i had successfully forgotten about this band for over a decade until i opened this thread
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 August 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Chicago Tribune
January 23, 1991, Wednesday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION
"Just think what great headlines we'd provide for the terrorists with a name like Slaughter," said rock 'n' roller Mark Slaughter in announcing that his band was quitting its European tour because of war-related threats.
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
a completely different futuristic hippie sound on the fourth
I think I need to hear this now, especially
8. "Guck" (instrumental) - 1:39
― cwkiii, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
UP ALL NIIGGGGHT SLEEEEP ALL DAAAAY THAT'S RIGHT
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnqxpHFvyM4
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I saw Slaughter in 1991. They dedicated "Fly to the Angels" to the men and women who defended our country in the Persian Gulf.
They also did that thing of substituting "Saddam Hussein" for "Chairman Mao" in their cover of "Revolution".
― pplains, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
what did they rhyme it with?
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
But when you go carryin' pictures of Saddam Hussein/Don't you know that you're gonna look insane?
A lyrical construction that flowed off of Mark Slaughters lips like honey.
― pplains, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVIjdgd1ncs
Go to 2:22 for another version of that line.
Also note huge American flag held up in back of the room while hair band sings "Revolution".
― pplains, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Perfect! It doesn't get better than that.
― how's life, Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
it was a real missed opportunity that this thread was not titled "does anybody remember slaughter?"
― some dude, Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
that's like when i saw Hairball, a tribute 80s metal band
http://www.moondancejam.com/images/bandspage/regional09/hairball.jpg
and they did "Nothin' But a Good Time" by Poison and in the middle part they said "I make a toast to all of us/that's breakin' our backs every day/If you wear a towel on your head/THEN GET OUT OF THE USA"
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
on Sat night in my town Warrant & Firehouse are playing a corn festival; def nuthin but a good time
― Euler, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
who's singing for warrant now?
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit, I didn't know that Jani Lane had died! no idea
― Euler, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
The dude from Lynch Mob is the singer.
Would have loved to have seen them in the Jaimie St. James years.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
I've decided this is the death/thrash metal Slaughter thread now.
Strappado is a fuckin weird album, like, I can tell they liked Celtic Frost a lot! not like the other earlier proto-death albums at all. I got a copy on CD yesterday finally.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
LOVE Nocturnal Hell and Surrender or Die. So brutal.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
i love the way Mark Slaughter says THATS RIGHT on “Up All Night” it makes me laugh … also i like that whole album, its v enjoyable
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmobha2krY
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Can this thread continue along parallel discussion lines with two completely different acts of the same name? I look forward to the Nirvana thread following suit.
― I gave it my all and my all wasn't enough (Matt #2), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
The ICP thread did that too.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
There has NOT been two Insane Clown Possees!
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
They and the Instant Composers Pool orchestra.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
sorry i didnt know there was another slaughter
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
forget it, VG, it's Truemetaltown...
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
tbh I don't care if both Slaughters get love itt
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
Slaughtii?
― pplains
that was such an amazing era for the overlap of pop-metal/hard rock with displays of patriotism that would embarrass lee greenwood.
― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:32 (five months ago) link
*Robert Plant voice* “Does anybody remember SLAUGHTERRRR?”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
thought this was gonna be a Kissinger revive
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:52 (five months ago) link
lmao
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:24 (five months ago) link
THAT’S RIIIIGHT
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:47 (five months ago) link
'that's right' sounds like a castrated mouse, or a mouse whose balls are being tightened in a vice
― calstars, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:58 (five months ago) link
I enjoy listening to “stick it to ya” and imagining it’s the new return to form, kick ass darkness album
― calstars, Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:08 (five months ago) link
for a few seconds at the beginning 'up all night' sounds like it's going in an Orb direction. then of course, "when evening comes, i am aaa-LIVE'
― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:24 (five months ago) link
it’s such a dumb song but he makes it perfect in its dumbness, in the true hairmetal way
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2023 01:16 (five months ago) link
very interesting band to me (I'm pretty into this kinda music) - the lead track on The Wild Life is really a good encapsulation of how they're a band with some interesting ideas and impulses but there's also no way in hell they're even thinking about trying to anything other than Crue played straight. feel like Sunset Strip aesthetic politics are a whole thing worth talking about -- like Crue took MASSIVE shit for their makeup early on, lots of homophobic mistrust on the scene, people lumping them in with the sleaze trend that was big there then (Mau Maus, Joneses, all bands Axl was absolutely taking notes about) but their sound was hard to deny, I think a guy like Slaughter is hearing this and thinking "I want a normal version of this." and they're real capable musicians, the songs aren't good and the vocal approach, it's exactly what you think, laughable then and now, but listen past that at all the weird shit on The Wild Life. So many bizarre tiny moments across the first two tracks it makes me dizzy, I'll catalog them:
1. sure ok we open on a church bell and some sfx but then there's this guitar through a phase pedal with some high feedback behind it, fuzz & interference and the guitar's playing a disciplined repetitive figure, this could easily be a Helden track but then the hair metal kicks in HARD and it's like somebody spliced two tapes together wrong2. it does its mid tempo Crue thing for a while, the vocal harmonies on the chorus are sweet as hell, this was probably really powerful live, the bassist is ACTIVE, very nice touch3. and then the bottom drops out! more sfx, chimes, a Roland harpsichord, some lyric about opening your mind - like, it's just a weird bridge, bands do weird bridges, but hair metal band kinda don't and this is super odd. bizarre. and then!!4. two guitar solos and the first one is WILD, long EVH "here I come" note but then this lurching scale that -- like, this is what alternative rock bands do with their solos. it's artsy shit! the second solo is more proper Sunset but the first one (or was that just the intro to the solo?) has left its mark, and then it collapses into the squelch synth sound that has marked transitions in the mid section of the song5. on the repeat chorus they really lock into the groove, by this point hopefully you've figured out a way to ignore the vocals, it's hard, they're a lot but the band is practically CHOOGLING -- really in a pocket, or what counts as a pocket in this kind of music. bassist LOCKING into his busy figure in the fadeout.
then we hear tires squealing and motors roaring and we have what sounds pretty hair metal until this bassist persuades the band this is a new wave tune. popping quarter notes snapped to the grid, more woozy guitar chiming in, very poppy chorus, these are people who have misunderstood whitesnake for the greater good. the guitar solo is also pretty bonkers on this track.
anyhow that's the first two tracks of their second album. having to learn to be ok with the vox/lyrics isn't really the best use of one's listening time but shit, I listened to thrash before this and death metal after, I can get there when it's worth it. good band.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 1 December 2023 02:52 (five months ago) link
yeah I think they are a really good band and bear up to close scrutiny. i for sure enjoy them!! I think that being a “second wave” band they unfairly get lumped in with the dearth of idiotic & straight up DUMB bands from that 88-91 time period who have multiple hairdryers and zero chops.(warrant is another great band in the same kind of boat imo)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2023 03:15 (five months ago) link
Listening to this now and yeah, it's kind of fascinatingly weird. I'm also getting hung up on just how blatantly the singer's imitating Dio on the line "you reach for the sky".
I like it when hair metal bands get arty and weird. Remember when BulletBoys covered Tom Waits's "Hang On St. Christopher"? And released it as a single from their second album?
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 1 December 2023 03:29 (five months ago) link