Hit & Run [Import]

Girlschool | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B00025OHTS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,135 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. C'mon Let's Go

2. The Hunter

3. (I'm Your) Victim

4. Kick It Down

5. Following the Crowd

6. Tush

7. Hit and Run

8. Watch Your Step

9. Back to Start

10. Yeah Right

11. Future Flash

12. Please Don't Touch [*]

13. Bomber [*]

14. Tonight [*]

15. Demolition Boys [Live][*]

16. Tonight [Live][*]

17. Yeah Right [*]

18. The Hunter [*]

19. Kick It Down [*]

20. Watch Your Step [*]

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD paper sleeve (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Includes nine bonus tracks. Universal. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch Yer Step!, September 8, 2004

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David Chris Dalton (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hit & Run (Audio CD)

This is the best rock record ever recorded by an all-girl band.

This is the second best NWOBHM record, behind only "Killers" by Iron Maiden.

It's untouchable. 65% Motorhead, 15% AC/DC, 10% Van Halen, 10% The Ramones.

The songwriting is immpecable. Production superb. (Best rythym guitar sound in the history of the world)

All those lame bands like The Donnas and Sahara Hotnights just can't hold a candle to this.

What's it mean when we live in a world where your MOM'S rock 'n' roll kicks your rock 'n' roll's ass???

Sad, but this is beautiful.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally on CD!!! But..., February 13, 2006

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Ernesto Catalan Valdez "There is no try..." (Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hit & Run (Audio CD)

GIRLSCHOOL were a sadly overlooked heavy metal band made up of (guess what!) girls! But despite what you might think of a band with girls playing their instruments, GIRLSCHOOL played with such an intensity and a knack for hooky, catchy songs that some of their male counterparts twisted in shame. Despite being spawned during the NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL's peak, GIRLSCHOOL's sound owed much to fellow punks like DISCHARGE and GBH and of course, MOTORHEAD, with whom they made a friendship that lasts even to this date. The guitar sounds are decidedly brutal, making any of DEF LEPPARD's records of the time (1980-1983) sound positively tame in comparison. HIT AND RUN is GIRLSCHOOL at its most intense, heaviest and fastest, yet the songs were really memorable and had this had a more "subtle" production it would have been an international hit. Songs like "Yeah Right", "Come on Let's go" and the punkish "Watch Your Step" were melodic yet utterly heavy. The press at the time labelled them "MOTORHEAD with breasts" and to a certain extent they were the female equivalent to that influential band. No other female band has sounded any better. Someone said something about the DONNAS here, and, just for the record, the DONNAS' "spend the night" actually sounds very close (production and song wise) to what GIRLSCHOOL were aiming at here. Of course, 25 years later a band like the DONNAS can get away with doing this stuff, but back in the very early 80's we only had GIRLSCHOOL.
One more thing: this cd seems to have ommited the song, "Race With The Devil". As far as I can remember, it was cover song but it really gelled well with the band's original material. It's a shame that song was not included for it would had made this CD a truly complete re issue.
For fans of thrashy british heavy metal and MOTORHEAD. Buy or die!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Girlschool - 'Hit & Run' (Castle), July 3, 2006

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hit & Run (Audio CD)

Originally released in 1981,this was Girlschool's second lp.Well written and played girl's night out of 'New Wave Of British Heavy Metal' to be fully taken in here.They're like an all-female version of Motorhead.Most notable cuts include the rocking opener "C'mon Let's Go","(I'm Your)Victim",their cover of ZZ Top's "Tush", title track "Hit&Run" and "Future Flash". So,you get the original album eleven song, plus nine(9)bonus cuts on the CD reissue. A definite should-have.