Monday 23 August 2010

Rock Goddess - s/t (1983)


This trio of leathery ladies were formed when sisters Jody and Julie Turner were literally kids. This debut album is tits to the wall Brit rock, part The Runaways, part Girlschool with a lot of attitude, spiky guitars and well-oiled anthems. It's as sweaty as a backstage dressing room and fist-pumping too, so back in the early '80s these gals had a cult following, but due to limited ideas Rock Goddess never scaled the heights their name suggested. Even so, it's good time metal beneath a frizzy fringe, and the drummer looks quite pretty (the chick on the right of the cover) which makes a change from so many leather-clad ladies back then who looked like they could arm-wrestle and alligator into submission.


6/10

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