Some songs are killer and some are killers.
Do you recall a time when a great band who was on great run released a song that made nearly everyone scracth their head? This week were looking at songs that killed a bands momentum, or in some cases their career!
Lets start off with a video version of what I'm talking about this week. In the case of Billy Squire's Rock Me Tonite, it wasnt that the song was bad, it was the video.
The song ranks as Billy's highest charting U.S. single, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hitting the Top 10 on the Cash Box singles chart. It also returned him to #1 on the Top Rock Tracks chart in August 1984. Despite its major success, the single is sometimes associated with the end of Squier's career as a singles artist due to the music video, often described as one of the worst ever. Many viewers who saw it thought Squier was gay, or on drugs. It was directed by Kenny Ortega, the third director to be considered for the job. He had offered to make it despite reservations from the record label and Squier's management so MTV could air it as a World Premiere Video on the date Squier and his label had originally promised them. Squier's concert ticket sales immediately suffered, and he later fired his managers. He has accused Ortega of deceiving him and altering his original concept, which Ortega denies.
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Good thing Mr. Gowan came around and resuscitated Styx!!!!
Why wasn't there a warning about that first song? That song could be deemed offensive, luckily I was wearing headphones as it was playing.
Yeah, that April Wine album was a letdown. Thankfully, the album after this, "Animal Grace", was a solid album. Sadly, the album after THAT, "Walking Through Fire", was horrible. Thankfully they took some time off and were back with "Attitude" and then came others that I have (except for the Mansion one), which weren't horrible, but it was time for them to go.
I like that Frampton song, always wanted to get that album, but he's just to damn sexy.
And then there's VHIII. What could be said that hasn't been said before? This song isn't bad, but the album as a whole isn't good which makes this song not too good.
As for Styx, thankfully Mr. Gowan came around and resuscitated Styx!!!!
April Wines Back To The Mansion release is quite good.. I own it and have posted a couple tracks from it in the past. I actually like Power Play, true its not a solid follow up to Nature of the Beast but it has stood the test of time as several tracks still are quite good...
I am also a pretty big Frampton fan, sexy or not, and I like his catalog all except for When All The Pieces Fit, that one isn't very good at all...
VHIII - agreed and as for your continued Gowan worship?
Notice how you glossed over the absence of a warning for that April Wine song.
You REALLY don't know why this song was banned from radio play?
Look, all I know is that if you see Kay tell her that Myles Goodwyn loves her... geez!
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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