Love You To Pieces Music Cd

Lizzy Borden - Love You To Pieces

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Love You to Pieces      Artist : Lizzy Borden      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-08-22      Studio : Metal Blade      Label : Metal Blade      Avg. Customer Rating : (12 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Love You To Pieces      "cuts you just like that"      Rating:      Like W.A.S.P. and other ostentatious metal acts of the 1980s, Lizzy Borden did not get enough credit for their excellent musicianship and song-writing skills. Their outfits, tacky album names like Give `Em the Axe, and Love You to Pieces, and their over-the-top stage antics overshadowed the incredible music these guys produced. Love You to Pieces was released in 1985 and is a very solid album with some brilliant Iron Maiden-esque tracks. The album opens with the fast and furious "Council of the Caldron." "Psychopath" rocks! It is also a dark and mysterious song with iniquitous whispers of "I want to play" and intense guitar riffs. The chorus kicks! "Save Me" is a more accessible track. It offers slow verses with a chorus that is, musically, very upbeat despite the lyrics "I'm dying here with you." On this track, the woman isn't the helpless victim like on most Lizzy songs but, through wrong choices, is bringing her man down (the lyrics do not get too involved in any story-telling). "Red Rum" seems to be about Jack the Ripper from the lyrics "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and "spirits ripping out my mind." I'm not sure to what the line "in two thirty seven" refers but 2:37 am is around the time that Mary Kelly (Jack the Ripper's last known and most cut-up victim) was killed. Maybe I'm seeing something that's not there, but the song rocks, especially during the chants of "Red Rum." "Love You to Pieces" is a slow, power ballad on the level of "Children of the Damned" by Iron Maiden. It is highlighted when Lizzy songs the verse "and all along you knew the reasons why I love you to pieces." The title of the track is only used once and just in that verse. I love that part. "American Metal" is awesome! It has killer guitar riffs and ends with Lizzy's amazing high-pitched screams. The blood-pumping chants! The adrenaline rush! I can't get enough of this track! The next track is also incredible. "Flesheater" has this killer bass riff at the chorus that is so addictive, I think I played this track ten times in a row when I first heard it. It overpowers the shock value of the lyrics "She wants it deep, deep, deep, deep, deeper" and "I love to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat her." "Warfare" is a straight-forward metal track. "Godiva" is another blazing, blood-pumping track. "Rod of Iron" starts out like a slow power ballad broken up by Lizzy's lashing out vocals. Then it becomes a rocker. Appropriately, "Rod of Iron" reminds me the most of Iron Maiden, especially at the guitar solo. Any fan of 1980s metal needs some Lizzy albums in their music library. Love You to Pieces is one of their best (their best being Visual Lies). I think, next to Lies, it is their most solid album, but I like most of their releases including Menace to Society released the following year and Master of Disguise in 1989 which, if it were not for one or two tracks I do not like, I would proclaim as their masterpiece.     Customer Reviews for Love You To Pieces Cd      Lungs of Iron      Rating:      You will love most of these tracks if you like great heavy metal vocals. Lizzy Borden is one of the greatest Rock Singers in the genre, yet is not heard by many. LYtoP may be his strongest vocal performance. The title track, "love you to pieces" has out of sight vocals. "Rod of Iron", more of the same. This guy has Iron Lungs! I would like to see this singer collaborate with some prog. rock musicians for some more heavy, art rock. A project with stronger compositions to let this guy feature full range and tricks. Lizzy Borden does not sound like Bruce Dickinson, but I would love to hear Iron Maiden with this guys voice..