Modern Vintage


Modern Vintage is the third album by American rock band Sixx:A.M..

Modern Vintage
Studio album by
Sixx:A.M.
ReleasedOctober 7, 2014[1]
GenrePost-grunge,[2] hard rock[2]
Length42:16
LabelEleven Seven Music
ProducerJames Michael[2]
Sixx:A.M. chronology
This Is Gonna Hurt
(2011)		 Modern Vintage
(2014)		 Prayers for the Damned
(2016)
Singles from Modern Vintage
  1. "Gotta Get It Right"
    Released: August 5, 2014[3]
  2. "Let's Go"
    Released: September 2014
  3. "Stars"
    Released: November 17, 2014
  4. "Drive"
    Released: April 20, 2015

Modern Vintage peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200 on October 25, 2014. It topped the Billboard Hard Rock Charts, and reached number 5 on the Billboard Rock charts.

Background

About the album, vocalist James Michael stated "It was exciting for us, because this is the first record where we didn't have an outside, kind of, peripheral thing, like a book or photography, to base it on. And we did that very intentionally... We wanted to find out who we had become as a band, and in order to do that, what we did is we went back and looked at all of the records that had inspired us over the years — Queen, ELO, Elton John, and Bowie and all of those artists. And when you look at their careers, they were all very song-based; all of those records were very song-based, very performance-based. And that's the spirit in which we wanted 'Modern Vintage' to be made."[4]

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Metal Injection[5]
Pure Grain Audio[6]

In a positive review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic stated "The versatility of Modern Vintage -- it's undeniably anchored in classic hard rock sounds but feels restless in its cage -- is also a tip-off that Nikki Sixx is now pouring his creative energies into this band, not Mötley Crüe.... that kinetic crack is why Modern Vintage packs a real kick. [2]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Stars"3:50
2."Gotta Get It Right"3:12
3."Relief"4:20
4."Get Ya Some"3:27
5."Let's Go"4:20
6."Drive" (The Cars cover)4:30
7."Give Me a Love"4:03
8."Hyperventilate"3:40
9."High on the Music"3:39
10."Miracle"3:20
11."Before It's Over"3:52
Total length:42:16
Digital deluxe edition
No.TitleLength
12."Before It's Over (Piano Ballad)"3:05
13."Stars (Cinematic)"3:14
14."Gotta Get It Right (Acoustic)"3:06
15."Let It Haunt You (So Beautiful)"4:09
Total length:55:46
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Relief (Acoustic)" 

Charts
Chart (2014) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 20
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] 4
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[9] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[10] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[11] 13
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12] 22

Credits
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References
  2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/modern-vintage-mw0002718137/credits
  3. "Sixx:A.M. Announces Third Album, "Modern Vintage"". elevensevenmusic.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  4. modern vintage
  5. metalinj
  6. puregrain
  7. "sixx-am Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  8. "sixx-am Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  9. "sixx-am Chart History (Top Hard Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  10. "sixx-am Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  11. "sixx-am Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  12. "sixx-am Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2018.


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