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Home Sweet Home? Carrie Underwood vs. Motley Crue

Published March 20th, 2009 by Karen

photo credit: terren in Virginia

American Idol champ Carrie Underwood recently did something surprising: She covered a Motley Crue song.

The glitzy country crooner is offering up her version of the ’80s rockers’ hit “Home Sweet Home.” It is the song that AmIdol plays when a contestant gets sent home.

Although it’s better than the awful song that American Idol used to play whenever the weekly loser was sent packing (Daniel Powter’s unbearable ”Had a Bad Day), we think Underwood’s song is still pretty lame.

Some proceeds from Underwood’s song will benefit the Humane Society of the United States.

Motley Crue’s proceeds are probably going to strippers and alimony.

So, how does the former Idol fare with the party rock group’s monster ballad?

Meh.

Check out both versions (after the jump) and tell us what you think. Continue reading »

"I went to see the concert last night. It was pretty good. I won't give any details. Theory of a Dead Man and Hinder were there too. It was worth the money!!!"

Andrea

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CrueFest: Motley Crue Tour Dates, New Motley Crue Album Info and More!

Published April 22nd, 2008 by Karen

Tommy Lee has become famous for a lot of things over the years, including certain videos he made with ex-wife Pam Anderson.

But, before he was starring in adult videos, the tattooed loud-mouth was starring in music videos with his band, Motley Crue.

The Crue hasn’t quite recaptured the glory of its leather panted, big hair ‘80s glory, but the band’s original line-up has reunited for a new tour, the aptly named CrueFest.

Set to launch this summer, CrueFest is poised to become something of an OzzFest for the retro hair-metal set.

In time for the new tour, Motley Crue has released a new album, Saints of Los Angeles. But, let’s face it nobody wants to hear new Crue, they want to hear classics like “Dr. Feelgood,” “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” and strip-club anthem, “Girls, Girls, Girls.”

Saints of L.A. is the Crue’s first album featuring the original line-up in a decade (although they did release a horrible album with a different singer back in 1997.)

Bands scheduled to join Motley Crue on the CrueFest tour include Papa Roach, Trapt and BuckCherry.

We’ve seen a preview of the live show here and, well, we’ll let you decide Vince Neil is singing, or using a backing track. Ahem.

Too bad fellow ‘80s leftover Bret Michaels and his band Poison didn’t sign on for the tour, too…maybe they couldn’t pull Bret away from his VH1 skank/dating show Rock of Love. (Since Bret didn’t find love on the season finale of Rock of Love 2, it seems likely that Rock of Love 3 is just around the corner.)

Tour doesn’t start until July, but here’s some Crue to keep you amused until then.

Motley Crue—“Live Wire” video
Fairly embarrassing display of red leather and hairspray. Classy.

Motley Crue—“Girls, Girls, Girls” video
Motorcycles? Yeah. Strippers? Yeah. Music? Pretty much what you should expect for a song about motorcycles and strippers.

Motley Crue—“Kickstart My Heart” video
Yeah, more motorcycles. But fewer strippers.
Motle Crue—“Dr. Feelgood” free mp3 download

Tell Us What You Think!
–Is Motley Crue too old to rock? Will you go to the concert? What song do you want to hear them play?

"real old bald guy trying to find love! He is just promoting himself because he has had no major hit in the past decade. Everyone know he's bald under..."

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Rock of Love 2 Winner Wonders What’s Under Bret Michaels Bandana?

Published April 18th, 2008 by Karen

It has been a busy week in the music world, but our favorite story of the week is Bret Michaels FINALLY revealing what is under his bandana. Bald? Wig? Weave? Keep reading…

VH1 wrapped up another season of the surprisingly popular celebrity skank-a-thon, oops, we mean, dating show, Rock of Love.

The show stars Bret Michaels, singer for ‘80s glam rock band Poison, known for songs such as “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and “Talk Dirty to Me.”

This season’s winner of Bret’s, um, love, was a girl named Ambre. You can see the dramatic final scenes, here.

Unfortunately, Michaels didn’t find true love, he’s already talking about the possibility of Rock of Love 3.

Of course, the biggest mystery of the show isn’t finding out who Bret’s new special lady is, it’s finding out what secret is concealed beneath his ever-present bandana.

Once part of his signature style, in recent years onlookers have started to suspect that the bandana covering his shiny blond hair is there to conceal Bret’s baldness and to hold on his wig.

Turns out, they were right. Sort of.

AP reports that Bret finally revealed what is under his scarf, “My hair is combined of my hair and the finest extensions Europe has to offer. I do the show without it on all the time and they won’t film me. They are like, “Put your bandanna back on. It is your image.” It is my signature thing.”

Now, if someone could just convince him to stop wearing so much lipgloss…

Seriously though, maybe he should take a cue from Jessica Simpson and launch his own line of hair extensions for aging rockstars?

In other news, Bret’s Poison bandmate, drummer Rikki Rockett, was arrested in March on sexual assault charges.