| Product Summary | | Label: ELEVEN SEVEN/ADA | | UPC: 00846070017124 | | Release Date: 8/21/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204936838 | | Item#: M3PD56 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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| | Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the cofounder of the most legendary rock band of the eighties— Motley Crue —offers an unflinching and utterly gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
Few bands were as influential as Motley Crue in making the 1980s the heavy metal decade. Theirs is a cyclonic story of runaway success and its price, blending outrageous record sales and arena headline tours with smashed up cars, jail sentences, models, drugs, breakups, reunions and more breakups.
In his candid memoir, Nikki Sixx—Motley Crue’s bassist and main songwriter—recounts the band’s heyday. The Heroin Diaries takes readers along on one of the most breathless and harrowing roller coaster rides in the history of pop music. At its heart lies the author’s nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought him and the band to the edge of losing much more than just their spot on the charts. Serving up snapshots of rock culture at its most manic, this insider’s look at triumph and tragedy is every bit as explosive as the musical odyssey it chronicles. This CD offers 13 tracks of original material as a soundtrack companion to the book.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Sixx: A.M.: DJ Ashba (guitar); Nikki Sixx (bass guitar); James Michael (drums). | | Additional personnel: Julia McDermott (keyboards); Nina Bergman, Dee Mclaughlin (background vocals). | | HEROIN DIARIES SOUNDTRACK is the musical counterpart to former Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx's autobiography, THE HEROIN DIARIES. Recorded with his band Sixx: A.M., the album is an eclectic hodge-podge of styles and experiments. With each track ostensibly reflecting an aspect of Sixx's descent into addiction, the soundtrack encompasses rock, electro, glam, industrial, and spoken word, all of which add up to a kaleidoscopic yet strangely compelling testament to the musician's personal experience. | | Now, this is an interesting album! Designed as a companion piece to M?tley Cre bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx's autobiography, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack -- based on journals he kept during the peak of his drug abuse in the '80s, now supplemented by commentary by his friends and the man himself -- is a genuinely odd and oddly moving record, a weird pileup of pained spoken word diary entries, operatic metal, L.A. sleaze, grimy electro-industrial beats, the stray power ballad, and circus music, all delivered by Sixx's new band, Sixx: A.M., which is fronted by vocalist James Michael, who also produced and wrote the album with Sixx. Musically, this album exists out of time -- it certainly doesn't sound like a throwback to the Cre and, despite the echoes of She Wants Revenge on "Pray for Me," it doesn't sound modern, either. In that sense, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack is the product of a true, distinctive artistic vision -- one that might not be coherent, but it's certainly compelling, both in its open-wound honesty and often baffling mash-ups of styles. Even if Sixx: A.M. dabble in modern textures here, this never sounds like a desperate attempt to sound modern, since everything in this music is designed to mirror Sixx's voyage into heroin hell. It's a concept album and, as such, it plays as an extended suite instead of a collection of songs, but that's the appeal of this record: it's an art rock confessional, quite unlike anything Sixx -- or anyone else, for that matter -- has done before. Which means that even if The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack isn't quite to your specific tastes -- it might be too gloomy for Cre fans -- it nevertheless is hard not to admire the risks Nikki Sixx takes on this record, or the strange success he achieves here, either. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: James Michael; DJ Ashba; Nikki Sixx |
Engineer: James Michael; DJ Ashba |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/21/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 172 | | Label : Eleven Seven | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 58m : 1s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00846070017124 |
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