Smokin' In The Boys Room

I'm a big fan.

Uh, right now I'm, I've been listen- I was listening to Mötley Crüe's Smokin' in the Boy's Room.

Oh, yeah.

[laughs] Smokin' in the boy's room.

[laughs] Smokin' in the boy...

Yeah.

It's a song that became the ultimate rebel song, but it actually started out as a throwaway track that a DJ played on a local station just one time, and it spread so quickly that orders from pre-sells at the record stores flew past 100,000.

It's The Mischievous, Smokin' in the Boys' Room by Brownsville Station.

No, no fatigue, smokin' in the boys' room.

Of course, Motley Crue covered it years later, but Smokin' in the Boys' Room co-writers Cub Coda and Michael Lutz, they didn't think his song was anything special.

It's after they finished the album called Yeah.

They stuck the song in the very last spot on side two because no one was convinced it was really any good at all.

They played the song, and it unexpectedly caught fire.

The request lines lit up overnight, you know, and Morris finally agreed to release it after the label started getting significant orders that actually totaled more than 100,000 copies in pre-sales.

Give me a couple more names.

So it goes City Boy Blues, Smokin' in the Boys Room, Louder Than Hell.

You know Louder Than Hell.

Keep Your Eye on the Money.