ROCK GODDESS — Rock Goddess (review)

ROCK GODDESS — Rock Goddess album cover Album · 1983 · NWoBHM Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
voila_la_scorie
I've been enjoying this female power trio's debut album these last couple of weeks. I was digging through NWoBHM bands and checking out ones I didn't know. I had never heard of Rock Goddess. Girlschool are the most famous of the British all-women's hard rock/heavy metal bands of those days. I gave them a couple of quick listens on YouTube and decided the album had to be mine.

To say that these ladies pack a wallop doesn't quite do them justice. It's more like repeated hard-ass smacks to the side of the face and boots to your glutes. Think The Runaways at their most ass kicking moments doing a whole album of ass kicking songs. Jody Turner, Tracey Lamb, and Julie Turner not only blow the doors off but they blow the furniture against the walls and the pets out the window. Let's hope this is the ground floor!

There's not much point in doing a track by track breakdown, but there is a variety in the songs as there always was back in those days. Hard slammers, heavy stompers, mid-tempo rockers, and not a power ballad in sight!

My version of the album only goes to 11. I mean there are only 11 of the tracks listed in the album's track list as provided here on MMA, making the final track "Heavy Metal Rock 'n' Roll". But there is a bonus track, a cover of a song called, "I Didn't Know I Loved You ('til I Saw You Rock and Roll)" by Gary Glitter, which sounds like just the kind of party song that Joan Jett would cover.

This is crank it up and rock the house down music! And I'll just say it here and now that I like this album much better than either of the Runaways albums I've owned.
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Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Yeah, I did. I love that raw NWOBHM style. So much better than the over-polished American metal of the time.
voila_la_scorie wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Cool! I hope you guys like them!
siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Girl power! Never heard of this one. Sounds cool.
Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Woo! This is on Spotify. Gonna check it out.

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