Year : 1989 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album)
Style : Hard Rock , Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 96 mb
Album:
Original musical contributions included songs by Alice Cooper (who would later play Freddy Krueger's abusive foster father, Mr. Underwood, in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare) and Megadeth, who covered Alice Cooper's 1973 hit "No More Mr. Nice Guy", among others. The movie's title song was written by Jean Beauvoir and Desmond Child and recorded by The Dudes of Wrath, a supergroup composed of Paul Stanley of Kiss and Desmond Child, both on vocals, Vivian Campbell and Guy Mann-Dude on guitars, Whitesnake's Rudy Sarzo on bass guitar, and Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums. The band also included backing vocals by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Kane Roberts. The soundtrack was released on Capitol/SBK Records in 1989.Shocker (also known as Wes Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and starring Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Cami Cooper, and Mitch Pileggi.The film was released by Universal Pictures on October 27, 1989, and grossed $16.6 million.Ever heard of The Dudes of Wrath? This temporary “super-group” consisted of various members from track to track, but the best song they did was “Shocker” itself. With lead vocals by Paul Stanley and Desmond Child, it’s a must-have for Kiss maniacs. If that’s not enough, Vivian Campbell, Tommy Lee and Rudy Sarzo also play on it. It’s like a collision of some of those bands — Kiss, Dio, Motley. The anthemic outro will slay you.Desmond’s writing is all over this album, and he co-wrote a track with Alice Cooper that ended up being recorded by Iggy Pop called “Love Transfusion”, a hard rockers sounding like a ‘Trash’ B-side. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the backing track is from the Cooper sessions, because this sounds exactly like an Alice Cooper song with Iggy Pop overdubbed. All the musicians are guys from the ‘Trash’ album. Do the math.It’s hard to imagine a weirder team up than Desmond Child and Megadeth. Dave Mustaine was deep into the powders at the time, and he recorded “No More Mr. Nice Guy” with a three piece Megadeth. The late Nick Menza had joined the band already, but Marty Friedman was yet to be hired.Paul Stanley reappears in a writing capacity on “Sword and Stone”, performed by Bonfire. Paul wrote it for Kiss’ Crazy Nights LP with Desmond Child and Bruce Kulick. If it had been on Crazy Nights, it might well have been one of the best tunes on there. Bonfire’s version is fantastic, but it only makes me hungry for a fully recorded and mixed Kiss version. One day…Another version of The Dudes of Wrath appear this time with Alice Cooper on vocals. “Shockdance” sounds like little more than a slowed down variation of the “Shocker” riff, with Alice and actor Mitch Pileggi rapping over it. Just terrible stuff, actually… but very, very ’80s fun.Thankfully Desmond delivers another very good track with the song he wrote with Dangerous Toys, “Demon Bell”. Like Guns N’ Roses galvanized and electroplated, “Demon Bell” slays.Desmond also worked with Sandi Saraya for the only ballad, “Timeless Love”, featuring Steve Lukather on guitar, the type of songs you needed in a soundtrack at the time.Voodoo X were the band of Jean Beauvoir, who Kiss fans know from his many co-writes and guest appearances on their records. He only made one record as Voodoo X, and his song “The Awakening” is damn fine indeed. At first you’re thinking, “Oh it’s just another crap ballad”. Then a riff kicks in, and it blasts right off. It’s a bit like 80’s Kiss meets Top Gun.The last band up is Dead On, pretty pedestrian thrash metal, and one of the few songs without any involvement of Desmond Child. The angry elf vocals are hilarious, but the song is almost a parody of bad metal.The album ends with a reprise of the title track “Shocker”. Basically what this means is that you get to hear Paul Stanley singing for another two or three minutes, when he was really able to hit some seriously high notes. Cool.”SHOCKER – The Music” sold pretty well when released, and it’s a hell of a lot better than the movie that spawned it! Anyway, both are cult classics now, and the CD, pretty hard to find / out of print, with The Dudes Of Wrath songs not to be found on any other disc.
Line Up:
The Dudes of Wrath:
Lead Vocals – Desmond Child, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper
Guitar – Guy Mann-Dude, Vivian Campbell
Bass – Rudy Sarzo
Drums – Tommy Lee
Synths – Steve Deutsch
Backing Vocals – Desmond Child, Kane Roberts, Louis Merlino, Michael Anthony, Claus Lessmann
Production:
Art Direction – Murray Brenman
Coordinator [For Alive Records] – Ed Gerrard
Coordinator [For Sbk Records] – Pat Lucas
Liner Notes – Wes Craven
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Production Manager – Michael Anthony
Supervised By [Music] – Desmond Child
Tracklist:
01. The Dudes Of Wrath – Shocker
02. Iggy Pop – Love Transfusion
03. Megadeth – No More Mr. Nice Guy
04. Bonfire – Sword And Stone
05. Saraya – Timeless Love
06. The Dudes Of Wrath – Shockdance
07. Dangerous Toys – Demon Bell (The Ballad Of Horace Pinker)
08. Voodoo X – The Awakening
09. Dead On – Different Breed
10. The Dudes Of Wrath – Shocker (reprise)
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