FASTER PUSSYCAT: Whipped CD + Long box (if required, it can be mailed. Please specify). Check audio & videos “Nonstop To Nowhere”, and the banned “The Body Thief”. Criminally underrated

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A longbox is a form of exterior paperboard packaging for musical compact discs in widespread use in the 1980’s and early 1990’s in North America.
When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12″ tall, and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary.

Long box (if required, it can be mailed. Please specify if you need it).

 

“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.

Faster Pussycat ‎– Whipped!  Long box (if required, it can be mailed. Please specify if you need it).
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 Written by Taime Down and guitarist Greg Steele, this almost seven-minute-long song that opens “Whipped!” is arguably one of the best Faster Pussycat songs ever made. The anthemic tale of “the lame train that nonstop goes to nowhere” reached no. 35 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts in the year when the cat crew competed not only with fellow 80s glam rockers but also with grunge and alternative newcomers. And you know what? With a tune like this (and the whole “Whipped!” album), they could have competed with them for many, many more years… but heck, somebody didn’t allow that to happen.
2 The Body Thief 4:56
3 Jack The Bastard 4:07  in 1992, Faster Pussycat evolved to become more mature, heavier, darker, and grittier. However, their mantra remained untouched – and that mantra is their sleaze. Many bands in LA flirted with sleaze, but Faster Pussycat defined it. All aforementioned ingredients were present on this album. This one should have been their biggest, but it wasn’t, and we all know why (the industry decided to kill this kind of music). “Jack The Bastard” is, without a doubt, one of the best songs from this release – a true sleazy heavy rocker. If Jack The Bastard were a real person, you wouldn’t want to meet him, that’s for sure.
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.

FASTER PUSSYCAT: Whipped CD + Long box (if required, it can be mailed. Please specify if you need it).. s + video

Long box (if required, it can be mailed. Please specify if you need it).

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

This whole record was/is a MASTERPIECE and totally underrated. This record set the maturity of one of the best and few, REAL R’n’R bands from L.A. They deserved alot more . I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THESE GUYS.

Exactly. The Seattle and 90’s depressing poor me scene was starting and they got no backing from the record company after this was released. Just a write off for a loss by the record company.

WHIPPED is still my favourite FP album it really rocks even after 23 years

rare banned video of “Body Thief”.

2nd video from Whipped. Banned from MTV

2nd video from Whipped. Banned from MTV

As much as I love FPC, and this video… I can see why this didn’t fly with the censors in 1991. Hell, I don’t know that it would fly with them now no matter who put this out. This is pretty brutal and you have a 4-5 year old clearly kid being killed in it. I’m not saying I personally have a problem with the video because I don’t, and I think it really illustrates the song and personality type real well. I just don’t think overall that the masses are going to be fed something like this.

rare banned video of “Body Thief” 

Great video and song. Whipped is such an underrated album

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.

Faster Pussycat released their third album “Whipped” in 1992. The band waited over three years to release a follow-up to their acclaimed 1989 album “Wake Me When It’s Over,” and many wondered how Faster Pussycat would top that album’s success. Well…..they didn’t top their previous album, but “Whipped” is a worthy follow-up record in its own right. The band undoubtedly knew their brand of party-rock was on the way out in 1992, and crafted an album that retained essential elements of the band’s sound, but incorporated a more bluesy tint as well.

First things first. You won’t find any “Bathroom Wall” or “Poison Ivy” on this album. While the songs are well-crafted and fun, the band seemed to want to move a little past their frat boy image and become a more serious hard rock band. The songs are definitely still fun and full of crazy and zany versus, but occasionally the tracks take on a social and more heartfelt emotional message. The band seems to be at their height musically on this album, and while I personally like “Wake Me When It’s Over” better, this record is a most worthy addition to any party-rock collection. The best songs from the album to me are: “Maid In Wonderland,” “Big Dictionary,” and “Nonstop To Nowhere,” but most of the rest are listenable and easily enjoyable as well.

If you like Faster Pussycat in any way then this album is definitely for you. The album is a little different than previous offerings from the band, but it is definitely worth the money and investment.

Have been hooked on Faster Pussycat, since 1987. Love them for just doing their own thing and not copying what every other band was releasing. Also that they didn’t care what the critics thought about them and their faith in what they where doing. (In 1987, too many bands weren’t themselves merely doing what ever their label wanted and consequently selling out.) I have always liked the combination of Brent Muscat and Greg Steele on guitar. I also liked the edition of Brett Bradshaw on drums. Got to see Faster Pussycat with Brett on drums three weeks after joining them, in Maine and he’s awesome.  I Really liked Whipped!, mostly for the variety they give you and for their songwriting. My favorites on the album where: “Nonstop To No where”, “Big Dictionary”, “Madam Ruby’s Love Boutique”, and “Mr. Lovedog”.  Taime, Brent, Greg, Eric and Brett are all great with what they do in the band and highly talented. Unlike too many of today’s bands. They are Original one of a kind. All three of their releases are must haves and well worth it regardless the cost.

This is a great CD and band. Very under rated and not your ordinary hair band as they get classified often!

 The Faster Pussycat songwriting formula is basically the same thanks to singer Taime Downe’s clever songwriting and great musicianship. The lead off track” Nonstop To Nowhere ” takes you back to earlier albums sounds and later tracks show a growth in songwriting and basic song structure. Overall this is worth having for any true Faster Pussycat fan !!!!

it kicks ass!! Dirty, gritty , and a little sleazy. What rock n’ roll is supposed to be.

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