QR III (or Quiet Riot III) is the fifth studio album released by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was released in 1986 on Pasha / CBS. It is the last album to feature lead singer Kevin DuBrow until the 1993 album Terrified.
QR III is short for "Quiet Riot III". It is the band's fifth studio album, following limited release albums Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II, and major label albums Metal Health and Condition Critical. Following the massive success of Metal Health and the more reasonable success of Condition Critical, sales of QR III were lower, reaching only No. 31 on the US charts and only achieving Gold certification. It marked one of Quiet Riot's final plunges from stardom as only one more of the band's following releases would enter the charts at all.
This Quiet Riot album is the first album to feature Chuck Wright, formerly of Giuffria, on bass as an official member. He had performed bass work on 2 tracks from the band's Metal Health album. He would rejoin the band on an on/off basis over the years, and was in the current version of the group.
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.
Tracklist:
- Main Attraction 04:44
- The Wild and the Young 03:35
- Twilight Hotel 04:34
- Down and Dirty 03:15
- Rise or Fall 04:00
- Put Up or Shut Up 04:07
- Still of the Night 04:40
- Bass Case 01:00
- The Pump 04:01
- Slave to Love 03:57
- Helping Hands 04:12
Time: 42:05
Includes 16-page booklet, 4,000-word essay, full band involvement & previously unseen photos.
Recording information:
Recorded and mixed at the Pasha Music House, Hollywood, California.
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