Motley Crue. LA Punk

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firstly, Motley Crue, tell me why i should listen to them and what of theirs i should listen to. secondly, and then tell me why those 80s LA bands weren't metal but punk. i don't really know who those bands were so you're going to have to educate me, but they were dismissed as hair-metal, but they could well have been coke obsessed glam punk rock (at least this is what i want to believe). tell me stuff...

― gareth, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as far as LA bands go i would have thought Slayer and early Metallica were somewhat closer in spirit to punk than glam metal really.

based on a general lack of bullshit and devil may care attitude that arrived on the influence of bands like Discharge.

although i guess the Iron Maiden/Judas Preist influences won't help me much on this case.

― david, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perm shit should go on gladiters or wwf.

― XStatic Peace, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Metallica is from the SF Bay area, not LA.

― Mark, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE MYTH, young man. ;-) Metallica formed down here and played their first ever show in Orange County. They eventually decamped to SF partially because they were sick of the likes of Motley Crue...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, I didn't know that...I assumed that because BAM basically became the Metallica newsletter they were hometown boys. And all that stuff about them signing up the new bass player at Tommy's Joynt on Van Ness. Sorry for the misinformation.

― Mark, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the missing link between punk and hair metal is Hanoi Rocks

― fritz, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Naw.
Spandex? CHECK.
Hair Spray? CHECK.
Cucumber Down the Pants? CHECK.
Lyrics so Dumb they make Limp Bisquik sound deep? CHECK.
Well, I think this PROVES BY SCIENCE that they are a silly Poodle- Hair psuedorock cartoon, and NOT a punk band at all. If you disagree, then you will have to disprove my assertion with a 300 word essay declaring that Henry Rollins is actually David Lee Roth and Greg Ginn is actually Sammy Hagar. Pick up your #2 pencil and begin....nnnnnnow.

― Lord Custos, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ACTUALLY Mertallica were originally from LA. they moved to Bay Area cos SF audiences were more receptive to thrash.

NER.

― david, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

err Motley Crew. The singer is very screechy, they had a few good songs...Dr Feelgood, Girls, girls, girls, Smoking in the Boys Room, Home Sweet Home. Punk? I dunno, they are closer to Kiss than the Ramones. Poison are vastly superior.

― jel, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually _Too Fast For Love_ sounds more like Discharge than Metallica does, to me.

― Kris, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hair Metal => I'm a horny loser and this will get me laid.

Punk => I'm afraid of girls and this will keep them away from me.

Therefore Motley Crue = HM.

― nickn, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

too fast for love is a great record.

― chippy, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hair Metal => I'm a horny loser and this will get me laid. Punk => I'm afraid of girls and this will keep them away from me.

Um, how would you account for GG Allin in reference to the above, then?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only essential Crue album = 'Shout at the Devil". Compare "Too Young to Fall in Love" with TSOL's "Code Blue".

― dave q, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hair Metal => I'm a heavily tattooed white suburban high school dropout jarhead with hairspray on my ragmop head.
Punk => I'm a upper-middle class mallrat twit with delusions of eloquence and a indentakit glued on "instant" attitude. (Note: this refers to punks after Darby Crash. All previous punks were lower-class pretentious twits with pretentions of importance and grubby bondage pants.)

Therefore Motley Crue = Fake.

― Lord Custos, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Custos! If "delusions of eloquence" and "heavily tattooed white suburban high school dropout jarheads" are fake then my entire childhood was as well. But I'm pretty sure it was real. Fascinating: you managed to observe these scenes so closely that you can slag them off in detail, but always chose to hang "outside" the cliques? That actually sounds way more fake to me.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, how would you account for GG Allin in reference to the above, then?

There's no accounting for GG Allin.

― nickn, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just wondering if anyone has ever seen the Crue and the Cure in the same room together? Both were on Elektra, both had makeup, esp lipstick, and black hair spiked up to the stars (except Vince, but that was probably just Porl with a bleach job, to throw people off). Both were heavily into alcohol and drugs. Lead singers both had boring names, while other members had interesting names: Porl! Mick Mars! Lol! Nikki Sixx! Boris! Or am I sounding too much like dave q here?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, we haven't seen you and Dave Q in the same room together either.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave q has this seemingly unending hatred for all things Canadian, which could well be a smokescreen too, to throw you off my track.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He hates what he loves.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

oh, custospaws ...

― LOLBJ (Eisbaer), Monday, 23 February 2009 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

Seems to me the Crue were initially marketed (I'm talking 1981, Leathur Records days, way pre-hair-metal) as a sort of "punk metal" band, at least on a national level. Pretty sure I saw an ad for their record in a punk/new wave magazine at the time to that effect. (1981, everybody thought metal was over, and punks thought Motorhead were cool, so especially if you were on an indie label it was good to hedge your bets.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 23 February 2009 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

remember c. 84 elektra records ads on MTV and in mags that presented motley crue and X as examples of "the new sound". not explicitly punk or metal, but some kind of hybrid thing. also lords of the new church.

― welcome little swetty (contenderizer), Monday, 23 February 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

X and Motley Crue were similar, though!

Crue:

At the Dollhouse in Ft. Lauderdale
Girls, Girls. Girls
Rocking in Atlanta at Tattletails
Girls, Girls, Girls
Raising Hell at the 7th Veil

at the hi-d-hi and the hula gal
bee-hive bar and the zircon lounge
g.g.'s cozy corner the gift of love
stop'n'drink, sit'n'sip, rest'n'pieces
dexter's new approach and the get down lounge
the aorta bar, detroit's main vein

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 03:06 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i'm not the only one who's had this thought.

― happier than GG Allin in a laxative factory (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 January 2013 20:33 (thirteen years ago)

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