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Release Date: 03/04/2003
In 2003
Mötley Crüe reissued their entire catalog on
Motley/
Hip-O. Most of the discs included bonus material but this
Greatest Hits is a straight re-release of 1999's
Greatest Hits on
Motley/
Beyond. Weighing in at 17 tracks, including two pedestrian new songs,
Greatest Hits duplicates much of
Decade of Decadence, featuring no less than eight songs --
"Looks That Kill," "Home Sweet Home" (original, not the
Decade version),
"Smokin' in the Boys' Room," "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Wild Side," "Dr. Feelgood," "Kickstart My Heart" (original, not the live version that was on
Decade),
"Primal Scream" -- that were on the previous collection. Considering all that overlap, you can be forgiven for thinking that the two compilations are interchangeable, but
Greatest Hits actually has the edge, not just because it doesn't feature the silly
"Anarchy in the U.K." cover, but because it features a greater selection of hits from their masterpiece,
Dr. Feelgood, including
"Without You," "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)," and
"Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)," all of which weren't on
Decade. It has its flaws, to be sure -- the sequencing is illogical, the newer songs are lame, and the original
"Shout at the Devil" should have been featured instead of the atrocious
Generation Swine re-recording -- but it's still the best overview yet assembled.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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