1985 studio album by Y&T
Down for the Count |
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Studio album by Y&T |
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Released | November 4, 1985 (1985-11-04)[1] |
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Recorded | 1985 |
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Studio | Sound City (Van Nuys, California) |
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Genre | - Hard rock[2]
- heavy metal[2]
- glam metal[3]
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Length | 40:49 |
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Label | A&M |
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Producer | Kevin Beamish |
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Y&T chronology |
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Open Fire (1985) | Down for the Count (1985) | Contagious (1987) | |
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Singles from Down for the Count |
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- "Summertime Girls"
Released: 1985 - "All American Boy"
Released: 1985 |
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Professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic | ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png) [4] |
Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released on November 4, 1985, by A&M Records. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene.[3] It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song had initially appeared as the only studio track on the band's live album, Open Fire, released earlier in the year. The album itself peaked at #91 on the Billboard 200 on December 14, 1985. It was the last album with the original line-up of Meniketti, Alves, Kennemore and Haze, as Haze left the following year.
Reception
The AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album two stars out of five, and criticized the band for "[joining] the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb"".[4]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Y&T except where indicated
Side oneNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "In the Name of Rock" | | 5:32 |
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2. | "All American Boy" | Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson | 2:24 |
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3. | "Anytime at All" | | 4:32 |
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4. | "Anything for Money" | | 3:22 |
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5. | "Face Like an Angel" | | 4:36 |
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Side twoNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Summertime Girls" | | 3:28 |
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7. | "Looks Like Trouble" | | 4:07 |
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8. | "Your Mama Don't Dance" | Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina | 2:50 |
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9. | "Don't Tell Me What to Wear" | | 4:02 |
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10. | "Hands of Time" | | 6:11 |
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Personnel
- Dave Meniketti – lead vocals, lead guitar
- Joey Alves – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Phil Kennemore – bass, backing vocals
- Leonard Haze – drums, percussion
- Additional musicians
- Randy Nichols – keyboards on "Summertime Girls"
- John Nymann – vocals
- Bill Costa – vocals
- Steffen Presley – keyboards on "Hands of Time"
- Claude Schnell – keyboards on "Anytime at All" and "Face Like an Angel"
- Adam Day – guitar
- Production
- Remixed at Battery Studios (London)
- Kevin Beamish – producer, engineer
- Tony Platt – engineer, remixer
- Bruce Barris – engineer
- Donald Krieger – design
- Neon Park – illustration
- Jeff Gold – art direction
- Chuck Beeson – art direction
- Mark Weiss – photography
Charts
Album
Year | Chart | Position |
1985 | Billboard 200[5] | 91 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
1985 | "Summertime Girls" | Billboard Hot 100[6] | 55 |
Mainstream Rock[7] | 16 |
"All American Boy" | Mainstream Rock[7] | 48 |
References
- ^ "New Releases" (PDF). FMQB. November 1, 1985. p. 37. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
- ^ a b "Y&T - Down For The Count". Metal Storm.
- ^ a b Popoff, Martin (August 15, 2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Voyageur Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7603-4546-7 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Down for the Count - Y&T", AllMusic, retrieved June 28, 2021
- ^ "Y&T - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ^ "Y&T - Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ^ a b "Y&T - Mainstream Rock". Billboard. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071011013621/http://www.meniketti.com/discography.htm
- Leonard Haze
- Phil Kennemore
- Joey Alves
- Jimmy DeGrasso
- Stef Burns
- Steve Smith
- Brad Lang
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