Great White (album)

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Great White
Studio album by
Great White
Released1984
StudioTotal Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
GenreHeavy metal[1]
Length38:22
LabelEMI America
ProducerMichael Wagener
Great White chronology
Out of the Night
(1983) 		Great White
(1984) 		Shot in the Dark
(1986)
Singles from Great White
  1. "Substitute" / "No Better Than Hell"
    Released: 1984
Stick It album cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[3]
Kerrang!(favorable)[4]

Great White is the first full-length album by the American rock band Great White. Three tracks are taken from the band's previous EP, albeit in re-recorded versions. The musical style of this album is very different from the following highly successful releases of Great White, as they display here a more hard-driving metal sound as opposed to their later, blues-infused rock sound.[5] EMI America judged the album a disaster[6] and Great White was dropped. This led to a rethink by the band, and they became less heavy, introducing a tame hard rock sound for later albums.[6]

The CD reissue of 1999, done under the name Stick It by the French label Axe Killer, features five bonus tracks.

Track listing[edit]

Side one
  1. "Out of the Night" (Mark Kendall, Jack Russell, Gary Holland, Lorne Black) – 2:56
  2. "Stick It" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black, Alan Niven) – 3:56
  3. "Substitute" (Pete Townshend) – 4:20
  4. "Bad Boys" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black, Niven) – 4:18
  5. "On Your Knees" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black, Don Dokken) – 3:50
Side two
  2. "Streetkiller" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black) – 3:57
  3. "No Better Than Hell" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black, Michael Wagener) – 4:06
  4. "Hold On" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black) – 4:13
  5. "Nightmares" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black, Niven) – 3:18
  6. "Dead End" (Kendall, Russell, Holland, Black) – 3:33

Stick It 1999 CD reissue bonus tracks[edit]

  2. "Down at the Doctor" (Mickey Jupp) – 3:40 (Dr. Feelgood cover)
  3. "Train to Nowhere" (Kim Simmonds, Chris Youlden) – 4:27 (Savoy Brown cover)
  4. "The Hunter" (Carl Wells, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones) – 4:12 (Albert King cover)
  5. "Red House" (Jimi Hendrix) – 8:46 (Jimi Hendrix cover)
  6. "Rock 'n' Roll" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham) – 3:44 (Led Zeppelin cover)

Personnel[edit]

Great White[edit]

  • Jack Russell – lead and backing vocals
  • Mark Kendall – guitar, backing vocals
  • Lorne Black – bass, backing vocals
  • Gary Holland – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians[edit]

  • Alan Niven – backing vocals, management
  • Gary Gersh, Mark Wesley, Phylis Koch, Tom The Razzman – backing vocals
  • Michael Lardie – backing vocals, assistant engineer

Production[edit]

  • Michael Wagener – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Wyn Davis – assistant engineer
  • Greg Fulginti – mastering

Charts[edit]

Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 144

References[edit]

  1. ^ "No Life 'til Metal – CD Gallery – Great White". nolifetilmetal.com. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  2. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Great white Great White review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  4. ^ Johnson, Howard (February 23, 1984). "Great White 'Great White'". Kerrang!. Vol. 62. London, UK: Spotlight Publications Ltd. pp. 10, 45.
  5. ^ "Great White - Great White". Sleaze Roxx. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Great White - 1984 Great White". GloryDaze Music. August 22, 2003. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.
  7. ^ "Great White Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
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