Generation Swine
Motley Crue
David Paich
Eleven Seven Music, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: ESM360
EAN: 0846070036026
UPC: 846070036026
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Call this album the return of the prodigal son, as Vince Neil was restored to the mic stand here following a one-album hiatus. GENERATION SWINE brought Motley Crue into the '90s by recasting their sound in the post-industrial mold of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. The Crue tried to revamp their image and sound by employing Skinny Puppy's Dave Ogilvie to mix half of the album and swapping their spandex and leather for black vinyl and nail polish. Swirling textures underpin everything from White Zombie-like crunch ("Let Us Prey") to an almost Primus-like title track. A reworking of a Crue favorite ("Shout At The Devil '97") features the band's trademark biting guitars, but the party boys of the '80s are all grown up now, as Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx write and sing about their wives and children in the sugary "Brandon" and the glammy "Rocketship."
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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.
