For My Sunday Song #376, we have another Deke’s choice and this time his good buddy Andy Curran and his song “No Tattoos”. He is of course Canadian as all songs this stretch are from Canadian artists. The song is off his 1990 debut album and was right towards the tail end of the hair metal era. Andy has reissued the album as a new box set and calling it ‘Whiskey & The Devil’. Andy is also bassist and co-lead vocalist for the band Coney Hatch, so check them out too.
“No Tattoos” is hard song to find info on. I don’t see any lyrics so I will do my best to describe the song. The song is simply about saying No to Tattoos. Okay, that wasn’t hard. You can tell by the chorus which says “No tattoos, gotta stay cool, my mama never raised no fool.” Clean skin baby!! Rockers love their tattoos so to come out and talk about not getting them is a brave thing. I’m surprised he wasn’t tied down and given one prison style!!
The song is a pure 80’s rocker, heavy guitars, heart pounding drums and anthemic sounding. Andy’s on vocals and he has a great rock & roll voice. Although that chorus is cheesy, It is still so much fun at the same time. And that guitar solo is great…it is short and sweet, but it really fits the song. Nothing earth shattering here, plain and simple, good time rock & roll and some times that is all you need!!
Give the song a listen and let me know what you think. Is it worth checking out the rest of the album based on this song? I think so. Thanks Deke for another great choice. Go check out The Distortion Den on Youtube or go to Superdekes.com and support Deke. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful and Happy Sunday!!
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Great writeup Sir and I’m glad you dug it. Your right the song is that …FUN! Good call on the guitar solo being great as Simon Brierly ended up being a key guy in Andy’s bands from this point out….
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I enjoyed it, I’m almost went out and bought his re-release of the album but something else came up.
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Great pick Deke!
My buddy Bob loved this song and its message. NO TATTOOS! He hated tattoos. “They’re for life, man!” So he was all about this song in the summer of 1990. The drummer is a personal favourite drummer of mine – Glenn Milchem from Blue Rodeo.
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Andy has always surrounded himself with A list musicians …..
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That is a pretty cool song. He’s really putting his neck out there with a rock song about not having tattoos. I never got any tattoos myself but I never thought about having a song to go with it. But if I did want a song for it, this one could certainly fit the bill.
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As I told Max Andy got some inspiration from his mother who told him No Tattoo’s…this is going back decades lol
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I know…Andy the contrarian rocker with regards to Tattoos.
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Cool sounding song John and Deke. This is odd for a rocker to come out and say this!
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Andy had told me that he wrote the song partially about his mom telling him he better have no tattoos …lol
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That makes sense! My mom made me promise her…that is one promise I’ve been able to keep so far!
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Deke picked some good ones for sure.
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