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| Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Live Wire 2. Piece of Your Action 3. Toast of the Town 4. Too Fast for Love 5. Black Widow 6. Looks That Kill 7. Too Young to Fall in Love - (Remix, remix) 8. Helter Skelter 9. Shout at the Devil 10. Smokin' in the Boys Room 11. Use It or Lose It 12. Girls, Girls, Girls 13. Wild Side 14. You're All I Need 15. All in the Name of... 16. Kickstart My Heart 17. Without You 18. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) 19. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.) 20. Dr. Feelgood DISC 2: 1. Anarchy in the U.K. 2. Primal Scream 3. Home Sweet Home - ('91 Remix, '91 remix) 4. Hooligan's Holiday - (Brown Nose Edit) 5. Misunderstood - (Successful Format Version) 6. Planet Boom 7. Bittersuite 8. Afraid - (Alternative Rave Mix) 9. Beauty 10. Generation Swine 11. Bitter Pill 12. Enslaved 13. Hell on High Heels 14. New Tattoo - (single version) 15. If I Die Tomorrow - (previously unreleased) 16. Sick Love Song - (previously unreleased) 17. Street Fighting Man - (previously unreleased)
Album Notes Mötley Crüe: Vince Neil (vocals); Mick Mars (guitar, background vocals); Tommy Lee (piano, drums, percussion, background vocals); Nikki Sixx (bass guitar, background vocals). Personnel: James Michael, Scott Coogan (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Bob Rock; Randy Staub . Liner Note Author: David Wild. Recording information: Cello Studios, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: P.R. Brown. In the 1980s Motley Crue established themselves as heavy metal's reigning bad boys. If Elvis Presley's debauchery was merely suggested by his swiveling hips, and Led Zeppelin's was mythologized at teenage basement parties, Motley Crue's wanton excesses were celebrated right out in public for everyone to see. Combining the over-the-top theatrics and pop-savvy instincts of Kiss and Alice Cooper with the gutter-boy sass of the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols, the Crue forged a new brand of stripped-down, radio-friendly hard rock that came to define the "pop-metal" (or "hair-metal") genre. RED, WHITE & CRUE collects the band's greatest moments in grand style, including the lean, razor-sharp guitar and vocal hooks of the breakthrough hit "Looks That Kill" and the shout-along chorus of '80s testosterone anthem "Girls, Girls, Girls." The 2005 double-disc set also addresses the Crue's later personnel-change years (excluding any misfires), and presents three songs ("If I Die Tomorrow," "Sick Love Song," and a cover of the Stones' "Street Fighting Man") by the reunited classic lineup of Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, and Tommy Lee. With its gleeful decadence and high swagger quotient, RED, WHITE & CRUE is a testament to the enduring appeal of hard living and rock & roll. Despite not having had a hit since the late '90s, Mötley Crüe remained impossible to ignore. Tommy Lee's high-profile romances, court dates, and television appearances -- he got his own reality show -- kept the group theoretically active well past their creative due date, and Vince Neil appeared on VH1's Surreal Life, where he shed tears with MC Hammer and endured a celebrity "makeover" complete with a face-lift, while the rest of the band chronicled their decadent heydays in the best-selling tell-all book The Dirt. The two-disc Red, White & Crüe is a far better companion to that book than 2003's exhaustive two-installment, eight-disc retrospective, Music to Crash Your Car To (was it really necessary to hear three versions of ex-vocalist John Corabi's "Hooligan's Holiday"?), and despite the addition of three new cuts (only one, the blistering "Sick Love Song," manages to recapture the group's original intensity), it's the most definitive collection yet. At their best, the Crüe were the audio equivalent of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. "Live Wire," "Looks That Kill," "Kickstart My Heart," and even the monstrous "Walk This Way" rip-off "Dr. Feelgood" showed a group that not only loved the scene but lived it like Vikings storming a sleepy village. When they were hot they were smoldering, and despite the occasional embarrassing lyric like "forward my mail to me in Hell" ("Wild Side") and misguided attempts at jumping on the punk revival bandwagon ("Anarchy in the U.K.") and the nu-metal gurney ("Planet Boom"), Red, White & Crüe serves as a crystal-clear window into a blurry world that only the Crüe could have constructed. [In Fall of 2005, a more singles oriented single-disc version of Red, White & Crue was released, and a clean version of the two-disc set was released for the kiddies.] ~ James Christopher Monger Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone Mojo | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||
