Quiet Riot II
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Quiet Riot II is the second studio album by heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...

. As with their first album, it was a Japan
Japan
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-only release. Although Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. Sarzo has played with many well known heavy metal acts including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.-Early life:...

 is pictured and credited, the recordings were made while bassist Kelly Garni
Kelly Garni
Kelly Garni is a Hard rock musician and photographer, who is best known for playing in the band Quiet Riot.Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Garni's family moved to Burbank, CA in the early 1970s, where he met Randy Rhoads...

 was still in the band. http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/quietriot.htmhttp://library.csun.edu/igra/bios/rhoads/qr.html

"Afterglow (of Your Love)" is a cover of a Small Faces song, all others are Quiet Riot originals.

This is the last Quiet Riot album to feature guitarist Randy Rhoads
Randy Rhoads
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would seek out...

, as he left the band the following year to join Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

's band.

Track listing

  1. "Slick Black Cadillac" – 5:10 (Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...

    /Randy Rhoads
    Randy Rhoads
    Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would seek out...

    )
  2. "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:17 (DuBrow/Rhoads)
  3. "Afterglow (of Your Love)
    Afterglow (Of Your Love)
    "Afterglow Of Your Love" is the unofficial final single released in 1969 by the English Rock group the Small Faces. The song managed to reach #36 in the UK Singles Charts....

    " – 3:37 (Steve Marriott
    Steve Marriott
    Stephen Peter Marriott , popularly known as Steve Marriott, was an English musician, songwriter, and frontman of several notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two decades...

    /Ronnie Lane
    Ronnie Lane
    Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands; the Small Faces where he was nicknamed "Plonk", – and, after losing the band's frontman, Faces, with two new...

    )
  4. "Eye for an Eye" – 4:02 (DuBrow/Rhoads/Ron Sobol)
  5. "Trouble" – 5:10 (DuBrow/Rhoads)
  6. "Killer Girls" – 4:50 (DuBrow/Rhoads/Sobol)
  7. "Face to Face" – 4:38 (DuBrow/Rhoads)
  8. "Inside You" – 4:49 (DuBrow)
  9. "We've Got the Magic" – 4:40 (Rhoads)

Quiet Riot

  • Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...

     - lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Randy Rhoads
    Randy Rhoads
    Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would seek out...

     - guitars, organ, backing vocals
  • Kelly Garni
    Kelly Garni
    Kelly Garni is a Hard rock musician and photographer, who is best known for playing in the band Quiet Riot.Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Garni's family moved to Burbank, CA in the early 1970s, where he met Randy Rhoads...

     - bass, backing vocals (uncredited)
  • Drew Forsyth
    Drew Forsyth (musician)
    Drew Forsyth is a Hard rock musician and lawyer, who is best known for playing in the band Quiet Riot.-Life:Born in Los Angeles, Drew joined guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, along with singer Kevin Dubrow...

     - drums, syndrum, backing vocals

  • Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. Sarzo has played with many well known heavy metal acts including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.-Early life:...

    = bass (credited, but does not play on album)
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