Discipline (Desmond Child Album)
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| Studio album by Desmond Child | ||||
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1991 |
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| Label (s) | Elektra Records | |||
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10 |
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running time |
53 |
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Desmond Child, Sir Arthur Payson |
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Discipline is the title of the 1991 released first solo album by the American songwriter Desmond Child . In the 1970s Child had released two albums with the band Desmond Child & Rouge and then concentrated almost exclusively on songwriting for and with other artists.
background
Desmond Child had written numerous hits for bands like Bon Jovi ( Livin on a Prayer , You Give Love a Bad Name ), Aerosmith ( Dude (Looks Like a Lady) ) and Alice Cooper ( Poison ) from the mid-1980s . His work had received numerous awards.
For his first solo album, he wrote most of the songs alone, but also worked with Diane Warren and Burt Bacharach . For the recordings he was able to win over well-known musicians like Tony Levin (bass) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), other musicians who contributed to almost all the songs were guitarist John McCurry and keyboardist CJ Vanston.
In addition, guitarists Steve Lukather ( Toto ), Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi), Vivian Campbell ( Def Leppard ), drummer Tico Torres (Bon Jovi), and Joan Jett took part in individual tracks . Sambora was co-car of two titles. In addition, the three former singers of Childs Band "Desmond Child & Rouge" took part in the song Love on a Rooftop; Child recorded the duet Obsession with Maria Vidal . The CD also included his own version of the song The Price of Lovin 'You, which was released in 1989 by the German hard rock band Bonfire on the Point Blanc album .
Child dedicated the last track on the album, A Ray of Hope , to his brother Joey, who died during the recording year:
A Ray of Hope was written by Don Paul Yowell who died on November 17, 1984 at the age of 31 at the height of his creative life and it is dedicated to the loving memory of my brother Joey, who died on January 15, 1991 at he age of twenty-five. The annual US budget for education, treatment and cure of AIDS is 1.9 billion dollars. The cost of the war with Iraq was 3 billion dollars per day. There are millions infected worldwide. Pray for peace ... so we can fight for a cure. Discipline.
“ A Ray Hope was written by Don Paul Young, who died at the height of his creativity on November 17, 1984 at the age of 31, and it is fondly dedicated to my brother Joey, who died on January 15, 1991 at the age of died twenty five years ago. The annual US budget for teaching, treating, and curing AIDS is $ 1.9 billion. The cost of the war with Iraq was $ 3 billion a day. Pray for peace ... so we can fight for healing. Discipline."
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | Guest musician | length |
| 1. | The Price of Lovin 'You | Desmond Child | 3:51 | |
| 2. | Discipline | Child / Richie Sambora | Richie Sambora, Steve Lukather , Tony Levin , Tico Torres | 5:07 |
| 3. | I don't wanna be your friend | Diane Warren | Joan Jett , Steve Lukather | 4:59 |
| 4th | Love on a rooftop | Child / Warren | Steve Lukather / Maria Vidal / Myriam Valle / Diana Grasselli, Kane Roberts | 5:19 |
| 5. | You're the Story of My Life | Child / Warren | Steve Lukather / Brandon Fields | 4:59 |
| 6th | According to the Gospel of Love | Child / Sambora | Richie Sambora, Tony Levin, Tico Torres | 6:10 |
| 7th | Do me right | Child | Vivian Campbell / Steve Lukather | 4:20 |
| 8th. | obsession | Child / Burt Bacharach | 5:47 | |
| 9. | The Gift of Life | Child | 7:10 | |
| 10. | A Ray of Hope | Don Paul Yowell | 4:56 | |
| Overall length: | 53:00 | |||
reception
Rock Hard wrote about the album that it was only "a hard rock fringe topic," because the categorization of "hard rock" is not easy "because of the lack of loud guitars". The “most successful heavy hit supplier of the last ten years” was “cuddly soft” - on the second side of the record “so much that the tolerance limit of the average reader of this postil should probably be exceeded long before the final A Ray Of Hope ”. The ten “lard-laden compositions” are, however, a hit for “mainstream friends.” Some songs are “gifted AOR softies.” If Desmond Child understands something, then it is “chart-worthy catchy tunes.” He has “produced them in abundance here . "In addition, he also proves to be a" competent singer. "
Web links
- Official Website of Desmond Child (English)
- Discipline at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in Rock Hard, Issue 52, June 26, 1991 , accessed online on October 27, 2019