Motley Crue: Klassik or Dude!

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?

is their first album even better?

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.

okie doke!

First album is worth hearing though. It's the second best thing they ever did by a fair margin.

i'll probably get around to it

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxi5qDQ4Xa4

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.

^^^ EXACTLY. When they were poor scumbags they were kinda great.

The Dirt movie is such unrepentant trash it's kind of great in the post Ray/Walk The Line era of prestige music flicks

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.

I guess it's better than relaunching Methods of Mayhem?

Having just listened to the album, I would say no! :)
But I am not the target audience here...

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.

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

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.