Shout At The Devil was my introduction to Mötley Crüe. A friend of mine was a huge fan and had posters, buttons and of course the audio cassette. She let me check it out and I thought this was the scariest, most dangerous band out there. Nikki Sixx just looked like one scary dude. I ended up buying my own copy on cassette and my Mom did whatever she could to persuade me to throw it away. She really thought they were devil worshipers and I would be influence in a bad way. I had to explain to her that they fell in line with KISS and that it was all for show. She relented eventually given the fact that I wasn't a bad seed after worshiping KISS.

As for this album, it holds up extremely well. This is the album I think of when any discussion about Hair Metal is brought up. The album opens up with a cool little intro called In The Beginning that segues right into Shout At The Devil. But it doesn't really kick into high gear until Looks That Kill. This song still kicks major ass. As great as this song is, the MVP goes to Too Young To Fall In Love. The riff that Mick Mars came up with is deviously cool and one that I use to play on guitar all the time. Love it.

The 2003 Remastered Edition comes with demos for Shout at the Devil, Looks That Kill, Hotter Than Hell, Too Young to Fall in Love and the unreleased I Will Survive. The album as a whole is good, not perfect. It does suffer from a couple of fillers that knocks the rating down.

Fave Songs: Shout At The Devil, Looks That Kill, Helter Skelter, Too Young To Fall In Love and Danger.

For obvious reasons, they had to drop the original cover. I mean, did they really think they could pass that off to mainstream shops and not court controversy? The version of the cover they ended up settling on works and is a classic in my eyes. But I did always think that this album had 2 back covers with the 4 boxes in the front with each member.

Girls, Girls, Girls is an improvement over Theatre Of Pain and kicks it off in style with the best track on the record: Wild Side. Probably one of the best "drum" songs ever with the chugging rhythm section throughout to keep it moving along. Sadly, after this, the rest of the album kind of goes downward a notch. Solid record, but nowhere near that of Shout At The Devil when it comes to pure raw, aggressive Metal.

Still plenty of good songs. But they don't quite keep up with the opening track. It has it's high points with Wild Side, Girls, Girls, Girls, All In The Name Of... and You're All I Need. But the rest of the album is filled with at best, average tracks. Nona is too short to be considered a song, but it's still worth a listen. The album concludes with a live cover version of Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock.

Fave Songs: Wild Side, Girls, Girls, Girls, Nona, All In The Name Of... and You're All I Need

The 2003 Remastered Edition comes with demos and instrumentals songs for Girls, Girls, Girls, Wild Side, Rodeo (unreleased track), Nona and All In The Name Of....

The album cover pretty sums it all up right here. Sleazy rock and roll and plenty of t*tties. I approve.

What the f*ck are you waiting for? Go watch bouncing t*tties in the video already. Sheesh.

So, what does Mötley Crüe decide as the best course of action with the future of the band after arguably their finest work ever? Fire Vince Neil. Or he quit. Who the f*ck knows anymore as I've heard both sides and I'm still left in the dark as to what is true or not. What I do know is that the original 4 did get together to start work on the follow up to Dr. Feelgood. But Vince and Nikki Sixx got into a fight. The rest is history.

Anyways. In to replace Vince is John Corabi. I never heard of him till he landed the plum gig as Crüe's new singer. The only time I have ever heard anything off this album were from the 2 music videos for Hooligan's Holiday and Misunderstood. As for Misunderstood, I didn't even know a video existed until I picked up Mötley Crüe's Greatest Video Hits on DVD. What's ironic is that I have always been a fan of both songs. They don't suck. And yet, for some reason, I just have never felt the need to go out and pick this up. Probably because I just can't picture this band other than the original 4. Go figure.

Album cover sucks IMO. And since I have never bothered to go and pick it up, I don't know exactly how many different versions there are. I remember these two though. Could be more. I dunno.

I know nothing about New Tattoo, other than that Tommy Lee quit the band to pursue his side project Methods Of Mayhem. With Lee out of the band, they brought in long time Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo. Sadly, he would pass away due to illness. For the subsequent tour to promote the album, Samantha Maloney (Hole) filled in behind the kit. Very good drummer and held her own as seen in Lewd, Crüed and Tattooed Live. Review of the DVD coming later.

The only song I can remember even hearing off of this album was the video for Hell On High Heels. Album cover here is meh.

The 2003 Remastered Edition comes with demos for 1st Band On The Moon and P*rno Star.

Decade Of Decadence is the first of many Greatest Hits collections to come. This one is ok, but far from being top shelf, even when it came out. Not a fan of remixes when it replaces the originals. I want a set that contains the original masters and not reinventions. It's a hodgepodge of songs which included 3 new songs: Primal Scream, Angela and Anarchy In The U.K., all of which were the main reasons for me picking this one up back in the day. Home Sweet Home ('91 Remix) is ok, but I still prefer the original though.

Fave Songs: Primal Scream and Anarchy In The U.K. The album cover uses images of the band to convey a timeline of their entire career up to that point. Nice.

Quaternary was released as a mail-in offer in conjunction with those that bought the Self-Titled album with John Corabi on lead vocals. Print run for this 5 song EP was set at 20,000 copies, which is of course out of print now. Personally I never knew about this release. Not surprising since I never bothered to pick up the JC album

The one song I do know of from this is Planet Boom from Tommy Lee which appeared on the Barb Wire soundtrack, which is where I originally first heard of it.