"Down Boys" | ||||
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Single by Warrant | ||||
from the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Recorded | 1988 | |||
Genre | Glam metal | |||
Length | 4:04 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Writer(s) | Jani Lane | |||
Warrant singles chronology | ||||
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Down Boys is the debut single by American rock band Warrant. The single was released in 1989 from Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The song charted at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #13 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song also charted at #50 on the New Zealand charts.
Down Boys which also became the band's nickname featured a music video and the song was also re-visited by the band in 1999 on their Greatest & Latest album.
The song has been described as "one of the toughest, heaviest songs in [Warrant's] catalog, and certainly at the top of both categories in terms of their hit singles."