Retro Spins: Warrant - Cherry Pie

Oh wow. I forgot how much I liked this album. I haven't heard Warrant's Cherry Pie since the days of my brother blaring it over his stereo speakers. However, unlike the majority of his music, I actually really liked when this one got played.

It all starts out with the album's iconic hit, Cherry Pie, which debuted at number ninety-seven in September of 1990. The song peaked at number ten before dropping back down. From there, it leads into my favorite track, Uncle Tom's Cabin. This track, while it charted, only managed to do so at number ninety-three and was gone the following week.

I Saw Red, is the perfect example of how to do a ballad correctly. Not only is it a great song, but it also went to number ten on the charts. Though there are other great tracks to be found, Blind Faith is the only other song from the album to chart. Much like Uncle Tom's Cabin, it debuted and disappeared in one week at number ninety-nine.

Cherry Pie is one of the last great hair band albums, before the grunge scene dominated everything, changing the music world forever in the process. It's pretty solid from start to finish with thrashing riffs and catchy tunes.

By track six, I had added all of them to my shuffle mixes for later re-listening. By the end, I had added ten of the twelve. The only songs which didn't make the cut were Train, Train and Ode To Tipper Gore.

However, that last track isn't exactly a song. It's just fifty-five seconds of live obscenities aimed at Tipper Gore for her PMRC campaign. The history surrounding that campaign is an unfortunate one, but it's worth checking out if you don't know much about it.

As for the album, that about wraps it up. I really can't say anymore than I have, but clearly, I liked it a lot. It made me go digging into the history of the band's discography a bit and I found they had a debut album from 1989, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, which I picked up for a few bucks. By the time you read this post, I'll probably have listed to it and written a Retro Spin on it.

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Retro Spins: Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Don't you love when you hear an album for the first time and realize it's got a song on it you'd forgotten about? That's what happened today with Warrant's debut album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich.

My first formal introduction to the band occurred with the release of their 1990 release, Cherry Pie. Mind you, this wasn't an album which I purchased. Rather, it was one my brother owned, which he loved to play over and over and over and over. Oddly enough, it never got old. It was solid. But, this is not a review for an album from the 90's. Instead, I want to stay focused on the 80's, which of course, is the aforementioned 1989 released Dirty Rotten Stinking Filthy Rich - If you didn't already see that coming.

Down Boys just so happens to be the song I hinted to above, the one I'd forgotten all about. I didn't even know it was their song. Heck, I don't know if I would have ever even remembered it had it not started playing.

As I continued to look into it, I found that the tune had even charted in April of 1989 at number ninety and then proceeded to peak at number twenty-seven. This was followed by Heaven, which debuted at number seventy-eight that same month. That's when the album got all the more interesting. I'd completely forgotten about this song too!

Heaven went on to be the biggest hit from the album, peaking at number two in September, where it stayed for two weeks. The was followed by the short lived chart topper, Big Talk, which debuted at number ninety-six in November, but disappeared the following week.

Overall, it was a decent album. Not as good as Cherry Pie, but definitely a good foundation for things to come. I may have to step out of my comfort zone and look into further albums from the band. I say comfort zone, because these would fall between 1992 and 2017 - Periods I tend to shy away from.

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