Violation (album)

Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977.^[1]

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
Starz (1976) Violation (1977) Attention Shoppers! (1978)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[3]
Record Mirror	[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars.^[5] 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".^[6]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cherry Baby"	3:47
2.	"Rock Six Times"	3:15
3.	"Sing It, Shout It"	5:10
4.	"Violation"	4:26

All tracks are written by Starz, except "Sing It, Shout It" by Starz, Jon Parrot and Sean Delaney

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

1. Lanham, Tom (16 Dec 2005). "Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback". Oakland Tribune. Music. p. 1.
2. Henderson, Alex. "Starz Violation review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
3. 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.
4. Brown, David (30 April 1977). "Albums: Starz – Violation" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023 – via World Radio History.
5. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 487.
6. 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.