| Vinnie Vincent Invasion | ||||
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| Studio album by Vinnie Vincent Invasion | ||||
| Released | August 2, 1986 | |||
| Recorded | Baby 'O Recorders, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal, shred metal | |||
| Length | 47:55 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Vinnie Vincent and Dana Strum | |||
| Vinnie Vincent Invasion chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
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Vinnie Vincent Invasion is a 1986 album by Vinnie Vincent Invasion. The album was listed number 8 on Kerrang!'s list of hard rock albums in 1986. The same magazine listed the album number 100 on their list of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.[2]
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The album peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard Pop Album Charts[3] and sold about 400,000 copies. Two singles were released: "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" and "Back on the Streets" but a music video was only made for "Boyz Are Gonna Rock". The song "Animal" appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Summer School. The band opened for Alice Cooper in 1987 to support the record.
In the video for "Boyz Are Gonna Rock," the singer in the video is Mark Slaughter rather than the actual singer, Robert Fleischman. Apparently, Fleischman had left the band prior to filming the video and Mark Slaughter ended up lip synching to Fleischman's vocals.
The song "Invasion" (for the CD and audio cassette versions) contained about three full minutes of looping guitar feedback at the end of the song. The record version had this same feedback at the end, but the difference was that it never ended until you picked up the needle. This was because the sound went all the way to the end of the vinyl, causing the needle to loop it over and over again.
The songs "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" and "Back on the Streets" are 2 of 4 Vinnie Vincent Invasion songs featured on the 2008 tribute album KISS MY ANKH: A Tribute to Vinnie Vincent. "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" features drums by Andre LaBelle, who had previously drummed on Vinnie's third (and unreleased) album Guitars from Hell.[4]
"Back on the Streets" was covered by former Europe guitarist John Norum for his 1987 debut album Total Control.
All songs written by Vinnie Vincent except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" | 4:54 | |
| 2. | "Shoot U Full of Love" | 4:44 | |
| 3. | "No Substitute" | 3:52 | |
| 4. | "Animal" | 5:33 | |
| 5. | "Twisted" | 4:49 | |
| 6. | "Do You Wanna Make Love" | Vincent, Robert Fleischman | 3:23 |
| 7. | "Back on the Streets" | Vincent, Richard Friedman | 4:50 |
| 8. | "I Wanna Be Your Victim" | 4:36 | |
| 9. | "Baby-O" | 3:43 | |
| 10. | "Invasion" | Vincent, Fleischman | 7:50 |