Motley Crue - Greatest Hits [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Motley Crue

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: March 4, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00008J2GI
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,869 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bitter Pill

2. Enslaved

3. Girls, Girls, Girls

4. Kickstart My Heart

5. Wild Side

6. Glitter

7. Dr Feelgood

8. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)

9. Home Sweet Home

10. Afraid

11. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)

12. Without You

13. Smokin' In The Boys Room

14. Primal Scream

15. Too Fast For Love

16. Looks That Kill

17. Shout At The Devil '97

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Through lead-singer strife and domestic blisters, the Crüe have endured. Greatest Hits is a breather for the group and provides an opportunity to look back at the construction and destruction of this much-maligned multimillion-record-selling ensemble. Sure, much of what's here overlaps with Decade of Decadence, but we do get three tunes from Generation Swine ("Glitter" receives a tender remix) and an eight-panel foldout booklet with essays from each of the rug rats. Most important, two new tracks--"Bitter Pill" and "Enslaved"--feature golden-boy knob twiddler Bob Rock, who oversees two no-nonsense, no-electronics blasts through the candy-metal past. The future looks glam, indeed. --Martin Popoff

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars (Most of) The Crue's Greatest, October 2, 2004

By	Grant McKee (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't think that there's ever been a greatest hits album in the history of the music business that didn't rile up a couple of fans. Motley Crue, who was known as much for their off stage antics as their on stage ones, weighs in with this 17-track package, and it's mostly the good stuff in here. There are some songs on here that most other reviewers thought didn't belong, but I happen to like "Without You" and "Afraid." There are a few clunkers on here, like "Glitter" and the re-tooled and nu-metal-ed "Shout at the Devil," but overall it's pretty hard to pick up a greatest hits package and just HATE it. Even the two new tracks ("Bitter Pill" and "Enslaved") are great additions to the Crue legacy.

Just a few more nitpicking moments: First off, the track order is somewhat flawed. The songs are grouped together pretty well, though "Glitter" falls in between two of the Crue's heaviest cuts - "Wild Side" and "Dr. Feelgood." Also, the transition from "Without You" to "Smokin' in the Boys Room" is jarring to say the least. Finally, someone should have spent a little more time on the artwork. It looks rushed.

If you're really into Motley Crue, I'd recommend picking this one up for the two unreleased songs. If you're not REALLY into Motley Crue, this does a good job of collecting the essential songs (except "Live Wire"). Personally, I've got a bunch of Motley Crue records, but I throw this one on when I'm feeling lazy.

Greatest hits? Mostly. Worth the admission price? Definitely.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good, but really not so good, Missing alot, July 23, 2006

By	L. Floor (ELYRIA, OH United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well this is coming from a big crue head, and all I can say is if you are a really big crue fan that wants to collect all the crues albums get this one. But if not, and your a new fan looking for a greatest hits collection, please! go for Red White and Crue, it has way more songs only for a little more. Besides this disc is missing some of the most essential tracks from the crue like Live Wire and All in the name of..., Anarchy In the U.K., Piece of your action, Too Young to fall in love, and without you. Besides Red White and Crue has all of the missing tracks of this disc, and 90 percent of the good new songs of this cd.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to 80s metal, May 26, 2004

By	Eat Em and Smile (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

Does The Darkness have you curious about 80s metal? You think that you will get a feel for what we went through in the 80s by buying this Greatest Hits? This CD is far short of the best of Motley Crue. It doesn't even include Too Young To Fall In Love and it messes up the original Shout At The Devil. Obviously a record exec put these songs together.

Think about the big bands today. Normally they come out with a raw album (sorry, I'm old) that grabs the attention of real music lovers. An underground buzz starts, then the record company gets a hold of the band and sees dollar signs. MTV steals the their souls from the artists and kills everything about the music. The art dies and the band becomes a "sell-out". For most people, their favorite album of a band is the first one they heard. This isn't always the case but it is very true of 80s metal. The hits you hear on 80s stations are rearly the songs that got us off.

If you REALLY want to know what it was like for 80s metal fans and why it blew up, you can't just download individual hits. The list below is a good start of CDs to pick up for beginners. These may not be the most selling albums of these bands, but they are the raw stuff that made us love them:

Motley Crue: Shout At The Devil (Pure, hard, real. No other MC album comes close)
Ratt: Out of the Cellar (Again, blew us away when it came out)
Van Halan: 1984 (Has some hits but the fillers are amazing)
Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry (Once you listen to this a couple of times, "We're not Going to Take it" & "I Wanna Rock" will be your least favorites. Check out "The Price")
Def Leppard: Pyromania (Every teenager owned this in 1983.Blows Hysteria away)
Metallica: Master of Puppets (They have a lot of good music but this is the one that got the world's attention)
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime (The most underrated metal CD of the decade. Even Rolling Stone raved about this one.)
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi may seem like cheese, but this was the sent metal into mainstream)
GNR: Appetite for Destruction (If you don't know about this one you must be from another planet)
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast (These guys never sold out)
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengence (European metal at its finest)

So if you really want to get into this stuff, don't buy Greatest Hits CDs or you will never understand what it was like to be a metal fan in the 80s. (One exception is Poison, their hits are good but their fillers on every album suck. Greatest Hits would be best for them.) Good Luck.