LEWD AND CRUED: The new Motley Crue...
LEWD AND CRUED: The new Motley Crue home video package is titled “Decade of Decadence ‘81-’91”--though “Ten Years of Tackiness” would do just as well.
This marathon two-hour compilation of MTV videos interspersed with band interview footage includes all the group staples--pentagrams, topless bimbos, extended middle fingers, sexism, racism, violence and amiable, skinny-butt rockers whose vocabulary is made up largely of “like,” “man,” “y’know,” the F-word and “the fans” (who, we’re told ad nauseam, make them what they are).
The chronological order of clips follows the quartet’s progress from big-haired, rouge-wearing, glam-rock Whisky wanna-bes to Vince Neil as puffy superstar. It also offers a dive into the staggeringly pandering oeuvre of video director Wayne Isham, who’s done a majority of the Crue clips.
Collected for the first time are an astonishing number of the worst videos ever made: the early “Looks That Kill” (in which the Crue herds some feral cave girls into a holding pen); “Girls Girls Girls” (salacious stripper clip, uncensored at last); the murder scenario of “You’re All I Need” (Crue-ster kids that kill!) and, most laughably, “Too Young to Fall in Love,” in which the dudes invade an opium den/brothel and kung-fu the villains!
May the band’s second decade--sans the recently fired Neil, seen here unprophetically intoning “We’re just like four brothers, man”--evidence just as much entertaining decay.
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