I remember walking into the record store at the mall and seeing this Album cover. I bought it not knowing anything about them just their look. This started my Motley Crue journey. Seen them multiple times and followed all of their careers in and out of the band. Still love their music and crank it every time they're on.
I did the same thing with GnR Appetite for Destruction album, bought it because the cover looked cool, months before they blew up. This album, Shout at the Devil, was off limits to me growing up as the rumor of Satanic elements had parents banning it. Well one friend was allowed the album and we went to his house everyday after school to listen to. Their look and sound blew our minds and you couldn't get enough. Crue was always a step ahead of the rest of the hair bands in the 80s. They were cooler and harder than anything out there.
I like almost everything they’ve done. But the first two albums are by far my favorites. They were still punk-metal. Hadn’t gone all the way to glam metal yet. You’re absolutely right about lyrics. “Shout at the Devil” is literally about standing strong and laughing at the Devil. I mean, it’s what you’re taught in church all the time. Other songs do glorify sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But Crue is far from encouraging worship of the Devil.
They said in an interview it was supposed to be called shout with the devil or somthing like that but the record label didn’t like it and they had to change it.
Fun fact: this song is about a time when Nikki Sixx the bassist got into a fight with undercover cops dressed as Hells Angels at a bar and they beat him super bad and took him to jail. He then wrote this song
The most under rated song in the Crue catalog. Why they stopped including it In the live set after 1984 is beyond me. Cause this song is really smokes live Their is glimpses of Judas Priest influence In this song. The song is dope. You might want to check out a song From 1982 called "Running Wild in the Night" Wrote around the same time as this song. Same street level lyrics etc. It never made the SATD final cuts But that song really defines the Motley sound at that time
One of my favorite crue songs. Nikkis song writing was on fire for that record. The pentagram and all that is just to shock people, it's image, and it sold records. They are not into devil worship.
Motley Crue dedicated this song to the L.A.P.D on their album credits. The bass player Nikki Sixx ( main songwriter) got beat up the cops and wrote this song about them.
My favorite all time band-THE CRUE! Seen them 45 times in concert, met them before and after plenty and I have a Theatre of Pain cover (happy/sad face) tattoo on my back that all they guys loved seeing and signing their names so I could get them tattooed to my piece. Vince always told the media and parents "the song is called Shout AT the Devil, not Shout WITH the devil". People are so stupid even today. Mick Mars is most underrated guitarist of all time and I would listen to these guys over any band from the 80's of Rock & Roll!
I discovered them on their first album & saw them open for Ozzy on this tour in 83 or 84. Nikki said on this album they accidentally went into Heavy Metal. If you ask me they were never better. Too Fast is an awesome album too.
This song is a true story about an early Motley show where a biker brawl broke out, of course Nikki was in the middle of it, hit someone with a chain belt and got hauled away by some cops who continued to beat the piss out of him…and then dumped him off in some South Central neighborhood. The neighborhood people got him help and to the hospital. That’s Motley Crue!!!
This is my Crue hidden gem. I love this song. The story about how Nikki wrote it is cool. Walking home one night, he saw some cops basically beating up a woman. So he yelled at them to stop, so they started to beat HIM up.
I think most people expected the sound from their first two albums to carry on to their next two albums and they completely changed their style with theater pain and girls girls girls
IDK what you've heard from the first ablum "Too Fast for Love." but "Piece of your Action", "Merry Go Round and Round", "On with the Show." and of course "Livewire" are musts.
When I went to buy this tape the man said you don’t look like you listen to this music, I was like it’s for my brother !! It was so new with all the makeup and clothes!! It was just different but I looked the video they had for “Looks that Kill” so I bought it !!!!
When was a freshman in high screwl, I knew this girl that was a fanatic about Motley Crue. That's all she'd talk about! I was sick of them before I even heard them! But then I HEARD THEM! LOL!
Older Motley Crue rocked the house ! Another Band that I think you would like is Dokken….try their album “tooth and nail”…” Into the fire “and “just got lucky” are 2 bangers off that underrated album !! Another great Motley Crue song that is underrated is their cover of “Smokin in the Boys Room”…🤘🤘🤘
Sooooooo... I grew up in predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhood in the 80's... Fighting was mandatory... Especially if you listened to Rock and Roll and wore eyeliner... But you fought. No guns. No bullsh!t. You fought and if you lost, you showed up to fight again. Being into this music back then was a badge of honor. It took a certain kinda courage to walk the streets looking like this. It was, is an attitude and lifestyle.
This whole first album and the entire second album. Too fast for love and shout at the devil are still kickass albums top to bottom! As a 13 year old kid just learning how to play guitar. Motley Crue taught me how to play heavy chugging rhythm and how to tune my guitar to “D”standard. That is a very huge advantage to learn when you’re young and learning
Great to see that you keep them coming, man. This is strictly speaking off topic, but I'm not without hope you will continue your exploration of European power metal, since this has been sadly neglected by US audiences in general making you kind of a trailblazer already having discovered the likes of Helloween and, if I'm not mistaken, Blind Guardian. I think - nay, I'm certain - that you'd also appreciate their German countrymen Running Wild and Grave Digger (especially these bands' 90s material) and Edguy, Finland's Stratovarius, Italy's Rhapsody and Sweden's Hammerfall - the band who singlehandedly put old school metal back on the map following the dark 90s ages, even if bands like Iced Earth in the US, Morgana Lefay in Sweden and the abovementioned Stratovarius had performed admirably during said period, mostly unnoticed by Americans :-) From more recent times, you really must check out the first two albums by Finland's Battle Beast (their following albums are more dance floor metal) and the inimitable Arch Enemy from Sweden - a hybrid of melodic death metal, power metal and female growling that is just about the best there is on the current scene. Oh, and lest we forget - check out the 1988 album "Thundersteel" by US legends Riot. This can be described as a prototypical "Painkiller" (the album) and is one of the four gamechanging classic heavy metal records of 1988, alongside Helloween's "Keeper of the seven keys part 2", Queensrÿche's "Operation: Mindcrime" and Manowar's "Kings of metal". (Yes, Iron Maiden's "Seventh son of a seventh son" is just as great, even if it didn't break a pre-existing mold :-D ). OK, rant over for now - hope this was useful to you, metal brother! From Sweden with love.
This whole record 'Shout at the Devil' in 1983 is a ripping classic 🤘🤘🔥🔥The haters came early in their career... but the 90's was the inflection point where the attitude towards them turned sour. Rock fans in Europe thought they were a joke, but they were popular enough in that part of the world too. People forget that 80's glam rock (Twisted Sister, Dokken, Hanoi Rocks) became popular in Europe before they even got a shot in America. The fact that the Motley Crue/ Def Leppard/ Poison shows have been selling stadiums in the USA in 2022 tells me this music has validity and staying power.
MC are true rockers, screw what people say, back in the day, these guys could jam.........period. Now I've heard Vince is having problems with his voice these days, I heard a few live from last year, they didn't sound to good, but that can happen after 35-40 years of metal singing an scream'in. People gave Nickleback alot of hate, I never did understand why people hate some bands for no reason, crazy
Nikki Sixx wrote this song after getting released from jail, for hitting 2 cops with his belt, due to a street brawl, 2 undercover cops. The cops beat Sixx pretty bad... hence the lyrics. Song tells the story
This is the album that got me into Metal when it came out. I was 12. Listened to it over and over. Covered every square inch of my bedroom walls with posters and cut out pictures of every Hit Parader and Circus magazine of Motley Crue, Ratt, Iron Maiden, etc.
They just embraced everything rebellious. The sound was exciting and it felt even a little dangerous. It was so much fun. Saw them in 1989. It was so loud I literally went deaf after the concert. When I went to bed that night I just prayed I'd get my hearing back the next day, which thankfully I did. Now I have a good story to tell. There were always religious zealots who seem to be against fun and they took all the satanic imagery literally. No fans thought they were Satanists. Still, it only fueled their popularity with me and other teenagers. Hey, if the zealots hated it, it automatically made it cool. I am surprised to hear that a band that is at least 30 years past their hey-dey is still a focus of the right wing, though they never have been able to understand what really is terrible, such as dooming the planet through climate change abuse. Or child abuse, or the demise of democracy. To that end Motley Crue also stood for freedom. I hope you appreciate some of this back story. Thanks for the reactions. Love to see people discover something new.
It’s sad to hear now that they started as 4 friends sharing an apartment trying to make it as a band and now most of them hate each other and can’t stand each other. If that’s what the game does to you
Vince sounds so amazing here. I was blown away by the aggressitivy of Vince's vocals the first time I heard SATD, the song.
The next song on the record is 'Ten Seconds to Love"... give that one a spin... one of my favorites on that album
I remember walking into the record store at the mall and seeing this Album cover. I bought it not knowing anything about them just their look. This started my Motley Crue journey. Seen them multiple times and followed all of their careers in and out of the band. Still love their music and crank it every time they're on.
I did the same thing with GnR Appetite for Destruction album, bought it because the cover looked cool, months before they blew up. This album, Shout at the Devil, was off limits to me growing up as the rumor of Satanic elements had parents banning it. Well one friend was allowed the album and we went to his house everyday after school to listen to. Their look and sound blew our minds and you couldn't get enough. Crue was always a step ahead of the rest of the hair bands in the 80s. They were cooler and harder than anything out there.
Love this whole album!! I remember when it came out. My mom wouldn’t allow it in the house. She still hates them now lol
60 age I saw them live when young and old all ways killer live
hahahaha, mine too, and both my older sisters hated them, they were crazy about Barry Manilow!!
Mick’s tone on this album is so dark and fantastic.
One of my favorite Crue songs, it's got more a sound of their earlier materiel before they went glam.
My first Metal album I bought in 84, went from break dancing to Thrashing on a guitar!
Nice move metal head for life!
Killer album! Their first 2 are probably my favorites by them.
EASILY~
I like almost everything they’ve done. But the first two albums are by far my favorites. They were still punk-metal. Hadn’t gone all the way to glam metal yet.
You’re absolutely right about lyrics. “Shout at the Devil” is literally about standing strong and laughing at the Devil. I mean, it’s what you’re taught in church all the time. Other songs do glorify sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But Crue is far from encouraging worship of the Devil.
Same here. The first 2 are the best !
They said in an interview it was supposed to be called shout with the devil or somthing like that but the record label didn’t like it and they had to change it.
Yes,the first two albums are incredible.Same with Def Leppard,first two rock hard and raw imo
@monickalynn4365 they were engaged in some satanic shit around We Will Survive and Black Widow
They were engaged in some satanic shidd around the time of I Will Survive and Black Widow
This is one of the best songs they wrote totally underrated
Oh wow...never been a fan of the band but this was purty darn good! Hey Warren! 😊
This whole album is pure 80s metal,great stuff
Fun fact: this song is about a time when Nikki Sixx the bassist got into a fight with undercover cops dressed as Hells Angels at a bar and they beat him super bad and took him to jail. He then wrote this song
The most under rated song in the Crue catalog. Why they stopped including it
In the live set after 1984 is beyond me.
Cause this song is really smokes live
Their is glimpses of Judas Priest influence
In this song.
The song is dope.
You might want to check out a song
From 1982 called "Running Wild in the Night"
Wrote around the same time as this song.
Same street level lyrics etc.
It never made the SATD final cuts
But that song really defines the Motley sound at that time
true! why Running Wild In The Night didn't even recieve a proper demo is beyond my understanding. I wish somebody asked this Nikki himself
I definitely like this song. It reminds me of another of their songs "She's got looks that kill".
The main riff in Knock Em Dead is the main riff from Grinder by Judas Priest.
After Razzles died, Vince never wanted to ever include this in a live set. It's hard to argue.
One of my favorite crue songs. Nikkis song writing was on fire for that record. The pentagram and all that is just to shock people, it's image, and it sold records. They are not into devil worship.
Motley Crue dedicated this song to the L.A.P.D on their album credits. The bass player Nikki Sixx ( main songwriter) got beat up the cops and wrote this song about them.
My favorite all time band-THE CRUE! Seen them 45 times in concert, met them before and after plenty and I have a Theatre of Pain cover (happy/sad face) tattoo on my back that all they guys loved seeing and signing their names so I could get them tattooed to my piece. Vince always told the media and parents "the song is called Shout AT the Devil, not Shout WITH the devil". People are so stupid even today. Mick Mars is most underrated guitarist of all time and I would listen to these guys over any band from the 80's of Rock & Roll!
One of my all time favorite Crue songs!! This was High School days right here!!
I discovered them on their first album & saw them open for Ozzy on this tour in 83 or 84. Nikki said on this album they accidentally went into Heavy Metal. If you ask me they were never better. Too Fast is an awesome album too.
Every song on shout at the devil is good
The song of the hard rock of all times and all groups
I ❤ my bad boys! I've been rockin' to the Crüe since the very beginning and see them every time they come to my neck of the woods.
You can't help but bob your head to this. Still holds up in 2022.
Great song, underrated for sure.
I grew up with this, they were HUGE back in the day!
Nobody:
I get to see them today! The Stadium Tour is coming to my job! I love Motley Crue and of course it’s all Princes fault!
I heard the show was awesome. We missed it here in Atlanta. Have fun and make sure to report back.
This song is a true story about an early Motley show where a biker brawl broke out, of course Nikki was in the middle of it, hit someone with a chain belt and got hauled away by some cops who continued to beat the piss out of him…and then dumped him off in some South Central neighborhood. The neighborhood people got him help and to the hospital. That’s Motley Crue!!!
Motley Crue - Anarchy in the UK!
This is my Crue hidden gem. I love this song.
The story about how Nikki wrote it is cool. Walking home one night, he saw some cops basically beating up a woman. So he yelled at them to stop, so they started to beat HIM up.
Actually it was bikers then the cops came
You should do motley Crue, save are souls. In 1985.. ot rocks
Red Hot, short song but one of my favorites
AAAHHHHHH. Love this riff, so simple and MEAN
Lol! I remember when this album came out, I absolutely loved it and my thought was, these guys are on their way!🤘🏼🤘🏼
They've rode this Album their Whole Career~
I think most people expected the sound from their first two albums to carry on to their next two albums and they completely changed their style with theater pain and girls girls girls
This album has such a creepy street vibe to it. Love the riffs and the mix. One of my first albums. Still gets airplay!!
Everything about this album was infectious~
IDK what you've heard from the first ablum "Too Fast for Love." but "Piece of your Action", "Merry Go Round and Round",
"On with the Show." and of course "Livewire" are musts.
Forgot how heavy this album was. Too bad they went in a pop direction afterwards. Can't go wrong with any track off this album.
When I went to buy this tape the man said you don’t look like you listen to this music, I was like it’s for my brother !! It was so new with all the makeup and clothes!! It was just different but I looked the video they had for “Looks that Kill” so I bought it !!!!
THANK YOU! I've seen the True multiple times.... they are SICK in concert!
One of my favorite Crue tunes
When was a freshman in high screwl, I knew this girl that was a fanatic about Motley Crue. That's all she'd talk about! I was sick of them before I even heard them! But then I HEARD THEM! LOL!
Wow music love it!
Love the old Crue - raw and gritty
Killer song and album! Try Merry Go Round off Too Fast For Love Album
Listen to the whole album, perfection 🤘🤘
I remember going to see crue on the shout at the devil tour back in the 80s 🤘 best days to be a teenager 🤘
For those of y’all old enough to know what “Liner Notes” are:
This song is dedicated to the LA Police Department….
1st Crue album I ever owned and it is their best (imo)
Knock’Em dead kid and Take me to the top are my favorite. Never get old.
Fn classic. Thank you!
Primal Scream And Saint of Los Angeles are a couple bangers from the Crue.
bro about time you played some Old Crue none of this lalalala smoking in the boys room cr..p hahaha thanks!!
Shout At The Devil is stacked. Many more where this came from.
All hell yeah..memories
Motley Crue 10 seconds to love
10 seconds to love
Best Motley album by far in my opinion.
Their best album! Shout at the Devil
My favorite Crue song!
It's the Deep cuts of Motley Crue that's all that is left of good songs from them in my opinion
the best rock glam band of the 80's in my opinion
Dude love it, spot on !!
This was 100% American Metal and the official beginning of the American Metal era.
Great reaction bro and great album
The first Crüe Album I ever owned. Straight fire. Check out their cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" from this album.
That's more like it
🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥
Now thats just down and dirty street gutter rock n roll. Good shit.
Got to do On with the Show or Red Hot. Classics 🔥🔥
Entire album is quality. 1st or 2nd best album they've ever done, in my opinion.
Older Motley Crue rocked the house ! Another Band that I think you would like is Dokken….try their album “tooth and nail”…” Into the fire “and “just got lucky” are 2 bangers off that underrated album !! Another great Motley Crue song that is underrated is their cover of “Smokin in the Boys Room”…🤘🤘🤘
This song they dedicated to the LAPD on the album.
You should do Red Hot from the same album!
BAAAANNGERRR!
83 this was metal. Still is in my opinion. Their best album, along with too fast.
Sooooooo... I grew up in predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhood in the 80's... Fighting was mandatory... Especially if you listened to Rock and Roll and wore eyeliner... But you fought. No guns. No bullsh!t. You fought and if you lost, you showed up to fight again. Being into this music back then was a badge of honor. It took a certain kinda courage to walk the streets looking like this. It was, is an attitude and lifestyle.
This whole first album and the entire second album. Too fast for love and shout at the devil are still kickass albums top to bottom! As a 13 year old kid just learning how to play guitar. Motley Crue taught me how to play heavy chugging rhythm and how to tune my guitar to “D”standard. That is a very huge advantage to learn when you’re young and learning
10 seconds of love
Their best album
Great to see that you keep them coming, man. This is strictly speaking off topic, but I'm not without hope you will continue your exploration of European power metal, since this has been sadly neglected by US audiences in general making you kind of a trailblazer already having discovered the likes of Helloween and, if I'm not mistaken, Blind Guardian. I think - nay, I'm certain - that you'd also appreciate their German countrymen Running Wild and Grave Digger (especially these bands' 90s material) and Edguy, Finland's Stratovarius, Italy's Rhapsody and Sweden's Hammerfall - the band who singlehandedly put old school metal back on the map following the dark 90s ages, even if bands like Iced Earth in the US, Morgana Lefay in Sweden and the abovementioned Stratovarius had performed admirably during said period, mostly unnoticed by Americans :-) From more recent times, you really must check out the first two albums by Finland's Battle Beast (their following albums are more dance floor metal) and the inimitable Arch Enemy from Sweden - a hybrid of melodic death metal, power metal and female growling that is just about the best there is on the current scene.
Oh, and lest we forget - check out the 1988 album "Thundersteel" by US legends Riot. This can be described as a prototypical "Painkiller" (the album) and is one of the four gamechanging classic heavy metal records of 1988, alongside Helloween's "Keeper of the seven keys part 2", Queensrÿche's "Operation: Mindcrime" and Manowar's "Kings of metal". (Yes, Iron Maiden's "Seventh son of a seventh son" is just as great, even if it didn't break a pre-existing mold :-D ).
OK, rant over for now - hope this was useful to you, metal brother! From Sweden with love.
Sorry, one more - I take it you have heard of my countrymen in Sabaton?
Very awesome song, great reaction T. My favorite song is " shout at the Devil.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☮️💯❤️
Great song!!
Great song and album! Liner notes on the album say this song was dedicated to the LAPD.
This whole record 'Shout at the Devil' in 1983 is a ripping classic 🤘🤘🔥🔥The haters came early in their career... but the 90's was the inflection point where the attitude towards them turned sour. Rock fans in Europe thought they were a joke, but they were popular enough in that part of the world too. People forget that 80's glam rock (Twisted Sister, Dokken, Hanoi Rocks) became popular in Europe before they even got a shot in America.
The fact that the Motley Crue/ Def Leppard/ Poison shows have been selling stadiums in the USA in 2022 tells me this music has validity and staying power.
Checkout "Danger" off this same album
One of my favorites
MC are true rockers, screw what people say, back in the day, these guys could jam.........period. Now I've heard Vince is having problems with his voice these days, I heard a few live from last year, they didn't sound to good, but that can happen after 35-40 years of metal singing an scream'in. People gave Nickleback alot of hate, I never did understand why people hate some bands for no reason, crazy
Early 80s crue had some mean riffs.
Nikki Sixx wrote this song after getting released from jail, for hitting 2 cops with his belt, due to a street brawl, 2 undercover cops. The cops beat Sixx pretty bad... hence the lyrics. Song tells the story
It's about the night Nikki got into a fight with some bikers, and in the process mistakenly hit a cop and they beat him pretty bad.
Thank you about Motley Crue. As you said the music on this album and, hope you get to it, their previous album, is just plain ol'....good. It just is!
This is the album that got me into Metal when it came out. I was 12. Listened to it over and over. Covered every square inch of my bedroom walls with posters and cut out pictures of every Hit Parader and Circus magazine of Motley Crue, Ratt, Iron Maiden, etc.
SAME!! Even the ceiling! I still have all my posters and all of my Circus,Hit Parader, and Metal Edge magazines
This and Pyromania were the first two cassettes I bought with my own money when I was 12. I cut pics out of mags too 🤣
Looks that kill is a bad ass song too
That album is the best Crue album,
dude the intro to the song Bastard is the Sh** check that one out!!!! yeah!
I'm not sure what you've listened to, but the First album is 🔥! "Starry Eyes","Public Enemy #1","Too fast for love" basically the whole album! 🤘😈
Have you heard bastard, from the same album, great song!
For me they were never better than they were on this album
They just embraced everything rebellious. The sound was exciting and it felt even a little dangerous. It was so much fun. Saw them in 1989. It was so loud I literally went deaf after the concert. When I went to bed that night I just prayed I'd get my hearing back the next day, which thankfully I did. Now I have a good story to tell. There were always religious zealots who seem to be against fun and they took all the satanic imagery literally. No fans thought they were Satanists. Still, it only fueled their popularity with me and other teenagers. Hey, if the zealots hated it, it automatically made it cool. I am surprised to hear that a band that is at least 30 years past their hey-dey is still a focus of the right wing, though they never have been able to understand what really is terrible, such as dooming the planet through
climate change abuse. Or child abuse, or the demise of democracy. To that end Motley Crue also stood for freedom. I hope you appreciate some of this back story. Thanks for the reactions. Love to see people discover something new.
Red Hot is another good one from this album.
All ways killer live and studio loved them ever since first album
Beat up by police to be precise.
It’s sad to hear now that they started as 4 friends sharing an apartment trying to make it as a band and now most of them hate each other and can’t stand each other. If that’s what the game does to you