"Cherry Pie" by Warrant - Best song ever?

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Because I'm beginning to think that it might be.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

well, you should reconsider.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cherry Pie
by Warrant

She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet suprise
Taste so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Well, Swingin' on the front porch
Swingin' on the lawn
Swingin' where we want
Cause there ain't nobody home
Swingin' to the left
And swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball
I'll swing all night, yeah
(yeah, yeah)
Swingin' in the living room
Swingin' in the kitchen
Most folks don't
Cause they're too busy bitchin'
Swingin' in there
Cause she wanted me to feed her
So I mixed up the batter
And she licked the beater
I scream, you scream
We all scream for her
Don't even try
Cause you can't ignore her
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet suprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Oh yeah
She's my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face
Ten miles wide
Looks so good
Bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
Swingin' to the drums
Swingin' to guitar
Swingin' to the bass
In the back of my car
Ain't got money
Ain't got no gas
But we'll get where we're going
If we swing real fast
I scream, you scream
We all scream for her
Don't even try
Cause you can't ignore her
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet suprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Oh yeah
She's my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face
Ten miles wide
Looks so good
Bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
Swing it!
All night long
Swing it!
(I'm a trained professional)
Swingin' in the bathroom
Swingin' on the floor
Swingin' so hard
Forgot to lock the door
In walks her daddy
Standin' six foot four
Said you ain't gonna swing
With my daughter no more
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet suprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
Oh yeah
She's my cherry pie
Put a smile on your face
Ten miles wide
Looks so good
Bring a tear to your eye
Sweet cherry pie
Sweet cherry pie
Yeah
Swing it!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

That song got stuck in my head. And I try to think of another song and it doesn't work...then I'll hear another song I hate and it gets stuck in my head...

― Nowell, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Swingin' to the left
And swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball
I'll swing all night, yeah

CLEVER!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The video is dumb.

― Nowell, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the best ten songs of all time.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah the memories. Now I have stuck in my head the super special FX on the "Put a smile on your face / Ten miles wide" line

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just remember that stupid part in the video where the guy has the fake smile on his face. It's so retarded!

It's not something I'd listen to. I'm not a snob, but...well, you know.

― Nowell, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'cherry pie' is not fit too lick the boots of the bulletboyz' 'smooth up in ya'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Where is Chuck? Chuck Eddy to thread.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bulletwho?

― Nowell, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm a trained professional"!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cardmagnets.com/ROCK&ROLL/114.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Warrant do any other songs worth noting?

― Nowell, Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, they did. They also did "I Saw Red", sadly.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/modelbobbiebrown/wed7.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they followed it up with a few power ballads before fading into oblivion

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't this terrible even by hair metal standards?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jani Lane is easily one of my favorite lyricists of the last 20 years.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

SUNDAR OTM

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't this terrible even by hair metal standards?

Very much so.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

haha you people are lame

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

MTV voters in the early nineties or somewhere proclaimed it the worst video of all time. Miccio goes against the voice of the people and is shown to be one of the Hollywood elite.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen the video actually. I'm talking about Warrant as musical artists.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

People continually blame Grunge for the torching of L.A. metal, but it was really this insufferably lame, twee crap that killed it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

In a certain way, Anthony, me looking askance at you not talking about the video is along the lines of others looking askance at me for not talking about lyrics.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You're sorta right, Alex, but it was really that everybody decided to become cowboys and play acoustic guitars.

They are the FINEST hair metal band in my opinion. Poison is number 2 and everybody else, eh, whatever.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

but it was really that everybody decided to become cowboys and play acoustic guitars.

Well, that certainly didn't help matters.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In a certain way, Anthony, me looking askance at you not talking about the video is along the lines of others looking askance at me for not talking about lyrics.

dude, all you do is talk about lyrics.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

not having seen a video isn't willfully ignoring an aspect of the song itself

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

god knows I WANT to see this

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it hard to fathom that you haven't seen this vid, Anthony. It was pretty inescapable in its day, and it's always included in any programs about the music of the era.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a question I can't answer off the top of my head....which came first: "Cherry Pie" or Aerosmith entirely stupid "Love in an Elevator"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

not having seen a video isn't willfully ignoring an aspect of the song itself

I've actually seen arguments that when it comes to mass-market pop after a certain historical point (where and who defines it is questionable), the video is essentially inextricable from the overall impact.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Aerosmith's...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Aerosmith came first.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Aerosmith was '89, Warrant '90

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised I missed it too, cuz I saw the two Warrant videos that followed ("Uncle Tom's Cabin," "I Saw Red") plenty as a kid. And I hated hair-metal as a kid (Nirvana was haha the FIRST metal band I ever liked)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What Metal Mike Saunders has to say can be found here:

Warrant! C or D?

― chuck, Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, "Cherry Pie" is great. But it is not even the best WARRANT song ever. (It may not even be in the top ten.)

― chuck, Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Warrant videos that followed ("Uncle Tom's Cabin," "I Saw Red")

Funnily enough, I've never seen those videos.

But, y'know, they sucked immensely, so it doesn't matter, really.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha yes, let's aspire to the musical pinnacle represented by the twin towers of Poison and Warrant!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(Discussions like these reassure me that no matter what people may say, there is no way I am an oreo.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, I forgot. Cinderella's my third favorite hair-metal band. I can't think of any other hair-metallers I'm really into (don't like Faster Pussycat, I think Kix was better in the early '80s when they were kinda CheapTrick/new wavey, not sure Def Leppard counts and I haven't gotten into Motley Crue that much yet)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.online.no/~frodebye/dana_gillespie/images/1997_cd_cherry_pie.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA CINDERELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude, why don't you bring up Stryper and Europe while you're at it????

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://confederatewarehouse.com/clothing/shirts/P-425tn.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinderella were actually capable of rocking....unlike Warrant and Poison. Motley Crue shat on them all.

Def Leppard were British, let's remember, Anthony.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ratt were also way better than Warrant and Poison. And Ratt pretty much SUCKED.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuz those two sucked, Dan.

Oh yeah, I forgot that Hysteria was NWOBHM.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Not talking albums, Anthony, I'm talking bands.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuz those two sucked, Dan.

There just MIGHT be a point here, poking its nose out like a scared mouse.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

bands change though, alex. people die, arms get sliced off, aquanet gets applied, keyboards get utilized

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahahahaha. Touche.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

were Aerosmith hair-metal in the late '80s? They did look like emaciated drag queens and work with Desmond Child. If so then they're no. 4.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Aerosmith were NEVER a hair metal band!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the fact that skinny decrepit transvesites took a song about fucking in an elevator to the pop top 20 in 1989.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Thing is, though Def Leppard's unavoidable Britishness imbued them with a (comparable) humility and sense of humor largely lost on their American peers. Def Leppard simply weren't dumb enough to fit in so snuggly with L.A. hair metal.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

So then, what are Warrant's top 10 songs? I like "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but that's about it really.

― Chris O., Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Aerosmith were NEVER a hair metal band!

Not originally, but they did their damnedest to cozy up to said scene.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I still haven't gotten Cherry Pie yet (I'll probably order the reissue tomorrow), but some classics on the first album include "32 Pennies" (which, I swear to God, could be glammed-up Love cover - those lyrics are PURE Arthur Lee), "Down Boys," "So Damn Pretty Should Be Against The Law" (Jack Black would sell his soul to say he wrote it), "Sometimes She Cries" and "Heaven"

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You need to be restrained.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

too much crazy for you to handle, pops

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so much craziness as tragedy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.warrantweb.net/images/Warrant-2004-blacksm.jpg

http://www.chicagoredface.com/nelson.jpg

FITE

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

First the Gin Blossoms and now this thread. The hell is going on here?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is that up top? That couldn't be Warrant, could it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ARRGGGH! THE FALSE WARRANT! JANI LANE IS WARRANT YOU ASSHOLES.

Nelson are also to blame for the death of hair-metal

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is that dude with the long hair in the middle? He looks like Eric Stoltz in "Mask".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Nelson are to blame for the death of dignity.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

LONG LIVE NU-WARRANT!

http://www.rnb.hpg.ig.com.br/jani.h7.jpg

http://www.kayosproductions.com/kayosSite/Clients/sebastianbach/photos/sb_01_72.jpg

FITE FITE FITE!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(Is it too much to ask for someone to go back in a time machine and stamp out hair metal like it was an infectious disease?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What, Jani Lane versus JC Superstar?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually own a Skid Row album. They too, unlike Warrant, were capable of the occaisional moment of rock.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually own a Skid Row album.

I am not proud of this, btw.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This is because Skid Row is a better band than Warrant.

(NOTE: I own nothing by either.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny that back in the '80s the metal bands were having all the fun and the "alternative/college scene" was all muddled and moody. These days the hipster bands are all sex-happy and danceable while the mainstream metal guys are turgid and depressed.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

To me, it's just Monkey Business.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny that back in the '80s the metal bands were having all the fun and the "alternative/college scene" was all muddled and moody

And you were what? Six years old at the time? What the hell do you know about it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny that back in the '80s the metal bands were having all the fun and the "alternative/college scene" was all muddled and moody.

Material Issue
Lush
The Pixies
Voice Of THe Beehive
The Primitives
REM
They Might Be Giants

etc etc etc etc GENERALIZATIONS SUCK etc

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, Anthony, that reads as much snipier and nastier than was intended. But you're still being a bit revisionist.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

These days the hipster bands are all sex-happy and danceable while the mainstream metal guys are turgid and depressed.

Well, this is because the metal of today is not the equivalent of the metal of the 80's. The Warrants and Poisons of yesteryear are the Good Charlottes and Simple Plans of today.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Revisionist and overgeneralizing, yeah. But I find it interesting that the hip are the hornballs now. I was INTO "college rock" - the "cutting edge" box of a Columbia House ad that shit when I was nine man (plus you know, I've listened to a lot of music made in the era)! I HATED metal!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I will say that the hair bands seemed to be having a better time than the college rockers. And these days, I'm sure that Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes are getting more cherry pie than Staind.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

my point

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but Staind owe nothing to Warrant and have nothing in common with them (apart from the irrefutable fact that they both suck immeasurably).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Warrant were a metal band in tonsorial terms only. They were a pop band first and foremost (just like Good Charlotte).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Warrants and Poisons of yesteryear are the Good Charlottes and Simple Plans of today.

that's definitely true to a point.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a time when Anthrax and Warrant were both played on "Headbangers' Ball".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but I liked Anthrax. (Also I never watched MTV regularly before the age of... 21?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but I liked Anthrax

now I laugh at THEE. Only song of there's I've heard and liked was "N.F.B." Good little parody.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That's because you are incapable of rocking, Anthony.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

hogwash.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you always opt for the neutered, happy, shiny, user-friendly, G-rated pabulum instead of the definite article?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

dude there's plenty of sex, misery, scuzz, antagonistic stuff going on in my pabulum of choice

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of its x-rated too

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, y'know, whatever mows your lawn. But, just know....you're just drunk on Soma and wolfing down their heaping helpings of Soylent Green. You're listening to dilution. You don't have to.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

TONIGHT ON CROSSFIRE

― Thanks You've Been a Great Audience (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my second favorite album ever is White Light/White Heat. I have no idea what you're talking about. Sometimes I like happy, sometimes sad. Sometimes shiny, sometimes lo-fi. Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme fast.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You shame the Velvets by listening to Warrant.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I really don't think they give a shit

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

besides, Lou Reed took Velvets classics and buffed them up in horrific pop-metal renditions on Rock'n'Roll Animal. He'd have no right to criticize.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever rationalization helps you get through the night.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You killed Sterling Morrison by listening to bad music. Live with that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I'm sure enduring Lou Reed's scatting during the '93 concerts had a more direct negative effect on the guy's health

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You two really are the ILM equivalent of Gabbneb and Don Weiner (I mean this with love).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I think it was the "Velvet Nursery Rhyme" that killed him.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

So, glad we've settled this, then. "Cherry Pie" by Warrant is -- as we've unanimously decided -- assuredly NOT the best song ever. ::::bangs gavel::::: Next?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet Jani"

― dave q, Friday, 10 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Excuse me, is this where the down boys go?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

a bad winger b-side

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't saying "a bad Winger b-side" sort've like saying "a luminous glow" or "an alien outworlder"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

no way dude, that man had a vision

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Kip is blinding the normally critically acute blount with his chest hair

http://www.rnb.hpg.ig.com.br/kip.ht51.jpg

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

the man had five o'clock shadow over his entire body

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

His father was a Sasquatch.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

For people who thought Paul Stanley didn't act flirtacious enough

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

winger was everything living colour were supposed to be (well maybe not everything)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

they were supposed to be the bastard child of George Michael and a case of Aquanet?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry George Michael and Steve Vai. Aquanet was used as lubrication.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

george michael + steve vai = tell me where to sign

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Want Your Whammy Bar"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

winger was everything living colour were supposed to be

New Frontiers In Ludicrous Declaration!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a leaner rush only - bonus! - no corey glover

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'Aquanet was used as lubrication. '

though that would irritate the relevant tissues a quite a bit now wouldn't it?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ergo 'headed for a heartbreak'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

w-w-what is "uncle tom's cabin" about ?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i just remember the video was set in the swamp or some shit

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

warrant were slaves before they were let free to rock.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 10 September 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c375/c37500v0x86.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

that album cover used to creep the bejesus out of me every time i saw it at the local pizza hut's jukebox when i was a kid.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Winger - led by a bassist. Not our proudest moment.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 10 September 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Was Winger even a leaner Triumph?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 10 September 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really give a shit if Warrant were metal or hair metal or if metal killed rock or hair metal killed rock or whatever. It's all irrelevant because "Cherry Pie" is a fucking awesome bubblegum pop song, in the tradition of early Sweet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

you can't bring up Warrant without the foxy patrol dancing around and repeating themselves for the next two days, dude. Now you know.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't even really care if Warrant had other songs or better songs, in my mind, they are a one-hit wonder.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

we can't have that.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Though I will accept emailings of any Warrant (or any other band) songs I need to hear to invisiblecrutch@gmail.com.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like one of those jesus freaks who sits back and thinks about how everyone's going to hell when someone knocks my personal savior.

(x-post can I send you a mixtape?)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I say mixtape because most of the music in this genre you might enjoy I have on cassette or vinyl

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure, knock yrself out. I'd probably listen to it more if it were a cd, but I'll certainly listen to a tape as well. I'll email you my address.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

rock!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

a buddy of mine is a promoter and these guys want WAAAAAAAAAY too much money to play & this song is the reason why.

LA guns OTOH, just want to ROCK !!

― kephm, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna go where the Downboys go.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

these guys = THE FALSE WARRANT. The Jani-free Warrant. BOYCOTT.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The vocals are dumb. The lyrics are dumb. The guitar licks are dumb. The double entendres are dumb. There is not one whit of imagination or creativity in this song. John Anderson's "Swingin'" is so much a better song than this one. To compare this to something as sweet as, well, Sweet is regrettable.

"Heaven" is a much better song in a watered-down, retarded, glazed over Gordon Lightfoot kind of way.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The vocals are dumb. The lyrics are dumb. The guitar licks are dumb. The double entendres are dumb.

Yes. Welcome to bubblegum pop 101.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And actually all of popular music ever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

that's just overstatement, n.a. and you know it.

anyway there is dumb-clever and dumb-exciting and then just dumb-boring.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, yeah, that was hyperbole. But the whole point of bubblegum music is that it doesn't matter how dumb it is as long as it's catchy. And "Cherry Pie" is very, very catchy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

well catchiness is in the ear of the listener i guess. it's not a song that does much for me. the best bubblegum music wasn't just "simple," it was actually very cleverly put together. viz. the handclaps on "sugar, sugar."

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Just about everything is in the ear of the listener, including whether something is "cleverly put together."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Just about everything qualitative, that is.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus I'm not sure that having handclaps on the 2 and 4 beats through the entire song is what makes "Sugar, Sugar" cleverly put together, but that's another thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I meant dumb-boring. Thanks.

There's nothing at all catchy about this song. It's about as catchy as "100 Bottles of Beer on The Wall".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

like you've ever forgotten how that one goes

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Zing!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't forgotten what diarrhea feels like either.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus I'm not sure that having handclaps on the 2 and 4 beats through the entire song is what makes "Sugar, Sugar" cleverly put together, but that's another thread.
-- n/a (nu...), September 10th, 2004.

it's the spin echo on the handclaps!!! but yeah, another thread...

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Poison > Cinderella > Warrant

Down Boys/Heaven/Sometimes She Cries/In the Sticks/Smooth Up In Ya/Headed for a Heartbreak/Love In an Elevator/Swingin > Cherry Pie

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

In The Sticks! Forgot about that one!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Inspired by this thread, I dug out some Cinderella. While entirely embarassing, Cindrella rock WAY harder than fuckin' Warrant.

"Gypsy Road" and "Shake Me" are a squadrillion times better than dung-beetle mating call that is "Cherry Pie".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm a little ashamed to admit cinniblount may have been right about Winger. Shit.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 26 September 2004 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

haha this must be Dream Theater's secret inspiration!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 26 September 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

jani lane then ...
http://www.rnb.hpg.ig.com.br/jani.h11.jpg

jani lane now ...

http://www.decadesmusic.com/Photos/general/pics1/uswithjani.jpg
http://www.warrantweb.net/images/1-JaniLaneLive.jpg

see what happens when you trade cocaine for donuts???

― frangly, Sunday, 26 September 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe he got confused by those powdered donuts?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote about Cherry Pie on NYLPM once. It's a great song!

I also like Heaven, I Saw Red, Sometimes She Cries and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I only really like "Miles Away" when it comes to Winger, oh and maybe "In The Heart of the Young", I'd get their greatest hits comp if it was less then £4.

LA Guns, hmmm, they weren't that great.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

TESLA!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I like how that top picture is captioned:
Jani "Cherry Pie" Lane

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

This is WEIRD. I just listened to Cherry Pie (the album) the first time ever last night. At first it took me off guard because it lacked a lot of the yee-ha goofball wit of Dirty Rotten - it's almost like a MATURITY move, which was not what I expected. It's still solid and catchy, though, even if lacks the bizarre details of "32 Pennies" and "So Damn Pretty..." The only song I'm not sure I like is "I Saw Red" I don't know if it was because of the way it was remastered or what, but the piano was painfuly hokey for my tastes.

Also, the liner notes to the Cherry Pie re-master are really sad. It's not even celebratory! It's just "hair metal got killed by grunge for being sexist but hey this stuff sold a lot." WTF. They should have gotten Metal Mike to write those. Why are you pointing out the argument against hair-metal when I BOUGHT THE WARRANT ALBUM?! Argh. Plus I have to assume they took out all of the goofy thank you's and what not, DRFSR had a ton (including a poem about a girl who lost her cherry but that's no sin - she's still got the box that the cherry came in) and there's none on this one.

Anyhow yeah "Cherry Pie" is an ok song but there are way better ones on Dirty Rotten.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Since I got an original CD of Dirty Rotten for a buck I almost feel like I should get the remaster AND find an old copy of Cherry Pie so I can read the original liner notes.

Along with Dirty Rotten and Cherry Pie, the Metal Masters Series on Columbia includes: Accept's Balls To The Wall, Quiet Riot's Metal Health, Britney Fox's Best Of Britney Fox, Europe's Final Countdown and Aldo Nova's Aldo Nova. I'm pretty certain I'm sticking with the Warrant stuff.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Mentioning Warrant in the same series as Accept is a fuckin' insult. Accept rocked. Warrant did not.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

...although Warrant were still better than Europe and Britney Fox.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know about Accept was that they were really, really gay.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it's hard to tell but the singer is dry-humping the bassist on STAGE on the COVER of this album.

http://rangerecords.com/ACCEPT_RESTLESS_AND_WILD.jpg

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Balls to the Wall, dude.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone is telling that he was born as a love child
By looking in his eyes something turned me loose in this hot night

Feeling the power of lust when the guy’s passing by
Wrecking one’s brain and I’m going insane don’t know why

I can feel your sex winding up a girl in the red dress
And my brain is gone, what is going on, I’m burning inside

Feeling the power of lust when the guy’s passing by
Wrecking one’s brain and I’m going insane don’t know why

A love child, running wild
A love child
A love child, running wild
A love child - love child

I gotta tell myself that he was born as a love child
And the story of his way should not make me stay in this hot night

Feeling the power of lust when the guy’s passing by
Wrecking one’s brain and I’m going insane don’t know why

A love child, running wild
A love child
A love child, running wild
A love child - love child

Don’t know what I am
A woman or a man
Many troubles behind me
I’m doing all I can
But I’m what I am
Leave me alone - don’t mistreat me

Feeling the power of lust when the guy’s passing by
Wrecking one’s brain and I’m going insane don’t know why
A love child, running wild

― dave q, Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Accept's greatest hits, I'm sorry they don't belong on this thread.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the difference between Winger and Warrant might be the key to a fundamental difference between my taste in mainstream rock and Anthony's.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know about Accept was that they were really, really gay.

You should see the inner sleeve of Balls to the Wall, then.

Hell, they may have been exceptionally, exquisitely, pants-droppingly gay......but they were still a HELLUVA lot better than Warrant.

And "Fast as a Shark" off that album (Restless & Wild) is proto-thrash-crossover worthy of Motorhead/Venom/Metallica/DRI.

Fuck Warrant.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

You killed Sterling Morrison by listening to bad music. Live with that.
I wonder how many musician deaths can be directly attributed to some random music fan listening to bad music...
Like, would Sandy Denny not have fallen down the stairs if Ralph Yunkerman of Camden New Jersey didn't listen to that Bay City Rollers 45?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 26 September 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

The Story Of Metal episode about Sunset Strip/Hair metal on VH1 has a recent interview with Jani about how Cherry Pie originated and how he got branded by the song. It's powerful. The whole episode is pretty good actually.

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Saturday, 3 June 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

All I know about Accept was that they were really, really gay.

When just a website isn't enough: the band's whole history in PDF or Word format: http://www.acceptarchive.com/html/ACCEPT-History.pdf

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 3 June 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

in case anthony hasn't seen it yet, the video.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Saturday, 3 June 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I think Down Boys imight be a deliberate ripoff of the Cars' Bye Bye Love.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I still really fucking hate Warrant.

― Dan (SHOCKER) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 June 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Good God, Dixn.

"It's an orange-y sky,

Always she's my cherry pie."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6AXRwQgrw&search=Down%20Boys

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Saturday, 3 June 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

revived just for this classic dan perry post:

Haha yes, let's aspire to the musical pinnacle represented by the twin towers of Poison and Warrant!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, September 9, 2004 5:58 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

― Eisbär (Eisbaer), Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:42 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

fave pie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:35 (nine years ago)

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