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.

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  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.