01 - X-Mas In Hell 02:10 02 - Van Nuys 03:52 03 - Life Is Beautiful 03:35 04 - Plray For Me 04:14 05 - Tomorrow 04:05 06 - Accidents Can Happen 04:07 07 - Intermission 02:20 08 - Dead Man's Ballet 05:26 09 - Heart Failure 04:58 10 - Girl With Golden Eyes 04:20 11 - Courtesy Call 04:41 12 - Permission 04:15 13 - Life After Death 03:00
cd2
01 - X-Mas In Hell (Live) 02:04 02 - Pray For Me (Live) 04:40 03 - Heart Failure (Live) 05:09 04 - Intermission (Live) 01:52 05 - Deadman's Ballet (Live) 05:33 06 - Tomorrow (Live) 05:09 07 - Accidents Can Happen (Live) 04:40 08 - Life Is Beautiful (Live) 05:48
ÄÄÄÄÄ cd1: 51:03 cd2: 34:55 Release Notes:
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The Heroin Diaries (the soundtrack to Nikki Sixx's addiction memoir of the same name) sounds nothing like the music that catapulted Nikki Sixx into the limelight (and, presumably, the dank and dark underground of addiction) with Mötley Crüe more than 20 years ago. And the music suffers for it. Perhaps Sixx didn't want to romanticize addiction and ill behavior by unleashing a series of rockers that would send fists high in the air and let the spirit, at least for a moment, soar while the listener struggled to better understand the seductive lure of dependence and decadence. (If anyone cares that much--this is rock & roll, after all, and not Oprah.) Instead, Sixx dresses the songs in the trappings of contemporary pop so that "Tomorrow," "Life is Beautiful" and "Accidents Can Happen" sound like lite imitations of the lesser bands that have captured the public's imagination in the wake of the Crüe's inexplicable absence from the recording studio. ("Permission" may even be Sixx's first stab at getting airplay on CMT.) The true rockers, far too slender in number, are half-realized and pallid; the lyrics are overly diaristic (yes) and fail to live up to Sixx's vintage street sophistication ("Dancing on Glass" and "Kickstart My Heart"). The Heroin Diaries comes off more like an affectless pity party than a walk on the wild side.
