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Motley Crue: Saints Of Los Angeles |
Contributed By: Sybru
Created On: Friday, 27 June 2008
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 Saints Of Los Angeles The LP's riffs are sharper than anything else on the market right now, the hooks infectious, making Motley Crue's new album an instructional manual for Millennium hard rock bands on how its done! Tommy Lee brings back a synergy in the group's rhythm section that was sorely missing on the under-rated 2000 New Tattoo, and each of the album's 13 songs are greatly enhanced in their energy and electricity by his return to the fold.
As elder statesmen of hair metal, Motley Crue's first full album with its original lineup in more than a decade could have been a sedate affair engineered to appeal to the 30- and 40-somethings who worshipped the band when it ruled the Sunset Strip. Instead, all guns are blazing on this ballad-free ninth album. The band's signature blues/punk/ glam blend remains intact, but the act sounds hungrier than it has since 1989's "Dr. Feelgood." Lyrically, the set serves as a soundtrack to autobiography "The Dirt," with songs like "What's It Gonna Take" and "Down at the Whiskey" chronicling Mötley's rise to the top and "Welcome to the Machine" voicing frustration once there. While not every song is a winner, the title track and sleaze anthem "This Ain't a Love Song" are standouts.
Vocally, Vince Neil sounds stronger than he has in years, and Mick Mars' will to return to full health after his hip-replacements prior to the band's 2005 reunion tour is definitely alive in the playing he accomplishes on this album. Always underrated, Mars should gain his due recognition with this LP as one of hard rock's most influential players, and stylistically the guitarist's riffing restores hard rock with its due respect in context of the under-appreciated musical talent of its players. This album was talked about over the past 3 years with the kind of hype and rumor usually reserved for Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy', but Saints of Los Angeles is everything that the aforementioned surely will not be given 3/4ths of the musical dichotomy that made the band's heyday so exceptional are missing.
 
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