Vinyl Record

Ratt - Reach For The Sky

Buy Ratt’s Reach For The Sky on limited opaque white vinyl from Kilmorna in Listowel—an essential LP reissue for glam-metal collectors.

LP · Metal · 1988

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1988 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Ratt’s Reach For The Sky is a sharp, swaggering dose of late-1980s American hard rock, built from wiry riffs, clipped rhythms and Stephen Pearcy’s unmistakably sly vocal delivery. “City To City” opens with touring-life momentum, while “I Want A Woman” and “Chain Reaction” lean into the band’s gift for direct, hook-heavy metal without sanding away its streetwise edge. The centrepiece is “Way Cool Jr.”, a bluesier strut that gives the record a looser swing and one of Ratt’s most recognisable grooves. Around it, “Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds,” “Bottom Line” and “What’s It Gonna Be” keep the guitars bright, muscular and tightly arranged. This is an album for listeners who want glam metal with grit beneath the polish: compact songs, memorable choruses and a rhythm section that drives rather than merely decorates. The opaque white LP reissue gives this durable catalogue title a suitably bold return to the rack.

Reach For The Sky captures Ratt refining the melodic attack that made them a defining name in American glam metal. Its combination of hard-rock bite, bluesy swagger and economical hooks—especially on “Way Cool Jr.”—shows why the band’s best records still stand apart from generic period nostalgia.

This 2024 Atlantic Recording Corporation reissue presents the ten-track album as a single limited-edition stereo LP on opaque white vinyl. Its distinctive colour pressing makes it an appealing shelf copy for Ratt completists, while the original five-tracks-per-side sequence preserves the album’s concise flow.

Bright, biting electric guitars meet punchy drums, elastic bass and sly, rasped vocals; polished enough for arena rock, but grounded by bluesy swing and street-level swagger.

What colour is this edition of Reach For The Sky? This limited-edition reissue is pressed on opaque white vinyl. Does this LP include “Way Cool Jr.”? Yes. “Way Cool Jr.” appears as the third track on side A, alongside “City To City” and “I Want A Woman.” How many tracks are included on the record? The album contains ten tracks, divided evenly across two sides of a single stereo LP.