Talk:Mötley Crüe

Why was the article moved here from Motley Crue? Are we supposed to avoid special characters? --Jiang
- The correct name of the band is Mötley Crüe, with the heavy metal umlauts included. User:Jsc1973

External Links

This is to whoever deleted all the external links except the official site: Why did you do that? Thanks for your answer. And I have re-added the Hit Squad. I don't remember any of the others though.

I would like to know who keeps deleting these links as well.I have added the HitSquad website into the external links part over a dozen times..The hitsquad keeps getting Deleted.Cant you track the ip and bann them from modify?

Another thing...The link that says its the official store is not the official store.

Perhaps if you didn't keep erasing the link to the official website (or worse, keeping its name but pointing the link to your fan site) people would be more inclined to leave your link alone. GentlemanGhost 16:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the idiot who keeps erasing the HitSquad website would stop doing that others wouldnt touch the official website link.

one more thing and you guys wont here from me again...that link that says the official store for sixx and vince is not the official store.

Actually Swagrox.com says for Nikki and Vince.. not Motley Crue.. becaue it is. Go to sixx.net or neil.net both Official personal websites. and that is their store. Not Fanfire.

Pronunciation

How do you pronunce Mötley Crüe? As stated in the article Heavy-metal_umlaut, the members of Mötley Crüe were haunted several years by mispronunciation of their band's name (... but the article doesn't state how it's pronunced correctly). Maybe someone can help out and give an IPA pronunciation for Mötley Crüe? Thanks, --Abdull 22:50, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It's pronounced "Motley Crew".

Phonetically its pronounced Mot-Lee-kroo not MAHT-lee-kroo as someone seems to think

Heavy metal umlaut

Mötley Crüe are perhaps the best-known users of the heavy metal umlaut

Not entirely true. Motörhead also use it and they're also very famous.

It's arguable, but I think Motley Crue are more famous than motorhead.

To avoid generalizations and unnecessary arguments, the use of "qualifiers" and the avoidance of superlatives are almost always safe tools in writing feature articles. Instead of pitting Mötley Crüe and Motörhead against each other--both of which are anyway pioneers and popular in their own respective rights--why not simply write: "Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are among the best-known users of the so-called Heavy Metal umlaut"? And concerning which band is more famous--the two bands are both famous anyway in their own rights. Besides, do we not all yearn for a fightless competition to make this world a better place to rock? Elf ideas

Quaternary

In the discography section an album is listed as Quarternary. This subsequent article was made by an IP address that has made a number of slyly false contributions which I have been tracking down. I checked Chronological Crüe website and saw that there was a special EP Quaternary (different spelling) but some details in the article were contradicted. If you look at the history you can see there was even more blatent vandalish stuff which someone cleaned up already. Could someone knowledgeable about Motley Crue take a look at Quarternary (album) and make sure there isn't false info there.--BirgitteSB 00:39, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

please explain to me how yall came up with the statement that motley is an influential band. success does not equal influence.

For a LONG time the magazine Guitar (previously called Guitar For The Practicing Musician) listed Motley's Shout at the Devil album as one of the most influential guitar albums of all time. See also http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/50.html#guitaral for top metal albums of the 80s and http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/KerrangVanaf1982.htm for most influential albums of 1983. Motley's on both. wbm

>>>>>It's safe to say that any band with the success that Motley Crue has had, has influenced other bands. And if you want proof, I'm sure if you went to myspace.com, there'd be numerous bands who have listed Motley Crue as their influences.

facts

In the list of records labels there very first label "Leathur Records" is missing, it keeps disapearing every time I add it, to whoever does this...Do some research

   -I corrected this, including the link to Leathür Records (where the origin of the band's label is     
    detailed). A Sniper

In 1999, Lee left to pursue a solo career (Due to increasing bad tension between himself and frontman Vince Neil (read Tommy Lee's autobiography Tommyland for more details); he was replaced by Randy Castillo, drummer on several Ozzy Osbourne albums.

Is this a marketing ploy or something? this is an encyclopaedia article. Why must readers be asked to read extrnal publications as part of the article. Maybe this can be given as supplementary information? (Re-phrased?)

Kash --getkashyap 04:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll re-read that section of The Dirt, and paraphrase details so as not to infringe.

Dudewhiterussian 04:25, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Trippe

As a huge Crüe fan from the 80s, I remember reading a story late in the decade about a guy named Matthew Trippe who claimed to be Nikki for a time. I actually forgot about it for at least a decade before tonight. I Googled him and came up with the following link: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cruekiss/sixxpakk.htm. Anyone know if there's any truth whatsoever about Matthew replacing Frank for a period of time? I find it hard to believe he went through so much trouble if there was absolutely no connection between him and Crüe at all. I'm not saying he replaced Frank for a while ... but it's likely the truth is somewhere in the middle. Just curious.

He's just some stupid attention seeking idiot. He was never involved with Motley Crue.

The Matt Trippe thing is bullshit. The pictures from the shout at the devil era and the Theatre Of Pain era are the same. The shout at the devil album was released in 1982 I believe so this new Nikki Sixx couldn't have wrote some songs he claimed to write {such as "knock 'em dead kid} plus if you read the dirt there are stories behind that song and songs like dancing on glass {another one he claimed to write} from Nikki and there's a bunch of stuff from the period of time where nikki suppossedly was replaced by this guy. Something this big couldn't have been kept a secret especially to the diehards. The lyrics were defintely Nikki's cuzz they were his stories and his style. All concert footage , music videos and pictures from that era clearly have Nikki. No impersonator has every single feature the same or hair and Nikki had his own special method of doing his hair. -JJ

Motley Crue influential?

why is motley considered and influential band? that term should be reserved for ground breaking artists such as bob dylan or hendrix not a bunch of jerk offs who cant write a song from any perespective other than that of a penis.

Because they basically invented glam metal, which opened the door for other artists who ripped off their style and turned it into radio friendly pop. They were also one of the first commercially viable heavy metal groups. Oh, and Bob Dylan is an overrated hack.

Motley Crue is heavy metal. Motley Crue has always been heavy metal and they regarded as one of the best metal bands of all-time.

Bob Dylan isn't metal and neither is Jim Hendrix.

Home Sweet Home chart position

According to Billboard's website, Home Sweet Home peaked at #37 in 1992. This is the remixed version. The original version didn't chart.

Pictures

All of the pictures on this page are of Motley Crue now and as a band that's image is defined by the 80s, wouldn't it be logical to try and find a image of them in the 80s that could be put on wikipedia and maybe replace one or two of the images? what do you all think? (Revo 15:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC))[reply]

>>>No. The band no longer looks like they did in the 80s...just stick to the present. If they weren't currently together it would be fine to use pictures from back then, but since they're doing "stuff" now, I think current pictures should be used.

How do you survive a fatal overdose?

"In 1987, Nikki had a fatal overdose of heroin and passed out."

Even if Nikki overdosed to the point where he was clinically or "legally dead" (presumably he wouldn't have actually been legally dead unless a death certificate had been issued but clearly that didn't happen), the very fact that he eventually recovered means that his overdose could not have been fatal.

I've therefore chyanged the wording to "near-fatal".

it should read "injected a fatal dose of heroin and passed out." just because you inject a fatal dose does not mean you will die, have you heard of adrenaline?

also, why even say that he survived a "near-fatal" overdose? thats kinda repetive

Legacy

Someone added something about Motley Crue being labeled "hair metal" and it being shown negatively on them during the 1980's. This contradicts the glam metal page, which points out the fact that the term "hair metal" was created in the 90's during the hey day of grunge. This doesn't make much sense, considering they were one of the original bands to form the glam metal sound. Also, it said something about being critically panned, despite the fact that both "Too Fast For Love" and "Shout at the Devil" were given praise when they were initially released. Only "Theatre of Pain" and "Girls Girls Girls" were panned, which was because they softened their sound as they gained fans. Also, on an off note, Faster Pussycat doesn't fit in with Warrant, Poison, and Whitesnake at all. I mean seriously, they were never as pop as those three.

Motley Crue is heavy metal. The band is generally regarded as one of the top 20 metal bands of all-time. Motley Crue is HEAVY METAL.