Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich is the debut studio album by American glam metal band Warrant, released in 1989.

[4] The unique cover art features "Fugazi", known as "Cashly Guido Bucksley" in the "Big Talk" music video, an overpaid, amoral infrastructure manager and archetypal business psychopath.

The album's sound is typical of the Sunset Strip glam metal scene of the 1980s,[6][7][8][9][10][11] featuring heavy guitars and melodic, catchy choruses.

The album's themes, which include materialism ("32 Pennies", "D.R.F.S.R"), sex ("Down Boys", "So Damn Pretty", "Cold Sweat"), heartbreak ("Heaven") and loneliness ("Sometimes She Cries"), would be echoed on later Warrant releases.

Indeed, once the widespread appeal of the song became apparent, the band was instructed to re-record the track to lend it a "bigger radio sound".

The Los Angeles Times called Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich "a rock 'n' roll romp that's both colorful and loaded with heart.

"[20] AllMusic gave the album a rating of four out of five stars, saying that it was "sleek and clean, built on processed guitars and cavernous drums" and that it "sounds exactly like that year [1989], both for better and worse.

Beau Hill felt Joey Allen and Erik Turner were not at the standard required to compete with similar bands at the time for the solos.

The video features the album cover character (calling himself "Cashly Guido Bucksley") watching Warrant in concert.