The Collection

Artist: Girlschool
Label: Castle
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5017615983029
ASIN: B00000HYWO

Release Date: 1995-08-01

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Tracks:

Take It All Away
It Could Be Better
Emergency
Furniture Fire
Nothing to Lose
Baby Doll
Race With the Devil
Take It All Away [Alternate Version]
Yeah Right
The Hunter
Please Don't Touch {From the St. Valentines Day Massacre} Headgirl
Emergency {From the St. Valentines Day Massacre}
Bomber {From the St. Valentines Day Massacre}
Hit and Run
Tonight
C'mon Lets Go
Tonight [Live]
Demolition Boys
Don't Call It Love
Wildlife
Don't Stop
1-2-3-4 Rock N Roll
Tush
20th Century Boy
Breaking the Rules

Tracks:

I'm the Leader of the Gang
Burning in the Heart
Surrender
Never Too Late
Demolition Boys [Studio Version]
Kick It Down
Screaming Blue Murder
Flesh and Blood
Play Dirty
I Like It That Way [#]
Play With Fire
Tiger Feet
Fox on the Run
Head over Heels
This Time
Too Hot to Handle
All Day All Night
Up All Night
Action
Future Flash
Back for More
Yeah Right!

Customer Reviews:

Ultimate Collection.......2007-01-15

How many "all-girl" rock bands can really rock as hard as their male counterparts, especially when those counterparts include bands like Motorhead, Diamond Head, and Saxon? Only one - Girlschool. Forget about lace, this band is all leather and steel. They're one of the more important, yet somehow still overlooked bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) scene, and have been delivering hard-hitting, kick in the teeth, rock & roll since the early 80's.

Castle's 1995 compilation titled simply "The Collection" is about as comprehensive an overview of Girlschool's career as you are likely to find. It features a whopping 47 tracks collected on 2 discs, and covers the band's entire output. In addition to songs from various Girlschool studio albums, the Collection includes b-sides, live tracks, covers (of ZZ Top, the Sweet, and T-Rex among others), and collaborations such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre material the band recorded with Motorhead. The material has been digitally remastered, so it sounds better than ever. You also get a nice booklet with all sorts of band info and photos. Castle is the best in the business when it comes to high quality NWOBHM collections, and they definitely got this one right.

If you're new to Girlschool, the Collection is the perfect way to get acquainted with this classic hard rock band.

It Could Be Better!.......2005-04-11

Girlschool was the first girl rock band that had a great success in Europe and America. Of course there was The Runaways before them but they didn't manage so well in the music business although their music was really good. Girlschool consist of four band members and they are all female. Their music style is hard rock and it is little bit heavier than The Runaways or Vixen. They had some co-operation with Motýrhead and they made with them "Please Don't Touch", "Emergency", and Girlschool also covered "Bomber" which was a Motýrhead classic. Girlschool made mainly their songs themselves. There's great songs like "Take It All Away", "Emergency", "Nothing to Lose", "Yeah Right", "Hit And Run", "C'mon Lets Go", "Demolition Boys", and "This Time". This is kind of good collection for it includes all the Girlschool classics. Bad thing is that there's some tracks that are single B-sides...actually there's many of them...all the B-sides. Well, I guess "Tush", "Don't Stop", "Flesh And Blood", and "Tiger Feet" aren't their best ones...some songs are all way too boring and horrible. I think that (although Girlschool is great) if you make only six albums and none of them is in top100 all-time classic rock albums...there would be needed only one CD. Girlschool has many great covers Gary Glitter's "I'm the Leader of the Gang" is maybe the most famous one. One minus is also that there's some songs only live and not as studio ones (Baby Doll, Up All Night, Action, Future Flash, Back for More).
Stars: 1-2-3-4 Rock 'n' Roll, Take It All Away, Hit And Run, Fox on the Run

They can rock with the best.......2005-03-20

Too often when talking about girl bands - its 'A good rock band, for a bunch girls'. This is one of the few female bands that can stand comparison to any band.

Great Stuff!.......2002-05-03

Since alot of Girlschool's early albums are so hard to find this collection is a real godsend.The song selection is good(i have a few quibbles about songs that should have been included but that's life)and there's some really good live tracks as well.
The liner notes are somewhat dissapointing,they don't tell you who is playing on the songs or which album they are taken from but there are alot of photos of the band's various incarnations.

If you're into aggresive guitar driven punk/metal then this is a must have.

Good Anthology.......2001-06-11

If you like 80's British Metal you are sure to like Girlschool. This cd has alot of material, it is well produced and the packaging is very cool. It's a good price for a 2cd set. I nabbed one, and I love it. Most of their early stuff is out of print. They are harder than the Runaways - good catchy riffs, heavily influenced ny Motorhead. Good Metal!!

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