Motley Crue ´´Wild Side´´ (HD) High Definition

"Wild Side" is a single by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe from their 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls which charted at #2 on the Billboard 200.
Nikki Sixx described "Wild Side" as more complex compared to some of the simpler songs on the album. "Wild Side" is one of the few Mötley Crüe song that changes in time signature.

Nikki Sixx had written the song during the most dangerous part of his heroin addiction. He mentioned this in The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rockstar.

The song's tempo is 118 beats per minute and the main riff uses a chord progression of A minor 7th, D sus, and D minor, on a guitar using distortion.

The time signature of the song is a basic 4/4 time signature. In the intro it switches from 4/4 to 2/4. The chorus the time signature changes from 4/4 to 2/4 on the chorus. For the verse the time signature is 4/4 which uses power chords A5, D5, G5, and C5. In the chorus, for the lyric, "Take a ride on the", the time signature changes to 2/4. For the bridge and outro, the time signature changes to 12/8 which uses Power chords C5, A5, and D5.

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Music

Tags:

• heavy
• metal

[Bigsmokeyful69]

What i find weird is some o the people in the crowd are dancing about, but i cant help think if they saw people dressed like nikki or mick in the street they would be calling them fags and fecking goths :(

[corycashatt90]

It's not bad. It's got great sound and pump to it. But if Vince would sing every word instead of every other word, it would be epic sounding. :D

[catatack3000]

@Bigsmokeyful69

Or be called emo...that would be worse. D:

[DrJetzy]

Totally boss!

[sydneycarell]

mick is still lookin good <3

[Milic23]

Vince finally stepped up and showed up to sing. Great performance

[316003161]

awesome!Motley Crue rocks, even this many years later!

[316003161]

awesome!

[Craig1168]

This is the best I have heard vince sound since the 80's so maybe he is taking his craft seriously now and has a vocal coach or something