Union (Union album)
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May 4, 1998 |
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1997 |
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Title (number) |
11/12 (Japan) |
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57:15 |
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Curt Cuomo, Bruce Kulick, John Corabi |
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Studio (s) |
Rumbo Recorders , Cheyenne Recording, MadDog Joe Studio |
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Union is the 1999 debut album by the US hard rock band Union of the same name .
History of origin
In 1992, after two auditions, John Corabi , formerly singer of The Scream , received the offer to replace Vince Neil as singer at Mötley Crüe . However, under pressure from the record company, he was released on September 13, 1997. Bruce Kulick, who had been the lead guitarist with Kiss since 1984 , was also dismissed after the album Carnival of Souls was completed in the course of the 1996 reunification of the founding members of Kiss, so both were in similar life situations.
Both knew each other and wrote some songs together. When they noticed that it was working well, they recorded the first demos . They were supported by Curt Cuomo, who had previously worked with Kiss on the Carnival of Souls album . They decided to record an album and formed a group with drummer Brent Fitz (now in Slash's band ) and bassist Jamie Hunting. The band got a recording deal with Mayhem Records.
In the United States, Old Man Wise was released as a promo single for radio in January 1998 , and the song was released as an officially available single in March 1998. The album was released in May 1998 in two formats, namely CD and vinyl . A bonus track entitled For You sung by Bruce Kulick was added for the Japanese market , and the Japanese edition of the album had a different cover .
During 1998 the release rights went to Spitfire Records. This company reissued the album and released it again on July 20, 1999. The new edition contained a cover version of the Beatles song Oh Darling as a bonus track .
Track list
- (4:17) Old Man Wise - (Bruce Kulick / John Corabi / Curtis Cuomo)
- (6:10) Around Again - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (4:33) Pain Behind Your Eyes - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (3:44) Love (I Don't Need It Anymore) - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (5:41) Heavy D - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (6:09) Let It Flow - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (4:50) Empty Soul - (Cuomo / Burleigh Johnson / Don Kirkpatrick / Corabi / Kulick)
- (4:09) October Morning Wind - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (4:08) Get Off My Cloud - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (4:43) Tangerine - (Kulick / Corabi / Cuomo)
- (4:28) Robin's Song - (Corabi)
- (3:01) For You - (Kulick / Cuomo) bonus track of the Japanese edition (1997) / (3:57) Oh Darling - ( John Lennon , Paul McCartney ) bonus track of the new edition (1998)
reception
Rock Hard awarded six out of ten possible points in its review and wrote about the album, "Kiss devotees who would have received the cold horror at Carnival Of Souls " would " certainly give themselves the bullet at Union ." Disk alterna- "rock," hold it. The structures are “generally settled in 90s rock,” and Corabi sings “with appropriate phrasing.” Nevertheless, “some of his melodies are not as flat as expected.” There are “even a few small hits.” Pain Behind Your Eyes is “z. B. a piece that you can't get out of your head after listening to it for the first time. On the other hand, "various stinkers crept in", and Corabi was "not a Paul Stanley who would also save one or the other mediocre track vocally." "The bottom line" costs the Union "a grade in the 'good' area . "
"In fact," Unions "focus on strong but melodic alternative rock that has more in common with Pearl Jam , Nirvana , Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots " than Kiss or Mötley Crüe, wrote Allmusic.com . Love (I Don't Need it Anymore) may “still allude to smooth corporate rock of the 1980s, but Heavy D ... , Tangerine ” (that “neither with the Led Zeppelin classic, nor with the 1940s big band hit from Jazz musician Jimmy Dorsey should be confused ")," Old Man Wise and most of the other gems on this CD "are" not dissimilar to "the things you get from one of the alternative outfits from Seattle of the 1990s". "Corabi and Kulick sound like "they're enjoying this unexpected direction," and the result is "one of the strongest rock releases of 1998."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shit happens ... Interview with John Corabi in Rock Hard, issue 121 (1997)
- ↑ a b John Corabi interview for Inner City Rocks Podcast (episode 56), published June 25, 2010
- ^ Union discography on kissfaq.com
- ↑ Jan Jaedicke: RockHard: Review Union. In: rockhard.de. 1998, accessed on April 11, 2017 (originally published in Rock Hard, issue 132/1998).
- ↑ Alex Henderson's online review , Allmusic.com, accessed November 2, 2012