“Big Talk” by Warrant

"Big Talk" is Jani Lane's handiwork from Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, Warrant's debut album for Columbia, and in 1989 it became the third single off the record, following "Heaven" out the door. Lane wrote the words and music alone, Beau Hill produced it and John Jansen mixed it.

The video drags in the album cover's fat-cat character, an overpaid, amoral suit who calls himself Cashly Guido Bucksley, watching the band in concert. It opens with a sit-down with a crooked record executive, and before long the band end up caged while Lane gets strapped into an electric chair. The glam metal crew's single reached 30 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and scraped into the Hot 100 at 93.

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