Nasty Nasty
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Publication |
August 1986 (USA), October 3, 1986 (Germany) |
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| Label (s) | Geffen | |||
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Format (s) |
LP |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
38:20 |
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Gene Simmons (except B3: Jonathan Cain) |
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Studio (s) |
Baby 'O Recorders, Cherokee Studios (except B3: One on One Recording Studios), Los Angeles , California |
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Nasty Nasty is the 1986 third studio album by Portland , Oregon- based hard rock band Black 'n Blue , based in Los Angeles , California . Eight of the nine songs were produced by Kiss bassist / singer Gene Simmons . It is the group's most successful album.
History of origin
After the release of Without Love started on the subsequent two-month tour in support act of Kiss already the songwriting for the upcoming album. A break halfway through the tour was used to work out the rough song structures and add completely new compositions. This was enough to record a demo that was played to Gene Simmons. He should make an objective judgment with his direct manner. He liked the material, so he offered the band to produce the album. At that time he was producing The Final Frontier by Keel , which is why he left the tour train as often as possible so that he could devote himself to this work. When the show in New York's Madison Square Garden was over and Simmons made his way to Keel's nearby studio, Jaime St. James went with him, as Black 'n Blue and Keel were friends. St. James sang a few background vocals there. Ron Keel returned the favor when recording Best in the West . He also brought his guitarist Marc Ferarri with him, while Simmons had invited his bandmate Peter Criss for support. The keyboard in Kiss of Death was used by John Purdell, who later worked as co-songwriter and producer on successful productions ( Ozzy Osbourne , Dream Theater , Foreigner ). He also played the instrument on Promise of the Moon , a song co-written by Simmons, but it was not used on the LP . Three other Simmons collaborations , on the other hand, were placed at the beginning: Nasty Nasty ( phrased by Kiss in Domino in 1992), I Want It All and Does She or Doesn't She . A complete third-party composition comes from Jonathan Cain, who gained fame through his membership in Bad English and Journey . He produced his I'll Be There for You separately from the main development process in a different studio. The reason for this was that the song was actually intended for the soundtrack of the film Out of Bounds , a romantic thriller with Meat Loaf and Siouxsie Sioux , but was not accepted. The prevented contribution seemed too good for the band to leave it unpublished. Not only that, it became the only single release .
Nasty Nasty became the best-selling album and as a result reached the highest chart listing , namely # 110 with a 20 week stay on the " Billboard 200 ". For Tommy Thayer, the Nasty Nasty Tour 86-87 is the tour he fondly remembers.
Track list
Page 1:
- Nasty Nasty (Thayer / St. James / Simmons) - 4:29
- I Want It All (I Want It Now) (Warner / St. James / Simmons) - 4:23
- Does She or Doesn't She (Thayer / St. James / Simmons) - 4:17
- Kiss of Death (Thayer / St. James) - 5:07
Page 2:
- 12 O'Clock High (Thayer / St. James) - 3:38
- Do What You Wanna Do (Warner / St. James) - 4:12
- I'll Be There for You (Jonathan Cain) - 3:47
- Rules (Warner / St. James) - 3:39
- Best in the West (Thayer / St. James) - 4:48
style
Under the impression of the current tour with Kiss, pieces with a live character were created, i.e. stormy and rough. The roughness of the demo was not revived, but it was different from the mainstream predecessor Without Love . Commenting on Gene Simmons' part in it, St. James said: “The thing with Gene was more or less a coincidence because we were on tour with Kiss. But we were very lucky with that, because Nasty Nasty reflected the band for the first time as it really is. Until then, we had never managed to bring our live energy to vinyl. The first two albums were rock solid, but neither Dieter nor Bruce had ever seen us live. Gene had this opportunity for weeks. He immediately recognized where it had long go at Black'n'Blue and made a plate with rough edges "The German sales advertised in his. Blurb with the Simmons-quote:" I hardly needed to reach into his bag of tricks in the studio, as only an apple had to be polished, which was a really tough affair. ”The Internet platform Metalreviews noted a moderate change in style towards the LA Sleaze sound .
reception
Arlett Vereecke ( Metal Hammer ) found the work to be a direct hit: “There is no unnecessary messing around with songs and sounds, every number has been produced by Gene Simmons in a straightforward and unpolished way.” In Rock Hard , Oliver Klemm stated that it was “generally regarded as the best of the black and blue ”. Of course, he did not fail to mention Simmons, “who was also actively involved in the songwriting of such party hits as the title track or I Want It All (I Want It Now) - titles that belong in every well-stocked Eighties collection and make the third work an essential . "
In Allmusic 3 jumped out of 5 stars. The reviewers on metalreviews.com got 76 and 83 points out of 100 respectively. Mike said Nasty Nasty was a respectable, often overlooked, album the way rock music should be, with no failures, but it didn't have any killer qualities.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Arlett Vereecke: Black 'n Blue . Naughty as dirt. In: Metal Hammer . December 1986, p. 80 .
- ↑ Ask the Saint… The Archives. In: jaimestjames.com. St. James Official Website, accessed March 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Black 'N Blue. Chart history. In: billboard.com. Billboard, accessed March 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Scott Redeker: Tommy Thayer Interview. (No longer available online.) In: www.perrisrecords.com. Perris Records, archived from the original on November 21, 2008 ; accessed on March 21, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Product Facts , WEA Musik GmbH, [o. D.]
- ↑ a b Mike: Black 'n Blue - Nasty Nasty. Majestic Rock Records. Hard rock. In: metalreviews.com. MetalReviews, October 13, 2003, accessed March 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Oliver Klemm: CD imports . Black'n'Blue. In: Rock Hard . No. 92 , January 1995, p. 90 .
- ↑ Nasty Nasty on Allmusic (English)
