“Stick It” by Great White

"Stick It" comes off Great White's self-titled 1984 debut, and that album catches a different band from the one that later sold records by the truckload: a harder-driving metal outfit, not yet the blues-infused rockers of their hit years. Michael Wagener produced and engineered it, and the writing credit is shared by Jack Russell, Mark Kendall, Lorne Black, Gary Holland and Alan Niven.

It didn't pay off at the time. EMI America called the album a disaster and cut the band loose, and Great White went back to the drawing board and came back less heavy. The song got a kind of last word, though: when the French label Axe Killer reissued the album on CD in 1999, with five bonus tracks, it went out under the name Stick It.

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