Know Your Rodents

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Today's rodent-you-should-know-better is Ratt, one of the more laughably named multi-platinum heavy metal acts of the 1980s. Their hair is very pretty, don't you think? Formed in Los Angeles, their major label debut on Atlantic, thoughtfully titled Out of the Cellar (not exactly Beggar's Banquet, is it?), sold more than 3 million copies to headbangers and 12-year-old girls in 1984. Ratt continues to record and tour, but you wouldn't know it unless one of their venues burned down or they were arrested in some especially scandalous manner. In terms of album sales Ratt remains the number one rodent-related band, having easily outsold Modest Mouse and Alvin & The Chipmunks.