Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head (Metal Health) 

I graduated the the year this song was released - 1983. My final day of school, I came home, tuned into MTV and when this song came up I grabbed one of Dad’s beers from the fridge and cranked the volume so loud the glass in the windows was buzzing! Danced around the house like a damned fool because I was so glad to put high school behind me and didn’t even want to think about college. Man, to be that young and that happy about something so simple…..

I don't always listen to Quiet Riot, but when I do it's not quiet

Thank you Beavis and Butthead. Back in the day, you two introduced this ghetto black girl to heavy metal music 😍

MTV was amazing in the early 80's and I am so glad I was 13 in 1983..... today is my 52 birthday and in a lot of ways I never left the 80's.

80's metal is like NO OTHER!!!!!! Still rocks 25+ years later!!!

How many legends liking this masterpiece in Aug 2024 🤟

my mom hated this song. i played that cassette so much that is was nearly chewed up and barely recognized. one day after church, i was jamming in my room, she burst in and started ripping it apart... never forget the look on her face as she was pulling the tape out, literally driven mad. LOL!! my uncle got me another cassette for Christmas, much to her dismay. hahaha! to this day, i tag her in a FB posts occasionally just to remind her. > :)

🎶 "Well, I'mmm.. frustrated, outdated,, ..I really want to be overrated. 😆 I'm a finder, and I'm a keeper. I'm not a *loser* , and I ain't no *weeper* !" 🎵 1:40 🤘🤣👍

Fact: Metal Health, was the first ever heavy metal album to reach #1

If you’re in your late 40’s early 50’s and playing air guitar and banging your head, carry on. You survived the 80’s and lived to tell about it.

1983 was an INCREDIBLE year for Metal! Not just Quiet Riot's US debut but KILLER LPs from: Barnabas, Maiden, Ozzy, Motorhead, Witchfynde, Crue... not-to-mention the debuts of Dio, Slayer, Acid, Metallica...

Screaming through my cassette Sony Walkman back in 1984!!!

I grew up in the 80's and it was awesome. MTV actually played videos back then. Denim and leather, spandex skirts and shorts that girls wore with hair as big as Texas. Everyday some poor girl would get on the school bus with a curling iron burn on her forehead or neck and smelling of aquanet. We exchanged cassette tapes and records, vhs tapes if someone had them. We would walk to the gas station and buy a new coke, pack of Marlboro and a candy bar and talk about the chick from whitesnake videos or lita ford( before them it was Pat Benatar). Then hang out at the skating rink later that evening. Now I am 44 and overweight missing my teenage years.

When music was real music

We're all in our 50s on here reliving our high school years in Reagan's America.

HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES!!!! SAW THESE GUYS ON NOV 30. 1983 FOR $ 10.50. WHAT A HELL OF A SHOW IT WAS . JUST LIKE THE DECADE , IT WAS ALL GREAT FOR TEENS. MAN , I NEED TO FIND THAT TIME MACHINE QUICK!!!!!!!!!!.

Thumbs Up if you were: A. Not in Diapers when this song came out. B. Did Not learn of this song from any Type of GTA game or movie. C.Actually lived in the 80's with your hair long and a jean jacket, leather jacket, or whatever your fancy and know the true meaning of Rock, rebellion, and having a good time!!!

This music was the shit!!! Today's kids just wouldn't understand and if you do I applaud you.

50 years old . 2023 and this song still kicks major ass!!!!

Still banging my head in 2020!!! I'm 51 with permanent whiplash. It's all Good, Crank this up!!! 🎸🎸🎸🍻🔥🔥🔥🔥

Never shall we forget the unmistakable drum intro... RIP Frankie

Who else is still banging their heads in 2019?

Fucking awesome memories right here! Born in '73, and proud to be a 80s Metal kid. All the best bands from the 80s - Quiet Riot, WASP, Mötley Crue, Guns n' Roses, Van Halen, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, etc. Love to all my fellow brothers and sisters from the 80s, keep on rocking!!!

I'm African American I play this in the 80's ...MTV was the shit back then....

2024......... This shit bangs.............. It's legendary

Getting into the end of 2019. If youre still jamming this lets gets some thumbs up!! .\,,/

The Guitar 🎸🎸🎶 shedding is insane! Plus the singing is so freaking crazy 🤣🤣🤣 love it 80's rule

I miss the 80's so much!

the days of head banging,long hair and getting high on skunk weed....oh how i miss you

Can someone build me a time machine! I want to be trapped in 1983-1984 forever!!

Nothing compares to the music back then . People these days need to lighten up,relax and enjoy life a bit!😊

"I've got the boys...to make the noise" yes you did Kevin, yes you did!

Born in 1953, and this style of music is all I listen to. My 4 children think I am crazy. HELL YES!

A breath of fresh air after hearing some disco songs I personally cannot stand. Kevin Dubrow finally removes that dreaded straight jacket around 1:17 . Rest in peace, Kevin, Frankie and Randy!

My daughter is 8 years old. This is like her favorite song. Thank you God I'm doing my job. Amen

Classic hard rock anthem of the 80's

Kevin DuBrow imo, was one the most powerful metal voices in the early 80's. And I really liked his gritty style, especially the line: - ''I'm a finder and I'm a keeper I'm not a loser and I ain't no weeper'' - Fucking, awesome.

Devastated to hear about the passing of Frankie Banali. At least he's with Kevin and Randy now!

In 1983 this album was the way you tested your latest and greatest car and home stereo systems. Hats off to top shelf Pioneer, Alpine and Eclipse car stereo systems back in the day!!!!

The opening drum roll going into the A chord blew me away as a young kid, forever sold on metal at that point...RIP Frankie!!!

say what you want about glam, this song ROCKS

Young people today need rebellious music like this. There is so much to rebel against!

this song was an epiphany for my 9 yr old self back in 83. My soul was sold.

hate or like (I like them) there is no denying that they threw open the door for the 80's metal scene! I am 53 and still a metalhead!

RIP Frankie, you'll be missed. You cant write the story of 80s metal without Frankie and QR.

One Of Tbe Best Heavy Metal Songs Ever!!!!!!!!!

I remember banging my head to this when I was younger.Still enjoy it

"Bang your head. Wake the Dead." "Bang your head. "RAISE THE DEAD."

This was my first favorite song. I used to make my mother play the 45 over and over. I was 4 years old. I guess I was pretty much born into metal.

When I was about ten years old, I discovered my dad's record collection. I would play them any time I was alone in the house. One day, he handed me the Quiet Riot album and told me to play it as loud as I wanted before my mom came home. Somehow the input got changed on our stereo - and even though I turned the volume up, nothing came out. The speakers on this old 80's Fisher stereo were about four feet high, and a volume level of "3" was considered loud. I had turned it up to *10.* I pressed all the buttons I recognized, until I finally got to the inputs and changed it to "LP." Boom! Boom boom! The house shook - the thick glass paned windows rocked inside their wooden sills back and forth. Never have I felt such a sound again or gotten such an adrenaline rush. I turned it down to a reasonable - but very loud - level 4. Even at that level, that guitar riff made the house vibrate with each note. I was so afraid I broke something or would have the cops called on me, I stopped after one round of 'Bang Your Head.' When I told my dad about it, wanting to pre-empt any neighbor ratting on me.. he said "Wow... Cool! You _rocked_ the house! I always wanted to test the balls on that stereo. Good to know!" :-) Ahh... good times. I can still remember the feel of the house shaking when hearing that riff now...

This album, these videos, deserve to be digitally enhanced. This is a landmark album and it deserves to be treated as such.

I played this song for my neighbors. They liked it so much they threw a brick through my window so they could hear it better. Awww.. memories....Class of 1984.

I was born in December of 85’. I have an obsession with 80s music. I can’t get enough of it!

Who else was watching and listening to this on MTV in 1983!

R.I.P. Kevin Dubrow, Randy Rhoads, and Frankie Banali

This song was first played over the intercom at our sleepy little school in the small town of Hebron North Dakota back in the early part of 1984.

awesome song. God I miss the days when great music was made!

I was touring as a rock drummer in the 80s when "Bang Your Head" came out, and WE HAD TO PLAY IT! It quickly became my favorite rock anthem and I always looked forward to bashing this one out with the boys every night. The dance floor instantly packed out as soon as I rolled down the intro, and EVERYONE was banging their heads! I'm afraid that we must have contributed to a national brain-damage epidemic during those days. RIP Frankie. Helluva drummer!

Who's banging there head in 2020 quarantine

Just awesome. Saw "the band" live two nights ago. Lively show although none of the original members, Worth checking out.

I'm 65 and still banging my head

R.I.P Frankie Banali. You will be missed

If I had a nickel for every time I was in a padded cell....

Immortalized forever in Footloose.....for a few seconds!

Thanks for the un-skippable, 30 second, Ariana Grande ad!

Fun fact: The games that have this song involved are: 1. Guitar Hero 2 (Retail Demo) 2. Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s 3. Rock Band 3 (as part of the Rock Band Blitz (RBB) export) 4. Guitar Hero Live (GHTV mode)

I'm a head banger from the 70's-80's still to this day!!!

This was the first rock band I seen live. That was in San Bernardino, California 1984.

"I got the boys to make the noise" one of my most favorite lyrics

If you're here for Frankie Banali, hit the like button. RIP Frankie Banali, one of the all time great drummers.

We still got some Headbangers out there? Metalhealth!

Best download of this tune!

56yrs old and still rock n' it. Old School Rock as its now labeled still has the most loyal fan base. We're classics and just like cars, " They sure don't make them like they used too!"

I remember playing this cassette on my Walkman when it came out lol when I was about 12.

The song and band that started it all for me. Quiet Riot is the band that got me into Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music. I was barely 5 years old back in 1983 when I first listened to this song and loved it big time!!! Over 35 years later I am still a huge Hard Rock/Heavy Metal fan, and Quiet Riot's Metal Health album is still as PHENOMENAL today as it was back in 1983. I even love their follow up album Condition Critical big time, and I still listen to that album often as well. We knew that it was coming because Frankie announced last year that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer, but it was still incredibly sad finding out earlier today that he passed away. This weekend I will be listening to all my Quiet Riot studio and live albums . I know that their song Thunderbird was dedicated to Randy Rhoads, but this weekend I am dedicating it to Frankie Banali. He was an incredible powerful drummer, and he kept Quiet Riot alive these past ten years. Frankie can now get all the rest that he deserves, and the suffering of all the chemotherapy is over. My heart goes out to his family and friends. May Frankie Banali REST IN PEACE.

The Bang Your Head rock video was edited at Aberdeen Video, Hollywood CA in 1983.

I grew up to this song, and they did such a good job on the song. I also like the guitar in the song.

I am 17 years old. I have collected most of thier albums. I also blare thier songs on the way to school in my car. Damn, why was I not alive in 1983? I wish I was.

You guys are so lucky! I missed all of this being born in 97 man I wish I could have lived these days, good cars, good people, and most of all GOOD MUSIC!!!

Sitting on the patio with my dog , just sent this to my sixteen your old daughter. These guitar chords rock. Boom 💥 boom 💥 Na Na Na

I love kevin debrow he puts this band over the top with his delirium lol

Damn....old memories! High school, for sure! This was a time when we saw actual MUSIC VIDEOS on MTV!! Great fucking days!

I lived the HEAVY METAL BANDS OF THE 70's 80's&the 90"s&2018-2019

Always amazed Kevin DuBrow became one of the greatest rockers of his era, a normal dude whom reminded me of my dentist growing up ;)

R.I.P. Kevin DuBrow.

I'd rather listen to 6 straight hours of this than 5 minutes of rap.

Wish I was around for the 80s. Born 15 years too late but I still feel inexplicably strong nostalgia when I listen to this driving in my 1983 ford. Almost like I’m there.

I So Want This Mask!!! Who Else Is Rocking To This In 2019...

Dam I miss the 80s fast cars fine women and the Best music Ever. Glad I was there

This song never gets old it was great when it first came out and it's even better today a song that will span generation after generation

The last Jam I banged to before going to Boot Camp in 1983!!! Where did the time GO???? Dam! I'm an Old Dude with cool taste in music 😎

Still felt it today. Full force!!!

R.I.P Kevin Dubrow!!

"Bang Your Head" in heaven, Frankie!

“Bang your head METAL HEALTH will drive you Mad”🤘

I swear to god that the phrase "head banging music" became a thing after this song was released and has been ever since. I'm not saying it didn't exist before, but it became very popular ever since and I believe this song made it stick.

Still sounds great. That guitar tone is still just awesome. Loud and heavy yet it just fuckin' hangs in the air.

My parents grew up in the 80s.. and they're always talking about it.. how fucking amazing it was!! I love to hear their stories, the crazy ones haha.. and I'm a big 80s fan since I was 13 ;)

Saw Quiet Riot at the Starwood club in Hollywood and Kevin was incredible. Randy Rhoads was too so it was one of the few shows they played at the Starwood with Randy. They were not quiet by the way!

As a former mental patient, metalhead, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, Quiet Riot is one of my favorite bands now. Condition Critical is my favorite album. Music, (esp. metal), is one of the many things that got me through my psychosis! 😍 🐲🤘💯🔥