Invasion of Your Privacy

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Invasion of Your Privacy
Studio album by Ratt

Publication
(s)

June 13, 1985

admission

1985

Label (s) Atlantic Records

Format (s)

vinyl record

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

10

running time

36:02

occupation
  • Bass : Juan Croucier

production

Beau Hill

Studio (s)

Rumbo Recorders ( Los Angeles ), Atlantic Studios ( New York City )

chronology
Out of the Cellar
1984 		Invasion of Your Privacy Dancing Undercover
1986
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Invasion of Your Privacy is the second studio album by the American glam metal band Ratt , released in 1985 .

background

After the release of their debut album, which was released in 1984 and moved up to number 7 on the Billboard 200, the group went back to the studio in the spring of 1985 to record the follow-up album to their multiple platinum success Out of the Celler .

The album was released on June 13, 1985; as singles were the title Lay It Down, You're in Love and What You Give Is What You Get decoupled. The cover showed a scantily clad young woman (portrayed by Playboy - Playmate Marianne Gravatte) sitting on a stool in a bedroom and apparently just putting on her socks. Gravatte also appeared in the music video for the single Lay it Down .

Track list

  1. You're in Love (Pearcy / Croucier) - 3:12
  2. Never Use Love (Pearcy) - 3:54
  3. Lay It Down (Pearcy / Crosby / Croucier / Demartini) - 3:23
  4. Give It All (Pearcy / Crosby) - 3:19
  5. Closer to My Heart (Pearcy / Crosby) - 4:30
  6. Between the Eyes (Pearcy / Demartini) - 3:54
  7. What You Give Is What You Get (Croucier) - 3:47
  8. Got Me on the Line (Pearcy / Crosby) - 3:04
  9. You Should Know by Now (Pearcy / Crosby / Croucier) - 3:29
  10. Dangerous but Worth the Risk (Pearcy / Demartini / Croucier) - 3:30

reception

Invasion of Your Privacy reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 and was awarded two platinum ratings. Only the single You're in Love was placed on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached 89th place in October 1985.

Metal Hammer wrote in 1985 that with their third album, the Californian rockers should succeed in "advancing into the top league of heavy metal." With Invasion Of Your Privacy , the group "consistently followed the line they started on Out of the Cellar " : “American-oriented Heavy Metal with a clear trend towards commerce.” All the songs on the disc looked “as if from a single source; diverse, powerful music in which the “guitar power” dominates. Under Beau Hill, "an American heavy rock record was created that currently overshadows everything comparable from this direction". With the opener You're In Love , Ratt even succeeded in “a real HM hit” on the Invasion , which was “one of the contenders for the 1985 HM anthem”.

Eduardo Rivadavia, a reviewer at allmusic.com, wrote of Invasion of Your Privacy that the album “contained all the ingredients” that helped the band achieve success on MTV and on the radio: a “collection of commercially-oriented pop metal songs and a half-naked model on the cover ” . This made it clear that "the band had found a working pattern" on which they could build. Producer Beau Hill "only helped, if at all, to fine-tune the group's songs" .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Beau Hill ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beauhillproductions.com
  2. ^ RIAA database
  3. ↑ Billboard Chart History (Singles)
  4. ↑ Metal Hammer, Issue 9/1985, page 84
  5. ↑ Review on allmusic.com