#184
October 1983
Rock Goddess
Hell Hath No Fury
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Hell Hath No Fury
God Be With You
Hell Hath No Fury
God Be With You
Remember when bands would put out more than one album in one year? Those days seem to be over. They seem to have ended right around the mid-80s.
Well, Eurythmics did it in 1983 and so did a band I had never even heard of until this project: Rock Goddess.
This record should sound so much bigger. I don’t mean that it needs echo drums ala 80s rock. It just suffers from not enough Mutt/Gehman and too much garage. It should be a lot bigger. This is what Joan Jett is always trying to do but she relies on too many covers to really get there. Of course, there is the requisite cover but Gary Gilitter’s “I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)” is no Arrows’ “I Love Rock and Roll” much as it wants to be.
This is The Runaways with heft. The Donnas with power. This is what Betty Blowtorch was trying to resurrect before she died. She was right. We need more of this.
Well, Eurythmics did it in 1983 and so did a band I had never even heard of until this project: Rock Goddess.
This record should sound so much bigger. I don’t mean that it needs echo drums ala 80s rock. It just suffers from not enough Mutt/Gehman and too much garage. It should be a lot bigger. This is what Joan Jett is always trying to do but she relies on too many covers to really get there. Of course, there is the requisite cover but Gary Gilitter’s “I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll)” is no Arrows’ “I Love Rock and Roll” much as it wants to be.
This is The Runaways with heft. The Donnas with power. This is what Betty Blowtorch was trying to resurrect before she died. She was right. We need more of this.
