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FASTER PUSSYCAT USED BLUES-ROCK TO SHARE THEIR FEELINGS
ON THE WORLD. FROM THE FUN, PARTY SONGS THAT RESEMBLE GUNS N' ROSES TO THE SAD, LONELY BALLADS, FASTER PUSSYCAT KNEW HOW TO
GET THE GIRLS WOOING AND THE DUDES HEADBANGING.
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Sleazy Hollywood metal band (whose name was lifted from a Russ
Meyer flick) Faster Pussycat released their first album in 1987 and peaked commercially two years later with the
gold album Wake Me When It's Over, and the Top 40 single "House of Pain." Although their next album, 1992's
Whipped, hit number 90 on the charts, it fell off quickly; with the alternative rock explosion, the hard
rock audience had changed and had no patience for Faster Pussycat's trashy glam metal. After the group's
split, singer Taime Downe formed the industrial/goth outfit the Newlydeads (along with a former
member of another former L.A. glam pop outfit, Bang Tango's Kyle Kyle), issuing three albums -- 1997's
self-titled debut, 1999's remix collection Re-Bound, and 2001's Dead End. With America experiencing a resurging
interest in '80s glam pop by the early 21st century, Faster Pussycat reunited for a tour. But instead of an
album of all-new material coinciding with the tour, a collection of old tracks remade as techno remixes was issued,
entitled Between the Valley of the Ultra Pussy (Downe was the only member of the band to have any input with
the project). ~ John Book & Greg Prato, All Music Guide
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