Mötley Crüe’s debut is short, fast, and bratty, and shows off the leather-clad headbangers’ love for punk’s crude simplicity. “Live Wire” delivers pure heat, with Vince Neil’s nails-on-chalkboard screams piled on top of Tommy Lee’s primitive double-bass-drum attack, while “Piece of Your Action” oozes Sunset Strip sleaze all over riffs that growl like a big-block engine. The album even gives candy-coated power-pop ballad “Starry Eyes” a raw desperation.