Terrible band.

says the person who didnt grow up in the 80's...

They had loads of talent and produced some great party songs. I loved Shout at the Devil and was disappointed they went the party music route, but I still enjoyed them. Went to their concert last time they toured and they were a shadow of their former selves, the concert sounded studio, same order, same sound as the albums. Tommy Lee had a broken arm and couldn't perform, Vince Neil forgot the words to Shout at the Devil during the encore.

They are a great band, especially their 80’s stuff such as Too Fast For Love and Shout At The Devil

While not the greatest for sure, saying they killed it is ridiculous..

They were posers when they came out and posers they remain.

i always think of something i believe roger ebert said in his original spinal tap review: being in a rock band looks like a lot of fun, even if it's a really lousy rock band.

that said, i think the crue guys actualy got better as they went along. the first few albums are typical hair metal nonsense - my friends in high school who were musicians laughed at their bass lines.

but on girls girls girls & dr feelgood...i can't deny that they actually found some pretty hard grooves and...y'know, kinda kicked ass.

it's certainly not the kind of music i like. i'd rather listen to anything else personally. but...some of the tracks on those records really achieve a sort of primal, raw groove that is genuinely exciting.

so i would boldly say that maybe for a while they were not truly terrible.

No, Kick Axe were a terrible band. They were the worst and most cliché of those 80s metal bands.