Artist: MOTLEY CRUE
Album: MOTLEY CRUE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1994/ 2003
Media type: CD

Generation Swine is the seventh studio album and final for Elektra Records by the heavy metal band Mцtley Crьe, released on June 24, 1997. The album is the first to feature singer Vince Neil since Dr. Feelgood (1989), and the last to feature the original line-up until Saints of Los Angeles (2008).

Generation Swine debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 27, 1997. Despite the strong charting debut, the album failed to return the band to the level of critical and commercial success that had been hoped for with the reunion, and according to Nielsen SoundScan the album has sold about 306,000 copies in the U.S. to date. Rolling Stone gave the album two stars, noting that "...Fans who like to be rocked to pieces crave consistency, and Generation Swine is more schizophrenic than Wesley Willis."

"Afraid" was released as the first single from the album. The video featured Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who also put the band on the cover of an issue of Hustler that year. "Afraid" reached #10 on the US mainstream rock charts, but that too did little to generate interest in the album. The second single released was "Beauty" which reached number 37 on the mainstream rock charts. The band felt that the album's sluggish sales were due to Elektra not promoting the album properly, claiming that the label was only interested in promoting R & B acts. Rhone discredited this claim though, stating that Motley Crue was a major priority for Elektra and that the label had spent a large sum of money in order to get the band to perform "Shout at the Devil '97" on the American Music Awards in January 1997.

Speaking of the album in 2008, singer Vince Neil states that the album was "terrible" due to "too much experimenting".

Generation Swine would be the group's final release on Elektra Records, as the label and Motley Crue would break their relationship off in early 1998. Future releases from the group would come from their own Motley Records.

TRACKLIST:

1."Find Myself" (Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee) – 2:51
2."Afraid" (Sixx) – 4:07
3."Flush" (Sixx, Lee, John Corabi) – 5:03
4."Generation Swine" (Sixx, Lee) – 4:39
5."Confessions" (Lee, Mars, Corabi) – 4:21
6."Beauty" (Sixx, Lee, Scott Humphrey) – 3:47
7."Glitter" (Sixx, Humphrey, Bryan Adams) – 5:00
8."Anybody Out There?" (Lee, Sixx) – 1:50
9."Let Us Prey" (Sixx, Corabi) – 4:22
10."Rocketship" (Sixx) – 2:05
11."A Rat Like Me" (Sixx) – 4:13
12."Shout at the Devil '97" (Sixx) – 3:43
13."Brandon" (Lee) – 3:25

2003 Remastered Edition:
In 2003, the band re-issued their albums on their own label Motley Records including added bonus tracks from each album's specific era.

1."Afraid" (Sixx) – (Swine/Jimbo Mix) – 3:58
2."Wreck Me" (Lee, Vince Neil, Mars, Sixx) – (previously unreleased) – 4:19
3."Kiss the Sky" (Corabi, Lee, Neil, Mars, Sixx) – (previously unreleased) – 4:47
4."Rocketship" (Sixx) - (early demo) – 1:37
5."Confessions" (Lee) - (demo, Lee on vocals) – 3:35