- Misunderstood (Mötley Crüe song)
-
"Misunderstood" Single by Mötley Crüe from the album Mötley Crüe Released 1994 Format Maxi-single Recorded A&M Studios, Los Angeles CA, and Little Mountain Studios, Vancouver, Canada
1993Genre Hard rock Length 6:53 Label Elektra Producer Bob Rock Mötley Crüe singles chronology "Hooligan's Holiday"
(1994)"Misunderstood"
(1994)"Afraid"
(1997)"Misunderstood" is a song by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on their 1994 eponymous album. The lyrics were written by vocalist/guitarist John Corabi and bassist Nikki Sixx, while the music was written by Corabi, Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars. The song charted at number 24 on the Mainstream rock charts.[1]
Contents
Release
"Misunderstood" was released as a maxi-single that included three other tracks; a remix of the song, "Hooligan's Holiday" (Extended Holiday Version), the non-LP track "Hypnotized," and the album version of "Hooligan's Holiday." "Hypnotized" was later included on the Crücial Crüe edition of the album in 2003.
Music video
A video was made to promote the single, and was directed by Brian Lockwood. The video, which featured the band playing in front of an old house while showing clips of the characters mentioned in the song, first aired in May 1994.[2] MTV refused to air the video as there was a suicide reference in the lyrics and a gun sitting on a table in one of the scenes.[3] This is widely believed to be a smokescreen for what was punishment for an interview with the band when the album was first released, earlier in the year. Bassist Nikki Sixx felt insulted by the MTV interviewer's line of questioning and walked out of the interview. Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee later appeared on the MTV program, Headbanger's Ball, when a third video, for the track, Smoke The Sky, was filmed. This video was aired, but only a few times.
Background
"Misunderstood" was one of the first songs that the band wrote with Corabi when he joined Mötley Crüe, working out the acoustic part of the song during one of their first rehearsals together.[4] Lyrically, the song tells a story describing the lives of several people who are dealing with the fact that life has passed them by. Glenn Hughes is featured on background vocals.
Track listing
All songs written by John Corabi, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee.
- "Misunderstood" - (6:53)
- "Hooligan's Holiday" (Extended Holiday Version) - (11:06)
- "Hypnotized" - (5:29)
- "Hooligan's Holiday" (LP Version) - (5:40)
References
- ^ "Billboard singles chart history- Motley Crue". http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4964.
- ^ MVDBase
- ^ Music-Rock.com John Corabi, The Scream from Ratt's Motley Dude
- ^ Lee, Tommy, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx and Neil Strauss. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, Regan Books, 2002. ISBN 0-06-039288-6
Studio albums Live albums - Live: Entertainment or Death
- Carnival of Sins Live
EPs Compilations - Decade of Decadence
- Greatest Hits (1998)
- Supersonic and Demonic Relics
- The Millennium Collection: The Best of Mötley Crüe
- Red, White & Crüe
- Greatest Hits (2009)
Box sets Video albums - Mötley Crüe: Uncensored
- Mötley Crüe: Dr. Feelgood, the Videos
- Mötley Crüe: Decade of Decadence '81-'91
- Behind the Music: Mötley Crüe
- Lewd, Crüed & Tattooed
- Mötley Crüe: Greatest Video Hits
- Classic Mötley Crüe: Universal Masters DVD Collection
- Carnival of Sins Live
- Crüe Fest
Singles - "Live Wire"
- "Shout at the Devil"
- "Looks That Kill"
- "Too Young to Fall in Love"
- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
- "Home Sweet Home"
- "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- "Wild Side"
- "You're All I Need"
- "Dr. Feelgood"
- "Kickstart My Heart"
- "Without You"
- "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
- "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
- "Primal Scream"
- "Home Sweet Home '91"
- "Hooligan's Holiday"
- "Misunderstood"
- "Afraid"
- "Beauty"
- "Bitter Pill"
- "Teaser"
- "Hell on High Heels"
- "If I Die Tomorrow"
- "Sick Love Song"
- "Saints of Los Angeles"
- "Mutherfucker of the Year"
- "White Trash Circus"
Solo albums - Exposed
- Carved in Stone
- Live at the Whisky: One Night Only
- Never a Dull Moment
- Tommyland: The Ride
- Tattoos & Tequila
Related articles - Discography
- The Dirt
- The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
- Methods of Mayhem
- Brides of Destruction
- Sixx:A.M.
- Rock Star Supernova
- The Surreal Life
- Tommy Lee Goes to College
Categories:- 1994 singles
- Mötley Crüe songs
- Songs written by Nikki Sixx
- Songs written by Tommy Lee
- Songs written by Mick Mars
- Songs written by John Corabi
- 1990s rock song stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.