Girls Girls Girls
Motley Crue
Eleven Seven Music, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: ESM330
EAN: 0846070033025
UPC: 846070033025
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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Enhancements include the "Girls Girls Girls" video.
Motley Crue: Vince Neil (vocals); Mick Mars (guitar, background vocals); Tommy Lee (piano, drums, background vocals); Nikki Sixx (bass, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Tommy Funderburk, Phyllis St. James, Dave Amato, Pat Torpey, John Purdell, Bob Carlisle (background vocals).
Principally recorded at Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California in March 1987. Includes interviews conducted by Alan K. Stout.
Digitally remastered by Chris Solem (1999, Future Disc).
Despite plummeting to the depths of hard-drug abuse and alcoholism, Motley Crue scored another mega-hit album with 1987's GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS. With singer Vince Neil's vehicular manslaughter trial behind him, the Crue was able to concentrate solely on the music. But GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS is still not up to par with Motley Crue's first two classic albums, TOO FAST FOR LOVE and SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, due to the presence of many forgettable songs. Even bassist Nikki Sixx has since admitted that the out-of-control Crue should not have been touring or recording at the time.
The videos for the album's first two rocking cuts, "Wild Side" and the title track, were aired constantly on MTV throughout the summer of '87. A disturbing third clip was made for the ballad "You're All I Need" but was subsequently banned by the network. GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS also features a tribute to Sixx's late grandmother "Nona," an unnecessary live cover of Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock," and such anti-drug messages as "Dancing on Glass" and "Five Years Dead"-ironic in light of the Crue's known active-user status
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Motley Crue
Motley Crue were undeniably one of the most popular hard rock/pop-metal acts of the 1980s. Combining the theatrics and glam of Kiss with the hard power pop hooks of Cheap Trick, The Crue out-partied, out-rocked, and out-sold most of their competition. The band even managed to hit the pop chart with frequency with hits like "Dr. Feelgood" and "Without You." The combination of larger-than-life personalities that made up the L.A. band was too volatile to remain stable; singer Vince Neil and drummer Tommy Lee would drift in and out of the band from the '90s onward, but exposure from VH1's Behind The Music series and a tell-all autobiography kept the public's appetite for the Crue whetted into the 21st Century.
