Ratt - Out Of The Cellar
{Mini LP SHM-CD 09' 24-bit digital remastering}

For the lovely and beautifully spirited QS

Cardboard sleeve reissue from Ratt featuring the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD players) and the 24-bit digital remastering. Part of five-album Ratt SHM-CD cardboard sleeve reissue series featuring albums "Out Of The Cellar," "Invation Of Your Privacy," "Dancing Undercover," "Reach For The Sky," and "Detonator."

Format CD
Release Date 2009/09/23
Availability Out of Print
Catalog No. WPCR-13566
Number of discs 1
Item weight 80g
Label/Distributor Warner Music Japan
Released March 23, 1984
Recorded 1983-1984
Genre: Glam metal, heavy metal, hard rock
Length 36:41
Label Atlantic

The Billboard 200 #7 1984

Track Listing

1. "Wanted Man" Cristofanilli/Crosby/Pearcy 3:37
2. "You're in Trouble" Crosby/DeMartini/Pearcy 3:16
3. "Round and Round" Crosby/DeMartini/Pearcy 4:22
4. "In Your Direction" Pearcy 3:30
5. "She Wants Money" Croucier 3:04
6. "Lack of Communication" Croucier/Pearcy 3:52
7. "Back for More" Crosby/Pearcy 3:42
8. "The Morning After" Crosby/DeMartini/Pearcy 3:30
9. "I'm Insane" Crosby 2:54
10. "Scene of the Crime" Crosby/Croucier 4:54

Total Time: 37:21

* Stephen Pearcy - Lead vocals
* Warren DeMartini - Lead guitar
* Robbin Crosby - Lead guitar
* Juan Croucier - Bass guitar
* Bobby Blotzer - Drums, Percussion
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Out of the Cellar is the breakthrough album by glam metal band Ratt, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). Produced by Beau Hill, the album features their best-known hit, "Round and Round", and other hits such as "Wanted Man", "Back for More" (the song was originally on the Ratt EP), and "Lack of Communication". "Back For More" was originally written by "Stephen Pearcy" and apparently, Matt Thorne AKA "Matt Thorr", although Thorne was not credited for the song until the 2005 album Rat Attack "Round and Round Greatest Hits". on "Cleopatra Records". "In Your Direction" was a song that Pearcy wrote and had since Mickey Ratt, "I'm Insane" and "Scene Of The Crime" were songs that Crosby had pre-Ratt.

It is RIAA certified Triple Platinum album.

The model on the album cover is Tawny Kitaen, better known for her appearances in Whitesnake music videos, and the same year's teen-aimed film Bachelor Party. As she was long-time girlfriend to guitarist Robbin Crosby at that time, she also appeared in the "Back For More" music video.

In 2003 Metal-Rules.com named "Out of the Cellar" number 3 of their "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". They also named it number 67 of their "Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".

4 1/2 Star Review by Eduardo Rivadavia AllMusic Guide

Ratt's aptly named debut album, Out of the Cellar, may have suggested they were underdogs of the then burgeoning L.A. glam metal scene, but this five-piece made up of brash young San Diego transplants and relative local veterans was in fact a force to contend with, and already gunning for the top of the heap. Having established a good buzz with their eponymous EP one year earlier, and then signed with powerhouse Atlantic Records as a result, Ratt now transposed their high-energy hard rock (derived from usual suspects Van Halen and Aerosmith, plus the staccato riffing of Judas Priest) into a multi-platinum-bound juggernaut that reached number seven on the Billboard charts, and initially outsold the more notorious Shout at the Devil, released months earlier by their friendly rivals Mötley Crüe. Not that it's difficult to understand why, since Out of the Cellar was a consistently entertaining listen from start to finish, thanks to strong album tracks like "Wanted Man," "Back for More," and the frenetic "I'm Insane," and also spawned a massive MTV and radio smash with "Round and Round." After all, a single gigantic hit is all a band needs, and "Round and Round" was an absolute monster, peaking at number 12 on the charts and going on to achieve immortality as one of the defining songs of the 1980s. It was also an impossible act to follow, as things turned out, and even though Ratt would continue to prosper for years to come, Out of the Cellar eventually came to represent a premature career high point.

Ratt - Out Of The Cellar (1984) [FLAC] [Japan WPCR-13566}