Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album)

Girls, Girls, Girls is the fourth studio album by American rock band Mötley Crüe, released on May 20, 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.^[8]

Girls, Girls, Girls
Studio album by Mötley Crüe
Released	May 20, 1987 (1987-05-20)[1]
Recorded	March 1987 (mixing at Conway)[2]
Studio	One on One (Los Angeles) Conway (Hollywood) Rumbo (Los Angeles)
Genre	Glam metal[3][4] arena rock[5]
Length	39:54
Label	Elektra
Producer	Tom Werman
Mötley Crüe chronology
Theatre of Pain (1985) Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) Raw Tracks (1988)
Singles from Girls, Girls, Girls
"Girls, Girls, Girls" Released: May 13, 1987 "Wild Side" Released: August 10, 1987[6] "You're All I Need" Released: October 19, 1987[7]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	5/10[10]
Metal Storm	9.0/10[11]
PopMatters	unfavorable[12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[13]

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 said 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'."^[14]

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."^[9] 'Wild Side' has been described by Ultimate Classic Rock as one of the band’s most complex compositions, demonstrating complexity in both musicality and lyrics.^[15]

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.^[16] Eventually, the group's next album Dr. Feelgood (1989) would go on to claim the top Billboard spot.^[17] The album was also the band's third straight album to go quadruple platinum, after Shout at the Devil and Theatre of Pain.^[18]

Metal Hammer placed the album on their list of The Top 20 Best Metal Albums of 1987, and called it "an arena-rock juggernaut".^[5]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wild Side"	Nikki Sixx Tommy Lee	4:41
2.	"Girls, Girls, Girls"	Sixx Mick Mars Lee	4:30
3.	"Dancing on Glass"	Sixx Mars	4:18
4.	"Bad Boy Boogie"	Sixx Mars Lee	3:27
5.	"Nona"	Sixx	1:27

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Five Years Dead"	Sixx	3:50
7.	"All in the Name of..."	Sixx Vince Neil	3:39
8.	"Sumthin' for Nuthin'"	Sixx Neil	4:49
9.	"You're All I Need"	Sixx Lee	4:32
10.	"Jailhouse Rock (live)" (Elvis Presley cover)	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller	4:39

2003 Remastered Edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Girls, Girls, Girls" (Tom Werman & band intro, rough mix of instrumental track)	Sixx Mars Lee	5:38
12.	"Wild Side" (rough mix of instrumental track)	Sixx Lee	4:06
13.	"Rodeo" (unreleased track)	Sixx Mars	4:14
14.	"Nona" (instrumental demo idea)	Sixx	2:42
15.	"All in the Name of..." (live in Moscow)	Sixx Neil	5:02
16.	"Girls, Girls, Girls" (multimedia track)	Sixx Mars Lee

Personnel

Mötley Crüe

• Vince Neil – lead vocals
• Mick Mars – guitars, backing vocals
• Nikki Sixx – bass, backing vocals
• Tommy Lee – drums, piano, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Bob Carlisle, Dave Amato, John Purdell, Pat Torpey, Phyllis St. James, Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals

Production

• Tom Werman – producer
• Duane Baron – engineer, mixing
• Richard McKernon, Ross Hogarth, Toby Wright – assistant engineers
• Bob Ludwig – vinyl mastering at Masterdisk, New York
• Stephen Innocenzi – CD mastering

Charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[19]	23
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[20]	4
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[21]	3
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22]	46
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[23]	8
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[24]	43
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[25]	7
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[26]	13
UK Albums (OCC)[27]	14
US Billboard 200[28]	2

Chart (2022)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[29]	96
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[30]	27
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[31]	15

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[32]	Platinum	70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[33]	2× Platinum	200,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[34]	Gold	100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[35]	Silver	60,000^
United States (RIAA)[36]	4× Platinum	4,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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10. 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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13. 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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20. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 0822". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
21. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
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30. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
31. "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
32. "Australia Platinum". www.crueseum.com. October 12, 2024.
33. "Canadian album certifications – Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls". Music Canada.
34. "Budokan Gold". www.crueseum.com. October 12, 2024.
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36. "American album certifications – Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls". Recording Industry Association of America.

External links

• Official website
• Girls, Girls, Girls at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• Girls, Girls Girls at Discogs (list of releases)