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.

  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.