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| Being a lazy sod and not having written this review when I was supposed to, I have been able to mull it over for some time now. And I have come to the following conclusion: Mötley Crüe are a very average band with a knack for writing really good hard rock songs. Sometimes. |
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The evidence? Well, they’re not very tight even on record, Vince Neil is a bit of a dodgy singer at the best of times (that slightly-out-of-tune double tracking on the first few songs is really annoying) and for every foot stomping, fist pumping classic like ‘Shout at the Devil’ and ‘Too Young to Fall in Love’ there is an interminably dull, irritating and utterly crap ‘Black Widow’, a song about as inspired as your local supermarket’s "Corny Flako’s" (crap grammar mistake included) breakfast cereal. If they want my advice, which I’m sure they do, they’d shorten this Greatest Hits package by about 6 songs at least. You don’t need 18 tracks, especially when you don’t have 18 good songs. Quantity goes down, overall quality goes up, more people buy this because it hasn’t got ‘Black Widow’ right near the start, everyone’s a winner.
However, if you’re prepared to employ your skip button to full effect then you can subject yourself and, ideally, other party-goers to the beered-up and generally fucking ace delights of ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, ‘Live Wire’, ‘Kickstart my Heart’ and not least the aforementioned ‘Shout at the Devil’ – and if they don’t make you want to use two cans of hairspray, wear a neck-scarf, put on some very tight leather trousers and cruise round your ‘hood in an open-topped late 80s sports car then the problem is definitely yours rather than the band’s. This is rock’n’roll as REO Speedwagon et al never intended it – according to the press release the Crüe saved us from a modern rock landscape dominated by such dinosaurs, and if true we have much to thank them for – and a right rousing listen it is too.
As long as your skip button isn’t broken, in which case you’re screwed and will have to endure ‘Black Widow’ more times than anyone should really have to. |
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| Dan Snowdon - 7/10 |
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