#326/2006
August 9 1986
Ratt
Dancing Undercover
Genre: Glam Metal
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Body Talk
Remember when Ratt went on tour with Poison and it was the Ratt/Poison tour? Funnier and more apropos, genre-wise, than Black Sabbath & Blue Oyster Cult’s “Black and Blue” tour. The 80s, man…someone had a sense of humor. Who would you pair like that today? I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
I liked Ratt’s big hit “Round and Round” as much as anyone else, it’s a groovy piece of pop metal, but sometimes it feels like that’s the only gear Ratt can run. “One Good Lover” and “It Doesn’t Matter” are a prime examples of them repeating the same motif with diminishing results.
Why oh why is Steve Pearcy’s vocals mixed so deep in the pile? He sounds doubled AND echoed which takes away from his vocals more than help. But, then again, maybe he’s not that great to begin with, eh?
This is an album that could have used a requisite 80s cover.
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