Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album)

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Girls, Girls, Girls
Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album).jpg
Studio album by
Mötley Crüe
ReleasedMay 15, 1987[1]
Recorded1986–1987
Studio
  • One on One (Hollywood)
  • Conway (Hollywood)
  • Rumbo (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length39:54
LabelElektra
ProducerTom Werman
Mötley Crüe chronology
Theatre of Pain
(1985) 		Girls, Girls, Girls
(1987) 		Raw Tracks
(1988)
Singles from Girls, Girls, Girls
  1. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
    Released: May 11, 1987 (US)
  2. "Wild Side"
    Released: August 1987 (US) [5]
  3. "You're All I Need"
    Released: October 1987 (US) [6]

Girls, Girls, Girls is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on May 15, 1987. The album contains the hit singles "Girls, Girls, Girls", "You're All I Need", and the MTV favorite "Wild Side". It was the band's final collaboration with producer Tom Werman, who had produced the band's two previous albums, Shout at the Devil and Theatre of Pain. Like those albums, Girls, Girls, Girls would achieve quadruple platinum status, selling over 4 million copies and reaching number two on the Billboard 200. The album marked a change to a blues-rock influenced sound, which was met with positive reception.[7]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[8]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal5/10[9]
Metal Storm9.0/10[10]
PopMatters(unfavorable)[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 stars[12]

Girls, Girls, Girls has received mixed but generally positive reviews. In their June 12, 1987, issue The Georgia Straight applauded Mick Mars' guitar being featured more prominently in the final mix than it had been on 1985's Theatre of Pain, and called it their best work since 1981's Too Fast for Love. The publication raved that the album "has recaptured some of the excitement of their first release on tunes like 'Dancing on Glass', 'Five Years Dead', and the title track, which sports a catchy guitar riff a la Aerosmith's 'Draw the Line'."[13]

AllMusic's Steve Huey gave the album a rating of four stars and states: "Girls, Girls, Girls continued Mötley Crüe's commercial hot streak, eventually going quadruple platinum as its predecessor, Theatre of Pain, had; meanwhile, the title track brought them their second Top 20 single, and 'Wild Side' became a popular MTV item."[8]

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.[14] On the week it might have reached No. 1, Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, debuted at the top of the charts.[15] Eventually, the group's next album Dr. Feelgood (1989) would go on to claim the top Billboard spot.[16] The album was also the band's third straight album to go quadruple platinum, after Shout at the Devil and Theatre of Pain.[17]

Metal Hammer placed the album on their list of The Top 20 Best Metal Albums of 1987, and called it "an arena-rock juggernaut".[4]

Track listing[]

All lyrics are written by Nikki Sixx except "Jailhouse Rock" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Side one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Wild Side"Sixx, Tommy Lee4:41
2."Girls, Girls, Girls"Sixx, Lee, Mick Mars4:30
3."Dancing on Glass"Sixx, Mars4:18
4."Bad Boy Boogie"Sixx, Lee, Mars3:27
5."Nona"Sixx1:27
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
6."Five Years Dead"Sixx3:50
7."All in the Name Of..."Sixx, Vince Neil3:39
8."Sumthin' for Nuthin'"Sixx, Neil4:49
9."You're All I Need"Lee, Sixx4:43
10."Jailhouse Rock (live)" (Elvis Presley cover)Leiber, Stoller4:39
2003 Remastered Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Girls, Girls, Girls" (Tom Werman & band intro, rough mix of instrumental track)5:38
12."Wild Side" (rough mix of instrumental track)4:06
13."Rodeo" (unreleased track)4:14
14."Nona" (instrumental demo idea)2:42
15."All in the Name Of..." (live in Moscow)5:02
16."Girls, Girls, Girls" (multimedia track) 

2017 Reissue DVD Listing

  • Interview with Nikki Sixx
  • Wild Side Music Video
  • You're All I Need Music Video (Unbanned Version)
  • Girls, Girls, Girls Music Video

Personnel[]

Mötley Crüe[]

Additional musicians[]

Production[]

In popular culture[]

Charts[]

Chart (1987) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[18] 2
Australia (Kent Music Report)[19] 23
Canada RPM100 Albums Chart[20] 4
German Albums Chart[21] 46
New Zealand Albums Chart[22] 43
Norwegian Albums Chart[23] 8
Swedish Albums Chart[24] 7
Swiss Albums Top 100[25] 13
UK Albums Chart[26] 14

Certifications[]

Country Organization Year Sales
US RIAA 1995 4x Platinum (+ 4,000,000)[17]
Canada CRIA 1989 2x Platinum (+ 200,000)[27]
UK BPI 1988 Silver (+ 60,000)[28]

References[]

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  9. ^ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2004). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
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  12. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Mötley Crüe". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 562–63. ISBN 978-0743201698. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
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