This article is about the Runaways album. For the British indie DJs, see Queens of Noize.
1977 studio album by the Runaways
Queens of Noise
Studio album by
the Runaways
Released
January 7, 1977[1]
Recorded
November 1976[2]
Studio
Brothers Studio (Santa Monica)[3][4]
Genre
Hard rock[5]
glam rock
Pop metal[6]
Length
36:37
Label
Mercury
Producer
Kim Fowley, Earle Mankey
The Runaways chronology
The Runaways (1976)
Queens of Noise (1977)
Live in Japan (1977)
Singles from Queens of Noise
"Heartbreat" Released: February 1977 (US)[7]
"Queens of Noise" Released: February 1977 (UK)[8]
"Neon Angels on the Road to Ruin" Released: February 25, 1977 (Japan) 1977 (Austria)
"Midnight Music" Released: March 1977 (Germany)[9]
Queens of Noise is the second studio album by the American rock band the Runaways, released on January 7, 1977, through Mercury Records.[1]
It's fundamentally a hard rock album, although it also exhibits influences from glam rock. While the album features a range of different tempos, most of it consists of the "heavy" guitar-driven tracks that have come to be seen as the Runaways' signature sound, although it also features two noticeably softer songs that have sometimes been described as early power ballads.
While stylistically similar to the band's self-titled debut album The Runaways, Queens of Noise features greater emphases on volume and musical sophistication. The album has received generally positive reviews and has remained the band's best-selling record in the United States.
^ abCatalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1978.
^Uhelszki, Jaan (13 November 1976). Parnes, Sid (ed.). "The Coast". Record World. 33 (1533). New York: Record World Publishing Co: 79.
^Original LP liner notes (online reproduction available here)
^Fox, Jackie (August 4, 2000). "Queens of Noise". The Runaways Remembered. Blogspot. Archived from the original on 2015-11-21. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
^Henderson, Alex. "The Runaways Queens of Noise review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
^Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. London: Rough Guides. pp. 893. ISBN 1-84353-105-4. A pop-metal pinnacle.
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