Motley Crue/YMMV


 * Covered Up: "Smokin' in the Boys Room", featured in Theatre of Pain, was originally from Ann Arbor, MI band Brownsville Station.
 * Critical Dissonance: Mainstream music critics hated Motley Crue, but that didn't stop them from being one of the biggest bands of the 1980s.
 * Dead Horse Genre: Glam, of course. Their resurgence in the Turn of the Millennium says maybe not so.
 * In a 1989 (!) interview with MTV that would be later used in the special "It Came from the 80s II: Metal Goes Pop", Nikki Sixx Hangs a Lampshade on the glut of copycat glam rock bands at the moment, and infers that this was the same type of "dinosaur music mentality that punk rebelled against in the '70s". He goes on to say that somebody has to do something original. Guess who followed in the Answer Cut in said special? The band responsible for the genre's eventual demise, Nirvana.
 * Dork Age: The Nineties.
 * Dude, Not Funny/Gallows Humor: Despite Neil's car accident that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, they titled their box-set series Music to Crash Your Car to...
 * ..which also happened to be part of a lyric in the song "Crash" by Methods of Mayhem, Tommy's Nu-metal side project from 1999.
 * Epic Riff - Shout at the Devil, full stop.
 * Though if you want to continue the sentence, Dr. Feelgood, Kickstart My Heart, Girls, Girls, Girls, Wild Side Looks and Looks That Kill are the other most recognisable ones. Even their earlier stuff was full of kickass (if less well known) riffs, such as Too Fast For Love.
 * Face of the Band: Lee (the drummer), and in some cases Sixx (the bassist). Neil does get his due, but Mars is almost unknown.
 * The Scrappy: A few of their albums:
 * Girls, Girls, Girls was recorded at a time when the band members were so addicted to alcohol and drugs that they could barely function, and it shows. Even Nikki Sixx has commented "If it hadn't been for the title track and 'Wild Side', this album would have ended our careers."
 * The band's self-titled album released in 1994 with John Corabi on lead vocals and a more raw, "grungy" sound. The album was an attempt by the band stay relevant at a time when the public had abandoned glam metal in favor of grunge and alternative rock. The end result sounded nothing like their previous albums, alienating their longtime fans and failing to secure new ones.
 * Generation Swine in 1997. Although the album featured the return of Vince Neil, it was poorly received by critics and audiences and sold poorly. Vince Neil would later call the album "terrible" due to "too much experimenting."
 * Snark Bait: Well, Hair Metal is a Dead Horse Genre visually terrible. Add their "pseudo-Satanist" phase, and you can see why a music critic chose them as The Worst Rock Band Ever.
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Multiple times; the discography kept getting better, leading up to Dr. Feelgood. Between then and Saints of Los Angeles, not so much.
 * Yoko Oh No: Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil blame Pamela Anderson for Tommy Lee's decision to leave the band in the late-1990s.