Various Artists "High Voltage Box - The Ultimate AC/DC Tribute (US, Deadline Music, 2073-2)"

High Voltage Box - The Ultimate AC/DC Tribute is a tribute album to AC/DC, released in 2007.

Tracklist:

CD1

1. Bang Tango  –  Shoot To Thrill
2. The Vibrators  –  Rocker
3. Sister Machine Gun  –  T.N.T.
4. Tracii Guns  –  Whole Lotta Rosie
5. Day Glo Abortions  –  The Jack
6. 16 Volt  –  Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
7. Dave Meniketti  –  Night Prowler
8. Genitorturers  –  Squealer
9. Groovie Ghoulies  –  Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
10. Ugly Kid Joe  –  Live Wire
11. Dwarves  –  Big Balls
12. Psychopomps  –  Badlands
13. Pat Travers  –  Whole Lotta Rosie
14. Agression  –  Touch Too Much
15. Quiet Riot  –  Highway To Hell

CD2

1. Great White  –  Sin City
2. Terminal Sect  –  Who Made Who
3. Joe Lynn Turner  –  Back In Black
4. Birmingham 6  –  Thunderstruck
5. John Corabi  –  Shake A Leg
6. Flipper  –  Problem Child
7. Godflesh  –  For Those About To Rock
8. Lemmy  –  It's A Long Way To The Top
9. Angry Samoans  –  Highway To Hell
10. Dee Snider  –  Walk All Over You
11. Dr. Know  –  Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
12. Sebastian Bach  –  T.N.T.
13. The Electric Hellfire Club  –  Highway To Hell
14. Crash Kelly  –  Shot Down In Flames
15. Jetboy  –  You Shook Me All Night Long

Various Artists "Dirty Rock Two (UK, Kenwest Music, KNEW CD737)"

Dirty Rock Two is a Heavy Metal compilation, released in 1994.

Tracklist:

1. Gillan Mutally Assured Destruction
2. Tygers Of Pan Tang Hellbound
3. Venom Rip Ride
4. Motörhead Ace Of Spades
5. Girlschool Race With The Devil
6. Meatloaf   Heroes
7. Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
8. Juicy Lucy Who Do You Love
9. Black Sabbath  Paranoid
10. Uriah Heep Easy Livin'
11. Alice Cooper Freedom
12. Hanoi Rocks Up Around The Bend
13. Quiet Riot Metal Health
14. Samson Riding With The Angels
15. Nazareth   Bad Bad Boy
16. Ted Nugent  Cat Scratch Fever

Quiet Riot "The Wild And The Young (Single & Video)"

The Wild And the Young is a single off Quiet Riot III, released in 1986.

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:

Side A

1. The Wild and the Young 03:37  

Side B

1. Cum On Feel the Noize (Slade cover) 03:20
2. Rise or Fall 04:01  

Time:  10:58

Quiet Riot "Greatest Hits"

Greatest Hits is a Best Of collection by the band Quiet Riot released on February 20, 1996.

Track listing

1. "Cum on Feel the Noize"
2. "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"
3. "Slick Black Cadillac"
4. "The Wild & the Young"
5. "Mama We're All Crazy Now"
6. "Party All Night"
7. "The Joker"
8. "Stay with Me Tonight"
9. "Callin' the Shots"
10. "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" (live)
11. "Let's Go Crazy" (live)

Quiet Riot "Down To The Bone (Japan Edition, Alfa Records, ALCB-3058)"

Down to the Bone is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot, released by Kamikaze in 1995. It was recorded at Ocean Studios, Burbank Calif., The Track House, Van Nuys, Calif., and Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California.

After Quiet Riot reformed in the early 1990s, the 1993 album Terrified was released, although it failed to become a commercial success. The band soon recorded their eighth studio album, Down to the Bone, which was produced by lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow, with executive producer Ron Sobol. Like Terrified, the album was not a commercial success, and initially sold approximately 20,000 copies. Released via Kamikaze Records, a label purposely set up to release the album, the idea was that if the album became a success then the label would sign other bands that DuBrow would produce. In a 2011 interview with Sobol for Spark Plug magazine, interviewer Hugh Asnen asked of his work within the music scene into the 1990s. Sobol stated "In the mid-nineties Kevin and I started a record label specifically to release the Quiet Riot album "Down To The Bone". If the record would've been a hit, we had plans to sign other bands. And Kevin would produce them. Ultimately, I was lucky I broke even. The album sold about 20,000 copies. We recorded on an inexpensive budget. And one place where we were naive with the overall project's budget was with the cover art."

In relation to the album's artwork, Asnen noted "it was a great album cover.'" Sobol responded "Sure. But looking back, we spent way too much money on it. As far as the music, the style on the album was essentially Quiet Riot, but we chose to include a song written by another artist called "Pretty Pack 'O Lies". It was that grunge thing, kind of. Maybe Soundgarden. And not necessarily Nirvana, but taking on that "Lies" song, we were aware of those type bands. It was a good song, but I guess the time was passed for Quiet Riot, and only hardcore fans bought the album. There was a successful tour. But it was of smaller venues." Asnen noted "Well, personally, I loved the album when it came out. "Dig" and "Whatever It Takes" were great tracks. And it was always cool to see them performed live." Sobol replied "Those two songs were my favorites on the album! Kevin did a great job producing the album too. It was a great sounding record."

The album's artwork was inspired by the artwork of American progressive metal band Fates Warning's 1985 album The Spectre Within. Quiet Riot wanted a similar look for the Down to the Bone album. The focus of the artwork was to be the band's mascot character of previous albums. The artwork was later reproduced as posters, T-shirts, stickers, backstage passes, tour backdrops and sold as a limited edition print. The artwork's creator Ioannis, later sold the original artwork for $8000 circa 2008. He recalled "At first I kinda dragged my feet but then I really got into the technique and it turned into one of my favorite dark metal illustrations. We met at their hotel during one of their dates on tour and went over everything, both Frankie Bannali and Kevin Dubrow were great guys."

In the Billboard Magazine issue dated March 4, 1995, an article featuring a short interview with DuBrow stated that after MTV had made it clear that they didn't want to play clips of bands like Quiet Riot, the band reeled a remake of the Kinks' classic "All Day and All of the Night" for distribution via computer online services.

In a 2001 interview with DuBrow for Metal Sludge, DuBrow was asked to choose which album he preferred between Down to the Bone and the band's 1986 album QR III. DuBrow chose Down to the Bone and explained "A lot of people didn't really get "Down to the Bone" but I dug it. I thought it was really musical and adventurous. "QR III" was such an abomination because of the producer Spencer Proffer."

The album was released by Kamikaze Records on CD and cassette in America and Canada only. Like the band's previous 1993 album Terrified, the album was released on CD in Japan via Alfa Records, Inc. This was the only version of the album to feature two exclusive bonus tracks; "Slam Dunk" and "Love Can Change You". "Slam Dunk", written by DuBrow and Perris, was originally recorded in 1991 by Pretty Boy Floyd for the movie Switch. Additionally a newly recorded Quiet Riot version of "Slam Dunk" would later appear on the band's following 1999 studio album Alive and Well.

Tracklist:

1. Dig 05:51  
2. Pretty Pack o' Lies 04:40  
3. All Day and All of the Night (The Kinks cover) 03:16   
4. Whatever It Takes 06:24  
5. Wings of a Cloud 05:06  
6. Trouble Again 05:57
7. Down to the Bone 04:32
8. Voodoo Brew 05:50   
9. Monday Morning Breakdown 06:00   
10. Live 'til It Hurts 05:22  
11. Twisted 05:24  
12. All Wound Up 04:32
13. Hell or High Water 04:25
14. Wings of a Cloud (Revisited) 01:26
15. Slam Dunk 03:17
16. Love Can Change You 03:58  

Time:  01:16:00

Recording information:

Recorded at Ocean Studios, Burbank Calif, The Track House, Van Nuys, Calif. and Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Calif.

Mixed at Track Records, North Hollywood, CA.

Quiet Riot "The Randy Rhoads Years"

The Randy Rhoads Years is a compilation album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot that features songs from Randy Rhoads' time with the band in the late 1970s. It features previously unreleased material and some remixed songs from Quiet Riot's first two albums which were released only in Japan. These two albums, Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II, have yet to see any sort of release outside Japan due to the wishes of the Rhoads family.

None of the songs on The Randy Rhoads Years are the same versions that appear on the original two Quiet Riot albums. At the request of the Rhoads family, longtime Quiet Riot vocalist Kevin DuBrow remixed all the tracks, except the previously unreleased "Force of Habit" as its multitrack master tapes had been lost.

Lead vocals were re-recorded on all tracks except "Force of Habit" by Kevin DuBrow. In one case, he rewrote the lyrics with ex-Rainbow drummer Bobby Rondinelli. This track, "Last Call for Rock 'n' Roll" was formerly titled "Mama's Little Angels" on Quiet Riot. The drums on all tracks but "Force of Habit" were re-sampled, and the guitar tracks were played through Carlos Cavazo's Marshall amplifiers to duplicate the sound that Randy Rhoads achieved in Ozzy Osbourne's band. According to DuBrow, Rhoads was never happy with his guitar tone while in Quiet Riot, but very satisfied with his tone while with Osbourne as he could afford better equipment by then.

The song "Trouble" was sped up as DuBrow felt the original was too slow. DuBrow also added wah-wah to one guitar solo, playing the pedal himself through the original guitar tracks. Again, Rhoads could not afford a wah-wah pedal at the time of recording, but wished he had played the solo with one. "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" from Quiet Riot II was stripped down, leaving just Rhoads' acoustic guitar in an "unplugged" arrangement. DuBrow used triangle samples to disguise background noise that could not be removed from the track. The sole live track, "Laughing Gas", featured an extended guitar solo that was spliced together from two separate recordings. It featured pieces of Rhoads' later songs "Goodbye to Romance", "Dee", and perhaps his best known song, the hit "Crazy Train". It also features parts of the "RR" solo outtake that was lost and found during the mixing for the 2011 Expanded Legacy Edition for Blizzard of Ozz and was put on the reissue as a bonus track.

The package features only six of the Japanese album tracks in remixed or re-written versions. The rest of those songs remain unreleased outside Japan. The rest of the album is filled out with unreleased songs.

Track listing

1. "Trouble" (Original version from Quiet Riot II)  DuBrow/Rhoads  4:28
2. "Laughing Gas" (Randy Rhoads Guitar Solo) (Live At The Great L.A. Club The Starwood July 6, 1977)  DuBrow/Rhoads   9:43
3. "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" (Acoustic)   Steve Marriott/Ronnie Lane   3:22
4. "Killer Girls" (Original version from Quiet Riot II) DuBrow/Rhoads/Ron Sobol  4:18
5. "Picking Up the Pieces" (Previously unreleased)  DuBrow/Rhoads 3:12
6. "Last Call for Rock 'n' Roll" (Original version titled "Mama's Little Angels" from Quiet Riot)
7. DuBrow/Rhoads/Kelly Garni/Drew Forsyth   4:18
8. "Breaking Up Is a Heartache" (Previously unreleased)   DuBrow/Rhoads   2:52
9. "Force of Habit" (Previously unreleased)  DuBrow/Rhoads  3:10
10. "It's Not So Funny" (Original version from Quiet Riot) DuBrow/Rhoads   3:46
11. "Look in Any Window" (Original version from Quiet Riot) Rhoads 3:34

At the time of release of The Randy Rhoads Years, DuBrow said in the 1993 interview with Guitar for the Practicing Musician that two more releases were forthcoming. He mentioned a second volume featuring more remixed and unreleased tracks, including Quiet Riot's version of "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)". According to DuBrow, the release of any further tracks completely depended on their quality, and approval by the Rhoads family. He also said a home video release was forthcoming of an early Quiet Riot club show featuring Rhoads. This same video provided the audio for one half of the live version of "Laughing Gas" on The Randy Rhoads Years. To date, neither of these releases have seen the light of day; DuBrow had championed the release of the Rhoads material, and his 2007 death makes the release of any further Rhoads material unlikely.

Photographs by Rapid Eye, Cinema Music Group.

Recording information:

Recorded at:

- Crystal Recorders, Hollywood, CA

- The Record Plant, Hollywood, CA

- Morrisound, Tampa, FL

- Parc Studios, Orlando, FL,

- The Starwood, L.A., CA.

Mixed at Parc Studios, Orlando, FL.

Mixed (track 5) at Platinum Post at Full Sail, Winter Park, FL.

Mixed (track 8) at Crystal Recorders, Hollywood, FL.