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Originally Posted by The Batlord
When a band gives their music over to a record company to do with as they see fit, rather than just tweaking their sound to reach a wider audience. There's a difference between wanting to pay your bills and just giving up on making music that you have any desire to play. The underground doesn't have a pension plan after all.
I think of Motley Crue's post-Shout at the Devil albums as much more sellout than The Black Album. They were basically too whacked out on drugs and alcohol to care what they were putting out, and just used their music as a way to pay for their lifestyle.
Theater of Pain was just a tepid retread of SatD, and they weren't even trying on Girls, Girls, Girls. Dr. Feelgood was more of a return to them giving a ****, even if the production did kind of castrate it.
Agreed. I'd rather listen to the filler on AJfA, than the filler on The Black Album, and the first half is just phenomenal.
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I never once thought that Motley Crue played or made music because they loved the process of creating. They were driven by money, fame, drugs, and women. It was a Rock N Roll dream they lived hard. Motley Crue were technically a sell out band before their first record even hit record stores.
But I obviously listen to Motley Crue, I'm even seeing them in December. They're sell out's, but sell out's I want to see before they stop touring for good.
Dr. Feelgood is close to my favorite album from Motley. But we could hash out issues with that band all damn day and how much they sold out.
You get what I mean so that's the important thing I suppose.
Metallica's The Black Album > any Motley Crue record, though. Different kinds of music, but Motley never put out an album even as 'good' as The Black Album.
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