I have a love / hate relationship with Mötley Crüe. I own their 80's discography, love a bunch of their hits, and deep cuts, but hate certain publicized aspects of their personal lives. Its that aspect of separate the art from the artist that I try to follow, but yet, with Crüe, I can't seem to do that. This often lends to me skipping past their music more frequently than it deserves to be.
Well, today, I'm gonna knuckle down, and get through it. I've already reviewed their 1981 debut, Too Fast For Love, and final album of the 80's, 1989's Dr. Feelgood. So, with three albums to go, and not much I really want to touch on the band, let's just jump in to 1983's Shout At The Devil.
What surprised me while listening to the album was how good it was. While I knew the title track, thank you, Guitar Hero, it was never really one of my personal favorites. However, as a whole, with intro track, In The Beginning, and follow up, Looks That Kill, it really resonates. In fact, I was finding myself liking things a lot up through track four, Bastard.
It was with their cover of The Beatles, Helter Skelter, that I started to be less invested. It was a decent attempt at the tune, but frankly, not being all that big of a fan of the original, or the group behind it, it doesn't resonate. Equally, its follow-up song, Red Hot only teetered on the edge of "okay".
With exception of, Too Young To Fall In Love, the remainder of Shout At The Devil was relatively mediocre, at best. Things were catchy here and there, but nothing really shouted (at the devil), "Add me to your shuffle list!"
Overall, I'm glad I finally got around to hearing this one. Like I said above, Mötley Crüe has good music. It's just a hurdle for me to get over certain personal aspects of the band. But, my plan is to keep going. One down, two to go. See you next time.
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