Description
Originally released exclusively on the long-discontinued and deleted formats of VHS and LaserDisc, this Live footage / Documentary / Music Video Collection remains exceptionally rare. After its VHS release in the UK, Europe, and Australia, it was issued on LaserDisc only in the US and Japan, making availability extremely limited across formats. The following has NEVER been REMASTERED and released on DVD until NOW!
This REMASTERED DVD has been sourced directly from the original high-quality LaserDisc and brought to DVD format for the very first time. The result is an exceptional presentation, transferred from a long-deleted LaserDisc master that dates back over 40 years ago, delivering a level of quality that truly stands apart.
Background: This release is sourced from the most historically significant and collector-valued physical editions of “Uncensored”, a title that circulated across multiple home video formats in uneven but highly influential stages. Originally issued in the **United States by Elektra Records on VHS in 1986, the programme quickly became a staple of late-night rock home video culture before expanding internationally. By the late 1980s, a Japanese LaserDisc edition was released and is now regarded as the highest-quality and most sought-after version due to superior analog video stability and audio mastering. In the early 1990s (commonly 1992-era international reissues), further VHS editions circulated across Europe and North America, though these were typically derived from earlier tape masters and varied in presentation quality. Despite its cultural impact, *Uncensored* has never received an official standalone DVD or Blu-ray release, making the Japanese LaserDisc source the benchmark for all modern archival restorations.
Description: This release presents the infamous and highly sought-after Mötley Crüe video compilation “Uncensored”, a raw and semi-documentary snapshot of the band during their rapid ascent in the mid-1980s. Capturing the group in their pre-“Girls, Girls, Girls” era, the program blends official promotional music videos with behind-the-scenes footage and candid moments that helped define the band’s chaotic public image during their early Hollywood dominance.
The video is structured as a hybrid rockumentary and music video compilation, intercutting early promotional clips with informal backstage footage and narrative sequences capturing the band’s lifestyle during the “Theatre of Pain” era. Rather than a traditional concert film, “Uncensored” functions as a curated visual time capsule of Mötley Crüe’s mid-1980s identity—bridging their underground glam-metal origins with their emerging mainstream MTV-era dominance.
The tone is deliberately unfiltered: band members are shown in candid environments, discussing life on tour, industry pressures, and the excesses of the era, while archival promotional clips reinforce their rising commercial profile. This combination of performance footage and documentary-style material contributed to the title’s reputation as one of the earliest widely circulated “behind-the-scenes rock lifestyle” video releases of its kind.
Track listing
1: Conversation: Behind-the-scenes documentary segment (band interviews, candid footage, tour/lifestyle material)
2: Live Wire: Official music video
3: Conversation: Behind-the-scenes documentary segment (interview/intercut footage)
4: Looks That Kill: Official music video
5: Conversation: Behind-the-scenes documentary segment (band commentary, transitional footage)
6: Too Young to Fall in Love: Official music video
7: Conversation: Behind-the-scenes documentary segment (tour footage, candid band moments)
8: Smokin’ in the Boys Room: Official music video
9: Conversation: Behind-the-scenes documentary segment (interviews and lifestyle footage, Sunset Strip era material)
10: Home Sweet Home: Official music video (tour montage style)
11: Conversation: Final documentary segment (closing interviews and wrap-up footage)
Total Running Time: 45 Minutes 38 Seconds
(Some versions and later recompiled releases also reference additional video segments or alternate edits depending on territory and pressing. This remastered is inclusive of all of that footage that was missing from previous and post releases)
Critical and fan reception: At the time of release, “Uncensored” was received less as a traditional concert film and more as a cultural artifact of 1980s rock excess, aligning closely with Mötley Crüe’s reputation for controversy, glam-metal spectacle, and MTV-driven visibility. Contemporary commentary often highlighted its raw, chaotic aesthetic and its unapologetic portrayal of the band’s lifestyle during the height of their early fame.
In retrospect, fans and collectors frequently cite “Uncensored” as one of the most significant early visual documents of the band’s identity formation, capturing a transitional moment before the more polished global superstardom of the “Dr. Feelgood” era. Online fan discussions and retrospective reviews consistently emphasize its nostalgic value, with many noting its importance as an “essential VHS-era artifact” of 1980s hard rock culture and one of the defining early visual records of Mötley Crüe’s mythology.
Most significantly, this DVD/Blu-ray release represents a milestone archival restoration, presenting Uncensored for the first time in modern digital form directly sourced from the original Japanese LaserDisc master. Given the scarcity and collector status of that edition—long regarded as the highest-fidelity surviving analogue source—this restoration not only preserves the program in its most authentic visual and audio presentation, but also effectively rescues a key piece of Mötley Crüe’s early visual history from fragmented VHS circulation and degraded bootleg transfers. For collectors and historians alike, this edition stands as the definitive and long-awaited preservation of one of the band’s most important early video documents.
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