
  2. ↑ Backstreet Girls Biography , melodic-hardrock.com, accessed on May 13, 2013

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