Defying Gravity (Album)
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| Studio album by Mr. Big | ||||
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Publication |
June 21, 2017 |
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2016 |
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| Label (s) | Frontiers Records | |||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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Studio (s) |
Ocean Studios, Assembly Room Studios |
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Defying Gravity is the title of the ninth studio album by the American rock band Mr. Big , released in 2017 .
background
In 2014 Mr. Big released a musically high-class album with … The Stories We Could Tell . For the production of their ninth album they engaged Kevin Elson, with whom they had already recorded their first four albums ( Mr. Big (1989), Lean Into It (1991), Bump Ahead (1992) and Hey Man (1996)).
The band met in Ocean Studios in Burbank, and only there they worked out the song ideas of the individual musicians into finished songs, which were then immediately recorded. Guitarist Paul Gilbert brought his ideas as ready-made demos , while singer Eric Martin brought along text sheets and an acoustic guitar and played his ideas to the others. Billy Sheehan said of the way the band works:
“Anyone who says that it is easier to record individual tracks in five different studios is lying. The result is usually a collection of ideas cut together, from which the producer has to tinker the songs with a loud cursing. But if you want an extra dose of atmosphere, intensity and coolness, the musicians have to be in the same room and be able to communicate directly. Some of the best records we have in modern western culture, and which are still being played on the radio decades later, were recorded exactly that way - and that says something! "
Pat Torpey , the band's drummer, made it public in 2014 that he suffered from Parkinson's . In 2016 his illness had already made it almost impossible for him to take part in the recordings with his instrument. The drums on Defying Gravity were played by Matt Starr , who had already been on stage with the band on the tour for … The Stories We Could Tell . Torpey therefore worked in the studio as a drum producer and conveyed his playing style to Starr.
Defying Gravity was released on June 21, 2017 and was released on CD , LP and through online music services . In addition, a limited edition box set was offered as a box set , in which the record and CD edition of the album were expanded to include a poster , a T-shirt printed with the cover motif and a sticker with the logo of Tape, found.
For the songs Everybody Needs a Little Trouble and Defying Gravity were music videos produced in the so-called also a Deluxe Edition CD Edition DVD contained were released, which also is a making-of contained video.
Track list
| Cover of the album |
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Link to the picture |
| Defying Gravity | ||
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| No. | title | length |
| 1. | Open your eyes | 4:02 |
| 2. | Defying Gravity | 5:28 |
| 3. | Everybody Needs a Little Trouble | 3:52 |
| 4th | Damn I'm In Love Again | 2:56 |
| 5. | Mean to Me | 3:28 |
| 6th | Nothing Bad (About Feeling Good) | 4:01 |
| 7th | Forever and Back | 3:40 |
| 8th. | She's All Coming Back to Me Now | 4:21 |
| 9. | 1992 | 5:00 |
| 10. | Nothing At All | 4:13 |
| 11. | Be child | 7:03 |
reception
Daniel Böhm said in Rocks that the band “cannot be blamed” for “having taken the path of least resistance”. Keith Elson may have “produced all the great Mr. Big albums”, but Defying Gravity “doesn't sound like that” after the first four albums . The album appears “unexpectedly raw and without make-up”, so that it “far surpasses the classic rock vibe that was latently resonating recently”. The entire album is about "the surprisingly puristic interplay of guitar, bass and drums"; Defying Gravity is a “slightly different” Mr. Big album, “but a good one”.
Frank Schäfer wrote for Rock Hard that the band relied "instead of cranked rockers" on "leaned back, soulful rock" by Eric Martin, performed with "the sovereignty of the eternal Schmonzier". As soon as it wanted to be “lovely”, Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert “drove the stupor with a few pirouettes”. The band knows about their skills and shakes it off their sleeve "with an almost arrogant nonchalance". With “a little more fire” Defying Gravity would have been “a really good album” in his opinion.
Charts and chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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65 (1 week) | 1 |
Web links
- Defying Gravity at Discogs
- Defying Gravity on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2020.
- Everybody Needs a Little Trouble on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rocks, issue 04.2017, page 60
- ↑ a b c d Six-day race against gravity in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 04.2017, pages 60–64
- ↑ Offer details at jpc.de , accessed on February 18, 2020
- ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 04.2017, page 98
- ↑ Rock Hard, Issue 363 from July 26, 2017
- ↑ Mr. Big - Defying Gravity. GfK Entertainment , accessed on February 21, 2020 .