🎵 MOTLEY CRUE - LIVE WIRE REACTION

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[@jamescoleman8954]

Their first album is such a great album from cover to cover it’s all good

[@coltrain_4529]

I agree! So raw yet so clean lol

[@gforce1138]

I still remember seeing them @ Magic Mountain 🏔️, summer concert off this album & they totally rocked!!!!

[@vincegirvin4324]

This is when they were raw, rough and by far their best work. Not choked off by producers

[@itsalwayssomething7490]

I mean, Dr. Feelgood was a huge success and produced by Bob Rock. Its sonically their best album and produced 5-6 huge hits. Basically, they went a bit more commercial over the years and was never as raw or heavy as their first two albums. I always prefer their earlier stuff. But, Mick and Tommy always kill it, regardless of the era. There is always something better about less production value. And I get that commercial success doesn't mean greatness. I'd put up Shout at the Devil against anything. Motley Crue is certainly the best of the "glam" bands.

[@raymo6795]

I always prefer hearing the band rather than the producers, as in most bands first albums

[@IisDeeps]

Amen

[@rallypoint1]

For me after Shout at the Devil the sound, mood and grit changed…and not for the better. Just me.

[@andrewjones1071]

@@itsalwayssomething7490 Is W.A.S.P. a "glam" band?

[@loristone9242]

I became a Crue fan with the Shout At The Devil album, had to go backwards to hear this. I loved it. Still love it today. Motley Crue are the shyt.

[@marioguerreroii8509]

Me too👍

[@HyperInflation2020]

I think Shout is 1 of the Greatest 80s Rock albums of all time. Every song has a killer groove.

[@loristone9242]

@@HyperInflation2020 Facts!!!

[@FunkyMonk4Life]

This was my jam in 1983. 12 year old me lost his mind the first time I heard it. Didn't care for anything Motley did after Shout but this record definitely rings on the nostalgia.

[@terryjackson9395]

Yes indeed. Vince became a cartoon of himself. Literally got worse with every whole pizza he scarfed down. But Mick will always be a metal god. Seen them live so many times and just could never believe how much that one man could do.

[@carlroza102]

Was an 80’s kid myself. This one of my first rock albums!👍

[@zappothesaneOne]

Another product of 1971 - rock on brother

[@brettkenschaft4239]

Agree for the most part...Dr. Feelgood is a pretty damn good song though.

[@daverichards9141]

Dr. Feelgood is unreal!

[@ronachzet9714]

This is one of all time favorites from the Crue. I always loved the rawness of it since I heard it in '88. It sounds like a demo on steroids!

[@LA80sMike]

“Demo on steroids!”….👏👏 👏👏🤘🏼

[@HeavyTopspin]

The thing is that the Crue were sort of the originators of 80s hair metal, or at least the first to make it really big. Really their first two albums (this and Shout at the Devil) had that rough feel, with more than a hint of punk in their sound. As they blew up, their sound became more smooth and produced even as they were followed by the likes of Poison, Ratt, and so on and so on. Really the easiest way to put it is that early Crue was meant to be played in a club full of wild, angry young people. Later Crue was meant to be played in stadiums to 80,000 fans.

[@stricknine8623]

Yep, Crue and Ratt ! Although crue had a larger following Ratt hit the scene at almost the exact same time and their Out of the Cellar album went Gold and Platinum. They also had a special guitarist. I miss those days. I remember just wearing the too fast for love cassette completely out and buying another. Same with Out of the Cellar.

[@josepharchuleta3129]

@@stricknine8623 HELL YEAH!!!

[@nonplayerzealot4]

Even though Van Halen was the earlier band to explode off of Sunset, after Crue, you can see that even their hair got more "processed" than it was in the late 70s. And not just Dave. They started getting hair enhancements. Check Mike Anthony in Hot For Teacher. His hair was curled up pretty nice.

[@stricknine8623]

@@nonplayerzealot4 Hair was a thing during this time. The music varied. For example,, This style of music is nothing like Van Halen.

[@SargNickFury]

Best description I have seen. They transformed from Whiskey Sunset Strip to Corporate Radio. I don't blame them for cashing in, and even their later smoother sound was good music at times, but it's really the first couple of albums that remained raw and unrefined the way I liked them best. One of my all time favorite concerts was on the Girls Girls Girls tour, when GNR was opening for them. The difference was palatable. GNR was fresh and raw like the Crue had been a few years before, they felt dangerous. Hell they were dangerous they threw a jack Danial's bottle at us in the audience ..lol Then the Crue came out and did one hell of a show spinning drumkit and all, but it was a little too refined and produced after GNRs set. It was entertaining to be sure though. However, it was clear though that the bad boy crown was being passed.

[@footnotedrummer]

This whole album is a jam. It's the best Crue album ever.

[@hmpz36911]

Regardless of how they looked, or what became of them later, this song is without a doubt as Heavy Metal as anything by Judas Priest, Saxon, Accept, Diamond Head, or Savage at the time. It isn't even that different than a song like "Hit The Lights" by Metallica. Yeah glam metal (later called hair metal as a derogatory term) oversaturated the Metal thing in the 80s blah blah blah, but THIS is exceptional and deserves to be recognized as actual Heavy Metal, not mere glam metal.

[@MusicMissionary]

Totally. Only rock group from that scene that I took seriously. Still respect the hell out of them.

[@russellhamilton2877]

I remember them from the beginning. Loved them. Loud, brash, unapologetic and right up in yer face. Motley Crue brought the goods. I always loved them, still do. They still deserve much respect 🤘🏻🇬🇧🖤

[@Indigo2400]

Rock and Roll is Rock and Roll, it doesn't matter if its Glam or Grunge or Thrash aslong as it's Rock and Roll it Rocks!🤘🏽

[@hmpz36911]

@@Indigo2400 Ok Billy Joel ("it's still rock n roll to me"), jk. I see it a bit differently, I suppose.

[@andrewstableford9781]

This is actually very well executed punk rock. That was the scene in Hollywood in the early 80’s.

[@jsipler]

This was their first, and in my opinion their best album. I especially loved Tommy’s use of the cowbell in most of the songs I’m this album. I always wondered why he didn’t use cowbells in later albums.

[@ShellyShinju]

My favorite part of this song is the end, where the Mick and Nikki pause and let Tommy fill with drums and cowbell. 😊

[@jsipler]

@@ShellyShinju he used the cowbells in almost every song on this album. More drummers should use them!

[@stixxnstonerz3450]

I got a fever! And the only cure is more cowbell. You can never have too much cowbell 😁

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@stixxnstonerz3450 MOAR COWBELL

[@MetalHeart8787]

I guess that he didn't want to over do it & this Album was special, Just like how many Bands only use ONE instrument for that one special song. a good example is AC/DC using Bag pipes for it's a long way to the Top,.

[@pdbordelon]

A very underrated album and other than Shout at The Devil this is the only Crue I ever really liked.

[@jamesfetcho6315]

Same

[@grobinson7507]

Pure talent. Motley was pretty heavy when they came out. I remember hearing and seeing them on MTV. This launched Motley. No one sang like Vince. 🤯

[@HyperInflation2020]

Lex is so pleasant to look at and listen to as she speaks.

[@sca88]

Their first album is still their best album.

[@75yellowraven]

First album punk meets metal meets glam. Nothing had really ever sounded like this before (1981). I discovered it while riding a bus to school, and a kid near me was playing it on his boom box! And on that same bus was an unknown actress named Gina Davis. She had more makeup on than anyone I had ever seen, and still could have used more. I believe She may have been in her way to audition for tootsie. Which was her first role!!

[@hellechristiansen2978]

This is very early Crüe, their first album in 1981 "Too fast for love " and there is actually a video to this song, Live Wire. Mötley Crüe has always had this amazing special sound with Mick Mars on leadguitar. Not quite heavy metal but really good rock'n roll with blues in it too. Mick brought the blues in so many of the songs. I think this song is very inspired by punkrock aswell. A big mix of different kind of music has always inspired the bassplayer Nikki Sixx who wrote most of their songs. On every album they changed their looks and the sound ( a bit) but they always made really good music, good rock'n roll, that's why they are my favorite band. Check out a great song called "Primal Scream " from early 90,s with an amazing riff and some of their music a little later. They changed their frontman for one album. He,s called John Corabi and they made a really great album with him too, with a totally different sound. Check out a song called "Hooligans Hollyday". Later songs with Vince Neil back in the band : Affraid, Find myself, Anarchy (Sex Pistols) From the 00,s : Saints of Los Angeles, "The Dirt" with Mgk. And they are still going strong. Big Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett in 2022. Check out some live performance from Mötley aswell, from their "Carnival of Sin " tour in 2005. Just amazing pyrotecnics, sound and stageshow. But they always had that.

[@jbranum3087]

The first two albums were a guilty pleasure but they quickly became a parody of themselves. I'd say the taco bell of heavy metal. They definitely have their place.

[@jsipler]

The Taco Bell of heavy metal.... well said. I still liked most of their later stuff but your analogy is still true.

[@debratroeak77]

This takes me back to junior high. My friends and I were so blown away by this band. Of course as the years went by they have evolved into a far more talented band but when this album came out, it was new and fresh and new metal at the time. Fun times 🤟🏼

[@ellenryan701]

Love this song!!!!! Your reactions are 🔥🔥🔥

[@gonzalomartinezmetalhead]

Motley Crue, one of my favorite bands and in my opinion the best heavy / glam metal band there is. This song is a timeless classic with raw power, a fast paced punkie sound and street attitude. Taken off of their first album Too fast for love, an awesome album!

[@Rob-eo5ql]

The whole album is one long song about a night on the Sunset Strip. Live Wire goes straight into the second song, Public Enemy #, and so on. The final song on the album, On With The Show, the ballad, is about the “death” of Frankie and the birth of Nikki Sixx (his real name is Frankie, he legally changed it).

[@nicholasn6698]

I was and still am into Punk , but Crue just had that crazy ass energy and they represented L. A. vibe and scene on the Strip real well.

[@robertbanks162]

I grew up in the 80's, The Crue🤘was ONE of the First & Original "METAL" bands! In fact, I'm sure most of the other metal bands in that era would concede and agree that Motley Crue were definitely the "BAD BOYS" of the Metal scene!!! Truly Debacherous Rock &Roll Lifestyle 🤘😖

[@SargNickFury]

I love the Crue, they're one of my first rock concerts, and I had all their albums...but they are NOT Metal. It's Hard Rock...the Glam Rock got re packaged as "Hair metal" or "Glam Metal", but it doesn't sound like Metal....it sounds like Hard Rock. Some of the best 80's Hard Rock there is, but it's just not metal. That's not a slight against it, just what genre it is and isn't.

[@robertbanks162]

Young ones used to be taught to educate themselves before trying to tell their Elders what IS, and what IS NOT! I would bet anything that You would tell an Italian that his Spaghetti was wrong, and that you got your first "concert tee" at Walmart! You wouldn't know Metal if the Mage himself, Ronnie James Dio (God rest his golden bones🤘) floated down from "Metal Heaven", and took a HOLY DIVER DUMP on your gameboy console! Don't try to tell people who were THERE... what it WAS. Put your little controller down, and Learn something from people who were actually ALIVE back then. I know it will NOT do any good to try to school a "INTERNET ARMCHAIR CRITIC", but I tried! Not trying to be MEAN, but to educate. Your WIKIPEDIA & FM radio perspectives need a "Backstage Pass", and some ticket stubs to back it up! My Apologies that I have LEARNED to NOT suffer FOOLS lightly. Maybe we'll see ya at the Backstreet Boys reunion... good luck Young one! Ps. Your Ma said it's OK for you to have more "GAME TIME", but ONLY after you wash your cereal bowl ! HARD ROCKER 🤘🧐 😂🤣😭

[@SargNickFury]

@@robertbanks162 Young One? I seriously doubt your much older than I, if at all. Your mullet is talking crazy smack again. I don't need to educate myself in what I directly experienced in the 70's and 80s. The fact you still won't give up on calling the Crue metal says everything that needs to be said on who doesn't know wtf metal is. Dio..is Metal. The Crue isn't. I might give them one or two songs being borderline. "Looks that Kill" maybe but even it isn't as metal as early Judas Preists - Sad Wings of Destiny, which was just entering the metal era barely almost a decade before. By the time the Crue was out metal was pretty well defined. It was only after the Hard Rock scene was fizzling and metal was taking over they tried to rename glam rock, into "hair metal" terms used after the fact to stay relevant. However overwhelmingly everything on their playlist was hard rock with catchy pop hooks. It was good music, but really doesn't fit the metal genre. Did they live metal? Maybe. I won't argue that, but I could think of some country singers and likely pop artists that lived the metal lifestyle, but didn't sing or play one metal track. They certainly opened for some honest to God metal bands as well. I was at the Motley Crue Concerts as well as Metal concerts in the 80's not an armchair critic or an internet poser who feels the need to talk smack from his basement. I think I may have saw Nikki spin over me at the arena, at which point I thought this is a pretty damn cool HARD ROCK show. But to put them in the catagory of Dio? WTF? Your metal credentials are destroyed by an opinion that would illicit groans and cringe back in the day. The fool you daily suffer is yourself and your false bravado and childish arrogance. I got ass hairs that have seen more 80's metal concerts then you likely have. My guess is that you were still a rug rat watching your "Crue metal" on VH1, and if not how very sad that for 4 decades you have kept to an argument that nearly NO ONE in heavy metal agrees with. Motley Crue is a fantastic hard rock band though.

[@robertbanks162]

That sounds like a Young One crying again... hang-on, let me move your Mothers arm so I can come tuck you in and sing you a nice Backstreet Boys Ballad... shh... shhhhh! Your up way past your bedtime Young one, that's why your so fussy! It was a Hard (rock) day of school for you... now,now,now, go to sleep Young One. After yer Mom gets a shower, AND YOU WASH YOUR CEREAL BOWL...we have to bring your Gameboy back to the Rent-A-Center, and THEN drop you off at Grandma's house! Sleep Tight Little Rocker!🤘🤣

[@josephrotenberry6837]

Saw the Crue live in 1987. Still one of the best live shows I've seen and I saw a metric crap-ton in the 80's

[@SillyGoose2024]

I'm not sure metric crap-ton is a standard unit of measure.

[@josephrotenberry6837]

@@SillyGoose2024 I just didn't want to risk alienating any Canucks who might've read my comment.

[@SillyGoose2024]

@@josephrotenberry6837 well if you are a Canuck then maybe you are familiar with my favorite band, Big Wreck, from Canada, who once opened for Motley Crue, in fact.

[@josephrotenberry6837]

@@SillyGoose2024 I am most definitely NOT a Canuck. Spent what seemed like 3 months there in one week in Sudbury, ON in January and had my fill.

[@SillyGoose2024]

@@josephrotenberry6837 nevermind then

[@paulrodsted3905]

This is the first motley crue song I heard..... Me and my friends heard this when it first came out.... 👍

[@lnugent1000]

This was my teenage years! I saw them in concert twice in 1986.

[@DavidSmith-is4ph]

I don't think they toured in 86. 85 was the Theatre of Pain tour and 87 was GGG.

[@deanackerman6664]

Early CRÜE had such big musical balls. Awesome.

[@peteseegiii3201]

Glam Metal Gods. This was their first album. Raw and edgy.

[@millershane71]

This album and song was one of the first metal records literally, it was almost a cross between punk and what would become hair metal but it was just really original at the time. very early 80's and no pretensive expectations. This was such an epic album because it really laid the groundwork , yet it was still so raw and almost punk, but this is what gave birth to the 80's metal movement. One of my favorite albums of all time, so many killer songs!

[@patrickmartell9907]

I love the super quiet, "Welcome to our channel." at the beginning of the intro.

[@jjslickwood]

Motley Crew was probably the most commercialized metal band in their time.

[@smittybenzo4693]

In this episode of Brad & Lex, "frontal bops" are apparent with Lex though she's not all the way in with this Motley cut but she still displays them reluctantly as Brad exhibits his lackluster "side to side sway".

[@thomastaylor9579]

seen this concert live in 1983 at the Santa Monica Civic Center ,in California ,it was new year's eve, from 82' i was 14 , they brought a mannequin dressed like a punk rocker/a Mohawk and everything and Vince Neal cut its head off with a chain saw, and they set Nikki Sixx on fire from his boots up while he was playing a solo, the concert was awesome ,we ( stoners/metal heads) were ditching school in Hollywood one day (Halloween)and some dude was handing out white covered albums on the corner, with no art work on the cover, and the album ended up being this album, that's how I got hip to Motley Crue, still have the ticket stub..

[@chrisp2235]

I watched your live stream when y'all did this song about if Motley Crue was metal. Well I was 10 in '82 when I started listening to metal. I consider their first 2 records metal. People have to consider when these records came out. Back then everyone who liked Ozzy, Maiden, Priest, etc were also into Crew. Especially Too Fast and Shout.

[@josepharchuleta3129]

Bro, THIS crowd doesn't know! They weren't even there back then!😂

[@stricknine8623]

The guitar sound alone, puts their music in the metal category. Its brutal without going over the top.

[@hmpz36911]

@@stricknine8623 This reminds me of Metallica No Life Til Leather.

[@floorticket]

As of today Tommy Lee is 59 and five months, Vince Neil is 60 and eleven months, Nikki is 63 and a month, and Mick Mars is 70 years and 8 months old. When this album came out November 10th, 1981 Mick was 30 and a half, and Tommy was 19 and a month.

[@gunz2090]

Been a Crue fan since the beginning. Crazy f*cking wild men from the Sunset Strip. ..Have seen them many times in concert. Always a great show.

[@normbittner3762]

I still remember hearing this for the first time in my older cousin Danny's bedroom- awesome.

[@jeremybilbrey1133]

I saw them in '87 with Guns N' Roses as an opener....and let me tell you, it was an eye opener for a 12 yr old. one of the better tours I've seen

[@thegraveyard8893]

I love how Lex basically described all of hair metal to a T, when describing her thoughts about Mötley’s sound. 😂

[@chrisendsley5724]

This was off their very 1st album, shout at the devil was album #2 then theater of pain was 3 and so on girl,girls,girls, wild side and on. My favorite song is too young to fall in love off of shout at the devil. Wild Side and Girls,Girls, Girls. All great songs. Hair bands is their music. Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Ratt, Poison,Guns and Roses are all the same types of bands, they were all metal hair bands. grew up listening to all these in the 80's couldn't wait for headbangers ball every Friday night on MTV.

[@ladyevil64]

This is the song that made me light up like a Christmas Tree every time the video would come on MTV. It was on several times a day, always at specific times, and I made sure I saw it every time. I was 18, and so ready for the change Motley Crue brought to the scene. I didn't care that people felt they had "lost" me. The punk edged rawness of this album made me feel at home. Definitely watch the video. It may have gotten banned for a little while, because of the swords, fire, "blood", and totally a 180° from the majority of videos out there at the time. 🤘🔥💖

[@markpyle3710]

There was a lot of Punk Rock vibes in this 1st album.

[@johnburens3395]

I remember the day this song debut came out. Couldn't wait to get home from school to hopefully catch a listen of it.

[@g4m3rm0j0]

This is Motley Crue's first album that came straight out of a garage. It was raw and not the produced and later over produced sounds they developed into later on. Crue and Metallica remind me of one another in this way except Metallica had 4 or 5 albums before they became tainted by over production and well, softer around the edges.

[@josepharchuleta3129]

You said it bro! RAW AND IN YOUR FACE! THESE people don't know, because you HAD to be there to APPRECIATE the era! Comparing THE CRUE to grunge bands is totally ludicrous!

[@lantzkeefer6]

This is off of their very first album, which I luckily found in the M section of the music store before they were very popular, not too many people knew about them on the East coast since they are out of L.A.I bought it because of the album cover and I had no idea who they were at the time, 😆

[@itsalwayssomething7490]

Yeah, I remember getting into them at the Theater of Pain era and wanted the first two albums. TFFl was hard to find in record stores at the time. When they got bigger in the DR. Feelgood era, it became more available. But, I bought this album at a flea market back when there was always a dude selling tapes and C.D.s. You'd always find some rare gems from those dudes.

[@lantzkeefer6]

@@itsalwayssomething7490 That is true because they didn't make very many copies at first,I still have the original somewhere.

[@snowman4098]

Hair Metal . At it's very finest! Love those 80's

[@clintcalvert9250]

That high hat,and then that cow bell. Love it all.

[@mykill42]

Starry Eyes and On with the Show are 2 of the best Crue songs written.

[@freebee8221]

This is everything that 80s hair/glam metal is all about.

[@566missinglink]

I remember this album when it came out so raw and so much energy. The crue are way up on the rock genre

[@Buydirectincstore]

One of my All Time Favorite Bands!

[@srt8rocketship241]

Back then , Hair Metal , Glam Metal. Leather and lingerie , makeup and big hair. They did rule LA for a time. Total Debauchery.

[@itmightbme]

I was 8 years old when I first heard this..they are legends! I'm so fortunate that these are my oldies! ❤❤❤

[@NikkieTwix]

Love their earlier songs and their songs from the later part of the 80s

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

This was the best album, so many good jams like Take me to the Top, Piece of your Action, Come on & Dance, Public Enemy #1 & Starry Eyes - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS ✌☮

[@jenniferfoster1692]

I love their early stuff, and the cowbells, yes!!

[@bufordteejustice1119]

A classic. I played this until I drive my mom crazy . Seems like a hundred years ago. Thanks for sharing. Much love and respect from Baltimore as always.

[@robertcochran7197]

Best album by them hands down! Try listening to Come on and dance, Merry go round

[@andrewbaldwin9796]

Thank you for the reaction🤘 Live Wire is also a great AC/DC song🤘🤘🤘

[@chadgnagy1574]

Yes! Got this shit on vinyl!

[@Claythargic]

It has been a long time but if memory serves this album was produced by a guy who said he was a metal producer but was some pop music guy. The result is to this day a super cool first album.

[@ShreddFly]

Hey what's up guys! Greetings from South Florida. Man brings back memories. I was in my junior year at High School when the song came out. Even the cheerleaders got into it. In my opinion Motley Crue started the second wave of hair metal. Van Halen kicked off the first wave. You guys are awesome! God bless you guys! Peace!

[@rjh862]

Motley Crue is bubblegum metal. It's also hair/glamour metal. But this song does have the coolest ending

[@crimsonskies1445]

I remember the day I bought it on vinyl walking down the street, couldn't wait to play it. Excellent rock album.

[@scottschauer7088]

Lex wore the right jacket for today’s music choices.

[@grd5150]

Seen this tour in 1983 when the played a 45 minute set at the US Festival in San Bernardino California. Ha

[@mattharvey968]

Straight up kick your ass rock n roll song!!🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@ericwilliams1031]

A lot of metal bands like Crue started out with their own tougher sound then got more lighter and commercial after they made money and let record execs and producers change their sound. The later stuff wasn't bad, just different. I prefer the early stuff.

[@esquare807]

Great analogy with Pearl Jam but Crue was the birth of ‘hair metal’

[@billwell9266]

This album and the next (Shout At The Devil) are their best works

[@jimmorgan9364]

Lex, your analysis is genius level. I love it! Was a freshman in highschool when this came out. This hit different at the time and I think you nailed it!

[@Hillbilly-vo7te]

Seen them twice live,, both were great concerts

[@tghagen1967]

I can remember dressing just like that album cover :D

[@csbrown3]

Man, this was one of the coolest tunes I've ever seen performed live. St. Louis, '87...they killed that night!

[@metalmark1214]

This is back when Motley Crue had a more raw and gritty sound, less commercial. Too Fast For Love a good album.

[@bmrepass]

Favorite Crue song! Thanks you two🤩

[@joaopaulohenriques1404]

(Short Metal History) The “mother” genre was Heavy Metal from the beginning of the eighties (some bands: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Scorpions, AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss, Accept, Ozzy, Metallica, Megadeth, Helloween, Merciful Fate, Venom, Yngwie Malmsteen) also with strong Rock’n’Roll, Hard Blues, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk-Rock heritage from the 70’s (some bands: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, UFO, Thin Lizzy) In the late eighties you already had new sub-genres of Heavy Metal like Speed Metal, Speed Thrash, Thrash, Thrash Hard Core, Black Metal - this more extreme (some bands: Slayer, Anthrax, Overkill, Running Wild, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church, Kreator, Pantera, Sepultura). In the same period, other softer sub-genres were Hard’n’Heavy, Hard-FM, Heavy Rock and Glam-Rock (Loverboy, Aldo Nova, Bon Jovi, Europe, Pretty Maids, TNT, LA Guns, Motley Crue, Poison, Tesla, Great White, Dokken, Joe Satriani). The differences between these sub-genres were little. The sound became more adapted for TV and Radio broadcasting. In the 90’s and in early 2000’s, this Metal genre family tree grew even more with sub-genres like Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, New Metal, Alternative Metal, Power Metal and so on (some bands: Dream Theater, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Blind Guardian, Epica, Candlemass, Evanescence, Craddle of Filth, Opeth, Ayreon, Slipknot, Dragon Force). Motley Crue were initially an Heavy Metal band in sound and looks. Then they evolved into LA Glam Rock (some people name it today as Glam Metal). Don’t confuse it with the 70’s Glam-Rock from UK. Both Glam Rock genres have to do with exuberance, flamboyance and the shocking effect of performances, looks and lyrics. What we call today as Metal is a long story with more than 50 years.

[@vinceedwards3978]

This is from very early days of this band. There is an actual video for this song as well.

[@allaboutthatbass741]

I love this song, it also reminds me of a song that a band called "Discharge" put out around the same time as this song. Their song was called "born to die in a gutter" the guitar intro is basically the same

[@bgaona]

It's interesting listening to Lex try to classify Motley Crue. Because when I was a teenager in the 80s, my friends and I also thought Motley Crue was simply metal, maybe with a little glam. But in retrospect, they look a LOT like glam-rock or even pop metal.

[@davidotto3731]

I had a buddy at work tell me that he always classified the Crue as a heavy rock n roll band. After thinking about their whole body of work, I'd have to agree.

[@bgaona]

@@davidotto3731 I definitely see how you can see it that way. Knowing all these categories was so straightforward in the 80s. And here we are now, trying to take into account a 2022 point of view and trying to reconcile it with a 1985 point of view😋

[@annahanguiano8931]

Tommy lee goes off on the drums in this song. Beating those drums like they owe him money

[@zosozildjianmagick1790]

One of my favorite Motley Crue albums! Lots of cowbell 🐄 🔔

[@txrockerusa1st862]

Motley Crue was a hair metal or glam metal LA rock group

[@TidePride]

Early Crüe is substantially better than later Crüe

[@julesgiddings8747]

First band I was ever obsessed with.

[@randywissler9923]

Bruce Dickinson says we need more cowbell!! 😂

[@davidigleniec2483]

I was just blasting acdc in the kitchen at work, IM A LIVE WIIIIRE

[@mauriciovidrio9885]

Your all i need from Motley Crue is top 5 for me. Great song, and a recommendation

[@thelastdrive-inscreen2393]

That cowbell part. Dope.

[@johngricius5823]

This first album had a lot if cowbell. Love it

[@charlesfitzgerald9631]

“Ten seconds to Love” is a banger !

[@steely666]

Best album by them. Awesome song.

[@captaincapitalism264]

Crue evolved over the 80s, from this raw metal style to definitely more radio-friendly hard rock -- for better or worse, that's up to the 'beholder'. All I know is that this album and Shout At The Devil are my 2 favorite. The rest have some good songs to be sure ("All in the name of Rock", "Kickstart My Heart", etc.), but these are more pure metal. When they played Seattle on the 'Shout...' tour back then, the very next day fully half of my junior high was wearing Motley Crue shirts, hats, bandannas, you name it...they made it big off that album, make no mistake about it.

[@carlroza102]

You must listen to this whole album. Probably one of their best non-engineered albums. Meaning a lot of their later albums were heavily produced and then released.

[@ericsteinbach7706]

Best song on Crue's best record. Messy, thrashy totally kickass!

[@hetwade77]

I can see Lex being a dominatrixs in that all black leather outfit.

[@stevevar43]

For the folks in the live stream chat the other night, & the they're metal, they're not metal debate. From the cover of Circus Magazine: Feb 29, 1984. Motley Crue. Behind the leather & greasepaint of heavy metal's most colorful contenders. July 31, 1984. Motley Crue. Are they really as evil as they seem? A road's-eye view of heavy metal's bad boys.

[@djl9919]

I have been a Motley Crue fan since the beginning. Rock on Brad & Lex

[@IisDeeps]

Hands down their best album

[@kimbee0839]

Literally the first cd I purchased after purchasing my first cd player. Yes...I'm an old fart.

[@simonpsychosis2812]

That album cover is an homage to the classic Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.