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| 2.0 poor | Robbit | May 18th 16 |
RUNNING WILD continues the makeover of Girlschool by replacing two members of the band. Founding guitarist Kelly Johnson chose to depart after 1983's PLAY DIRTY and is replaced by the capable Cris Bonacci. Her gritty guitar playing on this album is actually one of the main highlights of this record, which was the first of many albums she recorded with the band. What's more disturbing to the status quo is that Kim McAuliffe is now reduced to supporting vocalist, while new lead vocalist Jackie Bonimead handles most of these duties. Bonimead is a decent enough singer, but these changes seem to erode away the more distinctive attributes of Girlschool. What we're left with is well played, but quite generic sounding pop-metal. It's not really a bad album for what it is, just a rather average sounding collection of songs with few notable highlights. "Can't You See?" seems to stick out slightly which sounds a bit like Motorhead's "Deaf Forever". A cover of "Do You Love Me?" also isn't too bad, but also isn't earth shattering. As a Girlschool album, it is inevitably a bit disappointing. RUNNING WILD just isn't distinctive enough and lacks any truly memorable songs.
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| 2.0 poor | Robert Davis | August 2nd 15 |
It started with Play Dirty, the lack of any originality and vigour which made those first three albums so solid, but this seemed to have a full impact on Running Wild. The band at this point sounded really tired, bored with their own musical direction, and that's exactly why songs like "Do You Love Me?" (A Kiss cover but a really poor one nonetheless) and "I Want You Back", proving both lyrically and musically that the band were at a creative low. There are one or two decent tracks here-the title track and "Nowhere to Run" namely-but even they turn out to be average in the grand scheme of things. Certainly Girlschool's worst effort.
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| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | July 30th 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Faustus | September 28th 16 |
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