Down for the Count explained

Down for the Count
Type:studio
Artist:Y&T
Cover:Ytdownforthecount.JPG
Released:[1]
Recorded:1985
Studio:Sound City (Van Nuys, California)
Genre:
Length:40:49
Label:A&M
Producer:Kevin Beamish
Prev Title:Open Fire
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Contagious
Next Year:1987

Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released on November 4, 1985, by A&M Records. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene.[3] It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song had initially appeared as the only studio track on the band's live album, Open Fire, released earlier in the year. The album itself peaked at #91 on the Billboard 200 on December 14, 1985. It was the last album with the original line-up of Meniketti, Alves, Kennemore and Haze, as Haze left the following year.

Reception

The AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album two stars out of five, and criticized the band for "[joining] the perm-haired masses then issuing like dandruff out of the California dust to redefine the meaning of the word "dumb"".

Personnel

Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Singles

YearSingleChartPosition
1985"Summertime Girls"Billboard Hot 100[5] 55
Mainstream Rock[6] 16
"All American Boy"Mainstream Rock48

External links

Notes and References

  1. November 1, 1985. New Releases. FMQB. 37. January 11, 2023.
  2. Web site: Y&T - Down For The Count. Metal Storm.
  3. Book: Popoff, Martin. The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. August 15, 2014. Voyageur Press. 978-0-7603-4546-7. 98. Google Books.
  4. Y&T - Billboard 200. June 28, 2021. Billboard.
  5. Y&T - Hot 100. June 28, 2021. Billboard.
  6. Y&T - Mainstream Rock. June 28, 2021. Billboard.