Album · Ted Nugent
Free‐for‐All by Ted Nugent
Free‐for‐All is an album by Ted Nugent, released in 1976. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 31 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Free For All”, on 24 lists with a best position of #102.
Ted Nugent's second solo album, Free-for-All, came out on Epic in 1976 amid a little chaos. Rhythm guitarist and singer Derek St. Holmes walked out as the sessions got going, worn down by two years on the road with Nugent and grumbling that Tom Werman's production was taming the band. So Werman called in a ringer: Meat Loaf, a full year before Bat Out of Hell made him a star, who took $1,000, got handed a lyric sheet with no melodies attached, and worked out his own vocal parts over two days in the studio. St. Holmes still turns up singing lead on several songs.
None of it slows the Motor City Madman down. His guitar is bluesy and frenzied, hard rock tipping into heavy metal, and the title track and "Dog Eat Dog" come on at full volume with zero subtlety. It went multi-platinum in the US.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Free‐for‐All on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free For All | 24 | #102 | – | 1990–2025 | |
| 2 | Dog Eat Dog | 7 | #317 | – | 1990–2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.