Dancing Undercover by Ratt

Dancing Undercover, Ratt's third album, landed on Atlantic in 1986 with Beau Hill producing, and it's the Los Angeles glam machine running at full throttle: Stephen Pearcy's sneering yowl up front, Warren DeMartini and Robbin Crosby slashing away on guitars, Juan Croucier and Bobby Blotzer keeping the bottom end tight and loud. Nobody here is pretending to be anything but a good time with the volume up.

The hooks got a Hollywood makeover, too. "Dance" was the hit, and its video turned up on Miami Vice in the episode "Down for the Count"; "Body Talk" made it onto the soundtrack of Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child; and "Slip of the Lip" got a video of its own to go with its strutting, shout-along chorus. The album climbed to number 26 on the Billboard 200, reached 14 on Rolling Stone's album chart and went platinum.

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