01. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (3:22)
02. Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil (3:15)
03. Motley Crue - Looks That Kill (4:09)
04. Motley Crue - Too Young To Fall In Love (3:32)
05. Motley Crue - Smokin' In The Boys Room (3:28)
06. Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home (4:00)
07. Motley Crue - Wild Side (4:41)
08. Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls (4:30)
09. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood (4:51)
10. Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart (4:44)
11. Motley Crue - Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.) (4:14)
12. Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) (4:40)
13. Motley Crue - Without You (4:30)
14. Motley Crue - Primal Scream (4:46)
15. Motley Crue - Sick Love Song (4:18)
16. Motley Crue - Afraid (4:09)
17. Motley Crue - If I Die Tomorrow (3:42)
18. Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles (3:40)
19. Motley Crue - The Animal In Me (Remix) (4:16)

- Vince Neil - vocals
- Mick Mars - guitar
- Nikki Sixx - bass
- Tommy Lee - drums
- John Corabi - vocals 

It has the same name as the Crüe’s 1998 compilation, along with 13 of the same tracks, but the 2009 Greatest Hits is a different beast than its predecessor, weighing in at 19 tracks instead of 17 and sequenced chronologically instead of the year-skipping hodgepodge of 1998. These are all improvements, as are the swapping of a 1997 version of “Shout at the Devil” for the original and the addition of the 1983 song “Too Young to Fall in Love,” all helping to make this edition of the Crüe’s much-recycled Greatest Hits their best comp yet. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1. L.A.M.F. 01:23 
2. Face Down In The Dirt 03:44 
3. What's It Gonna Take 03:45 
4. Down At The Whisky 03:50 
5. Saints of Los Angeles 03:40 
6. Mutherfucker of the Year 03:55 
7. The Animal In Me 04:16 
8. Welcome To The Machine 03:00 
9. Just Another Psycho 03:36 
10. Chicks = Trouble 03:13 
11. This Ain't A Love Song 03:25 
12. White Trash Circus 02:51 
13. Goin' Out Swingin' 03:27

Personnel:
Vince Neil - vocals
Mick Mars - guitar
Nikki Sixx - bass
Tommy Lee - drums
and:
Josh Todd, Jacoby Shaddix, James Michael, and Chris Brown - backing vocals

Since their last hit record, 1989's Dr. Feelgood, Mötley Crüe fans have endured countless live albums, "greatest-hits" collections, reissues and B-sides packages, a record with John Corabi on vocals, one with Randy Castillo behind the kit and one with the original lineup that sank with barely a trace (1997's Generation Swine). The most successful thing the band produced in those ensuing years was its tell-all autobiography, The Dirt, a story so drenched in sex, drugs, and rock & roll that it elicited a venereal disease and a contact high just through picking it up. That book is the impetus behind Saints of Los Angeles, the first record to feature the group's original lineup since Swine, and it's a welcome -- though spotty -- return to form for these aging miscreants. The Crüe are at their best when they mine the manic, punk-infused glam metal of the pre-saturated, mid-'80s Sunset Strip, something they get right on opening cut "Face Down in the Dirt," complete with a Shout at the Devil-era, "In the Beginning"-inspired intro. "Down at the Whisky" echoes the West Coast excess of Girls, Girls, Girls, managing to wax both nostalgic and devious while dutifully summing up the band's rise from local pranksters to international bad boys, while the rousing title cut, though a bit forced, manages to drum up the kind of chest-thumping bravado that sparked some of the best metal anthems of the late '80s. Like all Crüe albums, things start to go south about halfway through, and while the performances and subject matter are as raucous and sadistic as the book upon which they're based, it's all a bit too deliberate. Mötley Crüe have been trumpeting their hedonism for so long and so loudly that it's become more of a caricature than a way of life, and while Saints of Los Angeles is the best thing they've laid to tape since their codpiece heydays, it's more of a walk down memory lane/Sunset Strip than a legitimate call to arms. ---James Christopher Monger, AllMusic Review

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1 	T.n.T (Terror 'n Tinseltown) 	0:42
2 	Dr. Feelgood 	4:50
3 	Slice Of Your Pie 	4:32
4 	Rattlesnake Shake 	3:40
5 	Kickstart My Heart 	4:43
6 	Without You 	4:29
7 	Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.) 	4:12
8 	Sticky Sweet 	3:52
9 	She Goes Down 	4:37
10 	Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) 	4:40
11 	Time For Change 	4:45

Bass [4, 8 And 12 String] – Nikki Sixx 
Drums, Percussion – Tommy Lee
Guitar – Mick Mars
Lead Vocals – Vince Neil 
Backing Vocals – Bob Dowd (tracks: 11), Bob Rock (tracks: 2, 4, 8, 9), Bryan Adams (tracks: 8),
 David Steele (4) (tracks: 2 to 5, 8 to 11), Donna McDaniel (tracks: 2 to 5, 7, 9 to 11),
  Emi Canyn (tracks: 2 to 5, 7, 9 to 11), Jack Blades (tracks: 7, 8), Mark LaFrance (tracks: 2 to 11),
   Mike Amato (tracks: 11), Nikki Sixx (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 11), Rick Nielsen (tracks: 9),
    Robin Zander (tracks: 9), Skid Row (tracks: 11), Steven Tyler (tracks: 8),
     Toby Francis (tracks: 11), Tommy Lee (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 11), Vince Neil (tracks: 2, 4, 8, 9) 

Mötley Crüe's albums were a lot like episodes of Married with Children -- they may not be great works of art, but they can be darn entertaining. With Bob Rock serving as producer, the L.A. headbangers savored the joys of trashy, unapologetically decadent fun on Dr. Feelgood -- an album that made no pretense at being anything else. While nothing here is quite as commanding as "Shout at the Devil," "Wild Side," or "Live Wire," such hook-oriented MTV smashes as "Kickstart My Heart," "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)," and the title song are infectious and hard to resist, and helped make this the best-selling Mötley Crüe album ever, as well as providing their first Top Ten singles. Unfortunately, the album would be lead singer Vince Neil's last album with the band for several years, thus marking the end of Mötley Crüe's heyday. Neil's departure -- and pop-metal's decline in popularity during the mid-'90s -- proved to be severe blows to Mötley Crüe, but Dr. Feelgood is still a fine curtain call. [In 1999, the Crüe remastered and reissued Dr. Feelgood on their own Motley/Beyond label with bonus tracks.] ---Alex Henderson, AllMusic Review

Zdaniem wielu fanów i krytyków Dr Feelgood to apogeum twórczości zespołu. Komercyjne? Na pewno. Poczwórna platyna, pięć singli promocyjnych, z czego tylko jeden nie poszalał na liście Billboardu. Nie ma co dyskutować. A artystycznie? Tu także wiele głów potakuje, ale to nie do końca prawda. Lata osiemdziesiąte to pasmo sukcesów i ciągła ewolucja zespołu. Jest raczej rzeczą gustu, co do nas najbardziej z tego okresu twórczości przemawia. Niemniej jednak to już piąta z rzędu znakomita płyta kalifornijskiego kwartetu. Znów inna, bo jeszcze bardziej komercyjna, ale przy tym i naprawdę wysmakowana. W Rattlesnake Shake możemy usłyszeć sekcje instrumentów dętych (co pewnie zainspirowane zostało ówczesnym przebojem Aerosmith Dude, Looks Like Lady). Slice of Your Pie brzmi ładnie dzięki charakterystycznym beatlesowskim harmoniom i psychodelicznej aurze. Słychać, że pomysłów chłopakom nie brakowało. Mogli pójść na łatwiznę i zalać wszystko słodkim klawiszowym sosem. Na szczęście nie zrobili tego.

Skręt w komercyjne rejony zwykle pociąga za sobą zmasowany atak ballad. Dostajemy tu aż trzy, co stanowi absolutny rekord, biorąc pod uwagę ich ówczesne standardy. Without You, Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) i Time For Change. Wszystkie zgrabne, ujmujące swoją czułością... choć pierwsza aż do przesady ckliwa.

Jeśli ktoś nie zaakceptował nowych rozwiązań to na pewno przekona go reszta płyty. Utwór tytułowy, mimo wygładzonej melodyki i trochę natarczywej przebojowości to typowe dla nich granie. To samo petarda - Kickstart My Heart. Tu już jest i przebojowo, i ostro jak dawniej. Wprost wybornie!

Na podstawie moich wynurzeń ktoś może pomyśleć, że mamy tu do czynienia z albumem niespójnym. Odpowiedź brzmi: nie! Raczej z ciekawie zróżnicowanym. To był zasłużony sukces. ---Paweł Chmielowiec, rockers.com.pl

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