Your Mamma Won't Like Me
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Your Mamma Won't Like Me is the third studio album by Suzi Quatro. Released in 1975, the album marked a change in the hard rock sound from the singer's previous albums Suzi Quatro and Quatro, instead displaying a more funk oriented rock sound.
Quatro is the first female bass player to become a major rock star — this success in the 1970s empowered women.
The album received mixed reviews. All Music commented that this was her worst work to date, whilst others praised the funky sound.
Background
Before Quatro's success, rock was dominated by men. In his paper I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny, Philip Auslander points out that the many women in rock by the late 1960s mostly performed only as singers, "a traditionally feminine position in popular music". For example, since Janis Joplin did not play guitar on stage, even she "cannot be seen as a powerful figure in the context of the rock culture of her time". Though some women (like Quatro herself) played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".[1]: 2–3 When Quatro emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader".[1]: 2
In April 2009, BBC TV selected Quatro as one of twelve Queens of British Pop.[2] Mark Cooper, the Executive Producer of "Queens of British Pop", said that female stars were selected because their songs, experiences, and impact best wrote the story of the last fifty years.[3]
Radio DJ David Jensen said that Quatro took rock music by the scruff of the neck and empowered women by becoming a major rock star. She would appear live on a bill full of males and very much hold her own. Playing a long-necked bass guitar and stomping the floor, her attitude was that (if she were taken on) she would take no prisoners. As a personality, she still endures. Her recorded music is memorable and will continue to endure.[4]
Track listing
- "I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn) - 3:44
- "Strip Me" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:10
- "Paralysed" (Suzi Quatro, Len Tuckey) - 2:44
- "Prisoner of Your Imagination" (Quatro, Tuckey) - 4:51
- "Your Mamma Won't Like Me" (Chapman, Chinn) - 3:59
- "Can't Trust Love" (Quatro, Tuckey) - 3:42
- "New Day Woman" (Quatro, Tuckey) - 3:37
- "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) - 3:39
- "You Can Make Me Want You" (Quatro, Tuckey) - 3:43
- "Michael" (Quatro, Tuckey) - 3:31
Personnel
- Suzi Quatro - lead vocals, bass guitar, writer
- Len Tuckey - lead guitar, backing vocals, writer
- Bud Beadle - saxophone
- Chris Mercer - saxophone
- Mick Eve - saxophone
- Steve Gregory - saxophone
- Ron Carthy - trumpet
- Pete Coleman - engineer
- Mike Chapman - producer, writer
- Nicky Chinn - producer, writer
References
- ^ a b Auslander, Philip (28 January 2004). "I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro's musical androgyny" (PDF). Popular Music. 23 (1). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press: 1–16. doi:10.1017/S0261143004000030. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ "BBC Queens of British Pop, Episode 1 2009". www.bbc.co.uk. London, UK: BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ Cooper, Mark. "BBC Music Blog, Her Majesties 2009". www.bbc.co.uk. London, UK: BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ "BBC Queens of British Pop, Suzi Quatro - David Jensen film clip 2009". www.bbc.co.uk. London, UK: BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/Suzi-Quatro-Your-Mamma-Wont-Like-Me/release/698458