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bedsitter23There are Plastique Valentine songs in every genre.
Hard rock is a good source for The Great Heartwrenching Ballad.
There's also less originality in Hard Rock than one thinks. Okay, most bands write the album tracks, but go elsewhere for the hit singles. Aerosmith turning to Dianne Warren is the first one that comes to mind, but I probably would just need to turn to Desmond Child's wikipedia page to give you 40 more examples.
You know you can pick on Kip Winger and Jani Lane of Warrant all you want, but they wrote the song that made their bands famous. They didn't need to rely on some tune written by Ian Hunter, Noddy Holder, or the Five Man Electrical Band.
Or some old Everly Brothers/Roy Orbison ballad from the 50s.
Sorry, Nazareth.
I didn't realize it was a cover, but sure enough Orbison's version shows up on this month's Uncut sampler which is themed around Gram Parsons's favorite songs.
It's full of plenty of Plastique Valentine themed songs from country's golden years with artists that everyone love (Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr) and those that aren't well-loved but should be (Flatt & Scruggs, Faron Young). Maybe some of them will get posted here.
In the meantime, it doesn't get more yearning than the master...
Hard rock is a good source for The Great Heartwrenching Ballad.
There's also less originality in Hard Rock than one thinks. Okay, most bands write the album tracks, but go elsewhere for the hit singles. Aerosmith turning to Dianne Warren is the first one that comes to mind, but I probably would just need to turn to Desmond Child's wikipedia page to give you 40 more examples.
You know you can pick on Kip Winger and Jani Lane of Warrant all you want, but they wrote the song that made their bands famous. They didn't need to rely on some tune written by Ian Hunter, Noddy Holder, or the Five Man Electrical Band.
Or some old Everly Brothers/Roy Orbison ballad from the 50s.
Sorry, Nazareth.
I didn't realize it was a cover, but sure enough Orbison's version shows up on this month's Uncut sampler which is themed around Gram Parsons's favorite songs.
It's full of plenty of Plastique Valentine themed songs from country's golden years with artists that everyone love (Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr) and those that aren't well-loved but should be (Flatt & Scruggs, Faron Young). Maybe some of them will get posted here.
In the meantime, it doesn't get more yearning than the master...
