By 1987, it was obvious the tank was on \u201cE\u201d for Motley Crue. After a solid effort with their sophomore release Shout At The Devil<\/i>, their worlds\u2014musical and personal\u2014began nose-diving, culminating in the lackluster Theatre Of Pain<\/i> disc. One would have thought that Vince Neil and crew would have learned their lessons, tightened up their respective acts, and gone out of their way to make a solid follow-up disc.<\/p>\n
Girls, Girls, Girls<\/i>, their fourth studio effort, was not that solid album. It was a mess, mess, mess\u2014with minor moments of brilliance shining through half-assed tracks that normally might not have made it past the cutting room floor (even for the now-inevitable \u201ccapture every note\u201d super deluxe box set).<\/p>\n
Granted, the disc starts off extremely well with \u201cWild Side,\u201d a track that clearly shows what the band was capable of in those all-too-brief moments when they had their shit together. Pity there weren\u2019t more moments like this; things switch gears when the title track kicks in, the ultimate declaration of cock-rock excess one could imagine. A literal love letter to various strip clubs in North America, it is the epitome of every teenager\u2019s wet dream put to music.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for the band, they essentially shoot their load by the end of the second track. Yes, there are moments of brilliance in the interlude \u201cNona,\u201d where they try to show their softer side; I\u2019d have preferred having this song expanded into a full-length effort to see what they could have done with it. \u201cYou\u2019re All I Need\u201d has promise, but the overall execution leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n
The anti-drug message in \u201cDancing On Glass\u201d and \u201cFive Years Dead\u201d could have been delivered more powerfully had there been better songwriting behind the words (and had the band actually listened to their own warnings at this stage in their career). Tracks Like \u201cAll In The Name Of…\u201d and \u201cBad Boy Boogie\u201d are essentially throw-away numbers. And, did we really<\/i> need a live cover of \u201cJailhouse Rock\u201d to close the disc? Couldn\u2019t they come up with another half-assed track?<\/p>\n
Apparently, the answer to that last question is \u201cno,\u201d based upon what bassist Nikki Sixx wrote in The Dirt<\/i>:<\/p>\n
\u201cLike <\/i>Theatre Of Pain, <\/i>Girls, Girls, Girls could have been a phenomenal record but we were too caught up in our own personal bullshit to put any effort into it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
There are those for whom Girls, Girls, Girls<\/i> marked a milestone for Motley Crue\u2014hell, it did<\/i> make it to number two on the Billboard<\/i> album chart. But the sad truth is that this is an album that could have been so, so much more, and now is just left as an example of what living the hedonistic lifestyle so many other bands followed (and which destroyed more than a few) could do to the music. There\u2019s just not enough on this one to even recommend it to the diehard fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5823],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-46872","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-motley-crue","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46872"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}