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Rhino’s celebrating the 30th anniversary of hair-metal group Skid Row’s breakthrough debut album with a new digital expanded edition.

The Toms River, NJ-based band, fronted by the inimitable Sebastian Bach, spent 1989 taking over the charts with their first album, supported with memorable music videos and a carefully-honed live act, serving as opening act for Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Mötley Crüe that year. Featuring sharp production by Michael Wagener (Dokken, White Lion), Skid Row has gone five times platinum in the U.S., having reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and spinning off the Top 10 hits “18 and Life” and “I Remember You.”

The 30th anniversary digital reissue of the album, released on Friday, January 18 to commemorate the album just a bit ahead of its original release date (January 24), includes the album outtake “Forever” (later released on the group’s first best-of in 1998) and an unreleased club gig featuring nearly all the tracks from the album plus a cover of KISS’ “Cold Gin.”

Download links and the full track list are below!

Skid Row: 30th Anniversary Edition (Atlantic/Rhino, 2019)

Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

Disc 1: Original album (1-11, originally released as Atlantic/Underground 81936, 1989) and bonus track (12, released on 40 Seasons: The Best Of Skid Row – Atlantic 83103, 1998)

1. Big Guns
2. Sweet Little Sister
3. Can’t Stand The Heartache
4. Piece Of Me
5. 18 and Life
6. Rattlesnake Shake
7. Youth Gone Wild
8. Here I Am
9. Makin’ a Mess
10. I Remember You
11. Midnight/Tornado
12. Forever

Disc 2: Live At The Marquee Club, Westminster, CA – 4/28/1989 (previously unreleased)

1. Makin’ a Mess
2. Piece Of Me
3. Big Guns
4. 18 and Life
5. Sweet Little Sister
6. Rattlesnake Shake
7. I Remember You
8. Here I Am
9. Youth Gone Wild
10. Cold Gin