GIRLS AT OUR BEST
Pleasure
Radiation Reissues Italy
Format: red vinyl LP + insert
Cat: RRS 231
Released: June 25
Genre: Indie/Alternative

Girls At Our Best! were one of the greatest and most influential bands to emerge in the early 1980s as part of a new wave of independent acts. DJ John Peel championed them, playing their singles repeatedly and inviting them to record a session for his programme. Wry vocalist Judy Evans and brutal yet melodic guitarist James Alan who'd met at art college in Leeds fronted Girls At Our Best!, the proto-indie band that formed from the ashes of Alan's 1977 punk band SOS! Pleasure, the sole album, reached number two in the Indie Chart. It was an album so different from the rest of the post-punk indie pack that you can still play it now and completely baffle new listeners. As John Peel said about Roxy Music, it just doesn't seem to relate to anything else. Edition on red vinyl.

TRACKS
Disk 1
1. PLEASURE
2. TOO BIG FOR YOUR BOOTS
3. I'M BEAUTIFUL NOW
4. WATERBED BABIES
5. FUN-CITY TEENAGERS
6. £600,000
7. HEAVEN
8. CHINA BLUE
9. FAST BOYFRIENDS
10. SHE FLIPPED
11. GOODBYE TO THAT JAZZ