Cum on Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot

For those of us from a certain age group, namely that came of age somewhere in the first half of the eighties there was a specific time when the hair metal bands came to the front. What ended with the pretty boys of Warrant, Poison and all the rest in the early nineties started with a band of most definetly not pretty boys called Quiet Riot.

To be clear they were not the first, or the best, but they were the first ones to break through in a large way on MTV. As all of us know in the first half of the eighties MTV gained increasing influence on the music business. This was of course when they played videos.

Cum on Feel The Noise was the song that launched acceptance of this music on MTV. It was a killer song. It still is. Driving the other day, with the radio on Classic Rewind on XM, when this song came on, like a magnet I had to turn it up. And up. And up. This song ages very well.

Quiet Riot came through Bangor sometime in the mid eighties. I think. I am pretty sure that is where I saw them. I know that Loverboy and Huey Lewis came through too. Kevin Dubrow and the boys of the Riot knew they had a good thing going. The chorus to Cum on Feel The Noise had just enough ambiguity in the refrain " Girls Rock Your Boys" to allow us testosterone filled boys to change a word or too as we shouted the lyrics back to them.

Next would come the title cut from the album called Metal Health which with it's Bang Your Head refrain was surely on target as well.

But Cum on Feel the Noise was for many of us the first exposure to the future wave of hair band pop. They were not pretty, they did not last long. They could however rock and for that short period of time they were on top of the world.