― asdf troll, Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxi5qDQ4Xa4
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Some great posts in this thread, but really, it may be a cliche, but fuck me it's true: The first two albums are some of my favorite music around and I could give two shits about everything else the band did. Motley Crue to me defined a band that pandered shamelessly. This pandering was pretty good for the first two records because they seemed to be reaching for pretty normal things: If we write this song, we can get laid! If we write this album, we can get signed! If we write this album, we can tour like crotch-sniffing animals!
But then they pandered for successes far beyond the tits & testosterone and everything from that point on is as dead to me as Michael Corleone's rat fink brother. The fact that they reached those successes is really immaterial, though it allowed for an amusing book.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ EXACTLY. When they were poor scumbags they were kinda great.
― new hope for orang-utan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
The Dirt movie is such unrepentant trash it's kind of great in the post Ray/Walk The Line era of prestige music flicks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 August 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
Can't say that I had "Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee releases an Electro/Hip-Hop album" on my 2020 Bingo Card, but it's been a strange year.
TOMMY LEE
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RELEASES HIS HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM,ANDRO
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WITH TRACKS FEATURING POST MALONE, TYLA YAWEH, MICKEY AVALON, LUKAS ROSSI, PUSH PUSH, BROOKE CANDY AND MORE
Los Angeles, CA (October 16, 2020) – The making of ANDRO, “the year’s most galvanizing electro/hip hop record,” according to Alternative Press, was an adventure of musical discovery. On this record, we see one of rock’s most notorious drummers Tommy Lee step behind the board, seeking new talent from all over the talent from all over the world to enhance the high-energy music created in the time between tours with Mötley Crüe.
The music on ANDRO truly represents the music that Tommy was meant to make--and reveals the depth and range of his musical fascinations. The songs represent the male and female sides of music--equally important and equally powerful, influencing the name of the album, ANDRO. Androgyny is a combination of the essences of male and female genders and ANDRO is the musical manifestation of the concept. With elements of hip-hop, electronic, pop, industrial, and rock combined with nearly any other genre you can think of, ANDRO was created as an emotional release for this challenging year of 2020. Tommy and guests tackle these musical genre-bending bold tracks, in-your-face beats and high-level production. “I have a list of people I’ve always wanted to work with. It’s a long list! I’m a big fan of the underdog because there are people who are so talented out there. Because of the way things are now, it is just so fucking hard to cut through the abundance of music and fucking noise that is out there. Some of the artists I most love really struggle to see the light of day. But not everyone on Andro is an underdog. The album also features Lee's remix of “Tommy Lee” the eponymous track by Post Malone and Tyla Yaweh that was certified Gold earlier this month. Tommy's driving remix was created with the help of John 5 on guitars and produced along with his son, Dylan Lee. The track has been featured on ESPN throughout the NBA playoffs Tommy’s ability to expertly bring together musicians from multiple genres, countries, and backgrounds has awarded him with an album that sounds like nothing that has come before it. The video for Mickey Avalon’s “Caviar on A Paper Plate” was filmed recently in Los Angeles and it features Avalon doing his very own rendition of the garage attendants in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with Tommy’s wrapped Rolls Royce. “Working with everyone was awesome! They all took great lead from me, being that I am such a professional,” laughs Avalon. The video is a prequel to a Tik Tok posted by Lee and his wife, Brittany Furlan Lee, earlier this week.
“This pandemic has put a new spin on just about everything we do, and music is always the cure for what we go through. ANDRO can definitely help ease what fucking ails ya’ll,” Tommy says.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
I guess it's better than relaunching Methods of Mayhem?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Having just listened to the album, I would say no! :)But I am not the target audience here...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link