Editing Too Fast for Love

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Too Fast for Love
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Mötley Crüe]]
| cover      = Too Fast.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|1981|11|10}}
| recorded   = October 1981
| venue      =
| studio     = Hit City West, Los Angeles, California<ref name=Moskowitz>{{cite book |page=421 |title=The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World |last=Moskowitz |first=David V. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2015 |isbn=9781440803406 |volume=2}}</ref>
| genre      = {{flatlist|
* [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]<ref name="PM Rev">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/motleycrue-toofast/ |title=Mötley Crüe: Too Fast for Love |last=Hreha |first=Scott |magazine=[[PopMatters]] |date=July 10, 2002 |access-date=December 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[glam metal]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Klosterman|first=Chuck|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869442403|title=Fargo Rock City : a Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota|date=2007|publisher=Scribner|others=3M Company|isbn=978-1-4165-8952-5|oclc=869442403|page=161}}</ref>
* [[glam punk]]<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2016-03-31|title=100 Greatest Drummers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-77933/|access-date=2021-07-01|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>
}}
| length     = {{plainlist|
* 39:37 (original)
* 34:04 ([[Elektra Records|Elektra]] version)
}}
| label      = {{flatlist|
* [[Leathür Records|Leathür]]
}}
| producer   = Mötley Crüe
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Shout at the Devil]]
| next_year  = 1983
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Too Fast for Love
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Stick to Your Guns
 | single1date = May 3, 1981
 | single2     = [[Live Wire (Mötley Crüe song)|Live Wire]]
 | single2date = August 16, 1982
}}
}}

'''''Too Fast for Love''''' is the debut studio album by American [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Mötley Crüe]]. The first edition of 900 copies was released on November 10, 1981, on the band's original label [[Leathür Records]]. [[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|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart in the United States, it would ultimately reach [[music recording sales certification|platinum]] status.

The songs "Stick to Your Guns" and "[[Live Wire (Mötley Crüe song)|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)|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.<ref name=Moskowitz/><ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/avi-kipper-mn0000064546 Avi Kipper | Credits | AllMusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Dave|last=Ling|title=We are lüdicröus!|magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] #12|date=March 2000|page=48}}</ref>

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 (band)|Raspberries]] cover song "Tonight" and a live version of "Merry-Go-Round".

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{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}}</ref>
| rev2 =''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 9/10<ref name="martin" >{{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}}</ref>
| rev3 =''[[Metal Storm (webzine)|Metal Storm]]''
| rev3Score = 8.8/10<ref>{{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 (webzine)|Metal Storm]] |date=January 1, 2005 |access-date=December 4, 2014 }}</ref>
| rev4 =''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev4Score = favorable<ref name="PM Rev"/>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Considine">{{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 }}</ref>
}}
''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".<ref name="AllMusic"/> 

''Too Fast for Love'' was also the earliest of seven consecutive Mötley Crüe studio albums to be certified gold or platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]―every album up to and including ''[[Generation Swine]]'' (1997) is at least certified gold.<ref name="RIAA">{{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}}</ref>

==Track listings==
===1981 Leathür Records original release===
{{tracklist
| all_writing = [[Nikki Sixx]], except where noted
| headline    = Side one
| title1      = [[Live Wire (Mötley Crüe song)|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]]}}
}}
{{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}}
}}

===1982 Elektra version===
{{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 (Raspberries song)|Tonight]]
| note11      = [[Raspberries (band)|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
}}

==Personnel==
{{col-begin}} 
{{col-2}}
===Mötley Crüe===
*[[Vince Neil]] – lead vocals
*[[Mick Mars]] – guitars, backing vocals
*[[Nikki Sixx]] – bass
*[[Tommy Lee]] – drums, backing vocals
{{col-2}}
===Production===
*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
{{col-end}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Chart (1984)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|77|artist=Motley Crue|refname=Billboard 200|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 17, 2023}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Chart (2022)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{Album chart|Scotland|77|date=20220909|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 17, 2023}}
|-
{{Album chart|Switzerland|95|artist=Mötley Crüe|album=Too Fast for Love|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 17, 2023}}
|-
{{Album chart|UKIndependent|31|date=20220909|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 17, 2023}}
|-
{{Album chart|UKRock|17|date=20220909|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 17, 2023}}
|}

== Certifications ==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1982|region=Canada|artist=Motley Crue|title=Too Fast for Love|certyear=1985|award=Gold|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/115896562846|date=October 25, 2023|title=Motley Crue - Mick Mars - Canadian Gold Record Award}}</ref>}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=United States |artist=Motley Crue |title= Too Fast for Love  |award=Platinum |type=album |relyear=1982|certyear=1987}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}

==Accolades==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Publication
! Country
! Accolade
! Rank
|-
|[[Revolver (magazine)|Revolver]]
|US
|6 Glam-Metal Albums You Need to Own<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-07-28|title=6 Glam-Metal Albums You Need to Own {{!}} Revolvermag|url=http://www.revolvermag.com/news/6-glam-metal-albums-you-need-to-own.html|access-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728120345/http://www.revolvermag.com/news/6-glam-metal-albums-you-need-to-own.html|archive-date=July 28, 2017}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|[[PopMatters]]
|US
|10 Essential Glam Metal Albums<ref>{{Cite news|last=Zupko|first=Sarah|title=10 Essential Glam Metal Albums, PopMatters|url=https://www.popmatters.com/10-essential-glam-metal-albums|access-date=2021-04-11|website=PopMatters|language=en-US}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|[[Consequence of Sound]]
|US
|10 Hair Metal Albums That Don't Suck<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-02-05|title=10 Hair Metal Albums That Don't Suck|url=https://consequence.net/2018/02/10-hair-metal-albums-that-dont-suck/|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Consequence of Sound|language=en-US}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|[[Rolling Stone]]
|US
|50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=August 31, 2019|title=Rolling Stone - 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-hair-metal-albums-of-all-time-162362/|access-date=July 1, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>
|align="center"|9
|-
|Rolling Stone
|US
|100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Greene|first1=Andy|title=100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-113614/motley-crue-too-fast-for-love-1981-2-194308/|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|access-date=22 June 2017|date=21 June 2017}}</ref>
|align="center"|22
|-
|[[L.A. Weekly]]
|US
|Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums<ref>{{cite news|first= Ben |last= Westhoff |title= Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums |newspaper= [[LA Weekly]] |date= 6 December 2011 |access-date= 4 March 2021 |url= https://www.laweekly.com/chuck-klostermans-favorite-hair-metal-albums/}}</ref>
|align="center"|8
|-
|[[Guitar World]]
|US
|Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of the Eighties<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 12, 2008|title=Guitar World - Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of the Eighties|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/top_20_hair_metal_albums_of_the_eighties?page=0,0|access-date=July 1, 2021|website=Guitar World|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004060642/http://www.guitarworld.com/top_20_hair_metal_albums_of_the_eighties?page=0,0|archive-date=October 4, 2012}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|Ulltimate Classic Rock
|US
|Top 30 Glam Metal Albums<ref name="ucr">{{Cite web|last=Rolli|first=Bryan|date=July 1, 2021|title=Top 30 Glam Metal Albums|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/glam-metal-albums/|access-date=2021-07-01|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|language=en}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[List of glam metal albums and songs]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.motley.com/music/too-fast-for-love}}
* {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=6f4eed9f-7a10-3546-b630-23d0a03f86e7|name=Too Fast for Love}}
* {{Discogs master|master=94249|name=Too Fast for Love|type=album}}

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