Wake Me When It's Over

Faster Pussycat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 29, 1989)
• Original Release Date: September 6, 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: B000002H7G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,534 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Media Type: CD
Artist: FASTER PUSSYCAT
Title: WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER
Street Release Date: 09/06/1989
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The most underrated group of the 80's, December 6, 2003

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Joseph Jorgensen "Pickledjoe" (Watertown, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake Me When It's Over (Audio CD)

The first Fater Pussycat album was good, but in the follow up the group expanded the song-writing, becasme more bluesy, and really left behind the Glam sound that they came out of.

Unfortunetly, the music busienss is as much about timing as anything. If the group came out 2 years earlier...they would have been as big as Poison, Warrant, etc...all of which they blew away....

2 years later they may have been able to "re-invent" themselves as a grunge band ala Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains....

However, without thinking of the scene or the era, this is simply a good CD and worth playing all these years later.

1) Where there's a whip - A rock em sock em Rock & Roll tune. With great Riff's and sleazy lyrics.

2) Little Dove - Similar to the above with great lyrics.

3) Poison Ivy - Inteneded to be the hit single. An ok tune, but a little too pop for my tastes.

4) House of Pain - a Rare power ballad that actually carried emotion

5) Gonna Walk - Groovy blues/rock track

6) Pulling weeds - Another stand out track that is heavy but catchy

7) Slip of the Tongue - With a slip of the tongue I'm in Deep $h!t...need say no more

the next few tracks are ok, but not standoutish until...

Arizona Indian Doll - a groovy track that could have been a Cult song

Please Dear - another truly moving sounding balad about a break-up or death of a love one...take your pick...

I've known punk rockers, hippies, and Metal heads who hated glam that fell in love with this record once they got over the "Glam" perception of the band.....Give it a try and keep an open mind.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No sophmore slump here..., March 5, 2000

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William Matson (Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wake Me When It's Over (Audio CD)

These guys carried on the tradition of greatness from their first album onto this second one. I liked these guys better than Poison believe it or not. The third cd "Whipped" is just as good, too bad it was the end. I love this band. Ok, onto the review... This album is slighty more polished than the debut but miles away from the slick stuff that you always see. This is the most polished one but still has the raw street-level sound. "Poison Ivy" sounds just like a song from album 1 and "House of Pain" is a definitive ballad that you can't ignore, it's almost like an anti-ballad, focusing on real life rather than false love! "Where there's a whip" opens this album with a bang! What's the idea of an import-only hits collection that costs big bucks on this page, somebody's gotta put a 10 buck hits cd out in the US, even a cheap record company package, Sheesh, these guys deserve it! Where's the live cd? If I was a record company exec. my first job would be to buy the rights to their music so I could do these guys justice with a slamming hits collection complete with all the great tracks, some new stuff and some bonus b-sides and live tracks.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another AWESOME album from Faster Pussycat..., May 22, 1999

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Kyle ([e-mail]) (southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake Me When It's Over (Audio CD)

I love this album. It's deeper than the self-titled debut (both are great). Like many other people, I can relate to "House of Paine". In fact, I have that song as my out-going message on my answering machine. I highly recomend this album and this band. Check out Gustave "Taime" Downe's new band "The Newlydeads"