Seventeen (Winger song)

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"Seventeen"
Seventeen Winger.jpg
Single by Winger
from the album Winger
B-side"Poison Angel"
ReleasedNovember 1988
StudioAtlantic Studios, New York City
GenreGlam metal[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Length4:05
4:47 (Extended version in the Rock Band 4 DLC)
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Beau Hill
Producer(s)Beau Hill, Roy Moore
Winger singles chronology
"Madalaine"
(1988) 		"Seventeen"
(1988) 		"Headed for a Heartbreak"
(1989)

"Seventeen" is a single released by the American rock band Winger, from their album Winger. Released in 1988, the song charted at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The B-side for this single was the album cut "Hangin' On."

It is featured on the video games, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s for PlayStation 2, Saints Row for the Xbox 360 and Rock Band 4 as DLC.

The song was named the 87th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[7]

On the show Beavis & Butt-Head, Butt-Head comments that this is the theme song for Joey Buttafuoco, who is known for the Amy Fisher scandal.

Background[]

According to Kip Winger, he took inspiration from the Beatles song, "I Saw Her Standing There", which contains the lyric, "Well she was just seventeen / If you know what I mean / And the way she looked / Was way beyond compare" and that he wasn't aware that it was illegal for an adult to have sexual relations with a seventeen-year-old.[8]

Winger said guitarist Reb Beach wrote the main riff when he was about 15, but was unsure how to use it. However, Winger had an idea, and wove it into the song. He said they were trying to rip off a Led Zeppelin song with "weird syncopation" on the verse, though he cannot remember which song it was anymore — probably "The Crunge" or "Walter's Walk". He also stated, "The thing I like about 'Seventeen' is that time and time again I've seen cover bands try to play it and there's no one I've ever seen be able to play that riff correctly. That song is very deceiving because it's cocky on the melody end and it's musically a difficult song for average bands to play, because it's all this intricate picking and a lot of riffs and syncopations and singing and playing that song has always been a challenge."[9]

Track listing[]

7" and cassette single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen"4:02
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Poison Angel"3:22
Canadian 7" single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen" (Radio Edit)3:35
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Poison Angel"3:22
CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Seventeen" (Radio Edit)3:35
2."Seventeen" (LP Version)4:04

Charts[]

Chart (1989) Peak
Position
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 26
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11] 19

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Best of 80's Metal, Vol. 2 - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved March 24, 2021
  2. ^ Double Shot: Metal - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved March 24, 2021
  3. ^ Rock All Night: The Best of 80's Metal - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved March 24, 2021
  4. ^ "Kip Winger balances his '80s glam hits with classical contemporary works". The Daily Times. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Seventeen - Winger | Song Info | AllMusic, retrieved April 20, 2021
  6. ^ "Dramatic Reading: Winger - "Seventeen"". Consequence. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  7. ^ "spreadit.org music". Retrieved February 5, 2009.
  8. ^ "Metal Sludge Rewind with Kip Winger". Metal Sludge. Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  9. ^ Wiser, Carl (July 21, 2014). "Kip Winger : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "Winger Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  11. ^ "Winger Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved August 24, 2020.


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