This review was published in the October 2025 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 345.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The ultimate rewind into hair metal\u2019s most notorious hellraisers. This review was published in the October 2025 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 345. – The ultimate rewind into hair metal\u2019s most notorious hellraisers. In case it wasn\u2019t immediately obvious, Motley Crue went to strip clubs and disrespected women throughout the 80s. Messrs Sixx, Lee, Mars and Neil produced evidence of this every couple … Continue reading Motley Crue: From the Beginning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In case it wasn\u2019t immediately obvious, Motley Crue went to strip clubs and disrespected women throughout the 80s. Messrs Sixx, Lee, Mars and Neil produced evidence of this every couple of years from 1981, peaking with Girls, Girls, Girls<\/em> (1987) and Dr Feelgood<\/em> (1989), in between the well-documented mayhem which intimidated even the likes of Guns n\u2019 Roses.
Subsequent offerings limped through the era of Bizkit and N*SYNC, and probably no one paid attention to Saints of Los Angeles<\/em> (2008). From The Beginning<\/em> chronicles Motley\u2019s biggest hits, including 2024 single Cancelled<\/em>, which bemoans the wokerati for claiming they can\u2019t talk about all the stuff they told you they did in the 80s. The only difference is a re-recording of ballad Home Sweet Home<\/em> as a duet with \u2013 god knows why \u2013 Dolly Parton, who\u2019s earned the right do what she wants. Plus, it\u2019s better than the original.
As the definitive compilation from hair metal\u2019s pioneers, it\u2019s a musical McDonald\u2019s – greasy, cheesy and makes you feel ashamed of yourself afterwards. As a woman, I hate it. As a fan of music, I hate it even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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