Mötley Crüe (album)

Occupation

• John Corabi: vocals, guitar
• Mick Mars: Guitar
• Nikki Sixx: Bass guitar, vocals
• Tommy Lee: Drums

Motley Crue is the sixth studio album by American rock band Mötley Crüe and was published on 15 March 1994. It is the only album of the group, to which the singer Vince Neil is not heard.

Background

After the success of the album Dr. Feelgood from 1989 to 1991 released " Decade Of Decadence " 1992 Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars came together again in the studio. After a disagreement between Neil and Sixx the singer Neil left the band and was replaced by singer and guitarist John Corabi.

With access Corabis changed the musical direction of the band and textische of catchy musical in complex, spreading arranged pieces that convey an aggressively dark atmosphere. The band recorded the album title for the first time together on and processed textisch personal issues as well as fascism or stereotyping. In the song Uncle Jack Corabi processed, for example, learned that his uncle had abused the siblings of the singer. It represents less until then the usual glam metal band, but rather the one with a shot Zeitgeist seasoned, classic hard rock.

Musically, the album is characterized by excellent, very traditional solo play, precise rhythm guitar Mick Mars, as well as complex, intricate and solid beats of drummer Tommy Lee. Then there is the powerful bass of Nikki Sixx. According to the author of Vampster.com, Oliver Loffhagen, the orchestra -like ballad Misunderstood is one of the best pieces that have ever taken the band. The tour for this album had to be canceled after only a few concerts due to lack of concert goers, however.

The published in 2003 re-release contains three additional pieces that were unpublished or not easily available until then. Hypnotized and Livin ' In The Know were hitherto unpublished pieces, Baby Kills was originally released in 1994 on the EP " Quaternary ".

Title list

Success

The album reached # 7 on the Billboard charts and was a relative flop in the band's history, as the predecessors did better on the charts.

It appeared in the same year two singles from the album. The Singles Hooligan 's Holiday Misunderstood and who could, however, be placed with positions 10 and 24 only in the charts of " Mainstream Rock ".