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Venus in Overdrive | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rick Springfield
Label: New Door Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 2250
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001134702
UPC: 602517728226
EAN: 0602517728226
ASIN: B000V2KQPQ
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | What's Victoria's Secret? | | • | I'll Miss That Someday | | • | Venus In Overdrive | | • | One Passenger | | • | Oblivious | | • | 3 Warning Shots | | • | Time Stand Still | | • | God Blinked (Swing It Sister) | | • | Mr. PC | | • | She | | • | Nothing Is Ever Lost | | • | Saint Sahara |
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Venus in Overdrive was recorded in a record 32 days by Springfield and Matt Bissonette, Springfield's long time bass player. According to Rick, "it is an album about love in all its forms, and since Venus is the goddess of love, it's called Venus in Overdrive. There is a lot of personal stuff in these songs but we have tried to craft them so they still have a universal voice. We are older, yet still teenagers, we have lost people we love and still love the people who are on our journey with us, we are angry at some of the crap in the world yet love our human failings."
The first single from Venus in Overdrive is "What's Victoria's Secret?" Rick says the title of the song "is one of those titles that was waiting to be written and we just got there first. Matt came up with it and we wrote the song while we were doing 5 nights of shows in Milwaukee. I had some recording gear brought into my hotel room and we wrote it there at the haunted Pfister hotel, room 804. It's basically about the sexualization of women and how we as males, want that, but also resist it and mainly need to connect to women as human beings. It's a dichotomy that most men feel I think."
Two songs on the record, "Saint Sahara" and "Oblivious," pay tribute to Sahara Aldridge, a young girl who frequently attended Rick's shows and whom the entire band came to love and who recently passed away. Rick explains that "Saint Sahara" "is about who Sahara was and how hard it was to have her leave. It's also a celebration and recognition of the people she affected in this world. Her mom said (before she died) that if I were to write a song about her daughter, could I make it a celebration and not something maudlin, so it's basically a song celebrating her great sprit. `Oblivious,' is the soul side of the song, `Saint Sahara,' what we all felt and how we dealt with it. It is sometimes so good to be numb to pain but life can't go on if you stay numb all the time. The song itself is about the denial of the finality of death, but it's still a love song."
As part of the promotional plan for the new album, Rick will be returning to "General Hospital" in July as Dr. Noah Drake and his alter ego rocker Eli Love. The storyline will reunite him with the characters of Robin, Patrick and Anna as well as allow him to perform the single, "What's Victoria's Secret?" Rick Springfield Photos
Album Description
North American only release. The 2008 album, Venus in Overdrive was recorded in 32 days by Rick Springfield and Matt Bissonette, his long time bass player. According to Rick, "it is an album about love in all its forms, and since Venus is the goddess of love, it's called Venus in Overdrive. There is a lot of personal stuff in these songs but we have tried to craft them so they still have a universal voice. We are older, yet still teenagers, we have lost people we love and still love the people who are on our journey with us." The first single is "What's Victoria's Secret?" Rick says the title of the song "is one of those titles that was waiting to be written and we just got there first. Matt came up with it and we wrote the song while we were doing five nights of shows in Milwaukee.' 12 tracks.
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 WOW!! November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
PEOPLE THIS CD IS A MUST IF YOU ARE A RS FAN!! I WAS A LITTLE LET DOWN WITH HIS S.D.A.A. CD, BUT NOT SO WITH THIS CD! OK I can stop shouting...=D Seriously, the first 5 songs are instant classics! The other 7 are still open for debate. It is very cool to hear him making music like this! Very solid!!
Rick Springfield wieder in Topform November 3, 2008
Da ich mir alles was es von Rick Springfield an Musik gibt zulege, muss ich sagen, dass die neue CD Venus in Overdrive wirklich gelungen ist. Er hat einen guten Mix aus Rock-Songs und ruhigeren Stuecken gefunden.
Ein bisschen Working Class Dog" (What's Victoria's Secret?) und etwas SDAA (Venus in Overdrive) ist auf der CD zu finden.
Nach der etwas enttaeuschenden Cover CD "The day after Yesterday" hat er jetzt wohl seinen Weg zum guten Songwriter und Rockmusiker wieder gefunden.
Keine Ahnung was der Mann mit seinen unglaublichen 59 Jahren noch vorhat, aber meinetwegen kann er noch ein paar CDs dieser Guete produzieren!
Ich werde sie kaufen!
Great CD October 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great CD whether you are a Rick Springfield fan or not. For all the Rick Springfield fans planning on going to his concert this year, he sings about 6-7 songs from this CD so it would be helpful getting this and learning the songs before the concert. I am glad I did! I listen to this now more instead of his old stuff. Great CD!!!! Thanks Rick!!
Vital, refreshing, re-invented Rick. Great disc! October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rick Springfield has reinvented himself yet again. I remember when he was the teenybopper heartthrob for the prepubescent girls - and so us young guys just couldn't care less... However, when his highly underrated 1976 LP "Wait For Night" [with Nigel Olsson and the late Dee Murray] came out - I realized that this guy was serious about music, and could create some compelling art. He's actually a hell of a guitarist and quite a pianist as well. Still, it took 5 years more for him to achieve the prominence that he deserved after "Jessie's Girl" ascended to the top of Billboard's Hot 100. Public tastes are fickle and music changes with fashion. Many artists, I am sure, become confused about how to appeal to the masses that once were with them... Rick has hit the target once again and is on fire with this disc. Hopefully enough will hear and buy it and we'll get to see Rick out on tour again soon in the neighborhood! Listen to the samples! They convinced me to grab this one. Rock on, Rick!
Great CD! October 21, 2008
Rick Springfield is better than ever! Every track on this CD is great. Buy and listen!
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