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Ratt (album)

1999 studio album by Ratt

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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Ratt is the sixth studio album by American glam metal band Ratt. Often referred to as "1999" by fans, the album saw the band's musical direction shift to a more blues-influenced hard rock sound and further away from their previous glam metal roots. This is the first studio album to feature bassist Robbie Crane.

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The public source identifies “Ratt (album)” as 1999 studio album by Ratt. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ratt, album and studio.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ratt, album and studio providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ratt (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.