Live Fast, Love Hard: Original Capitol Recordings, 1952-1962

Faron Young | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 5, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Country Music Foundation
• ASIN: B000000QJ6
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #70 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Honky-Tonk

Track Listings

1. Tattle Tale Tears

2. Goin' Steady

3. Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)

4. Just Married

5. If That's The Fashion

6. If You Ain't Lovin (You Ain't Livin')

7. I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night

8. A Place For girls Like You

9. In The Chapel In The Moonlight

10. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

11. Forgive Me, Dear

12. All Right

13. It's A Great Life (If You Don't Weaken)

14. Turn Her Down

15. Sweet Dreams

16. I'm Gonna Live Some Before I Die

17. I Miss You Already (And You're Not Even Gone)

18. Alone With You

19. That's The Way I Feel

20. Country Girl

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not live at all!!!, August 27, 2000

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Freudstein (Rotterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Fast, Love Hard: Original Capitol Recordings, 1952-1962 (Audio CD)

Contrary to the title this is not a live recording, but simply a splendid greatest hits package from one of the finest honky tonk singers this side of Hank Williams, Faron Young. Spanning ten years it features all his hits from the period such as "Hello Walls" and "Sweet Dreams" as well as some lesser known gems. If you like your country hard and real with lots of fiddles and steel, you could do a lot worse than invest in this excellent cd!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lots of heartbreak and high lonesome sadness., July 14, 2003

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jason gilmour (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Fast, Love Hard: Original Capitol Recordings, 1952-1962 (Audio CD)

This record has more rock'n'roll spirit than a million modern "punk" or "alternative" albums. Sure, it's country and that might make it un-cool for urban hipsters, but this is pure heart-felt, honest and true American music. Like many country artists of the 50's and 60's, Faron Young has an almost blues-like quality. The songs are timeless in that they deal with love, drinkin', livin' hard and loss. Those are just the kind of topics that never go out of style or get boring because they are at the very core of the human experience.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Faron Young compilation., December 26, 2008

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Hackman (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Fast, Love Hard: Original Capitol Recordings, 1952-1962 (Audio CD)

Without purchasing the Faron Young boxset, this is about the best compilation of all his Capitol hits, out there. It's also becoming increasingly rare and makes a great investment to add to a CD collection.
As for the other readers who wondered why Amazon entitled this "live". It's not "live", but live...... as in Live Fast, Love Hard, etc. Short I, not long. So it is referred to correctly.
Great artist, great CD.