Sunday's Best: Week 19, 2022
Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 02:32PM It's crazy to me that we are in mid-May already. My cat Roosevelt loves watching all the birds outside since there are so many hanging around the house now that it is warm. Sometimes Rosie wakes me up in the middle of the night because he wants me to open a window for him. The cat is so smart he literally taps my shoulder with his paw. Now he is spoiled but he doesn't get open windows in the middle of the night. But he paces and is restless until he gets his daily bird fix!
While spring might mean more birds for Roosevelt, it means party music to me. On the Hair Metal Reddit, I noticed folks talking about Danger Danger and it is true: they are a party band! Danger Danger's "Slipped Her The Big One" is a great track. It's on the album Screw It! and that's our Sunday's Best for this week.
"Slipped Her The Big One" features most of the members of Extreme, too. I always wondered why Screw It! album didn't do very well, considering it came out in 1991 - after all, Glam was still rolling then.
Danger Danger is criminally underrated, especially since Andy Timmons is such a great guitarist. "Monkey Business" was supposed to be the star single from Screw It! and that was probably a mistake. Should have put more effort and focus into "Slipped Her The Big One" and maybe the album's fate would have been different.
Danger Danger
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I just think that band was on the edge of being something, but washed out by the sheer volume of bands, often doing things slightly better. While Ravel and West were good writers, they also tended toward the sophomoric side of things, which helps or hurts depending on how you look at it. And it never seemed liked they got enough promotion from Epic/CBS.
And, while 1991 was still a good enough year for glam bands, tides were certainly shifting. That is, after all, the same year that Nevermind and Badmotorfinger came out. It was also the case that they had a short tail, as their debut came out in 1989. So they were trying to establish themselves at the end of the glam's glory years. Just saying.
And, again, no, I don't think grunge killed glam or metal. Glam and metal did themselves in, corporations turned to more lucrative prospects, and grunge filled a gap that obviously wasn't being filled by a lot of bands from the 80s. Multiple factors. Clear results.
First, the video for Monkey Business was too racy. Much Music (Canada's version of MTV) wouldn't play the video during prime time hours, and my guess is that it was met with similar reaction in other countries. This was their kick-off single, and instead of helping them have a big launch, it just kind of died on the vine.
Second, it was released at the very end of hair metal's mainstream relevance. Metallica, Nirvana, Pantera, Skid Row & GNR changed the sonic landscape, and Screw It was caught up in that. My guess it the album would have been massive if it had been released a year earlier.
Funny enough, how t first recognized him in line at the store was I saw this long-haired, freaky person standing in line in front of me. It was summer time and he was in shorts and a t-shirt. He's covered in tattoos, so like I often do, I was studying/examining his tattoos. I'm very intrigued what people ink on their bodies. Anyway, I saw that he had cartoon tattoo of The Great Gazoo from The Flintstones. I said to myself, "I think I saw a rock star with that tattoo once. I think it was the singer of Danger Danger". I looked up and standing in front of me was Ted Poley.
I remember buying “Screw It” without having heard any of it; listened once and then quickly traded it in for something else. I could go off on why that album didn’t do well, but don’t want to offend the fans of this record ;)