"Metal health'll drive you mad!"
A Los Angeles-based rock band formed in 1975. They are generally credited with introducing
Heavy Metal to American audiences with the album
Metal Health in the early 1980s. Often classified as
Hair Metal, their earlier albums in fact bear more resemblance to the blues-metal of
AC/DC; later albums tend to sound like
Aerosmith.
Discography- Quiet Riot (1977)
- Quiet Riot II (1978)
- Metal Health (1983)
- Condition Critical (1984)
- Quiet Riot III (1986)
- QR (1988)
- Terrified (1993)
- Down to the Bone (1995)
- Alive and Well (1999)
- Guilty Pleasures (2001)
- Rehab (2006)
Bang your head! These tropes will drive you mad!:
- Alliterative Name: Randy Rhoads, better known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne, was in the band from 1975-1979.
- Axe Crazy: The Villain Protagonist of "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" describes himself as almost literally this in the opening lines of the song.
- Car Song: "Slick Black Cadillac".
- Christian Rock: Parodied in the episode of The Simpsons titled "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star", with Bart, in order to keep him from converting to Roman Catholicism, being taken to a Protestant youth festival where Quiet Riot is appearing under the name "Pious Riot" and performing "Cum on Feel the Noize" as "Cum on Feel the Lord."
- Cover Version: Of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now".
- Dystopia: The music video for "The Wild and the Young" depicts a dystopian future where Rock music has been outlawed.
- Grief Song: "Thunderbird" which was inspired by Randy Rhoads' death
- Heavy Meta: "Bang Your Head," "Cum on Feel the Noize"
- Lighter and Softer: Beginning with Quiet Riot III.
- Real Men Wear Pink: The band members were famous for sporting polka dots, candy stripes, and blue (!) tiger prints.
- Revolving Door Band: 28 members over a nearly 40-year on-and-off existence.
- Sanity Slippage Song: "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)," an image that was extended to the album covers and titles.
- Self-Titled Album
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