Stick It to Ya

Slaughter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1990)
• Original Release Date: January 23, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000003JB3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,255 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eye to Eye

2. Burnin' Bridges

3. Up All Night

4. Spend My Life

5. Thinking of June

6. She Wants More

7. Fly to the Angels

8. Mad About You

9. That's Not Enough

10. You Are the One

11. Gave Me Your Heart

12. Desperately

13. Loaded Gun

14. Fly to the Angels [Acoustic]

15. Wingin' It

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 15 Years Old and it Still Sounds Good!, February 8, 2005

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James Choma - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stick It to Ya (Audio CD)

I can't believe 15 years has passed since this album was released. But you know what? It still sounds good today. I know Slaughter's been lumped in the cheesy hair metal category, but they actually showed a lick of talent as musicians.

After Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum left the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, they recruited guitarist Tim Kelly (RIP) and drummer Blas Elias and began recording songs. The result was "Stick it To Ya," an album that spawned three hits: "Up All Night," "Spend my Life With You," and "Fly to the Angels." But the rest of the songs on the album (while not deep), are actually pretty good --"Eye to Eye," for example, is a great overlooked song.

I've heard criticism of Slaughter's live show, but when I saw them tour for this album, opening for Kiss, the four of them were really quite good. This was a strong album to launch their brief career, one that actually has a bit of staying power.

The albums after this one haven't been as consistant. "The Wild Life" had a lot of hype surrounding it and one minor hit. "Fear No Evil, actually better than "The Wild Life" faired even worse. But at this time, the pop metal scene was rapidly falling out of favor, and Slaughter was deemed another hairband casualty. Too bad, because they actually showed some promise in the songwriting department. Like I said, to me, this still sounds pretty good... I'll probably still be listening to it ten years from now!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An underrated rock classic..............., March 16, 2005

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Some Gravity (Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stick It to Ya (Audio CD)

By the time the 1990's had arrived, it would not be too long until the hair band era died. As a matter of fact,when hair bands died, the only ones that survived were Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, and Poison. That was too bad, because among others, there was another one of those talented hair bands that would find their talent soon underrated due to the succesful arrival of grunge rock. That band was Slaughter. Once Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum were gone from The Vinnie Vincent Invasion, they started Slaughter and hired two musicians who, at the time, were unknown: drummer Blas Elias and guitarist Tim Kelly. The talents of Slaughter, Strum, Elias, and Kelly all resulted in "Stick It To Ya", an underrated rock classic. This album gave Blas Elias and Tim Kelly the opportunity to really show off their talents for the first time, and Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum both shined when they were with Vinnie Vincent, but this was the first time they got to show off their songwriting talents. Neither one of them co-wrote any of Invasion's songs. Songs like "Up All Night", "Mad About You", "Loaded Gun", etc are all fun to jam along to, and ballads like "You Are The One", "Spend My Life", "Fly To The Angels", among others, are also enjoyable to listen to. While "Fly To The Angels" was written about letting go of someone, "You Are The One" sounds like a song any guy missing his girlfriend would write for her as a "Please Come Back" song. "Spend My Life" makes for not only a great hard rock song, but it would also serve as a good song for a wedding. "Desperately" polishes a slick 80's feel with the lyrics and the bass line, proving that Dana Strum is one of the most talented and underrated bassists in rock music. All of the songs on this album are great, and if you like Slaughter, then you will probably not find one weak moment on this CD. Unfortunately, the death of original Slaughter guitarist Tim Kelly in a car crash in 1998 would slow Slaughter down, and to this date, even though they are still touring, Slaughter has only put out one album with Jeff Blando, who was hired as Kelly's replacement. But you can catch Mark Slaughter on the road either with Dokken, Warrant, Alice Cooper, or on a tribute record. Also, a few years ago when I was lucky enough to get to see Blue Man Group perform live, I got to see Blas Elias perform live as the Blue Man Group drummer, as it is Elias himself who does all of the Blue Man shows at The Luxor. If you ever go to Vegas, make sure you don't miss the Blue Man Group show- Elias and the show itself are both great! Do you miss the days when hair bands like Warrant were big? Are you a fan of hair bands like Motley Crue? Well, if the answer to both of those questions is yes, pick up either the original version of this album or the re-issued version that has four bonus tracks and new liner notes. You won't be dissapointed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stick It To Ya Sticks With Ya, May 13, 2000

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J. Wright "Rok Owt" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stick It to Ya (Audio CD)

When I first heard Fly to the Angels and Up All Night, I knew I liked this band. Marc Slaughter has a nice lead vocal and sings some good ballads. Slaughter is what I would call a pop metal band in line with Firehouse and White Lion. They put out some nice rockin' ballads, not much hard stuff.

Their debut album is chocked full of good songs, especially Spend My Life, Eye to Eye, Burning Bridges, You Are the One, Mad About You and Desperately. I could skip She Wants More and Loaded Gun. Wingin' It is kinda fun, too.

This is the best album from Slaughter. The 1992 release, The Wild Life, is okay. Mass Slaughter (their "Best of" album) is made up primarily of these first two releases.