Modern Vintage

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Modern Vintage
Modern Vintage album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Sixx:A.M.
ReleasedOctober 7, 2014[1]
GenrePost-grunge,[2] hard rock[2]
Length42:16
LabelEleven Seven Music
ProducerJames Michael[2]
Sixx:A.M. chronology
This Is Gonna Hurt
(2011) 		Modern Vintage
(2014) 		Prayers for the Damned
(2016)
Singles from Modern Vintage
  1. "Gotta Get It Right"
    Released: August 5, 2014[3]
  2. "Let's Go"
    Released: September 2014
  3. "Stars"
    Released: November 17, 2014
  4. "Drive"
    Released: April 20, 2015

Modern Vintage is the third album by American rock band Sixx:A.M..

Modern Vintage peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200 on October 25, 2014. It topped the Billboard Hard Rock Charts, and reached number 5 on the Billboard Rock charts.

Background[]

About the album, vocalist James Michael stated "It was exciting for us, because this is the first record where we didn't have an outside, kind of, peripheral thing, like a book or photography, to base it on. And we did that very intentionally... We wanted to find out who we had become as a band, and in order to do that, what we did is we went back and looked at all of the records that had inspired us over the years — Queen, ELO, Elton John, and Bowie and all of those artists. And when you look at their careers, they were all very song-based; all of those records were very song-based, very performance-based. And that's the spirit in which we wanted 'Modern Vintage' to be made."[4]

Clocking in at 42 minutes, Modern Vintage is the band's shortest album to date.

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[2]
Metal Injection4/5 stars[5]
Pure Grain Audio4/5 stars[6]

In a positive review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic stated "The versatility of Modern Vintage -- it's undeniably anchored in classic hard rock sounds but feels restless in its cage -- is also a tip-off that Nikki Sixx is now pouring his creative energies into this band, not Mötley Crüe.... that kinetic crack is why Modern Vintage packs a real kick. [2]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Stars"3:50
2."Gotta Get It Right"3:12
3."Relief"4:20
4."Get Ya Some"3:27
5."Let's Go"4:20
6."Drive" (The Cars cover)4:30
7."Give Me a Love"4:03
8."Hyperventilate"3:40
9."High on the Music"3:39
10."Miracle"3:20
11."Before It's Over"3:52
Total length:42:16
Digital deluxe edition
No.TitleLength
12."Before It's Over (Piano Ballad)"3:05
13."Stars (Cinematic)"3:14
14."Gotta Get It Right (Acoustic)"3:06
15."Let It Haunt You (So Beautiful)"4:09
Total length:55:46
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Relief (Acoustic)" 

Charts[]

Chart (2014) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 20
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] 4
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[9] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[10] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[11] 13
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12] 22

Credits[]

References[]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e http://www.allmusic.com/album/modern-vintage-mw0002718137/credits
  3. ^ "Sixx:A.M. Announces Third Album, "Modern Vintage"". elevensevenmusic.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  4. ^ modern vintage
  5. ^ metalinj
  6. ^ puregrain
  7. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  8. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  9. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Top Hard Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  10. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  11. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  12. ^ "sixx-am Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.



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