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 ‎– The Wild Life Label:  ‎– F1-21911 Format: , LP, Album, Club Edition 
Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist A1Reach For The Sky5:30A2Out For Love3:32A3The Wild Life3:24A4Days Gone By4:34A5Dance For Me Baby3:20A6Times They Change7:07B1Move To The Music4:38B2Real Love3:40B3Shake This Place3:36B4Streets Of Broken Hearts4:39B5Hold On3:55B6Do Ya Know6:24 Credits Arranged By, Engineer, Mixed By, Producer, Written-By –  Arranged By, Producer, Written-By –  Artwork –  Bass, Vocals –  Drums, Vocals –  Engineer – , ,  Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals –  Lead Guitar, Vocals –  Mastered By –  Photography By –  Notes Columbia House Club Pressing. 
Recorded at Red Zone Studios, Pasha Music House.
Mixed at The Enterprise.
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York, NY. Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 0208314366142

At its best, Slaughter fills the same niche today that garage bands filled in the mid-Sixties – a speedy and loud but pretty and danceable combo with psychedelic pretensions and fashionable haircuts, imitative hacks from the git-go but perfect for suburban girls who need to break free of the seventh-grade grind. And shaking loose from that junior-high jungle is what Slaughter harmonizes about: When you get down to it, the band's 1990 MTV smash "Up All Night" was about a really wild slumber party. Pumping up pomp-gone-bubblegum drama

with antsy falsetto choruses, traffic-jam honking, grandfather-clock chimes, calls and responses and little kiddies singing "America the Beautiful," "Up All Night" packed as much offhand joy into its four minutes as any guitar-rock single this decade.

The Wild Life has a couple of aural extravaganzas that don't work so well – these guys paid too much attention to Queen's classical orchestration, and when they get heavy and bombastic, they're just klutzy metal clods. But when they keep it short and simple – which is usually – they'll make you stomp your hands and clap your feet. The rhythm section takes Led Zep funk and strips it down so it's all platinum hook – no art. Mark Slaughter sounds sweet even when he's trying to sound nasty.

They do power ballads, too, of course. "Days Gone By" is a real throatlumper. The seven-minute strum epic "Times They Change" actually manages to work in sound bites about domestic violence and the gulf war without being insufferable, and "Old Man" is a friendly hillbilly choogle. But this album's high points are its happy weekend-celebration shout-alongs: "Out for Love" (which drops heartache and cute clatter into its boot dance like classic Slade), "Dance for Me Baby" (imagine the Bay City Rollers with David Lee Roth doing cameo asides), "Shake This Place" (about staying up all night, then all the next day, too!).

The Wild Life has more filler than Def Leppard's new album, but Slaughter's empathy for its audience makes Adrenalize's nonstop hooks seem clinical. The title cut, on which our protagonist and her girlfriends gather to watch the city lights just like they did in "Up All Night," sums up this band's philosophy: "You'll feel like an animal that's been uncaged." A time-proven rock & roll notion: As soon as three o'clock rolls around, you finally lay your burden down. School's out for summer.