CD Review: Mötley Crüe – Greatest Hits
November 17th, 2009 Filed under: Reviews - Music, Uncategorized by admin
CD Review – Mötley Crüe
Greatest Hits
Motley/Universal
As consumers continue to shift their focus away from brick-and-mortar music stores and get their tunes online (either legally or illegally), one has to wonder how relevant a “greatest hits” release is in 2009. After all, the “album” format has been tits up for several years what with half-baked artists churning out empty cookie-cutter records with barely a worthwhile song or two. Music fans got tired of ponying up fifteen bucks for what would ultimately be a bunch of throwaway tracks. With the freedom to pick and choose songs a person likes to build their own “greatest hits” of their favorite artist, the business model seemed dead in the water to anyone with even the slightest foresight.
Of course, bands like Mötley Crüe, who it should be noted has only released a pair of albums of new material in ten years, continue to crank out compilation after compilation of re-packaged “hits,” hoping fans will think, “You know…I DO need another version of ‘Home Sweet Home’.” This latest entry in the burgeoning Crüe canon, imaginatively titled Greatest Hits, hopes fans will forget the other Greatest Hits that came out in 1998 which features fourteen of the same songs as the new release but with a revamped track order.
They’re all here—“Looks That Kill,” “Smokin’ In The Boys Room,” “Shout At The Devil,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Dr. Feelgood”—so no one can deny that people who do buy this are getting plenty of bang for their buck. Admittedly, “Kickstart My Heart” is one of the greatest songs to put the pedal to the metal that has ever been laid down but in one of the more curious moves, the boys have the balls to throw in a token song from 1997’s colossal dud Generation Swine while leaving off “Live Wire.” And for anyone who didn’t pick up 2005’s Red, White & Crüe, the two new songs from that hits package find their way on to this one, so all bases are covered.
It shouldn’t take a genius to see the irony in the two dollar signs emblazoned on the cover of Greatest Hits as this latest release, admittedly filled to the brim with Crüe classics, is a blatant cash grab for the holidays a la KISS. In the last ten years, Mötley Crüe has released two Greatest Hits, a two-disc hits collection, a pair of double-live CDs and re-released its entire back catalogue not once, but twice! So let’s be honest before parting with another twelve bucks…do we really need another version of “Home Sweet Home” or would the money be better spent on that new Methods of Mayhem blockbuster that Tommy Lee is promising us? Well, come to think of it…
By Sean Cowie
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