The remaining 6 tracks are more or less filler, with the exception of "Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet" despite having one of the worst fucking titles I've ever heard in my life, and a stupid chorus is actually musically pretty well written with some nice riffs. Goddamn what a bummer. Not that the previous album was the most spectacular thing ever or anything, but certainly the potential was there No one could ever have expected this kind of success; including of course the band itself, and out of all the confusion was this real disaster of a follow-up created.
Check out the short bio on allmusic. Understand that prior to this album, Quiet Riot were already a flawed band struggling with inconsistency, churning out about four songs of filler crap for every memorable song they ever managed to write. Now, imagine a pressured and rushed version of that band, pursued to capitalize on the enormous and unexpected success of the previous album; being not given much time to do anything in the way of progression and therefore opting to play it safe by simply releasing the same album all over again.
Except now with fewer and worse ideas due to said nervosity and label pressure. Basically, this whole thing just reeks of "out of ideas". Recording yet another Slade cover in "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and releasing it as the lead single ought to speak for itself.
As one can expect, it is quite similar to "Cum On Feel the Noize", except more grating; not quite as catchy, not quite as memorable and does not have anything resembling that incredible solo I'm sure that the Slade original did not have.
This very relativity is apparent throughout the rest of the album too. Same style of standard none too spectacular contemporary 80's metal think the scene's heaviest components, such as W. Essentially it's the same raw and live-like sound as the year before, so I'm not sure why - but while this sound gave the previous album a positive vibe of raw youthful energy, on here it seems that only the negative qualities of it are accentuated, giving it a vibe of that of the trashiest of trashy garage rock bands and sheer incompetence more than anything else.
They haven't forgot how to play their instruments right or anything, but as a band they don't seem to gel as well together anymore. They still know how to rock and rock decently well, but the execution just doesn't seem as smooth and flowing as that of 'Metal Health'. Even the mix appears a bit weaker, but that could be due to my copy of 'Metal Health' being remastered and this album being not had it been better someone might actually have bothered with that.
The first time you pop this one into your music listening device, I swear to God you'll check just to be sure you didn't pop in the previous album instead The first song is a damn near carbon copy of the first song on 'Metal Health', namely the glorious title track Well not actually, but no one will notice anyway, right? Then we get to the Slade cover, described in the second paragraph - it was track two then, it is track two now.
Finally at track three we get something decent and fairly inspired in "Party All Night", coming in as the second best song on here. He is really the waste of talent of the band; there are great little guitar bits and details in both lead and rhythm everywhere on the album that I won't bother pointing out well the intro solo of "Bad Boy" for one.
I think I dare to say he's a worthy replacement of, oh you know, that guy who left for Ozzy and tragically and untimely died in a plane crash only some two years later, what's his name again. At this point, however, the album takes a complete fucking nosedive. Awful messy riffage, bad double-bass drumming, no sense of rhythm, horrible sound After that we get to what has to be the absolute worst 80's power ballad ever recorded in "Winners Take All" - transcending "formulaic" and defying the traditional boundaries of the word "cheesy".
Had the whole album been like this, it would have been far and away the worst hair metal album of all time. But then, out of nowhere comes the album's shining moment at track six, namely the title track. This one is a fucking monster and also the best sounding and well-executed track on the album - imagine a far better version of Running Wild's "Roaring Thunder" fantastic band, so-so song.
Slow but powerful as hell - anthemic power at its finest, featuring an amazing blistering main riff played with perfect distortion and crunch and has a chorus with balls the size of CC DeVille's head that it just chopped off. As for the remainder of tracks I think another problem with this release is that most of the choruses range from uninspired to pretty fucking awful - aside from the title track, either they are recycled from the previous album "Sign of the Times", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and no, the latter is not just Slade's fault , pedestrian "Party All Night", "Bad Boy" or have terrible and flat-out anti-musical vocal layering "Winners Take All", "Scream and Shout" " We Were Born to Rock" or simply all of the previous "Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet".
Man, it would be so easy to just scoff this band for having no songwriting talent whatsoever and having achieved all their success through a song written by someone else also worthy of noting is that the idea of recording this cover in the first place wasn't even theirs, it was the producer's - but fact is, that only the second half of that statement is true.
While the two songs "Metal Health" and "Condition Critical" may not have had much to do with their commercial success, they both prove that somewhere deep down there was there actual talent, and huge potential of putting out a heavy metal classic. But alas, after the commercial flop that was this album, circumstances became more and more difficult and thus the band's fate was sealed forever. Two more albums would be released and flop even harder before the band split up, having already kicked out vocalist Kevin DuBrow for his shitty attitude towards press, other bands and their own label.
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