Dancing Undercover

Dancing Undercover
Studio album by
Ratt
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1986 (1986-09-24)[1]
StudioVillage Recorder, Los Angeles, California
GenreGlam metal[2]
Length34:55
LabelAtlantic
ProducerBeau Hill
Ratt chronology
Invasion of Your Privacy
(1985) 		Dancing Undercover
(1986) 		Reach for the Sky
(1988)
Singles from Dancing Undercover
  1. "Dance"
    Released: October 1986 [3]
  2. "Body Talk"
    Released: January 1987 (Japan) [4]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[6]

Dancing Undercover is the third studio album by American glam metal band Ratt, released in 1986. The album was produced by Beau Hill and contains the hit single/video "Dance", which appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Down for the Count". Two other videos were made: "Body Talk", which was used on the soundtrack forthe Eddie Murphy film The Golden Child, and "Slip of the Lip". It charted at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 chart and at No. 14 on Rolling Stone's Album Chart. The album went platinum.

Ratt's opening acts on the tour in support of the album included Poison, Cinderella, Cheap Trick,[7] Queensrÿche, and Vinnie Vincent Invasion.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dance"Robbin Crosby, Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Beau Hill4:17
2."One Good Lover"Crosby, Pearcy3:06
3."Drive Me Crazy"Crosby, Pearcy, DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer3:42
4."Slip of the Lip"DeMartini, Juan Croucier, Pearcy3:15
5."Body Talk"DeMartini, Croucier, Pearcy3:44
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Looking for Love"Crosby, Croucier, Pearcy3:09
7."7th Avenue"DeMartini, Pearcy, Croucier3:11
8."It Doesn't Matter"Croucier, Pearcy3:08
9."Take a Chance"DeMartini, Croucier, Pearcy4:00
10."Enough Is Enough"DeMartini, Crosby, Croucier, Pearcy3:23

Early pressings of the CD had "Slip of the Lip" and "Body Talk" errantly mastered into one track as track 4.

Personnel

Ratt
Production
  • Beau Hill – producer, engineer
  • Michael O'Reilly, Jim Faraci – engineers
  • Jimmy Hoyson – assistant engineer
  • Stephen Benben – digital editing and sequencing
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York City

Charts

Chart (1986–1987) Peak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[8] 49
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[9] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[10] 23
UK Albums (OCC)[11] 51
US Billboard 200[12] 26

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[13] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ "RIAA certifications". Recording Industry Association of America.
  2. ^ "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  3. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Ratt - Dance". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  4. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Ratt - Body Talk". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  5. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Ratt - Dancing Undercover review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  6. ^ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  7. ^ "Cheap Trick Setlist at Five Seasons Center, Cedar Rapids". Setlist.fm. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  8. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 0758". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  9. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  10. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Ratt – Dancing Undercover". Hung Medien. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  11. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  12. ^ "Ratt Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  13. ^ "American album certifications – Ratt – Dancing Undercover". Recording Industry Association of America.