Ratt is the self titled and sixth album of Ratt

Ratt

Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...

. Often referred to as "1999" by fans (partially to avoid confusion with their EP, which was also self-titled). This album saw the band's musical direction to a more blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 influenced rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 sound and further away from their previous glam metal

Glam metal

Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 roots. This album was heavily criticized by fans and critics due to the absence of Robbin Crosby

Robbin Crosby

Robbin Crosby was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1980s. Crosby was HIV positive, but died from a heroin overdose in 2002....

 and Juan Croucier

Juan Croucier

Juan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for well known metal bands Dokken and Ratt during the 1980s, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...

, strong guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 riffs, melodies and the subdued, worn-out vocals by lead singer Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Erica Pearcy is the lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell...

.

Track listing

1. "Over the Edge" – 4:22
2. "Live for Today" – 4:38
3. "Gave Up Givin' Up" – 4:04
4. "We Don't Belong" – 6:11
5. "Breakout" – 4:24
6. "Tug of War" – 4:17
7. "Dead Reckoning" – 4:32
8. "Luv Sick" – 5:09
9. "It Ain't Easy" – 4:02
10. "All the Way" – 4:41
11. "So Good, So Fine" – 4:22

Unreleased tracks include "Lost Dog" (it was also left off their new 2010 release), "Now I'm Gone", "Cotton Candy" (which A&R man John Kalodner hated),
"Luv On The Rocks" (co-written by Robbin Crosby), & "Turn It Upside Down" (which
Pearcy did on his Nitronic live CD "DOA Live 2000"
and on his solo CD "Social Intercourse") .

Line-up

• Stephen Pearcy
  Stephen Pearcy
  Stephen Erica Pearcy is the lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell...
  
  : Lead vocals
• Warren DeMartini
  Warren DeMartini
  Warren Justin DeMartini , nicknamed Torch, is the lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the mid-to-late 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.-Early life:...
  
  : Guitar
• Robbie Crane
  Robbie Crane
  Robert Crane is the current bassist of the band Ratt.He moved to the Fairfax District of Hollywood, California at the age of 9 were he attended Bancroft Junior High and Fairfax high school. For his 14th birthday his father bought him his first bass guitar from Fairfax Music School in Hollywood...
  
  : Bass
• Bobby Blotzer
  Bobby Blotzer
  Robert John Blotzer, better known as Bobby Blotzer and nicknamed "Blotz" , is a drummer most famous for playing drums for glam metal band Ratt...
  
  : Drums