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The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
1/2/05:
In conjunction with their reunion tour, Mötley Crüe released a
double-disc anthology collection titled Red, White & Crüe that
chronicles the band's musical career and includes three new songs. Also
included was a cover version of the Mick Jagger & Keith
Richards-penned Street Fighting Man from this Rolling Stones’ 1968
Beggars Banquet album. Sick Love Song winds out the Crüe's 37-track
set. more >> |
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David
Bowie: Young Americans
21/5/02:
Tommy Lee's first solo album under his own name Never A Dull Moment
includes a cover version of the David Bowie classic Fame, that was
co-penned by former Beatle John Lennon and released on Bowie's Young
Americans album in 1975. The album displays Bowie's move away from his
Ziggy Stardust persona towards soulful R&B influences. more >> |
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The
Tubes: The Tubes
11/7/00:
Mötley Crüe released their New Tattoo album with one cover track, the
tongue in cheek cover of White Punks On Dope. The original version was
the last track on the 1975 debut from The Tubes and became a minor
hit and a radio staple for the band. The Tubes were said to be arch
satirists of popular culture whose outrageous performance-art concepts
frequently eclipsed their elusive musical identity. Check out their
debut album and the original version of White Punks On Dope. more >> |
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Gilbert
O'Sullivan: The Best Of
20/6/00:
Nikki Sixx's side project 58 released their Diet For A New America
album containing a re-work of the 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan hit Alone
Again (Naturally). The original appeared on the Irish
singer-songwriter's debut album titled Himself. The chart topping song
is included of this collection of Gilbert's hits. more >> |
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Chicago:
Chicago II
8/8/95:
The Japanese release of Vince Neil’s Carved In Stone album includes a
cover of the Chicago hit 25 Or 6 To 4. The original version is
included on their Chicago II album that was released in January 1970.
Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful
American rock band of all time. The group formed officially on February
15, 1967 in the city from which it eventually took its name. more >> |
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Iggy
Pop: Lust For Life
8/8/95: The second solo album from Vince Neil titled Carved In Stone is
released. It was recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood with The
Dust Brothers producing. Vince recorded a cover of Lust For Life from
Iggy Pop’s 1977 album Suck On This that was originally intended for
inclusion on the Showgirls movie soundtrack, but unfortunately didn't
get selected in the final listing. In the middle of 1997 the Iggy Pop
and David Bowie penned tune is included on Mötley's Afraid single.
Vince actually played bass on his version. The original version of the
song can be heard on this release from Iggy Pop of the same name. more >> |
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Ramones: All The Stuff 2
27/4/93:
Vince Neil’s first solo album Exposed debuted at #1 in Japan. The
Japanese version included an additional bonus track, a cover of The
Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated from their fourth album released in June
1978 titled Road To Ruin. This awesome collection of hit songs contains
the original version of I Wanna Be Sedated. more >> |
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Sweet:
Live At The Marquee
27/4/93:
Vince Neil’s first solo album Exposed was released on the Warner
Brothers label and entered the US Billboard charts at #13. The album
included a cover of Sweet's Set Me Free from their 1974 smash album
Sweet Fanny Adams. Here's is The Sweet's Live At The Marquee album on
which you can hear the original version being performed live. more >> |
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Sex
Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks
19/10/91:
Decade Of Decadence was released by Mötley Crüe and entered the
Billboard charts at #2. The disc celebrates Mötley’s 10th Anniversary
with remastered versions of Crüe classics and three new songs recorded
at A&M Studios. It ends with
the Sex Pistols cover, Anarchy In The U.K. which sports the first take
of Vince's vocal recording. Nikki Sixx obtained the lyrics from Pistols
guitarist, Steve Jones, who likes the Crüe's version. The song is
included as preference over a new track Punched In The Teeth By Love that later made it's way onto their New Tattoo
album. The song was played live two months earlier for the first time
at a warm up show before their second Donington Monsters Of Rock
Festival appearance at the Marquee in London, under the name The
Foreskins. The raw angry English punk rock of the Sex Pistols can be
heard in all its glory here, including the said original track. more >> |
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Tommy
Bolin: Teaser
12/89:
Mötley Crüe contribute their Vancouver recorded cover of ex-Deep Purple
member Tommy Bolin’s song Teaser to the Make A Difference Foundation
Stairway To Heaven/ Highway To Hell compilation album. The late Bolin,
who was also once a member of The James Gang, wrote the song back in
1975. The track was included as part of Mötley's 1991's Decade Of
Decadence compilation before being made available again on the 1999
Supersonic & Demonic Relics release. At that time, it is released
to radio as a single mid year to fuel the band's Maximum Rock Tour. more >> |
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Elvis
Presley: All Time Greatest Hits
14/5/87:
Mötley's Girls, Girls, Girls album ships platinum and debuts at #5, the
highest debuting album since Stevie Wonder’s Hotter Than July opened at
#4 in 1980. The final track on the album is a live version of Elvis
Presley's Jailhouse Rock which was recorded at Long Beach Arena,
California on the previous Theatre Of Pain US tour. David Lee Roth from
Van Halen also joined the Crüe on stage at the Troubadour late in 1981
to perform a rendition of this song that was often played live by
Mötley. Here is the King's original version for you on a super
compilation album of many hits. more >> |
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Brownsville
Station: Smokin' In The Boys Room - The Best Of
21/6/85:
The Theatre Of Pain album is released by Mötley Crüe and includes a
cover of the Detroit band Brownsville Station’s song called Smokin’ In
The Boys Room that went to # 3 on the charts for them back in 1973. The
band used to play it just for sound checks and jams, and Vince used to
play it in his previous band Rockandi. Producer Tom Werman loved it and
suggested it be recorded. This cover was chosen ahead of Mississippi
Queen by Mountain. It was released three days later as the album’s
first single which became the band’s first Top 40 single. The Crüe were
joined onstage in New Haven, Connecticut USA, by former Brownsville
Station singer and songwriter Michael 'Cub' Koda for a jam on guitar
and vocals to the tune on the Theatre Of Pain tour. When Cub died in
the early hours on 1/7/00 from complications from kidney dialysis, his
father said he made more money from Mötley Crüe's version of the song
than he did off his original. Hear the original on this collection of
Brownsville Station hits that also includes their version of Jailhouse
Rock. more >> |
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The
Beatles: The Beatles
26/9/83:
Mötley Crüe released their Shout At The Devil album with a cover of
Helter Skelter; a track written by Beatles Paul McCartney and John
Lennon that was released on their highly acclaimed self-titled album on
22/11/1968. The original album is also known as The White Album due to
its plain cover. Mötley's version is also released as a picture disc
late in 1984. During the Shout At The Devil tour in Europe, members of
Iron Maiden once handcuffed Vince Neil to the stage so he couldn’t sing
and chanted Alka Seltzer into the PA during the chorus performance of
Helter Skelter. Check out the original version on this album, as well
as countless other classic tracks. more >> |
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Raspberries:
Capitol Collectors Series
When
Mötley Crüe first began in April 1981, their live shows often had
Tonight from The Raspberries' 1973 album Side Three in their set list.
When the Crüe re-released the first four albums of their catalogue as a
limited edition with digitally remastered tracks on 1/6/99, Too Fast
For Love contained a number of unreleased songs including the Eric
Carmen penned Tonight. As it was released, The Raspberries had recently
reformed after 25 years and were about to commence a summer reunion
tour. The original version of the song can be heard on this great
collection of their hits. more >> |
