Alive and Well

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Quiet Riot

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Quiet Riot's peak came early in their career with the albums "Metal health" (1983) and "Condition critical" (1984). After these two fine efforts it started to go down hill for the band, due to the influence of L.A. based hair metal. I guess Quiet Riot have been active in some kind of form and line up throughout the years but they have probably experienced how hard it can be in the rock 'n' roll business when you no longer are flavour of the month. With "Alive and well", the classic line up have come together for another shot at rock. I can't say that the material is bad or lousy but over all it hasn't the same attraction like songs from the albums mentioned above. Maybe that's what the guys felt since they have re-recorded some tracks. The new versions are good but some of these "old" songs are better in the original versions.

Some critics would say that DuBrow & Co haven't realized that some 15 years have passed since they were in the spotlight and on the covers. If that's good or bad is up to you to decide, but if you choose to go for this album you will definitely not find any nu-metal, grunge, or pop. This album is traditional Quiet Riot and if you like their other records, I'm pretty sure that you will like this one too. Enjoy!