Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart"

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I heard the original "Kickstart My Heart" demo on the new Crue boxed set (part II). In the original, the chorus goes:

"Ooh! Aah! Kickstart my heart ..."

But the album version goes:

"Whoa! Yeah! Kickstart my heart ... "

And you know what? It makes all the difference!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 21 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

so... which is better?

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 21 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"hotwire my heart" by crime

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 21 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

and sonic youth

― fkjdaljfdkl;sf, Monday, 21 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Def. in the Top 20 guilty pleasures...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my least favorite Crue tunes evah.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Mary, Mary quite contrary...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I say things just to be contrary, but this time I'm telling the truth. In fact, just about all of Dr. Feelgood is trash.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, this song is a TRASH CLASSIC. That said, perhaps you just need the "ooh, ahh" version to realize it as such...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The absolutely trashiest thing about that era -- the antidrug video for "Dr. Feelgood." Pure hilarity.

And remember all -- fifteen years on, Vince looks like this:

http://www.metal-sludge.com/VinceNeilDrunk.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

He's never looked better.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

He and Hagar could be twins...sorta.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://yosemite-sam.net/Favorites/Hagar-2.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Vince Neil is getting close to this:

http://www.robisworried.com/kirstiea.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Vince always looked like that!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't see the makeup there in that photo!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Or the briefs...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.cox.net/batchild1/kirstie.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Only marginally related, but I always thought Veronica's Closet was good until they ruined it by bringing in Ron Silver.

I ♥ Kathy Najimy

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Vince Neil looks like Jon Lovitz.

Man, Vince Neil sucks.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually he also looks like a blonder Ron Jeremy in that photo.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he sort of looked like ex-Dodger, ex-Brewer, ex-Twin, ex-Cub player Ron Coomer's seedy, fatter older brother.

http://www.adelphiachannel.com/kadltv/shows/dodgers/pictures/IDB04-D.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, the resemblance is uncanny...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought Vince was a blonde doppelganger of...

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/aug/aug2/jlovitz_150x207.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I already said Jon Lovitz.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Vince Neil looks like Jon Lovitz.
Man, Vince Neil sucks.

-- latebloomer (posercore24...), June 21st, 2004."

See? I WAS THERE FIRST! NANA NANA BOO BOO!!!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, sorry Latebloomer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No problem. He DOES look like Jon Lovitz, though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Uncannily so.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about Ron Coomer, I've always thought that Vince Neil looked like former SNL comedian Jon Lovitz.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it "Sticky Sweet" that sounded so much like "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about Ron Coomer, I've always thought that Vince Neil looked like former SNL comedian Jon Lovitz.
-- King Kobra (k...), June 21st, 2004.

Smartass.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Vince killed a dude, right? Vehicular manslaughter or something? What was the story with that?

― Josh Anomaly (josh_anomaly), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1983 or something? Anyway, he and a guy from Hanoi Rocks were making a beer run and Vince wrapped his ride around a parked car or something.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Razzle from Hanoi Rocks....and I believe a couple in another car were crippled or paralyzed or something. All of which made this all the more distasteful...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000E64TS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(titled: Music to Crash Your Car To)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it "Sticky Sweet" that sounded so much like "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"?

I don't really think it does at all.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

By coincidence I just watched this video last night. My friend Harlan noted that it was sort of like the Hair Metal version of "Walk Of Life," what with all the extreme sports clips. It's probably my fave Crue song (and I don't have many).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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The album version is much better. Keep that in mind next time any of you musicians are choosing between "Ooh! Aah!" and "Whoa! Yeah!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Though I'm glad Paula Abdul didn't sing "c-c-c-coldhearted, woah! yeah! yeah!"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That song, and the album it comes from, is garbage, I agree with Johnny on that. However, let's not for one second overlook the fact that Too Fast For Love is a fucking masterpiece.

Motley Crue were my favorite band as a pre-teen - I take a lot of pride in having done a Motley Crue fanzine before I knew what a fanzine was - but it all ended with Dr Feelgood. What a pile of crapola.

On a side note, has anyone ever seen the movie Hangin' With the Homeboys starring Mario Joyner and some other folks (maybe John Leguizamo? I forget...)? The movie's theme song is just it's title sung - exactly - to the tune of Dr Feelgood. "hanginwiththe HOMEBOYS!..." It's hilarious.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Monroe's pissed off about that comp title, the Hanoi Rocks box will be called 'Music to Bury Your Toxic-Waste-Riddled Kid To'

― dave q, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

man they hijacked this for the intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T_PQoTC30

― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

Good Lord, Josh in Chicago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXoQBrdO-Tg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

And it was "Slice of Your Pie" that stoled from Abbey Road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsHRKhkgIy0#t2m38s

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:17 (fifteen years ago)

(^ @ 2:38)

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

this song rocks! (kickstart my heart, that is). I remember when I was 10 and the video was big, telling my older brother -- "this is punk rock!" i did not know what punk rock was.

― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that was a serious Montrose rip on that opening. Bad Motor Scooter is a much better song too. Montrose ruled.

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

The album's themes are:

Drugs - "T.N.T. (Terror 'N Tinseltown)", "Dr. Feelgood", and "Kickstart My Heart"
Sex - "Slice of Your Pie", "Rattlesnake Shake", "Sticky Sweet", and "She Goes Down"
Relationships - "Without You", "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", and "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
"Time for Change" reflects Nikki Sixx's views on the (then) current events in society.

― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

the multitracking of the vox for "whoa, yeah" is total Bob Rock awesomeness.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Re-listening to Dr. Feelgood, the full album, for the first time in years. How did I miss until now that Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen had guest vocals on She Goes Down?

― how's life, Thursday, 25 September 2014 12:06 (eleven years ago)

"Kickstart my Heart" does a pretty serious lift job on "Hell Raiser" by the Sweet.

― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:32 (eleven years ago)

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