"Brandon" reminds me of that Phineas and Ferb song where Candace was singing about how much she missed her brothers and the lyrics went "little brothers... cause you're younger, we're related, and you're boys... little brothers..." over and over for 3 minutes

Fun Crue fact: The Bruce Dickinson song

I love how the Genius page for Brandon has a single annotation, on the "she is your mom" line, which reads "this is a reference to Brandon's mom, who is his mom". The internet is beautiful.

Tommy Lee singing "She's your mom. She gave birth to you." is the lyrical equivalent of that one episode of The Office when Dwight and Jim have to throw a birthday party for Kelly and Dwight makes a banner that says, "IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY."

My favourite part about Netflix's adaptation of The Dirt is how it ends with them triumphantly reuniting with Vince then riding off into the sunset to release this album, as if Generation Swine was their magnum opus.

"Nirvana killed my career" is much an interesting phenomenon because it sounds far fetched to assume one band could end a whole grene and take its entire fanbase with them but it happened

"HEAVY LIKE PANTERA, BUT LUSH LIKE OASIS" bro imagine if Motley Crue tried to make a shoegaze album

worst part is you can hear Vince TRYING to adjust his voice, but Vince's voice is like Cher's in that it was made for one genre and one genre only. That is a Hair Metal voice, and it is completely inflexible.

One big irony of the "Nirvana killed our career" thing and Motley Crue - Kurt Cobain famously thought Butch Vig's production on Nevermind made the band sound like Motley Crue - too polished, overcompressed and that overbearing snare sound. Hence, the band's decision to record In Utero with Steve Albini. Also I remember Henry Rollins making fun of the song Brandon on one of his spoken word things.

“Terry Gilliam directs a Saw movie” is hands down the best description I’ve ever heard of 90’s alternative music videos

Tommy Lee performing "Brandon" in latex hotpants is pure Spinal Tap.

No matter what you think of this album or the band, I think we can all agree that she is his mom. And she gave birth to him.

"Let's make a baby inside of you" should be a Lonely Island lyric.

after pamela andersons book came out and she told the story of tommy pushing her and their baby into a wall and threatening them, that brandon song is even moreeeeeeee cringey and uncomfortable.

I’m sorry, but the fact that Brandon is being bellowed by a coke-skinny tattooed man in vinyl booty shorts at a grand piano is just hilarious to me.

After watching this, I went back to my copy the The Dirt and read that Tommy wrote “Brandon” half an hour after his son’s birth. And it shows. In Tommy’s defense, we should note that it is difficult to write a song about someone who has no defined personality and has not done anything except emerge from the womb.

I gotta admit Brandon is so ludicrously terrible it actually goes full circle and becomes amazing again. Like he’s just pouring his heart out in the stupidest way imaginable

I like how Nirvana killed so many careers, and then they basically saved Weird Al's career after UHF tanked. Everyone else coming out of the 80s floundered but Weird Al made one of the best albums of his career and topped it with a Kurt Cobain-sanctioned Nirvana parody right when they were at the peak of their fame.

There’s an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Mac, Dennis, Frank and Charlie start a band, but none of them can agree on a style (Mac wants metal and hard rock, Dennis wants spandex and hair metal, Frank wants to do the Beatles and Charlie wants to be Bob Dylan), so they just end up doing all the styles at once and it sounds like a garbled, discordant mess.

1997 was the year of Daft Punk's Homework, Radiohead released OK Computer, and Foo Fighters dropped The Color and the Shape... the Crüe never stood a chance