Cherry pie

Cherry pie
Warrant studio album
Publication (s)	September 11, 1990
admission	1989-1990
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Hard rock
Title (number)	12
running time	38:14
occupation	Singing : Jani Lane Guitar : Erik Turner , Joey Allen Bass : Jerry Dixon Drums : Steven Sweet
production	Beau Hill
Studio (s)	The Enterprise
chronology Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989) Cherry pie Dog Eat Dog (1992)

Cherry Pie is the second studio album by the American glam metal band Warrant and their greatest commercial success. The album reached number 7 on the US album charts ; all four singles released reached the Billboard Hot 100 , two of them the top 10.

Emergence

Warrant had a sensational success with their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich in 1989: It had reached number 10 on the American album charts; four singles made it into the Billboard Hot 100. At the same time, the group landed their biggest single success to date with Heaven : The title reached number 2 on the Hot 100 and stayed in the charts for 19 weeks. The band was as the opening act part of the 1989 tours of Motley Crue , Paul Stanley , Queensrÿche , Poison , Kingdom Come , Danger Danger and Skid Row .

In February 1990 Warrant began in Hawaii with the recordings for the follow-up LP . Various guest musicians were involved in the work: Poison guitarist CC Deville played lead guitar on the track Cherry Pie , producer Beau Hill played banjo on Uncle Tom's Cabin , and singer Jani Lane 's brother Eric Oswald played the acoustic guitar's introduction to this song .

Twelve tracks made it to the radio-friendly produced album, which was released on September 11, 1990. The LP climbed the charts in the United States within four weeks, peaking at number 7; in Great Britain it managed at least 35th place. Cherry Pie was already awarded platinum shortly after its release, also received platinum in Canada and after the band's return from a European tour for the second time platinum in the USA. According to the band, Cherry Pie sold 2.7 million times.

Because of the title Ode To Tipper Gore , known as a bonus track , which consisted of a number of curses and swear words uttered at concerts, the album was given the well-known “Parental Advisory - Explicit Content” sticker. Tipper Gore was the target of this provocation because she was the initiator of the " Parents Music Resource Center ".

Album cover

The album cover showed a red-haired young woman on roller skates , wearing a wide-cut, short, tight dress with a short waiter's apron over it. On her raised right hand, she balances a plate from which a triangular piece of cake (cherry pie) has fallen, which is now exactly at the level of her shame. There is a large cherry over her head.

Re-release

In 2004 the album was re-released in Columbia Records' The Metal Masters Series . The re-release contained two additional titles

Track list

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Cherry pie   US 7th October 13, 1990 (60 weeks)

Singles

Cherry pie   US 10 03/11/1990 (19 weeks) I Saw Red   US 10 02/23/1991 (19 weeks) Uncle Tom's Cabin   US 78 05/18/1991 (6 weeks) Blind Faith   US 88 07/20/1991 (6 weeks)

1. 3:21 - Cherry Pie J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
2. 4:01 - Uncle Tom's Cabin J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
3. 3:47 - I Saw Red, J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
4. 4:04 - Bed Of Roses J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, B. Hill, J. Dixon, E. Turner
5. 2:39 - Sure Feels Good To Me J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, JB Frank, D. Stag, J. Dixon, E. Turner
6. 3:07 - Love In Stereo J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
7. 3:33 - Blind Faith J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
8. 2:58 - Song And Dance Man J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
9. 3:34 - You're The Only Hell Your Mama Ever Raised J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
10. 3:29 - Mr. Rainmaker J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner
11. 2:49 - Train Train S. Medlocke
12. 0:55 - Ode To Tipper Gore J. Lane, J. Allen, S. Sweet, J. Dixon, E. Turner

Re-release bonus tracks:

13. 3:37 - Game Of War J. Lane, E. Turner, J. Dixon - (previously unreleased demo recording from 1988)
14. 3:00 - The Power J. Lane - (Demo for the soundtrack zu Fäuste - You must fight for your rights from 1992)

reception

Frank Trojan wrote for Rock Hard that, according to his first impression , Cherry Pie was again an American-made Schmalz-Stampf-Hüpf album . The second song, however, he had but listened attentively and "horny acoustic parts" identified who are "with rough guitar lines" alternated. Believing that this was a “one-time positive slip” , the following 'Bed Of Roses' and 'I Saw Red' “surprisingly” also appealed to him. 'Sure Feels Good To Me' convinced him of his impression that the song was “an entertaining, brisk headbanger” . Trojan writes that his first impression is "more than positive" . Page 2 of the album started “well, but not with constancy” . The strengths would be "in the driving" Mr. Rainmaker ', the beautiful semi-ballad' Blind Faith 'and the sleaze-inspired' Train, Train '” . In the end, "Cherry Pie" has become a "very good hard rock record with a real street feeling" .

Guest musician

• CC DeVille - guitar
• Mike Slamer - guitar
• Bruno Ravel - backing vocal
• Steve West - backing vocal
• Fiona - backing vocal
• Alan Hewitt - organ , piano , strings
• Beau Hill - organ, banjo , synthesizer , keyboard
• Paul Harris - piano, string instruments
• Juke Logan - harmonica

Awards

Cherry Pie was awarded platinum twice in the USA.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} RIAA: Gold and Platinum Awards for Cherry Pie (accessed April 3, 2008)
2. ↑ CRIA: Gold and Platinum Awards
3. ↑ Charts US
4. ↑ Review by Frank Trojan in Rock Hard, issue 44