They're both one dimensional and neither can really sing. Both would have made Motley Crue sound quite bad. Stephen Pearcy sucked and got old real fast.
― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
They're both one dimensional and neither can really sing. Both would have made Motley Crue sound quite bad. Stephen Pearcy, especially, sucked and got old real fast. Also, I think you took the crytically alleged comment far too seriously about Robin Zander.
― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, Vince Neil is better than Roth. Roth sings monotone. Most of Van Halen is unlistenable and his solo stuff just as bad. He always sounded like an old man and not even a rockin' old man! The bozzeebozzeebopzitteeboop routine was very fitting. Besides Van Halen I, all of that stuff is the most overrated metal perhaps ever. I hate Eddie's solos!
― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
"pavement-cracking". I like that.
Hell, I snagged the remastered edition of the album out of the discount bin a few days ago just for the first 30 seconds of the title track.
(And I don't mean that "T'n'T" track, either.)
― Edward Bax, Thursday, 18 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
A fair and valid point, but he wasn't always that bad. Well, actually, yes he was, but circa Fair Warning the rest of the band kept it in check.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
*spews coffee and bursts into laughter*
― darin (darin), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― asdf troll, Friday, 19 November 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
How would he really have nailed that kid's ear to the table? Without help, I'd imagine it's physically impossible to restrain someone while holding and hammering a nail.
Theatre of Pain... Since Nikki flat-out stole his name and they rehashed Mick's old Mottley Croo idea, did they steal this from Christian Death's "Only Theatre of Pain" too or is it a classic phrase? I assume it is just another thing Nikki "appropriated."
― asdf troll, Friday, 19 November 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 November 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― asdf troll, Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
On the way to work this evening, I dialed up "Primal Scream" by the Crue (from Decade of Decadence) and damn is that ever a fine song.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Brain fart. Unfinished thought....the point i was making is that Lydia Lunch's own memoir features parallel tales of lurid behavior and drug abuse (and lots of degrading sex) along with the obligatory brush with the paranormal. Seek it out.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― asdf troll, Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Hard to know how much of it to believe.
How old is Mick anyway? They keep playing it up as if he is 15 years older than the other guys.
― Edward Bax, Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Edward Bax, Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I bought the VHS video Motley Crue: UNCENSORED for $3.00 online right after I read Dirt and, guess what? The video was taped is during the Theatre of Pain album and they all look very healthy for junkies and alcoholics. They are not fat or skinny. They have chest and arm muscles that indicate weight-lifting is going on. They also are very sober acting and energetic. If anything, they seem like they are just beginning to party a little bit.
Also, on the video the story is that they were recording and someone came in the studio and said, "Well, isn't this a motley lookin' crew?" And that is how they got their name according to this video.
Mick Mars says "Theatre of Pain" is favorite album they've made and he sounds very enthusiastic about it.
This video is very Monkees-ish and if they were really as fucked up as they claim in Dirt, I really don't think making a video like this would've been possible. Imagine old Royal Trux trying to cheer up, get in shape, run around and act in front of a bunch of cameras.
Some of it is definitely true, like the musical influences and stuff, but I think they're just lightweights in the drugs and alcohol department so they imagine it worse than it was. Besides, if they were really that fucked up, they wouldn't have such great memories. I can barely remember college and there's no way I could detail it the way they've detailed their past 20 years.
― asdf troll, Friday, 3 December 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Something else really weird about the video is when they get to Mick's place he has something like 20 gold records on the wall. How is that possible?
― asdf troll, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link
when I went punk in eighth grade, 1993.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beebop Maggot (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I finally gave Shout at the Devil a try after years of vowing not to ever give Motley Crue a chance due to my dislike of Vince Neil's voice, the fact that he killed dude from Hanoi Rocks, and their later singles in general. This is actually p good! Dunno that it's gonna be something I spin a million times, but even Vince doesn't annoy me so much.
is their first album even better?
― carlton lutefisk (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Nope. They peaked with SatD. There are two or three good songs on the debut, and about that many on each of their next three (Theatre of Pain, Girls Girls Girls and Dr. Feelgood), but they only had one really, really good album in 'em.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 25 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
okie doke!
― carlton lutefisk (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 June 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
First album is worth hearing though. It's the second best thing they ever did by a fair margin.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 25 June 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
i'll probably get around to it
― carlton lutefisk (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 June 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
anyone care to rep for, or at least comment on MC's post Feelgood material? I don't believe I've heard a single song recorded after that Decade of Decadence thing.
― buffandmaxsgaydad (Pillbox), Saturday, 25 June 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
I don't believe I've heard a single song recorded after that Decade of Decadence thing.
I have, but I don't remember a thing about it.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 25 June 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
First, Motley Crue pretty much sucks. But second, I had no idea Mick Mars not only officially retired, but I guess has been in a legal battle with his former bandmates, accusing them of pushing him out but also of faking their shows, which is something, because they've sounded terrible for decades.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 October 2023 23:44 (six months ago) link
Mars has released a solo song. In the video, he splits into two versions of himself, one wearing a white overcoat and fedora, the other wearing a black overcoat and fedora. Viewers of a certain age will be very disappointed to learn that White-Outfit Mick and Black-Outfit Mick do not spend the video playing violent pranks on each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhdroC-PM0
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 21:54 (three months ago) link
Vince Neil is better than Roth. Roth sings monotone. Most of Van Halen is unlistenable and his solo stuff just as bad.
This is a fresh take.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 22:00 (three months ago) link