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Theatre Of Pain | 
 enlarge | Artist: Moetley Cruee
Label: Beyond
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 126659
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 639857800923
EAN: 0639857800923
ASIN: B00000J7I7
Release Date: October 4, 2004
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Condition: COMES COMPLETE AND IN LIKE NEW CONDITION
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| Tracks:
| • | City Boy Blues | | • | Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Moetley Cruee, Lutz, Michael | | • | Louder Than Hell | | • | Keep Your Eye on the Money | | • | Home Sweet Home | | • | Tonight (We Need a Lover) | | • | Use It or Lose It | | • | Save Our Souls | | • | Raise Your Hands to Rock | | • | Fight for Your Rights | | • | Home Sweet Home | | • | Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Moetley Cruee, Lutz, Michael | | • | City Boy Blues | | • | Home Sweet Home | | • | Keep Your Eye on the Money |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 painful to listen to even now May 13, 2008
I love Motley Crue for what they started with and what they later became. I honestly don't know how this disc was ever really noticed. The songs are simplistic, the musicianship is thoroughly non-impressive and the production sounds poppy and dated even then. Out of the now 15 songs on this disc, only three are tolerable leaving 80% of the songs as pure filler. I find it nearly impossible to believe that this disc ever won a following when other bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest were releasing metal epics. Theatre of Pain was a profound disappointment. This cd, for me, really spelled the end for metal as it was known. If this cd was my first exposure to the Crue, then I'm sure that I would never have followed them. It's painful to listen to even now.
Garbage. November 6, 2006
Theatre of Pain.
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Motley Crue's venture into the mid 1980s. Gone for all intents and purposes is the heavy brash sound which populated SATD and TFFL. You get Motley Glam. Its a sad joke compared to the two prior releases.
There are people who love this album. I am not one of them. The music loses the edge, power and feracity of earlier output.
For all intents and purposes the Motley Crue of legend disappeared sometime between 1984 and 1985. Replaced by a drugged out band resorting to cliched MTV ballads, lame lyrics and the occasional cheesy cover. From here they never recover the greatness they flashed in the early years.
Thinking about buying this? Don't. Shout at the Devil or Too Fast for Love are THE albums to buy. After this fughetabout unless you like cheesy cliche 1980s rock.
 1 of motley best!!!!!!!!! December 4, 2005
first off let me say i don't care for the re-masters. cuase all the same extra songs that are on all the re-master of all the older motley cd's are the same ones you would find on their box bet "motley crue: music to crash your car too vol. 1 & 2" that being said, if i was you, i'd try to find the 1dt pressing of the old motley cd's, which are Elektra Records. not Moltey/hip-O records that u see now, and put decade of decadence 81-91 back out, that was their first grestest hits cd, which now day is out-of- print, what the F*** is up with that, that had songs on it like "rock n roll junkie" a diffent version of "livewire" "piece of your action" and a live version of "kickstart my heart" on it.
 A good, if not great album November 5, 2005
3.5 Stars
With the release of "Shout at the Devil," (1983) Motley Crue broke through and achieved their first taste of commercial success. Proving to be no one-hit-wonder, two years later, the Crue released "Theatre of Pain," (1985) which solidified their position as one of rock's premier acts.
For their third album, Motley Crue fully embraced the glam image that was popular at the time.
"Theatre of Pain" proved to be a huge commercial success, entering the top ten and going on to sell four million copies. "Home Sweet Home" and a cover of Brownsville Station's "Smokin' in the Boys Room" enjoyed massive MTV airplay. With "Theatre of Pain" the Crue greatly expanded their audience and established themselves as one of the most popular metal bands of the 1980s.
Truth be told, "Theatre of Pain" is not the Crue's best work. In fact, it's the weakest album from their 80s output. It doesn't "suck," the way some fans (even Vince Neil) claim it does. It just doesn't measure up when compared to the classic first two albums "Too Fast for Love" (1982) and "Shout at the Devil" or the great, but not as great follow-up albums "Girls, Girls, Girls," (1987) and "Dr. Feelgood (1989).
The flaws of "Theatre of Pain" are that the band's performance was half-baked and the songwriting generally wasn't up-to-par with the Crue's standard.
Having suddenly found huge commercial success with "Shout at the Devil," the band indulged in heavy partying. While some artists music is enhanced by excess drugs and alcohol, (Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, the Doors) this was not to be the case with the Crue. While the band's performance on "Theatre of Pain" is adequate, is just isn't of the same caliber as it had on the band's first two albums. The band sounds sloppy and not as cohesive. Vince Neil (vocals) sounds slurred and generally wasted. Nikki Sixx, (bass) Mick Mars (guitar) and Tommy Lee (drums) give an adequate, if not underwhelming performance.
The bluesy mid-tempo "City Boy Blues" is good and effective, if not a little generic. Although a huge hit, the cover of Brownsville Station's "Smokin' in the Boys Room" is really bad, really cheesy, and not the Crue's finest hour. They just sound like they're posing, trying too hard to be baddass, and with such a bubblegum song. They might-as-well have covered "Bad boy Leroy Brown." The album picks up some momentum with the good, but not great, up-tempo "Keep your eye on the money." The album's centerpiece, and one of the Crue's biggest hits "Home Sweet Home" is certainly one of the band's best songs. I'd even argue that it is the greatest power balled of the 1980s. It is the album's shinning moment.
I actually like the second side of "Theatre of Pain" far better than the first. A lot of great songs were buried on the latter half of the album. The free-wheeling "Tonight (We Need a Lover)" has a great hook and killer solo. "Use it or lose it" is another underrated rocker in the same vein. Although not a hit, "Save our Souls," in this writers opinion, is the latter half of the album's best song. It has a certain looseness; a certain intoxicated half-hearted drunken resonance that works in its favor. The semi-acoustic "Raise Your Hands to Rock" is effective and memorable. The closing "Fight for Your Right" sounds like a by-the-numbers 80s rocker, and while it isn't awful, it isn't particularly memorable either.
The remastered addition contains several demos of the songs. They show the songs as works-in-progress and should be of interest to fans of the band.
While "Theatre of Pain" certainly isn't a masterpiece, and has its flaws, it's still a decent album. "Home Sweet Home" and the lost gems on the second side make it an above-average 80s metal album.
Classic Crue August 19, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this when albums were still being sold. I listened to this every day then all my albums got stolen. I just recently started getting all the albums I had, but in CDs. This is classic crue.
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