Track Listing

1. Eye to Eye
2. Burnin' Bridges
3. Up All Night
4. Spend My Life
5. Thinking of June
6. She Wants More
7. Fly to the Angels
8. Mad About You
9. That's Not Enough
10. You Are the One
11. Gave Me Your Heart
12. Desperately
13. Loaded Gun
14. Fly to the Angels [Acoustic Version]
15. Wingin' It
16. Mad About You [Original Demo][*]
17. She Wants More [Original Demo][*]
18. Up All Night [Original Demo][*]
19. Fly to the Angels [Original Demo][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42393 in Music
• Released on: 2003-06-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Added material definitely adds to an already great album
STICK IT TO YA, the first album from band Slaughter, is a classic album for any rock listener. It is filled with songs that exude a good-time rock and roll feeling, while not compromising the intergrity of the music. This re-release of that album was a welcome addition to my music collection.

The additional materials are demos of the original stuff and it is very interesting to hear how the songs matured from demo stage to release.

I definitely recommend this album...even if you already have the original.

15 Years Later, Still a Really Good Album
I can't believe 15 years has passed since this album was released. But you know what? It still sounds good today. I know Slaughter's been lumped in the cheesy hair metal category, but they actually showed a lick of talent as musicians.

After Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum left the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, they recruited guitarist Tim Kelly (RIP) and drummer Blas Elias and began recording songs. The result was "Stick it To Ya," an album that spawned three hits: "Up All Night," "Spend my Life With You," and "Fly to the Angels." But the rest of the songs on the album (while not deep), are actually pretty good --"Eye to Eye," for example, is a great overlooked song.

I've heard criticism of Slaughter's live show, but when I saw them tour for this album, opening for Kiss, the four of them were really quite good. This was a strong album to launch their brief career, one that actually has a bit of staying power.

The albums after this one haven't been as consistant. "The Wild Life" had a lot of hype surrounding it and one minor hit. "Fear No Evil, actually better than "The Wild Life" faired even worse. But at this time, the pop metal scene was rapidly falling out of favor, and Slaughter was deemed another hairband casualty. Too bad, because they actually showed some promise in the songwriting department. Like I said, to me, this still sounds pretty good... I'll probably still be listening to it ten years from now!

Better than Mark's album with Vinnie Vincent, but not by much
Sometimes I'm surprised at just how much I still enjoy some of the albums I played to death back in high school. Beyond just the classics like Appetite for Destruction or The Real Thing, I still get a kick out of most of the hair metal albums I loved back in the day. Well, almost all of them. I remember absolutely loving Slaughter's debut album Stick It to Ya back in 1990, but listening to it now is just a bit too awkward. Part of that is Mark Slaughter's screeching voice. The guy's got an unforgettable voice, but it gets old really fast. There's also the lyrical content. Sure, it's a step up from Mark's Vinnie Vincent Invasion days (the average bathroom wall graffiti would be an improvement over Vinne's lyrics), but not by much. The whole album is hair metal cliché city, and while there are a handful of fun and memorable songs (Burnin' Bridges, Up All Night, and the hit Fly to the Angels), there are just as many really bad filler tracks (She Wants More, Loaded Gun, That's Not Enough).

Stick It to Ya represents the best and worst elements of the last phase of hair metal's popularity. It works on some levels, but is too uneven and inconsistent overall. It's a hard album to listen to all the way through, so unless you're a completist and/or masochist, you're probably better off with one of the Slaughter hits compilations that collects the best tracks from this album and the band's later output.

NOTE: The 2003 reissue of Stick It to Ya features digitally remastered sound and a handful of bonus tracks. The digital remastering is something of a mixed blessing. On one hand you can hear these songs crystal clear and loud as can be, on the other hand, you can hear these songs crystal clear and loud as can be. It enhances the albums flaws just as much as the highlights. The bonus tracks include an acoustic version of Fly to the Angels, a throwaway vocal jam called Wingin' It, and 4 demo versions of songs on the album. They're all interesting enough, but nothing you'll need to hear more than once.