How these guys did it is a mystery to me, but this is already their fourth studio album, and it seems as if their success will last a bit longer.
When Mötley Crüe released their first album Too Fast For Love’, it was in a time were in the rock genre you did have the few oddities, but most bands were pretty normal. OK, you did have a band like Van Halen where David Lee Roth drew a lot of attention, especially from the girls, but what I mean is that sex was not really a topic of the songs, or in a subdued way for that.
Then along came Mötley Crüe, with their videos. These days you woud call those vids decent, in comparison to what they give us now, where the girls are even more scantily clad, if clad at all, and where they’s shaking their asses and tits like there’s no tomorrow.
While Steel Panthers music is also glam or hair metal, and while their music is decent, their lyrics are far from that. I’d call them juvenile, and centered on sex. Maybe that explains the success of this band, along with the hype that’ created around them of course. And then you haven’t even seen the video clips. While I see the fun in ‘The burden of being wonderfull’, ‘Party like The End of the world’ is just meant to be able to show some pretty girls, swinging their tits. As a matter of fact these video’s would probably be plaid a lot, were MTV to make a contemporary version of ‘Beavis and Butthead’.
It’s a sad truth, that I find this music good, but I absotely hate the lyrics, if you can call that lyrics. To me this is like a hardcore porn version of Mötley Crüe, and a third grade one at that as well.
The fact that they still receive a positive evaluation has solely to do with the quality of the music, otherwise they would have ended with an F.