Girlschool - Hit and Run
#175
By Timothy Sprague
April 20 1981
Girlschool
Hit and Run
Allen’s Raitng: 3.5 out of 5
Tim’s rating: 5 out of 5
Highlights:
Watch Your Step
Yeah Right
Tush
Now this is a heavy metal album I can get behind! Girlschool give The Runaways and L7 a run for their money in the bad girl genre. And these gals can play! This is the second Girlschool album and the first I have ever heard. It’s a real toe-tapper and I am always down for some gutsy female vocals. From the get-go Girlschool deliver the goods, starting with C’mon Let’s Go and The Hunter. Watch Your Step is also a real standout rocker, especially for guys with a fetish for getting bossed around by hot chicks in leather. Yeah Right has attitude up the wazoo…. “You can’t do that… You can’t do that… Yeah, Right!!!!” Just tell ‘em to piss off, Girlschool. I’m with ya! The album is unpretentious and unrepentant the whole way through.
The real treat for me is the cover of ZZ Top’s Tush. Great choice for an all-girl band to turn the tables on the dudes… or are they? Maybe some kind of lesbian anthem? Beats me but works either way. No time for mushy ballads on this sizzler. Just straight ahead 4/4 rock with plenty of muscle and sultry vocals. There’s not a bad track on here and I can see why the record made it to number 289 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.
This discovery alone makes it more than worth it to have volunteered to help with this project. Thanks for assigning it to me, Allen!
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mS85jLsBNV8isZMP20B7n?si=tkuT7A7GShW-TXuhT0aSxAq
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