What to do when you were big in the 80s? Not so much for your music as for all the sex and drugs around the rock n roll. Write a book about it? Check. But what when that's already been out for a while and you're about to dive back into relative anonimity? Which especially in Europe would no doubt be the case. The only thing we've heard about the Crüe in the past ten years was probably when Tommy Lee's home video with Pamela came out. And let's face it, that was more about Pamela then about Tommy Lee.
So these guys got all their make-up, hair products and leather pants back out of the closet and headed in the studio in the original line-up to record their first album in nine years, loosely based on their biography "The Dirt". And I have to say I honestly found myself pleasantly surprised. Based on all of the above, I was expecting a bunch of 40-year-olds to come up with a crappy album just to cash in for the last time. But no, "Saints Of Los Angeles" sounds like the logical follow-up to "Dr. Feelgood". Don't expect anything out of the ordinary... just sleazy and loud rock n roll with catchy choruses. It's pretty much all you need to get a party started! Plus some strippers, lots of blow and liquor and some nasty sex... damn, I've been listening to this album way too much!
Score: 8 out of 10
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