Girls, Girls, Girls continued
Moetley Cruee'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. In general,
the Cruee really plays up the sleaze factor on this album, trying to recapture some of the street-tough grittiness that fueled
Too Fast for Love -- even appearing on the cover astride motorcycles and wearing leather; this time around, the influence of
Aerosmith is felt to a much greater degree. The production is too polished to really give the record a raw, dirty feel, but the raunchiness comes through all the same. Again, there's a bit of filler, as though the band knew they didn't have to make a completely consistent record to maintain their popularity, but there are enough high points along the way to make
Girls, Girls, Girls an entertaining party-metal platter. [In 1999,
the Cruee remastered and reissued
Girls, Girls, Girls on their own
Moetley/
Beyond label with four bonus tracks: instrumental mixes of three selections plus the previously unreleased song "Rodeo." In 2017,
Moetley Records reissued the album in a CD/DVD 30th Anniversary Edition entitled XXX: 30 Years of Girls, Girls, Girls, featuring the remastered album and four aforementioned bonus tracks plus a fifth bonus track from the album's 2000 reissue: a live performance of "All in the Name Of..." from Moscow. The DVD included the documentary XXX: 30 Years of Girls, Girls, Girls plus unedited music videos for "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Wild Side," and "You're All I Need."] ~ Steve Huey