As had become my tradition with albums of this magnitude, I skipped school to get this album on the Tuesday of it’s release. The first two tracks are two of the Crue’s best songs ever, but the album took a sharp turn from there. My loyalty to the boys was far too deep to ever admit it at the time, but this wasn’t a very good album. The bluesy influence that had begun to creep in on Theater of Pain had completely over taken this album and although the Crue would insist forever after that they were always a blues based rock band, I still don’t hear the blues in either of their first two cds. If you have any of their greatest hits cds, you really don’t need this one. --Scott