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Violation | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Recorded | 1977 | |||
Studio | Record Plant and A&R Recording, New York City | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 36:00 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Jack Douglas | |||
Starz chronology | ||||
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Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977. [1] The single "Cherry Baby" peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1977. [2] It was the band's highest-charting single.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 [4] |
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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars. [6] Martin Popoff, in The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade, called Violation a "proto-hair metal semi-classic". [7]
All tracks are written by Starz, except as noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cherry Baby" | 3:47 | |
2. | "Rock Six Times" | 3:15 | |
3. | "Sing It, Shout It" | Jon Parrot, Sean Delaney | 5:10 |
4. | "Violation" | 4:26 |
No. | Title | Length |
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5. | "Subway Terror" | 3:45 |
6. | "All Night Long" | 3:26 |
7. | "Cool One" | 3:40 |
8. | "S. T. E. A. D. Y." | 5:25 |
9. | "Is That a Street Light or the Moon?" | 3:06 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Do It With the Lights On" (demo version) | 3:34 |
11. | "Cool One" (demo version) | 3:22 |
12. | "Rock This Town" (demo version) | 2:47 |