Description
Vince Neil Carved In Stone
Label: Warner Bros. Records 9362-45877-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1995
Genre: Hard Rock
Tracklist
1 Breakin’ In The Gun
2 The Crawl
3 One Way
4 Black Promises
5 Skylars Song
6 Make U Feel
7 Writing On The Wall
8 Find A Dream
9 One Less Mouth To Feed
10 The Rift
Barcode: 093624587729
Check samples: www.allmusic.com/album/carved-in-stone-mw0000644971
Carved in Stone = Studio album by Vince Neil
Released: September 12, 1995
Recorded: 1994-1995
Genre: Heavy metal, Industrial rock
Length: 43:08
Label: Warner Bros.
Producer: The Dust Brothers, Vince Neil
Carved in Stone is the second album by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil and was released in 1995.
It featured guitarist Brent Woods, who had previously played with Wildside and was later a touring guitarist for Warrant.
Drummer Vik Foxx was also a touring member of Warrant.
Track listing:
“Breakin’ in the Gun” (Frederickson, Fredricksen, Neil) 3:52
“The Crawl” (Crane, Foxx, Frederickson, Neil) 4:17
“One Way” (Frederickson, Fredricksen, Neil) 3:51
“Black Promises” (Crane, Foxx, Frederickson, Neil) 4:52
“Skylars Song” (Crane, Neil, Woods) 4:58
“Make U Feel” (Frederickson, Fredricksen, Neil) 4:01
“Writing on the Wall” (Crane, Foxx, Frederickson, Neil) 4:50
“Find a Dream” (Crane, Foxx, Frederickson, Neil) 4:54
“One Less Mouth to Feed” (Frederickson, Fredricksen, Neil) 3:36
“The Rift” (Christiansen, Frederickson, Neil) 3:57
Vince Neil lead vocals
Brent Woods guitar
Robbie Crane bass guitar
Vik Foxx drums
5.0 out of 5 stars way ahead of its time,
this album is the better of vinces two solo discs. if you’re a music fan you’ll love this disc. hes doing things on this recored that “Limp” & “Saliva” are doing now. most of the tracks are dark heavy rock songs,(“The Crawl”, “MakeUFeel”,”Black Promisas'”,”One Less Mouth To Feed” & “The Rift”),with others wielding crazy groovs & hip-hop beets, (“Breaking In The Gun”, “One Way”, & “Find A Dream”). this is a record I wish evryboddy could hear, its that good. this album hit the streets in 1995. way ahead of its time!
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive,
I’m not sure what made me buy this cd. I had heard Vince Neils “Sister of Pain” single from his first solo album was simply not impressed. I bought this cd on a whim and its just awesome. I was quite honestly surprised by both the skillful songwriting and the excellent musicianship. This is not a Motley Crue CD. The disk has a much darker feel to it than anything Motley Crue has ever done. This cd alone has icreased my respect for both Vince Neil and somehow Motley Crue. I wish I could buy this CD over and over again.
5.0 out of 5 stars The direction the Crue should be listening too,
Awesome second solo album from vince neil. Great songs, great lyrics, and just an over all solid rock album! Thank god the Crue took notice after their Motley Crue album without Neil which was kind of a disaster. ROCK N ROLL at its finest!
REVISITING VINCE NEIL’S AMBITIOUS ‘CARVED IN STONE’
It seemed like Vince Neil had nothing to lose in the ‘90s, after losing his position in Motley Crue. So, he might have thought, why not try something left field? That might explain his ambitious second solo album, Carved in Stone, which was released on Sept. 12, 1995 – and, sadly for him, sank like one.
After his resignation or dismissal, depending on whom you ask, Neil had released the relatively solid debut LP Exposed, which reached No. 13 in 1993 (compared to Motley Crue, featuring the band’s new singer John Corabi, which reached No. 7 the following year.) But more in Neil’s life had changed – his wife, the subject of the album track “Forever,” had filed for divorce, his band had experienced a series of personal conflicts and his manager had died during the recording process.
“I didn’t really pick those guys, they were kinda placed with me through Warner Bros.,” Neil said in 1996. “They thought it would be a good idea for them to do some rock and I wanted to experiment a little bit, so we got together. We experimented a lot, and went into recording a whole different way, and used a lot of computer stuff.”
Different it certainly was. The intention was to mix the classic rock sound Neil was known for with hip-hop and industrial influences, teamed with found recordings and the sampling that the Dust Brothers were known for. But much like Motley Crue’s own attempt to interpret current trends, it made the fundamental mistake of failing to engage Neil’s core audience while also failing to capture a new one. After throwing it all in the air, he made it to only No. 139 on the chart.
It’s easy to imagine the confusion a Crue fan might experience after pressing play to hear the album’s opening track, “Breakin’ the Gun.” In a remarkable prediction of what they were about to think, an air-raid siren warms up to its fullest tone before being crushed against an Alice in Chains-type riff, which is in turn overtaken by yay-ing and scratching to a hip-hop backbeat. It might not even occur to some fans to listen out for Neil’s identifiable voice – or at least nearly identifiable voice.
The second track, “The Crawl,” is capable of leaving the listener equally bewildered. While it carries several trademark elements, they’re brought together in such a way, and under such a powerfully placed street beat, that it’s difficult to be certain the track was actually completed before release.
The song, like the LP, has plenty of strong moments, even if the target market wasn’t particularly interested in them. It’s impossible not to feel a touch of the feelings the Crue could put on when they suddenly went serious when listening to “Skylar’s Song,” written in memory of Neil’s 4-year-old daughter, who had died of cancer while the record was being made.
In 2000, Neil looked back on Carved in Stone. “That was before Kid Rock,” he told Classic Rock: “So no one was really ready for it then. If it came out today, it’d probably sell 50 million copies.” It was re-released in 2004, but didn’t achieve those sales figures; it could be simply because it was pitched at an audience that knew what it wanted… and it didn’t want that.
In any case, it’s difficult to imagine that the album’s failure, alongside Crue’s own downturn, didn’t contribute to the two sides joining forces again in 1997.
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