Metal Health

Metal Health

Editorial Reviews
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Quiet Riot managed to wake up suburban America and ascend to the top of the charts even after their founding guitar god Randy Rhoads defected to play with Ozzy Osbourne. The band's biggest hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" was actually a Slade cover, but Quiet Riot delivered it with such drive and attitude that it became their own. Aside from that anthill-stomping track, the band's glam-bangin' debut Metal Health features such in-yer-face morsels as "Slick Black Cadillac," "Run for Cover," and the title track, all of which blended the image and good-time vibe of the Sweet, Slade, and Queen with the guitar firepower of Van Halen. --Jon Wiederhorn

Tracks:

Metal Health
Cum On Feel The Noize
Don't Wanna Let You Go
Slick Black Cadillac
Love's A Bitch
Breathless
Run For Cover
Battle Axe
Let's Get Crazy
Thunderbird
Danger Zone
Slick Black Cadillac (live)

Customer Reviews:

The rise and fall of Quiet Riot in a single album.......2006-09-20

THE BAND: Kevin Dubrow (vocals), Carlos Cavazo (guitars), Rudy Sarzo (bass, synthesizer), Frankie Banali (drums & percussion).

THE DISC: (1983) Originally 10 songs clocking in at approximately 41 minutes, this remastered version gives you 2 bonus tracks and almost 52 minutes worth. The bonus tracks: "Danger Zone" (unreleased studio cut), and a live version of "Slick Black Cadillac". Included with the disc is a 10-page booklet containing song titles/credits/times, original artwork and additional black & white photos, a brief 3-page intro, and thank you's. Recorded at The Pasha Music House in Hollywood, CA. Originally released on Pasha's label, this digitally remastered version is on Sony/Portrait/Epic.

COMMENTS: Disco was officially out a few years prior. New Wave was popular. Hard rock was coming back in. To many, American metal was still a question mark in the early 80's. The British/European invasion of heavy metal was in full force (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and the Scorpions to name a few big acts). In 1983 though, bigger albums than Def Leppard's "Pyromania", Motley Crue's "Shout At The Devil", or Iron Maiden's "Piece Of Mind"... was Quiet Riot's "Metal Health". 6+ million units sold and growing. As quickly as "Metal Health" rose (the first metal record to hit #1 on the Billboard album charts), the band fell from grace. DuBrow's antics were fairly well documented (difficult to get along with)... with other bands as well as his own. "Metal Health" was a solid album, and it's still a classic... but, it hasn't stood the test of time as well as any of the other albums mentioned above. For me, Quiet Riot was the definition of "pop" hair metal. "Metal Health" created the standard formula that all successful pop/hair metal bands seemed to follow... 1. Some aggressive hard rocking songs (""Breathless", "Run For Cover", "Love's A Bitch"); a couple of hits ("Metal Health", "Cum On Feel The Noise"), and a power ballad ("Thunderbird"). Quiet Riot's cover version of Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noise" hit #20 on the Billboard charts (#5 on the pop charts), as the title track hit #31. "Slick Black Cadillac" had minor success on the radio as well. Cavazo's "Battle Axe" is a short guitar solo - in the same vein as Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption". A brief history of the players is documented in the disc booklet - Quiet Riot being formed by guitar-god Randy Rhoads and singer DuBrow in the mid 1970's without much success; Rhoads and bassist Sarzo leaving QR to play with now solo Ozzy; Rhoads killed in a plane crash; Sarzo returns with Banali joining on drums and Cavazo on lead guitar. Some truly great songs here - my favorites are the title track, "Don't Want To Let You Go", and "Breathless". The ballad "Thunderbird" (though an ode to Rhoads) is musically weak. The bonus tracks - "Danger Zone" fits right in with the rest of the album (good stuff), but the live "Slick Black Cadillac" is absolutely horrible (sounds like an out-of-breath high school band doing a cover tune). The potential was there to continue (and more albums being released), but Quiet Riot never again achieved the success it had in '83. "Metal Health" is a classic in the "pop" arena of metal (4.5 stars).

The First Metal Album To Go #1!.......2005-12-04

I got this album after seeing the kick ass video for the song Metal Health. I couldn't get enough of it! I still enjoy cranking that metal anthem. Ironically Quiet Riot would achieve great success a few years after guitar legend Randy Rhoads left the band to join Ozzy. New guitarist Carlos Cavazo was no Randy but he could play a good riff or a wailing solo. The big hit off the album was the cover of Slade's Cum On Feel The Noize. It seemed you couldn't turn on MTV without seeing that video. But the album has other good songs like the emotional Love's A Bitch and the Cavazo guitar showcase Battle Axe! Then there is the ballad Thunderbird, apparently written about Randy who died in a plane crash in 1982, and the smooth rocker Breathless. The track Slick Black Cadillac is a decent song from the Randy years and Let's Get Crazy is simple but fun headbanger. The only song I never got into was Don't Wanna Let You Go. Quiet Riot's career would go downhill after the next album but Metal Health is still a good album despite some of the ridicule heaped on it.

Forgoten........2005-09-25

This shouldn't be on the part of the shelf with Led Zeplen but it should be on the shelf

BANG YOUR HEAD TO METAL HEALTH.......2005-08-02

WHILE THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM AND I DO REMEMBER WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT BEING 16 YEARS OLD, THE RIOT DONE A EXCELENT JOB OF COVERING SLADE'S HIT "CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE" FROM 1973 AND THE OTHER SELF PENNED HIT "METAL HEALTH". THERE ARE SOME OTHER GREAT (WELL KNOWN) TRACKS ON HERE AS WELL "LOVES A BITCH" AND "LET'S GET CRAZY". I DO RECOMEND THIS IF YOU DON'T OWN IT BUT, TOO THE UNDERTAKER (ISN'T THERE A WRESTLER CALLED UNDERTAKER)..QUIET RIOT WHILE THEY WERE A PRETTY GOOD BAND, DOESN'T TOUCH THE STATURE OF THE MIGHTY LEPP. AND WHILE THIS ALBUM DID SELL WELL, IT BY NO MEANS OUT SOLD HYSTERIA, SO HOW'S ABOUT A BOTTLE OF WINE WITH YOUR CHEESE. ENOUGH IS SAID

80s hair metal at its best.......2005-08-01

Metal Health is one of the best 80s hair metal CDs. Good melodies and guitar riffs, nice solo work and good screaming vocals from Kevin Dubrow. I just listened to this over the weekend for the first time in a while and it still holds up. The lyrics are juvenile but that's pretty standard for 80s metal. Sing along to the stupid rhymes, crank it up and bang your head.

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Bang Your Head!!!!!!!!!!!
Killed by Commerce
Bang your head! Metal Health will drive you mad!
A good pure solid dose of Mind numbing madness!
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CD'S

Metal Health
Quiet Riot
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000025TF
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Metal Health
Cum On Feel The Noize
Don't Wanna Let You Go
Slick Black Cadillac
Love's A Bitch
Breathless
Run For Cover
Battle Axe
Let's Get Crazy
Thunderbird

Amazon.com

Quiet Riot managed to wake up suburban America and ascend to the top of the charts even after their founding guitar god Randy Rhoads defected to play with Ozzy Osbourne. The band's biggest hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" was actually a Slade cover, but Quiet Riot delivered it with such drive and attitude that it became their own. Aside from that anthill-stomping track, the band's glam-bangin' debut Metal Health features such in-yer-face morsels as "Slick Black Cadillac," "Run for Cover," and the title track, all of which blended the image and good-time vibe of the Sweet, Slade, and Queen with the guitar firepower of Van Halen. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews:

Bang Your Head!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-01-03

Quiet Riot were the first of the 80s hair bands to get big. This album was the first metal album to hit #1 and did so by knocking down Michael Jackson's Thriller. This album is a must have for any fan of the 80s. Kevin DuBrow is a great singer, while Rudy Sarzo is a bass legend. Before this album, Randy Rhoads of Ozzy fame was in this band. Carlos Cavazo is an excellent guitar player and is just a notch below Randy. Every song on this cd is a winner. Fans of Twisted Sister will enjoy this metal masterpiece.

Killed by Commerce.......2005-03-16

When Metal Health was released, "Cum On Feel The Noize" was immediately presented as a single for radio play. It attracted attention from a broad cross-spectrum of listeners: it was hard enough for a lot of Metal-Heads, but safe for the Preps to "Rock-Out" to when they were overcome by the heady mixture of beer and hormones at the high school dance.

That meant it wasn't hard enough for ME. I was into stuff like Maiden, Priest, Krokus and WASP, and if the PREPS could bang their heads to it, well, I just avoided it all on principle.

Fast forward 20 years, and, in my first foray into the Internet, I stumble across "Metal Health" on a heavy metal Internet radio station. Maybe it was the 5th of Jim Beam I had downrange at the time, or the Hi-Grade pot I had for dessert, but something clicked then, and hasn't lost it's hold since.

Instrumentally, though over-produced within an inch of it's life, the songs' crashing guitars and hammering drums are still loud and sparse enough to catch your attention and start the inevitable nod of the head that leads to an all-out whipping of the top 12 vertebrae in your neck.

Kevin Dubrows' near-screaming vocals take this one over the top. He must have scalded his lungs, the way he snarled and spat his way through the entire song.

Every time I get the opportunity to crank this one up to 11, I do. and it never fails to get my heart-rate up in the danger zone and send cold shivers down my spine.

Too bad the rest of the album is so limpid and banal. But that's what happens when you try to write for the radio.

Bang your head! Metal Health will drive you mad!.......2001-10-16

To sum it up quickly this is simple, carefree, fist pumping, head banging, stereo shaking, riff making magic. It is hair metal's holy bible and packs more attitude then most of the movement combined.

You need not be embarrased to have this in your collection. The head pounding riffs of Metal Health and Cum On Feel the Noize (Both of which are anthems of the metal 80s) should suit metalheads just fine. The rest of the album also has some truly golden moments as well. (After listening to it you'll think Love's a B**** too)
So Cum on Feel the Noize. Even if you have a remote interest in heavy metal, this should be in your collection. In fact just for the first two songs alone a copy of this is valuable property. It simple, fun, great party music, and hair metal at its finest. Don't hesitate. Get it NOW!

A good pure solid dose of Mind numbing madness!.......2001-08-25

Quiet Riot's Metal Health album is THE HEAVY METAL album that I've been searching for since the 80's and I found a copy of this CD in the late 90's. The title track "Cum on Feel the noize' is THE ROCK ANTHEM of the 80's heavy metal rock decade! "Cum on Feel the Noize" has a very strong and agressive head pounding beat that will make you bang your head on the wall to the beat. Enough to raise the dead from the clutches of glam/hair rock bands. It won't let go of you because of its relentless and rapid intensity. Its lyrics are easy to sing to and can be sung by heart even without playing the CD! Its also the best party harty song of the decade and is still very much today! The second best track not to be outdone by the title track "Metal Health" competes on the very same level as "Cum On Feel the Noize" has the best head-pounding, power-cord tune. When I brough this album I became a true Heavy Metal junkie. This CD has plenty of mind-numbing, head pounding, brain-smashing, ear-shattering Heavy Metal madness that's guaranteed to cure and clense your mind of glam/hair rock soft marshmellow ballads. I tell you once you've heard both tracks you'll never go back to glam/hair rock bands because Quiet Riot "Is not a looser and they ain't no weepers" Yes, Quite Riot is the only CD that's got the right dose of Metal Health I and everyone else who buys this CD will ever need. Bon Jovi, Boston and the other Glam/Hair Rock banks can never hold the candle up the the Masters of Heavy Metal and their name is QUIET RIOT!

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CD'S.......2001-06-20

"Metal health"it's one of the most important rock cd's of all time, because all the tracks contains the essence of the 80's rock.The songs are powerfull and very voize, this cd it's very great.

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Metal Health
Quiet Riot
Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000065VLX

Tracks:

Metal Health
Cum on Feel the Noize
Don't Wanna Let You Go
Slick Black Cadillac
Love's a Bitch
Breathless
Run for Cover
Battle Axe
Let's Get Crazy
Thunderbird
Danger Zone [#][*]
Slick Black Cadillac [Live][*]

Album Details

Remastered with Bonus Tracks

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Yi Ching Music for the Health: Metal
Shanghai Kakaminzoku Gakudan
Manufacturer: King
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000DJWAN
Release Date: 2003-12-15

Tracks:

Metal Part I
Metal Part Ii

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Hospital Tested
The Health Program
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000N59CSI

Product Description

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