QR III

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QR III
Quiet Riot Quiet Riot 3--f.jpg
Studio album by
Quiet Riot
ReleasedJuly 1986
RecordedNovember 1985 – May 1986
StudioPasha Music House, North Hollywood, California
Genre
Length42:09
Label Pasha / CBS
Producer Spencer Proffer
Quiet Riot chronology
Condition Critical
(1984)		QR III
(1986)		 QR
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

QR III (or Quiet Riot III) is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot, released in July 1986. It's the band's last album to feature lead singer Kevin DuBrow, until they reunited in 1991, and released Terrified two years later.

Contents

Background

Following the massive success of Metal Health and the more modest success of Condition Critical, sales of QR III were lower, reaching only No. 31 on the US charts and not achieving any certification. It marked Quiet Riot's fall from stardom as only one more of the band's following releases entered the charts at all.

It's the first Quiet Riot album to feature Chuck Wright, formerly of Giuffria, on bass as an official member. He previously played bass on 2 tracks from Metal Health. He departed soon after, but rejoined the band on an on/off basis over for years. [3]

The lead single, "The Wild and the Young", is a stadium hymn to the energy of youth. Its accompanying video (featuring game show host Wink Martindale in a cameo appearance) painted an Orwellian picture of the future, where totalitarian militarists fought to wipe out rock and roll — a reference to the Senate hearings concerning explicit language in metal songs. The video received active rotation on MTV. [4] Another video for the promotional single "Twilight Hotel" only managed to get light rotation. [5] [6]

Track listing

Credits taken from album liner notes.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Main Attraction"
4:43
2."The Wild and the Young"
  • Proffer
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • DuBrow
  • Wright
3:37
3."Twilight Hotel"
  • Wright
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • DuBrow
  • Proffer
4:35
4."Down and Dirty"
  • Cavazo
  • Banali
  • DuBrow
  • Wright
3:15
5."Rise or Fall"
  • Dubrow
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • Wright
4:01
6."Put Up or Shut Up"
  • Cavazo
  • DuBrow
  • Banali
  • Wright
4:07
7."Still of the Night"
  • Wright
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • DuBrow
  • Proffer
  • Purdell
4:42
8."Bass Case" (Instrumental)Wright0:59
9."The Pump"
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • DuBrow
  • Wright
4:02
10."Slave to Love"
  • Stan Bush
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • Dubrow
  • Proffer
  • Wright
3:55
11."Helping Hands"
  • Dubrow
  • Banali
  • Cavazo
  • Wright
4:13

Personnel

Quiet Riot

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [7] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [8] 29
US Billboard 200 [9] 31

References

  1. ↑ "Quiet Riot QR III review". AllMusic . Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ Oliver, Derek (August 7, 1986). "Quiet Riot 'QR III'". Kerrang!. Vol. 126. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. p. 19.
  3. ↑ "Chuck Wright Interview". Music Legends. June 5, 2008. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. September 20, 1986.
  5. ↑ "Quiet Riot – Twilight Hotel (1986, Vinyl) - Discogs". Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved February 15, 2025.
  6. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 27, 1986.
  7. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN   978-951-1-21053-5.
  8. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Quiet Riot – QR III". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Quiet Riot Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
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