Guns n' Roses may have sold all the albums but there was plenty more authentic sleaze lurking around Hollywood and the Sunset Strip, and Faster Pussycat, after their pretty good self-titled debut returned with a boom on this, their second opus for Elektra records. Unfortunately, the band seemed to fade away after one more record ('Whipped') but for me, 'Wake...' reminds me of a time when glam/sleaze metal just couldn't be avoided, a time when the band members did their best to become lady boys and a majority of bandanna-wearing hoodlums spun many a tale of sex, alcohol and drugs. Whether it was all true was another thing, but in Faster Pussycat you could certainly detect an element of mayhemic fun.This is good time rock 'n' roll but not just your run of the mill filler album just to cash in on the G 'n' R bandwagon. Taime Downe was a fine vocalist, his catty rasp perfect for the swaggering grooves, and upon hearing tracks such as 'Poison Ivy', the extremely catchy 'Little Dove' and brilliant porch ballad 'House Of Pain' you could sense a sincerity.
Faster Pussycat were one of the best at what they did.
8/10
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