I've been on something of an 80's music binge as of late, thanks to SiriusXM. Enough so that I actually went out and spent some money on iTunes picking up a chunk of early 80's hair rock to pack into the new iPod Nano; business trip to Minneapolis next week, needed a working player to avoid talking to the boss in the van for 9 1/2 hours. :)

I did not realize until I went to grab Cum On Feel the Noise that Quiet Riot had indeed covered the song. Lo and behold, one of my favorite glam rock bands had it first. I give you Slade. If you are an 80's child like me, you probably better remember them for their trippy renfest song.

I will now apologize for flashbacks I just triggered.

Brian

>I did not realize until I went to grab Cum On Feel the Noise that
>Quiet Riot had indeed covered the song.

Indeed, not only did they cover it, it's quite a faithful cover. And I seem to recall their lead singer haaaated having to cover it from Day 1, which naturally meant it's the song they're most famous for and have had to keep playing on the "state fairs and nostalgia festivals" tour well into their dotage, as is the standard curse of all hair-metal bands who don't die young. :)

(The title's a dead giveaway that it's originally a Slade song, though. I mean, this is the same band that gave us "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and "Coz I Luv You".)

Trivia: The Overseer track that's the first fight scene song in An Avatar in New Avalon is called "Slayed" because the chorus is a sample from Slade's "We'll Bring the House Down" (which, weirdly, is not spelled "Weel Bring the Howse Down").

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>Indeed, not only did they cover it, it's quite a faithful cover. And
>I seem to recall their lead singer haaaated having to cover it from
>Day 1, <...>

Yep. Their producer <i>insisted</i> that they record it.

Sadly enough, Quiet Riot had only 3 songs chart worth a damn and two of them were Slade covers, one being "Cum On Feel The Noize" and the other being "Mamma Weer All Crazee Now".

Heh.

I've never been a big music trivia fan, but I find this one rather amusing. Quiet Riot was my first indoor arena show when I was 13. My then soon-to-be sister-in-law took me with her and her high school friends to Des Moines for the show. Which did not go over with my parents very well, as we 'forgot' to tell them I was going.

Oh well, it was a good show. :)

Brian

British denizens of this forum, on the other hand, know Slade as the people who soundtracked Christmas.

Since it's August, they're already getting airtime.

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More useless song trivia thanks to the 80's on 8 weekly retro top 40 countdown. Both 'A Total Eclipse of the Heart' and Making Love Out of Nothing at All' were originally written by Jim Steinman for Mr. Loaf, who passed on them.

I wonder if Bonnie and Air Supply went in on a fruit basket as thanks.

Brian

>Both 'A Total Eclipse of the Heart' and Making Love Out of
>Nothing at All' were originally written by Jim Steinman for Mr. Loaf,
>who passed on them.

Couldn't you tell? Steinman's compositions all have a bit of a muchness about them. :) He also wrote Tyler's Bonnie Tyler's other hit, "Holding Out for a Hero", and "Nowhere Fast" from the Streets of Fire soundtrack, the latter of which Meat Loaf kinda-sorta covered later.

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The week's Top 40 they were replaying was Labor Day weekend 1983, which means I was still 9 days shy of 12. Hindsight, yes I can hear the Steinman in there. But back in the day, I just liked the music.

Although even then, Air Supply was a serious quilty pleasure. A preteen boy liking Air Supply? Uh, no! I, uh, like Devo, yeah. But I did like Devo, so that was cool. :)

Brian