Girl - Killing Time 1998

Genre: glam, hard rock
Country of manufacturer disk: UK
Year of publication: 1987
Publisher (label): Jet Records
Catalog Number: CDJET 505
Country: UK
Bitrate: lossless
Duration: 1:08:01
Format:FLAC(Tracks+cue)

Tracklist:
1. Juliet
2. Nut Bush City Limits
3. Mad For It
4. White Prophet
5. Green Light
6. This Town
7. Aeroplane Food
8. Make It Medical
9. Nothing But The Night
10. Big Night Out
11. I Got Love
12. Lucky
13. Killing Time
14. Naughty Boy
15. King Rat
16. Mogal
17. Love Is A Game
18. Black Max
19. Sound Of Cars
20. You Really Got Me

Killing Time is a collection of unreleased Girl material dating back to the start of the previous decade: a combination of outtakes and leftovers from their first two albums for Jet, plus a few potential contenders for a third album which sadly never came to be. Not that the group's fading fortunes would likely have been reversed even if it had made into stores, since, in retrospect, it's pretty evident that these British glam rock pretty boys simply came into existence about three years before, and 3,000 miles away, from the glam metal epicenter about to boil over in glitzy Los Angeles. If only the planets had aligned a little better, though, these tracks might have been hits instead of rarities -- especially the made-to-order '80s pop metal of the title track and "Naughty Boy," which feature very memorable hooks and shout-along choruses. Less predictably, other offerings find Girl dabbling in new wave (on "The Sound of Cars") breezy, laid-back pop (on "I Got Love"), and covering both the Kinks-by-way-of-Van Halen's "You Really Got Me" (no real surprise there) and Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits" (that's more like it). But fans of the band's two original LPs will probably gravitate toward boisterous hard rockers like "Big Night Out" and "Green Light," or mid-paced equivalents like "Mad for It," the unusually named Aerosmith-like "White Prophet," and the Russ Ballard-penned "Love Is a Game." Ultimately, with 20 songs to go round (and only a few outright duds like the forgettable "King Rat"), Killing Time provides quite the public service for serious Girl devotees -- if not the merely curious listener, who should simply pick up the two-disc anthology, My Number.