Vinnie Vincent Invasion — Vinnie Vincent Invasion
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- Aug 2, 2023
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𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐏𝐓𝐒 - 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 & 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐋…
August 2, 1986 — Vinnie Vincent Invasion released their debut full-length studio album, Vinnie Vincent Invasion via Chrysalis Records. (Spotify)
Background:
Two promotional singles were released; Boyz Are Gonna Rock and No Substitute.
A music video was only made for Boyz Are Gonna Rock.
In the video for Boyz Are Gonna Rock, the singer in the video is Mark Slaughter rather than the actual singer Robert Fleischman.
Fleischman left the band prior to filming the video and Mark Slaughter lip-synched to Fleischman's vocals. (Watch video)
"Back on the Streets" was originally written by Vinnie Vincent with musician Richie Friedman in 1981, demoed but not used for the Creatures of the Night album and was instead recorded by 3 Speed for the 1984 movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens.
It was later covered by Europe's original guitarist John Norum for his 1987 solo album Total Control.
This song was also played by Ace Frehley during his earliest shows with his post-KIϟϟ band Frehley's Comet in 1985 and also demoed by his band as well during this time, but the song has never appeared on any of Ace Frehley's solo albums.
The song Invasion (for the CD and cassette versions) contained about three minutes of looping guitar feedback at the end of the song. The record version had the same feedback, but the difference was that it never ended until you picked up the needle.
This was because the sound went all the way to the end of the vinyl, causing the needle to loop it over and over again.
The liner notes state (somewhat implausibly) that no pedals, outboard gear or synthesizers were used anywhere on the album.
The band opened for Alice Cooper's Constrictor tour in 1986 and Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time tour in 1987 to support the record.
(𝚅𝚅𝙸 & 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝚂𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖
𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝚂𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚍𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛, 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟼)
(𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 & 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚜, 𝚍𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙸𝚛𝚘𝚗 𝙼𝚊𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗, 𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟽)
The song Animal appeared on the soundtrack for the 1987 movie Summer School featuring Mark Harmon.
The songs Boyz Are Gonna Rock and Back on the Streets are two of four Vinnie Vincent Invasion songs featured on the 2008 tribute album KISS MY ANKH: A Tribute to Vinnie Vincent.
Mike Weeks played the guitar, bass and did the vocals on a very accurate version of Boys Are Gonna Rock which also featured drums by Andre Labelle, who had previously recorded drums on Vinnie's third (and unreleased) album Guitarmaggedon/Guitars from Hell.
(𝙲𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙶𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕)
Critical Reception:
The album was listed No. 8 on Kerrang's list of Hard Rock albums in 1986. The same magazine listed the album number 100 on their list of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.
In the book Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, journalist Chuck Klosterman names it the second greatest Heavy Metal album of the 1980s, behind only Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses.
Rolling Stone listed it 39th on their 2015 list of Greatest Hair Metal albums of all time.
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