Billy Idol - Devil's Playground (2005)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: May 23, 2025

Devil's Playground is the sixth studio album by English rock vocalist Billy Idol, released on 22 March 2005. It is his first studio album in over a decade (the latest being 1993's Cyberpunk), and his first new studio songs since 2001 (Idol's cover of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" on Greatest Hits). The album also reunited Idol in the studio with guitarist Steve Stevens and producer Keith Forsey. All songs were written or co-written by Idol except "Plastic Jesus". The album was engineered and mixed by Brian Reeves at the Jungle Room in Los Angeles. Idol and the band supported the album with a world tour of rock festival appearances in 2005 and 2006, including several performances on the Vans Warped Tour. The song "Scream" was used in an episode of Viva La Bam, in which Idol also guest starred, where he and Bam Margera sing it as they go down the highway.

The most remarkable thing about the 12-year wait between Billy Idol's fifth album, Cyberpunk, and his sixth, Devil's Playground, isn't the enormity of the gap between records, it's that almost nobody noticed that he was gone. Such was the magnitude of Cyberpunk's failure – it erased him from popular consciousness, shaming Billy into an ignoble exile where he barely seemed to register outside of a cameo in Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer. Frankly, the muddled William Gibson-inspired techno-rock mess did carry a rancid stench that would take over a decade to shake, but the odd thing about Devil's Playground isn't that Billy pretends Cyberpunk doesn't exist – frankly, any artist with sense would do that – it's that he now pretends that he's always been a metalhead, as if his posturing in the '80s was more than an affectation. With his trusty sidekick guitarist Steve Stevens in tow, Idol cranks up the volume and never lets it slide, even on the infrequent ballads. Occasionally, they lighten things up a touch and wind up with some killer tunes – in particular, "Sherri" is a terrific pop song, while the lively, acoustic-driven "Cherie" is a deft delight (is it a coincidence that the titles are nearly identical?). On this pair of hooky, catchy tunes named after girls, Devil's Playground points toward an interesting, fruitful direction for Idol – one that acknowledges his veteran status without sounding aged – that he hopefully may wind up taking next time out.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

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Track List:

01. Super Overdrive [04:19]
02. World Comin' Down [03:34]
03. Rat Race [04:18]
04. Sherri [03:18]
05. Plastic Jesus [04:54]
06. Scream [04:43]
07. Yellin' At The Xmas Tree [04:15]
08. Romeo's Waiting [03:43]
09. Body Snatcher [03:58]
10. Evil Eye [04:33]
11. Lady Do Or Die [04:38]
12. Cherie [03:48]
13. Summer Running [04:31]

Personnel:
Billy Idol – vocals
Steve Stevens – guitar
Stephen McGrath – bass guitar
Derek Sherinian – keyboards
Brian Tichy – percussion, drums
Julian Beeston – drum programming

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