Violation (album)

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Violation
Starz-violation.jpg
Studio album by
Released1977
Recorded1977
Studio Record Plant and A&R Recording, New York City
Genre Heavy metal
Length36:00
Label Capitol
Producer Jack Douglas
Starz chronology
Starz
(1976)
Violation
(1977)
Attention Shoppers!
(1978)

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.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [4]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

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]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Starz, except as noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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
Side two
No.TitleLength
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
2005 CD edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
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

Personnel

Starz
Production

References

  1. Lanham, Tom (December 16, 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.
  2. https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1977-05-07/ [ bare URL ]
  3. Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  4. Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 253–254. ISBN   978-1894959025.
  5. Brown, David (April 30, 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror . London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN   0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2023. Retrieved December 7, 2023 via World Radio History.
  6. 1 2 The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.
  7. Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Quarto Publishing Group USA. p. 24.