The right to rock

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The right to rock
Studio album by Keel

Publication
(s)

May 25, 1985

admission

1985

Label (s) Vertigo Records

Format (s)

vinyl record

Genre (s)

Metal , hard rock

Title (number)

9 (original edition) / 10 (republication)

occupation
  • Bass : Kenny Chaisson

production

Gene Simmons

Studio (s)

Record Plant Studio, Media Sound Studio

chronology
Lay Down the Law
1984 		The right to rock The Final Frontier
1986
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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The right to rock
  US 99 03/09/1985 (21 weeks)

The Right to Rock is the second studio album by the US metal band Keel , released in 1985 .

background

In 1984 the group around singer Ron Keel had released their debut album, which, however, had hardly received any attention either in the USA or outside. One of the few who noticed the album was Kiss bassist Gene Simmons , who volunteered to produce the group's second album .

The recordings for The Right to Rock found Plant studio in Los Angeles and in the Media Sound Studio in the Record New York instead; Stephen Riley acted as a guest musician with the additional drum tracks and vocals contributed. Simmons contributed a total of three tracks to the album; none of the members of the group was involved in the creation of these songs. In addition to the eight titles created through their own songwriting, the band also recorded a cover version of the Rolling Stones song Let's Spend the Night Together .

reception

The album was released on May 25, 1985 and reached number 99 on the Billboard 200. Eduardo Rivadavia, a reviewer at allmusic, wrote about The Right to Rock that the title track in particular was "hymnic and at the same time colossally stupid" , despite the burgeoning pop metal Wave in the USA was "tailored to the body" . Other titles are "competently presented" , and although the follow-up album ( The Final Frontier ) was "commercially more successful" , The Right to Rock is "likely to endure as the definitive statement of the group" . The singles The Right to Rock and Easier Said Than Done released from the album could not record any chart successes.

Track list

  1. The Right to Rock (Chaisson, Keel, Ferrari) 3:32
  2. Back to the City (Chaisson, Keel) 3:44
  3. Let's Spend the Night Together (Jagger, Richards) 3:40
  4. Easier Said Than Done (Simmons, Weissman) 3:22
  5. So Many Girls, So Little Time (Simmons, Rice) 3:14
  6. Electric Love (Chaisson, Keel) 4:02
  7. Speed ​​Demon (Keel) 3:38
  8. Get Down (Simmons, Rice) 5:00
  9. You're the Victim (I'm the Crime) (Keel, Chaisson, Marks) 1:56
Re-release in 2009
  1. Easier Said Than Done (Remix) (Simmons, Weissman) 3:21

swell

  1. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  2. ↑ Review at allmusic.com
  3. ↑ Production notes for the album
  4. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/keel/chart-history/4980 Billboard chart history for Keel
  5. ↑ Review at allmusic.com

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