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- Artist: W.A.S.P.
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- Release Date: 1986
- Total Time: 47:53
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
While W.A.S.P. remained a gimmick-heavy live act (around this time, Blackie Lawless had a codpiece that would shoot sparks!), they attempted to grow musically with each successive release -- most evidently beginning with 1986's Inside the Electric Circus. While Lawless was the band's main leader and songwriter from the beginning, he had even more of a say in the musical direction by switching to rhythm guitar from bass when original guitarist Randy Piper exited the band (ex-King Kobra member Johnny Rod joined on bass). By selecting a pair of early-'70s hard rock classics to cover -- Humble Pie's "I Don't Need No Doctor" and Uriah Heep's "Easy Living" -- it was clear that W.A.S.P. wanted their fans to pay more attention to the music. But it's not to say that the group completely abandoned their brash heavy metal roots -- the U.K. single "9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." and the album-opening title track packed plenty of scream-along excitement. [The 1998 reissue contains a pair of B-sides previously unavailable on CD: "Flesh and Fire" and "D.B. Blues."] ~ Greg Prato, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| The Big Welcome | W.A.S.P. | (1:21) | |
| Inside the Electric Circus | W.A.S.P. | (3:33) | |
| I Don't Need No Doctor | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Jo Armstead | W.A.S.P. | (3:25) |
| 9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y. | W.A.S.P. | (4:47) | |
| Restless Gypsy | W.A.S.P. | (4:59) | |
| Shoot from the Hip | W.A.S.P. | (4:38) | |
| I'm Alive | W.A.S.P. | (4:21) | |
| Easy Living (Lyrics) | Ken Hensley | W.A.S.P. | (3:11) |
| Sweet Cheetah | W.A.S.P. | (5:15) | |
| Mantronic | W.A.S.P. | (4:09) | |
| King of Sodom and Gomorrah | W.A.S.P. | (3:50) | |
| The Rock Rolls On | W.A.S.P. | (3:52) | |
| Flesh and Fire [*] | W.A.S.P. | (4:38) | |
| D.B. Blues [*] | W.A.S.P. | (3:24) |
