Girl - Wasted Youth

Primary Artist
Girl
Album Title
Wasted Youth
Release Date
1982 
Time
 
Review by Ralph Heibutzki
Pointing out that Girl swam against the grubby denim grain is almost an act of cruelty. After all, these are the guys who whipped out the lipstick just as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene started to take off. In addition, writers who'd embraced the band's music-or-makeup foppery had now begun dismissing it. There's an unmistakable make-or-break aura that retreats from the glorious trash-brat territory so confidently exploited on Sheer Greed. The simpler view is that Girl's newfound tightness required a different sort of delivery -- which is a grimier, grittier sound befitting the "back to basics" mood here. Read More
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