Great White (album)

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 debut 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

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

  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

Great White

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

Additional musicians

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

Production

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

Charts

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

References

  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.