rtbuck
Senior Member
Wow...I went through all 6 pages of this thread twice only to find out that I only made 1 small lame comment shortly after I came on board here! I find this strange because I've always been a fan. I love all their albums but for me nothing tops 'Violation'. That album has everything...I love the two hits Cherry Baby & Sing it Shout it (excuse me one moment...ahh that's better...I had been listening to a best of Brian Setzer/Stray Cats playlist for about an hour and I just changed it to my "Top 30 Starz Playlist" & "She" is now cranking out!!) Okay...as I was saying....Violation!!. There always were/are certain songs that sound so awesome cranked up real loud on a good stereo & I'm not talking about fast hard rocking loud tunes...I'm talking about stuff like Magic Man by Heart...well I always felt Sing it shout it sounded so great cranked up. I love the sound of the drums & everything else on that tune. I really thought that tune really deserved to be much bigger than it was. To me it was a perfect single. So much more on that record though...songs like..."SUBWAY TERROR!!!!!" ( Wow, what a wild tune that is!) & the title track. My wife & I go grocery shopping on Saturday mornings and we're in the car about an hour or so and we always have a playlist on random going. About a month or so ago 2 weeks in a row "Cool One" came up & my wife never heard the tune & she loved it(she got a kick out of the lyrics about losing it in the popcorn box)
I do love all of their albums. That debut is phenomenal as well...I can't go on enough about them. I love X-ray Spex off of Attention Shoppers which I really thought coming off of Violation Attn. Shoppers was going to be the album that was going to really break them and Coliseum Rock's title track along with It's a Riot should've had them headlining Arenas!
I really don't know what happened with Starz & Angel. It seemed like both bands got coverage in magazines & both bands also had plenty of full color full page album ads in those magazines. It's weird (I may be wrong) but if memory serves me it seemed like Angel & Starz even had more magazine coverage than bands like Foreigner & Journey in the late 70's. The only thing is especially in Angel's case but Starz as well is that for some reason radio stations didn't give them any airplay. It makes me wonder if it had anything to do with their Kiss connection(Angel on Casablanca records & Starz under Aucoin management)
I do love all of their albums. That debut is phenomenal as well...I can't go on enough about them. I love X-ray Spex off of Attention Shoppers which I really thought coming off of Violation Attn. Shoppers was going to be the album that was going to really break them and Coliseum Rock's title track along with It's a Riot should've had them headlining Arenas!
I really don't know what happened with Starz & Angel. It seemed like both bands got coverage in magazines & both bands also had plenty of full color full page album ads in those magazines. It's weird (I may be wrong) but if memory serves me it seemed like Angel & Starz even had more magazine coverage than bands like Foreigner & Journey in the late 70's. The only thing is especially in Angel's case but Starz as well is that for some reason radio stations didn't give them any airplay. It makes me wonder if it had anything to do with their Kiss connection(Angel on Casablanca records & Starz under Aucoin management)
