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Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
| Billboard |
| As elder statesmen of hair metal, Mötley Crüe's first full album with its original lineup in more than a decade could have been a sedate affair engineered to appeal to the 30- and 40-somethings who worshipped the band when it ruled the Sunset Strip. Instead, all guns are blazing on this ballad-free ninth album. The band's signature blues/punk/ glam blend remains intact, but the act sounds hungrier than it has since 1989's "Dr. Feelgood." Lyrically, the set serves as a soundtrack to autobiography "The Dirt," with songs like "What's It Gonna Take" and "Down at the Whiskey" chronicling Mötley's rise to the top and "Welcome to the Machine" voicing frustration once there. While not every song is a winner, the title track and sleaze anthem "This Ain't a Love Song" are standouts....full text |
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| Rollingstone |
| All the filth and fury of their Eighties heyday, finally funneled into an album Mötley Cüe have created a cottage industry out of rehashing their excesses: Their tales of debauchery have already fueled dozens of books and a standard-bearing episode of Behind the Music. Now they've woven those stories into their first album in eight years. Inspired by their 2001 sleazeography, The Dirt, Saints of Los Angeles finds Vince Neil flashing back to the band's golden age: gigging on the Sunset Strip, snorting powders, screwing the wrong girls and (later) filing lawsuits (the band sued its former manager last year)....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Since their last hit record, 1989's Dr. Feelgood, Mötley Crüe fans have endured countless live albums, "greatest-hits" collections, reissues and B-sides packages, a record with John Corabi on vocals, one with Randy Castillo behind the kit and one with the original line-up that sank with barely a trace (1997's Generation Swine). The most successful thing the band produced in those ensuing years was its tell-all autobiography, The Dirt, a story so drenched in sex, drugs, and rock & roll that it elicited a venereal disease and a contact high just through picking it up. That book is the impetus behind Saints of Los Angeles, the first record to feature the group's original lineup since Swine, and it's a welcome -- though spotty -- return to form for these aging miscreants....full text |
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