but this album is the best Crue album since Shout. I liked Feelgood, but this had more of the Crue I loved in the beginning than they ever would again. I hold to the idea that if it was called anything other than Motley Crue it would have been huge, Corabi got the shaft. This album is great from start to finish with only a few rough spots here and there. very underrated.
If this album had been released as a first album by some new band "with the original members of Motley Crue", it would have been a whole different story. Vince was (and is) too ingrained in anything titled Motley Crue for this album to have had a chance. It's not a Motley Crue album. What it is though, is an awesome rock album. I loved it then, and I love it now. I can't count how many times I had this thing cranked in my car while driving around back then. Great album, the band just needed to use a different name.
Again, I have to agree with SixxRoxx. This actually a really good album. Guitars are great, the lyrics are sound, the rock is... well, the rock is hard. This is really a good and sometimes great album. "Hooligan's Holiday" is one of my all time favorite Crue tunes. I think that "Power to the Music," "Misunderstood," and "Smoke the Sky" are great. It's just too bad that this isn't a "Crue" album. Very few bands have gotten away with changing their lead singers when that band's sound is so well defined by that singer. I can think of only two hard rock examples that have done so successfully (and one of them couldn't even pull it off a second time). Anyway, check this one out. It's actually really good, and it has held up very well for me over the years.
This album was obviously ahead of its time. I remember getting it when it first came out and thinking it was just OK, But now 15 years later, THIS ABLUM IS GREAT. I blast this in my ears while I mow my lawn all the time. John gave the band a great sound, but Vince is awesome too and is classic. Maybe they could have kept John on guitar with Vince and split the vocals like Gene and Paul do in KISS.
THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM! Amazing how it didn't sell!! Eventhough I've been a Crue fan from day 1 on the Sunset Strip - John is a much better singer than Vince. This Album is heavy & Rocks! Sad thing is it didn't play to the "lipstick" Crue audience and was "too" heavy for the time - if it would have come out say 2 yrs later... IT WOULD HAVE ROCKED! Download this one!!! Rockkkkkkkkkerssssss - songs like Hypnotized CRANK!!!! REALLY good songwriting on this dusty jewel. THEE most underrated Crue LP by far!!!!!!!!!!
You can get this on eMusic but nothing from SubPop?
This is a great album start to finish. John Corabi was such a strong force on this album. I wonder if this would of came out as a side project if more people would of jumped on. I think everybody that was upset that Vince wasn't a part of it, pushed this aside. But it has so many great songs on there, and such a heavy sound. To me, this is some of the strongest songwriting this band has ever done. Just happen to come out at the wrong time. I saw this tour in the same arena they sold out on the Feelgood tour. They had to rope off the other levels, and just have the floor open due to nobody buying tickets. Even giving them away the day of the show. Type O Negative opened up, and it was a great show. Just sad that nobody was into this album at the time. But I think I've listened to it enough times for half of the Crue fans that decided to give up on them. Long Live Crue!!!
