Ratt - Reach For The Sky (1988) [2015 Rock Candy Remastered]

After the commercial and much more melodic third album Dancing Undercover, Ratt returned in 1988 with “Reach For The Sky” and this was a rocking return to the band’s origins in the vein of their debut album yet really polished in terms of production sound.
This one marked the last Ratt album to be produced by Beau Hill.

The band originally intended for the record to be produced entirely by Mike “Clay” Stone. However, substandard DAT tape recordings of Stone’s production efforts prompted Atlantic Records to bring in Hill to assist Stone and more than that, also to re-write half of the songs.

Not only “Reach For The Sky” is a solid album but also sports one of Ratt’s greatest songs ever; “Way Cool Jr.”, where they truly captured lightning in a bottle. The single prompted the record sales to over a million.
There are some other really great songs on this album such as “I Want A Woman” and the awesome “City to City”.

Also “Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds”, “Chain Reaction”, “Bottom Line” and “What I’m After” got fire, some of them pretty elaborated.
And Ratt even did their first ‘true’ power ballad for this one; the cool “I Want To Love You Tonight”.


Tracks:

01 – City To City
02 – I Want A Woman
03 – Way Cool Jr.
04 – Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds
05 – I Want To Love You Tonight
06 – Chain Reaction
07 – No Surprise
08 – Bottom Line
09 – What’s It Gonna Be
10 – What I’m After

Personnel:

Stephen Pearcy – lead vocals
Warren DeMartini – lead & rhythm guitars
Robbin Crosby – lead & rhythm guitars
Juan Croucier – bass
Bobby Blotzer – drums, percussion