Line #3 Music/Warrant


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Joey Allen, Jerry Dixon, Robert Mason, Erik Turner, and Steven Sweet.]]
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4	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), Jerry Dixon (bass guitar) and Steven Sweet (drums) to stabilise.
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6	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 Music/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.
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8	However, changing trends in rock music served to undermine the band's career. Like a lot of hair bands, Warrant were displaced by the rise of {{Grunge}}, and after one last hit (the album ''Dog Eat Dog'') their popularity declined. Since then, they've continued to perform and record either with or without bandleader Jani Lane, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011.
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10	!! Discography:
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13	* 1989 - ''Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich''
14	* 1990 - ''Cherry Pie''
15	* 1992 - ''Dog Eat Dog''
16	* 1994 - ''Ultraphobic''
17	* 1996 - ''Belly To Belly''
18	* 1997 - ''Warrant Live 86-97''
19	* 1999 - ''Greatest And Latest''
20	* 2001 - ''[[CoverAlbum Under The Influence]]''
21	* 2006 - ''Born Again''
22	* 2011 - ''Rockaholic''
23	* 2017 - ''Louder Harder Faster''
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27	!!Trope my Cherry Pie:
28	* AmericanGothicCouple: The "Cherry Pie" video has the girl putting her arms around the couple.
29	* AutoErotica: From "Cherry Pie"
30	-->Swingin' to the bass
31	-->In the back of my car!
32	-->Ain't got money!
33	-->Ain't got no gas!
34	-->But we'll get where
35	-->We're goin' if we
36	-->Swing real fast!
37	* BawdySong: A large part of their discography.
38	* BreakTheCutie: Between his divorce from Bobbie Brown and the death of the rock scene in the early 90s, Jani Lane seemed to have undergone one of these.
39	* ClusterFBomb: "Ode To [[MoralGuardians Tipper Gore]]", the band's attempt to troll Al Gore's wife and prominent music censorship advocate.
40	* 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 wishing well leaves little room to assume anything good.
41	* CoverVersion: Of "[[Music/{{Queen}} We Will Rock You]]".
42	* DarkerAndEdgier: Their album ''Dog Eat Dog.'' While there are still some ballads on the record, the majority of the material is far heavier and darker than anything they'd written before, with one, "Inside Out," being a straight-up ThrashMetal song. Some of the song topics include:
43	** Voyeurism ("The Hole In My Wall")
44	** AfterTheEnd ("April 2031")
45	** A look into the mind of an assassin ("Andy Warhol Was Right")
46	** [[DrugsAreBad Drug addiction]] ("All My Bridges Are Burning")
47	** [[ClingyJealousGirl An overly attached girlfriend]] ("Quicksand")
48	* DirtyCops: The Sheriff and Deputy in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The Deputy flat out murders two people(after attempting to rape the woman) and then dump the bodies in an area of a bayou where the bodies wouldn't be found.
49	* DoubleEntendre: "Cherry Pie" has several:
50	-->Swingin' in there 'cause
51	-->She wanted me to feed her
52	-->So I mixed up the batter
53	-->And she licked the beater!
54	* FullyAutomaticClipShow: "Ode To Tipper Gore", a collection of profanity from live concerts.
55	* GratuitousGerman: The song "The Bitter Pill" ends up busting into German about halfway through the song.
56	* HairMetal: They were one of the last new hair metal groups that managed to become very popular immediately before grunge killed the genre off in the 1990s.
57	* IntercourseWithYou: Frequent feature of their lyrics.
58	* InterruptedIntimacy: From "Cherry Pie", combined with ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime.
59	-->Swingin' in the bathroom,
60	-->Swingin' on the floor.
61	-->Swingin' so hard
62	-->We forgot to lock the door!
63	-->In walks her daddy
64	-->Standin' six foot four!
65	-->He said "You ain't gonna swing
66	-->With my daughter no more!"
67	* KarmaHoudini: The cops in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are not reported for their crimes because the protagonists fear being next.
68	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Again, from "Cherry Pie"
69	-->Swingin' on the front porch!
70	-->Swingin' on the lawn!
71	-->Swingin' where we want
72	-->'Cause there ain't nobody home!
73	* PowerBallad: As with all hair metal bands, they had several such songs. "Heaven" and "I Saw Red" were their most popular.
74	** "Blind Faith" deserves a mention as well for being one of their most heartfelt ballads.
75	* RevolvingDoorBand: NOBODY in Warrant has been in the band non-stop from its inception to the present. The closest is bassist Jerry Dixon, who has been with the band from 1984 to the present (2016), but was not an original member. Erik Turner founded the band, but the rhythm guitarist took time off from Warrant in 1997-98 and 2003.
76	* 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=].
77	* StealthParody: They seem to view "Cherry Pie" as one of these.
78	* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: "Cherry Pie" has the line "Think about baseball and swing all night!"
79	* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: The woman in the "Cherry Pie" video.
80	* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The video for their cover of "[[Music/{{Queen}} We Will Rock You]]" contains clips from the 1992 boxing movie ''Gladiator''.

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