Faster Pussycat

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A sure-fire 5-star disk! I have always said, when asked, that the best album released since I was a high school graduate in 1985, is Appetite For Destruction, by Gn'R. However, I have always said that Appetite for Destruction's huge success, kept Faster Pussycat's BRILLIANT debut from achieving it's due.

Both albums were released around the same time. At that time, FP's album was getting much more publicity. But then "Sweet Child o' Mine" took off, and the Pussycats' album got buried.

It is a SOLID 5 star album! It is L.A. sleaze-metal-rock at it's best. You have the classics, in "Don't Change That Song" and "Bathroom Wall", as well as "Cathouse". But the whole Stones-meets-metal sound continues on solid tunes like "No Room For Emotion" and "City Has No Heart".

Frankly there is NO bad song on this whole disk! "Babylon", Shooting You Down" and "Bottle In Front Of Me" are good.

"City has No Heart " and "Ship Rolls In" are strong rockers that make this album much more than a "trash metal" album. It is a classic metal album!

This album is much better than any of their others. There's plenty of good sleaze-rock to be had here and much less filler than on, say, "Wake Me When It's Over." The sound is rawer and the tunes more memorable.

Highlights:

"Bathroom Wall" is an '80s sleaze classic, though it seems to owe alot to Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me." Still fun.

"No Room for Emotion" is a surpisingly mellow Stones-y tune that is more mature and flowing than I would have expected from these boys.

"Babylon" is good pop-sleaze which is fun despite the ANNOYING scratching.

Overall, the album is a fairly generic slice of '80s glam metal, but if you're a fan of the genre you won't feel cheated.