Without the cross over hits, rock bands would have no way of reaching new fans. I put this to the prosecution as my closing statement on the matter. Who didn’t get into heavy music that way? Is that different to Black Flag making a funny video for TV Party? Or better than The Beastie Boys getting their single remixed by Norman Cook? Is a rock ballad such a bad thing if it pays for the tour and the next album? Would you rather genre bands didn’t mix it up? Hard rock bands going acoustic to lure new fans into their world. It’s ripe for lampooning and bands like Steel Panther have made fortunes doing so.īut I ask you this. Bands chasing a hit single by emoting when usually they’re doing something far less sensitive or tasteful. The album went on to become RIAA certified Gold 10 and eventually Platinum. Guns from their 1989 album Cocked & Loaded. Guns new album, titled Cocked & Loaded, peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200 30 while the single 'The Ballad of Jayne' peaked at number 25 and 33 on the Mainstream Rock Chart 32 and the Billboard Hot 100 32 respectively. It’s a cynical cynical area of the music world. The Ballad of Jayne is a 1989 power ballad by American glam metal band L.A. So we’ve swerved from the power ballad formula a little over the week. Lest we forget L.A Guns share origin DNA with Guns N’ Roses and it shows here as much as it does on those debut album hard rockers. From 2006 to 2012, (four years after his departure from the band) Tracii Guns reformed his own version of the band, and during that time, there were two distinct lineups of L.A. The current version is led by vocalist Phil Lewis with drummer Steve Riley. OK, so November Rain might take it on brute force and Sweet Child O’ Mine is the undefeated champion of this sort of thing. Guns is the name of a glam metal group from Los Angeles, California. Put Ballad of Jayne in a cage match with Patience or Yesterdays or Don’t Cry and it holds it’s own. Guns from the Cocked & Loaded album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: She was always. One band with some previous in the ballad arena. (C) 1989 Universal Records, a Division of UMG R. However, there is one band L.A Guns will forever be tied too in the rock family tree. Guns - The Ballad Of Jayne (Official Video) 15,203,501 views Music video by L.A. “Now it all seems funny kinda like a dream, things ain’t always what they seems, what a shame, what happened to Jayne” This song is right up the top of the list with Aerosmith and Thunder and Meatloaf and Heart and Marillion and Bon Jovi and Whitesnake and all of those guys. When I think dirty rock and rollers with leather jackets and guyliner and dirty jeans crying into their beer over a hard rock band gone slightly country. “Diiiiiiiiiamonds shining bright in the rain” I’m sure there are literally hundreds of other Power Ballads I should have chosen for this weeks selection but for me… When I think Rock Ballad. This is especially apparent with the lyric "time don't heal a broken gun." - a play on the band's name, but nonetheless, a statement of sorrow, heartbreak, and missing something that once was.“Sheeeeeeeee was always something special” The lyrics recall a "diamond shining bright in the rain," and seem to be coming from someone that is mournful and nostalgic for days gone by. However, beyond being and ode to Jayne Mansfield, the song resonates with anyone that has lost a love or someone special to them. Guitarist Traci Guns supposedly had a fondness for Mansfield while growing up. Guns - Performing the Ballad of Jane, Live at the 8 Second Saloon in Indy, on August 17th, 2007. One verse of the song is "Now she's breaking hearts in heaven, shining bright in the sky" which is an acknowledgement of Mansfield's celebrity while alive, and the affection that young men had towards her. Mansfield was killed in an automobile accident in 1967. Jayne Mansfield, an American actress, pin-up model, and blonde sex symbol, famous in the 1950's and 1960's for her cleavage revealing outfits and curvy hourglass figure, was supposedly the inspiration behind the song. Billboard Hot 100 and also charted at number 53 in the U.K. Guns featured guitarist Traci Guns, who was the "Guns" part of the original Guns `n' Roses, with Axl Rose. "Ballad of Jayne" is a 1989 power ballad by the band L.A.
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