W.A.S.P. "Inside The Electric Circus (USA, Capitol Records, 0777 7 46346 2 5)"

Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by American heavy metal band W.A.S.P., released in October 1986 through Capitol Records; a remastered edition featuring two bonus tracks was reissued in 1997 through Snapper Music. The album is the band's first to feature singer and bandleader Blackie Lawless playing guitar, having switched from bass to rhythm guitar. It reached No. 60 on the US Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for 19 weeks.

Greg Prato at AllMusic gave Inside The Electric Circus three stars out of five, calling it "[an attempt] to grow musically with each successive release". Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered the album "slightly more simplified and hard rock-based" than previous works and reminded in his review how Lawless "in retrospect considered this record a failure."

Lawless himself has been critical of Inside The Electric Circus, going as far as to name it his least favorite W.A.S.P. album, calling it a "tired record done by a tired band".

Tracklist:

1. The Big Welcome 01:21
2. Inside the Electric Circus 03:33
3. I Don't Need No Doctor (Ray Charles cover) 03:26  
4. 9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y. 04:47  
5. Restless Gypsy 04:59   
6. Shoot from the Hip 04:38  
7. I'm Alive 04:22   Show lyrics
8. Easy Living (Uriah Heep cover) 03:11
9. Sweet Cheetah 05:15
10. Mantronic 04:09
11. King of Sodom and Gomorrah 03:50
12. The Rock Rolls On 03:52

Time: 47:14

Track 3 written by Jo Armstead, Nick Ashford, and Valerie Simpson

Track 8 written by Ken Hensley

Although, "I Don't Need No Doctor" was originally performed by Ray Charles, the W.A.S.P. cover is much closer to Humble Pie's 1971 version of the song. A video was made for this song.

Recording information:

Recorded at The Pacha Music House, Hollywood, CA.

Mixed at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA.

Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Blackie Lawless – producer

Duane Baron, Alex Woltman – engineers

Hans Peter Huber, Kevin Lehue – additional engineering

Michael Wagener, Garth Richardson – mixing

George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York