Rock Goddess

I had little enthusiasm while on my way to work today, not least because almost everyone else is on holiday. I worried about that needlessly, as it happened, and while I was busy everyone I had to deal with seemed to be understanding. When I got home things continued to improve up to a point; yesterday my ISP was sulking but today it was now fully functional again.
Then came a problem and an e-mail I really didn't need! Someone (who will for their own sake remain anonymous) telling me in no uncertain terms that there have never been any all female heavy-rock bands, an assertion that is clearly ridiculous.
In addition he (and I'm making an brazen assumption here as, quite cowardly in the circumstances, there was no name provided) my correspondent also told me that, aged 25, "it" was in a position to know!
At the age of 43 I'm no longer inclined to rage, as once I might have been, and in any case this says it all...

Rock Goddess - Rock Goddess (AMLH 68554, 1983).

At the time this was released "it" was a gurgling infant and I was eighteen years old. I saw them live touring the following album, Hell Hath No Fury, which was released in 1984. They were not the first all-female heavy-rock band (although the two albums mentioned above were both released on A&M, which is a major label imprint) and in the quarter century since plenty more have followed that path, albeit with contemporary differences in both style and content.

Prospective nostalgia.

It seems that so much in the world outside of music is depressing just now, as it was in much of the 1970s and the early 1980s. While my blog and I have recently been much exercised with a rather obsessive yet varied interest in American music, both new and now also not so new, anyone watching the 'I've Just Listened To...' list might have detected a heavy-rock influence creeping in from time to time. That is the case but it certainly doesn't mark a radical change in direction anymore than the inclusion of folk or pop.
Put quite simply, following some discussions with friends, it seemed to be time for a retrospective of some, perhaps lesser known, albums that for whatever reason we loved back then. They will certainly not all date from that era - some will certainly be older, others will be far more recent, and we don't even necessarily agree an them but and the first few should be here for your perusal by the end of this week!

To start with albums that almost everyone is well aware of would, I think, seem quite pointless. On another note, a week or two back a US court ruling decided that the reselling of 'promo copies' was not illegal and the bits of text, part of the track-list, are merely fortuitous extras...

Promos have been around for years and so here is one on 12" vinyl...

While rock indubitably has its fair share of true icons - and we might not even agree about them - I'm going to start with a wilfully iconoclastic approach; the things that now matter most were possibly lesser known even in their time.

Hell Hath No Fury - Rock Goddess, 1983 (AMLX 68560)

Both these images actually belong to the same album and it is, therefore, as good a place to start as any.