Generation Swine

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Generation Swine
Studio album by Mötley Crüe

Publication
(s)

1997

Label (s) Elektra

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD

Genre (s)

Hard rock , glam rock , hair metal

Title (number)

13

running time

64 min. 6 sec.

occupation

production

Scott Humphrey, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee

Studio (s)

Little Mountain Sound Studios

chronology
Mötley Crüe
(1994) 		Generation Swine New Tattoo
(2000)

Generation Swine is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Mötley Crüe .

history

When the band reached the absolute zenith of their career in 1989, one setback followed another. In 1992, the band, who were dissatisfied with their singer's indiscipline, parted ways with Vince Neil . John Corabi , who had a rougher and more organic singing voice, was appointed as his successor . But the album Mötley Crüe , with which the glam metal band tried to adapt to the sound that had been popular since the grunge and alternative rock wave, flopped completely. Since many years had now passed, the band continued to disappear from the scene of the music world. Still angry about the album's flop, Mötley Crüe fired some employees, including manager Doug Thaler and producer Bob Rock . At a meeting with board member Doug Morris of Warner Bros. the band was proposed to get rid Corabi and be reunited with Neil. The band didn't like this suggestion for the time being. So began the first sound recordings, which took place in the private mansions of Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx, with John Corabi as guitarist and singer and sound engineer Scott Humphrey , who previously worked at Bob Rock's side, as the new producer, who helped during the recordings Mötley Crüe used a computer with Pro Tools software extensively . It was the first time that Humphrey was allowed to produce a band's album. After a while, however, the band began to think that the idea with Vince Neil wasn't that bad. So they fired Corabi in mid-September 1996 and asked Neil to return to the band. He wasn't sure because his solo CDs were selling well and at the time he had to cope with private problems such as his daughter's cancer death; In the end, however, he decided to accept the offer. At this point, most of the songs were already written. Without further ado, the band erased the tracks that John Corabi had sung so that Vince Neil could recreate the vocals. After John Corabi was released as a singer, a few days later Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee called him by phone whether Corabi could at least play some guitar tracks for the album, because Mick Mars did not meet their musical ideas. When John Corabi recorded the desired parts on the guitar in the recording studio and Mick Mars came along, who had not been privy to the matter, Mars was furious at this breach of trust. In addition, there were more and more conflicts between guitarist Mick Mars and producer Scott Humphrey, so that Mars almost followed John Corabi, who temporarily lived in the guest house of his property, and left Mötley Crüe. In the Mötley Crüe autobiography The Dirt , Mick Mars and Scott Humphrey describe in two different chapters how they themselves remember this dispute from their own personal point of view, with opposing views.

The song Brandon is about the birth of drummer Tommy Lee's first son, Brandon Thomas Lee, to whom his then-wife, actress and Playboy model Pamela Anderson gave birth on May 6, 1996 at 3:02 a.m. Tommy Lee composed the piece on a piano.

On January 27, 1997, the reunited regular lineup appeared at the American Music Awards with the reinterpretation of their classic Shout at the Devil , which is on the album Generation Swine with the title Shout at the Devil 97 . The album Generation Swine was released on May 26, 1997 in Japan , on June 13 in Europe and on June 24 in the USA, where it reached its highest price with number 4 on the Billboard 200 charts . It gained gold status at the end of August. The single Afraid was not found suitable for broadcast by all radio stations from the quality point of view. This is one of the reasons why further sales ebbed rapidly after the first rush of purchases by old fans. It could therefore not build on past successes.

According to producer Scott Humphrey, the album failed commercially because the songs on it were not homogeneous enough. During the recording, a new artistic dispute arose every day: one day bassist Nikki Sixx wanted a sound like Nine Inch Nails , whose band boss Trent Reznor had a great influence on the development of the rock scene in the mid-1990s, the other day Sixx got a sound like U2 included in the sound aesthetic considerations on their album Zooropa . Furthermore, Sixx and Humphrey constantly debated the lyrics from the pen of Nikki Sixx, who did not like to be talked into his lyrical work. For example, in the ballad-like song Glitter , Humphrey took offense at the line Let's make a baby inside of you , while Sixx thought this sentence was his personal stroke of genius.

Cover, style and texts

The cover shows the members of the band with pig masks in front of an American flag . A member is purposely holding his mask upside down. For the Southeast Asian market, however, the cover and title had to be changed for religious reasons. That is why there is a band photo on the Asia edition and it is called Generation Slime . The title Generation Swine was not planned at all. Together with Corabi, Personality No. 9 was set as the working title for the album, and Neil later proposed the book title Generation Swine by Hunter S. Thompson as the final title of the record.

This album is more experimental than the other albums. It has a lot of synthesizers and keyboards instead of the usual guitar sound. Additional background singers were not used, according to Lee everything should be interpreted by their own voices.

Criticism and consequences

The album got off badly in pretty much all reviews. Rolling Stone gave the album two out of five stars. For Hanno Kress, insignificance and lack of emotion were the decisive factors in giving it three out of ten possible points in Rock Hard . Her editorial colleagues were less cautious, but it was only 45th place in the comparison table of all June new releases . Generation Swine did not even appear in the reader charts (as in the official album charts ) . US chart position 4 did not ensure that the Crüe recovered from the idle of recent years.

Neil himself described the album as "terrible" before the release of Saints of Los Angeles and criticized the fact that "too many experiment". After the release, Tommy Lee left to continue solo. So it was the last Crüe album with the original line-up until 2008. After an album without the original line-up in 2000 with the title New Tattoo , the band unofficially disbanded and all members initially went their own way.

Tracks

  1. Find Myself ( Nikki Sixx , Mick Mars , Tommy Lee ) - 2:51
  2. Afraid (Sixx) - 4:07
  3. Flush (Sixx, Lee, John Corabi ) - 5:03
  4. Generation Swine (Sixx, Lee) - 4:39
  5. Confessions (Lee, Mars, Corabi) - 4:21
  6. Beauty (Sixx, Lee, Scott Humphrey ) - 3:47
  7. Glitter (Sixx, Humphrey, Bryan Adams ) - 5:40
  8. Anybody Out There? (Lee, Sixx) - 1:50
  9. Let Us Prey (Sixx, Corabi) - 4:22
  10. Rocketship (Sixx) - 2:05
  11. A Rat Like Me (Sixx) - 4:13
  12. Shout at the Devil '97 (Sixx) - 3:43
  13. Brandon (Lee) - 3:25

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. pp. 336 + 281
  2. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 336
  3. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. pp. 334–336
  4. ↑ Chris Leibundgut: John Corabi . Shit happens… In: Rock Hard . No. 121 , June 1997, p. 9 .
  5. ↑ Chris Morris: Former Crue Singer Sues Bandmates, Elektra . In: Billboard . July 19, 1997, p. 8 (English).
  6. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 341
  7. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 346
  8. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. pp. 351 ff.
  9. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. pp. 351–359
  10. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 388
  11. ↑ So now it's finally official . Mötley Crüe play again with Vince Neil! In: Rock Hard . No. 118 , March 1997, news, p. 12 .
  12. ^ History. 1997. In: Chronological Crüe. Paul Miles, accessed April 10, 2014 (Section 26/5/97).
  13. ↑ a b c d Doug Reece: Elektra's Motley Crue Makes A Splash With 'Swine' . In: Billboard . July 19, 1997, p. 12 (English).
  14. ^ History. 1997. In: Chronological Crüe. Paul Miles, accessed April 10, 2014 (Section 13/6/97).
  15. ^ History. 1997. In: Chronological Crüe. Paul Miles, accessed April 10, 2014 (Section 24/6/97).
  16. ↑ Oops, that was quick! In: Rock Hard . No. 124 , September 1997, news, p. 10 .
  17. ^ History. 1997. In: Chronological Crüe. Paul Miles, accessed April 10, 2014 (Section 26/8/97).
  18. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. pp. 357 f.
  19. ^ History. 1997. In: Chronological Crüe. Paul Miles, accessed April 10, 2014 (Section 9/5/97).
  20. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 338
  21. ↑ Larry Flick: Motley Crue 'Swine' Set Gets Beefed-Up Elektra Campaign . In: Billboard . May 24, 1997, p. 16 and 24 (English).
  22. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Review of Rolling Stone )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rollingstone.com
  23. ^ Hanno Kress: Mötley Crüe . Generation Swine. In: Rock Hard . No. 121 , June 1997, p. 119 .
  24. ↑ Richter scale . June 97. In: Rock Hard . No. 121 , June 1997, p. 104 f .
  25. ↑ Interview with Vince Neil ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cleveland.com
Mötley Crüe
Studio albums

Too Fast for Love  (1981) • Shout at the Devil  (1983) • Theater of Pain  (1985) • Girls, Girls, Girls  (1987) • Dr. Feelgood  (1989) • Mötley Crüe  (1994) • Generation Swine  (1997) • New Tattoo  (2000) • Saints of Los Angeles  (2008)