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Whipped! is Faster Pussycats third album. Check audio:
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“Nonstop to Nowhere”, for which there is a video, was released as a single and reached #35 on Billboards Mainstream Rock track chart. “I’m on the lame train, I got a first-class ticket on the nonstop to nowhere,” Taime Downe self-deprecatingly tells us right at the start, running away from home at the crack of dawn (“fiiiiiiive o’clock in the morning”) as he boards a nowhere-train rock’n’roll tradition that dates back way before than Guns N’ Roses’ “Nightrain” — to Lester Bangs calling heavy metal a “fast train to nowhere” in 1980, or Dion’s “two fists of iron but I’m going nowhere” in 1961, or the Champs’ “Tequila” B-side “Train To Nowhere” in 1958.
There’s a sweet jangle to the chords and girls harmonizing in the background, and Taime missing those lost days of “skipping school and stealing gasoline.” Hollywood-based Russ Meyer fans Faster Pussycat had just come off a “You’re So Vain” cover and “House of Pain,” their biggest hit, a sad one about a broken home. And unlike most hair-metal relics in the grunge years, they had no fear of coming off soft: In the video, filmed on a kind of wee-hours urban lunar green-cheese landscape, Taime looks vampire pale. Which gave the band a slight S&M-goth bent — the singer’s silly submissive name, all those whips — that girls apparently appreciated, even if boys didn’t.
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Label: Elektra ‎– 9 61124-2, Elektra ‎– 61124-2
Format: CD, Album The insert folds out into a poster.
Country: US
Released: 1992
Genre: Hard Rock, Glam
1 Nonstop To Nowhere 6:57
2 The Body Thief 4:56
3 Jack The Bastard 4:07
4 Big Dictionary 2:56 Harmonica, Flute – Jimmy Z
5 Madam Ruby’s Love Boutique 3:42
6 Only Way Out 3:53
7 Maid In Wonderland 5:05
8 Friends 4:47 Piano – Nicky Hopkins Slide Guitar – Chuck Kavooras
9 Cat Bash 1:42
10 Loose Booty 3:29 Lead Vocals [Co-lead Vocals] – Greg Steele
11 Mr. Lovedog 6:30 Choir [Boys Choir] – Pasadena Boys Choir (Tribute to Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone)
12 Out With A Bang 4:39
Record Company – Warner Communications Inc.
Record Company – Time Warner
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra Entertainment
Copyright (c) – Elektra Entertainment
Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
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Personnel / Band:
Taime Downe: lead vocals
Greg Steele: guitar
Brent Muscat: guitar
Eric Stacy: bass guitar
Brett Bradshaw: drums
Additional musicians:
Lisa Reveen: backing vocals
Stephanie Weiss backing vocals
Bekka Bramlett: backing vocals
rare banned video of “Body Thief”.
2nd video from Whipped. Banned from MTV
2nd video from Whipped. Banned from MTV
rare banned video of “Body Thief”Â
After Nirvana changed the landscape of rock music in 1991, countless hard rock bands found themselves with a dwindling fan base and no label support. But what makes Faster Pussycat different from the Bang Tangos and Kick Tracy’s of the world is that they were hitting a creative peak right as the hard rock backlash began. It was amazing, confident, very strong effort from a band that was much better than the stereotyped genre they were lumped in with. The juvenile sexist anthems were catchier and more clever than anything they had delivered before (check out “Big Dictionary”), while they found themselves travelling down a few new musical paths. The country rock swagger of “Nonstop to Nowhere” starts the album very strongly, sounding more like classic Rolling Stones than Bon Jovi. Many other songs on the album capture the forceful rage of classic Guns N’ Roses, a sound that had only been hinted at by their previous efforts. Elsewhere, “Mr. Lovedog” the heartfelt tribute to Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, offered a sad elegy to another charismatic figure in the metal world. Taime Downe has the right attitude for this music. This is a fine hard rock album that died a terrible death in the alternative rock marketplace of 1992.
Each of the 12 tracks here has been comprehensively planned and thoughtfully constructed to give evidence of a band unafraid to experiment. Tackiness and musical maturity find a blissful coexistence.
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