Billy Squier - Don`t Say No [7/27]

Artist:

Squier, Billy

UPC:

826663121056

See Also:

Kansas

Description:

Personnel: Billy Squier (vocals, guitars, piano, percussion); Cary Sharaf (guitar); Alan St. Jon (keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals); Mark Clarke (bass); Bobby Chouinard (drums).
Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York.
All songs written by Billy Squier.
Personnel: Billy Squier (vocals, guitar, piano, percussion); Cary Sharaf (guitar); Alan St. Jon (keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals); Bobby Chouinard (drums); Mark Clarke (background vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Jon Astley.
Liner Note Author: Ben Edmonds.
Recording information: Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany; The Power Station, N.Y.C.
Photographers: Geoffery Thomas; Roger Chouinard.
Before becoming a solo superstar, Billy Squier had done time in Piper, a Cheap Trick-like 1970s band that split the difference between hard rock and power pop. Some of that sensibility still informs his second solo album and mainstream breakthrough, DON`T SAY NO. While the gargantuan guitar riffs and drum beats are clearly indebted to Led Zeppelin, and Squier`s vocal style finds a middle ground between Robert Plant and Freddie Mercury, all the excess of Zeppelin and Queen is mercilessly sliced away, leaving lean, concise pop hooks that drive the record`s turbo-charged heavy-rock attack.
The energy level almost never lets up, as Squier and his band careen from one breathlessly infectious-yet-diamond-hard track to the next. "Nobody Knows," one of the only down-tempo moments, reveals a Beatles influence that underscores Squier`s pop roots. But it`s the sledgehammer groove of "The Stroke" and the AOR nirvana of "In the Dark" that made this album a centerpiece of rock radio in the era when what we now regard as "classic rock" was drawing its last breath, just before giving way to New Wave.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. In the Dark
2. Stroke, The
3. My Kinda Lover
4. You Know What I Like
5. Too Daze Gone
6. Lonely Is the Night
7. Whadda You Want from Me
8. Nobody Knows
9. I Need You
10. Don`t Say No
11. My Kinda Lover [Live 2009] - (live)
12. Stroke [Live 2009] - (live)

Album Information

Release Date:

07/27/2010

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Hard Rock

Label:

Shout! Factory

Producer:

Jeff Palo; Billy Squier

Catalog Number:

12105

Original Release Year:

1981

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

60 : 41

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