Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue
Steven Tyler, Bryan Adams, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander
Eleven Seven Music, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: ESM 340
EAN: 0846070034022
UPC: 846070034022
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This is an Enhanced CD, which includes both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Motley Crue: Vince Neil (vocals, shaker); Mick Mars (guitar, background vocals); Nikki Sixx (piano, organ, bass, background vocals); Tommy Lee (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Steven Tyler, Bryan Adams, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Skid Row (background vocals).
Principally recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, Canada in 1989. Includes liner notes by Alan K. Stout.
Motley Crue's biggest seller, DR. FEELGOOD is the best example of Beyond Music's CRUCIAL CRUE series reissue of the band's catalog. A meaty and in-your-face digitally remastered sound, with added extras of four demos and a hitherto-unreleased track, improve this title greatly. Superlative liner notes are also included.
Riding a string of platinum releases, Motley Crue here employed producer Bob Rock to help achieve the blockbuster sound that accompanied their glam metal image; the title track kicks in with a ferocity not heard since SHOUT AT THE DEVIL. Drummer Tommy Lee's shuffle propels "Kickstart My Heart," while singer Vince Neil wails to good effect on the radio-friendly "Without You." Crowd favorite "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" sensitively explores lesbianism, while the politically incorrect "She Goes Down" features guest vocals by Cheap Trick's Robin Zander. Although album closer "Time for Change" proposes a better future through social action, don't look for a deep message on DR. FEELGOOD. This is perfect pop metal.
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Motley Crue
Motley Crue were undeniably one of the most popular hard rock/pop-metal acts of the 1980s. Combining the theatrics and glam of Kiss with the hard power pop hooks of Cheap Trick, The Crue out-partied, out-rocked, and out-sold most of their competition. The band even managed to hit the pop chart with frequency with hits like "Dr. Feelgood" and "Without You." The combination of larger-than-life personalities that made up the L.A. band was too volatile to remain stable; singer Vince Neil and drummer Tommy Lee would drift in and out of the band from the '90s onward, but exposure from VH1's Behind The Music series and a tell-all autobiography kept the public's appetite for the Crue whetted into the 21st Century.
Bryan Adams
Along with Mellencamp, Springsteen, and Petty, raspy-voiced Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams embodied that brand of '80s music known as "heartland rock." His straightforward style connected with pop audiences, and his 1984 album RECKLESS sold more than five million copies. Adams's hot streak continued into the '90s, peaking in 1992 with the massive "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)," from the soundtrack to the film ROBIN HOOD. A late-'90s glam-rock makeover was largely unsuccessful, but he remains enormously popular worldwide. He's also branched out into dance and pop through collaborations with Spice Girl Mel C. and Chicane.
