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Piledriver (album)
Piledriver is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in 1972. It was the first to be produced by the group themselves, and their first on the Vertigo label after their departure from Pye Records.
The album's only single, "Paper Plane" (by Francis Rossi and Bob Young), with the b-side "Softer Ride" (written by Rick Parfitt and Alan Lancaster), was to become the first in a sequence of thirty-three Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart when it peaked at #8 after its release in November 1972. The b-side would later be incorporated into the band's following album, Hello!, released the following year.
The album itself was released in December the same year, and reached the highest position of #5 in the UK charts, spending 37 weeks there.
Reception
In their retrospective review, Allmusic applauded the album as both crowd-pleasing and moderately intellectual, commenting that "Despite the name, most of the music on Piledriver is varied and subtle enough to be interesting." They particularly praised "A Year" and "Big Fat Mama".Robert Christgau asserted that the band had no decent singer or guitarist, and criticized their attempts at ballads and blues as "boring".
Piledriver (band)
Piledriver is a Canadian thrash / heavy metal band, formed in 1984 by Gord Kirchen. They are known for an over-the-top image and flamboyant song titles and lyrics (as exemplified by such tracks as "Sex With Satan", "Alien Rape", "Sodomize the Dead", "Witch Hunt" and "Human Sacrifice"). Their best known song is possibly the title track of their debut album, Metal Inquisition from 1985. The album was followed by Stay Ugly a year later in 1986. These two early recordings have globally sold nearly 500,000 copies to date.
The band soon disappeared. However, some years later, Kirchin revealed that the band and albums were just a studio project and that the band never really existed at all, with all the names and virtually everything else about the band being made up. Kirchin later formed his own band, Dogs With Jobs, sporadically working on solo material. In 2005, a new band was formed under the revised name of The Exalted Piledriver. A long search began for Kirchin to find the right musicians to fill the promise of the original albums. In the summer of 2006 the current line-up was finalized: Mark Kopernicky (stage name Kinky Pork Cream, guitars), Gerry Keough (stage name Glace Frothfritter, drums) and Robert Tollefson (stage name Lobo Elf Snort, bass). After many live shows in Canada, the USA and in Europe, the band entered the studio in late 2007 to record the first album to feature an actual band. The album, entitled Metal Manifesto, was released in 2008. The band will be playing shows in Canada and Europe during 2009, including a date at the Headbanger's Open Air festival in Itzehoe, Germany in July.
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ALBUMS
- Metal Inquisition / Stay Ugly released: 1997
- Stay Ugly released: 1986
- Metal Inquisition released: 1985
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- A Mouthful of Venus' Sode released: 1995
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ALBUMS
- Metal Inquisition released: 1997
- A Mouthful of Venus' Sode released: 1995
- Stay Ugly released: 1986
- Metal Inquisition released: 1985
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by: PiledriverI chose this way, set my fears and doubts far away It's not the question of who you are and where you're from it's what you believe in that makes you strong.This way forced myself not to go astray, there's no one to blameTo the path I walk on, I entrust my life to him GOD makes me strongYou what makes you? What makes you strong? What's inside you? Do you have faith to go on?
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