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Lock up your daughters, break out your hairspray, LA's premier metal band are back with a debut album that's been 20 years in the making! or so the story goes. In fact, Steel Panther are an 80s glam metal tribute band whose genius look and lyrics tower above anything seen before in the world of music parody.
Quite simply, Feel The Steel is an utter feelgood masterpiece. Yes it's clichéd, yes the lyrics are sometimes so far across the line they can't even see it any more, but this is pure teary-eyed laugh-til-you-weep stuff.
Every excess of the 1980s is gently mocked. From the glorious pseudonyms - Michael Starr, Stix Zadinia, Satchel and Lexxi Foxxx - to the Motley Crue-esque umlauts over their website menu, this is serious attention-to-detail lampooning.
Even their website shouts swagger -www.myspace.com/steelpantherkicksass . Their 'Sounds Like' section describes the band as 'a thousand times cooler than whatever's on your f****** iPod right now'. You can see why stars like Avril Lavigne, Pink and Kenny Loggins are queuing up to join them on stage.
Comedy genius aside, it should be noted that their musicianship is really quite something. There's some serious talent here: the instrumental on Fat Girl is outstanding. Starr (a.k.a. Ralph Saenz) has a fantastic vocal range twinned with the enviable ability to appear wholly sincere on the most outrageously ridiculous (and utterly unprintable) lines.
Songs you absolutely must check out are opener Death To All But Metal, Whitesnake tribute Fat Girl, and the schmaltz of Community Property ('I would give you the stars in the sky / But they're too far away') which will have Steve Tyler blushing in recognition. Be warned though, Girl From Oklahoma is borderline offensive and only the very hard to offend will enjoy 'The Shocker'.
Ultimately, you simply can't argue with 80s spoofers who have secured Dennis Haskins (a.k.a. Mr Belding from Saved By The Bell) to duet with them. It's a no-brainer why these guys hold the title of 'Best Tribute Band In The Universe'. Forget Spinal Tap, go home Tenacious D, THIS is the spoof band to worship. --Sophie Bruce
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Steel Panther unleash their debut album Feel The Steel. The Steel Panther "story" begins some 20 years ago when the hardest rocking metal band of the era forged their own legenday status on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, inspiring bands like Anthrax, Warrant and Jane's Addiction to form, only to disappear without a trace on the cusp of signing a major label deal which would guarantee them worldwide adoration. 20 years later, an album so astonishingly hard-rocking lands on the desk of the president of Universal Republic, and the rest is history... In reality, Steel Panther are a living, breathing study in the art of "hair metal". With tongues firmly lodged in their cheeks, Steel Panther celebrate and ridicule all that was good and bad about the "great" 80's hard rock bands whose flamboyant stage shows and tales of excess with boose, sex and narcotics are the stuff of legend--all of which are perfectly repackaged within the four members of this band.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
OK, depending on your point of view on political correctness, knowledge of rock music, sense of humour and probably how fat you are, you will either see this record as a work of genius or a steaming pile of (insert excremental equivalent here)!
To love this you will need an in-depth knowledge of 80s hair metal bands, the sense of humour of a 15 year old schoolboy and think PC should only ever stand for police constable. Thankfully, all of the above still apply to me, so I LOVED this.
You have to admire Steel Panther's ability to mimic some of the great bands of that generation. Part of the fun is listening and picking out which band each song was obviously modelled on...Iron Maiden, Enuff ZNuff, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Extreme... the "tributes" just keep coming, each one crafted with careful attention to detail, great energy and some fantastic playing.
If you didn't speak english, you could actually be mistaken for thinking that this is one of the best glam metal albums you have ever heard. But if you do speak english, you'll know that this is actually one of the funniest most un-PC records you'll ever hear. To write most of their lyrics, they must have just went to the local school and asked the kids to tell them what they knew about sex!
In truth, the non-stop onslaught of debauchery does get a little repetitive after a while, but when it's done well, like on Asian Hookers or Community property, you can't help but laugh out loud (partly in shock that they were actually allowed to put some of that stuff on a record). I think that the jokes will probably wear thin very quickly though, which is a shame as the music is good enough to Warrant (pun intended) repeated listening.
This is the album that the Darkness didn't have the balls to make. Justin and co managed to keep their tongues in their cheeks, whereas Steel Panther make a point of sticking their tongues firmly between somebody elses!
Makes you wonder what sort of an album they could have made had they taken themselves a little more seriously?
To love this you will need an in-depth knowledge of 80s hair metal bands, the sense of humour of a 15 year old schoolboy and think PC should only ever stand for police constable. Thankfully, all of the above still apply to me, so I LOVED this.
You have to admire Steel Panther's ability to mimic some of the great bands of that generation. Part of the fun is listening and picking out which band each song was obviously modelled on...Iron Maiden, Enuff ZNuff, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Extreme... the "tributes" just keep coming, each one crafted with careful attention to detail, great energy and some fantastic playing.
If you didn't speak english, you could actually be mistaken for thinking that this is one of the best glam metal albums you have ever heard. But if you do speak english, you'll know that this is actually one of the funniest most un-PC records you'll ever hear. To write most of their lyrics, they must have just went to the local school and asked the kids to tell them what they knew about sex!
In truth, the non-stop onslaught of debauchery does get a little repetitive after a while, but when it's done well, like on Asian Hookers or Community property, you can't help but laugh out loud (partly in shock that they were actually allowed to put some of that stuff on a record). I think that the jokes will probably wear thin very quickly though, which is a shame as the music is good enough to Warrant (pun intended) repeated listening.
This is the album that the Darkness didn't have the balls to make. Justin and co managed to keep their tongues in their cheeks, whereas Steel Panther make a point of sticking their tongues firmly between somebody elses!
Makes you wonder what sort of an album they could have made had they taken themselves a little more seriously?
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Utter genius. The timing of Spinal Tap, attitude of Twisted Sister, riffs of prime-era Motley Crue and the potty mouth turn of phrase straight from Derek and Clive.
There have been other musical parody acts, but none of them could play or write this well. Go back 25 years and they would be up there with the giants of the genre filling arenas and corrupting countless teenage girls in the American Mid-West.
But what really makes all this work is that it is done with such great love for its source material. It would have been easy to make the mick with a sneering sense of superiority, but Steel Panther play it like they mean it. They make no excuses and there is none of the post-modern knowing nudges and winks that just about everyone else would have done. By playing is straight rather than outright laughs and by not making out that once they are off stage the wigs come off and they go home and listen to The Strokes, it all works with total credibility. You just know that Steel Panther genuinely still wish it was 1987 and that they really do still trawl strip clubs and listen to Faster Pussycat. Steel Panther are the band of the year by an absolute mile.
There have been other musical parody acts, but none of them could play or write this well. Go back 25 years and they would be up there with the giants of the genre filling arenas and corrupting countless teenage girls in the American Mid-West.
But what really makes all this work is that it is done with such great love for its source material. It would have been easy to make the mick with a sneering sense of superiority, but Steel Panther play it like they mean it. They make no excuses and there is none of the post-modern knowing nudges and winks that just about everyone else would have done. By playing is straight rather than outright laughs and by not making out that once they are off stage the wigs come off and they go home and listen to The Strokes, it all works with total credibility. You just know that Steel Panther genuinely still wish it was 1987 and that they really do still trawl strip clubs and listen to Faster Pussycat. Steel Panther are the band of the year by an absolute mile.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
They're as funny (or more) than Spinal Tap and musically they're much better. The ultimate combo of hot riffs and rip-my-guts-out-laughing lyrics.
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this is brilliant believe me !
just found by accident ,but what an accident,been into metal all my life heard loads of everything but this cd,plus the other one are amazin ,good great better ,i want more!! Read more
Published 24 days ago by gadgy
Steel Panther
Hilarious! I love this CD, definitely one of my favourite! Love the 'Party All Night' song which obviously is mocking Bon Jovi's 'Livin on a Prayer' great buy!
Published 1 month ago by beth
It takes you back to hair metal with a slap in the face laugh.
I saw Steel Panther when they suported Motley Crue, get all there cd's & if you can sea them like go and sea them and have great music and laugh at there jokes.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Robert Lismore
top rock
A great brilliant first album fron these guys ! So funny yet so good 'excellent artists great musicians a top live band LOVE EM
Published 2 months ago by looby
They are what's been missing!
Put Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue into a blender and add a splash of The Darkness, and these guys are what you get! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Young Stevie
Brilliant
Awesome! Goldie lookin chain meets the darkness! Pure entertainment, you'll be singing these songs all day long after just a couple of listens
Published 3 months ago by Viv
Awesome!
To me, this is one of the greatest albums ever - certainly one for the desert island! The music is great, it so f...ing rocks!!! Read more
Published 3 months ago by gros1440
MY ORIGINAL REVIEW GOT BANNED ! SO I' LL PUT IT THE SISSY WAY ! :...
The wind of free spirit that blows in America during the last couple of years (got it ?!...) allows pure rock n' nutin' roll to be reawakened. Read more
Published 4 months ago by aerolongcoldwinter
Hair scare
I can't believe nobody's reviewed this. Where Spinal Tap were actors in a make believe band Steel Panther are a very good band trying to be actors. Read more
Published 7 months ago by rockjock
Awesome Music
Love this cd, the music is excellent and delivery was fast. Bad thing though was the case was broken which I dont understand why with every cd i order this happens. :)
Published 9 months ago by Sam Wood
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