Stick It to Ya

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Stick It to Ya
Studio album by Slaughter

Publication
(s)

January 27, 1990

admission

May to June 1989

Label (s) Chrysalis Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

15th

running time

53:46

occupation

production

Mark Slaughter, Dana Strum

Studio (s)

Red Zone Studios, Studio 55, Pasha Music House

chronology
- Stick It to Ya The Wild Life
1992

Stick It to Ya is the debut album released in 1990 by the American hard rock band Slaughter, which emerged from the group Vinnie Vincent Invasion .

background

Slaughter was formed in 1989 after the group Vinnie Vincent Invasion broke up after their tour to the album All Systems Go on August 26, 1988 and band founder Vinnie Vincent lost his record deal with Chrysalis Records . Dana Strum had been a founding member of the band, Mark Slaughter had joined the group immediately after the release of the debut album . Already during the recordings for All Systems Go it became clear that the record company wanted to correct the group's image: Mark Slaughter was to lead the interviews in place of the band's founder Vinnie Vincent, attention was diverted away from Vinnie Vincent in favor of the band's image .

Slaughter and Strum formed their own band after the end of the Vinnie Vincent invasion and brought in guitarist Timothy Kelly and drummer Blas Elias; the band was called Slaughter . They also got their record deal with Chrysalis. The acknowledgments in the production notes indicate early support for the formation of the band for Strum and Slaughter from the record company: The group thanks Chrysalis Records for “three years of support”.

The recordings for the album took place in May and June 1989., Stick It to Ya was Dana Strum and Mark Slaughter produced and appeared on 27 January 1990. The cover shows a circus scene: In the foreground is a woman to see that on a circular target for a knife thrower , which is decorated all around with the album title and light bulbs. Several knives are already stuck in the target. The model for this scene was Lori Corr, then the wife of Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby, who died in 2002 .

The album was an instant hit for the band: The singles Up All Night and Fly to the Angels made it into the top 40 of the US charts and Slaughter made it to number 1 on the MTV charts with eight videos . As a result, Slaughter accompanied the band Kiss as the opening act on their Hot in the Shade tour.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Stick It to Ya
  DE 58 02/18/1991 (5 weeks)
  CH 32 02/10/1991 (2 weeks)
  US 18th 02/17/1990 (85 weeks)
Singles
Up all night
  UK 62 09/29/1990 (1 week)
  US 27 April 28, 1990 (14 weeks)
Fly to the Angels
  UK 55 02/02/1991 (1 week)
  US 19th 08/18/1990 (18 weeks)
Spend My Life
  US 39 12/22/1990 (13 weeks)

All titles were written by Dana Strum and Mark Slaughter.

  1. "Eye to Eye" - 3:57
  2. "Burnin 'Bridges" - 4:07
  3. "Up All Night" 4:16
  4. "Spend My Life" - 3:21
  5. "Thinking of June" (instrumental) - 1:05
  6. "She Wants More" - 3:55
  7. "Fly to the Angels" - 5:05
  8. "Mad About You" - 4:05
  9. "That's Not Enough" - 3:25
  10. "You Are the One" - 3:55
  11. "Gave Me Your Heart" - 3:51
  12. "Desperately" - 3:34
  13. "Loaded Gun" - 4:18
  14. "Fly to the Angels" (acoustic version) - 3:22
  15. "Wingin 'It" - 1:11

reception

Frank Albrecht wrote for Rock Hard that “wonderful things” would happen. After two releases by the band Vinnie Vincent Invasion, both of which were "a concentrated load of boredom on vinyl", Dana Strum and Mark Slaughter had "drawn their conclusions from the constant lack of success" and started their own project. The debut work of their band Slaughter is "almost full of liveliness". "Suddenly all the ideas that a good commercial song need" are there. Albrecht calls "the potential hit single" 'Up All Night', which "by the way begins with an ingenious sound frequency from the film" Uncanny Encounters of the Third Kind "". This track leaves “nothing to be desired” and contains a “top refrain that immediately sticks in the ear”, a “short but original guitar solo” and “melody lines that are perfectly arranged”. The group “doesn't come across as put up like most of their colleagues from the Melodic corner”. She has "a good deal of snottiness", "like Skid Row". Slaughter had “that rebellious element in their songs” that “once shaped heavy rock”. The "icing on the cake" are "the powerful production and Mark's rough vocals". Slaughter are "honest to the bone" and have "a number of strong songs in store".

Stick It to Ya was commercially successful: It reached number 18 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the hit list for 85 weeks, reaching number 32 in Switzerland and number 58 in Germany . The album has since been awarded double platinum .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Gill: The Kiss Album Focus - Volume 2 (1983-96) Hell or High Water, pages 61-87; ISBN 978-1-41348548-6
  2. ↑ Booklet for Stick It to Ya
  3. ↑ Rock Hard Encyclopedia - 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years, page 379; Rock Hard GmbH, 1998; ISBN 3-9805171-0-1
  4. ↑ a b Sources chart placements: DE / CH / US , accessed on March 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ Slaughter in the Official UK Charts (English)
  6. ↑ Review in Rock Hard, No. 41 (1990)