Motley Crue roll call!!!!

Well, the Smiths refused to make videos.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by vansmack:
They were on Headbangers Ball with Rikki Rachtman rather early before MTV's Top 20 Countdown became inidated with hair bands.

but wasnt there a time when MTV wasnt ALL watered down crappy corporate music? being on MTV in the early 80s meant you were a good band! (generally, right?)

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by vansmack:
They were on Headbangers Ball with Rikki Rachtman rather early before MTV's Top 20 Countdown became inidated with hair bands.

but wasnt there a time when MTV wasnt ALL watered down crappy corporate music? being on MTV in the early 80s meant you were a good band! (generally, right?)

Generally, but there were plenty of truly "great" bands whose videos I never saw on MTV. Smiths, Husker Du, Gang of Four, the Specials, the Jam… et al. I was still glued to the set daily of course, but there were a whole lot of bands who just didn't make the cut.

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
well, i could be wrong, but (and i think mr chutney just kinda said this) Motley Crue wasnt MTV metal until after a few albums.

They were on Headbangers Ball with Rikki Rachtman rather early before MTV's Top 20 Countdown became inidated with hair bands.

but Shout at the Devil was in 1983 and if i am correct, headbangers ball didnt even START until 1987 and Rikki Rachtman didnt even start til 1988. well into Crue's career.

this is pretty funny:

I can hardly believe that it's been 15 great years since this video changed my world forever! I've been following these guys ever since "Hunting High and Low" came out in 1985. In fact, I wore out my first HHL tape, and a second copy that I made from a friend.
I remember being absolutely captivated by the video, the album, and, of course since I was 12 at the time, all of the pictures in the teen magazines! After hearing "Living A Boy's Adventure Tale" I even took a summer band class attempting to learn the oboe.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
[QB] Well, the Smiths refused to make videos.

Not so. They made several.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Well, the Smiths refused to make videos.

so did Metallica until 1989.

Must have been later in their careers. One of the things the Morrissey prided himself on the early days was not selling out to MTV/ music video.

And MTV was thought of as crap as early as 1985 by Jello Biaffra. About the same time Motley Crue was hitting full stride.


"M.T.V.-Get Off The Air"

Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb
Woof down the beer
[click!]
Hi
I'm your video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

So don't create
Be sedate
Be a vegetable at home
And thwack on that dial
If we have our way even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll

How far will you go
How low will you stoop
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

You've turned rock and roll rebellion
Into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination

M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the air
Get off the air

See the latest rejects from the muppet show
Wag their tits and their dicks
As they lip-synch on screen
There's something I don't like
About a band who always smiles
Another tax write-off
For some schmuck who doesn't care

M.T.V. Get off the air
And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25
"It's the new frontier," they say
It's wide open, anything can happen
But you've got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you're too god-damn conservative
To take real chances.

Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

M.T.V.-Get off the air!
NOW

Originally posted by tenfifteen:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
[QB] Well, the Smiths refused to make videos.

Not so. They made several.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Must have been later in their careers. One of the things the Morrissey prided himself on the early days was not selling out to MTV/ music video.

Definitely much later, and now that I think about it, they may have been nothing more than performance clips. But there is a DVD, and as I recall, it has a few videos in addition to some hacked together live clips. I believe Morrissey aptly called videos "promotional films."

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Must have been later in their careers. One of the things the Morrissey prided himself on the early days was not selling out to MTV/ music video.

And MTV was thought of as crap as early as 1985 by Jello Biaffra. About the same time Motley Crue was hitting full stride.

have you ever heard that quote

"Whoever said winning isn't everything never won anything"

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
And MTV was thought of as crap as early as 1985 by Jello Biaffra. About the same time Motley Crue was hitting full stride.

thanks for posting that, remarkably applicable to today …

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
And MTV was thought of as crap as early as 1985 by Jello Biaffra. About the same time Motley Crue was hitting full stride.

thanks for posting that, remarkably applicable to today …

his posts are riveting sometimes.

"Looks that Kill" was the first video and was on MTV in '83.

"Home Sweet Home" was aired in 1985 and still holds the record for most weeks at #1 on Dial MTV.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
well, i could be wrong, but (and i think mr chutney just kinda said this) Motley Crue wasnt MTV metal until after a few albums.

They were on Headbangers Ball with Rikki Rachtman rather early before MTV's Top 20 Countdown became inidated with hair bands.

but Shout at the Devil was in 1983 and if i am correct, headbangers ball didnt even START until 1987 and Rikki Rachtman didnt even start til 1988. well into Crue's career.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
"Looks that Kill" was the first video and was on MTV in '83.

"Home Sweet Home" was aired in 1985 and still holds the record for most weeks at #1 on Dial MTV.

my point was that thier "early" videos were not on headbangers ball when they came out.

and i also said they werent huge until "Smokin In the Boys Room" which was the single before "Home Sweet Home"

Shout at the Devil went Gold in Jan 1984; platinum in September.

Too Fast for Love went gold in Feb 1984.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
"Looks that Kill" was the first video and was on MTV in '83.

"Home Sweet Home" was aired in 1985 and still holds the record for most weeks at #1 on Dial MTV.

my point was that thier "early" videos were not on headbangers ball when they came out.

and i also said they werent huge until "Smokin In the Boys Room" which was the single before "Home Sweet Home"

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Shout at the Devil went Gold in Jan 1984; platinum in September.

Too Fast for Love went gold in Feb 1984.

not that you're even talking about the same thing (videos). but:

Too Fast for Love came out in 1981 (on Elektra in 82). so thats over 2 years!

Shout at the Devil was released in early 83 and ONLY went platinum because

a) it said Devil on it.

b) they toured with Ozzy Osbourne the entire summer of 1994.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Shout at the Devil went Gold in Jan 1984; platinum in September.

Too Fast for Love went gold in Feb 1984.

and thats

Shout at the Devil , gold in Jan, platinum in Feb of 4

Too fast for love, Gold in September.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Well, the Smiths refused to make videos.

As did Joe Jackson.

No, there was a video for "How Soon Is Now" when it was a single… Granted, they didn't make many, but they made some, and not only late in their history.

Originally posted by tenfifteen:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Must have been later in their careers. One of the things the Morrissey prided himself on the early days was not selling out to MTV/ music video.

Definitely much later, and now that I think about it, they may have been nothing more than performance clips. But there is a DVD, and as I recall, it has a few videos in addition to some hacked together live clips. I believe Morrissey aptly called videos "promotional films."

Originally posted by Bags:
No, there was a video for "How Soon Is Now" when it was a single… Granted, they didn't make many, but they made some, and not only late in their history.

Originally posted by tenfifteen:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Must have been later in their careers. One of the things the Morrissey prided himself on the early days was not selling out to MTV/ music video.

Definitely much later, and now that I think about it, they may have been nothing more than performance clips. But there is a DVD, and as I recall, it has a few videos in addition to some hacked together live clips. I believe Morrissey aptly called videos "promotional films."

I'm surprised the band members haven't requested that this be taken down...

Or that Morrissey still makes videos…or that he even bothers touring anymore because, hey, who needs "fans" or "promotion" if you know that you're doing something grand?

I do remember seeing the video for "Shoplifters of the World" way back in the mid-late-ish 80's, but I was barely out of the single digits, so it's a bit fuzzy.

Uh, yeah, I think I'm goin' down to the shore.
Whatcha gonna do down there?

Uh, I don't know, play some video games, buy some Def Leppard t-shirts.

Hey, don't forget to get your Motley Crue t-shirt, y'know, all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail.

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