Red, White, & Crue [Explicit Lyrics]

Motley Crue | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00070QL7E
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,613 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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]

8. Helter Skelter

9. Shout At The Devil

10. Smokin' In The Boys Room

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 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

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER repackage of Motley's music; however it's a good one, February 12, 2005

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Joseph M. Siegler (Garland, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red, White, & Crue (Audio CD)

/me rolls eyes.. another band releases a greatest hits album. This is now the third such release by Motley Crue, following 1991's "Decade of Decadance" & 1998's "Greatest Hits". There was also 1999's "Supersonic & Demonic relics" album, which was a greatest hits (sort of) of a bunch of oddball songs scattered all over the place on soundtracks, bsides, etc.. Then there's the Music to Crash Your Car to box sets, so Motley has really been releasing their old material over and over again, as there's been only three actual new albums of material since the 1991 greatest hits albums (those being 94's brilliant yet underappreciated "Motley Crue", 97's mostly awful "Generation Swine", and 00's "New Tattoo", which was dreadful). So in the last 14 years, we have gotten 3 studio albums, 3 greatest hits albums, one live album (99's Entertainment or Death), and a box set. Not a lot of new output, and an awful lot of recycling of material.

What's my point in bringing all that up you might ask? It's that I feel that Red White & Crue might be the best of the group. Sure it was put together to have something that the "reunited" Crue can tour behind (although it's just Tommy Lee coming back, the rest were already there). However, if you don't have any Greatest Hits motley crue albums, this is probably worth it. Over time I had bought all of these albums, but as I sit here in 2005, the only actual Motley Crue album I still own is the one they did with John Corabi, I dumped all the rest of them, as I never listened to them. I'd want to hear the hits, and that's about it. So that's what this package is. It covers all their best hits from all their albums. Surprisingly, they include John Corabi material (unlike some bands who ignore things like that - I speak of Van Halen ignoring the Gary Cherone album). Disc 1 is a bit more solid than Disc 2, but overall, it's a wonderful collection of songs marking the progression of Motley Crue from their earliest days to what they've become. It even covers the atrocious New Tattoo album, which does have two decent songs on it (one is included here), plus there's the usual "three new tracks" (which are OK, nothing terribly groundbreaking, and one is a Stones cover anyway). As usual with a Greatest Hits package, there will be songs that people are mad that are left off, and this is no exception (I actually would have liked to have had "First Band on the Moon" from the New Tattoo album, as well as couple more songs from the Corabi album (Loveshine, Uncle Jack), but it is a very good selection of songs overall.

This is a two CD package at a price that a lot of single CD's are sold for. As I write this (on Feb 12, 05) , Amazon is selling it for $14.99, which is a decent deal for about two and a half hours of music.

So in summary, I give this package a 4 out of 5. I was originally going to give it a 3 due to Motley re-releasing their stuff a lot, but that's not really the fault of this package, which is what I'm reviewing, not Motley Crue the people. :) As I said above, if you don't own any Motley, you should get this, it should do you quite fine.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ode to the band who wore heels, lipstick & electrical tape, February 2, 2005

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R. Gorham "RCG2" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red, White, & Crue (Audio CD)

THE BAND: Vince Neil (vocals), Mick Mars (guitar), Nikki Sixx (bass), Tommy Lee (drums). Home town: Los Angeles, CA.

THE DISCS: 37 songs on 2 discs. Digitally remastered sound. A nice tri-fold CD case with a 14-page booklet. The booklet includes a brief band retro by 'Rolling Stone' writer David Wild, band pictures, and song listings - including the year written and from which album the song came from). Disc 1 contains 20 songs ranging from 1982-89 ("Too Fast For Love" through "Dr. Feelgood"). Disc 2 contains 17 songs - covering all kinds of goodies - from bonus songs from previous "Greatest Hits" releases, as well as late era Crue albums from the 90's, as well as the ultra heavy "Motley Crue" album featuring Vince Neil's replacement for a year, John Corabi. If you dig deep, you'll see this collection is really an ode to Nikki Sixx - who is on 33 of the 37 song writing credits (Mick Mars is on 16, and perhaps appropriately Vince Neal on only 7 songs). There are 4 cover tunes ("Helter Skelter", "Smokin' In The Boys Room", "Anarchy In The UK", and "Street Fighting Man"), all but the latter were fairly successful. While most of the 90's era songs can't touch the tracks from the 80's, I feel the best songs from the late era Crue are well represented here. Footnote - Mick Mars is a severely underrated guitar wizard.

ALBUM REPRESENTATION: Too Fast For Love (4 songs), Shout At The Devil (4), Theater Of Pain (2), Girls, Girls, Girls (4), Dr. Feelgood (6), Decade of Decadence (2), Motley Crue w/John Corabi (2), Quaternary (2), Generation Swine (3), Greatest Hits (2), New Tattoo (2), Unreleased/New (4).

COMMENTS: The Crue represented 80'S "glam rock" at it's ultimate best. The Hollywood bad-boys ripped it up on stage as well as behind the scenes. Always seemingly in trouble - anywhere in the world. They rocked the house down - show after show. They had SO many great tunes and the standards are all here ("Live Wire", "Looks That Kill", "Too Young To Fall In Love", "Smokin' In The Boys Room", "Home Sweet Home", "Girls, Girls, Girls", "Kickstart My Heart", "Dr. Feelgood", "Primal Scream", "Hooligan's Holiday", etc). Fond memories of Mars shredding his guitar; Sixx on steady bass, Tommy Lee pounding the skins upside down, and Vince Neil leading the way with his high pitched wail. "Red, White & Crue" (2005) is easily the best 2-disc Crue compilation of the band to date. Any other Crue compilation ("Decade Of Decadence", "Greatest Hits", "Millenium Collection", etc) are now considered mute. All the studio albums are represented here on "Red, White & Crue". It's a great recollection and history of the band. If you are fairly new to the Crue - "Red, White & Crue" is THE place to start. Sure, Motley Crue has several 'Best Of' packages and for those fans that have much/all their material - this release may or may not be considered essential. I say - trade in your old Crue compilations for this one. It would have been great to see a few obscure favorites of mine like "Red Hot", "Dancing On Glass", "City Boy Blues" or "Ten Seconds To Love"... but I won't look this gift-horse in the mouth. Thank you Hip-O Records for making all but 3 of these tracks the 'studio' version (only 3 re-mixes and NO live recordings). The selection of Crue tunes here are first rate (5 stars).

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I'll hand it to them..., January 11, 2007

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Mr. Richard K. Weems "emperor_weems" (Fair Lawn, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red, White, & Crue (Audio CD)

I feel odd even WRITING this review--even odder than I did when I picked up this CD set.

In short, I never liked Motley Crue in their heyday. When I was in high school, cranking up the Cramps or the Flesheaters on my Walkman, a friend of mine praised the Crue, while I thought they stunk. MTV didn't help either, rotating "Home Sweet Home" endlessly (and unfortuantely all of the hair rock power ballads to follow). While my friend Frank praised _Shout at the Devil_ and denied that there had ever been a band called Brownsville Station and insisted that "Smokin' in the Boys' Room" was an original Crue, I scoffed at his inferior musical tastes.

So why the hell would I even bother LOOKING at this collection? To tell you the truth, the omens came threefold--first, I got into Brides of Destruction. I saw the video for S.T.F.U. on Headbangers' Ball and loved it. When I got it, I found out that the outfit was lead by Nikki Sixx, and though it didn't make me like the album any less, I'd still grimace a bit and say to myself, "This band has a member of the Crue in it."

Then, when I went to see _Evil Dead: The Musical_, "Kickstart My Heart" was played during the intermission. Listening, I realized that this was one Crue song that I didn't mind so much when Frank forced some Crue on the turntable. In fact, I kind of liked it.

Last, this CD set was basically for free at a sale I came across at a CD store. Enough said--I figured that I could find at least two or three tracks that I liked.

But in listening to this collection, I've come to realize that the Crue was a band that suffered for its desire for fame. They can no doubt rock - "Kickstart My Heart" remains one of my favorites, and "Live Wire" is a juicy one. But other times their songs felt very off-the-mark, sometimes starting with a good hook but falling off very quickly. "Toast of the Town" was like this, as well as "Hooligan's Holiday," and "Planet Boom" just plain fizzled out. Some songs suffer for trying to sound too pop, and they just come across as empty.

I don't think this set turned me into a Crue 'fan,' nor am I sure that it was supposed to, and possibly a Cruehead may think that this collection is just blast after blast of Crue par excellence, but I did come out of it highly pleased with some select tracks, but also kind of thinking that they were a band who had the wherewithall to strike up hook after hook but forwhatever reason fell flat a lot of the time. Rather than distinguish themselves as a singular band in rock mythology, I think they ended up forging themselves as the prominent name of a name brand of rock, for though they proved themselves to be the better of the whole hair-metal pop-rock genre, they never fully came together to do solid music.

But then again, they had the fame, money, booze and women, and I was just a raging gutter punk, so they may be able to say that the last laugh was theirs.