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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Add to that tons of half naked chicks in videos for a newly created MTV, which was started as a rock music station which seems to get forgotten these days.
Motley Crue didn't fit into the mainstream, the mainstream fitted into what Motley Crue was doing.
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Totally. When they first started out in like '80-'81, it was smack dab in middle (end?) of corporatized new wave, so metal didn't really have a leg to stand on at that point. Ozzy, AC/DC, and Van Halen might have managed to carve out a niche, but metal definitely wasn't anywhere near on top at that point. And bands that dressed like women and played more like Aerosmith with heavier riffs definitely weren't on any label's radar.
And I think I was actually thinking of this song...
That's definitely more in line with SatD, and is actually a pretty good song, even if it sounds like something that didn't quite make it onto that album.