Live...In The Raw is the first live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by W.A.S.P. (fourth album overall), released in 1987. This album can be seen as something of a breakwater between the 'old' W.A.S.P. of the first three albums and the more mature sound of the releases that would follow. It is also hailed by many as their "best album", it is also the album to feature "Harder Faster", which is about the PMRC declaring them as "sexual perverts".

Line-up

• Blackie Lawless
  Blackie Lawless
  Blackie Lawless , is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and actor, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band W.A.S.P..In an interview, Blackie claims to have been born in the kitchen of the Rainbow Bar and Grill in Hollywood,...
  
   - vocals, rhythm guitar
• Chris Holmes
  Chris Holmes (musician)
  Chris Holmes is a musician who was born June 23, 1958 in Glendale, California and grew up in La Canada, California...
  
   - lead and rhythm guitar
• Johnny Rod
  Johnny Rod
  Johnny Rod is an American bass guitar player. One of the early bands he was active in was King Kobra, from 1983 to 1986. In 1986 he joined the heavy metal band W.A.S.P.....
  
   - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Steve Riley - drums, backing vocals

Track listing

All songs written by Blackie Lawless

Blackie Lawless

Blackie Lawless , is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and actor, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band W.A.S.P..In an interview, Blackie claims to have been born in the kitchen of the Rainbow Bar and Grill in Hollywood,...

 unless otherwise noted.

1. "Inside the Electric Circus" – 4:32
2. "I Don't Need No Doctor" (Jo Armstead
   Jo Armstead
   Josephine "Jo" Armstead , often known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. She co-wrote Ray Charles' hits "Let's Go Get Stoned" and "I Don't Need No Doctor", among other songs written with Ashford & Simpson...
   
   , Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 3:35
3. "L.O.V.E. Machine" – 4:31
4. "Wild Child" (Lawless, Chris Holmes
   Chris Holmes (musician)
   Chris Holmes is a musician who was born June 23, 1958 in Glendale, California and grew up in La Canada, California...
   
   )– 6:02
5. "9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." (Lawless, Holmes) – 5:11
6. "Sleeping (In the Fire)" – 5:23
7. "The Manimal" – 4:43
8. "I Wanna Be Somebody" – 6:43
9. "Harder Faster" – 7:19
10. "Blind in Texas" – 5:40
11. "Scream Until You Like It" – 3:26

1998 CD reissue bonus tracks

12. "Shoot from the Hip" – 5:16
13. "Widowmaker" – 4:35
14. "Sex Drive" – 3:41
15. "Sleeping (In the Fire)" (Acoustic) – 4:02

"The Manimal" and "Harder Faster" were written specifically for this album and the studio song "Scream Until You Like It" was recorded for the movie Ghoulies II. The acoustic version of "Sleeping (In the Fire)" is also a studio recording.