I hrd the real ratt....83/84 new yrs eve long beach arena with lots ford.....they killed it.....in your direction was played to perfection and was the bad ass song of the night.....sigh
Ratt's best. This was more metal than anything they released. I remember getting this on cassette from someone back in the early '80s. We lived in Sacramento, so anything from LA and SF back in those days was pretty bad ass.
Seeing as The Crüe & Ratt were LA Natives & not someone wannabe's from different states moving in to LA , they will forever be the KINGS of Heavy/Glam Metal music . Everyone wanted to go to LA , dress sleazy & start a band after them . The true kings of the LA Sunset Strip baby !!!
The real originators of the L.A. hard rock scene, Van Halen, had members from Chicago, Indiana, and the Netherlands. So where you're from doesn't mean shit, what you play is what matters
One of the greatest first album demos ever made rat is an institution great guitar powerful Bass drummer is in the pocket wonderful wonderful I've enjoyed this since it was new and plan to listen to it for many many more years Rock on!
@@MrPyroguru yes he was capable, but he lost heart with the band. He said he felt like the other guys were living a totally different life from him. So he turned to drugs and alcohol. As far as playing solos goes, Warren played all of the solos in the end. Robin didn't write anything if he did it was very little. He did try to come back in the end and I'm not sure, but it just didn't happen.
@@mitchwilley5011 Queensryche EP is bad ass, Queen of the Reich! Bought it on cassette when it came out. Ratt EP, Crue - Too Fast for Love and Queensryche EP were, and still are killer.
@@Endo-uu8mo l.a. guns have a more consistent catalogue than either crue or ratt. I can tell by your comment and photo that either you are 14 years old and never listened to guns, or you think that theory of a deadman is rock n roll. Listen to the albums before you judge
@@Endo-uu8mo ratt didn't have the consistent albums that LA Guns have had. I love ratt, but their value goes down significantly after Undercover. The next album sold a million and then Detonator Sold over 500,000. Rat was great but after 1990 they were finished. The original group hasn't been together since. Infestation was okay but not essential. LA Guns have at least 15 essential albums in their discography wasn't trying to insult you earlier I haven't had a good day sorry about that
I bought this right when it came out and bought Great White’s first one too. I had tickets to see Ratt and Dokken live but was canceled due to lack of ticket sales. They both were still not popular enough yet! I was so bummed. Finally saw Ratt at Day on the Green later.
It's 1984, and a strawberry blonde co-ed at UCSD is demo'ing for me this EP (and Queensryche's then-new The Warning). She and that music became forever entwined. Both hot.
i bought this when it came out brought it home and jammed along on 11 My guitar skills could keep up with the EP I had fun pretending to be on the band great times Youth is wasted on the young
this is good stuff. Beau Hill took the band to whole new level. One has to just compare back for more on the ep to the out of the cellar version. miles better !
I just bought two of this E P on vinyl, both original pressings, and one of them is a collectible “ for promotional purposes only “ marking on it. They do justice covering the late great Rufus Thomas’s WALKIN THE DIG, is thick, dirty and greeeezzy... just the way I like my heavy bluesy hard rock and heavy metal 🤘🎶🎸 Blotz’s drums on this are killer too
According to Robbin Crosby in his interview on the VH-1 behind the scenes of RATT. The Ratt ep was a live recording, and had the crowd noise removed. He also stated that if you wanted to hear a true Ratt sound on album the EP was it, every album afterwards was polished so much the Ratt couldn't sound nowhere like they did on their follow up albums, live.... Rest in Peace Robbin KING Crosby... #AddictionSucks
Was at the Beverly theater the night they signed with Atlantic records. This EP was epic! Had it on vinyl on time coast with original “you’re in trouble” version. The days!!!
Got out of the cellar 1st, my neighbor friend of my sister, who had the hots for me, had the Vinyl Cop of the E.P. and gave it to me. I tossed o.o.t.c.
parts of TELL THE WORLD (esp near the end of the song) are very similar to motleys LOOKS THAT KILL riff,or vice versa ,im not sure which came first off the top of my head. THIS EP and OUT OF THE CELLAR is what RATT really wanted to sound like but after the success of OUT OF THE CELLAR the record company wanted another huge multi-platinum selling record and started steering them into a more pop-ish sound. INVASION OF YOUR PRIVACY was a hit but you could sure tell they were no longer the RATT of their first two releases.
Dokken came first with young girls, and then ratt, then motley I think. Nikki said "the song wrote itself" mainly because the song was already written for him
Pug127 hadn't not only warren demartini tried out for dokken before lynch, but juan croucier was with them for a year while in ratt, he had writing credits on breaking the chains. it doesnt show he specifically got credits for that song so maybe there was just inspiration but there still couldve been some help. theres also a song on out of the cellar that uses the same riff, i think its in your direction and maybe even lack of communication, it seems to be way less present in tell the world than on the songs on that album.
@@rickhutch2 do you know what song(s) it is because ive been trying to find songs that sound similar or where things originated from. also is it neil or neal schon?
You think you're tough is a Great Song. The Refrain is excellent...a little bit buried in the mix but you still get how it was meant to be. Kicks Ass. The Guitarsolos are Good on every Song.
Hearing this for the First Time, i like the Cover Artwork ( the One from the Album with the white socks is also very Cool) and the Sound is Fun Spirited. I like it. It’s pretty Good. I am going to the Park now listening to it, maybe I see some Rats......Greets from Germany.
Almost 40 years later this album is still better than any bs today
Stephen Pearcy wrote a book called “Sex, Drugs, “Ratt & Roll”
Damn right bro 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎶🎶🎶
I agree
Crosby once said that if you wanted to hear the "real Ratt" you had to listen to the EP. Great rip. Thanks!
Robin was totally right!!!
R.I.P. ROBIN CROSBY 🤘
The EP and "Out Of The Cellar" 🤘
I hrd the real ratt....83/84 new yrs eve long beach arena with lots ford.....they killed it.....in your direction was played to perfection and was the bad ass song of the night.....sigh
Tipo
Yep! He said that in his last interview, June 10th 2001. RIP King!
0:00 Sweet Cheater
2:39 You Think You're Tough
6:17 U Got It
9:16 Tell The World
12:29 Back For More
17:12 Walkin' The Dog
Thanks thanks thanks
Thanks mate!!
Best version of Walkin' The Dog ever.
Tell The World
"U Got It" is so nasty and sleazy
Had this on cassette but lost it. This is so damn raw and in your face. Love the guitar tone. Pure Ratt n Roll!
All killer no filler. Great band!
Dig that early LA strip sound.
Ratt's best. This was more metal than anything they released. I remember getting this on cassette from someone back in the early '80s. We lived in Sacramento, so anything from LA and SF back in those days was pretty bad ass.
Luckeeee
I’m still in Sacramento and still rockin’ this!
Friend picked me up to go to church and had this blasting. Bought it the next day.
Sick story... Wayyy kool
Seeing as The Crüe & Ratt were LA Natives & not someone wannabe's from different states moving in to LA , they will forever be the KINGS of Heavy/Glam Metal music . Everyone wanted to go to LA , dress sleazy & start a band after them . The true kings of the LA Sunset Strip baby !!!
Nikki Sixx was not an LA native lol and Ratt were original from San Diego
@@russgressner8 Vince was born in Hollywood, and moved around So Cal growing up.. went to HS with Tommy
It’s all subjective and relative
The real originators of the L.A. hard rock scene, Van Halen, had members from Chicago, Indiana, and the Netherlands. So where you're from doesn't mean shit, what you play is what matters
@@billblaze752 Vince was the king of rock and roll from 1983 to 1989
This and the Armored Saint EP were on repeat back then! Thanks for the rip!
One of the greatest first album demos ever made rat is an institution great guitar powerful Bass drummer is in the pocket wonderful wonderful I've enjoyed this since it was new and plan to listen to it for many many more years Rock on!
Robin Crosby was the heart ❤️ and soul of this band. Rip brother.
I was listening to the engineer that worked with them and Beau and he said when Robin stopped writing they went down hill.
Yup Robin was the pill wrote great riffs
@@HaXaW5150 Didn't he play all the solos here too? He was very capable as well.
@@MrPyroguru yes he was capable, but he lost heart with the band. He said he felt like the other guys were living a totally different life from him. So he turned to drugs and alcohol. As far as playing solos goes, Warren played all of the solos in the end. Robin didn't write anything if he did it was very little. He did try to come back in the end and I'm not sure, but it just didn't happen.
@@HaXaW5150 True!
A friend gave this to me on a cassette tape back in highschool,,man ,i wore that tape out and been a Ratt fan ever since!!!
I had forgotten how great this EP is.
This is a great EP. RATT is in my blood forever.
Me too! David Smith...... RATT is in my blood and I need it like a drug forever
the bass range on this upload is marvelous
Thats what really stands out on This for me! I still have my original Vinyl i got at 12/13yrs old & saw them open for Crue, etc…. The Best Ratt!!
Miss this classic line-up.
Thank you so very much for making this EP available. I had the cassette tape and played it till it wore out and searched everywhere for it . 😊
I love Juan's lead vocals on You think you're tough.
Very Heavy Metal
Take care of Tawny up there Robbin. We love you both. Couldn’t love you more.
My first album!! I was 13! Still sounds great!
I had this when it came out.when Pearce had some vocal range,andsang tough and could walk the dog.
Same here good fucking ep
My uncle just gifted me this vinyl and Metal Health, gonna fucking party tonight
This is the best sound quality I’ve heard of this album on RUclips, just how it was supposed to be. Cheers dude
RUclips compresses the sound though… lol
@@BryanX64 still doesn’t stop it from being the best quality that I have heard. Stop being a douche
Nah
I love this album.This is from a huge San Diego fan!
Greatest Ratt album ever,its them bare bones and at their finest ,thank you for putting it up
I love the energy and feet to these songs. Great drumming and guitar leads too.
Much like Motley and Great White I thought their OG EPs were better that aything they put out on a label.
throw queensryche in there also!!
@@mitchwilley5011 Queensryche EP is bad ass, Queen of the Reich! Bought it on cassette when it came out. Ratt EP, Crue - Too Fast for Love and Queensryche EP were, and still are killer.
My man knows good tunes ✊🏼
Same for Stephen Pearcy himself!
Stryper is an all LA glam original, too.
This is really excellent! I have many great memories listening to this stuff. Raw and rockin' Ratt 'n Roll !
Ratt & Crüe where the kings of Sleazy
Wasp and la guns also
@@Endo-uu8mo l.a. guns have a more consistent catalogue than either crue or ratt. I can tell by your comment and photo that either you are 14 years old and never listened to guns, or you think that theory of a deadman is rock n roll. Listen to the albums before you judge
@@olegv.khlevniuk2391 jason is a 80s horror icon im old dude🤣
@@olegv.khlevniuk2391 Ratt is deftl the best of that you listed.Ratt is a Legend and had a great lineup.
@@Endo-uu8mo ratt didn't have the consistent albums that LA Guns have had. I love ratt, but their value goes down significantly after Undercover. The next album sold a million and then Detonator Sold over 500,000. Rat was great but after 1990 they were finished. The original group hasn't been together since. Infestation was okay but not essential. LA Guns have at least 15 essential albums in their discography wasn't trying to insult you earlier I haven't had a good day sorry about that
Thank you for the upload. Love the vinyl version of this EP.
My favorite Ratt album. I like the vivid sound of that era even though I started listening to this band in late 90s. Thanks from JP
Was a Ratt Fan with OoTC back in 84, soon after I discovered this. Fucking Epic🤘
I was never a big RATT fan yet this EP kills!
have you heard the 1984 stryper EP?
I never had the pleasure of meeting Robin but I met Tawny Kitaen and David Coverdale...........
I bought this right when it came out and bought Great White’s first one too. I had tickets to see Ratt and Dokken live but was canceled due to lack of ticket sales. They both were still not popular enough yet! I was so bummed. Finally saw Ratt at Day on the Green later.
The BEST of RATT
It's 1984, and a strawberry blonde co-ed at UCSD is demo'ing for me this EP (and Queensryche's then-new The Warning). She and that music became forever entwined. Both hot.
Great sound!!!! 🤘🏻Ratt rules🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
i bought this when it came out brought it home and jammed along on 11 My guitar skills could keep up with the EP I had fun pretending to be on the band great times Youth is wasted on the young
Ratt at their best
I got this when out of the cellar came out..lost it in a move..
I remember my cousin giving me this cassette and I was instantly a RATT fan!! 🐁🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
F...in' great record!
this is good stuff. Beau Hill took the band to whole new level. One has to just compare back for more on the ep to the out of the cellar version. miles better !
I've heard Bobby Blotzer complain about Hill's production, but the albums he produced sounded fantastic
One of the best I’ve ever heard
It's a shame you can't find this EP for sale for much less than $100.
I found this at an antique store for $7 lol the cover is kind of rough and one of the corners is cut but the vinyl still sounds great
RATT N ROLL
LOVE it cool debut EP - Ratt N Roll! \m/
When I 1st hrd this....I sold my mom and bought the lp the same day! #ratt-n-roll4life
Pimp!
私はラットのアルバムの中でも、このミニアルバムが1番です。特に3曲目と４曲目が推しです。
WOW, haven't heard this EP since '88 I'm sure. WOW, how great was this!!!! The last bit of vocals on Sweet Cheater, awesome.
Feel like a damn poser! I play the first two records religiously and I just found out about this ep! Better late than never!!
🤘better late than never!
So far to find or buy! Thanks for posting...RATT always the BEST!!!
Motley who?
Don't you know Mötley Crüe? oooouh, poor baby!! 🍼
@@nikkisixx7395 he does. he's just saying that they're so good that they blow motley out of sight. Basically that ratts better, which is the truth
@@Guitarplayer7253 I like both
Heavier than some speed metal of the time
I just bought two of this E P on vinyl, both original pressings, and one of them is a collectible “ for promotional purposes only “ marking on it. They do justice covering the late great Rufus Thomas’s WALKIN THE DIG, is thick, dirty and greeeezzy... just the way I like my heavy bluesy hard rock and heavy metal 🤘🎶🎸 Blotz’s drums on this are killer too
According to Robbin Crosby in his interview on the VH-1 behind the scenes of RATT. The Ratt ep was a live recording, and had the crowd noise removed. He also stated that if you wanted to hear a true Ratt sound on album the EP was it, every album afterwards was polished so much the Ratt couldn't sound nowhere like they did on their follow up albums, live.... Rest in Peace Robbin KING Crosby...
#AddictionSucks
This was the best thing they ever released.
Was at the Beverly theater the night they signed with Atlantic records. This EP was epic! Had it on vinyl on time coast with original “you’re in trouble” version. The days!!!
WE LOVE Kitaen 2021...
Early rocking anger from Eighties decade. Pretty much U. S. ❤❤❤
awesome sound quality!
I love love love Ratt 'n'Roll
Easily the best thing Ratt ever did
Gold! Thanks sir!
This is how you rock everybody!!
great ep!
Happy Birthday Warren De Martini❤
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRATT!!!! TURN IT UP!
I bought this cassette at the San Jose fleamarket round 1985
It had the same 7 songs on both sides
Sweet cheater great song 🎸👍
I have this on vinyl, original USA pressing in good condition 👍 alot of comments saying can't obtain...
The best Ratt, has ever sounded.
Kicking ass EP, Ratt and Crüe were the kings of sleaze
Tawny Kataens legs!❤
totally different from the rest of their albums.............
This and out of the cellar
THIS EP IS NOT ON SPOTIFY ITUNES I HEART RADIO IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE ON HERE RUclips IT'S NOT AVAILABLE ON CD THAT I KNOW OF GREAT EP IT ROCKS
Get it on vinyl or burn it onto a cd
Got out of the cellar 1st, my neighbor friend of my sister, who had the hots for me, had the Vinyl Cop of the E.P. and gave it to me.
I tossed o.o.t.c.
Not sure why you’d do that
Wish there was a Side-B
parts of TELL THE WORLD (esp near the end of the song) are very similar to motleys LOOKS THAT KILL riff,or vice versa ,im not sure which came first off the top of my head.
THIS EP and OUT OF THE CELLAR is what RATT really wanted to sound like but after the success of OUT OF THE CELLAR the record company wanted another huge multi-platinum selling record and started steering them into a more pop-ish sound. INVASION OF YOUR PRIVACY was a hit but you could sure tell they were no longer the RATT of their first two releases.
Dokken came first with young girls, and then ratt, then motley I think. Nikki said "the song wrote itself" mainly because the song was already written for him
Pug127 🤘100%.
Pug127 hadn't not only warren demartini tried out for dokken before lynch, but juan croucier was with them for a year while in ratt, he had writing credits on breaking the chains. it doesnt show he specifically got credits for that song so maybe there was just inspiration but there still couldve been some help.
theres also a song on out of the cellar that uses the same riff, i think its in your direction and maybe even lack of communication, it seems to be way less present in tell the world than on the songs on that album.
@Pug127 Well, it started back in the 70’s as a Neil Schon riff before Dokken stole it, before Sixx lifted it… only to have Ratt swipe it. Just saying.
@@rickhutch2 do you know what song(s) it is because ive been trying to find songs that sound similar or where things originated from.
also is it neil or neal schon?
Best E.P ever recorded.
Great stuff boys and girlie girls! With apologies to you purists I do like the later version of Back for More the best out west
You think you're tough is a Great Song. The Refrain is excellent...a little bit buried in the mix but you still get how it was meant to be. Kicks Ass.
The Guitarsolos are Good on every Song.
Cool!!!
RAW !! love it
This is f........ awesome 👌 🆒️ 🙌...........
Bad ass
Hearing this for the First Time, i like the Cover Artwork ( the One from the Album with the white socks is also very Cool) and the Sound is Fun Spirited. I like it. It’s pretty Good. I am going to the Park now listening to it, maybe I see some Rats......Greets from Germany.
a love.🐀🤘🏾🤘🏾🇱🇷🎸. Rock.forever.
ratt n roll
If rat made another return expand based on this ep with added melody and timing changes without compromising on the heaviness
I have one of the original pressings
Is this the normal speed of the songs?? Because on ratt n roll I swear some of these tunes are way slower
Best ,...... Great Band.
THE BEST
Thank you love it.
We had so much 😊. Dated Robin Crosby 4 a short time. Was an amazing adventure, that's all I got! Woohoo