Warrant 's 1989 debut album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich , lived up to its title by raking in gobs of cash for the band's label with a precision-tooled mix of radio-friendly rockers and ballads. When it came time to record the follow-up, the group wanted to spread its wings a little — but at first, the record company didn't hear a single.

That feedback came so late in the recording process that the band members actually thought the album was wrapped. Intending to call it Uncle Tom's Cabin , after a song they'd pegged as the lead single, they'd started scattering for some pre-release time off when singer and chief songwriter Jani Lane was asked to go back to the well.

It might have been a disappointing request, but it probably wasn't entirely unexpected. As Lane later explain

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