Screaming Blue Murder (Girlschool album)

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Screaming Blue Murder
Studio album by
Girlschool
Released7 June 1982
RecordedFebruary–March 1982
StudioSurrey Sound Studio, Leatherhead, England
GenreHeavy metal
Length31:07
68:22 (re-issue)
LabelBronze (UK)
Mercury (U.S.)
ProducerNigel Gray
Girlschool chronology
Wildlife EP
(1982) 		Screaming Blue Murder
(1982) 		1-2-3-4 Rock and Roll
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[2]

Screaming Blue Murder is the third studio album by British heavy metal band, Girlschool. It was released on Bronze Records in 1982, and featured one line-up change in bassist Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston, formerly of The Killjoys, replacing the recently departed founding member Enid Williams. Nigel Gray, who had previously worked with The Police, produced the album.

The original vinyl issue had the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve, although in the UK initial copies were accidentally shipped with a plain, generic liner. Rock magazine Kerrang! relayed, from Bronze Records, the advice to write to the label so that they could post the missing lyric sheet in return.

The UK-release was somewhat delayed, and the band had already started their 20-date UK tour, which ran through May 1982.

Castle Music issued what is considered the definitive edition of the CD 14 June 2004, adding eleven bonus tracks and extensive sleevenotes by Record Collector magazine's Joe Geesin. The album had previously been issued on a 2-on-1 CD in the UK, coupled with Play Dirty; that release (LOMA CD4) featured no bonus material.[3]

Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Screaming Blue Murder"Kelly Johnson, Kim McAuliffe, Gil Weston3:34
2."Live with Me" (The Rolling Stones cover)Mick Jagger, Keith Richards3:20
3."Take It from Me"McAuliffe, Johnson, Weston, Denise Dufort2:51
4."Wildlife"Johnson, McAuliffe, Enid Williams2:48
5."Turns Your Head Around"McAuliffe, Johnson3:08
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Don't Call It Love"McAuliffe, Johnson3:42
7."Hellrazor"McAuliffe, Johnson, Weston, Dufort2:38
8."When Your Blood Runs Cold"Johnson, McAuliffe, Weston3:23
9."You Got Me"McAuliffe, Johnson3:16
10."Flesh & Blood"McAuliffe, Johnson, Weston, Dufort2:27
2004 remastered CD release bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Don't Stop" (B-side of the EP Wildlife, with Enid Williams on lead vocals)McAuliffe, Johnson, Williams, Dufort2:43
12."Screaming Blue Murder" 3:48
13."You Got Me" 3:45
14."When Your Blood Runs Cold" 4:08
15."Hit and Run"McAuliffe, Johnson3:04
16."Turns Your Head Around" 3:48
17."Wildlife" 2:46
18."Take It All Away"McAuliffe3:37
19."Emergency"McAuliffe, Johnson, Williams, Dufort3:44
20."C'mon Let's Go"McAuliffe, Johnson3:15
21."Tush" (ZZ Top cover)Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard2:37
  • Tracks 12-21 are a BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast, recorded live in London on June 9, 1982. These tracks had previously not been made commercially available.

Credits[edit]

Band members
  • Kim McAuliffe – rhythm guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
  • Kelly Johnson – lead guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 4, 6, 9
  • Enid Williams – bass, lead vocals on track 11
  • Gil Weston – bass, lead vocals on tracks 7, 10
  • Denise Dufort – drums
Production

Charts[edit]

Chart (1982) Peak
position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[4] 84
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[5] 30
UK Albums (OCC)[6] 27

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ^ "Girlschool - Screaming Blue Murder". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 6949b". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  5. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  6. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

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