Violation (album)

Violation
Studio album by
Starz
Released1977
Recorded1977
StudioRecord Plant and A&R Recording, New York City
GenreHeavy metal
Length36:00
LabelCapitol
ProducerJack 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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[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]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Starz, except "Sing It, Shout It" by Starz, Jon Parrot and Sean Delaney

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Cherry Baby"3:47
2."Rock Six Times"3:15
3."Sing It, Shout It"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
  • Michael Lee Smith – vocals
  • Richie Ranno – guitar
  • Brendan Harkin – guitar
  • Pieter "Pete" Sweval – bass
  • Joe X. Dube – drums
Production
  • Jack Douglas – producer
  • Jay Messina – engineer
  • Sam Ginsberg, Dave Martone – assistant engineers

References

  1. ^ Lanham, Tom (16 Dec 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.
  2. ^ Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Brown, David (30 April 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023 – via World Radio History.
  5. ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.
  6. ^ 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.