Say what you will but that first Motley Crue album rawked

I had an original copy on cassette that a friend of mine sent me from California when they were first hit the scene. I still remember how the liner notes said stuff like "Copy this and we'll break your face". It actually sounded better than the version that Electra released after they signed.... the vocals on the Electra version were more shrill sounding.

Also I think they dropped a song... Merry go Round and Round maybe... and it might have been Live Wire that they cut out all the background noise, beer bottles, and cowbell... don't know if they were trying to make it more commercial and less "demo" sounding... but it seems like they sanded the balls off of the album.

Give me a few min to google and refresh my rotted brain.
 
So it was "stick to your guns" which probably wasn't a big loss.... but let me find an A/B comparison of the recordings to show you:

Did the Electra version of Too Fast have this intro??? Shiiiit I don't think I've listened to this album since I was a kid.



And here's the original version of Live Wire the way I knew it.

 
I’d say everything up through Dr. Feelgood kicked ass, except for that awful hair ballads “Without You” and “Time For Change,” which are execrable.
 
jp_nyc said:
I’d say everything up through Dr. Feelgood kicked ass, except for that awful hair ballads “Without You” and “Time For Change,” which are execrable.
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Theatre Of Pain was probably the weakest album out of that run.
 
baimun said:
So it was "stick to your guns" which probably wasn't a big loss.... but let me find an A/B comparison of the recordings to show you:

Did the Electra version of Too Fast have this intro??? Shiiiit I don't think I've listened to this album since I was a kid.



And here's the original version of Live Wire the way I knew it.

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I just downloaded the 14 track version of the album on Apple music and the extra songs are stick to your guns, toast of the town , tonight...

I was gifted a copy of TFFL on vinyl when I was twelve so that'd be 1982 and then a year later I traded it at school to a kid you had an original era Deep Purple Machine head gatefold on vinyl....the warner Bros one where it had the Palm trees , etc on the label and there was also a weed resin stain on the inside :embarrassed: I kinda regret trading the Crue album but the Deep Purple was cool.

I was never a huge Crue fan but if you were a male kid in mericuh in Jr High in the early/mid eighties the Crue were huge and Shout at the Devil was unavoidable...I never actually owned any other Crue album but I've always loved the first album and have always kept a copy downloaded. There's a nice punk/glam thing going on with it.

*edit* that alt version of TFFL is on the 14 trrack "deluxe" version
 
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Ugh, they were not as sugary sweet musically as other hair metal, but they were hair metal nonetheless
 
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There were these two brothers that lived a few bus stops before me. Every day when i’d get on the bus in the morning, they’d have one of the first two albums blasting on a boom box
 
Love it.

I like to listen to it visualizing the 4 of them crowded around a 4 track wasted and fighting over who should be the loudest.
 
I remember a kid in middle school scribbled Molly Crew on one of his text books. I asked him if that was supposed to be be Motley Crue and I thought he was going to fight me. He then told me I didn’t know how to spell and motley isn’t a word.

but I loved the first 2 Crue albums. They lost me at theatre of pain.
 
Chad said:
I remember a kid in middle school scribbled Molly Crew on one of his text books. I asked him if that was supposed to be be Motley Crue and I thought he was going to fight me. He then told me I didn’t know how to spell and motley isn’t a word.

but I loved the first 2 Crue albums. They lost me at theatre of pain.
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I used to call Molly hatchet Motley Hatchet
 
I gotta say Tommy was killing it on the drums on this album....that's some sweet sound between the guitar and drums, really bass and even Vince's vocals are nice in this setting
 
wok said:
Ugh, they were not as sugary sweet musically as other hair metal, but they were hair metal nonetheless
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And @DdBob ... It's funny to hear different labels applied to music based on modern ears versus what music was labeled when it was coming out.

Most of my childhood, there was Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, and Classical in our house (omitting Country on purpose :wink: ) Everything else was up to the Artist or interpretation.....

This was a Rock Band


And this was a Rock Band


And this was also a Rock Artist


But using modern ears, labels, and each of the artist's discographies, these would be stamped "Hair Band Rock", "Heavy Metal", and "Classic Rock" or "Pop"... but they were all just music on the radio and my record player in 1981 and going into my 12 or 13 year old ear holes. :helper:
 
baimun said:
And @DdBob ... It's funny to hear different labels applied to music based on modern ears versus what music was labeled when it was coming out.

Most of my childhood, there was Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, and Classical in our house (omitting Country on purpose :wink: ) Everything else was up to the Artist or interpretation.....

This was a Rock Band


And this was a Rock Band


And this was also a Rock Artist


But using modern ears, labels, and each of the artist's discographies, these would be stamped "Hair Band Rock", "Heavy Metal", and "Classic Rock" or "Pop"... but they were all just music on the radio and my record player in 1981 and going into my 12 or 13 year old ear holes. :helper:
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I gotta disagree on the Metallica….we called bands like Exodus, Helloween , , Metallica, Slayer, etc THRASH METAL back in 83 onwards. We can probably blame metal for the micro genres but I also remember in the late 80s the genre of “college rock” which later turned into alternative
 
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I gotta disagree on the Metallica….we called bands like Exodus, Helloween , , Metallica, Slayer, etc THRASH METAL back in 83 onwards. We can probably blame metal for the micro genres but I also remember in the late 80s the genre of “college rock” which later turned into alternative
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My specific examples are from 1981. :helper:

Agreed that by 83 people started throwing out hypenated labels everywhere.... Acid-Rock, Glam-Rock, Thrash-Metal, BubbleGum-Acid-Funk-Pop-Thrash-Metal. :grin:

It's all music to me. Particularly since Prince was my constant from probably 1979 on... "Wanna Be Your Lover" and Kiss "I was Made For Lovin' You" were my favorite songs and the first album I ever bought with my allowance was a compilation with both of those.
 
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