Red, White, & Crue

Motley Crue - Red, White, & Crue

Red, White, & Crue
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Artist: Motley Crue
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 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]
  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
Music CD 2
  1. Anarchy In The UK
  2. Primal Scream
  3. Home Sweet Home ['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. Street Fighting Man > [Brand New Track]
  16. If I Die Tomorrow > [Brand New Track]
  17. Sick Love Song > [Brand New Track]

Free Music Notes for Red, White, & Crue

Free Music Review: They won't get it any more perfect than this
Hit: 5 Stars

Motley Crue's third official cash-in...I mean greatest hits CD...finally presents the closest thing to a definitive track listing, the closest you'd come to your own best-of if you burned a 2-disc set yourself. Every song that has ever been released as a single, and every album track that received significant airplay is on here as far as I can tell, with the exception of "Shout At The Devil '97" (no big loss), and the original "Home Sweet Home", represented by its much superior 1991 remix. In both cases, it would've been nice to have both versions present, but that's quipping.

I already deemed this a five-star CD, so I'm going to continue nitpicking slightly in the "if I were in the record company's chair" mode. First off, like a lot of recent deluxe 2-disc anthologies, there seems to be an effort to strike a balance between a straight reissue of the hits and one that includes rarities, new songs, or remixes/edits. One look at all the parentheses on the back cover tells you that this is clearly the case here, that since the original mixes were already available on the original albums, why not throw in a few retooled versions here.

Well, this is not an issue as far as I'm concerned, since all of the remixes differ little from the original. Probably the most drastically altered one is HSH '91, and you're all familiar with that comparison. The remixes are often in fact edits to ensure radio airplay, as indicated in their titles, such as "Hooligan's Holiday (Brown Nose Edit)" and "Misunderstood (Successful Format Version)", both subtle digs at the industry that forces them to alter their work. "Misunderstood" in fact, is a full 2 minutes shorter than its 7 minute epic length on the "Motley Crue" album. But so what, if you're that loyal to it, hold on to your old version of that one, it's a pretty good CD anyway.

The inclusion of "Black Widow" (essentially a demo version of "Danger" from "Shout At The Devil", previously only available on the pricey box set "Music To Crash Your Car To Vol. 2") serves a major bait to entice old fans, as do their first single "Toast Of The Town" (available on recent re-issues of "Too Fast For Love", but not on CD prior to that), two songs from the "Quarternary" EP, and the three new songs. Of those, both "If I Die Tomorrow" and "Sick Love Song" update the Crue sound nicely, blending modern arrangements and production techniques with excellent structure and songwriting. The third, a barely recognizable version of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man", is embarassing and should've been shelved.

Which leaves my only real nitpicking point, that being the selection of some of the various album tracks. "Helter Skelter" is one that always puzzled me as to why it keeps turning up in their live shows. Not a bad version of the tune by any means, but I've always felt that "Ten Seconds to Love" or "Knock 'Em Dead Kid" were the ones that really hit home with fans. Plus, along with "Smokin' In The Boys Room", "Anarchy In the UK", and "Street Fighting Man", that brings the number of cover tunes here to 4, an inappropriately large number for a band that is quite prolific in their own original compositions to have to pad this set with yet another unnecesary cover version. At least they had the sense to leave off their caffeinated version of "Jailhouse Rock" off here.

Also, the sole non-single entry from "Theatre of Pain" - "Use It Or Lose It" is puzzling. There's at least three better tunes from that disc, like "Raise Your Hands To Rock", "Keep Your Eye On The Money", and truly the most underrated song in the Motley catalog, "Louder Than Hell". "Too Fast For Love" and "All In The Name Of..." are wise choices from their respective discs, but what's really surprising is that nothing more than the five singles from "Dr. Feelgood" are here. I would've gladly bumped pretty much any of the aforementioned tracks to get "Slice Of Your Pie" or "She Goes Down" on here. Of course, "Feelgood" is already the most represented album here with five tracks, so perhaps it was a deliberate move.

Anyhoo, other than that, you got all the typical window dressing associated with the cardboard Digipak (nice as they look, I hate the fact that you gotta watch out not to spill anything on it or handle it with dirty hands since it stains easily). The liner notes are admirable, but as one reviewer pointed out, the lack of reference to Randy Castillo (how ironic is it that the only member of MC to pass away actually died of NATURAL CAUSES?) is appalling.

Overall, the ultimate MC collection for your car. Throw out that worthless POS "Greatest Hits" CD, and burn the unique tracks from "Decade of Decadence" to another disc and throw that out as well. This is the ultimate Crue collection, bar none.
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