Artist: MOTLEY CRUE
Title: Too Fast For Love
Year of Release: 1981
Label: Elektra
Format: CD
Other than the appalling reproduction of some of the images in the booklet, (looks like they scanned them from an original LP sleeve) this is a really impressive CD reissue. Remastered, bolstered with noble bonus tracks 'Too Fast...' is still extremely listenable and though 25+ years old still possesses a vitality and spirit that is absent in much of what is released today.
You can hear a band who know how to play, and know how to play well together. This is an edgy record with a spontaneous feeling to it, and decidedly heavy when compared to many of their contemporaries. Especially in the early 80's, this release definitely has a metallic streak running through its veins. It would be too easy to claim that the band simply had the right look for the time as I imagine their stripped back hard rock/trad metal would have been confronting for a lot of people more attuned to the heady epic rock of the 70's.
Though Nikki Sixx wrote every track on the album, Mick Mars' guitar playing has added an extraordinary dimension to this, and coupled with Vince Neil's somewhat inconsistent vocal delivery, the combination works, and each song sounds different to the next. It's as though the spirit of what the band were doing was the solidifying component.
My fave cut would have to be 'On With The Show', though I think most would agree that 'Live Wire' and 'Piece Of Your Action' are also noteworthy offerings.
The finest Motley offering where I am concerned, 'Too Fast...' shines from start to finish and is truly indicative of a band who were willing to push things as far as they could to succed.
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