Raised On The Radio - Ravyns Cover Version

Taken from the STRAIGHT TO VIDEO Album... Straight2Video -
 The Sequel Has Landed.

Probably the strongest part about 'Freddy's Dead : The Final Nightmare', much like most of the films in the series, is that it had a bad ass soundtrack! The musical score was by none other than Brian May and the Song Based Album was made up mainly of artists from the Metal Blade Label. On the tracklist you could find the likes of The Junk Monkeys, Johnny Law, Fates Warning and of course The Goo Goo Dolls who had, get this, 3 songs on the album!

This was released around the time of their album 'Hold Me Up' so a couple of tracks from that are included here, including the one featured on the new Straight To Video album. Easily one of my favourites from the band's entire catalog!

I knew Paul Miro was a fan of the Goo Goo Dolls so I thought it would be incredibly cool to have him involved with this track. Paul though is also an incredibly busy guy - like super busy, he never stops. In the early planning stages I dropped him a line to see if he would be interested in getting together for a weekend to work on this tune if his calendar was free. I was all set to go on the People On Vacation Tour but he said he'd look at getting the tune up and running and we could finish it off when time permitted.

Okay, sounds cool.....

..... the next afternoon I get a text message that simply read 'Incoming'.... this was followed by an email alert with an MP3 of the song.... recorded, mixed, finished! Boom!! It was nuts! It was also perfect! Who needs me to go and screw up a perfectly amazing recording, so what you hear is all Paul... I ain't even gonna attempt to follow that.

Hopefully he's not mad that I put it as the last song on the album. I think it works so good here and ends things on just the right tone. Paul's version is pretty much note for note to that of the Goo's but I really like how he sang it. "More ironic, rather than desperate, which is the way I roll!' is the way he described it!

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