Mötley Crüe

Editor's Review:

You love Mötley Crüe and you know it. You had Shout at the Devil ten years before you ever owned London Calling. You lifted your lighter for "Home Sweet Home" a decade before your first mosh pit. You wept like a willow when Vince Neil left and now, beneath your leather jacket and Doc Martens, your soul smiles at his return.
Calling upon those they influenced - White Zombie, Korn and various metalheads masquerading under the "industrial grunge" flag - the Crüe have taken a decidedly technological turn. While the heavy stuff remains, even harder than ever at times, the tasty licks of yesteryear have been replaced with thick, machine-enhanced beats and scratchy samples. The new sound comes off a tad premeditated and forced in a few places, but their long-awaited reprise, "Shout at the Devil '97," beats the crap outta "Melt With You '90."

- Greg Heller

First appeared in BAM magazine 5/30/97 Courtesy and © BAM magazine, internet © Synthesis Network.


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Record Label Elektra Released June 1997

Tracks 1. Find Myself 2. Afraid 3. Flush 4. Generation Swine 5. Confessions 6. Beauty 7. Glitter 8. Anybody Out There? 9. Let Us Prey 10. Rocketship 11. A Rat Like Me 12. Shout At The Devil '97 13. Brandon 14. Afraid (Swine Mix/Jimbo Mix) 15. Wreck Me (Unreleased Track) 16. Kiss The Sky (Unreleased Track) 17. Rocketship (Early Demo)