M?tley Cr?e - Generation Swine
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Artist: M?tley Cr?eEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-06-24
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Find Myself
- Afraid
- Flush
- Generation Swine
- Confessions
- Beauty
- Glitter
- Anybody Out There
- Let Us Prey
- Rocketship
- Rat Like Me
- Shout at the Devil '97
- Brandon
- Afraid [Swine Mix/Jimbo Mix]
- Wreck Me [#]
- Kiss the Sky [#]
- Rocketship [Early Demo]
Free Music Notes for Generation Swine
Free Music Review: Good songs, crappy production. Mud does not make grunge.
Hit: 3 Stars
What really makes "Generation Swine" stand out from the rest of the Crue catalog (and I can't believe more reviews haven't pointed this out) is the production quality. A lot of music listeners don't realize that good song writing is only half the battle; the production and engineering can make or break an album's impact.
"Generation Swine" does not have the crisp production you've come to know and love from "Shout at the Devil" through "Dr. Feelgood" (the debut was rather tinny in comparison). This sounds like this was recorded with all of the VU meter needles in the red. Mick sounds like he's playing through the Smashing Pumpkin's gear. Vince sounds like he's singing from behind a pillow sometimes. I can hear Tommy's cymbals, but hardly the full dynamics of his kit. I don't consider myself a hardcore audiophile, but with "Generation Swine", I don't think one has to.
Now the songs themselves are NOT bad! When you strip away the production quality and look at the song structures and melodies themselves, you've got a good Crue album. But again, sometimes it sounds like I'm hearing this CD running through a distortion pedal. I think if you took the same tapes to a different engineer it would sound like a completely different album, and the songs would sound clearer. I'd LOVE to hear a cleaner remix of this album! This kind of production might work for a band like Nine Inch Nails, but not Motley Crue.
In retrospect, I can understand the motivation for doing the album the way that they did it. This was 1997, and the rock scene had changed a lot in just the past 5 years. The "grunge" sound and industrial music production style had mostly become the norm. I can understand wanting to "modernize" one's music. I don't expect musicians to write the same way they wrote 15 years ago. But muddying up the sound isn't the answer. It's too bad; there's some great stuff on here, and it's just buried in audio muck. Fortunately I think they learned from their mistake for the albums that followed.
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Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.Generation Swine has the potential to be visceral and contemporary, and on tracks like "Find Myself" and "Let Us Prey," Motley Crue actually meld metal and industrial into a high-voltage hybrid. But too often, the group lapses into cheeseball melodies and wimpy choruses that undermine its more inventive efforts. And if the band was trying to prove to the world that it's still hungry and forward-thinking, it should have thought twice before including a revamped version of the 14-year-old song "Shout At the Devil." --Jon Wiederhorn
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