It seemed awfully gay at the time, too, especially considering the album came with a poster featuring the band striking an alarmingly homoerotic shirtless pose. I read somewhere that Udo's wife wrote the band's lyrics.

I'm so old that I saw Quiet Riot right before they broke big in 1983, opening for Black Sabbath (with Ian Gillan).

I rank this number one on my all-time disastrous metal albums list, ahead of "LuLu" and Celtic Frost's terrifyingly horrid "Cold Lake". Any band can make a shitty album, but it takes a special kind of band to create something so awe-inspiringly weird and terrible.

I saw them live a few times back then and they were a massive killing machine, faster than fast and tighter than tight. They did a show at L'Amour's in Brooklyn in early 1985 (with WASP and Armored Saint!) that remains one of the heaviest and most ferocious sets I've ever seen.     

Wow, that was, uh……something, wasn't it?

I always laughed at how Paulie had that plastic covering on his recliner.  One part feared mobster goon, one part little old lady.

I dunno, I kind of thought he (Patsy) was genuinely impressed. I'll have to watch this episode again. 

The rage on Phil's face after he threatens to "ram that Discman up" Christopher's mother's "box" = Frank Vincent's finest moment on this show.

Re: clay pits, most of them have been replaced by equally hideous (and nowhere near as fun) condos and homes.

I live in Sayreville as well and I'm fairly certain that it ain't "heaven": quite the opposite, in fact. But it's always comforted me to know that Johnny-Boy escaped the cruel fate of being forced to work at "the steel mill" like the rest of us poor, blue-collar, uneducated folk without family in the recording…

"Hoes".

When Tony ends the call by saying, 'I'll see ya up there"…chilling.

Sister Peter Marie, I nearly forgot all about her. "OZ" is kind of forgotten now but yikes, what a seriously warped show that really was. Every single week something even more unbelievably vile would happen. By the time Keller was trying to seduce her that show had catapulted so far over the shark it buried its face…

My main beef with the finale was how they wrapped up (or tried to wrap up) the Potter, Charming Heights AND the Tom Arnold thing all in one fairly brief scene involving a big bag of sex toys. It makes me wonder why any of that was included in the season in the first place. Having a new, bad ass, law and order sheriff…

Re: the chase scene, no one stuck in that traffic jam had a cell phone to call the cops? Youtube would have been littered with "biker gang shootout in traffic" videos within five minutes. One of the most annoying things about this show is how there are never any consequences for anything unless it happens within the…

Heh, thought I imagined that line.

The way Benny pronounces "Vespas" absolutely cracks me up.

Remember, he was also exhausted from being up all night arguing with Meadow, too. Plus they "had the good donuts".

And when Finn fell asleep mid-fight? Classic. I'm pro-Finn, always liked the kid.

"Vito Spatafore is an ass-muncher!"