Fire and gasoline
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| Studio album by Lee Aaron | ||||
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March 25, 2016 |
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| Label (s) | Big Sister Records | |||
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11 |
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48:19 |
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Lee Aaron |
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The Farm Studios, Chez Jean Studio |
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Fire and Gasoline is a comeback album by Canadian singer Lee Aaron . It is the thirteenth album of their musical career, which was interrupted from 2004 until this release.
background
Lee Aaron achieved fame and commercial success in the mid-1980s with the albums Metal Queen , Call of the Wild and Lee Aaron as well as Bodyrock, initially in her home country Canada and later in Europe. During this phase of her musical career, she was marketed as the Queen of Heavy Metal . She was nominated ten times for the Juno Award ; her most commercially successful album in 1989 was Bodyrock, which went platinum twice in Canada .
By the end of the decade, she owed her record company half a million dollars, and in 1992 she started her own label, Hip Chic Music. She released her last rock album, Emotional Rain, in 1994, after which she turned to jazz to prove that she could “do other things” (than hard rock and heavy metal ). She recorded music in this genre until 2004, when she temporarily ended her recording career, but occasionally appeared on jazz and rock shows.
In 2011 she performed at the Sweden Rock Festival .
In 2016 she published Fire and Gasoline . She said of her motivation to make rock music again:
"At some point I listened to the old Led Zeppelin and Sex Pistols records with my children - and suddenly I realized that I was missing something."
Aaron produced the album, which contained exclusively her own compositions, herself. She received songwriting support from her guitarist Sean Kelly, who had previously worked with Nelly Furtado . The recordings took place in The Farm studios and the Chez Jean studios in Vancouver . In addition to the musicians in their band, who were Dave Reimer ( bass ) and John Cody ( drums ) alongside Sean Kelly , John Webster ( keyboards ) was also involved in the recordings. He later took over the sound mixing . The result was a "basically classic hard rock album with modern pop melodies and a slight touch of punk ," which Aaron said
“Singing jazz made me a better rock singer. But recording a voice naturally is a science in itself. I am very proud of this record. "
The album was released on CD on March 25, 2016 and offered through online music services. As music were Tom Boy and Fire and Gasoline extracted; Music videos were also produced for both titles .
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Tom Boy | Lee Aaron | 3:58 |
| 2. | Fire and gasoline | Aaron, Sean Kelly | 4:00 |
| 3. | Wanna Be | Aaron | 3:05 |
| 4th | Bittersweet | Aaron, Kelly | 4:49 |
| 5. | Popular | Aaron, Kelly | 4:03 |
| 6th | 50 miles | Aaron | 4:31 |
| 7th | Bad boyfriend | Aaron | 3:26 |
| 8th. | Heart Fix | Aaron | 5:39 |
| 9. | Nothing Says Everything | Aaron, Kelly | 3:37 |
| 10. | If You Don't Love Me Anymore | Kelly | 4:23 |
| 11. | Find the love | Aaron | 6:35 |
| Overall length: | 48:19 | ||
reception
In Rocks, Markus Baro was of the opinion that Aaron's return to hard rock music on Fire and Gasoline would be “credible, but less classic” than on Metal Queen (1984) and Call of the Wild (1985). The “very modern” hard rock “with pop fluff ” seems “almost youthful and enthusiastic;” Songs like 50 Miles or Bad Boyfiends “go straight into the blood.” Above all, the artist allows herself to sound “finally grown up”. The album was “completely different from what I expected, but not without its charm.” Baro awarded 3.5 out of a possible six points.
Wolfram Küper wrote in Rock Hard that with her first three albums (1984-1986) Aaron "earned the reputation of being a metal queen, but then quickly lost it again through her musical and visual reorientation from pop to jazz." Fire and Gasoline have "made hope" that they could "get the curve." However, this is a fallacy , since it offers "now well-made, radio-friendly and modern pop rock (sometimes harder category)," in which Aaron "at least with her powerful organ ”. Unfortunately, it remains "still far from its origins" and is therefore "more or less uninteresting for readers of the magazine."
Web links
- Official website
- Video for Tomboy (YouTube)
- Fire and Gasoline Video (YouTube)
- Fire and Gasoline at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Music Canada Awards Database , accessed October 6, 2019
- ↑ a b c Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 02/2016, page 18
- ↑ List of all artists who performed at the Sweden Rock Festival from 1992 to 2019 , accessed on October 6, 2019
- ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 02/2016, page 102
- ↑ Review in Rock Hard 346 , accessed online October 6, 2019