In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy

This is also the soundtrack of a 1996 music documentary co-starring Deep Purple, Lemmy, and Dweezil Zappa.

In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Studio album by Pat Boone
Released	January 1997
Recorded	1996 at Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Swing
Length	53:13
Label	Hip-O Records
Producer	Michael Lloyd; Jeffrey Weber

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy is a 1997 album by Pat Boone in which Boone, after critisizing groups like Duran Duran for their James Bond theme and number one hit A View To A Kill because of their lyric "Dance Into the Fire" being devil worshipping and unholy, covers hard rock and heavy metal songs in a jazz/big band style. Boone promoted the album by appearing in leather clothing (and, at that year's American Music Awards, wearing a dog collar). He succeeded in propelling Metal Mood onto the Billboard record charts (making it Boone's first hit album in 35 years), but it did not please some of his longtime supporters who consider the heavy metal genre in bad taste, or worse. ^[2]

In October of the same year, and in a similar vein, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé covered Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" in a lounge-jazz style on the 1997 compilation album release, Lounge-A-Palooza. This idea of giving rock hits a "standards" treatment was was later imitated later by Boone's contemporary Paul Anka in the 2005 album Rock Swings, which also featured Anka doing a cover of "Black Hole Sun."

Track listing

1. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" (Original: Judas Priest) – 4:19
2. "Smoke on the Water" (Original: Deep Purple) – 3:53
3. "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" (Original: AC/DC) – 4:37
4. "Panama" (Original: Van Halen) – 5:15
5. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Original: Alice Cooper) – 3:06
6. "Love Hurts" (Original: Everly Brothers, popularized as a hard rock ballad by Nazareth; composed by Boudleaux Bryant) – 4:57
7. "Enter Sandman" (Original: Metallica) – 3:52
8. "Holy Diver" (Original: Dio) – 4:44
9. "Paradise City" (Original: Guns N' Roses) – 4:41
10. "The Wind Cries Mary" (Original: The Jimi Hendrix Experience) – 4:12
11. "Crazy Train" (Original: Ozzy Osbourne) – 4:32
12. "Stairway to Heaven" (Original: Led Zeppelin) – 4:59

Personnel

• Pat Boone, Ronnie James Dio, Clydene Jackson Edwards, Merry Clayton, Carmen Twillie - vocals
• Ritchie Blackmore, Mitch Holder, Dawayne Bailey, Dweezil Zappa, Dan Ferguson, Michael Thompson - electric guitar
• Doug Cameron, Bruce Dukov, Michelle Richards - violin
• Evan Wilson - viola
• Larry Corbett - cello
• Tom Scott, Gary Herbig, Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, Terry Harrington, Plas Johnson, Jeol Peskin - woodwinds
• Frank Szabo, Chuck Findley, Wayne Bergeron, Rick Baptist, Chris Tedesco - trumpet
• Dick "Slide" Hyde, Lew McCreary, Alan Kaplan, Bruce Otto, Dana Hughes - trombone
• Dave Siebels - organ, keyboards
• Andy Simpkins - acoustic bass
• Marco Mendoza - electric bass
• Gregg Bissonette - drums
• Lenny Castro - percussion
• Sheila E. - timbales

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1997	Pop Albums	125

See also

• Richard Cheese
• Frank Bennett
• The Mike Flowers Pops

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Pat Boone Answers His Metal Mood Critics