Tuesday, October 18, 2016

90 THINGS WE MISS FROM THE EARLY NINETIES

86. "House of Pain" by Faster Pussycat

At the height of glam metal in the mid to late Eighties Faster Pussycat had their heyday among the long hair bands. The very early nineties, if your remember, glam rock dominated  the music scene too before Nirvana took all those bands down. But this song, released in 1990 and in contrast to the excess and cheap thrills usually expressed in glam rock, is a personal story about a boy neglected by his father and the anguish that comes with all that. The lines "I didn't write these pages and my scripts been rearranged" are particularly heart wrenching. The song also made the use of a harmonica en vogue for about two seconds.