Always liked warrant even cherry pie that was kinda cheesy…by 1990 this kind of music was getting stale and by summer 91’ it was almost over when grunge took over (Nirvana sept 91)… the grunge stuff was kinda refreshing , but by 94 it was old hat (lasted less then hair metal)…it’s good to hear people are jamming this stuff again and grunge is now known as complaint rock…winger got dogged big time and they were a great band of musicians..there was so many good bands/ songs in the 80’s , even 1 hit wonders, their music was positive, happy and feel good (opposite of alternative/grunge).
Summer of '85....cruisin on a Saturday night with friends in a '65 Mustang....blasting this song as loud as those JVC speakers would pump it out.....great times....great memories...great friends and great music......and a case of Bud in the cooler in the trunk...LOL
All of that was my life too except the cooler of Bud!😂 I couldn't stand the taste of beer!!😅 I miss my '65 Mustang, but I miss Jani way more. Oh, the music he could have continued writing and singing. Gone far too soon.😢😢
@@markserour9115 I almost peed on myself from laughing.....YOU'RE right! Look...at 57 yrs old...I'm surprised I even remember anything about THAT summer...It was a very wild summer. When I read your comment....I had to THINK...and go back in my mind. Then it CLICKED!! I remember a particular cassette that I played A LOT!! And I loved Warrant...and I remember listening to them A LOT! I remember having the cassette album DRFSR...and I wore it out to the point that I lost the original case. But there was ANOTHER one that I played a lot...and I lost the case to that one too. (prob due to all the BUD) Sign in Please-Autograph...the song...TURN UP THE RADIO!! ......THAT is the one that I was talking about...LOL!! Look...I was in the RIGHT ballpark....just on the WRONG base😆. I DID blast that song...just did it a few years later...but it was SO MUCH FUN!!! Thanks for the laugh...AND the fun correction.
Amen to that I remember then we'll THIS MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE I MEET JOEY FROM WARRENT , BACK STAGE 2010 AND HUNG WITH JERRY DIXON, I WAS George lynch guest I made him a guitar awesome times
Huge comeback. Super fun for me: in my guitar cover rotation, I have this song, Cherry Pie and Uncle Tom's Cabin :) Warrant's guitar riffs and bouncy movements thru the measures of their songs are really great to re-discover :) Enjoy the comeback brother!
I was in a "hair metal" band back in the mid to late 80's called "Tempest", and we opened for Warrant at a club in West Hollywood called (at the time), "Gazzari's". I remember they were just about to get signed to Columbia, I believe, and we were hanging with them upstairs in the dressing rooms just talking girls and music. The were VERY cool and sweet dudes-ALL of them. Jani was a real nut, and had an awesome sense of humor. R.I.P., Mr. Lane. You are missed!
The "Tempest" that was the club band in the movie Martial Law? Performing "Sauza"??? If so, holy shit, I've been trying to find that song or any others for YEARS!!!!!
I've only started listening to 80s hair metal in recent years. Back in the 80s, I didn't have much money to spend and I was into blues, so what spare cash I had was spent on blues albums, so I missed the hair metal thing (apart from the "Good Dirty Fun" album by Rick Derringer). Now I'm really enjoying the hair metal thing, especially when I'm driving my car. Bands like Dokken, XYZ, Y&T, Krokus, LA Guns, Ratt, Motley Crue, Britany Fox, Cinderella, Roxx Gang, Lynch Mob, Fastway, etc. All easily found on iHeart Radio app. Play it loud Opp Dawg!
What a great front man. In my opinion, Jani's voice never changed. He sounded the same at 45 as he did at 25. Thats a rare thing. RIP Jani, i hope you found your peace.
To @WMFNINDY23 concerning silhouettes, por favor, listen to Captain Beefheart and Zoot Horn Rollo's, "Pompadour Swamp". Additionally, may Jani Bane Wane FfFind that "piece" rather than "peace" while HopeFully And Prayerfully, R.esplendent I.n P.rovidence R.I.P. A.M.E.N
I remember these days. Rushing home after school to tape the music videos playing on MTV with VHS tapes! I lived for MTV. Lived to see Warrant on there. CANNOT imagine growing up without MTV. What a loss.
I hear you. I had an official MTV Headbanger's Ball t-shirt, and wore that thing so much, it vaporized. They were the glory days of our youth, and great music!
Its so sad that he seemed to only think of himself as the cherry pie guy... Although I love that song he seems so sad in one of his latest interviews before he passed away he regretted writing that song. 😭 such incredible talent I guess sometimes their greatest fame is their biggest torture. RIP Jani Lane 🙏💛🎤🎸🎼
@@ShayMichele he totally despised that song from what i hear the record company pretty much forced him to make a song like that and from what i can tell from his reactions it could have been a contributing factor in his death as it caused a ton of depression for him. It pretty much killed his passion for music as he wanted so much more for the band. Maybe if he wasnt so pressured in making Cherry Pie things would have turned out differently.
@@emobassistformallygeddysco3126 that is so sad!!! He was so talented and I like Cherry Pie! It was fun and fit the style of music of that time... I had no idea until I saw that interview from right before his death. 😭 Always a fan !
These guys and Ratt. Great songwriters and musicians. 80's radio rock has caught a lot of disrespect over the years, which is a shame. There is quite a bit of good music and several good bands. Ratt and Warrant being my faves, closely followed by Tesla and Dokken.
Sweet Jani , you had talent and a charisma even you did not understand. Rest in peace dear man. You will always be missed and cherished. This song is pure joy.
I remember when this song came out. In my teens then. I feel so old and would truly go back to 80s if I could. The crap they call music today cannot hold a candle to the talent of the 80s. I remember as a kid thinking my parents were so lame listening to Frank Sinatra and stuff like that, now my son thinks the same about me. Crazy.
The difference between today's music and the 80s doesn't have the wide difference that existed between 70s music and the generation before it (i.e., Frank Sinatra). Shouldn't be a big stretch for today's kids to appreciate Warrant. Some kids today are just narrow-minded little assholes.
Well a lot of today's music (One Direction) copies bands from the 80's, and 80's bands copied a lot from the 70's. This song was heavily inspired by "Bye Bye Love" from The Cars. Even the 90's bands from the Grunge era had their influences. King's X invented Grunge but nobody's heard of them. Except for all the Grunge bands that copied them.
They play the music of your generation when you move to a retirement home. Just imagine how many long haired grandpas and broken hips there will be because our generation will have Warrant, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy, Ratt, Scorpions, Skid Row, and all that great 80s music pumped in over the intercom. Shit, if you have Alzheimer’s you might think it’s the 1980s and that you’re at the concert.
Warrant was and still is one of the best rock groups ever. I was in my teens when I first listen to them and at times still do. Boy, I miss the 80's! I remember getting together with rock fans every Saturday night turning on the head banger balls that is when MTV meant something but now it's pure junk.
We had the best music of all time Us 80’s kids know what I mean lol We all like fifty now lol But omg I wouldn’t trade my generation for anything especially the music
My father bought me this album back in 1989. He always did that back in the day...Whitesnake, Alice Cooper and many more. My hero died 5 years ago and everytime i hear Down Boys playing i remember him. Love you, dad.
First time I saw Warrant was in a little club in San Diego about a month before this album dropped. Maybe 30 people in the club. They played it like it was an arena. Just a fantastic show and they didn't seem to care how few people were there. Flash forward several years as grunge is taking over, and again I'm seeing them in a small club. I was having a bad night personally, and Jani saw it and called me out on it during the show. Told me (and everyone else) it was HIS mission to make sure I had a good time. After the show he came and found me and talked a bit. Just a seriously down to earth guy. Very sad that he's gone. He didn't deserve the exit he received.
Grunge music could never match the awesomeness of hair metal. Never forget that metal existed before grunge and continued to exist after grunge. I'm glad I got to live this era
It still makes me angry that "I'm so depressed, I want to shoot myself" grunge garbage ruined the music I grew up with. People can call it cheesy, over the top etc but it was FUN.
This song makes me feel so HAPPY and so SAD at the same time. I love it so much, and yet it is a reminder of my lost youth, and how I'll never be young again.
I'm a late comer to hair metal just bought the album man it's cool hair metal never was big in the UK that's why Americans love def Leppard bigger in America than UK but their my favorite group I live in Manchester UK.
Overexposure & it becoming trendy to hate on it at the time are the only reasons hair metal died out. If this music made a genuine comeback & got airplay nowadays it would be utterly massive, people don’t know how good they had it with this type of music.
I don't care what was more popular with the mainstream....whether it be Heaven or Cherry Pie......this is Warrant's best song IMO. Probably Uncle Tom's Cabin was their 2nd best tune. Still love it here in 2020!!!
What a decade, there is never gonna be another one like it,I'm glad to have been a teenager then, r.i.p Jani you should still be here rocking, what a voice, the guys in warrant didn't attend his funeral, they were bitter about money
exactly they did it all to get the chicks and it worked! How many chicks do get these lame indie bands with soy drinking beta males or these extreme metal mouth breathers with no harmony
I wasn't born in the 80's yet but it must have been a great decade! I'm 20 years old but I prefer 80's rock over the current electric crap. I'm writing 80's rock myself. I play and record everything, I just don't have professionell equipment, that's why the sound is not perfect. Here's the youtube link to my new song. Not doing this for likes, so don't give me likes but I'm happy for any (ANY) kind of feedback, just in case somebody is interested:) ua-cam.com/video/kqcBnJXSiGg/v-deo.html
Warrant deserves so much more recognition and credit for what they made together. The word underrated gets tossed around so much when talking about older bands from the 80s. But if there is one band thst is truly underrated its warrant without a doubt!!
If Jani had him an intervention, and it worked, this man would have been an even bigger Rock and Roll Giant. Wrote some real Compelling tunes. Miss him and Kevin Debrow, Randy Rhodes, Ratt’s Crosby. Southern California’s Rock and Roll supermen!
Damn ! Makes me feel like I'm 20 again!! I'm 50 now but can still fucking rock like the good ole days! One of the few hair bands I loved! Warrant, skid row, slaughter . Brings me back dude!!!
Grunge is crap, depressing and poor músic, comparaded with hair metal early 90's out excellents bands Slik Toxik, Wildside, Von Groove and i can say it more than 30, killed by Nirvana.
The way the street light silhouettes your thighs inside your dress.....one of greatest lines ever written and sung in the whole history of rock n roll imo😮 the best🎉Goat level
@@jondunmore4268 I was going to say gayest instead of weakest but I was avoiding all the shit people usually give you when you make a comment like that
I remember when they 1st came out. The owner of a nightclub I used to frequent also had a rock and roll club. Warrant came through and heard about the club. They called the owner and asked about playing out there. The owner said he'd never heard of them and HELL NO, they couldn't play out there! He later asked some girls that worked for him if they'd ever heard of a band called "Warrant?" They were all excited, and were like YES, WE LOVE THEM!! Needless to say, he felt stupid!!! 😂
Alot of these bands should've done the Motley Crue thing sign a contract and you are done forever it will never be or sound the same going elsewhere period
I saw a picture of Robert Mason, the, now, lead singer of Warrant and he has his hair dyed very blond and cut like Jani's was in the "Bitter Pill" video. I thought wtf, you can't replace Jani, by copying his look. You don't sound like him nor can you write like him. So just stop it dude.
He is not trying to look or sound like Jani. Jani actually gave Robert his blessing to take on the lead singer role. Robert does his own thing when singing and does it very respectfully.
@@kristicook3789 I should not have said that about Robert Mason. It's not his fault Jani and Warrant parted ways. It was very rude of me to have commented on his singing and stuff. It just was a shock to see his hair so like Jani's hair. Robert if you read my comment I sincerely apologize for my rude comments.
You know whats funny. Back in the 80's, I used to wonder why older people stuck with their music and didn't evolve. I was living and enjoying Hair Band music when all of a sudden, Nirvana and grundge music hit the scene and BAM, I instantly become one of those old codgers that got stuck in the music of his teenage years. Not once did I buy one CD of grundge bands, yet, I had probably 75 CD's of Big Hair and regular rock Bands. yeah, I occassionly liked a song here in there like Glycerine from Bush(oops, I did buy that CD), but, for the most part, my jammin days to new bands came to an end. lol
Weird I'm probably around the same age as you (late 40s), and absolutely loved metal from the early to late 80s. Then it started getting stale with the influx of sub par hair bands in the late 80s and very early 90s (Winger, Poison etc). I totally embraced grunge and alternative rock when it broke (as long as it was hard and guitar oriented aka Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots etc). I saw it as a much needed breath of fresh air to the rock scene. Then around 1996 when rap and pop started taking over I totally gave up and now listen to music almost exclusively from the late 60s through the mid 90s.
God bless those down boys that left us far too soon; yet their musical genius is still frozen in our ears in 2020 & beyond! Hell yeah!!!! RIP Jani Lane
This song is the earliest memory in my life that I have...it was 1986 I was like 3 or 4 riding in the car with my dad, sitting in my carseat, and this song came on the radio and I just started headbangin. The chorus always stuck with me.
Just saw Warrant last week and they put on a great show. Down Boys was the 2nd song they played. Them along with Bret Michaels took us back to the late 1980s and 1990s very quickly!!
I willnever stop loving Warrant, this song is one of their greatest, most of them, RIP Jani Layne, you left us with more to give of yourself! Terri Leckner, Montreal
WOW!!! DUDE THATS AMAZING!! I WISH I COULD OF SEEN THESE LEGENDS LIVE!..Instead were all stuck with today's "non talentless bull FUCKING SHIT MUSIC"!!! ...
cardinalfan72 I wouldn't deny that they aren't the same without him, but that doesn't mean they aren't still bad ass to see today, it just makes the ballads more sad
***** I had the privilege of seeing them play at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, on 27 April 1991 - was the Cherry Pie tour but they played nearly all of DRFSR as well. Fantastic amazing show. Still know all the words.
Me and my college roomie used to have this thing called "Metal Study Hour" in 1989 where we would study from 7pm to 10pm with no music on but from 10pm to 11pm we would play hair metal songs like this one and rock out while doing calculus and physics homework in our dorm room --- man, those were great times!
35 years ago this song came out …Where has time gone ? I’m 61 and still rocking the 80’s
That's how it SHOULD BE
Most stuff NOW... SUCKS 😂😂😂
Always liked warrant even cherry pie that was kinda cheesy…by 1990 this kind of music was getting stale and by summer 91’ it was almost over when grunge took over (Nirvana sept 91)… the grunge stuff was kinda refreshing , but by 94 it was old hat (lasted less then hair metal)…it’s good to hear people are jamming this stuff again and grunge is now known as complaint rock…winger got dogged big time and they were a great band of musicians..there was so many good bands/ songs in the 80’s , even 1 hit wonders, their music was positive, happy and feel good (opposite of alternative/grunge).
I've seen warrent live at riverfront park in little rock Arkansas.what a show!!!❤🎉❤. RIP Janie Lane no better front Man!❤❤😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Livin up to the standard get over it 😤😭❤😂😂🎉😢😮😅😅❤❤
My mom thought the chorus said "Where the cowboys go".
😂😂😂😂😂😂
My mom thought ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" was Shot Glass Man! After hearing it, I can kind of see sometimes why.
That is something my mom would say, lol.
🎉 they are not Country music 🎶 they Rock Roll
Rednek chix suk.
I met Warrant once. Nicest guy I’ve ever met rip Janey
Rob Halford and his manager met him 😮
How lucky are we to have been alive during the heyday of metal ? 🤘
🙌💯❤️
God, I loved the 80's. What a fantastic song, still sounds great and Jani's voice was spectacular RIP
Best music there is! Great memories.
I’m a Down Boy
Summer of '85....cruisin on a Saturday night with friends in a '65 Mustang....blasting this song as loud as those JVC speakers would pump it out.....great times....great memories...great friends and great music......and a case of Bud in the cooler in the trunk...LOL
All of that was my life too except the cooler of Bud!😂 I couldn't stand the taste of beer!!😅 I miss my '65 Mustang, but I miss Jani way more. Oh, the music he could have continued writing and singing. Gone far too soon.😢😢
This didn't come out until 1989. 🤣 🤣 That Budweiser must have affected your memory.
@@markserour9115 I almost peed on myself from laughing.....YOU'RE right! Look...at 57 yrs old...I'm surprised I even remember anything about THAT summer...It was a very wild summer. When I read your comment....I had to THINK...and go back in my mind. Then it CLICKED!! I remember a particular cassette that I played A LOT!! And I loved Warrant...and I remember listening to them A LOT! I remember having the cassette album DRFSR...and I wore it out to the point that I lost the original case. But there was ANOTHER one that I played a lot...and I lost the case to that one too. (prob due to all the BUD) Sign in Please-Autograph...the song...TURN UP THE RADIO!! ......THAT is the one that I was talking about...LOL!! Look...I was in the RIGHT ballpark....just on the WRONG base😆. I DID blast that song...just did it a few years later...but it was SO MUCH FUN!!! Thanks for the laugh...AND the fun correction.
Same but with a Kraco Amplifier 😆
Amen to that I remember then we'll THIS MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE I MEET JOEY FROM WARRENT , BACK STAGE 2010 AND HUNG WITH JERRY DIXON, I WAS George lynch guest I made him a guitar awesome times
"Can we rewind to where we've been?" God if only!!!
0:41
They’re singing about me
Damm right!!
Amen to that
I am sooo glad that this music is making a comeback. Warrent rocks.
Too bad you cant spell the comeback properly. WARRANT.
@@hananderson4940 lol
How is it making a comeback?
@@hananderson4940 Too bad you are a turd for pointing that out, we are all sure you are perfect.
Huge comeback.
Super fun for me: in my guitar cover rotation, I have this song, Cherry Pie and Uncle Tom's Cabin :) Warrant's guitar riffs and bouncy movements thru the measures of their songs are really great to re-discover :) Enjoy the comeback brother!
R.I.P. Jani , You are never forgotten ❤️🙏
Never give up! Down boy 's rules!! 😞😭❤😂🎉😮😅
Give it all you got to give.hard drinking.hardpartying, good whorin,❤😂😢🎉😮😅😅😊🎉😢. give it up 4 a good time.❤😂😮😅😊😊.
RIP 😔😁🎶😜😎😎😎 Janie Lane y r 🎧🎧 are not 🚭🚫🚭🚫 forgotten 😡😭💔💔 RIP Janie 😠😭😭😭..
Such a GREAT loss. You will not be forgotten.
The channel, jani bought the bottle doing shots on both sides after opening for poison 😢😢he was priceless
I was in a "hair metal" band back in the mid to late 80's called "Tempest", and we opened for Warrant at a club in West Hollywood called (at the time), "Gazzari's". I remember they were just about to get signed to Columbia, I believe, and we were hanging with them upstairs in the dressing rooms just talking girls and music. The were VERY cool and sweet dudes-ALL of them. Jani was a real nut, and had an awesome sense of humor. R.I.P., Mr. Lane. You are missed!
I remember reading about Tempest in Hit Parader Magazine back in '91 or ' 92 😊
Omg I have a hit parader magazine with Tempest in it 😱
Do you remember a band called Rip N Tear from Arizona?
The "Tempest" that was the club band in the movie Martial Law? Performing "Sauza"??? If so, holy shit, I've been trying to find that song or any others for YEARS!!!!!
@@jonwolf78 but who is this guy we're speaking to? Is he the vocalist or what?
This song should be in commercials
I’m 72 and love the hell outta this tune . UncleToms Cabin too!!!
I've only started listening to 80s hair metal in recent years. Back in the 80s, I didn't have much money to spend and I was into blues, so what spare cash I had was spent on blues albums, so I missed the hair metal thing (apart from the "Good Dirty Fun" album by Rick Derringer). Now I'm really enjoying the hair metal thing, especially when I'm driving my car. Bands like Dokken, XYZ, Y&T, Krokus, LA Guns, Ratt, Motley Crue, Britany Fox, Cinderella, Roxx Gang, Lynch Mob, Fastway, etc. All easily found on iHeart Radio app. Play it loud Opp Dawg!
3:38 Hearing Jani’s vocals in the end is haunting, Rest easy Jani. 🤘
What a great front man. In my opinion, Jani's voice never changed. He sounded the same at 45 as he did at 25. Thats a rare thing. RIP Jani, i hope you found your peace.
I'm Arthur Bhutic.
He didn't age! It's not rare nowadays! Since by the 2010s, life expectancy exceded 80!
Yes sad his life ended soo soon....great vocalist and front man yesss ...can we go back to this time and stay there please......
Facts
That's beautiful, Sir. Thank you :)
To @WMFNINDY23 concerning silhouettes, por favor, listen to Captain Beefheart and Zoot Horn Rollo's, "Pompadour Swamp".
Additionally, may Jani Bane Wane FfFind that "piece" rather than "peace" while HopeFully And Prayerfully, R.esplendent I.n P.rovidence R.I.P. A.M.E.N
I remember these days. Rushing home after school to tape the music videos playing on MTV with VHS tapes! I lived for MTV. Lived to see Warrant on there. CANNOT imagine growing up without MTV. What a loss.
I did the same thing. Had a glitchy old VHS tape with all my favorite videos on it.
I’m like you..I loved MTV in the hair metal days..
Back when they played music
"Got a lot of nerve to call me cheap, even though it's true." I swear, one of my favorite lines from any song ever.
Still just as good today as it was 32 years ago. 🔥
Jani was Warrant and still is, his voice was outta this world, Dam the 80's was my era!!!!!
Ah, it's like I'm back then, sitting on the sofa with junk food and watching MTV when it was something to watch. I still miss Headbanger's Ball.
I hear you. I had an official MTV Headbanger's Ball t-shirt, and wore that thing so much, it vaporized. They were the glory days of our youth, and great music!
fucking headbangers ball, that right there is the reason why i ever watched mtv.
MTV used to be awesome and this was an awesome vid for it's time :)
Metal shop mtv
eatin junk food and downin some beers
Rest easy Sweet Jani we'll see you on the other side. His voice at 2:59 gives me chills every time. 😔
Hi
I'm 19 years old and I love The 80's Glam Metal!
Thanks Warrant For Your Music!!!
#Rip Jani Lane
It's 2021 and I'm still partying like it's 1989!!!
Pretty cool, man. You have great taste in music. You should check out "The Cars" earlier albums, they were a huge influence on Warrant.
@@liquidbraino - Speaking of lost gods, Benjamin Orr and Rik Ocasek.
To: @tomlovestor
😎Keep rockin! Th music only dies if people stop listening. Best wishes frm Detroit, Michigan, USA
Keep that spirit alive you youngin.... Rock and roll forever!!!!!!
Glad for you
RIP JANI LANE, you were more then just the "Cherry Pie Guy" deeply missed, lived the original warrant line up
Its so sad that he seemed to only think of himself as the cherry pie guy... Although I love that song he seems so sad in one of his latest interviews before he passed away he regretted writing that song. 😭 such incredible talent I guess sometimes their greatest fame is their biggest torture. RIP Jani Lane 🙏💛🎤🎸🎼
@@ShayMichele he totally despised that song from what i hear the record company pretty much forced him to make a song like that and from what i can tell from his reactions it could have been a contributing factor in his death as it caused a ton of depression for him. It pretty much killed his passion for music as he wanted so much more for the band. Maybe if he wasnt so pressured in making Cherry Pie things would have turned out differently.
@@emobassistformallygeddysco3126 that is so sad!!! He was so talented and I like Cherry Pie! It was fun and fit the style of music of that time... I had no idea until I saw that interview from right before his death. 😭 Always a fan !
How did he die? Another OD?
@@motorcitymanman7711 it was acute alcohol poisoning😭
0:23 Me and the boys at the bar after 5 shots and 3 Jack & Cokes each.
I remember buying this tape back in '89, popping it into the tape deck of my car, and just driving around town listening to it. great times.
The awesome Jani lane R.I.P and thanks for those great rocking times listening to Warrant, cheers downboy.
Underrated song. Stands the test of time along with Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Yes
And anything off DRFSR
Yes! Uncle Toms Cabin is badass
These guys and Ratt. Great songwriters and musicians. 80's radio rock has caught a lot of disrespect over the years, which is a shame. There is quite a bit of good music and several good bands. Ratt and Warrant being my faves, closely followed by Tesla and Dokken.
Uncle tons cabin is the first song I think of when I think of warrant,this is #2
I’m a 20 year old woman and I love glam metal. Warrant are one of my fav bands… love Jani 😍😍
Sweet Jani , you had talent and a charisma even you did not understand. Rest in peace dear man. You will always be missed and cherished. This song is pure joy.
well said. well said
He most certainly did. I simply love this song. They did a great job. Jani, will always be missed by me.
Yes. My favorite still till this day
Amen...thank you,my friend. ❤🕊
I remember when this song came out. In my teens then. I feel so old and would truly go back to 80s if I could. The crap they call music today cannot hold a candle to the talent of the 80s. I remember as a kid thinking my parents were so lame listening to Frank Sinatra and stuff like that, now my son thinks the same about me. Crazy.
That’s crazy that your son thinks that because my kids actually love warrant and all the 80s stuff
The 80s were awesome
The difference between today's music and the 80s doesn't have the wide difference that existed between 70s music and the generation before it (i.e., Frank Sinatra). Shouldn't be a big stretch for today's kids to appreciate Warrant. Some kids today are just narrow-minded little assholes.
This music so cool. Your son must be very happy and proud that his dad listens to Warrant. Today’s music is so lame and uncool.
Well a lot of today's music (One Direction) copies bands from the 80's, and 80's bands copied a lot from the 70's. This song was heavily inspired by "Bye Bye Love" from The Cars. Even the 90's bands from the Grunge era had their influences. King's X invented Grunge but nobody's heard of them. Except for all the Grunge bands that copied them.
"Got a lotta nerve to call me cheap, even though it's true."
Great line.
That smile, charisma, voice, eyes and generally everything about him. Jani was such a performer.
They play the music of your generation when you move to a retirement home. Just imagine how many long haired grandpas and broken hips there will be because our generation will have Warrant, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy, Ratt, Scorpions, Skid Row, and all that great 80s music pumped in over the intercom. Shit, if you have Alzheimer’s you might think it’s the 1980s and that you’re at the concert.
Why am I suddenly looking forward to old age? :D
TRUTH!!!
@@skj9163 Boom!
@@skj9163 hahaha amen brother
That's AWESOME!!!
im only 26. my dad grew up in the 80s. im so glad he showed me these guys and what real music is about. because I fucking love these guys.
Rockin this in 2023
Warrant was and still is one of the best rock groups ever. I was in my teens when I first listen to them and at times still do. Boy, I miss the 80's! I remember getting together with rock fans every Saturday night turning on the head banger balls that is when MTV meant something but now it's pure junk.
We had the best music of all time
Us 80’s kids know what I mean lol
We all like fifty now lol
But omg I wouldn’t trade my generation for anything especially the music
I was born in June of 1977. Love it that I was just old enough to love/appreciate 1980s rock and roll. Great music. Timeless.
1978 here. Love 80s music. Though Warrant falls into early 90s as well.
You got that shit right they'll never understand or know
Agree 100% Best decade and most kick-ass music ever.
Born 1967, totally agree!!
This song makes me smile.
Nothin' can beat this kinda feeling...
How i miss the 80's!
My father bought me this album back in 1989.
He always did that back in the day...Whitesnake, Alice Cooper and many more.
My hero died 5 years ago and everytime i hear Down Boys playing i remember him.
Love you, dad.
I miss the 80's too and seeing these old school videos I'm up in age.
I’m with ya brother
I'm confyosed are thay wimen or men?
@@casemccallie5353 men
2023 still coming back here !!!!
This incredible band was so underrated...everything about them was so eye and ear pleasing...undeniably awesome!
First time I saw Warrant was in a little club in San Diego about a month before this album dropped. Maybe 30 people in the club. They played it like it was an arena. Just a fantastic show and they didn't seem to care how few people were there. Flash forward several years as grunge is taking over, and again I'm seeing them in a small club. I was having a bad night personally, and Jani saw it and called me out on it during the show. Told me (and everyone else) it was HIS mission to make sure I had a good time. After the show he came and found me and talked a bit. Just a seriously down to earth guy. Very sad that he's gone. He didn't deserve the exit he received.
This is the best thing ever. No matter how many fans, he treated you like a brother. I love this
Grunge music could never match the awesomeness of hair metal. Never forget that metal existed before grunge and continued to exist after grunge. I'm glad I got to live this era
It still makes me angry that "I'm so depressed, I want to shoot myself" grunge garbage ruined the music I grew up with. People can call it cheesy, over the top etc but it was FUN.
Amen
2023 Still Rocking 🎸🥁‼️
This song makes me feel so HAPPY and so SAD at the same time. I love it so much, and yet it is a reminder of my lost youth, and how I'll never be young again.
Well put! I agree.
Hang in there, many of us feel the same.
It's brutal
Who's still listening in 2020?!
I'm a late comer to hair metal just bought the album man it's cool hair metal never was big in the UK that's why Americans love def Leppard bigger in America than UK but their my favorite group I live in Manchester UK.
It brings me back to the memories I can always go back to
Me,rip jani!
Me!!!
Me I always liked this group
Say what ya want about 80's and early 90's hair Metal/rock but there were some kick ass bands and a killer upbeat vibe that has never been matched .
Overexposure & it becoming trendy to hate on it at the time are the only reasons hair metal died out. If this music made a genuine comeback & got airplay nowadays it would be utterly massive, people don’t know how good they had it with this type of music.
@@proskeptical789 Exactly!!!!
Warrant is pretty good
The down boys go to hell and become southern rockers!❤😂🎉😅😊❤!
This time did to us like they say weed does. "Say Fuck it !Let's Have a Good Time!"
The 80's and 90's was the best age of rock 🎸 👌
1979 wasn't too bad either.
And the 70s
Sweetest music ever
Bands like this are the reason I picked up an instrument in the first place!
And why I picked it back up a few years ago.
I liked this kickass band when they came out,still rocking to them to this day!!!!! THEY ROCK!!!!!
At 53 and still rockin to this shit!!! ✌🏼✌🏼👍🏼
Me too! My favorite song from them!
I don't care what was more popular with the mainstream....whether it be Heaven or Cherry Pie......this is Warrant's best song IMO. Probably Uncle Tom's Cabin was their 2nd best tune. Still love it here in 2020!!!
They are such an underappreciated 80's band.
love warrant, they are one of my favorite bands from the sad the music industry lost onther one r.i.p jani lane
Lisa Mercey can't stop listening to jani Lane(RIP,)my Hope to stay alive🙋
What a decade, there is never gonna be another one like it,I'm glad to have been a teenager then, r.i.p Jani you should still be here rocking, what a voice, the guys in warrant didn't attend his funeral, they were bitter about money
80's were awesome. I'm 55 now and still rock out to those bands sometimes.👍
@@dlbarney2 Same here. Still listen to Ratt all the time & freaked when I heard a Ratt song on Cobra Kai.
I wish I could get transported back to the 80’s.
I’m so sad I missed the good ole days. Might not have been alive back then, but I definitely still appreciate the music 😭🖤
We had alotta fun
Yes we did
great times..... great music... chics liked it....you could have a beer and enjoy life back then...without the internet and a iphone...
exactly they did it all to get the chicks and it worked! How many chicks do get these lame indie bands with soy drinking beta males or these extreme metal mouth breathers with no harmony
THAT'S RIGHT BRO!!!!!!! SIMPLE AS EASY !!!!!!!!! THE 80'S!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude! This was STRIPPER MUSIC!!!!!)))))))))))))😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
That's just it the chicks loved it so with the music came the chicks and with the chicks came the music one hell of a combination 😎
I wasn't born in the 80's yet but it must have been a great decade! I'm 20 years old but I prefer 80's rock over the current electric crap. I'm writing 80's rock myself. I play and record everything, I just don't have professionell equipment, that's why the sound is not perfect. Here's the youtube link to my new song. Not doing this for likes, so don't give me likes but I'm happy for any (ANY) kind of feedback, just in case somebody is interested:)
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Warrant deserves so much more recognition and credit for what they made together. The word underrated gets tossed around so much when talking about older bands from the 80s. But if there is one band thst is truly underrated its warrant without a doubt!!
If Jani had him an intervention, and it worked, this man would have been an even bigger Rock and Roll Giant. Wrote some real Compelling tunes. Miss him and Kevin Debrow, Randy Rhodes, Ratt’s Crosby. Southern California’s Rock and Roll supermen!
I grew up in this Era of music so blessed
I saw them twice, but my favorite was during the Cherry Pie tour in Long Beach Arena. Floor seats about five rows away. Never forget. RIP Jani Lane.
Nice! I saw Journey live at the same arena.
Damn ! Makes me feel like I'm 20 again!! I'm 50 now but can still fucking rock like the good ole days! One of the few hair bands I loved! Warrant, skid row, slaughter . Brings me back dude!!!
Hell YEah!
I miss the 80's!!!! Best time of my life!!!!
Don't forget Tesla one of the greats
Grunge is crap, depressing and poor músic, comparaded with hair metal early 90's out excellents bands Slik Toxik, Wildside, Von Groove and i can say it more than 30, killed by Nirvana.
Yep... me too!!!
R.I.P Jani Lane. Love this song
I be fucking brains out in this song get them pannies off
Jani lane was a good lead singer for warrant and he will be miss.
1989 where did you go?
1989 ran away scared like 2024 runs away from Taylor swift scared 😳 😂
i was 14 and jaming this song.
Nothing better than music from the 80s
Long live the true musicians
"The Down Boys" would be a good name for a Warrant tribute band.
I’d rather listen to this all day in stead of what Metallica has become!
RIP Jani. Sure do miss the 80’s. Better than this CRAP being played today
Truer words were never spoken!...well said!
Seen warrent at riverfront park in little rock Arkansas.❤❤❤
The way the street light silhouettes your thighs inside your dress.....one of greatest lines ever written and sung in the whole history of rock n roll imo😮 the best🎉Goat level
I never understood that line until today when I randomly decided to watch it with captions on.
That is a great one though my favorite is*you ve ggota lot of nerve to call me cheap even though it's true"
@@brianscully3833pretty much what I was about to say.
Keeping you alive in 2021
They were so synchronized at the start with that dance
That was the weakest part of the video
Gayest thing I've ever seen.
GAY
@@Mary...22-u9j That's exactly how I felt I just just figured I'd hear a bunch of shit for saying that 👍
@@jondunmore4268 I was going to say gayest instead of weakest but I was avoiding all the shit people usually give you when you make a comment like that
RIP Jani. You were, are and will be the best ever.
I remember when they 1st came out. The owner of a nightclub I used to frequent also had a rock and roll club. Warrant came through and heard about the club. They called the owner and asked about playing out there. The owner said he'd never heard of them and HELL NO, they couldn't play out there! He later asked some girls that worked for him if they'd ever heard of a band called "Warrant?" They were all excited, and were like YES, WE LOVE THEM!! Needless to say, he felt stupid!!! 😂
Warrant is one of my all time favorite bands from the 80s. Jani Lane really was a talented songwriter and performer.
Jammin' tune,miss the golden era of hard rock!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Still rockin to this in 2023!!
Agree! I love the 80s rock! Nothing better!!!
i miss Jani Lane, no matter how hard warrant replaces and gets a new singer it will never be the same.
Jeannette Lopez I agree So much. can't replace Jani like you can't replace Steve Perry or replace the lead singer of Boston
Alot of these bands should've done the Motley Crue thing sign a contract and you are done forever it will never be or sound the same going elsewhere period
I saw a picture of Robert Mason, the, now, lead singer of Warrant and he has his hair dyed very blond and cut like Jani's was in the "Bitter Pill" video. I thought wtf, you can't replace Jani, by copying his look. You don't sound like him nor can you write like him. So just stop it dude.
He is not trying to look or sound like Jani. Jani actually gave Robert his blessing to take on the lead singer role. Robert does his own thing when singing and does it very respectfully.
@@kristicook3789 I should not have said that about Robert Mason. It's not his fault Jani and Warrant parted ways. It was very rude of me to have commented on his singing and stuff. It just was a shock to see his hair so like Jani's hair. Robert if you read my comment I sincerely apologize for my rude comments.
Went to see them in 1991 Houston, Tx. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Cherry Pie tour. Trixter opened for them followed by Firehouse. Was amazing.
You know whats funny. Back in the 80's, I used to wonder why older people stuck with their music and didn't evolve. I was living and enjoying Hair Band music when all of a sudden, Nirvana and grundge music hit the scene and BAM, I instantly become one of those old codgers that got stuck in the music of his teenage years. Not once did I buy one CD of grundge bands, yet, I had probably 75 CD's of Big Hair and regular rock Bands. yeah, I occassionly liked a song here in there like Glycerine from Bush(oops, I did buy that CD), but, for the most part, my jammin days to new bands came to an end. lol
Circle of life huh
Weird I'm probably around the same age as you (late 40s), and absolutely loved metal from the early to late 80s. Then it started getting stale with the influx of sub par hair bands in the late 80s and very early 90s (Winger, Poison etc). I totally embraced grunge and alternative rock when it broke (as long as it was hard and guitar oriented aka Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots etc). I saw it as a much needed breath of fresh air to the rock scene. Then around 1996 when rap and pop started taking over I totally gave up and now listen to music almost exclusively from the late 60s through the mid 90s.
And now I long for the days of Winger and Poison, hella better than the crap that passes for music these days lol.
Preach it...you are so right.
It doesn't matter how old we get...
Good music has no expiration date.
Love it! The days where music was still fun.. RIP Jani you are truly missed!
2023 and i'm still here...and i still miss the 80s.
I know how you feel & know what you mean time machine back to all the concerts with the cheaper ticket prices definitely miss the 1980's
God bless those down boys that left us far too soon; yet their musical genius is still frozen in our ears in 2020 & beyond! Hell yeah!!!! RIP Jani Lane
the 80´s is really pure rock so badass
ohhh please 80´s come back in time :(
God Bless him
This song is the earliest memory in my life that I have...it was 1986 I was like 3 or 4 riding in the car with my dad, sitting in my carseat, and this song came on the radio and I just started headbangin. The chorus always stuck with me.
Warrant-such an Awesome band-Jani was so talented, it's such a shame what happened. He will always b in my heart 💓forever.
Miss you guys so much 😪
I remember when this came on MTV headbanger's ball. I saw the first airing of it. not sure what year that was, but it was kewl.
I remember listening to this on the MTV rotation right after I got home from school. Such a kick ass groove .. When rock was fun .
i don't remember this one, but "heaven" i certainly do
Just saw Warrant last week and they put on a great show. Down Boys was the 2nd song they played. Them along with Bret Michaels took us back to the late 1980s and 1990s very quickly!!
I willnever stop loving Warrant, this song is one of their greatest, most of them, RIP Jani Layne, you left us with more to give of yourself! Terri Leckner, Montreal
Still listening in 2023 ❤
Best live band ive seen. They gave it ALL out there every time I saw them over 5 times and loved it.
WOW!!! DUDE THATS AMAZING!! I WISH I COULD OF SEEN THESE LEGENDS LIVE!..Instead were all stuck with today's "non talentless bull FUCKING SHIT MUSIC"!!! ...
Unleash- Hell I just saw them in February I think, they still tour. Still give it their all, its a great time.
Tyler Deuty jani is dead, they arent the same without him
cardinalfan72 I wouldn't deny that they aren't the same without him, but that doesn't mean they aren't still bad ass to see today, it just makes the ballads more sad
***** I had the privilege of seeing them play at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, on 27 April 1991 - was the Cherry Pie tour but they played nearly all of DRFSR as well. Fantastic amazing show. Still know all the words.
People want this kind of music look how good the stadium tour did
I have this album on vinyl bought in 1989 when I was 23 years old. Good memories.
Haven’t stop listening since 86’ BooM !!!
I Still Listen To Warrant In 2023
the synchronicity and head banging was just a small part of what we love so much ;)
This is the era of tunes I want to go back to!!!!
once upon a time there was great music
The synchronized drop to their knees while headbanging is Epic..
very cheesy but in an awesome kind of way..
They took The Cars "Bye Bye Love" and sprinkled some cheese on it.
IMO they're copying what Judas Priest guitarists KK Downing and Glen Tipton used to do.
Lol it is so freakin epic .. I remember listening to this on the MTV rotation right after I got home from school.
Me and my college roomie used to have this thing called "Metal Study Hour" in 1989 where we would study from 7pm to 10pm with no music on but from 10pm to 11pm we would play hair metal songs like this one and rock out while doing calculus and physics homework in our dorm room --- man, those were great times!
So much cheese… But also great memories jamming to this song
Warrant vocalist JANI LANE R.I.P. (ROCKING IN PEACE!!)