Too Fast for Love

"Merry-Go-Round (song)" redirects here. For the song by Kacey Musgraves, see Merry Go 'Round.
Too Fast for Love
Studio album by Mötley Crüe
Released November 10, 1981 (Leathür)
August 20, 1982 (Elektra)
Recorded Hit City West in Los Angeles, California, November 1980
Genre Heavy metal, glam metal, punk rock
Length 38:49 (original)
34:19 (Elektra version)
Label Leathür, Elektra
Producer Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe chronology
Too Fast for Love
(1981)		 Shout at the Devil
(1982)
Singles from Too Fast for Love
  1. "Stick to Your Guns" / "Toast of the Town"
    Released: May 3, 1981
  2. "Live Wire"
    Released: August 16, 1981

Too Fast for Love is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. The first edition of 900 copies was released on November 10, 1981, on the band's Leathür Records 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 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,[1] it would ultimately reach platinum status.[2]

The songs "Stick to Your Guns" and "Live Wire" were released as singles for the album.

The album cover is a tribute to The Rolling Stones' album Sticky Fingers.

Release history

There are three known vinyl pressings of the Leathür Records version, along with one known cassette release. Any CD versions of this are bootlegs and NOT official. 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 also 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 which the band had recently signed its first recording contract. The Elektra version had a different track order and omitted the song "Stick to Your Guns", as well as the first verse from the title track. However, the initial release of the album on Elektra in Canada (on both vinyl and cassette) was not the remixed version, but instead was the original Leathür Records version with the Elektra label on it, and included the song "Stick to Your Guns". This was released two months before the remixed version was released by Elektra worldwide. The reason for this was that Mötley Crüe was about to embark on a Canadian tour and Elektra wanted to ensure that a product was available while the band was touring the country. Once the remixed version was completed, later Canadian pressings were the same as the Elektra version everywhere else.

In 1996, Mötley Crüe and Elektra split. Mötley Crüe once again made their own record company called Mötley Records, and re-released all the albums before New Tattoo. The re-released 2002 version of Too Fast for Love includes the Leathür version of the song "Too Fast for Love", the unreleased tracks "Toast of the Town" and "Stick to Your Guns", the covered song "Tonight" and the live version of "Merry-Go-Round" as bonus tracks.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Martin Popoff[4]
Metal Storm(8.8/10)[5]
PopMatters(favourable)[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

Too Fast for Love has received mostly positive reviews. AllMusic reviewer Steve Huey gave the album a rating of four stars and claims that "Mötley Crüe essentially comes across as a bash-'em-out bar band, making up in enthusiasm what they lack in technical skill".[3]

Although released in late 1981, Too Fast for Love did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1982.[8] "Stick to Your Guns" and "Live Wire" were released as singles to promote the album.[9] Too Fast for Love is also the earliest of seven consecutive Mötley Crüe studio albums to be certified gold or platinum by the RIAA―every album up to and including Generation Swine (1996) is at least certified gold.[2]

Track listings

1981 Leathür Records original release

All songs written and composed by Nikki Sixx, except where noted. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Live Wire"   3:14
2. "Public Enemy #1" (Sixx, Lizzie Grey) 4:22
3. "Take Me To The Top"   3:43
4. "Merry-Go-Round"   3:22
5. "Piece of Your Action" (Sixx, Vince Neil) 4:39
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Starry Eyes"   4:28
7. "Stick to Your Guns"   4:20
8. "Come on and Dance"   3:11
9. "Too Fast for Love"   4:11
10. "On with the Show" (Sixx, Neil) 4:07

1982 Elektra version

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Live Wire"   3:14
2. "Come on and Dance"   2:47
3. "Public Enemy #1" (Sixx, Grey) 4:22
4. "Merry-Go-Round"   3:43
5. "Take Me to the Top"   3:43
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Piece of Your Action" (Sixx, Neil) 4:39
7. "Starry Eyes"   4:28
8. "Too Fast for Love"   3:22
9. "On with the Show" (Sixx, Neil) 4:07
2003 Mötley Records CD release bonus tracks
No. Title Length
10. "Toast of the Town" (Mick Mars, Sixx; b-side 1981 "Stick to Your Guns" single) 3:35
11. "Tonight" (Eric Carmen; Raspberries cover) 4:27
12. "Too Fast for Love" (alternate intro) 4:19
13. "Stick to Your Guns"   4:23
14. "Merry-Go-Round" (live in San Antonio, TX) 3:56
15. "Live Wire" (video) 12:18

Personnel

Mötley Crüe

Production

Certifications

Country Organization Year Sales
USA RIAA 1986 Platinum (+ 1,000,000)[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard album chart history-Mötley Crüe". Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "RIAA Gold & Platinum database-Too Fast for Love". Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  3. 1 2 Huey, Steve. "Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  4. ↑ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  5. ↑ "Mötley Crüe - Too Fast for Love". Metal Storm. January 1, 2005. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hreha, Scott (July 10, 2002). "Mötley Crüe: Too Fast for Love". PopMatters. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  7. ↑ Considine, J. D. (2003). "Mötley Crüe". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 562–63. ISBN 978-0743201698. Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Too Fast for Love Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Mötley Crüe - Discography". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
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