Faster Pussycat (Album)
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Publication |
July 7, 1987 |
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1987 |
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| Label (s) | Elektra Records | |||
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Hard rock , sleaze rock |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
36:13 |
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Ric Browde |
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Studio (s) |
Amigo Studios |
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Faster Pussycat is the debut album of the US sleaze rock band Faster Pussycat, first released in 1987 .
background
The band Faster Pussycat, founded in 1985 by singer Taime Down, belonged together with Guns N 'Roses to the second wave of so-called sunset strip bands that emerged in the wake of groups such as Mötley Crüe , Ratt , Keel and Poison , but were much more musically oriented towards Sleaze . The role models are Hanoi Rocks , Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones .
The group's first demo tape contained the titles Smash Alley, Best Whorehouse in Town and Vicious Kind, but did not attract any interest from the record companies. The second volume, which contained a revised version of Best Whorehouse in Town, City has no Heart and Slap in the Face , received more attention and aroused the interest of producer Ric Browde. Browde had produced several Ted Nugent albums in the 1970s and worked with WASP and Victory in the 1980s , and was responsible for the production of the successful Poison album Look What the Cat Dragged In .
When Elektra Records offered the band to provide $ 20,000 to produce a professional demo tape, Browde said he could produce an album for that amount. During the recording, the title of the song Best Whorehouse in Town changed to Cathouse. The Cathouse was a nightclub in Los Angeles operated by Taime Downe at the time . Don't Change That Song was selected as a single in the United States and decoupled before the album was released. The accompanying video clip was shot by Russ Meyer, whose film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! had inspired the naming of the band . Bathroom Wall was released as a single in Europe ; The song was part of the rock sampler Time to Rock by WEA Records , which was released in Germany .
The guest musicians featured on the album were Greg Darling (piano), who later became the presenter of the MTV television program Headbangers Ball , Riki Rachtman (scratching on Babylon ), and guitarist Mitch Perry ( Babylon solo).
In 2013 the album was remastered and re-released by the record company Rock Candy Records .
Track list
- 3:37 Don't Change That Song Greg Steele, Taime Downe
- 3:41 Bathroom Wall Downe
- 3:57 No Room for Emotion Brent Muscat, Downe
- 3:43 am Cathouse Downe
- 3:17 Babylon Downe, Steele
- 3:31 am Smash Alley Downe, Muscat
- 3:48 Shooting You Down Downe
- 4:30 City has no Heart Downe, Muscat
- 3:27 am Ship Rolls In Downe, Steele
- 3:04 Bottle in Front of Me Muscat, Downe
reception
Faster Pussycat reached number 97 on the US album charts .
Oliver Klemm wrote in the August 1987 issue of Metal Hammer , “similar to Guns'n'Roses”, the critic asked himself “in the case of Faster Pussycat, why the quintet of insiders was so over the green in the run-up to the release of their debut album Klee had been praised ”. There is talk of “the new sensation from Los Angeles”, which “can easily compete with the class of the old Ratt or Mötley Crap.” This is “extremely exaggerated!” Faster Pussycat is “by no means a bad band” "With songs like Smash Alley Babylon and the bluesy No Room For Emotion material that has its charms", "but what is supposed to be so exciting about the boys", he could "not explain himself even after listening to the LP for the tenth time." The band was "nothing more than another, admittedly acceptable, Aerosmith copy."
Philip Roser saw things differently in September 1987: “Really sharp claws” reveal “the not at all gentle cuddly kitten”, “The five rock 'n' rollers are not necessarily new revolutionaries,” but what they do has “hand and Foot. "In a" more traditional R&B and 70ies hard rock influenced way, the record company placed it in the glam corner, "the musicians convinced" with their goodtime rock, which is simply fun to listen to ". “Clever refrains that catch your ear, fluid guitar solos, a singer who takes some getting used to in terms of voice, with his own sound note, compact and clearly structured and varied songs” - all of this would be offered by “the Faster Pussycat Boys on their debut, that for sure will rotate more often "over its" turntable. "
Faster Pussycat was added to the list of " Rock Hard 500" in 2007, where it was ranked 498.
Web links
- Faster Pussycat on Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 14, 2013.
- Official website of the band (requires Flash)