Enuff Z'Nuff Release New Video

Enuff Z'Nuff are promoting their new album Hardrock Nite which is a Beatles cover effort. To celebrate this album, the band just released a video for "Back In the USSR" and that clip is below. It isn't surprising that Enuff Z'Nuff is forging ahead with a Beatles covers album. Chip Z'nuff has been obsessed with the Beatles since... forever. Honestly I'm surprised it took him this long to put something together.

Hardrock Nite comes out December 10 via Frontiers.

Comments

[Him]

I really tried to like this iteration of EZ'N. I just don't get it. I mean, I get it. But it is lacking something. And I am not sure that a love of the Beatles is enough with this cover. Sounds like it was mixed with an amalgam of swamp gas and heavy gauze.

Now, if they did some covers of the Rutles classic songs . . . that might be something!

[crued]

@Him are you looking foward to the new LA Guns cd?

[Him]

Which one? I kid. I know of which you speak, Crued.

Personally? Not really. I mean, I like LAG for what they are, or were. But the politics of the band have left a sour taste in my CD player. I won't rehash the observations I have made in about them in previous posts. Do I sorta' enjoy some of the new stuff. Sorta' yes. But I would rather spend my money supporting other prestige (I use that loosely) bands, or newer bands that could use my money more.

Just me. Just saying. You?

[Metalboy!]

Is there any way to “uncover” a song?

It’s actually a pretty good “Metalization” of the song until Z’nuff starts mailing in the vocals.

When listening to this, one can almost picture him reading the lyrics off a legal pad in the sound booth.

Too bad Vie blew himself up or whatever the h*ll it was that caused him to leave the band.

From what I hear, he got his voice back, and judging from this track, they need it back, too!

Enough Z’Nuff on vocals, already!

[Him]

Again, good to see you back, Metalboy!

Pretty sure that drugs and mental health issues are what stopped Vie from mounting his comeback to the band. And his more recent instances of erratic behavior suggest that at least one of those issues remains, well, an issue.

Which is a shame. I really do think that his creative input is what made the early years so interesting. But, and this may seem poorly put, Chip is steering the ship these days . . . and living off the stuff that made them a partially recognized band in the first place. But that is also partially Vie's fault/decision. So that's what we get. And you can take it or leave it. Me? I guess I leave it.

[Metalboy!]

Yeah, I guess a real singer ain’t in the budget … So, if he doesn’t get one, I guess I’ll leave it, too!

p.s. As I’ve mentioned several times over the years, I was fortunate enough to see ‘em in the classic line-up of Z’Nuff, Vie, Friggo, Fox, et al, in ‘89, point blank at The Cat Club in NYC, fresh off their self-titled first album.

This was when they were in heavy rotation on MTV, bringing a breath of fresh air with innovative songwriting and the killer guitar of Derek Friggo (RIP) … To checkout what a Machine Head Monster he was, look up the eponymous first album of his previous band, Le Mans … KILLER!