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1. Sell Your Soul 2. So Young 3. Deathboy 4. Lady Of The Night 5. No Fellings 6. Go Away 7. Find Your Own Way Home 8. I Want Action 9. Don’t Call Me “”Baby””, Baby 10. Bad Habit 11. No Lullabies 12. Hurt The People You Love
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Fun, sleazy punk metal. Opened for Motorhead in the UK.
This album will take you back to the glory days of the Sunset Strip when bands like Motley Crue and Guns ‘N Roses were just getting started. Kill Cheerleader plays sleazy sounding metal with tons of cool solos and a definite punk influence. It’s raw and grungy, but still catchy as hell. The songs are very formulaic, but in this case that formula is very effective. When the chorus is catchy, the riffs creative and the solos interesting, that’s all that matters. This is the perfect party record. There are a lot of fast headbanging style songs along with a few midtempo numbers and the requisite ballad that’s perfect for either a slow dance or a bathroom break.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Faster Cheerleader, Kill, Kill,
In the formative years of my adolesence I was turned on to a band then called Cheerleader 666, and nothing was the same since. It’s hard to express my love for this band’s music, but I can say this was the first band in my life that was current, completely unheard of and completely different. Their mixture of thrash, punk, metal and rock and roll is unique even more so now than it was a decade ago when I first heard them, and to see the landscape of our culture without them saddens me a great deal. I remember sending away to get the vinyl of the Gutter Days Ep, and the unmixed sessions of what would become ‘All Hail’, and waiting for the mail delivery every day till I got it, and when it came I listened to both of those albums for the entire summer, adsorbing this gritty, lustful, powerful and sometimes sorrowful rock and roll that truely made me believe that this band would be the next big thing.
Lemmy of Motorhead was once quoted saying that they were the best rock band since Guns and Roses and all it takes is a listen to this album to understand why. It plays with an energy of a early Ramones album, but they use more chords and can play solos. It’s reminiscent of Motorhead without feeling repetitive. It’s Iggy and the Stooges with no filler. It’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’, for a new millenium. It’s the greatest rock record you never heard.
I guess the songs that might take a first time listener for a loop on the first listen are “”Go Away”” and “”No Lullabies””, the former a break-up song to heroin and the latter a quasi-love song to a prostitute, but both are extremely tender in the Kill Cheerleader way, and the emotion the band manages to elict from them is wonderful. I myself can’t really choose a favorite song. “”Sell Your Soul”” was my introduction, “”Don’t Call Me Baby, Baby””, “”So Young””, “”Lady of the Night””, “”Bad Habit””, and “”I Want Action”” I had listen for years before this official album and I can now recall them note-for-note. “”No Feelings””, “”Find Your Own Way Home”” and “”Deathboy”” would find a place on my list of favorite songs of all time, but in truth so would the rest of this album. Even “”Hurt The Ones You Love””, the piano solo at the end is haunting, especially since it conjures up a tone of loneliness and danger that would later permeate through so much of Crystal Castle’s music. In a way as much as this album is able to rock you and give the satisfaction that the best of rock albums can, it is a double edged sword. This was their first and last. Besides two ep’s that preceeded “”All Hail””, they may never be another note of Kill Cheerleader music and I consider that a great shame.
But if you’re here, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard at least some of this album already and are contemplating if you should or shouldn’t buy this record, and my only advice is to absolutely buy several copies. Spread the Cheerleader. Give it to like-minded friends and family. Leave copies at people’s houses when they have a party. Play it loud to annoy your neighbors if you’re feeling vengeful for some reason. Not once in a decade of listening to this band have I been able to find another current band like them and I’m letting go of the hope to finding one. They were a once in a lifetime experience and I could only say thing about them it would be this: All Hail!
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5.0 out of 5 stars wow!
GNR on speed. Great licks, cool sound, voice matches teh tempo and style. I only wish this wasn’t their only album…
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5.0 out of 5 stars This Band is Killer!,
Thank God (or Satan) for this band! They blend a punkish / metal sound that reminds me of The Ramones, Brides of Destruction, and early Motley Crue. Great guitars! It’s a nice break from all the “”New Metal”” […]. I hope they are around for a long time. They could save Rock-N-Roll. Do yourself a favor. Pick up a case of beer, crank it loud, ENJOY!
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