Out for Blood (Lita Ford album)

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Out for Blood
Lita Out For Blood.jpg
Studio album by
Released1983
Studio
Genre
Length35:19
Label Mercury
Producer Neil Merryweather, Artie Ripp, Joel Soiffer
Lita Ford chronology
Out for Blood
(1983)
Dancin' on the Edge
(1984)
Re-released cover art
Out for blood cover.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 5/10 [3]
Kerrang! (mixed) [4]

Out for Blood is the debut solo studio album by the American guitarist/vocalist Lita Ford, formerly of the band the Runaways.

Contents

The original cover art for this album featured Lita standing in front of a spiderweb holding a broken blood-spurting guitar. It was later replaced with a cover of Lita standing in front of a purple background with her guitar.

The album's artwork saw Ford adopting a very heavy metal-inspired image, an image she would maintain for much of the next decade.

The track "Die for Me Only (Black Widow)" is not to be confused for the track "Black Widow" from Ford's 1991 album Dangerous Curves.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Out for Blood" (Lita Ford, Neil Merryweather) – 2:56
  2. "Stay with Me Baby" (Ford) – 4:31
  3. "Just a Feeling" (Ford) – 4:41
  4. "Ready, Willing and Able" (Ford, Merryweather) – 2:59
  5. "Die for Me Only (Black Widow)" (Ford, Merryweather) – 3:05
Side two
  1. "Rock 'n' Roll Made Me What I Am Today" (Pete Heimlich) – 2:53
  2. "If You Can't Live with It" (Ford) – 4:20
  3. "On the Run" (Ford, Merryweather) – 2:50
  4. "Any Way That You Want Me" (Chip Taylor) – 3:36
  5. "I Can't Stand It" (Ford) – 3:28

Personnel

The Lita Ford Band
Production

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