“Bathroom Wall” by Faster Pussycat

"Bathroom Wall" comes off Faster Pussycat's self-titled 1987 debut, and it's Taime Downe's show from start to finish: he wrote the words and the music and takes the lead vocal himself. Brent Muscat and Greg Steele play the guitars, Eric Stacy the bass and Mark Michals the drums, with Ric Browde producing and Tim Bomba engineering.

It also made it onto the big screen, when the band played it, along with "Cathouse", in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, which sat them down for an interview too. That other song shared its name with the nightclub Downe had opened with his roommate, onetime club DJ Riki Rachtman. The album only reached No. 97 on the Billboard 200, but Metal Hammer later counted it among the hair-metal records every collection needs.

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