Friday, October 23, 2015
Artist : Quiet Riot
Country : USA
Release : Metal Health [Remastered]
Year : 1983
Genre : Heavy Metal
File Type : mp3 320
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The first metal album to sell a million copies...had several things going for it. It had a clever title (although New England band THE FOOLS had beat them by two years with their platter HEAVY MENTAL), a Creature Feature-inspired mascot and future OZZY guitar hero RANDY RHODES was a former member. It also focused deserved attention on highly underrated Brit glitter rockers SLADE via QR's successful retread CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE (they also tackled SLADE's MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW on the follow up LP). Other than the titanic dumb-fun title track, the rest of the record is by-the-numbers sleaze rock along the lines of LOVE'S A BITCH, LET'S GET CRAZY and SLICK BLACK CADILLAC; the final track THUNDERBIRD is cliched even by power ballad standards. Front man KEVIN DUBROW's scratchy screech was hardly a match for his hair metal peers and the group lacked the colorful, flamboyant identity carved out by acts like TWISTED SISTER and POISON...which may explain their inability to maintain the surprise platinum status of METAL HEALTH.
