10 Greatest Final Albums In Rock

Ever since the late ‘90s, the entire career trajectory of Motley Crue has been pretty ugly. While Nirvana’s arrival on the scene should have killed a band like them, they persevered through some of the roughest albums of their career in the process, from Generation Swine’s weird electronic sounds to losing Tommy Lee on New Tattoo. Once everyone seemed to be on the same page though, the band figured they’d give their fans one last ride through their entire life story.

After detailing their debaucherous times in their book the Dirt, Saints of Los Angeles could practically serve as the unofficial soundtrack, with every song having a different lesson that the book taught them about their lives as rock and roll stars.

While you can definitely hear a fair bit of Nikki Sixx’s side project SIXX:AM in here, this is still a Motley album from skin to core, taking the sleazy rock and roll that they had always prided themselves on and turning it into rock and roll history, like their times having fun on Down At the Whisky to signing off the only way they know how on songs like White Trash Circus and Goin Out Swingin. They may have started life as the street rats off of Sunset, but after years of having their face down in the dirt, Motley’s last album was them reigning as kings of LA rock.