TIM'S TOP 20 PARTY ROCK SONGS : TRACK 18 - HOUSE ARREST by BRYAN ADAMS

Managed to sneak onto a computer, been lean pickings for me this past week on the internet without a PC but i have enjoyed the forced break and getting back to some real life basics for once. I actually almost forgot about my Top 20 Party Rock thing i was doing, just looked at them and i am up to number 18 now.


This 2012 live performance of HOUSE ARREST by BRYAN ADAMS and band in Montreal is inferior to the original studio version off his huge WAKING UP THE NEIGHBOURS album in 1991, there is no denying it. By this time Adams had reached his half century and maybe there just ain't quite as much energy and exuberance left in the canadian singer songwriter veteran rocker anymore.


Some would say that it's simply a case of a live recording not sounding as good because most of the time they dont, but i saw Adams play at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in early 1993 in his WAKING UP THE NEIGHBOURS heyday and he definitely has lost the edge in the ensuing 19 years.


But we're all human and all getting older and i guess we couldn't expect Adams to be able to run around the stage quite as fast and be as uproarous as he once was. HOUSE ARREST makes my Top 20 Party Rock list ahead of other Bryan Adams songs i like more simply because it's not a rock ballad, something Adams always excelled in, maybe a wee bit too much.


Most of his songs off WAKING UP THE NEIGHBOURS were either lovey dovey or a satirical parody playing on the negatives of having a women, listen to HEY HONEY I'M PACKING YOU IN or TOUCH THE HAND for proof that Adams wasn't always a sensitive new age guy.


I was tempted to run with HEY HONEY for this post, but i am trying to impress a girl in Toogoolawah at the moment and i dont want her to think i am a male chauvanist (laugh). Great rock song but HOUSE ARREST, which is the title track for the album because of the line Adams sings `we'll be waking up the neighbours...bouncing off the walls' is also a great rock song and strangely was one of the album's least successful singles.