“Cum on Feel the Noize” by Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot took "Cum on Feel the Noize", a 1973 British chart-topper for Slade written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea, and cut it for Metal Health in 1983, trading the glam stomp for American heavy metal muscle. Kevin DuBrow hollers the lead like a man who has waited all his life for this party, Carlos Cavazo's guitar crunches, Rudy Sarzo's bass and Frankie Banali's drums hit like a wrecking crew, and Pat Regan slips keyboards in under the din. Spencer Proffer produced, with Duane Baron engineering.

The payoff was enormous: the single sold a million copies in the States and climbed to number five on the Billboard Hot 100, proof that a glam anthem from a decade earlier could still blow the roof off an arena.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.