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Mötley Crüe discography
Mötley Crüe live in 2007Releases ↙Studio albums 9 ↙Live albums 2 ↙Compilation albums 6 ↙EPs 3 ↙Singles 28 ↙Video albums 9 ↙Music videos 25 The official discography of Mötley Crüe, a hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, consists of nine studio albums, two live albums, three EPs, six compilation albums, four box sets, nine DVD, twenty-eight singles, and twenty-five music videos.
Mötley Crüe is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million album copies worldwide,[1][2] including 25 million in the US.[1]
The band members have often been noted for their hard-living lifestyles; all members have had numerous brushes with the law, have spent time in jail, have suffered long addictions to alcohol and drugs, have had countless escapades with women, and are heavily tattooed. Their ninth studio album entitled Saints of Los Angeles was released on June 24, 2008, while a film adaptation of their best-selling autobiography The Dirt is due to be released in 2011.[3] A tenth studio album is also in the works.[4]
Contents
Studio albums
Year Album details Chart positions Certifications US
[5]AUS
[6]AUT
[7]CAN
[8]FIN
[9]NOR
[10]NZ
[11]SWE
[12]SWI
[13]UK
[14]1981 Too Fast for Love - Released: November 10, 1981
- Re-release: August 20, 1982
- Label: Leathür
- Producer: Michael Wagener
77 — — — — — — — — — 1983 Shout at the Devil - Released: September 26, 1983
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Tom Werman
17 85 — 23 — — — — — — 1985 Theatre of Pain - Released: June 21, 1985
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Tom Werman
6
[18]39 — 11 — — — 7 25 36 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls - Released: May 15, 1987
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Tom Werman
2 28 — 4 — 8 — 7 13 14 1989 Dr. Feelgood - Released: September 1, 1989
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Bob Rock
1 5 — 7 — 7 — 6 7 4 1994 Mötley Crüe - Released: March 15, 1994
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Bob Rock
7 3 25 9 — — 28 6 21 17 - US: Gold[15]
1997 Generation Swine - Released: June 24, 1997
- Label: Elektra
- Producer: Scott Humphrey
4 34 — 10 — — — 18 — 80
[21]- US: Gold[15]
2000 New Tattoo - Released: July 11, 2000
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Producer: Mike Clink
41 — — — — — — — — 176
[21]2008 Saints of Los Angeles - Released: June 24, 2008
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Producer: James Michael
4 14 73 3 6 37 8 5 42 78 - CAN: Gold[17]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart. Live albums
Year Album details Chart positions Certifications US
[5]1999 Live: Entertainment or Death - Release: November 23, 1999
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
133 2006 Carnival of Sins Live - Release: 2006
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD, DVD
US: Platinum, 3x Platinum (DVD).
"—" denotes a release that did not chart. Extended plays
Year Album details 1988 Raw Tracks - Released: November 23, 1988
- Label: Elektra
- Formats: CD
1990 Raw Tracks 2 - Released: November 23, 1990
- Label: Elektra
- Formats: CD
1994 Quaternary - Released: 1994
- Label: Elektra
- Formats: CD
Compilation albums
Year Album details Chart positions Certifications US
[5]AUS
[6]CAN
[5]FIN
[9]NZ
[11]SWE
[12]SWI
[13]UK
[14]1991 Decade of Decadence - Released: October 19, 1991
- Label: Elektra
- Formats: CD
2 9 10
[8]— 13 43 22 20 1998 Greatest Hits - Released: 1998
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
20 — 16 — — — — — - US: Gold[15]
1999 Supersonic and Demonic Relics - Released: 1999
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
— — — — — — — — 2003 The Millennium Collection: The Best of Mötley Crüe - Released: 2003
- Label: Hip-O
- Formats: CD
— — — — — — — — 2005 Red, White & Crüe - Released: February 1, 2005
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
6 26 2 16 — 31 — 67 2009 Greatest Hits - Released: November 17, 2009
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
94 30 — — — — — — - CAN: Gold[17]
"—" denotes a release that did not chart. Box sets
Year Album details 2003 Music to Crash Your Car to: Vol. 1 - Released: 2003
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
2004 Music to Crash Your Car to: Vol. 2 - Released: 2004
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
Loud as F@*k - Released: 2004
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
2007 Shout at the Demos - Released: 2007
- Label: Mötley, Eleven Seven
- Formats: CD
Singles
Year Song Peak chart positions Certifications Album US
[22]US Main.
[22]AUS
[6]NZ
[11]SWE
[12]UK
[14]1982 "Live Wire" — — — — — — Too Fast for Love 1983 "Shout at the Devil" — 30 — — — — Shout at the Devil 1984 "Looks That Kill" 54 12 — — — — "Too Young to Fall in Love" 90 17 — — — — 1985 "Smokin' in the Boys Room" 16 7 — — — 71 Theatre of Pain "Home Sweet Home" 89 38 — — — 51 1987 "Girls, Girls, Girls" 12 20 — — — 26 Girls, Girls, Girls "Wild Side" — — — — — — "You're All I Need" 83 — — — — 23 1989 "Dr. Feelgood" 6 7 26 11 — 50 - US: Gold[15]
Dr. Feelgood "Kickstart My Heart" 27 18 34 31 — — 1990 "Without You" 8 11 45 — — 39 "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" 19 13 — 49 — — "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" 78 34 — — — — 1991 "Primal Scream" 63 21 29 30 — 32 Decade of Decadence "Home Sweet Home '91" 37 41 — — — 37 1994 "Hooligan's Holiday" — 10 — — 34 36 Mötley Crüe "Misunderstood" — 24 — — — — 1997 "Afraid" — 10 — — — 58 Generation Swine "Beauty" — 37 — — — — 1998 "Bitter Pill" — 22 — — — — Greatest Hits 1999 "Teaser" — 35 — — — — Supersonic and Demonic Relics 2001 "Hell on High Heels" — 13 — — — — New Tattoo 2004 "If I Die Tomorrow" — 4 — — — 63 Red, White & Crüe 2005 "Sick Love Song" — 22 — — — — 2008 "Saints of Los Angeles" — 5 — — — — Saints of Los Angeles "Mutherfucker of the Year" — 29 — — — — 2009 "White Trash Circus" — 37 — — — — "—" denotes a release that did not chart. Video albums
Year Title Certifications 1986 Uncensored - Released: 1986
- Label: Elektra
- Format: VHS
- US: 2x Platinum[15]
1990 Dr. Feelgood, the Videos - Released: 1990
- Label: Elektra
- Format: VHS
- US: Platinum[15]
1992 Decade of Decadance '81-'91 - Released: 1992
- Labal: Elektra
- Format: VHS
- US: Gold[15]
1998 Behind the Music: Mötley Crüe - Released: 1998
- Label:
- Format: DVD
2001 Lewd, Crüed & Tattooed - Released: 2001
- Label: Mötley
- Format: DVD
2003 Greatest Video Hits - Released: 2003
- Label: Mötley
- Format: DVD
- US: Platinum[15]
2005 Classic Mötley Crüe: Universal Masters DVD Collection - Released: 2005
- Label: Mötley
- Format: DVD
2006 Carnival of Sins Live - Released: 2006
- Label: Mötley
- Format: DVD
- US: 3x Platinum[15]
2009 Crüe Fest - Released: March 24, 2009
- Label: Mötley
- Format: DVD
Music videos
Year Song 1982 "Live Wire" 1984 "Looks That Kill" "Too Young to Fall in Love" 1985 "Smokin' in the Boys Room" "Home Sweet Home" 1987 "Girls, Girls, Girls" "Wild Side" "You're All I Need" 1989 "Dr. Feelgood" "Kickstart My Heart" 1990 "Without You" "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" 1991 "Anarchy in the U.K." "Primal Scream" "Home Sweet Home '91" 1994 "Hooligan's Holiday" "Misunderstood" 1997 "Afraid" "Shout at the Devil '97" 2001 "Hell on High Heels" 2004 "If I Die Tomorrow" 2005 "Sick Love Song" "Enslaved" 2008 "Saints of Los Angeles" "Mutherfucker of the Year" 2009 "White Trash Circus" 2011 "Kickstart My Heart" References
- ^ a b Motley Crue to Commemorate Vinyl Reissue With Limited Edition Leather Box Set, "Journals of the Damned"
- ^ Motley Crue: It's Time to Really Make Rock History!
- ^ The Dirt (2009)
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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
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