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1977 studio album by Starz
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.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10
Record Mirror
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars. 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".

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. ^ 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.
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