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Live: Entertainment or Death

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{{Infobox album

| name = Live: Entertainment or Death

| type = live

| artist = Mötley Crüe

| cover = Live Entertainment or Death - Mötley Crüe.jpg

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| alt =

| released = {{start date|1999|11|23}}

| recorded = 1982–1999

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

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| length = 97:39

| label = Mötley

| producer = Mötley Crüe

| prev_title = Supersonic and Demonic Relics

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = New Tattoo

| next_year = 2000

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-entertainment-or-death-mw0000254108 Live Entertainment or Death] at AllMusic.

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = A− {{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271933,00.html |title=Live: Entertainment or Death |last=Morgan |first=Laura |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=December 3, 1999 |accessdate=February 25, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425214734/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C271933%2C00.html |archivedate=April 25, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

| rev3 = Kerrang!

| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Zell |first=Ray |date=January 22, 2000 |title=Albums |magazine=Kerrang! |publisher=EMAP |issue=785 |page=46}}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} {{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/motley-crue/albumguide|title=Motley Crue: Album Guide|magazine=Rolling Stone|accessdate=February 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227083737/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/motley-crue/albumguide|archive-date=December 27, 2010|url-status=dead}}

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Live: Entertainment or Death is the first official live album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Released on November 23, 1999, it is a compilation of recordings from 1982 to 1999. However, it contains no songs from the band's 1994 album Mötley Crüe, nor 1997's Generation Swine. "We picked the stuff that sounded the best without having to touch it up," Nikki Sixx observed in 2000. "We still play some of those songs [from Generation Swine] in the set; they just didn't make the final tracklisting."{{cite magazine|first=Dave|last=Ling|title=We are lüdicröus!|magazine=Classic Rock #12|date=March 2000|page=48}}

The album charted at number 133 on the Billboard 200.{{cite web|url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4964|pure_url=yes}}|title = Allmusic (Motley Crue charts & awards) Billboard albums|publisher=}}

Controversy

In a review of the album at the time of its release, hard rock/heavy metal website Metal Sludge revealed that vocals on a small percentage of the tracks had been "redone" or "touched up" in the studio, calling into question how much of the record was a genuine live document. The website provided dates and suggested that side-by-side audio comparisons to bootlegs from shows from which the tracks for the album were culled form the basis for their claim. Mötley Crüe remained silent on the issue.{{cite web|url=http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=941&Itemid=40 |title=Metal Sludge – CD Reviews in 1999 – The Power & Glory since 1998 |publisher=Metalsludge.tv |date=October 6, 1999 |accessdate=February 29, 2012}}

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Looks That Kill" – 6:06 (recorded 11/25/85) (Nikki Sixx)
  2. "Knock 'Em Dead, Kid" – 3:35 (recorded 3/14/84) (Sixx, Vince Neil)
  3. "Too Young to Fall in Love" – 3:57 (recorded 3/14/84) (Sixx)
  4. "Live Wire" – 4:19 (recorded 3/14/84) (Sixx)
  5. "Public Enemy #1" – 4:53 (recorded 11/19/82) (Sixx, Lizzie Grey)
  6. "Shout at the Devil" – 4:19 (recorded 3/14/84) (Sixx)
  7. "Merry-Go-Round" – 3:22 (recorded 11/19/82) (Sixx)
  8. "Ten Seconds to Love" – 4:46 (recorded 12/2/98) (Sixx, Neil)
  9. "Piece of Your Action" – 4:06 (recorded 11/19/82) (Sixx, Neil)
  10. "Starry Eyes" – 4:37 (recorded 11/19/82) (Sixx)
  11. "Helter Skelter" – 4:17 (recorded 11/19/82) (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

Disc 2

  1. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" – 5:18 (recorded 11/25/85) (Cub Koda, Michael Lutz)
  2. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" – 4:14 (recorded 7/31/90) (Sixx, Mick Mars)
  3. "Wild Side" – 5:52 (recorded 3/10/99) (Sixx, Tommy Lee, Neil)
  4. "Girls, Girls, Girls" – 4:50 (recorded 12/2/98) (Sixx, Lee, Mars)
  5. "Dr. Feelgood" – 5:13 (recorded 3/10/99) (Sixx, Mars)
  6. "Without You" – 3:05 (recorded 7/31/90) (Sixx, Mars)
  7. "Primal Scream" – 5:42 (recorded 12/2/98) (Sixx)
  8. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" – 4:33 (recorded 3/10/99) (Lee, Sixx, Neil, Mars)
  9. "Home Sweet Home" – 4:06 (recorded 12/2/98) (Sixx, Neil, Lee)
  10. "Kickstart My Heart" – 5:39 (recorded 3/10/99) (Sixx)
  11. "Wild Side" [Video] [Bonus Track]

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