Skid Row (album)
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January 24, 1989 |
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1987 |
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Skid Row is the debut album by the American hard rock band Skid Row , released in 1989 . It was produced by the German music producer Michael Wagener , reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 in the USA and was awarded five platinum awards. It is the group's most commercially successful album.
background
Skid Row was founded in the mid-1980s by guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo and bassist Rachel Bolan. The line-up was supplemented with the second guitarist Scotti Hill and drummer Rob Affuso, and the group Sebastian Bach was able to win as singer . The band was included in the artist repertoire of the management company McGhee-Entertainment and eventually signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records .
The album was on the recommendation of producer Roy Thomas Baker to the Royal recorder Studios in Lake Geneva ( Wisconsin included). This studio was in a former hotel that had previously housed one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs . The studio therefore had its own airfield, three golf courses and two lakes, and it was not far from Alpine Valley, where Judas Priest , Guns N 'Roses and Whitesnake performed regularly . There was always something going on and the band were free to spend their free time. The album was released on January 24, 1989, as singles the tracks Youth Gone Wild, 18 and Life and the ballad I Remember You were released.
In addition to the tracks later released on the album, the band recorded other songs that, apart from the song Forever , were not released. They were the titles Walk with a Stranger, Dirty World, Knock, Knock Baby, Shame, Love Comes Down, Waiting for Me, Can't Wait Til It's Here, Money in a Hurry, and Shine in the Night. Forever was released in 1989 on the best-of album 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row .
Skid Row is still his producer Michael Wagener's favorite album to this day.
Track list
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- Big Guns (Rachel Bolan, Scotti Hill, Dave Sabo, Rob Affuso) 3:36
- Sweet Little Sister (Bolan, Sabo) 3:10
- Can't Stand the Heartache (Bolan) 3:24
- Piece of Me (Bolan) 2:48
- 18 and Life (Bolan, Sabo) 3:50
- Rattlesnake Shake (Bolan, Sabo) 3:07
- Youth Gone Wild (Bolan, Sabo) 3:18
- Here I Am (Bolan, Sabo) 3:10
- Makin 'a Mess (Sebastian Bach, Bolan, Sabo) 3:38
- I Remember You (Bolan, Sabo) 5:10
- Midnight / Tornado (Matt Fallon, Sabo) 4:17
reception
Skid Row was internationally successful and reached number 22 in the charts in Germany , number 30 in the UK and number 6 in the USA. While the first single, Youth Gone Wild, barely reached the Billboard Hot 100 in the US at number 99 the group with the song 18 and Life resounding success, reaching number four in the US and number 12 in the UK. The music video for this song was on MTV's heavy rotation . Also I Remember You reached sixth place the top ten in the US, in the UK but only place 36th
Wolfgang Schäfer wrote in Rock Hard that it shows once again that “true musical values such as independence and originality are by no means as much in demand” as “the mere copying of success schemes that other bands have already established and thus given” . It is “not surprising” that “the influence of Guns N'Roses then also resonates (almost) everywhere” . In the USA it may “still work out” , but whether this calculation will also work out in this country “may well be doubted” . Nevertheless, one is spared "before the descent into the sad mediocrity" . Songs like “the successful ballad '18 And Life '” or “the good hymn' Youth Gone Wild '” guaranteed that .
Steve Huey from Allmusic wrote about the album that the songs on it were mostly “Pop Metal Fluff”, but because Skid Row was one of the “toughest bands with commercial success” in the Hair Metal era , the songs “ sounded more annoying and more aggressive than the lyrics would suggest ” . In part, this is due to the “musical talent of the individual musicians” , and partly to the singer Sebastian Bach. His “tendency to overdo it with the singing” gives most songs “the necessary attitude” . The songwriting and the melodies are "consistently consistent" , although they are not as "close to true Heavy Metal" as they sound.
Web links
- Skid Row at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- Official website of the band
Individual evidence
- ^ RIAA gold & platinum database . Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Emotions, Energy & Entertainment ; Interview with Michael Wagener in the series producer icons, in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 01/2011, pages 78–83
- ↑ Skid Row - 1988 Demos [Demo] [Heavy / Glam Metal] - Metal Kingdom . In: metalkingdom.net . Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ↑ Skid Row in the German charts / chart data
- ↑ Chart discography Austria
- ↑ Chart discography Switzerland
- ^ British Hit Singles & Albums , 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 9781904994008
- ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
- ↑ Review by Wolfgang Schäfer in Rock Hard, issue 31 (1989)
- ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000198647 Review on Allmusic.com