New Tattoo

This article is about the heavy metal album. For the country music album, see Tim Hicks.

New Tattoo
Studio album by
Mötley Crüe
ReleasedJuly 11, 2000 (2000-07-11)
RecordedMarch–June 2000
StudioCello Studios, Hollywood and Can Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Genre
Length43:22
Label
ProducerMike Clink
Mötley Crüe chronology
Live: Entertainment or Death
(1999) 		New Tattoo
(2000) 		Music to Crash Your Car To: Vol. 1
(2003)
Singles from New Tattoo
  1. "Hell on High Heels"
    Released: 2000
  2. "New Tattoo"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Treat Me Like the Dog I Am"
    Released: 2000 (promo)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Daily VaultB+[2]
Entertainment WeeklyD+[3]
Metal Forces7.5/10[4]
Orlando Weeklyunfavorable[5]
Peopleunfavorable[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]

New Tattoo is the eighth studio album by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released in 2000. Artistically, New Tattoo shows the band returning to the earlier musical style that gave them commercial success in the 1980s and early 1990s. This is the only album by the band not to feature drummer Tommy Lee, who left the band a year before, and was replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo on the album. The album also marked Castillo’s final full-length studio recording project that he was involved in before his death in March 2002.

The album artwork was inspired by the cover of Bruce Dickinson's album Tattooed Millionaire, whose title track is said to be about Dickinson's wife cheating on him with bassist Nikki Sixx, as revealed in Mötley Crüe's biography The Dirt.

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  2. ^ Hanson, Paul (August 12, 2000). "New Tattoo – Motley Crue". The Daily Vault.com. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Willman, Chris (July 14, 2000). "New Tattoo – Motley Crue". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  4. ^ Arnold, Neil. "Mötley Crüe – New Tattoo". Metal Forces. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  5. ^ Schneider, Steve (July 25, 2000). "Review – New Tattoo". Orlando Weekly. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  6. ^ "Picks and Pans Review: New Tattoo". People. 54 (7). August 14, 2000. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  7. ^ Sheffield, Rob (August 17, 2000). "New Tattoo – Motley Crue". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  8. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Mötley Crüe". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 562–63. ISBN 978-0743201698. Retrieved December 4, 2014.