Too Fast for Love#Elektra version track listing

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.[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/avi-kipper-mn0000064546 Avi Kipper | Credits | AllMusic]

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 rereleased 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".{{Citation needed|date=May 2014}} 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."{{cite magazine|first=Dave|last=Ling|title=We are lüdicröus!|magazine=Classic Rock #12|date=March 2000|page=48}}

In 1996, Mötley Crüe and Elektra split. The band once again formed their own record company, Mötley Records, and rereleased 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".

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/too-fast-for-love-mw0000191089| publisher=AllMusic|access-date=August 25, 2011}}

| rev2 =Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2Score = 9/10{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = November 1, 2005 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | isbn = 978-1-894959-31-5 | page= 232}}

| rev3 =Metal Storm

| rev3Score = 8.8/10{{cite web |url=http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=1417&page=&message_id= |title=Mötley Crüe - Too Fast for Love |publisher=Metal Storm |date=January 1, 2005 |access-date=December 4, 2014 }}

| rev4 =PopMatters

| rev4Score = favorable

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev5Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |chapter=Mötley Crüe |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/562 562–63] |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-last=Hoard |location=New York City |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2003 |isbn=978-0743201698 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/562 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |chapter-url-access=registration }}

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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".

Too Fast for Love was 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 (1997) is at least certified gold.{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=too%20fast&artist=motley%20crue&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25|title=RIAA Gold & Platinum database-Too Fast for Love|website=Recording Industry Association of America |access-date=March 4, 2008}}

{{tracklist

| all_writing = Nikki Sixx, except where noted

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Live Wire

| length1 = 3:14

| title2 = Public Enemy #1

| length2 = 4:22

| writer2 = {{hlist|Sixx|Lizzie Grey}}

| title4 = Merry-Go-Round

| length3 = 3:43

| title3 = Take Me to the Top

| length4 = 3:22

| title5 = Piece of Your Action

| length5 = 4:39

| writer5 = {{hlist|Sixx|Vince Neil}}

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{{tracklist

| headline = Side two

| title6 = Starry Eyes

| length6 = 4:28

| title7 = Stick to Your Guns

| length7 = 4:20

| title8 = Come On and Dance

| length8 = 3:11

| title9 = Too Fast for Love

| length9 = 4:11

| title10 = On with the Show

| length10 = 4:07

| writer10 = {{hlist|Sixx|Neil}}

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Live Wire

| length1 = 3:14

| title2 = Come On and Dance

| length2 = 2:47

| title3 = Public Enemy #1

| length3 = 4:22

| writer3 = {{hlist|Sixx|Grey}}

| title4 = Merry-Go-Round

| length4 = 3:22

| title5 = Take Me to the Top

| length5 = 3:43

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Side two

| title6 = Piece of Your Action

| length6 = 4:39

| writer6 = {{hlist|Sixx|Neil}}

| title7 = Starry Eyes

| length7 = 4:28

| title8 = Too Fast for Love

| length8 = 3:22

| title9 = On with the Show

| length9 = 4:07

| writer9 = {{hlist|Sixx|Neil}}

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = 2003 Mötley Records CD release bonus tracks

| title10 = Toast of the Town

| note10 = B-side of the 1981 "Stick to Your Guns" single

| writer10 = {{hlist|Sixx|Mick Mars}}

| length10 = 3:35

| title11 = Tonight

| note11 = Raspberries cover

| writer11 = Eric Carmen

| length11 = 4:27

| title12 = Too Fast for Love

| note12 = alternate intro

| length12 = 4:19

| title13 = Stick to Your Guns

| length13 = 4:23

| title14 = Merry-Go-Round

| note14 = live in San Antonio, Texas

| length14 = 3:56

| title15 = Live Wire

| note15 = video

| length15 = 12:18

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• Vince Neil – lead vocals
• Mick Mars – guitars, backing vocals
• Nikki Sixx – bass
• Tommy Lee – drums, backing vocals

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• Gleen Felt – engineer
• Azi Kipper, Robert Battaglia – additional engineers
• Michael Wagener – engineer, mixing
• Jo Hansch – mastering
• Bradley Gilderman – additional overdubs and edits
• Gordon Fordyce – remixing
• Roy Thomas Baker – remixing advisor

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{{Certification Table Entry |region=United States |artist=Motley Crue |title= Too Fast for Love |award=Platinum |type=album |relyear=1982|certyear=1987}}

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