Detonator is the fifth studio album by American
glam metal band
Ratt, released August 21, 1990, by
Atlantic Records. This is the last album to feature bassist
Juan Croucier until his return in 2012, as well as guitarist
Robbin Crosby before his death in 2002.
Though their previous album Reach for the Sky went platinum, it met with some criticism regarding the quality of their songs. In an attempt to regain the popularity that Ratt had in the mid-1980s, the band parted ways with long-time producer
Beau Hill. Songwriter
Desmond Child and his personal sound engineer Arthur Payson were hired as producers for the album. The album is notable for featuring Ratt's only power ballad, "Givin' Yourself Away". The band also gravitated towards a more glam metal/pop metal sound on Detonator.
^Marlowe, Chris (October 1990). "Ratt: Detonator". Select. No. 4. p. 112.
^Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava.
ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
Detonator is the fifth studio album by American
glam metal band
Ratt, released August 21, 1990, by
Atlantic Records. This is the last album to feature bassist
Juan Croucier until his return in 2012, as well as guitarist
Robbin Crosby before his death in 2002.
Though their previous album Reach for the Sky went platinum, it met with some criticism regarding the quality of their songs. In an attempt to regain the popularity that Ratt had in the mid-1980s, the band parted ways with long-time producer
Beau Hill. Songwriter
Desmond Child and his personal sound engineer Arthur Payson were hired as producers for the album. The album is notable for featuring Ratt's only power ballad, "Givin' Yourself Away". The band also gravitated towards a more glam metal/pop metal sound on Detonator.
^Marlowe, Chris (October 1990). "Ratt: Detonator". Select. No. 4. p. 112.
^Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava.
ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.