10 Most Underrated Mötley Crüe Songs

10. City Boy Blues - Theatre Of Pain

In the grand scheme of the Crue's classic period, you can't fault them for being honest. Throughout most of their career, the band has said that Theatre of Pain is one of the weakest albums that they've ever made, saying that Smokin in the Boys Room and Home Sweet Home are the only ones worth revisiting. If you listen to the opener though, they may have been just a bit too hard on themselves.

While not coming close to measuring up to the normal blues standards, City Boy Blues is definitely a much grittier look for the band at the time. By twisting around some of his favorite power pop riffs from around the same time, the groove that Nikki Sixx came up with here is a lot more sinister than you would expect, especially when you pair it together with what Tommy Lee is doing behind the kit.

When you look at the band from around the same time though, you wouldn't really expect something all that nasty to come out of a band that looked like they just got done wearing their glam rock Halloween costumes to play their show. Even though this may have shown the Crue having a little bit of an identity crisis, some of that lingering darkness from Shout at the Devil wasn't tapped out just yet.