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5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Crue, August 19, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Theatre Of Pain (Audio CD)
I bought this when albums were still being sold. I listened to this every day then all my albums got stolen. I just recently started getting all the albums I had, but in CDs. This is classic crue.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Classic Metal, June 28, 2002
This review is from: Theatre Of Pain (Audio CD)
When you list the best Hard rock bands of the classic era, I mean
the top bands, you have a handful of groups that stand out. The bands that you have to love to be a classic metalhead. Zeppelin,Aerosmith,Sabbath,AC/DC,the Who,Purple,Van Halen,KISS,Cooper,the Stones. But the one "Hair band" that truely deserves a spot in this elite group is Motley Crue. I love all the hair bands and some of them are great, but Motley was the best of the 80's. They were not that great at songwriting,but then AC/DC aren't either. They were not as great a group of musicians as Van Halen, but The Stones couldn't play their way out of a wet paper bag. But greatness is measured in Legend, and Motley Crue have been the subject of some of rock's most infamous legends. This is their best album. It's not as rough as Shout at the devil, but it showed a band that had developed into a tight unit. They took their influence from Aerosmith, and Van Halen, and it shows here. This is a must for classic metal fans. This was what metal was like before Thrash and all that garbage took over. Buy it. You won't regret it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
"Theatre" has LITTLE to do with bluesy rock, May 17, 2001
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This album is another unfortunate product of the direction glam metal took a competent rock band during the 1980s. In 1985 the Crue were poised to release the follow-up to the metal classic "Shout". Instead of a great album fans got a great single, the MTV ballad "Home Sweet Home".
Much of this album is tiresome. Silly chants that could have come from a scribe with much less skill than Nikki Sixx. But it fit the era of glitter and make up. I'm just thankful they gave up that ... before "Girls Girls Girls"
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