After much success with their previous two albums (1983's Shout At The Devil and 1985's Theater Of Pain), Mötley Crüe released in 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls, which still did not give them a #1 album. Whitney Houston kept them out of the number 1 spot and they would have to wait until 1989's Dr. Feelgood to finally reach it.
Nevertheless, Girls, Girls, Girls was their best album up to that point. While only having 9 original studio songs (the tenth track was a live cover of Jailhouse Rock), this album took raunchiness in the hard rock world to whole new levels. The title track was a beautiful (can I use that word with lyrics such as "Friday night and I need a fight, my motorcycle and a switchblade knife"? Oh, what the hell, YES.) rocker, an ode to those women that have entertained men whilst taking their clothes off in exchange for some monetary compensation. I believe they're called strippers. Anyway, it's a cool song that has everything you need when getting ready to go out and pain the town... pretty much any color you want with that kind of attitude!
The first song of the album is Wild Side, which has a lyrical content pertaining to the different seedy sides of society. An amazing hard rock song with a very memorable guitar riff. The third single from the album was the ballad You're All I Need, whose video was banned from Mtv due to it's graphic content of a young man killing his girlfriend in order to always have her by his side. Bassist Nikki Sixx was the lyricist for all of the Crüe's songs, while guitarist Mick Mars, drummer Tommy Lee, singer Vince Neil and Sixx himself all chipped in on the music and arrangements.
No matter what you say about Mötley, you can't deny that Nikki Sixx could pen one hell of a rock song.
The other songs are all great in their own right, but this album actually is one of those albums in which the record company and band got it right when choosing the singles! Yey!
Reasons to buy this album:
1) The three singles, coupled with the other 7 songs, make it a perfect hard rock album depicting what was so exciting about rock in the 80's.
2) The debauchery displayed all over the lyrics, together with the images from the videos which go hand in hand with the whole lifestyle, exemplify why attitude is so important in order to get people to pay attention to you.
3) You need to have the guitar riffs of Girls, Girls, Girls and Wild Side.
Mötley Crüe did not have a virtuoso guitarist. They were not fronted by a singer with a voice that put others to shame. In, fact, musically speaking, the Crüe are good, but not great. WHO CARES? They still rock harder than the majority of bands could ever hope to.
Nevertheless, Girls, Girls, Girls was their best album up to that point. While only having 9 original studio songs (the tenth track was a live cover of Jailhouse Rock), this album took raunchiness in the hard rock world to whole new levels. The title track was a beautiful (can I use that word with lyrics such as "Friday night and I need a fight, my motorcycle and a switchblade knife"? Oh, what the hell, YES.) rocker, an ode to those women that have entertained men whilst taking their clothes off in exchange for some monetary compensation. I believe they're called strippers. Anyway, it's a cool song that has everything you need when getting ready to go out and pain the town... pretty much any color you want with that kind of attitude!
The first song of the album is Wild Side, which has a lyrical content pertaining to the different seedy sides of society. An amazing hard rock song with a very memorable guitar riff. The third single from the album was the ballad You're All I Need, whose video was banned from Mtv due to it's graphic content of a young man killing his girlfriend in order to always have her by his side. Bassist Nikki Sixx was the lyricist for all of the Crüe's songs, while guitarist Mick Mars, drummer Tommy Lee, singer Vince Neil and Sixx himself all chipped in on the music and arrangements.
No matter what you say about Mötley, you can't deny that Nikki Sixx could pen one hell of a rock song.
The other songs are all great in their own right, but this album actually is one of those albums in which the record company and band got it right when choosing the singles! Yey!
Reasons to buy this album:
1) The three singles, coupled with the other 7 songs, make it a perfect hard rock album depicting what was so exciting about rock in the 80's.
2) The debauchery displayed all over the lyrics, together with the images from the videos which go hand in hand with the whole lifestyle, exemplify why attitude is so important in order to get people to pay attention to you.
3) You need to have the guitar riffs of Girls, Girls, Girls and Wild Side.
Mötley Crüe did not have a virtuoso guitarist. They were not fronted by a singer with a voice that put others to shame. In, fact, musically speaking, the Crüe are good, but not great. WHO CARES? They still rock harder than the majority of bands could ever hope to.
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