YOU BETTER TURN ME LOOSE
YOU BETTER SET ME FREE
' CAUSE I'M HOT YOUNG
RUNNING FREE
A LITTLE BIT
BETTER THAN I USE TO BE
Too Fast for Love
is the debut
studio album
by American
Heavy Metal band
The first edition
of 900 copies
was released on
November 10, 1981,
on the band's
original label
Elektra Records
signed the band
the following year,
at which point
the album was
remixed and
partially re-recorded.
This re-release,
with a different track listing
and slightly different
artwork
(e.g., red lettering on the cover)
and a different interior
photograph of the band,
has become the
standard version
from which all later
reissues derive.
The re-recorded album
also removed the song
"Stick to Your Guns",
though it is featured on
a bonus track version
of the album.
The original mix
of the album
remained unreleased
on CD until 2002,
when it was included in
the Music to Crash Your Car To:
Vol. 1
box set compilation.
While the album only
reached number 77
on the
Billboard 200
album chart
in the United States,
it would ultimately
reach platinum status.
The songs
"Stick to Your Guns"
and
"Live Wire"
were released as singles
for the album.
The cover is an homage
to
The Rolling Stones'
1971 album
Sticky Fingers.
Release History
The first recording session
was in October 1981,
a half year after
the band first played
the Starwood nightclub.
They recorded for
a few days with
engineer
Avi Kipper
at Hit City West,
a small studio
in the Hollywood
district of
Los Angeles.
There are three known
vinyl pressings
of the
Leathür Records version,
along with
one known cassette.
The first vinyl pressing
had white lettering
on the cover
and the record label
was white
with black lettering.
The back cover photo
of Vince Neil
shows him
with a large
airbrushed hairdo.
The second pressing
has red lettering
on the cover
and the record label
is again white
with black lettering.
The second pressing
has a slightly
different photo
insert of the band.
The third pressing
has red lettering
on the cover
and the
record label
is black with
white lettering.
The album was remixed
under the supervision of
Roy Thomas Baker
and re released on
August 20, 1982,
by Elektra Records,
with whom the band
signed its
first recording contract.
The Elektra version
had a different
track order
and omitted
"Stick to Your Guns",
as well as the
first verse from
the title track.
In addition,
a re-recorded
(and shorter)
version of
"Come On and Dance"
appears on the
re-release.
However,
the initial release
of the album on
Elektra
in Canada
(on both vinyl and cassette)
was not the
remixed version,
but instead the
original Leathür version
with an
Elektra label on it,
and it included
"Stick to Your Guns".
This was released
two months before
the remixed version
was released by
Elektra worldwide,
because Mötley Crüe
was about to embark
on a Canadian tour
and Elektra wanted to
ensure a product was
available while the band
was in the country.
When the remixed version
was completed,
later Canadian pressings
were the same as
the Elektra version
everywhere else.
"It was amazing
because everyone
had passed on us
first time around..."
Neil observed in 2000.
"We were just happy that
someone was prepared to
mass-produce our records
and that we could go
out on real tours."
In 1996,
Mötley Crüe
and Elektra split.
The band once again
formed their own
record company,
Mötley Records,
and re released all
the albums before
New Tattoo.
The 2002 version of
Too Fast for Love
adds the
Leathür version of
"Too Fast for Love",
"Stick to Your Guns"
(omitted from the Elektra release),
"Toast of the Town"
previously released as a
B-side to
Leathür's
"Stick to Your Guns" single,
the Raspberries cover song
"Tonight"
and a live version of
"Merry-Go-Round".
TRACKLIST
(Leathur Original Mix)
Live Wire
(Leathur Original Mix)
Public Enemy #1
(Leathur Original Mix)
Take Me To The Top
(Leathur Original Mix)
Merry-Go-Round
(Leathur Original Mix)
Piece Of Your Action
(Leathur Original Mix)
Starry Eyes
(Leathur Original Mix)
Stick To Your Guns
Come On And Dance
(Leathur Original Mix)
(Longer Version)
Too Fast For Love
(Leathur Original Mix)
(Longer Intro)
On With The Show
(Leathur Original Mix)
(Elektra Mix)
Come On And Dance
(Short Version)
Public Enemy #1
Merry-Go-Round
Take Me To The Top
Piece Of Your Action
Starry Eyes
Too Fast For Love
On With The Show
BONUS TRACK
TONIGHT
BONUS
STICK TO YOUR GUNS
(MAXI SINGLE)
Too Fast For Love
(Leathur Original Mix)
Tonight
Stick To Your Guns
Toast Of The Town
Merry-Go-Round
(Live)
Live Wire
(Just Vocals)
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