Condition Critical
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July 27, 1984 |
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44:02 |
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Condition Critical is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot , released in 1984 . It could not repeat the success of the previous album , Metal Health, which had reached # 1 on the US album charts . Condition Critical is the band's second album to feature the cover of a song by British group Slade .
background
Quiet Riot achieved a sensational success in 1983 with Metal Health : It is considered the first heavy metal album to reach number one on the US album charts . Quiet Riot was subsequently traded as the American answer to Slade.
Condition Critical therefore contained Mama, Weer all Crazee Now, a title from the Slade group. The album was re-Spencer Proffer produced . The song Party all Night was released as the first single , but it was not a chart success; The release of Mama, Weer all Crazee Now brought the group 51st place on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The album cover thematically matched the cover of the album Metal Health, which had shown a man in a straitjacket and a metal mask. On Condition Critical, this man was shown lying on a stretcher on which he is fixed with a red belt, the belt buckle with the letters “QR”. In addition, three pairs of hands hold the man tight, with two hands reaching to the neck of the "patient". The man's chest is visible, in the area of the heart it is apparently open.
Track list
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- Sign of the Times ( Carlos Cavazo , Kevin DuBrow) - 5:03
- Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Noddy Holder, Jim Lea) - 3:38
- Party All Night (DuBrow) - 3:32
- Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet - 4:38
- Winners Take All (DuBrow) - 5:32
- Condition Critical (DuBrow, Cavazo, Frankie Banali) - 5:02
- Scream and Shout (DuBrow, Cavazo, Rudy Sarzo) - 4:01
- Red Alert (DuBrow) - 4:28
- Bad Boy (DuBrow) - 4:21
- (We Were) Born to Rock (DuBrow) - 3:34
reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for Allmusic that the album was "almost identical to its predecessor". Quiet Riot would "not only repeat the hard pop-metal hybrid down to the last detail", but would even throw in another Slade cover. And as with Metal Health , “this cover version is also the best moment on the album”, since Mama, Weer all Crazee Now is “the only song” that has “a catchy melody”. The rest of the record is “well produced” and has “a good sound”, but “the quality of the songs” is “somehow weak”.
There is currently no evidence that Rolling Stone Magazine described the album in a review of only two words in 1984 as “condition terminal” (German: “end stage”).
Condition Critical was awarded a gold and a platinum record on September 21, 1984 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1
- ↑ a b US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
- ↑ Rock Hard Encyclopedia; Rock Hard GmbH, 1998, page 317; ISBN 3-9805171-0-1
- ↑ Quiet Riot in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Quiet Riot albums on the US Billboard 200
- ^ Condition Critical in the German album charts on OfficialCharts.de
- ↑ Quiet Riot Singles on the US Billboard Hot 100
- ^ Review of Condition Critical on Allmusic.com
- ↑ Glam Racket: Quiet Riot-Live At Memorial Auditorium, Burlington Iowa, 1983
- ↑ The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards database