Let us Prey

Yo!  It's another WACKY AF Wednesday, and today's offering has been pulled directly from the most inner corner of my subconsciousness. You know that place that holds all sorts of songs that kind of suck, but I was going through a phase and kind of enjoy revisiting it once in a while!  ANYWHO!!  How are you?  Good? GOOD!

The mid to late 90s was a coming of age era for myself and most of my friends, we all graduated HS, and started nose diving into adulthood with various levels of success (and failures), but one thing we all could agree on--> Cool music!  Wrestling was entering into the attitude era, kids and young adults were all punks, and rock/metal was in full swing NU METAL origins. Acts like Stacic X, KOяN, Drain (STH), and Marilyn Manson were all becoming the flag bearers for what heavy metal was all about.

I wouldn't say I was really a huge fan of this era, but a few bands I just mentioned I dabbled with. At the very least they were getting radio time in our ho-dunk rock stations, so it's better than the same 80s/90s drivel that had been on repeat for decades.  So whatever, give me some witty riffs, some screaming along with some crunchy guitars, at least something to headbang to.

Can us old guys come too?

Hahah, so in with the old?  When this style became mainstream we had a mass growing in the background.  Yep, all those old bands from the 80s/90s that wanted in on this. Metallica had the Load era, Megadeth created RISK, even Poison and Skid Row hopped in with some "edgy" offerings, but one I'd like to focus on today, was of all damned groups, stupid Motley Crue.  I KNOW!!  I'm writing about them AGAIN!?  

I am NO Motley fan, at all, matter of face, I pretty much can't stand any mainstream track of theirs (Ok, shout at the devil is fun), but in 1997, they decided to hop into an era that they had no business leaping into!  MC created Generation Swine, Motley's own entry into this edgy attitude era of hard rock. A creation of their own that they hoped would sit alongside KOяN at music stores and kids would be wearing their T-shirts and stuff again!

What would happen? WTF do you think happened?  Why does NOBODY ever talk about this album?  Old guys that loved Motley couldn't get into this underproduced and extra edgy version, and the kids wouldn't be caught dead wearing the same shit their parents wore. Even with Vince and Tommy going on record saying they secretly loved working on Generation Swine, this album would be tucked away in the archives never to return. And you know what?  THAT KIND OF SUCKS!  I think in the early 2000s Motley should've tried doing more albums like this. The garage band, fun punkish/edgy style to it wasn't honestly, all that bad!

Because Motley Crue really wanted to have a track on Crazy Taxi!! Not a bad Offspring impression!

I'm sharing a couple more tracks from Generation Swine, because why not!  It's seriously kind of fun, and yeah- I can't stand Vince's voice, but they add extra cool late 90s distortion so if you just pretend it's not them, you might think you're just swished away 25 years back to some one hit wonder band that never made it, because let's face it:  Generation Swine fell on deaf ears, but to me- it's my favorite thing Motley Crue ever did, which makes it the least worst of!  So that's something!

MC learned how to swear!!  SWEARING IS COOL!!  90s TUDE 100%!!

BONUS SONG: Why not a amped up version of "Shout at the Devil" *97 version?  haha- happy a happy Wacky Wednesday and we'll see you back here next time!  BE GOOD!!  WE'RE SHOUT'N AT THE DEVIL!!!