History Music / Warrant

* InterruptedIntimacy: From "Cherry Pie"

-->He said you ain't gonna swing
-->With my daughter no more!

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!!This band features examples of:

* CorruptCop: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"[[note]](No relation to the novel)[[/note]]. The video is more explicit but the local sheriff and deputy secretly dumping bodies into a deep lake leaves little room to assume anything good.

** Drug addiction ("All My Bridges Are Burning")
** An overly attached girlfriend ("Quicksand")

Warrant are an American HairMetal[=/=]ArenaRock band originally from Los Angeles. Formed in 1984, it took three or four years for the classic line-up featuring Jani Lane (lead vocals, main songwriter), Joey Allen (lead guitar), Erik Turner (rhythm guitar), Michael Nelson (bass guitar) and Steven Sweet (drums) to stabilise.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Strangely, it's only the ''bassist'', Jerry Dixon, who has been with the band non-stop since its formation in 1984. Lead guitarist Erik Turner has been with the band for about 31 out of its 32 years, with brief absences in 1997 and 2003.

* RevolvingDoorBand

* ClusterFBomb: "Ode To [[MoralGuardians Tipper Gore]]".

* BlackSheepHit: "Cherry Pie". It's not really atypical of their style, but it was a song the label wanted them to write and became a much bigger hit than the band expected it to (Jani Lane wrote the lyrics out quickly on an empty pizza box). The band still doesn't know what to make of it after all these years; while they're proud that they managed to write such an iconic song, they also seem to see the fact that a semi-parodic ClicheStorm that was written in less than an hour as a way of shutting up their label became their biggest hit by a long shot is pretty pathetic.
* ChorusOnlySong: "Cherry Pie". It's more or less the American equivalent to "[[Music/DefLeppard Pour Some Sugar On Me]]", to which it bears a suspiciously similar resemblance.

* BlackSheepHit: "Cherry Pie". It's not really atypical of their style, but it was a song the label wanted them to write and became a much bigger hit than the band expected it to (Jani Lane wrote the lyrics out quickly on an empty pizza box).

Establishing themselves as the number three band in the Hollywood rock scene behind Music/GunsNRoses and Music/{{Poison}}, the band had their breakout hits with the multi-platinum album ''Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich'' and the single "Heaven", which got to number two in the American charts (although it peaked behind MilliVanilli, [[FakeBand which is more or less the same as being the number one song]]) and reached their peak success with ''Cherry Pie'' and the eponymous hit single, an arena rock anthem that soon became their SignatureSong.

* CreatorBacklash: When asked about "Cherry Pie" in an interview with VH1, Jani lamented, "I could shoot myself in the fucking head for writing that song." However, later on he admitted that he'd been caught at a bad time and clarified that he liked the song and was happy so many people enjoyed it, but regretted that it overshadowed a lot of other stuff they did.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The record company wanted them to write a "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Love In An Elevator]]" style rock anthem; "Cherry Pie" was the result.

Establishing themselves as the number three band in the Hollywood rock scene behind GunsNRoses and Music/{{Poison}}, the band had their breakout hits with the multi-platinum album ''Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich'' and the single "Heaven", which got to number two in the American charts (although it peaked behind MilliVanilli, [[FakeBand which is more or less the same as being the number one song]]) and reached their peak success with ''Cherry Pie'' and the eponymous hit single, an arena rock anthem that soon became their SignatureSong.

* ChorusOnlySong: "Cherry Pie". It's more or less the American equivalent to "[[DefLeppard Pour Some Sugar On Me]]", to which it bears a suspiciously similar resemblance.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The record company wanted them to write a "[[{{Aerosmith}} Love In An Elevator]]" style rock anthem; "Cherry Pie" was the result.

* SpecialGuest: The ''Cherry Pie'' album had a few friends performing on some songs. For example, the guitar solo on the title track is played by Music/Poison guitarist C. C. [=DeVille=].

* FaceOfTheBand: Jani Lane, who also wrote a lot of their songs.

* WTHCastingAgency: Since they shared a label with AliceInChains, the record executives put together a tour with both bands on the bill. Reportedly, they got along fine while they were on the road, but Warrant members have said they felt pretty let down when Alice In Chains did an interview that attacked them and accused them of using tape decks.

Establishing themselves as the number two band in the Hollywood rock scene behind GunsNRoses and Music/{{Poison}}, the band had their breakout hits with the multi-platinum album ''Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich'' and the single "Heaven", which got to number two in the American charts (although it peaked behind MilliVanilli, [[FakeBand which is more or less the same as being the number one song]]) and reached their peak success with ''Cherry Pie'' and the eponymous hit single, an arena rock anthem that soon became their SignatureSong.

Establishing themselves as the number two band in the Hollywood rock scene behind GunsNRoses and Music/{[Poison}}, the band had their breakout hits with the multi-platinum album ''Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich'' and the single "Heaven", which got to number two in the American charts (although it peaked behind MilliVanilli, [[FakeBand which is more or less the same as being the number one song]]) and reached their peak success with ''Cherry Pie'' and the eponymous hit single, an arena rock anthem that soon became their SignatureSong.

* SpecialGuest: The ''Cherry Pie'' album had a few friends performing on some songs. For example, the guitar solo on the title track is played by [[Music/Poison C. C. DeVille]]
* WTHCastingDepartment: Since they shared a label with AliceInChains, the record executives put together a tour with both bands on the bill. Reportedly, they got along fine while they were on the road, but Warrant members have said they felt pretty let down when Alice In Chains did an interview that attacked them and accused them of using tape decks.