Built for Speed (Stray Cats album)

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Deming|first=Mark|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/built-for-speed-mw0000650835|title=Built for Speed – Stray Cats|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}

| rev2 = Rolling Stone

| rev2score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Fricke|first=David|authorlink=David Fricke|date=September 30, 1982|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/straycats/albums/album/237258/review/5941376/built_for_speed|title=Stray Cats: Built for Speed|magazine=Rolling Stone|location=New York|accessdate=December 3, 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211051109/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/straycats/albums/album/237258/review/5941376/built_for_speed|archivedate=February 11, 2007|url-status=dead}}

| rev3 = The Village Voice

| rev3score = B−{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=November 30, 1982|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv11b-82.php|title=Consumer Guide|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|accessdate=July 3, 2013}}

}}

Reviewing Built for Speed for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said that, despite Brian Setzer's exotic, modernistic guitar touches, "the mild vocals just ain't rockabilly. You know how it is when white boys strive for authenticity—'57 V-8 my ass". Rolling Stone{{'}}s David Fricke found Stray Cats' self-production "spiritless" and their original compositions "mostly average", remarking that the band only "gets it dead right" on the tracks produced by Dave Edmunds.

In a retrospective review, Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote that the melodies and playing are strong enough to withstand datedness on what is "song-for-song the group's strongest album, despite the cut-and-paste manner in which it was created".

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Rock This Town*

| writer1 = Brian Setzer

| extra1 = Dave Edmunds

| length1 = 3:24

| title2 = Built for Speed

| writer2 = Setzer

| extra2 = Stray Cats

| length2 = 2:53

| title3 = Rev It Up & Go†

| writer3 = Setzer

| extra3 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length3 = 2:27

| title4 = Stray Cat Strut*

| writer4 = Setzer

| extra4 = Edmunds

| length4 = 3:15

| title5 = Little Miss Prissy†

| writer5 = Setzer

| extra5 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length5 = 2:59

| title6 = Rumble in Brighton*

| writer6 = {{hlist|Setzer|Slim Jim Phantom}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length6 = 3:11

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Runaway Boys*

| writer1 = {{hlist|Setzer|Phantom}}

| extra1 = Edmunds

| length1 = 2:58

| title2 = Lonely Summer Nights†

| writer2 = Setzer

| extra2 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length2 = 3:16

| title3 = Double Talkin' Baby*

| writer3 = Danny Wolfe

| extra3 = Edmunds

| length3 = 3:02

| title4 = You Don't Believe Me†

| writer4 = {{hlist|Setzer|Phantom|Lee Rocker}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length4 = 2:54

| title5 = Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie*

| writer5 = {{hlist|George Motola|Ricky Page}}

| extra5 = Edmunds

| length5 = 2:18

| title6 = Baby Blue Eyes†

| writer6 = {{hlist|Paul Burlison|Johnny Burnette}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Stray Cats|Hein Hoven}}

| length6 = 2:47

}}

• * originally released on Stray Cats
• † originally released on Gonna Ball

Note: "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is often miscredited as having been written by Mike Chapman, who recorded a song of the same name with his band Tangerine Peel. However, Chapman's "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" is a completely different song from the one the Stray Cats recorded; they just happen to share the same title. The Stray Cats' "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" was originally performed by Eddie Cochran, and was written by George Motola and Ricky Page (regardless of what the original Built for Speed album or other various Stray Cats collections may claim).{{cite web |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/55641 |title = Cover versions of Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie by Eddie Cochran {{!}} SecondHandSongs| website=SecondHandSongs }}

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Built for Speed|others=Stray Cats|publisher=EMI America Records|year=1982|id=ST-17070|type=liner notes}}

{{col-begin}}

{{col-2}}

Stray Cats

• Brian Setzer – guitars, lap steel guitar, vocals
• Slim Jim Phantom – drums, vocals
• Lee Rocker – bass, electric bass, vocals

Production

• Dave Edmunds – production
• Hein Hoven – production
• Stray Cats – production
• Wally Traugott – mastering

{{col-2}}

Design

• Charles Novick Studios – design
• Gavin Cochrane – front cover photography
• Francesca – design
• Guido Harari – back cover photography
• Sheila Rock – back cover photography

{{col-end}}

{{Certification Table Top}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|artist=Stray Cats|title=Built for Speed|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=1983|accessdate=December 3, 2020}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Stray Cats|title=Built for Speed|award=Platinum|accessdate=December 3, 2020}}

{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

{{reflist}}

{{Stray Cats}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:1982 albums

Category:Stray Cats albums

Category:EMI America Records albums

Category:Albums produced by Dave Edmunds