QUIET RIOT - Guilty Pleasures
June 18, 2001, 23 years ago
(Bodyguard Records)
Quiet Riot seems poised to make 2001 their biggest year since 1983 (and the Metal Health album). They?re playing arenas and summer sheds, VH-1 can?t seem to get enough of them, Kevin DuBrow actually seems to be making friends rather than alienating everyone and their new offering, Guilty Pleasures, sounds like what a Quiet Riot album should sound like. It?s got power and it?s got pop. It?s fun and doesn?t take itself too seriously. It?s a party, good-time rock ?n? roll album and, at the same time, features Kevin Dubrow?s best vocal performances in years, the steady bass of Rudy Sarzo, the erstwhile guitars of Carlos Cavazo, and the often imitated but never duplicated tribal pounding drums of Sir Frankie Banali. The album?s title seems to be inspired by the fact that in 2001 a good time rock ?n? roll album is taboo. True, this album isn?t on the cutting edge of what?s new, but so what? Stay young, have fun and listen to some Quiet Riot this summer.
