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| Violation | ||||
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| 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 | |||
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Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977. [1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10 [3] |
| Record Mirror | [4] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars. [5] 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". [6]
All tracks are written by Starz, except "Sing It, Shout It" by Starz, Jon Parrot and Sean Delaney
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cherry Baby" | 3:47 |
| 2. | "Rock Six Times" | 3:15 |
| 3. | "Sing It, Shout It" | 5:10 |
| 4. | "Violation" | 4:26 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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