Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live

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Vitamins & Crash Helmets Tour - Greatest Hits Live
Dangerous Toys vitamins.jpg
Live album by
Released1999
Genre Heavy metal
Length73:08
Label Deadline/Cleopatra
Dangerous Toys chronology
The R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys
(1995)
Vitamins & Crash Helmets Tour - Greatest Hits Live
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [2]

Vitamins & Crash Helmets Tour - Greatest Hits Live is the first live album by heavy metal band Dangerous Toys. It was released in 1999.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Outlaw" - 3:46
  2. "Take Me Drunk" - 3:59
  3. "Queen of the Nile" - 3:34
  4. "Bones in the Gutter" - 3:25
  5. "Sport'n a Woody" - 3:23
  6. "Scared" - 4:17
  7. "Teas'n Pleas'n" - 5:01
  8. "Best of Friends" - 5:28
  9. "Angel N. U." - 5:10
  10. "Ten Boots" - 3:07
  11. "Line 'Em Up" - 3:01
  12. "Gimme No Lip" - 3:19
  13. "Gunfighter for Love" - 3:52
  14. "Promise the Moon" - 3:56
  15. "Pissed" - 3:52
  16. "Share the Kill" - 3:22
  17. "Transmission" - 5:33
  18. "Dangerous Toys" - 5:03

All songs by Dangerous Toys.

Personnel

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References

  1. Huey, Steve. Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour – Greatest Hits Live at AllMusic
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 99. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.