Violation (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Violation
| type = studio
| artist = Starz
| cover = Starz-violation.jpg
| alt =
| 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
| prev_title = Starz
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = Attention Shoppers!
| next_year = 1978
}}
Violation is the second studio album by the American band Starz, released in 1977.{{cite news |last1=Lanham |first1=Tom |title=Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback |work=Oakland Tribune |date=16 Dec 2005 |location=Music |page=1}}
The single "Cherry Baby" peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May of 1977.https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1977-05-07/ It was the band's highest-charting single.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/violation-mw0000263360 | title = Starz Violation review | accessdate = 2013-02-23 | last = Henderson | first = Alex | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}
| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev2Score = 8/10{{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 |pages=253–254}}
| rev3 = Record Mirror
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Brown|first=David|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/77/Record-Mirror-1977-04-30.pdf|title=Albums: Starz – Violation|magazine=Record Mirror|date=30 April 1977|page=22|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|access-date=7 December 2023|via=World Radio History|issn=0144-5804|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623131129/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/77/Record-Mirror-1977-04-30.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2023}}
| rev4 = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4score = {{rating|0|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1983 |publisher=Random House |page=487}}
}}
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the album zero stars. 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".{{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=Quarto Publishing Group USA |page=24}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Starz, except as noted.
| title1 = Cherry Baby
| length1 = 3:47
| title2 = Rock Six Times
| length2 = 3:15
| title3 = Sing It, Shout It
| writer3 = Jon Parrot, Sean Delaney
| length3 = 5:10
| title4 = Violation
| length4 = 4:26
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title5 = Subway Terror
| length5 = 3:45
| title6 = All Night Long
| length6 = 3:26
| title7 = Cool One
| length7 = 3:40
| title8 = S. T. E. A. D. Y.
| length8 = 5:25
| title9 = Is That a Street Light or the Moon?
| length9 = 3:06
}}
{{track listing
| headline = 2005 CD edition bonus tracks
| title10 = Do It With the Lights On
| note10 = demo version
| length10 = 3:34
| title11 = Cool One
| note11 = demo version
| length11 = 3:22
| title12 = Rock This Town
| note12 = demo version
| length12 = 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