Songoftheday 9/1/17 - I've been livin' in this lonely world wishin' I could find someone to love, hopin' someone would come from above...
from the album Stick It To Ya (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #39 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from the hair-metal band Slaughter, whose debut album Stick It To Ya had already spun off a pair of top-40 pop hits with the raucous "Up All Night" and the mournful power-ballad "Fly To The Angels". The third release from the record would be a mid-tempo love song, "Spend My Life". Written and produced by lead singer/guitarist Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum, the song continued their streak of success on pop radio...
"Spend My Life" became Slaughter's third and final top-40 pop hit in February of 1991. The single also climbed to #28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Their fourth single off the album, "Mad About You", was a more party/concert type metal track, and while it missed the pop chart, it made the rock radio top-40 at #37. They also contributed a song to the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure soundtrack, and "Shout It Out" got to #40 on the Mainstream Rock list.
The following year, the band put out their sophomore effort, The Wild Life. Like many bands who grew their audience with their debut, this record peaked in the top-10 at #8 (their best rank) with fans picking up the set right away, but the title track/lead single got to #28 on the rock radio chart and missed the pop Hot 100 altogether. The next release, the Whitesnake-ish metal-love song "Real Love" did a little better, ascending to #24 on the Mainstream Rock list and popping on to the pop chart at #69. Delays and label-changing put their third album Fear No Evil off until 1995, and it was their last charting album (#182). Lead guitarist Tim Kelly, already with drug troubles before, died tragically in an auto accident in 1998. Original drummer Blas Elias left in 2011; he had already been sidejobbing as a drummer in the Blue Man Group act in Las Vegas. Although the band still tours with metal retro shows, they haven't released an album of new material since 1999's Back To Reality.
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...and here's the band live in 2011 in Canada..
and lastly, audio from their live album Eternal Live from 1998 with the late guitarist Tim Kelly..
Up tomorrow: Womanly trio detects your relationship status.
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