Back to the Street

{{hatnote|For other articles with similar titles, see Back on the Streets (disambiguation).}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Back to the Street

| type = studio

| artist = Petra

| cover = Petrabacktothestreet.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1986 September

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Christian rock, hard rock

| length = 40:51

| label = StarSong

| producer = John & Dino Elefante

| prev_title = Captured in Time and Space

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = This Means War!

| next_year = 1987

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r91068}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Back to the Street is the eighth studio album of the Christian rock band, Petra. It was released in 1986 and is the first album to be produced by John and Dino Elefante.

The album is also the first to feature new lead singer John Schlitt, former lead singer of Head East, and the last to feature a guitar-shaped space ship on its cover.

While the sound of the album is rather transitional and unlike anything that would be heard by the group for another seven years, it did mark a movement toward the style that would become Petra's most identifiable sound: prominent keyboards backing up hard-edged guitar tones and raspy, near-screaming vocals.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=John J. |title=Petra Meant Rock |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/juneweb-only/petra-meant-rock.html |date=June 26, 2012|access-date=2023-03-29 |website=ChristianityToday.com |language=en}}{{cite book|last=Cusic|first=D|year=2010|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=331}}