Attention Shoppers!
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Attention Shoppers!
| type = studio
| artist = Starz
| cover = Attention Shoppers!.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 1978
| recorded = 1977
| studio = Secret Sound Studios, New York City
| length = 37:34
| label = Capitol
| producer = Starz
| prev_title = Violation
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Coliseum Rock
| next_year = 1978
}}
Attention Shoppers! is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Starz, released in 1978.{{cite web |title=Artist Biography by Greg Prato |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/starz-mn0000022069/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=29 March 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |title=The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade |date=2014 |publisher=Voyageur Press |page=24}}
The album peaked at No. 105 on the Billboard 200.{{cite magazine |title=Chart History Starz |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/starz/chart-history/tlp/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=29 March 2021}}
Production
The album was recorded at Secret Sound, and was produced by the band.{{cite book |last1=Brod |first1=Doug |title=They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll |date=2020 |publisher=Hachette Books |pages=134–135}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/attention-shoppers!-mw0000202889 | title = Starz - Attention Shoppers! review | accessdate = 2013-02-23 | last = Henderson | first = Alex | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}
|rev2 = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
|rev2Score = 4/10{{cite book |last1 = Popoff |first1 = Martin |author-link1 = Martin Popoff |title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies |publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing |date = October 2003 |location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn = 978-1894959025 |page=254}}
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=716}}
|rev4 = The New Rolling Stone Record Guide
|rev4score = {{rating|0|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1983 |publisher=Random House |page=487}}
}}
In 2005, The Village Voice noted that "blue-movie power rock is forsaken for sap pop."{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=George |title=Starz |work=The Village Voice |volume=50 |issue=18 |date=4 May 2005 |page=C86}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Starz
| title1 = Hold On to the Night
| length1 = 3:19
| title2 = She
| length2 = 3:22
| title3 = Third Time's the Charm
| length3 = 4:36
| title4 = (Any Way That You Want It) I'll Be There
| length4 = 3:24
| title5 = Waitin' on You
| length5 = 3:24
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title6 = X-Ray Spex
| length6 = 3:29
| title7 = Good Ale We Seek
| length7 = 4:43
| title8 = Don't Think
| length8 = 3:46
| title9 = Johnny All Alone
| length9 = 7:31
}}
{{track listing
| headline = 2005 CD edition bonus tracks
| title10 = Texas
| writer10 = Richie Ranno, Michael Lee Smith
| length10 = 3:58
| title11 = Wind
| music11 = Ranno, Smith
| length11 = 4:17
}}
Personnel
;Starz
- Michael Lee Smith - lead vocals, percussion, guitar
- Richie Ranno - guitar, backing vocals
- Brendan Harkin - guitar, backing vocals, percussion
- Pieter "Pete" Sweval - bass, vocals
- Joe X. Dubé - drums, percussion, synthesizer
;Production
- Jack Malken, Michael Barry - engineers
- Bob Ludwig - mastering at Masterdisk, New York City
References
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External links
- [http://www.starzcentral.com/ Official band website]
- [http://www.famousinterview.ca/interviews/richie_ranno.htm Interview with Richie Ranno]
- [http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/richie_ranno_starz.html Interview with Starz guitarist Richie Ranno]
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