Songoftheday 10/7/17 - I never thought you'd hurt me I guess you live and learn, that when you're playin' with fire you're bound to get burned...
from the album FireHouse (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from glam-metal band FireHouse, who came in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 1980's. Lead singer CJ Snare and bass player Perry Richardson, who were in one band, joined up with guitarist Bill Leverty and drummer Michael Foster to form the quartet, who released their debut album in 1990. The first single from the record was the pop-metal nugget "Don't Treat Me Bad". Sounding like it came straight from the later part of the 1980's, when these types of bands ruled, they nonetheless came at just the right time before Nirvana was a thing to grab ahold of rock lovers pocketbooks and radio airwaves. And that strumming guitar at the beginning sure pricked up my ears, like Motley Crue performing a Whitesnake song...
"Don't Treat Me Bad" became FireHouse's first top-40 pop hit in June of 1991. The single also climbed to #16 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, their highest performance on that format. Internationally, the record reached the top-40 in Canada at #35 and New Zealand at #33, and was a minor hit in the UK at #71.
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Here's the band performing the single in concert...
...and from a show from last year...
Up tomorrow: Mulleted crooner thinks romance is just swell.
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