"If I Die Tomorrow" by Motley Crue....

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...worst "comeback" single ever?

Discuss.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, especially considering it's a song written by Simple Plan fer chrissakes. i guess this just proves that pop-punk is the new hair metal.

― jonviachicago, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It was written by Simple Plan??!?!

Man, I saw them do that on their "first televised performance in blah blah years" on the Jimmy Kimmel show and it was fucking DIRE....jesus...Mick looks like he's going to collapse onstage....Vince never could sing for shit and now he can barely keep his breath....it was like watching gimp spandex animals being tortured or something....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

gimp spandex animals being tortured

!!!!!

Seeing that I didn't like the band at all in the first place, it's kind of hard to see how this isn't going to completely blow.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I remembered that they borrowed it from some band but Simple Plan jeezus.

I'm kind of flabbergasted that mainstream rock radio is playing it. It blows far and beyond the call of duty.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll admit to the original incarnation of the Crue being a guilty pleasure of mine, so i picked up the new comp (mostly to have a portable version of some of the songs, since all my old Crue is vinyl). the new songs are horrid, although "Sick Love Song" is somewhat tolerable. the third newly recorded one, however, is complete shit - a cover of "Street Fighting Man".

― jonviachicago, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Shout at the Devil was the first album I ever bought when I was 7 years old so Motley Crue always had a place in my heart but this new single is really crap. Hell, I'd rather listen to the John Corabi Motley Crue than this.

― blawa (blawa), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also such an about face for them. Like so many other hair metal bands, when they were given the pink slip by Grunge in the early `90's, I seem to remember Vince saying something along the lines of "We make good time music for people to party to, not whiney, woe is me rock." Or something.

Cut to 2005 and the Crue embrace whiney, woe is me rock. Yawn.

And don't get me started about the `Joke opening for them in the UK.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

gimp spandex animals being tortured
is this the new jenna jameson movie ?

i liked them then and now - i love the new song .

― La Camilla Henemark, Friday, 11 February 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a big fan of the `Crue in high school (I used to religiously listen to side one of Shout at the Devil on my walk to school every morning). Who the hell wants introspection and ruminations on mortality from the likes of Motley Crue? These are the hirsute morons who sang "Ten Seconds to Love" (arguably the finest ode to premature ejaculation during unsolicited elevator sex...or at least that's the way I choose to remember it), fer cryin' out loud.

The single itself is just so plodding and lifeless, to say nothing of the completely crappy video (curvy babe in a museum, staring dolefully at pop art paintings of Crue members battling their respective darkest hours -- Vince in a car, Nikki plagued by burning spoons, Tommy in jail, Mick in a hospital bed). It's just a bad package from start to finish. I read recently that it was recorded piecemeal by producer Bob Rock, so the band didn't have to be in the studio together at the same time -- and it sounds it.

Bleh!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

curvy babe in a museum - where's the video ?

― La Camilla Henemark, Friday, 11 February 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Nikki plagued by burning spoons!! That makes it sound better than it probably is...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Nikki walks towards a cliff, flanked by an army of burning spoons, whilst curvy babe jogs behind. When he reachs the precipice, he grows vutlure wings....only they inexplicably fall off. He jumps. She jumps after him. Only he rises up. And spins.

I wish I was making this up.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Tommy Lee said in an interview that since 'reuniting' they've only been in the same room together once. They recorded everything individually, and corresponded via phone with Nikki acting as middleman. When asked how they'll manage touring together, Vince replied 'Separate buses'.

(I've given the matter some thought, and the only way it makes sense is if VH1 had them reunite to record a new reality series.)

video here: http://www.electricbasement.com/video.asp

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it count as a 'comeback' if they're reformed but nobody cares?
You know, like if a tree falls in the forest...

cf: the Judas Priest 'comeback' single 'Revolution' is also pretty vile. Made worse by the fact that it a)lifts a riff directly from 'Mountain Song' by Janes Addiction, AND b) kinda sounds like T-Rex.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

seen video in australia - nice girl
the paintings animations remind me of billy idols"cradle of love"

― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 14 February 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

why doesnt vince try 2 be inxs lead singer ?

― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 14 February 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know..that's so crazy it just might work. It couldn't be worse than Terence Trent D'arby.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

do they still shove their cocks in burritos (to kill the smell of, em, "foreign" vaginas)?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that anecdote so goddamn much. It always begs the question: which is more alarming, having your boyfriend's undercarriage smelling like another woman, or having your boyfriend's undercarriage.....smelling like Mexican food?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

muy caliente!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

El Scorchio

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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