Ratt's fifth album, Detonator, finds the band breaking a long running relationship with producer Beau Hill, who helped develop the band's sonic trademarks through the '80s....
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Released in 1985, Ratt's second album, Invasion of Your Privacy, contains all the ingredients that helped launch the band to MTV and radio success: another batch of solid...
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Ratt emerged from the early-'80s pop-metal scene combining the prevalent Van Halen and Aerosmith elements with the staccato guitar-picking style of Judas Priest. After a...
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Many fans consider Ratt's self-titled debut EP to be the band's best, largely because its shoestring production values give the L.A. quintet's streetwise metal a gut-level...
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A terrific and comprehensive overview of Ratt's entire career, Ratt & Roll 8191 contains 19 tracks, including all of the group's hits ("Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay...
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Although often targeted as one of the worst offenders in the much maligned hair metal scene of the '80s, Ratt's distinctive sonic signatures and generally high level of...
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L.A. pop metal merchants Ratt knew better than to mess with a successful formula, following up their first two multi-platinum albums with 1986's Dancing Undercover....
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Ratt's comeback effort, Collage, wasn't a blockbuster success, but it was a success. More importantly, it arrived at the right time, just as the group and its hair metal...
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Ratt's comeback album Collage finds the Los Angeles hair-metal band acting as if the '90s were the '80s, meaning that they're just turning out the same three-chord,...
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It's hard to believe nowadays that there was a time during the 1980s when Ratt was one of the biggest rock bands in the U.S. -- challenging the likes of Mötley Crüe for the...
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