Label: Polydor Records (Japan), P28P 25069
Style: Hard Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:05
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 260 Mb
Charts: UK #5, AUS #86, CAN #17, FIN #2, GER #21, JPN #8, NOR #12, NLD #19, SWE #7, US #30. UK & FIN: Gold.
The album was the band's first with keyboardist David Rosenthal replacing Don Airey. The remaining members were the same as on the previous year's Difficult to Cure album.
According to Blackmore, the title came from a meeting with Jeff Beck in 1967, when the two were discussing Jimi Hendrix. Beck told Blackmore that Hendrix's guitar playing hit him "straight between the eyes".
The sleeve-art is by British artist Jeff Cummins and Hipgnosis, though has been described as "one of [Hipgnosis]' very worst; in fact, so bad, it taints the music." The original vinyl issue had the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve.
In an April 1982 interview with British rock magazine Kerrang!, Blackmore stated of "MISS Mistreated", "Well it's to avoid confusion that the 'Miss' is written three times bigger than the 'mistreated' but I expect we'll have someone who shall remain nameless coming up to us saying 'I wrote that song'!" That someone being David Coverdale, with whom Blackmore had co-written "Mistreated" for the 1974 Deep Purple album Burn. Blackmore had this issue with Coverdale previously when a rendition of "Mistreated" was included on the Rainbow live album On Stage.
Videos were shot for the songs "Stone Cold" and "Death Alley Driver", the latter featuring Sega's video game Turbo. Both videos received heavy play on MTV and were later included on Rainbow's The Final Cut home video in 1985.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Between_the_Eyes)
01. Death Alley Driver (04:45)
02. Stone Cold (05:19)
03. Bring On The Night (Dream Chaser) (04:08)
04. Tite Squeeze (03:16)
05. Tearin' Out My Heart (04:06)
06. Power (04:27)
07. MISS Mistreated (04:30)
08. Rock Fever (03:52)
09. Eyes Of Fire (06:39)
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