Saturday, March 22, 2014

Are You Testin' Me?



The fucking stupid wife-beating stuff notwithstanding, I think the celebrity I would most want to trade lives with is Tommy Lee. Not only does the first 7 years of being in Mötley Crüe sound like the funnest time ever in the history of mankind (read The Dirt if you ever want the details), the guy was married to Heather Locklear and then goddamned Pamela Anderson. Jesus, any one of those factors would make for a great life. Regardless, tiring of reunion tours and discovering an affection for new genres of music, Lee finally quit Mötley in 1999 to create a nü metal hybrid band that released one much-maligned album, the eponymous Methods Of Mayhem. Now, don't get me wrong, the "single" from the record was the godawful "Get Naked" - the first signal that Fred Durst's fifteen minutes of fame was running out. That song aside, the rest of the tracks are pretty good - if not actually fucking awesome. "Anger Management" is easily one of the best songs the guy ever recorded - with or without Mötley - that song should be on any football team's pre-game soundtrack, just a white-knuckled rant against the paparazzi and tabloids. Of course Tommy was recently split from Pamela while this album was recorded so a lot of the songs have sort of a "listen to my side of the story" vibe. Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland contributes to the amazing "Narcotic" and "Crash" will forever remind me of the hours I wasted playing Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2. It's a solid album, some songs stronger than others but varied enough to keep it flowing. Evidently the band reformed in 2009 and actually released another album but I've never heard it...


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks. I remember a music video I seen once where Tommy Lee is driving a bumper car through the clouds and singing pop rock, no idea which band that was, but it wasn't Motley Crue.