#the wrestling album

[retromusicart]

Various Artists - The Wrestling Album (CBS-Epic, 1985) - Designer and photographer unknown

I've been watching pro wrestling since childhood, so I felt it was proper to showcase the cover.

It's basically just a compilation of wrestlers' entrance music and nothing more. It was the WWF's first officially licensed album. And it's not very good.

Image courtesy of Discogs.

[kirbys-pop-culture-junk]

Betamax tape of an unfinished version of the music video of the cover of "Land of a Thousand Dances" sung by "The Wrestlers", from the wonderful and aptly titled "The Wrestling Album" from 1985. Presumably this was being sent out to the studio to see what still needed to be edited.

Back in 1985 the WWF was one of the largest pop culture establishments in North America and was slowly moving globally too. One of the things they did at the time was The Wrestling Album, an album of novelty music performed by various wrestlers in the company, with the gimmick being that each song would be introduced and bookended by Vince McMahon, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and "Mean" Gene Okerlund doing commentary. Some of the songs were covers ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper famously did a cover of the Mike Angelo & The Idols song, "Fuck Everybody/The World May Not Like Me", but changed it to "For Everybody" while also making it blatantly obvious how you were supposed to hear the song) but some were original songs that would later be used as entrance music for various wrestlers. If you're a novelty record fan (Captain Lou Albano even does a hilarious cover of the "Captain Lou" NRBQ song) or even an oldhead wrestling fan, it's worth a listen

[para-socialist]

[dynamitekansai]

WWE Tattooed: Jey Uso

From a full back piece and a treasured Umaga tribute, to a leg design that was created using traditional Samoan techniques and a boar's-tusk comb, check out Jey Uso's incredible tattoos. Featuring Uos's tattoo artist and friend, Mike Fatutoa of Sacred Tatau in Tampa, Fla. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGIANA DALLAS.

[freshmarketflesh]

Album redraw part 8

Jade, Bianca and Naomi as Destiny’s child “survivor” cover

[trentreznorgf]

tagged by my good friend ryan @kalaharidown to list five of my favorite albums and have my followers vote on what best fits me !

tagging @sunsetcowboy, @opulentrage, @holepic98, @sodacaps, @smalltownhound if you want to ofc <3

[abyssaldyke]

I loved you.... before I even ever knew what love was like...

[thelastspeecher]

okay hear me out

Stangie AU

where

they are both WWE wrestlers

[gameraboy2]

The Wrestling Album (1985)

[mayplantstarrwaters]

Made a collage of my favorite albums I have listened to this year in rainbow color order :>

[blowflyfag]

For that wrestling asks post: *Theme ~ Your favorite and/or least favorite wrestling theme songs?

One of my favorite Theme’s is Enough is Enough! Owen Hart’s theme during the attitude era! It’s got this great feeling to it all of a scorned little brother it’s just. *chefs kiss*

Los Boricuas has a great beat and flow to it that I love to hear

I also enjoy Kane’s theme. Both Slow Chemical and the original theme he debuted with. I like a lot of themes but these ones are some of my tops!

I like a lot of themes… I honestly could make a huge list out of the ones I love but these are the ones that come to mind first :)

[whifferdills]

the forensic analysis of the all in footage is so funny to me. thank you, please continue

[dynamitekansai]

WWE Tattooed: Shotzi

[freshmarketflesh]

Album redraw part 7

Four eras of Punk in the blur “best of” album cover art

[nicoscheer]

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He’s gonna be the fucking death of me first killing the joke and now silverscreen 😭😭😭

Indie rock icon, last shadow Puppets star and one of Merseyside’s most notable musical exports, Miles Kane, returned this year with his fifth album ‘One man Band’. Following on from his last two records which are packed with Glam stompers, the new album saw him dive back into the punchy Indie sound that first earned him waves of fans. We spoke with Miles about how his songwriting, style and sound have evolved over the years…

Q. You’ve had a productive spell recently releasing two albums in two years, have you enjoyed focusing on you solo work?

A. “Yeah, I think especially on this record. I just love making tunes, you know? I think on this one, it was great working with our James, my cousin from the Coral and Alfie Skelly too. Also, not having that pressure of a major label and just being fully in control of what I want to do. There’s always a plan and an expectation but I think I’ve really taken control of the ship on this album. I think I just got in a zone. It wasn’t a/masked but the quality of songs came quite quick, which doesn’t always happen.”

Q. How important to you is your visual identity as an artist?

A. “It’s always been massively important with me, whether it’s super stylized suits or glam rock makeup. There’s many sides to my sort of style, but on the new album I’ve just been feeling the more casual side both in life and in music. I just wanted it to be not super posed and sexy, I wanted it to feel more natural.”

Q. What drove you to write the track ‘Baggio’

A. “Im obsessed with Italian shirts and always have been as a kid. So I think it was a story about that childhood and my intriguement/ obsession with Italian football. It’s more of a song about childhood, reminiscing and remembering these specific little things. For me, it was World Cup 94, watching Italy and seeing Baggio. You could have said Oasis or something like that but Baggio’s a bit cooler and I think people around me like James and Alfie were like ‘Oh, this is so you’ because obviously they know me and I think that’s why it connected. I think at first some people were like, ‘ what are you on about there?’ but it’s these kinds of songs that I’m glad I stuck to my guts on.”

Q. Was it fun to explore the retro football style too with the single ‘Baggio’?

A. “Yeah, I love all that. I love all the old footy shirts because I think it sort of takes me back to a weird comfort memory of being a kid and I think a lot of those old footy shirts are super chic. The photo of me in the Baggio shirt wasn’t like a set up photo shoot. Chaz who plays bass was bringing his camera in and took that. I guess it was more candid and summed up the album better for me than trying to look cool or giving it the big one.”

Q. Are there any other celebrity icons or physical anchors you use to inspire your songwriting?

A. “Yeah, loads man. Rocky… fucking Al Pacino. There’s loads of wrestlers that I’ve taken inspiration from. I get very inspired by stuff like that, whether it be a jacket or it’s a bit of makeup or whatever, I’m quite obsessed. I get the mood of something I’m into and it’ll inspire me to do my version of that feeling. It sounds quite mad to explain it, but for me, that just works”.

Q. You’ve written songs on Merseyside, in London, America, at home or on tour… does your environment impact the kind of songs you’re writing?

A. “I’d say it’s more about where you’re at in your head you know. A lot of the songs on the new album were written up north and a lot was written on my couch in London where I am now. If I wanted to go and make a reggae album in Jamaica maybe that would have a big effect on it haha but, for me, I think it’s more about where I’m at in my mind.”

Q. How has Merseyside impacted you as a musician and as a person?

A. “Where you’re from is who you are, isn’t it, it’s everything. I’ve learned from all those Merseyside bands, The Coral, The Zutons, The Bunnymen, Teardrops, The Beatles. I saw them and wanted to be like them guys, you know? It was just engraved in me. I probably wouldn’t be sat here talking to you without them.”

Q. Which is your favorite track to play live off the new record?

A. “I could play this whole album live to be honest! I think ‘Never taking me alive’ is my favorite track ever to play to be honest. It’s kind of my new ‘Inhaler’ or ‘Come closer’, it’s got that big old riff and the big energy. I love that side of my tunes. Making this album I really fell in love with playing guitar again. I really want the guitar to be at the front just as much as the words are. I’ve really embraced that side of myself. Again, it’s simpler and I think that suits me. I like those other sides of me, don’t get me wrong but give me a riff and some lyrics and that’ll do me mate.”

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Oh do I love him (the lipstick paired with him so openly talking bout using glam makeup in the above interview 🫶🏽🫶🏽🥰)

Please i can’t he’s so dog dad; good to know he loves Maxie just as much as we do (the audio says “you talking to me?!”(from taxi driver)

[dailisammi]

Reupload. Fixed it! His hair was bugging me.

Also gave this to Jimmy Hart when I met him a few weeks ago and he really liked it ;;;w;;; he's such a sweet man. And still incredibly energetic hehe.

Spotify also called me out and this is my number one song I listened to all year......... Woops.