Violation (album)

Violation
Violation
Studio album by Starz
Released	1977
Recorded	1977
Studio	Record Plant and A&R Recording, New York City
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	36:00
Label	Capitol
Producer	Jack Douglas
Starz chronology

Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977.^[1] The single "Cherry Baby" peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1977.^[2] It was the band's highest-charting single.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10^[4]
Record Mirror	^[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[6]

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars.^[6] 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".^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Starz, except as noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cherry Baby"		3:47
2.	"Rock Six Times"		3:15
3.	"Sing It, Shout It"	Jon Parrot, Sean Delaney	5:10
4.	"Violation"		4:26

Side two
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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

^ Lanham, Tom (December 16, 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.
^ https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1977-05-07/
^ Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
^ 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.
^ Brown, David (April 30, 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2023. Retrieved December 7, 2023 – via World Radio History.
^ ^a ^b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.
^ 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.

[1] Lanham, Tom (December 16, 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.

[2] ttps://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1977-05-07/

[3] Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 23, 2013.

[martin-4] 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.

[RMreview-5] Brown, David (April 30, 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2023. Retrieved December 7, 2023 – via World Radio History.

[RS-6] The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.

[7] 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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