Wake Me When It's Over Explained

Wake Me When It's Over
Type:studio
Artist:Faster Pussycat
Cover:WMWIOA.jpg
Released:August 28, 1989
Recorded:1988–1989
Length:60:42
Label:Elektra
Producer:John Jansen
Prev Title:Faster Pussycat
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Whipped!
Next Year:1992

Wake Me When It's Over is the second album by Faster Pussycat, released in 1989.[1] The band moved away from the glam metal of their first album to a more blues-influenced sound.[2]

Music videos were produced for "Poison Ivy" and "House of Pain". "House of Pain" reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the video, which was directed by future film director Michael Bay, was in rotation on MTV. The album peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard 200.[3] The album has been certified gold by the RIAA.[4]

Production

The album was produced by John Jansen. It is marked by a heavier, less glam metal sound.

Critical reception

Spin wrote that "side one is terrible, crammed with constipated glam-metal boogie, "but praised side two's "Slip of the Tongue" and "Tattoo".[5] The St. Petersburg Times wrote that "by smoothing out the rough edges and tightening up the loose performances, Faster Pussycat has traded in its identity for a faceless, albeit commercial, sound." The Calgary Herald thought that "a pleasant surprise is "House of Pain", which is devoid of the syrupy mush that tends to dominate a lot of ballads that crack the charts."[6] Kirk Blows of Music Week called Wake Me When It's Over worthwhile, and noticed that the album gives listeners "more adventure, variety and depth than its predecessor while retaining just enough of the reckless spirit."[7]

Personnel

Faster Pussycat

Additional musicians

Production

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Phillips . William . Cogan . Brian . March 20, 2009 . Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music . ABC-CLIO . 9780313348013 . Google Books.
  2. Book: Popoff, Martin . The big book of hair metal : the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade . 2014 . 978-0-7603-4546-7 . Minneapolis, MN . Voyageur Press . 177 . 858901054.
  3. Faster Pussycat . Billboard.
  4. Web site: Gold & Platinum . 2021-05-31 . RIAA . en-US.
  5. Spins . November 1989 . SPIN . SPIN Media LLC . en.
  6. News: Miller . Glen . 9 Nov 1989 . Metal Discs . C5 . Calgary Herald.
  7. Blows. Kirk. Review: Faster Pussycat — Wake Me When It's Over. Music Week. 7 October 1989. 24 January 2022. 32. London. Spotlight Publications Ltd.. World Radio History. 0265-1548. https://web.archive.org/web/20211102044816/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1989/MW-1989-10-07.pdf. 2 November 2021.