Warrant - Cherry Pie

One of the best from hair metal.

For me, this is perhaps one of the best albums back from the hair metal era. Lots of memories arise each time I play it... A good sound legacy from a specific musical history moment recorded here, no matter how cheesy it may result, now and then.

Some lucky folks with no past on their lives laugh today when they look back at the band and listen to its songs, no matter if they were the best Warrant fans back on the 80s... lucky that none of them seems to have no past and never liked something like this before.

Worth every penny if you're in it for a bit of cheesy hair metal sound from the 80s. If you're ashamed of it, then just turn back and laugh at it.

The true sound of Warrant, with a couple mainstream smashing hits. August 26, 2008

One of the best of the hair metal genre.

Warrant's debut was good, this one just blows it away on every level.
Super fun, super catchy, Warrant was totally top of their game on this disc.
From start to finish a glam,hair masterpiece.
A must have for hair metal fans.
Highly recommended!!! July 7, 2008

Laugh if you want, but it's a better album than you think

It's amazing how quickly Warrant went from being platinum selling megastars to the poster boys for everything that was suddenly wrong about the hair metal scene, but that's just what happened in the early 90's. A lot of that backlash had to come from the title track and video to the band's 1990 album Cherry Pie, a big obnoxious innuendo-laden song about...well, I'm sure you can figure it out. That song came to symbolize the hair metal scene's lack of originality and real meaning, paving the way for Nirvana and friends to clean house.

I think it's unfair to write the scene, band, and album off based on one song though. Sure, it's probably my least favorite Warrant song, but the rest of the album is surprisingly strong melodic rock. Check out the monster guitar hooks on Uncle Tom's Cabin or the power ballad perfection of I Saw Red and Blind Faith. Bed of Roses is a great melodic track, and Song and Dance Man, Mr. Rainmaker and the cover of Blackfoot's Train, Train give the album a dose of Southern swagger. Really, aside from the title track and the closing expletive-fest "Ode to Tipper Gore", Cherry Pie is a remarkably strong album, and one that doesn't deserve the reputation it has since picked up.

If you're dead set against the hair metal era, nothing I say will convince you otherwise. Those of us that grew up with bands like Warrant know a fun rock album when we hear it, and Cherry Pie definitely qualifies. April 4, 2008

...Genuis encapsulated...

Warrant is one of the greatest(if not THE greatest) bands in the history of Rock. Alot of people think Skid Row are the best; but no, Warrant are much better. Skid Marks (I made that up)can't combine rock with sass the way Warrant did with "Cherry Pie". The term 'Cherry Pie' serves as a metaphor for something sexy, in the song.Nor could they capture the deep feeling of teenage alienation like Warrant did in "Down Boys"...'Youth Gone Wild,' came close but it lacked the element of fraternity that "Boy's" brings....Yeah Jani!!...I (still) wanna go where the down boys go!!! December 12, 2005

32 oz of Pleasure

A long time ago in a stadium far away, a band of longhaired beer - swilling journeymen traveled the byways as the lap-boys for the future hall of famers, "Poison." I was in my 20's at the time thinking that it didn't get any better then this. I knew this band would eventually be their own headliner (although I didn't think it would be in the local bar). Back then, a band would release an album and before they could hit the local stage they had would several radio hits under their belts, Warrant was no exception. Riding high from their first album, DRFSR, Warrant exploded, (yes they were huge) back with the release of single #1 from album two: "Cherry Pie." Oh yea, a song about hot women and backing it up, a video with the hottest, Bobbie Brown. Breaking the mold of releasing a hard-song, ballad, mild-song, they went straight to the jugular with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as release #2, easily one of the greatest hard-rock crossovers to the female audience there ever was. Everyone loved this song, but that was no surprise. "I Saw Red" was a mildly successful third release but still a great song. Sadly, Warrant released their next album amid rumors of in-fighting and drug use, it never achieved the airplay or success of the first two releases... September 5, 2004

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