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| | Guilty Pleasures | | | Music Artist : | | Quiet Riot | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Bodyguard | | Release Date : | | 2001-05-29 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Vicious Circle
2. Feel The Pain
3. Rock The House
4. Shadow Of Love
5. I Can't Make You Love Me
6. Feed The Machine
7. Guilty Pleasures
8. Blast From The Past
9. Let Me Be The One
10. Street Fighter
11. Fly Too High
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 really fn solid
Submitted on: 2009-09-15 |
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This one may as well be their best effort ever. If anything, their most consistent. Knowing that rock music was not trendy anymore with people listening to a miasma of nu-metal grunge hiphop rap garbage, perhaps QR relaxed producing a dozen or so of classic hard rock songs.
Cavazo's humbucker fueled guitar sweats and screams as KDB (RIP) gives the performance of his lifetime. Hard to find, but worth the search! |
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 For Quiet Riot fans only
Submitted on: 2005-01-30 |
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This album does not demand a lengthy review. "Guilty Pleasures" is the most recent studio album by Quiet Riot. It was released on a small label, Bodyguard Records, that has since gone out of business.
This album contained the 'Metal Health' lineup that had also recorded the previous album, 'Alive and Well' in 1999. The songs here, and the album as a whole, can be considered an improvement on 'Alive and Well.'
The best songs here include 'Rock the house', 'Feed the machine' and 'Vicious Circle.' 'Street Fighter' is also a good song, that one sounds like it came off the band's 1984 album 'Condition Critical.' The intro on 'Rock the house' reminds me of Twisted Sister, slightly.
Other notable songs include two ballads. The titles are: 'I can't make you love me' and 'Let me be the one.' These songs are above average, but actually sound like the same song but with different lyrics.
In my opinion, 'Blast from the past' was a forgettable song and the title track, 'Guilty Pleasures' was weak.
The remaining songs are all at least above average or "good."
Finally, 'Fly too high' closes off the album. It sounds exactly like an acoustic version of the band's classic song 'Metal Health (Bang your head)', but with different lyrics. It has the same melody and vibe, just much slower, and it is acoustic.
The good songs on the disc are strong and will please Quiet Riot fans. Material from this album fits right into their set list. There are a few albums from Quiet Riot's back catalog that I would consider to be stronger than this one ('Metal Health', 'Condition Critical', 'Terrified', 'The Randy Rhoads Years' and 'Down to the Bone'). However, this one will not disappoint someone who is a fan of the band, such as myself. It does sound like more traditional Quiet Riot than some of their other releases ('QR' with Paul Shortino or 'QRIII'). It is a good return to form and the band achieved what they set out to do: recreate a rock record sounding like their 80's heyday.
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Back to The Asylum...
Submitted on: 2004-08-01 |
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What can be said about Quiet Riot beyond "Condition Critical" and "Metal Health"? How many prognosticated that with the flatulence of scrap metal grunge that this vociferous high-energy quartet would disappear, yet this did not occur - that riot may have gotten a little quieter, but that is only as far as "popularity" is concerned - yet that is not because the band has been diminished in its Heavy Metal content, but only because record executives lured the herd away from the genre that they may instead chew on some grungy cud, yet Heavy Metal remains its own entity, despite how many sheeple may be listening. It you determine you have discovered something that works for you, edifies you, grants indulgence, stay with it. As a matter of fact, it is indeed stratification to observe who remains standing after the next wave of trendiness comes along - it is more or less cleaning house, disinfecting the poseurs from the midst of what carries value and quality, as opposed to mere disposable consumerism and valueless quantity.
And so is the case with Quiet Riot, who, through this release, continue to propitiate that hard-edged head-banging, hand-stomping, feet-clapping fun without placation.
I was not sure what to expect when I slipped the CD into the Infernal Machine - would the music preserve or betray its integrity? Thankfully, the sound herein retains its heaviness - I immediately recognized it as genuinely Quiet Riot's, and not some watered-down mutation of its former self - I recognized the harmonious strains and the feral DuBrow vox. It is a compliment to the band that they have remained true to themselves amidst the morass of pop-faddists. Now, you will want to insert this CD into the Infernal Machine because, lo and behold, a surprise awaits you on the desktop - an .avi file featuring an audial documentary on the making of Guilty Pleasures. featuring members of the band elaborating on some of the lyrics, band history, musical compositions and inspirations, some private life relations, all explained in that characteristic effervescent manner.
The visuals are pleasing as well - the group, which remains solid as Kevin DuBrow, Rudy Sarzo, Carlos Cavazo, and Frankie Banali incite the Quiet Riot in full. They actually look like a Rock/Heavy Metal band, which alludes that this is who the band really is, on and off stage, musicians who play from the metal heart and truly live it. The cover image depicts a scene from the Adam and Eve mythos, partaking of the Forbidden Fruit which represents carnal knowledge, rendered by none other than a favorite Artiste Albrecht Durer, with the addition of the Metal Madness mask obfuscating the genitalia of the nude figures, which was an amusing touch indeed.
Another mentionable bit of commentary is that among the generally self-destructive or death & misery-obsessed plethora connected to this genre, QR is actually quite life-affirming with decipherable lyrics speaking of earthly indulgence, love and lust, living life to the fullest - overall fun, which, since its inception, has been what QR is all about. Guilty Pleasures is certainly a worthy addition to your Heavy Metal collection - the condition is still critical, so play it loud for your metal health. |
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I took a chance and scored BIG!
Submitted on: 2004-06-16 |
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| I took a chance and bought this CD really cheap from a seller here on Amazon without hearing any of it or knowing much about the album. Well, when it arrived and I put it in, I was ROCKED! This release is very impressive. The boys really did a good job on this one. Loud and badass just like Quiet Riot should be. I highly recommend it to both Quiet Riot fans and hard rock fans. |
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Quiet Riot still has it after all these years!
Submitted on: 2004-04-22 |
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| I just got this cd today, I can't beleive i waited this long to get it. This CD kick ass period!I have been a QR fan since 83 got my first Metal Health record when I was 9. Let me tell you Kevin DuBrow still has it, better than ever! I have bought a lot of CD's this year and this one is one of the best by far! Any true QR fan will love this CD. It sure sucks that they broke up late last year. It really bummed me out. Maybe they will get back together again and make a new CD! |
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